Sentences with phrase «draw the game though»

Not exact matches

The big game — slated to start around 6:30 p.m. E.T. in Minneapolis at the U.S. Bank Stadium on Sunday, Feb. 4 — is sure to draw in a large number of viewers, though total viewership may not break any records.

I'm not of the belief that Manchester City are playing all that well either though, and I can see this game ending in a draw.

Though a draw is not a bad result, we must not go into the game with the sole intent of a draw cos that may encourage the Spurs to bombard us... this is a winnable game if we get our tactics right

For now, though, we can only look ahead to the match and after a couple of Gunners picked up injuries while on international duty after the Gunners were held to a draw in our last game against Tottenham there seems to be quite a lot of negativity around Arsenal at the minute.

This was the vital game though for Real who trail leaders Barcelona by 16 points in La Liga after a poor campaign and it is their best chance of picking up some silverware outside of the Champions League, in which they are evenly poised against Manchester United after a 1 - 1 first leg draw at the Bernabeu.

Manchester United Held By Newcastle West Ham lost to Bournemouth 3 - 4, not a good day for Jenks though, but what a crazy game Leicester held by Spurs Swansea held by Sunderland Only Crystal Palace survived in dying minutes against Villa Hope Everton can grind out a draw against City to slow them down....

The draws are important as well, even though we had many tough games on the road to Wembley last season.

The Gunners got themselves together and bounced back though, winning every game except the draw away to Chelsea and that was a big plus point for us as well, so we were all set to come back from the second break in fine fettle and raring to go then?

Arsene Wenger has made a couple of changes to the Arsenal team that managed to fight back twice against Man City on Sunday to earn a draw, but the idea that our club captain Per Mertesacker may be in for a first game of the season due to the Koscielny achilles injury is on hold, even though his height and aerial ability would have been a factor in stopping Andy Carroll.

Koscielny completed the game but it was not a heavy test for him even though Holland did come back from two down to draw level before conceding a late winner.

Now we are group winners, though, we could do with our luck holding as there are some tough draws available from pot 2, which after all the games are played contains; PSG, Benfica, Man City, Bayern Munich, Bayer Leverkusen, Real Madrid, Porto and Sevilla.

The visitors to the Emirates Stadium next week are the relegated and dispirited, and not very good, Aston Villa though, so you would expect a win for Arsenal in that one or at the very least a draw, meaning that tomorrow's clash is the key game.

Even though a draw would not be a bad result for Arsenal against Liverpool at the Emirates stadium on Saturday, it would be so much better for us to take all three points and stretch the Premier League gap between us and our opponents to a massive nine points with just seven games to play.

After Arsenal were forced to accept a draw in our last Premier League match, which even though it was a north London derby was a disappointing result with the respective form that Arsenal and Tottenham took into the game, it is very important that we get back to winning ways this weekend.

Gibbs is better going forward and you would expect us to dominate the Black Cats even though they have won three and drawn two of their last six games.

Every single defeat (or even draw) has produced reams of abuse on JustArsenal towards Olivier Giroud, Theo Walcott, Per Mertesacker, Ramsey, and others, but mostly towards our manager, even though we were still up fighting for the title and winning more games than any other team except Leicester City.

This season they have met four times so far, with all three games ending in draws, though Arsenal won on penalties in the Community Shield back in August.

That game took place in 1914 during a tour of South America, though nobody seems quite sure whether Exeter lost 2 - 0 or achieved a 3 - 3 draw.

You can hope and fight all you want though you should know it is written, Stoke away is always a loss, Man utd at home is always a draw, Tottenham anywhere is a draw, only Everton and Leicester are the games we can get 3 points out of.

Even though Arsene Wenger made a complete change to the Arsenal starting line from the weekend draw away to Chelsea in the Premier League, he was still not willing to take too many chances in this Carabao cup game at home to Doncaster, so the visitors were facing a strong Gunners side including Walcott, Giroud and Alexis Sanchez up front.

Though England were knocked out France 98 in the second round, the manner of their exit — on penalties after a 2 - 2 draw against Argentina, the game that saw Michael Owen's wonder goal followed by David Beckham's silly flick — meant that Hoddle still retained broad support as manager.

With Arsenal in very good form and on a good run of results, the manager clearly feels that confidence is on our side and it seems as though the boss will draw on this confidence to make sure that his Arsenal players control the game from the start.

After their draw with Chelsea was followed with a win over Swansea City to end an eight - game winless streak in all competitions, it appeared as though Van Gaal may well have put his men back on the right track.

Even though the summer signing Granit Xhaka had probably his best game in an Arsenal shirt since his transfer from the Bundesliga, I thought that Mesut Ozil just edged him as our best player in the draw with Tottenham yesterday.

It just shows you, though, what great pressure there is on the manager and players of this great club, with the football media so willing to talk about a crisis just because Los Blancos drew a few games, even after Zinedine Zidane had steered Madrid to a record run of La Liga wins and another Champions League trophy.

Though Swansea have twice drawn, but Crystal Palace lost all of their last 5 games in Premier League.

Draw: The temptation is to lean on the draw, even though it is a game that Everton should be winnDraw: The temptation is to lean on the draw, even though it is a game that Everton should be winndraw, even though it is a game that Everton should be winning.

