Sentences with phrase «competitive game against»

The good news for the four times champions of Africa is that they are yet to lose a competitive game against Congo.

David Moyes has never won a competitive game against Liverpool at Anfield in 14 attempts as a manager (D7, L7).

Liverpool's last competitive game against Roma was in...

A competitive game against the likes of Real Madrid or Bayern Munich is a once - in - a-lifetime event for many of the players.

he won it in his first competitive game against city FA Community shield.

When was the last time the kid played a competitive game against a top side?

A manger who wanted us to actually win stuff... And No goals in last 6 competitive games against Chelsea is most telling statistic of all... should have flogged Ramsey and Walcott arteta and flamini in summer and brought in griezman draxler and kondogbia....

PSG are obviously no mugs but they have gone without a clean sheet in the last nine competitive games against English sides.

Not exact matches

We may have lost a few games against them in their better years, but we've looked a bit more competitive against them than we have against United, Chelsea, etc..

You have a chance to prove that because your first competitive game could be against Chelsea... I think the script couldn't have been written in a better way for the fans because this will be one of the days [that is] very exciting and very strange at the same time.

It's been proven in the Warriors game that Davis Bertans can play with the big boys, they were really competitive against the champs.

Despite the raw outcome I feel we were generally competitive, especially relative to the absolute mauling every game against Houston was last season.

United's Premier League opener against West Ham will not be their first competitive game of the season as the Red Devils must first battle Real Madrid for the UEFA Super Cup on Tuesday August 8 in Skopje, Macedonia.

The Volunteers own neutral court wins over Purdue and NC State that look even better now than they did at the time, and they played a highly competitive contest against top - ranked Villanova in the Battle 4 Atlantis championship game.

In this latest encounter the Uruguay international is up against the Indonesia Under - 19s, with Suarez unable to play a competitive game until October 26 due to a four - month band for biting Giorgio Chiellini.

In the past two seasons we have had the FA COMMUNITY SHIELD game to worry about, but this year our first competitive game comes against Liverpool, so it's not exactly an easy opponent.

We've played 5 Competitive games now and won just one, lost against an average team (Bor.

Love how Golden State can just kill any thought of a competitive game albeit against a team missing a great player.

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

1 - Early games against «medium» but organized teams for match / squad fitness, game rhythm, to be competitive but cautious, test «new» System, field many players and win game (even the home crowd want you to win),

The German has taken part in 5 EPL games this season and was only on the winning side once (against Everton) and his last competitive match was in our awful FA Cup elimination to Nottingham Forest.

If Clemson didn't have South Carolina on the schedule and a potential ACC title game against a decent team, I'd probably drop them to Barely Alive at best even though they were very competitive on the road against an excellent team.

NC State was competitive all game but ultimately lost 56 - 41, covering both the opener and closer and improving NC State to 9 - 1 ATS in their last 10 games against FSU.

«I think it will maybe bring back the years where we were so successful» kinda had goosebumps reading that line... i'm not sure if anyone realized this but theo was the last player to score a hattrick for us in a «competitive game» and that was against newcastle dec 2012...

Villa fell to defeat in their Championship opener against Sheffield Wednesday at the weekend, as their agonising wait for a win in a competitive game went on.

It might seem a little unfair on our replacement keeper David Ospina, as the Colombian international has not conceded a single goal in those games against Hull City and Stoke City and has only just been given his own chance after recovering from the injury he brought with him to Arsenal from the World Cup finals, but it sounds like Arsene Wenger is really trying to build a strong competitive spirit between his two main shot stoppers.

One concern for Villa is that Vidic is unlikely to be match fit immediately — his last competitive game was against Juventus in May 2015.

So after 4 competitive games we can see the makings of a squad that can't compete for EPL or cl... Bringing in rotation players won't change the equation as we already have too many mediocre performers... if we bring in quality DM and attacker I think we can have a first team to match the best and hope fitness and injuries aren't against us... otherwise it's another underperforming season ahead

>> It's hard to argue against competitive - equity divisions when so many of the games come down to the wire.

