Sentences with phrase «avoid home defeats»
The FA Cup is not high on Derby's list of priorities, but, after losing to Nottingham Forest last weekend, Rams boss Steve McClaren will be determined to avoid another home defeat to local opposition.
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So firstly Shearer is convinced that his Newcastle side will manage to do the business at Villa Park even though his Toon Army side has only won two games on the their travels this season and regardless of Martin O'Neill's recent poor form the midlands club have only lost three times at home this season and have managed to avoid defeat against Liverpool, Man United and Arsenal in the process.
If they avoid defeat they will equal their Premier League record of five home matches in a row without a loss, set in January - March 2007.
If we can collect maximum points at home against Chelsea and Tottenham, and avoid defeat to Man United away, which is very possible, then we will be okay going into christmas provided we beat the relatively weaker teams.
It's only Chelsea who look better than last year, if we can finally beat these sides at home and avoid defeat away than yea we can win the league!
We can not get worse than what we are so far but If we avoid defeat thee, there will be slight chance to beat them at home.
You would surely expect Arsenal to win one of our two home games against Sunderland and West Brom, so avoiding defeat on Sunday is the key.
Picking up a point and avoiding defeat against fellow title contenders is not that bad a consequence, after all, even if you're the home side.
The chances still seem slim given Liverpool just have to beat a relegated Middlesbrough at home, and Manchester City only need to avoid a heavy defeat to Watford, but Arsenal go into the final day of the season knowing a win could yet sneak them back into the Champions League for another year.
Burnley are looking confident and together again while Watford have decent enough home form going to avoid defeat.
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Draw: Chelsea will be almost home and dry as long as they avoid defeat.
Ligue 1 Having managed to avoid defeat since a 3 - 1 loss at home to Marseille in Week 10, Lille's resistance finally buckled when they fell to a 1 - 0 loss in a scrappy and otherwise unremarkable game at Montpellier last Sunday.
He scored his sixth goal of the season to put Chelsea back level, as they avoided a first home defeat by West Ham for 14 years.
They have avoided defeat in their last two at Carrow Road though with back to back draw against Barnsley and Preston but they are winless in seven on home soil (D5 L2).
Oxford have won three of their last four at home against the Magpies and they are going well enough on home soil to at least avoid defeat in this one.
In fairness, Bruce should be delighted with his current squad, the same squad which avoided defeat against Sunday's opponent's Manchester United, Liverpool and Tottenham, as well as record a stunning 3 - 0 win over defending champions Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, the latter an emphatic result which Sir Alex Ferguson cited as just one piece of evidence to suggest that Sunday's visit of Steve Bruce's Sunderland will be one of his side's toughest home games of the entire season.
Considering Palermo have already been relegated, it might sound like an easy win for Empoli, but the fact that is that they have avoided defeat in their last three matches at home and managed to record clean sheets in all of them.
Usually when the lower sides meet it normally pays to side with the home team to avoid defeat.
Manchester United made hard work of their semifinal assignment as they drew 1 - 1 at home and narrowly avoided defeat to book their place in the final.
By the same token, Blackburn haven't beaten a» Big Four» this season, home nor away, and so while avoiding defeat would complete a decent look set of home results against the league's elite teams, they would love a win and could very well get one against an Arsenal side reeling after their last away loss at Wigan Athletic.
City have been immensely strong at home for the early part of this season and throughout the course of last season, whereas Rovers have been a very poor away outfit thus far and have managed to avoid defeat just three times in ten away outings.
Those are three tough fixtures and Rovers did well to avoid defeat in all three, but all three were at home and while Blackburn are undefeated in their last two away ventures in the league, both of those away encounters were against the two sides right at the very bottom of the table in Burnley (0 - 1) and Portsmouth (0 - 0).
There was one home win apiece in those match ups, but Hull now have to try to go back to Old trafford on league duty and aim to avoid defeat.
They are unbeaten in their last five on home soil in the top flight and have been worth backing to avoid defeat there at least.
their last appearance at the DW resulted in a 2 - 0 win over Wolves, their first at home this season, and with the confidence levels inside the Wigan camp rising following a three - match run without defeat, there's every chance that the Latics can go one better than they did last weekend and avoid any last - minute heartache.
-- Defending league champions United are striving to avoid a third consecutive Premier League defeat having lost at home to Blackburn (2 - 3) and away at Newcastle (3 - 0) either side of the New Year.
Whereas Fulham are striving to avoid a third consecutive home defeat in the league, after suffering back - to - back 3 - 1 losses against Everton and Tottenham, Liverpool are chasing their fourth successive away win − their fifth if you include Tuesday's defeat of Chelsea in the cup.
With strong trends suggesting Wigan will avoid defeat my preference is Wigan plus a goal here to frustrate the home side once again.
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