Sentences with phrase «crucial first goal»

The disallowed goal by Colton Sissons early in the game cost the Predators what would be a crucial first goal.

(tell me if you don't care) Patrick Bamford, on loan from Chelsea grabbed the crucial first goal and terrorised the Manchester City back line in the second half during Middlesbrough 2 - 0 win at the ethiad stadium.

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Tesla missed a crucial production goal, but its first - quarter financials beat Wall Street expectations.

In service of this goal, there are two crucial aspects to the papacy: First and foremost, the pope must, as St. Paul wrote to Timothy, «Guard the deposit that has been entrusted to you!»

Icardi broke the deadlock in the first half with a well - taken goal, before playing a crucial role in the build - up to the second as he drove into the box and produced a superb improvised finish to double his tally.

The La Liga and First League giants exchange goals for much of the game, but ultimately Villarreal gets the last shot off and seals a crucial home win.

For the first for Danny Welbeck, Elneny could be seen watching with great intent as his team - mate raced onto his perfectly - weighted through - ball before finishing with aplomb and netting that crucial away goal.

Chelsea drew 1 - 1 against Paris Saint - Germain in the first - leg of the Champions League last 16, as they grabbed that crucial away goal through defender turned striker Branislav Ivanovic.

Nervous start — usual criticism at the beginning of the season, with the lack of spending Ramsey's first blood — Arsenal shocked the league, we played brilliant football, scoring beautiful goals, all seemed like a decent season for us Coq red card — injury crisis struck, the lack of bench depth put pressure on the team, the downfall of performance caused crucial points Alexis» goal when down to ten men - it all seemed like arsenal would lose out in the title race again but arsenal somehow surprised the league again, saying aye we got the quality but we just ai nt gonna show in week in week out Draw in NLD with 10 men — can't really complain about it but you ain't happy.

He was little uncareful few times with the ball but other than that he blocked many crosses, made great runs, asissted a goal, made crucial interception for the first one and overall was impressive.

Since then we have earned two crucial wins on the bounce, first a 1 - 3 away win at Watford with Cazorla, Sánchez and Özil scoring the crucial goals, followed by a 2 - 1 win at home to Southampton with Cazorla and Koscielny scoring on that occasion.

See this is why I don't think much of the «first goal is crucial» articles Anything can happen in a football match and it all depends on the final score Once we were up 4 - 0 to Newcastle and it ended 4 - 4

The last - 16 tie is finely poised after the two sides played out a 1 - 1 draw at Stamford Bridge in the first leg, with Messi's equaliser wiping out Willian's opener, which could yet prove to be a crucial away goal.

USC had first - and - goal on the one and Cain scored, cutting «Bama's margin to one point and setting up Hamilton's sack of Hertel on the crucial conversion try.

Fernando Torres» first - leg away goal was crucial in setting the scene for Wednesday night, and his red card ultimately didn't prove to be costly as Atletico now advance to Friday's semi-finals draw.

But Chelsea snatched a crucial away goal in first - half stoppage time, from the unlikely boot of Mikel.

Gonzalo Higuain's double in the opening eight minutes of the game put the Serie A champions in a strong position, but Harry Kane bagged a crucial away goal in the first half.

Willian had given the hosts the lead after striking the post twice in the first half, but the lead was short - lived as Lionel Messi stepped up to score a crucial away goal for the Catalan giants.

Cuadrado bagged his first World Cup goal from the penalty spot in Colombia's 4 - 1 group stage victory over Greece, whilst he also provided a vital assist for James as the AS Monaco man scored the crucial second in their last sixteen win against Uruguay.

Slimani was one of the heroes of Algeria's 2014 FIFA World Cup campaign, scoring crucial goals against South Korea and Russia as the Desert Foxes made it out of the group for the first time in history before crashing out against Germany after extra time in the last sixteen.

even when he suffered a serious knee injury, instead of accepting the fact that he would never stick his legs into the spaces that were crucial for someone with straight ahead speed to succeed, the club actually contemplated giving him a chance to play up top where his lack of physicality, size and holding up play talents would been on display for all to see... these are not the actions of a club that really cares about winning at the highest levels, but they are the actions of a club that wasn't interested in spending the necessary resources to purchases a world - class striker, which is usually the most expensive position on the pitch... instead we adopted the horrible phrase «like a new signing» and proceeded to allow this ridiculous experiment to carry on, which ultimately caused some discomfort on the training pitch and inside the locker room as players battled for a position that shouldn't have been theirs for the taking in the first place... don't get me wrong, I believe that Walcott is a talented player, who can help a team reach their goals, if their goals are relatively modest... just look at the teams who supposedly expressed interest in his services and they weren't the kind of clubs who aspire to win at the highest levels... as for the reasons why he hasn't been bitching and moaning about moving on just look at the wage benefits he receives from our club and his obvious desire to enjoy the societal advantages that come with playing in North London for a club with worldwide appeal... so instead of continuing to try to fix a coat with a broken zipper simply move on and buy a new and better coat

When Giroud scores it's often been the first goal of the game which is crucial!

