But their last meeting with PSG saw them suffer their biggest
ever home defeat in Europe, and they have only ever won twice away in 29 attempts in the Champions League group stage.
Not exact matches
That has rarely been more apparent than in his post-game press conference on Friday after the Lakers sustained a 120 - 89
defeat to the San Antonio Spurs, their worst
ever home playoff loss, in Game 3 of the Western Conference semifinals.
But we should have beaten Liverpool in the second leg.There was also no justification of that.We might as well lose all our matches against the big teams and justify on the basis of it being a match against a big team.I mean
home and away
defeats is just unacceptable.Champions must also find ways to possibly win all their matches against the big teams no matter which
ever way it goes.This is because that can make all the difference in winning the league.
Barcelona lost a 3 goal lead and crashed out; Madrid was rescued by a last minute penalty at
home despite a comfortable 3 goal lead away; Lazio lost a 2 goal lead and got eliminated; the «Almighty Athletico» (according to Wenger haters) nearly got eliminated at Lisbon succombing to a
defeat; and another monster that would destroy Arsenal if we
ever were unfortunate to meet them, Leipzig, was thrashed by Marseille yet it is Arsenal that secured a 2 - 2 draw and qualified for the next round that should be hanged.
We were excellent in pre season and capped a 100 percent record with Wenger's first
ever win over Mourinho to beat Chelsea in the Community Shield and we all expected Arsenal to hit the ground running in the Premier League, only to slump to a shock
defeat at
home to West Ham.
As usual Jon you make some good points but with all respect to Leeds, Villa and Forest, no way would Spurs spend the amount of time in the lower leagues [just one year] that those three have spent recently and I'm sure you remember that great Spurs side in their double year dropping their first point after 14 games to Man City and suffering their first
defeat to Sheffield Wednesday by the odd goal in three on Boxing day and almost beating our 66 point record [2 points a win in those days] which stood from the glorious thirties thanks to a shock
home defeat on the last day of the season by West Brom with their frightening forward line of Jones, White, Smith, Allen, and Dyson and to make things worse the following year the signing of Jimmy Greaves, and don't let anybody tell different without doubt the greatest striker the English game as
ever seen.
The Clarets have suffered five
defeats in their last six games and need a spark of inspiration on
home soil to get themselves out of their
ever - increasing mess.
The 5 - 0 in December was Spurs» heaviest Premier League
home defeat in 16 years and Liverpool's biggest
ever win at White Hart Lane.
This will be just the third
ever Premiership meeting between the two sides yet already, just five games into the season, it's a pivotal one between free - falling Bolton, who have now lost three games on the spin in the league following their emphatic 5 - 0
home defeat at the hands of Manchester United last weekend, and a Norwich side still looking for their first Premiership victory for well over six years − it has been a great deal longer since they were victorious on their travels, mind.
However, the fact Burnley have suffered two
defeats in their last three
home games in the Premiership does beg the question as to whether Burnley will
ever win again in the 2009/2010 season as they sure don't look like winning away from
home.
It has, however, been a steep decline
ever since − a 5 - 0 loss at
home to Manchester United was their third successive league
defeat, having lost to both Manchester City (2 - 3) and Liverpool (3 - 1) in August − and now the Trotters find themselves hovering precariously above the bottom - three in the table, just a point better off than Norwich.
KEY FACT: No team has
ever progressed to the next round following a 4 - 0
home defeat in the first leg of a Champions League knockout tie MATCH ODDS: Man City 2/11 Draw 11/2 Basel 14/1 GRAEME SAYS: Man City won't lose, comfortable
home win... 3 - 0 LEON SAYS: Man City to win to nil @ 4/5 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Kevin De Bruyne, no brainer to have him in your portfolio
It was United's heaviest
home defeat in 66 years and Ferguson called it his «worst
ever day».
The Hammers handed Town their first
ever Premier League
defeat back in September via Pedro Obiang's deflected strike and an Andre Ayew effort both late in the second half in West Ham's first
home game of the season.
Following the bitter
home defeat at the hands of league leaders Chelsea, Blackburn boss Sam Allardyce opened up about his concerns over where the team find themselves with regards to the Premier League table and how the battle to remain in England's top - flight will be one of the toughest he's
ever embarked upon — And that's saying something as the former Bolton and Newcastle gaffer has been involved in his fair share, although has never been relegated as a Premiership manager.
He was hauled off after just 35 minutes in their ignominious 4 - 3
home defeat to Bournemouth, with the former Juventus centre - back featuring sporadically
ever since.
Not only does this type of thinking fuel the Mommy Wars, it's also a money misconception that plagues stay - at -
home moms to the point that they're made to feel they're inferior, setting women back to the dark ages and killing working women's chances of
ever defeating pay inequality in the workforce.