Sentences with phrase «back league draws»

Not exact matches

Since sensationally beating the League leaders Leicester, Arsenal have drawn with Hull in the first FA Cup game, lost to Barcelona in the Champions League and succumbed to both Man United and Swansea before yesterday's fight - back to draw at Tottenham.

They sit in eighth place in the Serie A table after 11 games, 12 points adrift of the top four, while they've been held to back - to - back goalless draws by AEK Athens in the Europa League over the last fortnight to really ramp up the pressure on Montella.

This rumoured desire to land two players to add to their back four could be coming in the wake of a surprising result at home to Swansea over the weekend, with the Premier League champions looking unusually suspect at the back as they were held to a 2 - 2 draw by the Welsh side.

As the 2013/14 Premier League season draws to a close it's the perfect opportunity to look back with hindsight and see which signings over the year have been the most successful.

«There is no reason to panic» is what the Arsenal boss said in his comments after watching the Gunners pegged back to a 2 - 2 draw in the crucial Champions League home tie against PSG last night.

However, the draw of playing in the Premier League can't be dismissed, and having conquered the SPL and domestic trophies all in one big swoop, Dembele could be ready to move back south of the border this summer.

Though Hughes saw his defence hold up manfully during their goalless draw with local rivals Chelsea, QPR have on the whole looked suspect at the back, conceding 19 goals in ten Premier League matches this term.

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He has struggled to unsettle the starting centre - back pairing of David Luiz and Thiago Silva, and while he earned some gametime at right - back during Serge Aurier's suspension, the Ivorian wideman returned to the starting XI for the Champions League draw with Manchester City.

I do not see how a draw such as this is useful no matter the justifications some are trying to put up here... the big question shd be WHAT WERE OUR AMBITIONS AND TARGETS THIS PARTICULAR SEASON???... if we fail to win the league then this wld be a BIG failure and the back has to stop with somebody.we played the manure and the swansea game with 11 players and all we had was nothin and the damn red card today shn't be an excuse for anything... remember city thrashed astonvilla 4 - 0!!!

After a lucky draw against Paris St Germain, Arsenal have bounced back with two wins on the spin in their Champions League group, leaving them in a strong position as the reverse set of fixtures begins.

The Swans come into the match on the back of four losses from their last five in all competitions, but at the same time, they have only conceded one Premier League goal away from home this term, including 0 - 0 draws at Southampton and Tottenham.

With a new manager in Steve McLaren and coming off the back of a battling performance that earned a draw with Man United at Old Trafford, followed by them putting four past Northampton in the League Cup, Newcastle are already looking a different team.

If Arsenal draw either Porto or Monaco in the next round — and get all our injured players back before the quarter - finals — then perhaps we really will go all the way, but if that happens I imagine it is unlikely that Campbell will be involved in any more Champions League matches this season.

Tottenham Hotspur drew for the eighth time in 14 Premier League games as they were pegged back by West Bromwich Albion at a blustery Hawthorns this afternoon.

The gap between the Gunners and the league leaders Chelsea had stretched to a massive and daunting looking 12 points after we lost back to back games against Watford and the Blues themselves, but Sean Dyche and his Burnley side did us a big favour today by holding Chelsea to a draw at Turf Moor, or did they?

But Ozil did set one Premier League record during the Arsenal draw at Sunderland yesterday, despite the fact that we failed to find the back of the net.

As for the visitors, James Milner replaces Jordan Henderson after he picked up a dead leg in the Champions League draw with Porto in midweek, but there is positive injury news too as left - back Andy Robertson has recovered from a knock of his own.

United needed an injury time penalty to earn themselves a point against Everton, their third draw in four league matches, and will now fall back into sixth spot should the Gunners land all three points later on.

After Arsenal were forced to accept a draw in our last Premier League match, which even though it was a north London derby was a disappointing result with the respective form that Arsenal and Tottenham took into the game, it is very important that we get back to winning ways this weekend.

The draw for the round of 32 in the Europa League was made on Monday and Manchester United will face Midtjylland as they look to bounce back from the disappointment of dropping out of the Champions League.

Any motivate the players he don't know how to be tactical he just picks the team and tells the same thing it's not working change it ever team will not play open so wenger needs to change the team players and style to defeat that also if a team presses us wenger does nothing to get round that same team same tactics that's the issue that's why arsenal won't win the league it's like a boxer going for head all the time you need to go for body to open up the other for the head shot wenger is to soft and it's transfers to the players remember the team he had before always makeing runs stretching teams even if they are sitting back spread there whole back line and midfield with run after run arsenal don't do that anymore they don't even shoot outside the box you know why because wenger tells them not to another tactic to draw another team out Ramsey can shoot but he never shoots anymore why is that wenger fact thanks guys.

After that game, Arsenal rallied and won four and drew one of their next five games, and Wenger finally dragged the team back up to third place in the League and retained the FA Cup, but that has seemingly all been but forgotten....

Arsenal could well have found ourselves on top of the Premier League table over the current international break but due to the good performances and results of Chelsea and Liverpool combined with us being held to a draw we have actually slipped back into fourth place, and in fact we are fourth favourites at 13/2 in the Football Betting Odds as well.

Solihull Moors managed a draw away at League Two Yeovil Town and then won the replay back at home.