Every goal is important, and the way we play the first goal is absolutely crucial as it opens the game up.

That first goal could be crucial so Coquelin and Elneny have an important job to do in protecting the back four while also setting the tempo of the game from the central areas, while we need no mistakes from Gabriel, Koscielny and the full backs.

It proved to be even more crucial when Stuttgart pulled a goal back to make it 3 - 2 in the first minute of added time.

Both teams had their chances during the first 90 minutes, with both Thibaut Courtois and Simon Mignolet making several excellent saves, but it was Chelsea who got the crucial goal after Ivanovic escaped Mario Balotelli and powered home.

First goal is so crucial.

Despite his great qualities like speed, strength and aggression his inexperience has shown itself in crucial games, remember the Chelsea game, he put himself in a position to get a red card by falling for Costa's Antics (Arsenal would have won that game if we remained 11 or if Mertesacker was playing especially considering we were playing deep), he played Lewandowski on - side for Bayern's first goal in the champions league, the shaky first half in the home game against Liverpool.

We should have ended the first half 2 - 1 up but the equalising goal came at a very crucial moment.

The star center scored a crucial power - play goal to extend the Penguins» lead, and posted his first multipoint game of the series when the team needed it.

After Danny Welbeck enjoyed a dream return to the Arsenal team with a goal after less than 10 minutes and an absolutely crucial and well taken goal as well, I have been seeing various reports suggesting that the England international is set to be rewarded for his role as super sub against Leicester with a first start of the season against Hull on Sunday.

The first goal was always going to be crucial, in more ways than one after Burnley's opener sparked all the trouble three weeks ago.

The Hammers secured a remarkable three goals in the first half and finished 3 - 0 victors over Southampton in a crucial relegation zone battle Saturday at the London Stadium.

Tottenham picked up their first three points of the season at home to Crystal Palace after Victor Wanyama scored a crucial late goal.

Starting off first with the crucial attacking statistics, we can already see that Ramsey has scored more goals than the other three, even after playing 120 minutes less than Toure and over 250 minutes less than Fabregas.

John O'Shea and Jon Walters, who scored crucial goals throughout the campaign will be suspended for the first leg.

Antonio Rudiger — 8 — The German international was one of Chelsea's most threatening players in the first half, as along with the opening goal, Rudiger made some crucial runs to cause huge havoc to the Stoke defence.

The Reds» energetic, precise football proved the undoing of the Premier League leaders in the first leg at Anfield, with Mohamed Salah, Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain and Sadio Mane punctuating a frantic passage before the break with crucial goals.

However, shortly into the second half and the goal scorer from the first - leg, Antoine Griezmann superbly raced free from the halfway line when he was played through by Fernando Torres before comfortably slotting the ball past Manuel Neuer to gain the crucial away goal.

After a first half devoid of chances, goalkeeper Michel — making his first appearance of the season and, remarkably, the first of his career at Wembley — made a crucial save from on - loan Chelsea striker Ike Ugbo 20 seconds after the interval to prevent the visitors from taking the lead before midfielder Dele slid home the only goal of the game on 65 minutes.

Oxford earned a crucial three points in their bid to avoid relegation as first - half goals from James Henry and Ricardinho handed them a 2 - 0 victory over Southend.

He scored at crucial times, assisted with goals, and became the first ever player to score in consecutive Euro finals.

Substitute Divock Origi's goal on the hour mark secured a crucial three points for Jurgen Klopp's side after first - half strikes from Sadio Mane and Philippe Coutinho.

And any questions about whether van Dijk was still committed to Saints were also answered when he held strong as Brighton pushed for an equaliser towards the end of the first half, making two crucial headers, first to clear and then to deny Shane Duffy a certain goal.

Chelsea suffered a defeat in the first leg of their Champions League last 16 clash with PSG on Tuesday, but they managed to score what could prove a crucial away goal in the process.

Having converted penalties against Napoli and Benfica he played the full 90 minutes in both legs of the UEFA Champions League semi-final against Barcelona — making crucial contributions for goals from Didier Drogba in the 1st leg and Ramires in the second — before playing the full 120 minutes and scoring in the penalty shoot - out as Chelsea won the competition for the first time against Bayern Munich.

Chungy would get the crucial goal as Coyle's Bolton got their first win against Burnley and after helping Bolton to a 14th place finish he went off to the 2010 World Cup.

Up to then Abou Diaby had been as much use on the pitch as a chocolate ironing board, but he made a crucial tackle in the centre circle to set up the attack that led to the first goal.

Carrick's goal was similar if not as crucial to the important header by Steve Bruce against Sheffield Wednesday all those years ago as United headed for their first Premier League title.

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