Sentences with phrase «easy opposition»
It gave West Ham their biggest win of the season and effectively sealed Chelsea as title winners, unless the Blues find some way to drop 4 points in four games against relatively easy opposition Continue reading →
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Apart from the Chelsea game, all of our recent victories have come against very easy opposition, and all were home fixtures, apart from BATE.
Despite this, Jose Mourinho's side attained qualification to the Champions League after they received fairly easy opposition in their route to their Europa League triumph.
He should play domestic cup games and league home games against relatively easier oppositions to make him grow further.
A number of sub-par displays have seen them crash out of both cup competitions against what should have been easy opposition, and they look sure to lose the Premier League to either Leicester City or their north London rivals Tottenham.
Napoli, Feyenoord and Shakhtar Donestk are no easy opposition but City swept them aside like they have done against most teams in England.
Despite having already qualified for the Europa League by finishing 7th, Bilbao will not be easy opposition to play against.
Give them the opportunities in the team against easier opposition or in the cups, without throwing them in at the deep end.