Sentences with phrase «draw in our opening game»

Had we managed a draw in our opening game last season against Liverpool we would be playing CL football right now.

Not exact matches

Both sides played out 1 - 1 draws in the opening group game, leaving Arsenal top on away goals, followed by their alphabetical advantage.

A defeat could spell disaster for the Argentine giants after losing against San Jose and drawing against Tigres in their opening two group games.

Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho launched a stunning attack on the club's physio Eva Carneiro following the disappointing 2 - 2 draw with Swansea City in their opening game of the new Premier League season on Saturday evening.

It means the Brazilian champions have now gone two games without scoring a goal in this season's tournament after they also drew 0 - 0 in their opening game — an away trip to Universitario.

I believe tgere are 3 titke contenders this year Leicester, city and arsenal About Leicester they are doing great but there football depends on counter attacking and few quick passes to reach the ball to mahrez or vardy i don't think they can impress anybody if they faced teams that park the bus like what the teams do with arsenal and also any injury for mahrez or vardy will ruin there season so i don't consider them a real challenge and in an open game we got the best out of them and beat them with 5 goals to 2 so calm down gooners About city they had very impressing start for the season then they were vety baf winning most games by pure luck or last minute goals and they could be beaten easily Arsenal are the best team form we controled most of the games and the losses and draws were by bad referee decisions or bad luck and the 4 points margain with city could have been easily 10 or 12

Swansea put their heads down and and within five mins drew level when our defence was split open again and left Clucas one - on - one with Cech, and suddenly the Swans were back in the game.

The draw ends United's run of three consecutive wins in all competitions, as they now wait until after the international break to face Liverpool at Anfield on October 17 with the point on Sunday moving them up to sixth place in the Premier League table with 13 points from their opening seven games.

The Gunners are yet to register a goal in either of their first two games at the Emirates Stadium this season after a shock defeat to London rivals West Ham United on the opening day before being held to a goalless draw by Liverpool a couple of weeks ago.

The Gunners are one of only four top - flight teams who are unbeaten so far this term, but they are currently below City in the table, having drawn two of their three opening league games.

The staging of the competition, which has seen three 1 - 1 draws in its first four matches after a stalemate between Tunisia and the Cape Verde Islands in the final game of the day, results that have indicated the competition could be wide open.

We won our opening game of the league, drew away in Turkey (well known for being a hard place to go) and drew with Everton when last year they beat us.

The Manchester City winger was heavily criticised for his performances in England's opening two group games and did not feature in the 0 - 0 draw with Slovakia.

Laudrup's side have begun the season in impressive fashion, thumping QPR, the summer's most active recruiters in the transfer market, 5 - 0 in the opening game and they followed up that result with another big win, 3 - 0, against West Ham before the 2 - 2 draw with Sunderland.

Early bettors are jumping on USA to win in regulation and rightfully so — they've yet to concede a goal since the opening game of the tournament — but the value here may lie in the draw, just like the 2011 Final.

Visitors Burnley will be relatively pleased with their start to the season, having drawn three successive games 0 - 0, but Sean Dyche's side are struggling for goals with both Danny Ings and Sam Vokes out injured, with the Clarets not having found the net since Scott Arfield's opening goal against Chelsea in their first match.

The East struck first as leadoff hitter Nick Serafino drew a walk to open the game and eventually worked his way around to score the first of his three runs in the game.

The 16 time World Champion played twice last week, beatig Dave Chisnall in his opening game while drawing with Steven Bunting in the other, having a nightmare on his finishing in the final leg.

Interestingly, these two teams will meet in the opening game with Liverpool a -240 home favorite (Southampton +775, Draw +400).

But beating Man City comfortably at Wembley, winning our opening Premier League game for five years and grinding out a draw in a tough night in Istanbul is not too bad for a team that is not quite firing on all cylinders.

However, Mauricio Pochettino's side have now gone four games without scoring from open play in all competitions after Vincent Janssen's second penalty in a week saw them scrape a 1 - 1 draw at home to Leicester City.

There have already been some interesting results, not least Man Utd losing at home to Swansea, and Everton only drawing with Leicester, so nobody can expect any easy games in the opening games.

Denmark lead the pool with four points from their opening two games, with Sweden and England tied on three points and France — who drew 0 - 0 with the Danes on opening day — down in fourth.

But where Hughes» Wales had lost narrowly to Russia over two legs, having beaten Italy in group games, Berti Vogts» Scotland had opened their campaign by drawing with the Faroe Islands and ended it with a 6 - 0 shoeing in Amsterdam.

Whoever does draw these guys in the Opening Round Hoops Playoff game — well, good luck!

