Sentences with phrase «early stages of last season»
There is no question that Arsenal suffered in the early stages of last season due to the World Cup hangover being felt by the Germany internationals in the side.
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Bayern have drawn just one of their last 31 CL games (1 - 1 against Napoli in the group stage earlier this season).
Last season, Leicester won the title but had hardly any distractions in the form of cup games, having been knocked out of the League Cup and the FA Cup at an early stage.
Likely some players from the youth squad will be more involved, players that we have seen last season in the early stage of the FA Cup and EFL Cup.
Alexis is a good player.He was a massive player for us last season.I remember during the earlier stages of the season, Wenger changed the starting 11 just to get the best out of him.
After shipping a bunch of goals in the early stages of the season, they have collected six clean sheets in their last nine games now.
It's rather hard to point the finger at a particular aspect of their game that has improved on last season — but they look as if they have collectively moved up a level in terms of confidence and assurance both on and off the ball that even when Everton threatened David De Gea in the early stages of the second half, the home side refused to be drawn in.
Earlier this month, the Gunners were knocked out of the Champions League at the last - 16 stage for the seventh consecutive season.
Earlier in the season they came to within a whisker of taking points off of Chelsea and Manchester United, before eventually losing both 2 - 1, while last season, under Roy Hodgson, West Brom should have beaten Arsenal at The Hawthorns − they were leading 2 - 0 at one stage but conceded twice in the second period − but did inflict Liverpool's first ever Hawthorns defeat.
Striker Robin Van Persie has been so isolated up top it's frightening, this a player who lest not forget plundered 19 league goals last season despite missing much of the early stages.
The player has stated his happiness at the club over the last few seasons and is in the early stages of extending his current contract at the Theatre of Dreams.
Last season, after European Championship triumph with Portugal robbed him of a full summer's recuperation, the former Manchester United attacker looked at little jaded in the campaign's early stages.