Sentences with phrase «away in last season»

The German side are familiar opponents, beaten home and away in last season's competition.

21) FC Basel — Basel are one of Europe's most underrated outfits, having beaten Chelsea home and away in last season's competition, but the Swiss champions need to find more consistency if they are to progress this year.

Not exact matches

Even the fact that we have finished second by only goal difference in the last two seasons as well as losing to Bayern Munich on away goals a couple of years ago suggested that Arsenal just could not get a break.

Last season Arsenal came close to becoming the best defense in the entire league with good defensive stats, but this good news was smashed by the conceding 22 horrible goals against the teams in the top five, 20 of those on away games to those same top teams (Chelsea, City, Liverpool, and Everton).

However, we saw the dangers of being too adventurous in away games last season and Chambers has proved himself to have the head for a big occasion.

What about the 2nd half of last season, don't think he played consistently then, missed chances, gave the ball away trying to do too much and not passing to players in better positions.

Beating Chelsea alone is not enough as shown in last season, where we were the only team to beat Leceister home and away and yet ended up at 2nd.

Iwobi recked my head last night he was weak and misplaced many passes he cant seem to control the ball its always running away from him he should not be in the middle in the middle you need good ball controllers with good eyes for passes long and short on the ground and above the ground >> > waterford yesterday were on top of us with no space giving to our players and we were scattered all over the place with no vision or leader ship too goals in the space of 3 minuets ok the first goal was a fluke but come on the second one???? and thats all what it takes to loose a match many times this season we cant play when the opposition seats in our face we have no cohesion or understanding we crumble away we need to start the game together as a unit a compact unit

The next two games will show us how Arsenal are going to react to last week's defeat, a win against QPR, and even a draw away to United in the Cup would set us up for a fine end to the domestic season.

Last season when we began to rid ourselves of the unwanted rep of crumbling in big games, Coquelin was a massive part of our away win at the Etihad and we really need Flamini to do ma similar sort of job on Monday.

I will always say it wit Arsene in charge Arsenal will not win a major trophy.he is not cut out for that.he is happy wit making profits n balancing d book.after all that happened last season he is not even moved d squad should hv been strengthen by nw.but no.so hw do u take d tittle away from Chelsea, Man city and Utd.

So Arsene Wenger's name is being cheered again, Arsenal look good for a UCL quarter - final place and we seem to be on the up in the Premier League as well, heading for an away game with a Liverpool side about as far removed from the confident, dangerous and in form outfit that took us apart at Anfield last season.

Last summer Dipoto also dealt away then ace Dan Haren to the Angels as a payroll - reduction move, adding veteran soft - tosser Joe Saunders (3.98 ERA in 26 starts this season).

Cant expect thing to tick right away, we are still preparing for next season, for now it reminds me of Liverpool last season, we are definetly taking in the right steps.

Wenger thinks that the anger shouldn't come from the fans and they should stand shoulder to shoulder and support the players until the last game of the season, and hopefully we will still walk away with the title in the end.

Also in the last two seasons, Arsenal have failed to beat Tottenham at home and away, so we are approaching the first North London derby this weekend with some trepidation, despite our home advantage.

Last year was Jose Mourinho's first season at Man United and he started by winning the League Cup, but when he saw the Top Four teams pulling away from the Red Devils in the League he put all his energy and resources into winning the Europa League as well to get a wild card entry into the Champions League.

After nearly dealing away Pau Gasol in a package for Chris Paul last season, don't be surprised if L.A attempts to blow up this roster during the off - season.

Time of Death: Houston's last meaningful drive ended in a turnover on downs with two minutes to play when Case Keenum missed on his last three passes, and the Texans are just one loss away from their worst season since 2005 — the year before they hired Gary Kubiak.

We leaked 21 goals away to the top 7 teams last season and you would think that this alleged chasm in class would have lead to something better when they played us at home — but none beat us and we conceded just 2 goals in 6 matches.

Now the last season saw us give our best performance in the league away to Manchester City.

I remember a few matches Chelsea one in the last minute of the games and they went away celebrated champions at the end of the season.

The Dodgers are a win away from their second consecutive NLCS appearance and their third in the last five seasons.

«Manchester United are traditionally one of the strongest teams in the league and, although we beat them convincingly last season at home, the away game was maybe the one in which we faded.