They have scored exactly one goal in each of their last three games though which may just suggest that they can get close to a draw in this one.

Even though Allardyce had said before the game that a draw was just fine by him, it would have registered as a disappointment.

In their last seven games they have failed to pick up a victory, though their 1 - 1 draw against...

Ive just returned from playing a vets game which we drew 4 - 4 and im not surprised to see that Sunderland wan a closely faught game even though i said yesterday that a point would be good.

Even though there are a number of potentially difficult games ahead, using the prediction gadget on the Birmingham Mail web site, my calculations have Wolves winning the league with 103 points with draws at Leeds, Cardiff and Villa....

These results pulled the Stags out of the bottom two and for the rest of the season with the odd game won and the odd game drawn, Stags managed to finish fifth from the bottom and hence outside the bottom four, though only on goal average from Exeter City.

They have only won one of their last five away games though across all competitions (D3 L1) which is a surprise for them, but they were superb in a league draw at Arsenal in the week.

You don't get easy games against Brazil though and Brazil are 5/4 for the win, with the draw at 23/10 and Uruguay at 9/4.

They really are at the point where they need to be winning more games though because they have drawn six of those last nine played in the Premier League.

Their home form is great though with a W12 D3 L2 record produced at Molineux all season and a draw in their last home game against Norwich snapped a two - match winning streak that they were on there.

Celta picked up a draw in the league at Camp Nou earlier in the season and according to Valverde «they played well even though we had enough chances to win the game.»

Like many members of the Tottenham team though Wimmer grew into the fixture and found it easier to contend with the likes of Ozil and Welbeck as the game drew towards the close.

KEY FACT: West Brom have failed to score in three of their four Premier League encounters with Watford MATCH ODDS: West Brom 5/4 Draw 2/1 Watford 5/2 ANDY SAYS: Yeah I can see Watford just edging this and grabbing the three points... 0 - 1 GRAEME SAYS: I like how Watford have done, but a win here is a big call but maybe they can... 0 - 2 SILKY SAYS: Another close game this week, I don't see Watford winning though... 1 - 1 LADBROKES PICK: Watford to beat WBA & Both Teams to Score @ 7/1 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Andre Gray still under # 1 — with his first goal under his belt, should be on the rise

Arsenal are currently unbeaten in their last 15 league games — 8 wins and 7 draws — though have drawn four of their last five.

Wenger's side remain three points behind their local rivals after the game, though the draw means Leicester City have the opportunity to increase their lead at the top of the table to five points, should they beat Watford today.

MATCH ODDS: Southampton 17/20 Draw 12/5 Newcastle 17/5 ANDY SAYS: Close call, can't separate them so have to go for a draw... 1 - 1 GRAEME SAYS: I can see Newcastle snatching this one, won't be a classic though... 0 - 1 SILKY SAYS: Won't be a great game but I think Southampton will have enough... 2 - 1 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Ryan Bertrand at 64p looks a very good option tDraw 12/5 Newcastle 17/5 ANDY SAYS: Close call, can't separate them so have to go for a draw... 1 - 1 GRAEME SAYS: I can see Newcastle snatching this one, won't be a classic though... 0 - 1 SILKY SAYS: Won't be a great game but I think Southampton will have enough... 2 - 1 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Ryan Bertrand at 64p looks a very good option tdraw... 1 - 1 GRAEME SAYS: I can see Newcastle snatching this one, won't be a classic though... 0 - 1 SILKY SAYS: Won't be a great game but I think Southampton will have enough... 2 - 1 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Ryan Bertrand at 64p looks a very good option to us

Though Padrew's sublime tactical nous has never really threatened us, Arsenal's history against the Eagles doesn't show any significant reason to fear them, they have won NONE of their last five games against us and have managed a draw only once with the remaining four games yielding three points to us.

Two games against below mid-table teams and we are really struggling.Is Fabs the answer?I don't think so.The first game against WBA would easily have been a draw but we were lucky though not this time round on Saturday.It was difficult and frustrating watching my team fail to create any clear cut chances in 94 minutes of football.There was such a corridor in our midfield that fulham utilized to the maximum.If we start dropping points against the likes of fulham at this stage in the competition then what will become of us in the 6 matches against the top three teams?I can see why I need to lower my expectations early enough to avoid disappointment later on.Very poor performance from Denilson.But why was Theo sub'd instead of bringing in Song for Denilson early enough?!

The Rams have drawn five of their last seven games though so they are battling away and go into this one after back to back away draws at QPR and Nottingham Forest.

Their decline has centred around an alarming sequence of results which has seen Steven Kean's men fail to win a single one of their previous eight games, though a succession of draws has at least maintained some flow of points in their direction.

The pair made this fixture an entertaining game last season though with a 2 - 2 draw.

The anticipation of a thrilling game on Saturday is high among the fans, despite the three drab draws that the two sides have played out in last three games and even though neither of the two can win the league this season.

Though Roy Hodgson's side go into the game as favourites, they will be wary of an Iceland side who have given a fantastic account of themselves throughout and progressed from their group (like England) with one win and two draws.