Sentences with phrase «against the reigning champions»

Phil Jones, who started the 2 - 0 defeat against the reigning champions of France, is set to dropped for the clash against Spurs at Old Trafford on Saturday and his England international colleague Smalling is set to be handed a chance to prove he is capable of nailing down a regular spot in the team this year.

The club has won five consecutive games, having scored 11 goals and conceded none, one of which includes an emphatic 3 - 0 victory at home against reigning champions Chelsea.

While Bayern Munich easily took care of business on the road despite giving up an early equalizer, Atletico Madrid gave Barcelona a dogfight that wasn't truly settled until the final minutes but ultimately took care of business against the reigning Champions League winners.

The 30 - year - old scored twice against reigning champions Spain in a shock 5 - 1 victory in their opening group game, and his equaliser in the 44th minute was the strike that made history, as he became the first Dutch player to score at three consecutive World Cup tournaments.

Now Arsenal are preparing for one of the toughest tests of the season away ay Manchester City, and Coquelin is very keen to be involved yet again against the reigning champions.

A goalless home draw with Man City was perhaps negated by the fact that it was the former Liverpool boss's first game in charge and the West London side were up against the reigning champions who are still unbeaten.

Duggan famously converted a penalty to hand the Blues the title against reigning champions Chelsea.

A point out of this one for Huddersfield against the reigning champions would be a good result for them you feel.

Milito has reflected this once again after seeing his team draw 1 - 1 against reigning champions Juventus in a friendly match.

In the club's first foray into the Premier League International Cup, Manchester United's U23's faced off against reigning champions Villarreal at what can now be called the youth side's home ground of Leigh Sports Village.

Julen Lopetegui's Spain will be facing off against reigning champions Germany in one of this week's highly - anticipated international friendlies.

A 1 - 0 win at Samtredia took the Gori side six points clear, and a superior head - to - head record against reigning champions Dinamo Tbilisi means they can not be caught.

Among them is — you guessed it — our generically sexy hero, who's scheduled to battle to the death against the reigning champion, Atticus (the intimidating Adewale Akinnuoye - Agbaje).

City though have won their last four home Premier League games against reigning champions — each of the last two was by a three - goal margin and over 2.5 goals at Sky Bet is a price of 5/6, while city to win by a 3 - goal margin is a price of 4/1.

The latest product from the company, not coincidentally announced a couple of weeks ahead of Black Friday, looks to be competing with Amazon on price, as well — a tough proposition when you're going up against the reigning champion of consumer hardware subsidies.

It's funny, that Arsenal loose one of our friendlies and a large portion of fans are telling us how awful we are and how terrible we are going to do next season, based off the one display, yet when we win the charity shield, against the reigning champions, it means absolutely nothing.

An outstanding performance in the Champions League, against the reigning champions themselves, is exactly the kind of breakout that's been coming from Pulisic.