Sentences with phrase «against the minnows»

However, poor performances against minnows in the qualifying rounds of the Europa League have intimated that there remains much work for Bilic to do — not least in instilling discipline in a side that is competing in Europe thanks to the Fair Play Award and yet has somewhat ironically had three players sent off in five games.

That snatched goal against the minnows from Bulgaria, while Danny has got four in five games.

Arsenal striker Danny Welbeck continues good run of form with a fine finish against minnows San Marino.

Ashley Young scored a fantastic goal against the minnows of San Marino last Friday and made a substitute's appearance against Montenegro, so he should be fresh enough to face Sunderland.

Arsene Wenger has continually stated that he has three strikers at his disposal, namely Giroud, Walcott and Sanchez, but none of them are yet to have struck form, although Theo scored twice for England against the minnows of San Marino in midweek.

one win against a minnow like CP is not gonna solve our issues!

one win against the minnow like CP is not gonna solve our issues!

The manager took to Twitter to confirm the winger's injury would not play against the minnows, but stressed that it was only a precaution and not a serious problem.

Adam Lallana has emerged as a possible injury doubt for England's Euro 2016 last - 16 clash against minnows Iceland on Monday.

In the Champions League, two 1 - 1 draws against minnows APOEL Nicosia put Dortmund's qualification into the realm of being technically possible while realistically really not, and the performances in those games were disappointing enough to provoke stark questions about Bosz's long - term suitability for the club.

If this is the level of performance against the minnows, imagine how much havoc teams like Man City and Chelsea can cause against the Red Devils.

The Round of 64 Draw for this season's MTN FA Cup was done on Tuesday and will see defending champions Asante Kotoko begin the defense of their title at home against minnows Kwahu Youth Academy.

Real Madrid went one down early on against minnows Elche but bounced back in unstoppable fashion.

Let's not forget that Chelsea is still a great team, this is not against some minnow in the league.

We had another late season revival where some of the injury prone starred against minnows in meaningless games.

Walcott was introduced as a second half substitute against the minnows by Roy Hodgson.

This has also been applied against minnows in serie A, where we scrap 1 - 0 wins.

Can you imagine four away matches and we end up conceding 3 goals even against minnows.

Despite Scotland beating Gibraltar 6 - 1 at Hampden Park on Sunday evening, they day witlgo down in history as being the first side in a competitive international to concede against the minnows.

stats are great to show number of assitsts etc and one can argue he needs someone to put those away... however he needs to turn a big game in Arsenals favour rather than just shining against the minnows... Chelsea on Saturday would be a great game to do that!

England currently top their group for Euro 2016 qualification by six points and have an 100 per cent record going into next month's double header against minnows San Marino and second - placed Switzerland.

Wideman Cheryshev opened the scoring for the Merengues in their Spanish Cup bout against minnows Cadiz, but he may be the reason they're eliminated from the tournament.

Their most recent — a draw against minnows Eibar — came with Ramos rested from the first team.

There is a situation where using both is best — i.e. against minnows or teams determined to defend deep.

Zappacosta made his full Chelsea debut against minnows FK Qarabag, but his performance and cameo against Leicester should have Victor Moses worried from the outset.

Back to back victories against minnows Shamrock Rovers and Strum Gruz have ensured a safe passage to Europa League group stages.

Arsenal navigated the 5th Round FA Cup encounter against minnows Sutton United on Monday night with relative ease by claiming a 2 - 0 victory and the goalscorers during the encounter for the Gunners were Lucas Perez and Theo Walcott.

Inter are back in action tomorrow evening in the Europa League against the minnows from Azerbaijan Qarabağ, Walter Mazzarri will be hoping...

His brace against minnows Cagliari last weekend was again simply Juventus doing what Juventus do as they racked up another Serie A victory.

The national team's next match is against minnows Luxembourg in March.

Hareide has revealed how he was on the brink of leaving the job after a 1 - 0 loss against minnows Montenegro earlier in the campaign.

The costly result against minnows almost cost them an European spot, as an entire season of finger - pointing and sacking drama continued to be a problem for Spartak.

Arsenal fans have been so well manipulated by ozils pr team that they would swear Mr turn up once every 6 games against minnows is Andrea pirlo in disguise

No club has been d for him, but he needs 300k / week, for playing against minnows.

Which is basically saying that he can play in EFL cup games, or against minnows in the league.

theos amazing 19 goals was actually 10 in the premier league and 5 in the fa cup against minnows 3 against teams like ludogrets and 1 just one against bayern

... i'm peeping from out my curtains (again); we're meant to distinguish ourselves against minnows.

The only chance we really have is that the big boys focus on their league seasons and crash out against minnows and we have a run that looks something like Ostersund - > Celtic - > RB Salzburg - > Nice - > Sporting.