Despite the three wins and a draw that has seen the Gunners climb back up towards the right end of the league table, going above our early tormentors Liverpool and level with Chelsea on points, Arsenal are still some way behind the pace setters from Manchester.

Well your righ with met spend but in amount paid out for players no net were 5th but i agree our champions league performances have been poor we had some tough draws and the premier league is more demanding then the other leagues in strwnght of competition and games played still excuses do nt win but that monaco loss left me shaking my head in cl we get theough the group but cant muster the strength needed for knockout and we should be performing better were under performing for the talent xhaka has frustrated me hes got the talent and plays well but cant hold focus in games he drops off and loses his marks our academy is doing well but yes it is tougher now to break in to the first team iwobi has done well but one or two seasons away from being there if he does turn himself elite ever has to score or he will just be another ox but i think its been a wake up call to the club we finally have to act theres a wave of ideas to not only get us back to winning ways but become title contenders and i think give him the extension one year its a world cup year and that will also allow our players esp strikers who been very poor this year realized its tough to play in englad and next year will have a better idea what it really takes to win here shore up some spots and depth and were in contention fail and the changes will happen but let him have one more year the fact were willing to spend shows me an upturn from the decline

The Gunners progressed to the semi-finals of the Europa League after coming back to draw against CSKA Moscow and win the tie 6 - 3 on aggregate.

However, our north London rivals Tottenham were also pleased with Bayern's draw, because it means that their record of winning the first 11 league games of a season, back in the mists of football history, still stands with Bayern only able to win the first 10.

Southampton moved above United into fifth following their 4 - 1 triumph over Crystal Palace, although the Red Devils need just a draw to leapfrog the Saints back into the top five, and would clinch a Europa League spot anyway if they win the FA Cup final.

Thanks to a draw and a loss in back - to - back league games, Real Madrid find themselves one point behind Barcelona in the race for this season title.

The Red Devils were held to a goalless draw in Spain in the first leg of their last - 16 Champions League tie against the La Liga outfit, but they'll be confident of getting the result they need back at Old Trafford next month to advance.

Former Premier League referee Graham Poll has joined the list of those backing the comments of Jose Mourinho following Chelsea's controversial draw against Burnley.

Manchester City will be looking to get their Premier League form back on track against Arsenal after a disappointing 1 - 1 draw with Everton last week.

Before the game he said he expected Man Utd to win the league next season — after the game it was back to the drawing board and spend big (again).

You could mention how coq would be back to cover, but he will be preoccupied Chelsea as i mentioned earlier will not play Oscar up front, Drogba is fit we all know what he is capable of, even if he doesn't get anywhere near the ball, he is a proven striker in the league with an eye for goal, and ridiculously overpowered and still quick for his age, if his on the pitch his job would be to draw coq away from the heart of the midfield.

I believe he played for Marseiile back in the day when Arsenal drew them in Champions League and was impressive then.

The last time four headers were scored in one Premier League game was back in November 2012, when Arsenal and Fulham drew 3 - 3.

Overall I am happy with a draw... Yes we could easily have won the game if giroud had taken some of the easy chances he was presented with, but the spuds could just have easily gone 2 - 0 up a number of times... We could have gone top of the league today but with all the injuries at the moment the most important thing is that we didn't lose ground on city... Looking forward to after the international break when we will have the majority of our players back #COYG

It was always going to be touch and go whether Le Coq was going to be back in time for the Champions League games, especially the first leg but at least the draw has done Arsenal a favour in that sense.

OT: I can see fans turning back to Wenger side just after two wins... That's the reason I want us to have a bad season end... This season I can take lots of league defeats and no FA cup trophy, actually I wish if it could happen, just to see Wenger out, yes it reached that far... This sickness must end, don't stop the protest, win, draw or loose, just Wenger out...

Both of these two Arsenal stars have played their part in getting the Gunners back on track after a disappointing start to the season, in terms of the Premier League at least as we lost to Liverpool at home before drawing away to Leicester City.

Real Madrid are back in the Champions League Final, ready to defend their title from the 2015 - 16 season when they beat Atletico Madrid in penalty kicks 5 - 3 (after drawing 1 - 1 in regulation and extra time)...

Win lose or draw though, and the focus will swing straight back onto the fight for the top four places in the Premier League.

They have only dropped 2 points out of 10 League games in this campaign when they drew at home to Everton back in August.

Thus, going into Saturday's clash against Sunderland at the Stadium of Light, expect Arsenal to come out all guns blazing and look to get back to winning ways, after losing and drawing their last two Premier League games against Chelsea and Hull City respectively.

Hull played out a goalless draw with Aston Villa, but will find this a very hard game to get anything from.Everton have not lost at home for 12 home league games nows dating back to December 2012 when they last got beat at home 1 - 2 by Chelsea.

The Merseyside outfit, looking to bounce back from the FA Cup semi-final exit against Aston Villa and the 0 - 0 Premier League draw at West Bromwich Albion, saw plenty of the ball but failed to punish their well - organised opponents.

Atletico is also unbeaten through 12 league games but six of those have been draws to leave it in fourth, 10 points back.

United go into the final on the back of a 2 - 0 league win Bournemouth on Wednesday, while Spurs faltered in their 1 - 1 draw at Brighton a day earlier.