Defenders of Guardiola will say it is almost impossibly unfair for fans and pundits alike to expect him to repeat the treble won by Jupp Heynckes in 2012/13 straight away, but a 5 - 0 aggregate defeat to Real Madrid last season and a quarter - final exit to Porto this term would certainly be some way from good enough for a club of this size and with players of this talent.

Burton have a decent record against Birmingham in recent times, having beaten them convincingly home and away last season, although this one looks like a fixture in which the away side will be looking for a result.

The 24 - year - old French international scored 31 goals in all competitions last season, but his Stade Gerland side saw their Ligue 1 title charge fall away as PSG romped to a third - successive triumph.

The 20 - year - old is on loan at Goodison Park from Chelsea this season, having impressed during his time at West Brom last season in a temporary switch away from Stamford Bridge as well.

«We flirted with that ourselves last season for a little bit and then came away from it and we went through it the first time we were in the Premier League and it's tough.»

A 2 - 0 win in FA Cup third round at the Emirates last season, quickly followed up two months later by a 1 - 0 away win at White Hart Lane in the league.

Netted a brilliant 28 times in 51 games last season, and will surely move away from Belgium sooner rather than later.

Bale, who scored seven and assisted three in 19 La Liga games for Los Blancos last season, is reportedly unhappy at the club, as per the Sunday Express, after dropping down in boss Zidane's pecking order, with the player set to find himself even further away from the first - team should the Spanish giants end - up being successful in their pursuit of Monaco forward Kylian Mbappe.

Suggestions that Barcelona sent club representatives to watch the Welsh international ten times last season, and with the stats to support the Spanish club's continued interest in the midfielder, this rumour doesn't seen to be one that will likely go away.

They traded away their top corner from last season, Damarious Randall, for some improved mid-round picks and DeShone Kizer; last year's top pick, Kevin King, showed promise but still has some injury concerns; and the team added just a single free agent corner in 35 - year - old Williams.

Well, let's not get carried away, but in the last three seasons of the 1990s, Nomar was as immense as any player in the game.

The big and powerful front man was right up with Vardy and Kane in the race to be top EPL goal scorer for most of last season but fell away in the end.

We conceded the fewest set pieces in the league and had the best away form last season..

Last season, Pumas won 1 - 0 in the regular season but in the quarter finals of the post-season they lost to their opponents on away goals after a 1 - 1 draw.

If VP also thought he had only one good season left in him then maybe he also thought that his last chance of the EPL title was away from Arsenal.

Now we face an in form Palace away where we really struggled last season and were lucky to come away with 3 points.

Last night Arsenal lost their first away game (in the League) for nine months, and it must be said that the team looked listless compared to some other performances this season.

Erratic slugger Phil Plantier, who was signed away from Houston for $ 500,000, and former Padres first baseman Eddie Williams qualify as Detroit's only significant off - season free - agent additions — a rather admirable show of frugality for a franchise that in the last five years spent wildly on middling, past - their - prime free agents such as pitchers Tim Belcher and Mike Moore.

While it's noteworthy that he's three walks away from his career high — in 355 fewer plate appearances compared to last season — and the change in his approach could explain a lot, I'll err on the side of the previous five seasons.

Plenty of memories last season of poor pass give - away, looking mildly perturbed, and lightly jogging in the general direction rather than fighting to get it back.

After the way we started against Hull today it looked like we were going to blow Steve Bruce and his team away, just as we had in both of the Premier League games last season.

Is it a coincidence that unlike last season, this season - in which we have had two CFs with different styles - we are winning the big away games, with the two strikers capitalizing on their unique qualities (Giroud powerful header against city, Welbz pacy counter goal against United) to score in both games?

In a roundabout way yes, but we started last season with no 4th CB, no DM and still no top class ST.. Our much celebrated fortitude vs the top teams was basically overstated because we beat City away, we were bang average away from home against the top half of the table.

Oakland went 4 - 12 in 2012 and managed just seven more wins in the next two seasons of the McKenzie era, before finally improving and coming away with 19 wins in the last two.

I know I am jumping the gun a bit here by assuming that Arsenal will continue to be more like the side we saw win away to Crystal Palace last week, rather than the one that slumped to a dismal defeat at home to West Ham, but the end of last season and the way we were playing in pre-season has given us good reason to think that will be the case.

For once it will be a stress free day we are in win win position if Wenger buys someone its a bonus if not it does not matter the squad is getting stronger and other injured players not to far away from returning we now have enough depth in squad to see us through to end of season so lets enjoy seeing other clubs racing around trying to make last min signings for a change!!!