Sentences with phrase «final stages of last season»
The highly - rated youngster knows Pellegrini well from their time together at Malaga where the pair helped guide the La Liga side into the quarter final stages of last season's Champions League.
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The French champions have qualified for the quarter - final stage of the Champions League in the last four consecutive seasons, and despite the loss of Zlatan Ibrahimovic this summer, remain very strong opposition.
Having dropped to third in La Liga and going out of the Champions League at the quarter - final stage last season, they will be worried that their successful era under Simeone is coming to an end.
The guy kept our season afloat for the first 4 months with his goals, scored the goal to secure UCL group stages, scored both semi-final goals to take us to FA cup final, is the club's top scorer, has been involved in more goals + assists than anyone in the PL, scored more goals than the media's fave Costa from a deeper, wider position, plays every second of every game as if it was his last, is always smiling, helped instill a hungrier work ethic in the team — all in a first season.
After Monaco crashed out of the semi final stage of the Champions League last night, despite another goal from Mbappe, all eyes were on the teenager to see where his future may lie for next season.
We were eliminated in the quarter final stage of the competition last term by Watford, when the Hornets pulled off their best performance of the entire season to beat us by two goals to one.
Jordan Spieth, who staged a furious comeback Sunday to win the British Open and avoid another potential major championship nightmare like the one he endured at last year's Masters, has the chance to become the first golfer in history to complete the career grand slam at the men's final major of the season.
For all the build up to what is effectively United's last chance saloon in terms of achieving at least the bare minimum — reaching the group stages of the Champions League for next season with the added bonus of silverware, the players somehow managed it — like they did in the last few minutes of the EFL cup final, when at one stage the odds were stacked against them.
Juventus won a fifth consecutive Serie A title last season, equalling an Italian record, but they missed out on Champions League victory when Bayern Munich knocked them out of the competition at the quarter - final stage.
Chelsea, meanwhile, could meet Ajax for a place in the quarter - finals - with Newcastle potentially travelling to meet Anzhi Makhachkala and Liverpool on course to play Basel, the team that knocked Manchester United out of last season's Champions League at the group stage.
United now find themselves in the quarter - final stages of the competition for the first time, getting at least a round further than last season when they were beaten at this stage by finalists Liverpool.
Paris Saint - Germain have not managed to cross beyond the quarter - final stage of the Champions League in recent seasons, and the arrival of Neymar would boost their semi-final prospects whilst also challenging for the French crown which they lost out to AS Monaco last term.
There was speculation at the end of the season as to whether Rooney had played his last game for the club, coming on in the final stages of the UEFA Europa League final in which United beat Ajax 2 - 0 to lift the trophy, the only major honour United had not won in their illustrious history.
The Capital outfit have fallen in the quarter - final stage of the Champions League in four of the last five seasons, and Sanchez could provide the added boost to push them towards the European crown.
He broke into the Chelsea squad in the closing stages of last season, making his senior debut against Leicester City in the final game of the campaign.