Sentences with phrase «difficult trip»

The leaders also have a tough run - in ahead, with difficult trips to Sunderland, Manchester United and Chelsea.

It's a varied line - up of fixtures which await City over the next fortnight, starting with a very difficult trip up north to Tyneside, where Newcastle United are waiting to pounce on City's wounded status.

The Gunners will know this weekend could have serious repercussions on the Champions League places with Liverpool and Southampton doing battle, Man United facing a potentially difficult trip to Swansea and Spurs facing bogey team West Ham.

It's important to remember that this is a particularly difficult trip to make, especially without the man that Mourinho considers to be Chelsea's best player.

AC Milan face an extremely difficult trip to the Stadio Franchi tonight, but their coach knows Fiorentina risk fatigue after their 4 - 0 defeat to Lazio and 1 - 1 Europa League draw with Roma.

Despite Dawyot's loss, the work his agency produced for the client following that difficult trip won an Addy Award and a gold medal in North Carolina's Sir Walter Raleigh Awards.

With three consecutive defeats and a difficult trip to Wembley to face Tottenham this weekend, Guardiola is seemingly erring on the side of caution.

Other than the runs both sides are on, there will definitely be changes from both sides, with Arsenal facing a difficult trip to Leicester next while Tottenham have an even bigger test against Man City.

Having failed to make the knockout stages of the competition and been relegated to the Europa League, the focus switches to winning a Premier League title this season for Van Gaal and his players, but they face a difficult trip to the Vitality Stadium this weekend.

West Ham endured a difficult trip to the Hawthorns in the FA Cup, with West Bromwich Albion running out comfortable 4 - 0 winners...

They are at the quarter - final stage and face a difficult trip to face Swansea City.

Mourinho was coming under increasing pressure, and a difficult trip to Wales was the last thing he needed.

The last Premier League match - up before Christmas, and hearing your older relatives complain how football isn't like the old days, we're treated to a match that offered up an upset last season as Chelsea face a difficult trip to the Britannia Stadium to face Stoke City.

However, with Jose Mourinho's side facing a difficult trip to the Ukraine on the Thursday night before this fixture, we believe that the 3/4 on offer in the double chance market could well be the one to back.

This was supposed to be the second of two very winnable home games prior to embarking on a difficult trip to Stoke, where the aim won't be anything to do with points gained, but more to do with trying to keep the code of the football being played something resembling the association game.

Klopp's reign begins with a difficult trip to Tottenham a week on Saturday, followed by home outings against Rubin Kazan and Southampton in the Europa League and Premier League respectively.

Their defence should be an issue, with four players missing going into a difficult trip for the relegation - battling side.

While Leganes» mini-stretch didn't last long - Barcelona were quickly back to controlling the game through possession, but with the healthy lead there was little urgency in their play — as if they were already conserving energy before a difficult trip to Rome.

Manchester United will begin their much - anticipated Champions League campaign at Old Trafford in the first midweek after the international break — sandwiched between a difficult trip to the Bet365 stadium and a home game against Wayne Rooney's Everton.

In their last three games, that figure has risen to 60.67 percent, but the opening three matches included a stern test at home to City (in which Spurs saw just 39 percent of the ball) and a difficult trip to Stoke.

May's difficult trip to India last week suggested that in a post Brexit world, we're going to have to be rather more effective at planning and pitchrolling our international relationships than we achieved there.