Sentences with phrase «early opening goal»

A fantastic atmosphere was met in response by a fantastic team defensive performance, City struggling to get anywhere near the Reds» goal after Georginio Wijnaldum's early opening goal, one which would eventually get the three points.

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The Foxes opened the scoring early on, as a ball from Riyad Mahrez allowed Vardy to tap home to put Claude Puel's side a goal to the good in the third minute.

Next will be we concede to many early goals or we are not scoring from open play etc..

During the opening months of last season, the 24 - year - old was troubled by constant hamstring problems and despite netting a few goals early on, he wasn't hitting the heights he had previously demonstrated.

Jakob Silfverberg opened scoring early in the first period with his eighth goal of the postseason.

If we fail to get an early goal, this could well turn into a scrappy affair, but Theo Walcott loves to open up defences in midweek, and I can see him breaking through in the opening 45 minutes, and the game should be much more open from then on.

Gon na get a few thumbs down for this but to be honest I would rather spend my weekends watching my team play beautiful attacking football and have the joy of watching beautiful goals such as Wilshere's goal v west brom last week and still finish in the top 4 with a cup final to look forward to than win the title having to force my eyes open to actually see my team win via an early goal and the rest of the game spent watching headed clearances from John terry

If they score an early goal, it will force Pumas to score twice to overcome that tiebreaker, encouraging them to open up their team in a way that could give opportunities for Tigres to score more goals — digging the hole even deeper for Pumas.

It appeared as though the Blues were going to run away with the three points, as they opened up an early two - goal lead.

Yeah I'd also expect an early goal to open the floodgates.

Falling behind 5 - 1 early in the second period, Philadelphia rallied to 7 - 6 before a last - second open - net goal by Bryan Trottier cemented the Flyers» first defeat since Oct. 17.

Barrie staked the Avalanche to an early lead in the opening period when he scored his 50th career goal on a wrist shot over the glove of Murray.

Alabama fumbled the opening kickoff, handing Ole Miss an early field goal, then lost another fumble on a kickoff following an Ole Miss touchdown.

First of all Alex Song had a screamer of a goal disallowed very early on in the game, and then Winston Reid fell over in the West Ham box just before half - time, and as he stood up again he tripped Santi Cazorla, a penalty was given and Arsenal were given the all - important opening goal.

Benteke opened the scoring inside seven seconds in what was the fastest ever goal for Belgium and set a new record for earliest goal scored in a World Cup qualification match.

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.

Birley FC seemed to have found a member of the hit early 2000's band Blazin» Squad as one of their players managed to blaze the ball over the crossbar of an open goal from a yard out!

If Giroud had not scored his goal against Palace and we had drawn 0 - 0 everybody would have slagged him off for missing that open goal earlier and he would have been called rubbish.

Salah had a golden opportunity to open the scoring very early in the first half, after a super cross from Emre Can left the winger with an open net to pass the ball into, however the Egyptian somehow managed to steer his shot straight at Cech in the Arsenal goal.

But that approach saw us go 4 - 0 behind in the opening 20 minutes of our last trip to Anfield and so the manager may choose to send his players out with a more cautious frame of mind and make sure that we do not concede an early goal again.

Even though it was comfortable in the end, with the Gunners totally dominant in the second half, we had to ride our luck early on, when the former Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner could have had a goal and an assist in the opening exchanges.

Mourinho has seen his usually reliable defence ship in nine goals in their opening four Premier League fixtures and are already a massive eight points off early pace - setters Man City.

Visiting Sevilla opened the scoring through Vitolo's early goal, but were 2 - 0 behind just after the half - hour mark when Marlos and Taras Stepanenko responded for the home side.

It will take an early goal from the home side to open the floodgates though with a couple of late goals making the tie safe as Zinedine Zidane's men march on.

His 33rd - minute effort was neither particularly powerful nor particularly well placed, but Middlesbrough stopper Dimitrios Konstantopoulos — who had earlier made amends after an ill - placed parry — was unable to prevent the midfielder's strike from creeping in for the opening goal.

To really make this ploy work, it would be great for the Gunners to get the opening goal and to get it nice and early.

We fought hard in the opening half of the first - leg to get back into the match having gone a goal behind early on, and went into the interval level at 1 - 1.

Both City and Roma opened with an early goal and while one stadium was buzzing, the other lacked passion.

They allowed Preston to completely dominate the first half, and Aaron Ramsey, who finally got the opening goal for Arsenal early in the second half, says that the Gunners were «surprised» by Preston's play.

The first goal has to come early to open the game up against what will be an 8 - man defence lobbing the ball to Deeney.

We have also started to turn on the style of late, scoring 20 goals and conceding just four in our last eight matches in all competitions, while the Welsh club is coming to London desperate to turnaround their own early season fortune, with their only two wins of the season so far being distant memories from August, against Burnley on the opening day and then Peterborough in the EFL cup.

What can we possibly do is press heavily in opening minutes and try to get an early goal, because if we are made to chase the game, I haven't seen many bright moments against bus parking teams....

An early goal saw us throw players forward on the attack and that just opened us up to more goals at the wrong end.

They took a sucker punch to the gut early in the first half as the Xolos snuck the opening goal just past Luis Robles in the 10th minute as Luis Mendoza stuck his right boot out and taped it slowly across for their away goal.

After his early shot from outside the box opened the scoring, he also closed it with the injury - time winner - «another long - distance job and his 8th goal in 6 games.

The early goal certainly helped open the game up and Spurs dominated the scoring opportunities, 20 shots to 7 and 2.9 expected goals to 0.5.

2 goals from Andrey Shevchenko countered the opening goal from Zlatan Ibrahimovic to give Ukraine the victory and send Sweden to the bottom of the group following France and England's 1 - 1 draw earlier in the day.

Hull kicked off the match trying to look for an early goal to get them back into the fixture with United holding well in the opening few minutes.

The Merseysiders suffered an early set back when Wijnaldum gifted Afobe the opening goal.

United went on to beat Basel 3 - 0 with Fellaini scoring the opening goal of the match, Romelu Lukaku scoring early in the second half and Marcus Rashford scoring the third on his Champions League debut, continuing his goalscoring run for United in debuts.

After having conceded several early goals in recent matches, Arsenal witnessed Charlie Austin opening the scoring after just three minutes on the clock.

Of course, an early goal for the visitors could open the floodgates, as it did against United at Stamford Bridge, but on balance we think this one will turn out to be a narrow victory for Chelsea.

Deschamps said: «The aim is to score the opening goal as early as possible.

The Dutchman looked impressive in pre-season and in the early stages of this season, but has failed to get any momentum going, not to mention that Janssen has failed to score a goal from open play in a Spurs shirt.

In truth, it should have been a more significant winning margin but Antonio Conte will have been pleased with the performance of his side, who never looked in trouble after Hazard opened the scoring with a wonderful solo goal early on.

The overs intrigues me as I do not see this Toffees team keeping a clean sheet on the road and an early goal will throw this game wide open.

Palace still pressed but United soon regained possession after some early defensive errors with Alexis Sanchez getting forward and trying to inspire United to an opening goal of the game.