Sentences with phrase «away league fixture»

Meanwhile Villa, especially of late, have established a habit for conceding early before mounting a comeback (recent examples include their midweek draw with QPR, their most recent away league fixture at Wolves, and even Chelsea at Stamford Bridge).

-- Rovers keeper Paul Robinson conceded 4 goals in an away league fixture for the third time this season on Saturday.

Predictably, considering Norwich caught the eye in their last match at Carrow Road and with Swansea having lost their opening three away league fixtures by an aggregate of 1 - 9, hosts Norwich go into this weekend's clash as favourites.

Not exact matches

It is not an easy fixture, though, even though Arsenal are coming off a shaky start to the new Premier League season after losing away to Stoke, so every Arsenal fan will be delighted to see that Arsene Wenger's team for the game at Anfield includes the Chile international star Alexis Sanchez, although Lacazette starting on the bench with Welbeck in the XI will certainly raise a few eyebrows.

Arsenal have a really tough month of fixtures ahead of us, with the next two vital games followed by three Premier League games in a week, away to Aston Villa and at home to Southampton and Tottenham.

The month of September doesn't get any easier for Arsenal, who, following Manchester City's clash, face an away fixture against Borussia Dortmund in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday.

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The newspaper report that the fixture compilers have not been kind to Manchester United this summer, handing them six tricky away matches after each of their Champions League group games.

In Porto's opening European Cup fixture — a 2 - 2 draw away at Dyanmo Kyiv — the legendary stopper equalled Xavi's record of Champions League appearances, when he made his 151st outing in the competition.

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We appear to be prioritising our Premier League fixtures over the away matches in the Europa, and while winning all our home matches should put us comfortably through to the next stage, our fringe players will not be going out tonight without the intention of three points.

Tonight's Champions League fixture against Anderlecht will be a test of Arsenal's «big boys» credentials, as they will be playing away in this competition for the first time since the 0 - 2 defeat at the Westfalenstadion on Matchday 1.

But, we do have arguably the toughest Premier League fixture of the season, away to Chelsea, on the weekend after our first UCL group game.

A report by Metro reveals league fixtures faced by Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City and Man United (assuming that they get through the play - offs) and straight away it looks a bit grim for the Gunners.

In a way this question is like when some Arsenal fans complain about the way the Premier League fixtures fall and others point out that every team has to play every other one home and away at some point.

earned a place in the Champions League Group Stages, and we also managed to «not lose» to a Top Club in an away fixture again, which can only help our confidence going into next seasons campaign.

Gomez has started all five of Liverpool's domestic league fixtures thus far and Rodgers may look to Willems to challenge the England Under - 21 international, who gave away a penalty during the Reds» 3 - 1 defeat to United last weekend.

After a tough week which saw Arsene Wenger pick a strong Arsenal side to face Basel in Switzerland on Wednesday and with a Premier League match away to Everton coming up on Tuesday, the boss could hardly have asked for a better fixture for this weekend.

The Arsenal legend Thierry Henry is very happy that Arsenal are top of the League, but he thinks that the Gunners should have opened up a bigger gap in the first half of the season as the second half is full of tough away fixtures.

Final Thought If Arsenal can finish with 35 points or more come the 28th of December with an away fixture against the Hammers, Wenger's men would have given themselves a good chance of finishing in the top 4 at the end of the 2014/15 Premier League season.

Five league fixtures before we go away to Chelsea.

Arsenal's opening champions league fixture could have been a lot different had their 16 million pound signing on the Transfer Deadline day, Danny Welbeck, been a bit clinical in front of goal and tucked away the chances that came his way.

Make no mistake about it Arsenal fans, an away game at Chelsea is likely to be the hardest fixture for us in the Premier League this season.

In addition to the aforementioned home fixture against Man City, Arsenal face a fixture pileup that sees them play 7 games during a 3 - week period, which includes an away tie against Dortmund in the Champions League; with Man City, Spurs and Chelsea to take care of, in the Premier League.

Arsenal have won just two of their last SEVEN away League games, a record which needs to improve considering that Arsene Wenger's side face away fixtures against the likes of Manchester United, Spurs, Everton, West Ham and Manchester City in the run - up to the title.

