Sentences with phrase «d knockout stage»

... meanwhile since they ain't in d Knockout stage they MUST still play 5more games.

They therefore have the knockout stages of Europe's premier competition to look forward to next year.

Not exact matches

Having lost our first two Group matches, Wenger is well aware that only a win will be good enough to give the Gunners a chance of making the knockout stages this season.

Arsenal should already be through to the Champions League knockout stage as well and have a chance to top the group, because Anderlecht's goal was clearly offside.

We can't sacrifice the club's ambitions and wellbeing on the altar of a player's personal glory, it's the business end of the competition and Cech has the experience of having won it, Ospina conceded three goals [home and away] against PSG, the only opposition on the level of those we'll be meeting from now on, three goals against in the knockout stages is bordering on disastrous as we all know how tight these affairs are.

So it is the first time in ten years that Arsenal have gone unbeaten in the Champions League Group Stage and finished top of the group, and will go into the knockout stages full of confidence for a change.

Now he wants to try and emulate that success with this Arsenal side, but first of all we have to reach the knockout stages.

But after we conceded that penalty and Lionel Messi converted it to give the Spanish champions a two goal cushion, the Frenchman had to accept that everything points to another European exit at the first knockout stage.

And those goals all came in four of the games, as we failed to score against Stoke City, Chelsea, Southampton, Hull City and Barcelona, so it is not too hard to see why we have slipped off the top of the Premier League and are looking at another Champions League exit at the first knockout stage.

To the positives then, and the main one is that we have actually made it to the UCL knockout stage, unlike some clubs I could mention (cough, spuds, cough) and the fact is that the two groups seem more even this year with the big names spread around more.

Barca are well on course to win major honours this season as they have a nine - point lead in La Liga, have advanced to the Champions League knockout stage and are still in the Copa del Rey.

Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players begin their latest Champions League campaign next week and everyone connected with the club is hoping that this season sees the Gunners go at least one better than recent years which have seen us finish second in the group and then exit the competition at the first knockout stage.

We have a very slim chance of making it through to knockout stages, but even if we do, we have an injury plagued squad that needs to beat teams like Barca, Madrid, Bayern etc..

I doubt if we will be able to win it, but it would be a real boost for the players, fans and manager if we could at least go further than the first knockout stage.

Right up until the dying minutes of the group stage it was looking like England would face Portugal and Cristiano Ronaldo in the knockout phase but the amazing story of the smallest country ever to qualify for the Euros went on with a last minute Iceland winner.

Although Algeria have already made history in this year's tournament by reaching the knockout stages for the first time, they are now desperate to get one over their big - name opposition after a controversial incident from the 1982 World Cup finals.

Offensively, however, his lineup is far from weak — includes WC winner and best finisher in the EPL, Little Mozart Czech team captain, standout from WC knockout stage Costa Rica, Ox who is proven already at club and country, and Diaby who has shown he can play with anyone as long as he is healthy.

23) Shakhtar Donetsk — Ukrainian team Shakhtar are regular participants in the knockout stages of the competition, but the volatile political situation in the region has left a number of the club's players unsettled in Donetsk.

But I have a strong hunch that tells me Arsenal will beat Olympiakos with the necessary & needed enough goals to qualify for the knockout stages of the Champions League as they have always done for the past 16 seasons without a break.

When the draw for the knockout stages of the Champions League takes place on Monday, England will have an unprecedented five sides in the draw for the last 16.

Euro 2016 was a perfect example of that as they were dumped out by Iceland, but it seems some haven't learnt their lesson with a few comments below looking at who England could face deep into the knockout stages.

Meanwhile, they also face a decisive clash against Olympiakos in the Champions League next week, as they must win in order to have any chance of advancing to the knockout stages of the competition.

Arsenal have qualified for he knockout stages of the Champions League every season this century, and Arsene Wenger has no intention of losing that run now, as he said on Arsenal.com.

It's no wonder Barry was so happy; the goal will likely lead to a draw and a point that would send Coast to the Knockout stage.

