Sentences with phrase «early part of»

The Rossoneri had made contact for Aubameyang in the early part of the summer transfer window, and the failure to recruit him led them to the signing of Andre Silva.

While Real Madrid have suffered shocking defeats to Real Betis and Girona in the early part of the season, Atleti have been left frustrated by their failure to finish off games.

Even though Mauro Icardi has been the talisman of the team with all his goals, it was Ivan Perisic who grabbed many headlines in the early part of the season with his scintillating displays.

Jenkins added: «We have had a couple of calls in relation to Ki because, as everybody can see, he has not been in the squad much in the early part of the season.

That was looking questionable through the early part of 2014 when they went on a nine match winless streak.

City have been immensely strong at home for the early part of this season and throughout the course of last season, whereas Rovers have been a very poor away outfit thus far and have managed to avoid defeat just three times in ten away outings.

What we can say though is that Liverpool's performance for this early part of the 2016/17 season has basically matched that of the best Premier League team statistically (in terms of shots on target at least) from the last eight seasons.

As Darragh touched on yesterday, Nasri appears to have grown more comfortable with his spot on the wing and rather than competing for Cesc Fabregas for the spotlight, has used the early part of this season to show us what he can do.

In the early part of this century they were simply imperious with consecutive FA Cups, league titles and the greatest strikers in their history in Henry and Bergkamp, but as Roman Abramovich's petro - dollars took hold and Chelsea replaced them at the summit of the English game, their desires lessened.

Speaking prior to Barca's Copa del Rey game against third - tier Real Murcia, Valverde reflected on the turbulent days in the early part of his reign, he said: «I think everyone has their opinion.

His performances during the early part of the 2015/16 campaign increased his reputation as not just a promising full - back, but one of Europe's best.

The 29 - year - old struggled to adapt with this change in position during the early part of the campaign.

Barcelona boss Ernesto Valverde has admitted that the Catalan giants were affected in the early part of the campaign due to the Neymar transfer saga.

During the early part of the decade, he was a regular supplier of superb crosses to the head of Wayne Rooney, providing the striker with so many assists that Rooney scored more goals in a season than he ever had before.

The 24 year old German international midfielder is understood to have clashed with Mourinho in the early part of this season.

The defensive line was high in the very early part of the game, but dropped deeper as the game went on, probably through necessity with the team tiring, as much as being the intention.

It is pretty safe to say that if we are to see a change to the system, it will not be in practice in the early games of the season, due to Dembele's ban that keeps him out for the early part of the season.

He struggled to get in the side at the Bundesliga club in the early part of the season but last Sunday started at right - back against Borussia Dortmund.

And then came the catalyst and defining moment of the early part of the season, a Tuesday evening against another struggling side: Blackburn Rovers.

AS Roma 2 - 0 Lazio highlights: AS Roma still continuing their excellent start in this early part of the season as they bagged an important win over city rival, Lazio this past weekend.

Birmingham, at the mid-way stage of proceedings, find themselves languishing — Our favourite word at the moment — near the foot of the table and just a torrid festive period away from spending the early part of 2011 stranded in the relegation zone.

Gonzalo Higuain has not been scoring as many goals for Real Madrid this season, but he has had injury problems and the whole team struggled in the early part of the season.

Having featured in the early part of Rangers» pre-season campaign, Robinson has missed their recent friendlies and has been receiving treatment.

While that isn't much of a factor in the early part of the run - in, if they reach the quarter finals of Europe's elite competition they face the prospect of five games in 14 days.

But it was well below what's expected at the Westfalenstadion and Hummels was captain throughout a difficult campaign, which saw them slip into the relegation zone in the early part of season.

AS Roma keeping their winning streak in this early part of season going strong as this weekend they defeated Cagliari at Olympico stadium.

Leeds United looked to stay on top of the Championship as they took on Ipswich Town at Elland Road today in front of a crowd of over 34,000, while Ipswich wanted to keep up their good run of form in the early part of the season and stay in the play - off places.

Wiedwald worked so well in the early part of the season in part because he was able to distribute the ball from the back with the ball at his feet, allowing the fullbacks and the wingers to start the attack on the edge.

Facing one of the surprise on this early part of season, La Viola were not having things easy though Vincenzo Montella's men did made a bright start on that encounter with Borja Valero opening the score after just five minutes of play.

Their desperation to add firepower to their attack was shown by their purchase of Olivier Giroud, a man who is past his peak and was struggling to achieve regular first - team football with Arsenal during the early part of the season.

Nonetheless, he remains one of TFC's best players in the early part of the season as he contributes successfully in both the defensive and offensive ends of the field.

Incidentally all three of United's goalscorers spent the early part of the season with question marks lingering over their futures, but all have mirrored the resurgence of their team.

That, though, isn't the only success story in the early part of 2018 as Grosjean's Haas team have impressed many in the paddock.

Liverpool's bumbling back - line was the subject of intense, often deserved, criticism in the early part of the season, but improvements since the turn of...

Last season, his goals in the early part of the season were a huge reason why the club were seen as genuine title challengers for a large part of the campaign.

Liverpool's bumbling back - line was the subject of intense, often deserved, criticism in the early part of the season, but improvements since the turn of the year have been drastic.

On Sunday, he proved once more he can shake off the injuries that marred the early part of his season.

If you look at some of the goals conceded in the early part of the season, including in the champions league, it was down to attacking players not doing their defensive duties properly.

The early part of the Fall 2015 high school sports season has shown that sports can be a platform to support greater causes within the school, community and country.

It's a bit rich considering how Grosjean was in the early part of his career, but anyway.

Devise and develop a system to make it work - that is what good coaches are there for.When Henry was brought to Arsenal in the Early 2000's (which to be fair was probably about 15 years before you were born) he was being played as a RWB at Juventus.Can you believe that.He played wide here for the early part of his Arsenal career before Wenger moulder him into one of the Worlds Top Strikers and arguably the best ever player in the Premiership (although it was always Bergkamp for me and the Pony Tailed Hearthrob Petit for Sue).

He spent much of the early part of the season out of the side, but returned in late November, and has since found his feet at the club.

«I told [the owners] I think we can get these players and let's push on and get them in the early part of the window so we can have a good amount of bodies and good competition for places once the other lads get out of the treatment room.

Labbadia has been out of work for eighteen months after being sacked as manager of Stuttgart during the early part of the 2013/14 season, but the experienced German is generally regarded to have done a good job during his three year spell with the club and also has time at Bayer Leverkusen and Hamburg on his CV.

We'll need to get a lead on others in the early part of the season to have any threat on the title - because other teams will get stronger during the season as new players learn their new teams -

The early part of innings was held together by Matt Winter's half - century, as the top order failed to score runs.

«I don't think you're going to see the kind of golf that we saw in the early part of this century and the end of the last,» he said, referring to Woods» glory days.

He also hit a mid-range J in the early part of the Game.

For much of the early part of his F1 career John Watson wore a glorious beard.

Usual rubbish about not playing under pressure in the early part of the season whilst forgetting we were missing prime players at the time