This Premier League campaign was always going to be about trying to reclaim a place in the top four, and Arsenal are just three points off that position despite having faced some very tricky away fixtures.

They did face a couple of scares in the away games against Queens Park Rangers and Newcastle United, but you are going to have such fixtures over the course of a Premier League campaign.

The Italian giants were reportedly travelling by train for their away fixture against Champions League qualification rivals Fiorentina.

Things have not been helped by Phil Jones's injury lay - off and Jonny Evans's poor displays, with Man United conceding nine goals in their opening six Premier League fixtures, as well as conceding four away at League One side MK Dons in the Capital One Cup.

Moyes saw his side fail to secure all three points against bottom of the table Fulham, a result that leaves Man United nine points from fourth ahead of key Premier League fixture against Arsenal, an away trip to in - form Crystal Palace ahead of facing Olympiakos in the Champions League.

Arsene Wenger will almost certainly want to play three at the back for that game as in theory it makes a team more defensive, and so the boss may also want to stick with that formation for the games, especially the Premier League ties, that come before that tough away fixture in order to get the players as used to their roles as possible.

Even if we are not struck with more bad luck, Wenger does have a problem as he prepares for Arsenal's next Premier League fixture, which is away to West Bromwich Albion on Saturday.

Even though the Gunners have another tough fixture away at Stoke City this evening, Arsene Wenger is set to rotate the Arsenal squad as his players face their third League game in six days.

With our first match of the new league season kicking off on August 12th there is little chance these four players will be available and with the Gunners having been handed a tough early run of fixtures starting with Leicester and then Stoke and Liverpool away, we really need to be ready from the off.

As if the challenge to get back into the top - four places or even win the title was not already daunting enough, the Premier League fixtures, which were revealed on Wednesday, has only added to the Frenchman's woes with five of their six matches directly after Europa League group stage fixtures away from home.

In six away fixtures in league and cup, the one defeat to date came at West Ham — and that was courtesy of a last - minute winner.

Right now I reckon that most Arsenal fans, and probably our manager Arsene Wenger as well, would snap your hand off if you offered them a draw from our up and coming away game in the Premier League, because this weekend's trip to Man City looks at the moment to be the hardest of all the fixtures we will face this season.

Martin Atkinson has been announced as the man in the middle for Liverpool's Premier League fixture away to Southampton on Sunday.

Manchester United's Champions League campaign resume with the first leg of Champions League round of 16 tie this Wednesday night in what will be a tricky away fixture against Sevilla.

Liverpool supporters who have attended at least one European away fixture this season or during the 2015 - 16 Europa League campaign are guaranteed a ticket before sale is extended to season ticket holders.

The Hammers» game away at Chelsea will now be shown on Sky Sports on Sunday 8 April, with a 4.30 pm kick - off, although this fixture is subject to change should they be in UEFA Champions League action the following Tuesday.

It should have been away from home but the fixtures against the Owls have been reversed which sees the team directly below us in the league visit Gawthorpe.

The Reds have a frantic 10 days between the 11th and 21st as they play Newcastle in the League, an FA Cup fifth round fixture, and the first leg of the Champions League last 16 away to Sevilla.

Arsenal supporters, who will be looking for a single match ticket on any of the club's upcoming fixtures can Compare Footballtickets in the top flight, as many games has come down thanks to the Premier League's capping of away tickets at # 30.

The Red Devils are keen to maintain their wild goose chase on league leader, Manchester City, so nothing but three points are acceptable for Jose Mourinho's men on that away fixture.

Premier League rules do not permit a change in home venue during a season but the PL could be approached when fixtures are being arranged for the 2018 - 2019 season to request the first two games be played away from home.

February 5 — Round 24 of Premier League fixtures saw Chelsea, Spurs and Leicester top the attendance capacity table, while Hull matched their resurgence on the pitch with stay - away fans returning to the KCOM.

That victory in the Potteries was the Blues» second this season away from Goodison — where Everton have lost only two of their past 12 Premier League fixtures — and represented a second success on the spin after the previous week's win over Brighton.

Liverpool FC is to fund coach travel to help supporters who are attending the Reds» Premier League away fixture against Arsenal on Friday December 22.

The next couple of fixtures are going to be very very important for yr boys especially as Chelsea seem to be running away with the league with some powerful and seasoned football.