Manchester City's game is the only draw this season, in addition to the opening day victory over Crystal Palace at home; but, with other Premier League heavyweights in Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, Tottenham and Everton to visit, Arsenal need to raise their game and get those 3 points, more often than not.

Ernesto Valverde: «We are two wins away from the title» FC Barcelona Ernesto Valverde valued Barça's draw against Celta Vigo at Balaídos, emphasising how equal the first half was: «It was a very open game, especially in the first half.»

Despite taking the lead, Borussia Mönchengladbach drew 1 - 1 in their opening game of the 2014/15 Europa League after a disappointing performance in the second half.

England stumbled rather than swaggered their way through the qualifying section drawing with their Euro 2016 foes Slovakia once again in the opening game as well as away to Lithuania.

Arsenal Ladies were held to a goalless draw by Sunderland Ladies in their opening game of the WSL Spring Series.

Having never played in Europe's premier club competition prior to this season, Cafu found the net twice in the play - off success over Red Star Belgrade and scored against Basel in the opening group game as Ludogorets earned an impressive 1 - 1 draw.

They have taken 10 points from their opening 6 games, winning 3, drawing 1 and losing 2 — with their most notable result coming in a 4 - 1 demolition of local rivals Manchester United.

Aston Villa beat Derby 1 - 0 to open up a five point lead at the top of the table with five wins and two draws in their seven games.

Arsenal's 2 - 2 draw at the Emirates against Hull City might have been understandable, or acceptable, in the opening couple of games of the season.

After the opening day defeat in the hands of Burnley, Chelsea have kind of steady the ship winning 3 and drawing the other game against Arsenal.

Our development squad head into the international break unbeaten from their opening three games in the inaugural Premier League 2 following a 1 - 1 draw away at Manchester United, the league champions in each of the past two seasons.

Emre Can got a goal to earn Germany a draw in their opening under 21's Euro game.

Everton have won 3 and drawn 3 of their opening 6 games under new manager Roberto Martinez and are the only unbeaten team left in the Premier League.

Barcelona has started the season relatively poor in terms of their usual form having lost 2 and draw 1 in the opening 7 league games.

Tottenham were far from their best in the clubs opening day draw with Everton, but I wanted to take some positives from the game and analyse three of the best performers from the game.

From the opening season each UEFA Champions League group stage club entered their U19 side and the autumn schedule is replicated in the UEFA Youth League: the same group stage draw and fixtures, with players having the chance to travel with their senior colleagues to away games.

The loss of Paul Pogba to a hamstring injury will undoubtedly be a blow for Mourinho as he seeks to maintain his side's position as Premier League leaders following three wins and a draw from the opening four rounds of games, with the Frenchman reported to be out for at least six weeks after pulling up against the Swiss champions early in the game.

: City can only equal the current record of 18 — held by Chelsea, United and City — having already drawn against Everton in the opening home game of the season.

England have been drawn in Group B alongside Russia, who they play in their opening game tonight, Wales and Slovakia, and Cahill tells the official Chelsea website a squad which have come a long way over the last couple of years fear nobody.

Both teams also found the net in a 1 - 1 draw at Anfield earlier in the season so this game looks set to be an open and exciting one for spectators.

Maribor have conceded 13 goals without scoring since their opening goal in the previous game, but Spartak have now gone 16 games in Europe without a clean sheet, and have only played out two 0 - 0 draws from 26 games in all competitions this season.

KEY FACT: Arsenal have won ten games in - a-row against Leicester MATCH ODDS: Arsenal 4/9 Draw 13/4 Leicester 5/1 ANDY SAYS: I think Arsenal will open up their season with a win, they will be too good for Leicester — 2 - 1 GRAEME SAYS: I think a full strength Leicester could have taken something, but Arsenal to win this — 2 - 0 LADBROKES PICK: Both teams to score in second half @ 15/8 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Alexandre Lacazette could be in line for a very good season — so at # 3.78 could be something of a bargain.

This pedestrian football however is harming them in front of goal — held 0 - 0 at Sporting Gijón in their opening game of the season where they never really looked like scoring, drawing 1 - 1 with Atlético Madrid where they never looked like scoring more than one and then another 0 - 0, this time with Málaga, where Cristiano Ronaldo was the only player who looked like scoring for the hosts, but he had an off day.

Sunderland held Man Utd to a 1 - 1 draw in their opening EPL home game but is that even considered a great result anymore?

So there was nothing to split these two over the games from last season and with Leeds in decent opening form and Fulham having drawn both of their games so far in the Championship this season, this is probably going to be really tight.