Last season, despite a 4 - goal blitz against Benfica in the Emirates Cup, he only played six games in the first half of the season, and scored his only ever competitive goal for the Gunners against Dortmund in the Champions League.

Despite having a fairly shakey competitive debut against Liverpool, in which he made the most fouls of any player and consequently picked up a yellow card, Xhaka has been a star of the show in both the Leicester and Watford games, the latter especially.

CSKA dropped out of the Champions League despite winning three of their six group games and they were competitive away from home, beating Basel and Benfica 2 - 1 and taking the lead in a 2 - 1 defeat against Manchester United at Old Trafford.

«We got the result the other night: a good performance, we were competitive, the structure of the team was good and we will take it into a difficult game against Stoke.

Chris Kavanagh is the newest recruit to the select group of referees and tomorrow he takes charge of a competitive game at Turf Moor for the first time although he did referee our pre-season friendly against Hannover 96 that was abandoned at half time due to crowd problems.

Last time these two meet in a competitive game was a incredible 3 - 2 win for Barcelona thanks to Messi's late injury time goal against 10 - men Real Madrid.

They faced a French side they had not beaten in a competitive game since October 1949 in Stockholm and a team that was looking to finish the group stages at the top of the group and avoid a game against Spain in the quarter finals.

First up were Manchester United against Swansea City in what was the Red Devils» new manager Louis van Gaal's first competitive game in charge.

Team News & Lineups: Jose Mourinho will take charge of first competitive game as United manager while new signings, Zlatain Ibrahimovic, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Eric Bailly are expected to make their official debuts for United against Leicester City.

If that's the case the league will be even more competitive next season, but if United can show what they have done in recent games, especially against City then there is no reason why they can not challenge for trophies on all fronts next season.

They rarely let anyone off the hook with an easy game against them and they will be competitive against Chelsea.

It was a result that extended the Dutchman's 100 % record in competitive fixtures against the Reds to four games and saw his goal - scoring captain claim the club's 100th goal at Anfield.

Here is a full rundown of Town's last competitive home game against all the Premier League opposition in 2017/18, in descending chronological order

Since going down 1 - 0 at home to Belarus in Laurent Blanc's first competitive game in charge in September 2010, France have qualified for Euro 2012 — without recourse to the play - offs — and enjoyed friendly wins over England, Brazil and the United States (as well as some forgettable draws against Croatia, Chile and Belgium).

Mauricio Pochettino's first competitive game as Spurs» boss will come against rivals West Ham United, with the North London side looking for revenge after losing to the Hammers in all three games last season.

In every game so far this season, Arsenal have been competitive, their largest margin of defeat has been just two goals, only suffered once against Spartak and they have only conceded more than two goals in a game once, against Anzhi in a 3 - 2 away defeat.

Time is running out for the 30 year old Belgium defender of Manchester City, Vincent Kompany as the last competitive match that he played was on November 19 when his team faced off with Crystal Palace and it was during that game that Kompany sustained a knee injury which has kept him out of the... Read more Vincent Kompany is running against time

Abdelhamid Sabiri plays for the first time since the first game against the Blues, whilst Sean Scannell is on the squad list for Town for the first time in a competitive game this season following his return from loan at Burton Albion; he's a substitute tonight.

Over the last two or three months we have made changes, I made seven against Fulham over Christmas, but we have always been competitive apart from a couple of bad games in September,» said Laudrup.

One among the top two must drop a minimum of two points when they play each other plus there are games they will have to play against other highly competitive clubs.

Following Lukaku's fourth goal in three competitive games for United against Swansea at the weekend, Alan Pardew, in his role as pundit for Sky Sports, claimed the striker didn't have the «cleverness «that Ibrahimovic, Van Nistelrooy and Teddy Sherigham had.