I think we'll score in the first half, and get a second late in the second half but not have enough time for the third... I don't usually see myself as a pessimist, but that result pretty much follows our record in the knockout stage in recent years: have a shocker in the first leg, then put out a good show in the second but not quite doing enough.

Arsenal might have finished top of their group Standings (GROUP A) of the Champions League in an attempt to avoid the Bayern / Barca nemesis in the knockout stages but it looks as if the first position is just the same as coming second this season.

Just like they did throughout the spring in La Liga, in the Copa del Rey final and in the Champions League knockout stages, they had serious chemistry.

Then by the time the knockout stages start we should have every player back from injury and hopefully a signing or two.

That's why we've gone from EPL titles and Champion's League knockout stages to 6th place and League Cup Finals.

Despite qualifying for the group stages year on year and going on to qualify for the knockout rounds, that has been as far as we go.

The Spaniard's side have won 11 of their 12 Premier League games so far this season to open up an eight - point gap over their nearest rivals, while they've comfortably qualified for the knockout stage of the Champions League.

It is not really going too far to say that Arsenal v Galatasaray on Wednesday night is a must win game for the Gunners, at least if we are to keep our hopes alive of actually winning our UCL group this time and avoiding the likes of Bayern Munich and Barcelona in the first knockout stage.

We've advanced to the knockout stages of the CL against a very mediocre team in Monaco and, in the league, we're tied for 4th.

wenger just does nt have a clue about the Cl knockout stages.

Fair enough but the fact that the players from all the other leagues in Europe have had a nice rest can not be helping the English clubs in the knockout stage of the Champions League and our problems in Europe and with the UEFA coefficient have been the talk of the football media for a few years now.

That's why they've landed Barcelona in the knockout stages; that's why Cavani will likely have to score plenty over the two legs.

Having added countless top young players to essentially start a new cycle at the club, Guardiola and his players have built an early eight - point lead in the Premier League title race while they've comfortably qualified for the knockout stage of the Champions League.

In the history of the CL, there have only been three occasions of a team turning a 3 goal deficit in the second leg of the knockout stages to advance in the tournament.

It has been, somewhat gleefully, pointed out that Arsenal have lost ball three of our previous away games against Olympiacos in the Champions League and so we might as well forget qualifying for the knockout stage.

Although it is pretty hard to take the fact that along with Arsenal being knocked out of the Champions League at the first knockout stage yet again, making it seven years in a row, we did so with a record breaking aggregate scoreline of 10 - 2, it has not been all doom and gloom for the Gunners this week.

Mitroglou has put himself in the shop window this season with his electric performances in the Champions League that have given the Greek side a great chance at being able to progress through to the knockout stages of the competition.

Zlatan has never won the champions league because he's only scored once in the knockout stages that was for AC Milan against Arsenal apart from that he never shows up in big champions league games whether it's for Juventus, Inter, Barcelona, Milan or PSG

We are of course still in the Champions League, having reached the knockout stages of the competition for the 13th consecutive term, and despite coming up against the same team who knocked us out of three previous European campaigns, we have reason to be more confident next time around.

Having come on against Portugal, he played a part in Clint Dempsey putting the States ahead, and followed that up by causing Belgium a number of problems in the knockout stage.

Ernesto Valverde has guided his side to top spot in La Liga with a four - point gap over their nearest rivals while they sit top of Group D in the Champions League and are on the verge of qualifying for the knockout stage as they remain unbeaten in both competitions.

Would that mean he couldn't play for Arsenal in the knockout stages?

Although they've had poor domestic performances, Monaco did qualify top of their group despite scoring just four goals, earning them a spot in the knockout stages in the competition for the first time in over 10 years.

Following a dramatic and exciting last day of group games at Euro 2016, we all have a few days without football before the serious business of the knockout stage begins, so I thought it might be worth a look back over the tournament so far, with a firm eye on how the various Arsenal players have done so far.

So somehow, thanks to Ludogorets draw with PSG, we finished top of the Group, and Wenger was asked if there were any possible rivals that he would prefer to avoid in the knockout stages.

But the Germans have won every single competitive game so far this season and will also be looking to practically ensure qualification for the knockout stages with another win tonight.