Sentences with phrase «finding the back of the net at»

What we do seem to be able to rely on is finding the back of the net at least once.

Having scored midweek versus Swansea, his manager will be desperate for him to find the back of the net at St. James» Park — but he'll need to seriously up his performance levels.

That's a rate of 0.93 goals per game — and if he were to carry on finding the back of the net at that rate he could end the campaign on a record number of goals for a Golden Boot winner.

Gerrard is 14/1 to score a headed goal and 9/5 to find the back of the net at any time on his final appearance in front of the Anfield faithful.

Roma struggled to find the back of the net at home, but a 52nd minute goal by Edin Dzeko proved to be enough, and Roma progressed on away goals.

Dijon have found the back of the net at least once in each of their last 15 home games across all competitions.

On the other hand, Atletico Madrid have found the back of the net at least once in nine of their last ten competitive trips.

Expect the game to go over 2.5 goals and would simply expect another three points on the board for Arsenal, especially with Burnley struggling to find the back of the net at the moment.

Not exact matches

Nikita Kucherov found the back of the net for the fourth game in a row with the opening goal in Saturday's win at Colorado.

Despite missing three months of the campaign, the 28 - year - old has still managed to score 14 goals in the league but has failed to find the back of net since the 4 - 1 victory over Liverpool at the start of last month.

The Belgian international showed real patience and persistence to find space in the box to take his shot, and he eventually forced his effort into the back of the net to spark wild scenes in the away end at Selhurst Park.

Giroud could get himself on a red hot scoring streak while all the other strikers at the club struggle to find the back of the net, thereby making the France international centre forward a key member of the first team that the boss could not, in all conscience, let go, but not many of us expect that to happen.

And during his stay at Highbury, the Dutchman managed to find the back of the net on 120 occasions in total in 423 appearances in all competitions for the club, including 87 strikes in his 315 Premier League outings.

Explosive forward Ayew found the back of the net twice for the Black Stars at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, but was unable to prevent Kwesi Appiah's side from crashing out in the group stage after a 2 - 1 defeat to Portugal.

And in the intervening period at the Amsterdam ArenA, the youngster has managed to find the back of the net on eight occasions in total in his 25 matches in all competitions, all of which have come in the Eredivisie.

Benteke has been transformed since the turn of the year and has found the back of the net 12 times in 14 games since Sherwood's arrival at the club in February.

Young's first effort wasn't bad either, and while it's taken a while for him to find the back of the net, he certainly did so in style as he continues to play an important role for Mourinho and Man Utd this season as they hope to remain within firing range on rivals Man City at the top of the Premier League table.

With 67 goals in his career so far, there's no doubt Sergio Ramos is confident in finding the back of the net, popping up just at the right time in the Champions League final last season and in other big games.

While the Spaniard made a positive initial impact at Stamford Bridge, he's gone six games without finding the back of the net, and naturally as the main striker at Chelsea without too much depth behind him, it has hurt Antonio Conte and his side.

The Belgium international made a fine start at Old Trafford before a recent goal drought, which has seen him fail to find the back of the net in his last five games for the club.

A long - term injury to Daniel Sturridge at the beginning of last season handed Balotelli an extended run in the side up until Christmas, however, he failed to find the back of the net in the league and was then reduced to an impact role of the substitutes bench.

At first, he tries to back down Jason Terry, but in a matter of seconds, he finds himself tumbling through the long - armed bureaucracy of the Brooklyn Nets defense.

Arsenal are on course to be 2nd in the league I find it hard to suggest only 1 player makes the best team of the year seeing as Monreal has been absolutely dominant at LB, Cazorla has been immense in the heart of it all and Giroud has put everything he touched in the back of the net.

The former Chelsea and Manchester City forward has been consistent at finding the back of the net in recent seasons when he is fit, but that is the problem.

Giroud may be in and out of the team at the moment, but he's finding the back of the net on a more consistent basis in recent weeks.

Gnabry had only accumulated a single Premier League goal at Arsenal, as he found the back of the net vs Swansea.

He found it with the La Liga side, and found the back of the net 67 times in just three seasons at the Ramón Sánchez Pizjuan.

Everton midfielder Barkley echoed Shaw's thoughts with a similar post on the social media networking site and was pleased to have notched his first goal at international level after finding the back of the net with a header soon after the restart.

But Ozil did set one Premier League record during the Arsenal draw at Sunderland yesterday, despite the fact that we failed to find the back of the net.

Arsenal weren't finished there either with Sanchez finding the back of the net with a composed finish to secure all three points which move them clear at the top of the Premier League table ahead of the remaining fixtures this weekend.

Jurgen Klopp would have been eager to get his troops in at half - time to boost their confidence and plot a second - half comeback, but Andreas Weimann made it doubly difficult for him as he found the back of the net just before the interval.

The 22 - year - old has struggled to live up to the enormous reputation that he garnered for himself at the beginning of his career, and has so far only found the back of the net twice this season.

Lukaku has scored three times in two games over the international break, and will now hope to end his goal drought at club level after going seven matches without finding the back of the net for Manchester United.

However he has only managed to find the back of the net on three occasions in the domestic leagues, all of which came when he was on loan at Hull last season.

The 24 - year - old former Liverpool frontman is out of contract at the end of the season and the Trotters revealed last month that they had received two approaches from Premier League sides for the player who has already found the back of the net three times this month.

Since that 3 - 3 draw with Liverpool at Anfield in mid January, Arsenal have managed to find the back of the net just eight times from nine games in all competitions.

Chelsea's man of the match in their highly convincing 6 - 0 win over Maribor, Eden Hazard found the back of the net twice and was at his very best in this comfortable win at Stamford Bridge.

Even though the tall Frenchman had played 14 times for us in all competitions during the previous season and had received praise for the manager and the football media alike, he had failed to find the back of the net, at least one that had not been ruled offside, so it looked like a loan deal for Sanogo would be most likely.

He drew another blank in the game against Slovakia at the weekend, but Pedro insists Costa is doing the right things and expects his struggles will be over once he finds the back of the net again:

The former Spurs man had made a promise to not cut his hair until he found the back of the net and couldn't wait to show his joy at breaking his duck.

Brown Ideye has finally begun to find his feet at West Brom, and for the third game in a row the record signing found the back of the net.

The 29 - year - old, who started his career as a youngster at Stamford Bridge, was one of the players to find the back of the net against the Blues in a result that stunned fans all over the country this Saturday.

Indeed it may be scoring goals that proves to be Italy's downfall at Euro 2016 if Pelle isn't firing on all cylinders, however he has proved at club level that he is more than capable of finding the back of the net.

Nelson Valdez was terrible at striker in 2016, scoring zero goals through 22 games and 800 + minutes in the regular season before finding the back of the net twice in the playoffs.

Since finishing as top scorer for Nigeria at the Rio 2016 Olympics this is the first time he has found the back of the net twice since his breakthrough season at Roma two season ago under coach Rudi Garcia.

Referee Roger East saw nothing wrong with the challenge, though, allowing the Saints midfielder to swing a cross towards Redmond at the back post and the winger found the back of the net with a scuffed effort.

The first leg was played at Balaídos in Spain with United earning the slimmest of 1 - 0 victories with Rashford finding the back of the net through a free - kick in the 67th minute of the match, shortly before limping off with an injury himself.

Despite an impressive scoring record in Saudi Professional League, Leo Bonatini has yet to find the back of the net on the continent but the striker has started two of three games as Al Hilal sit second in Group D at the midway stage.

Would also dip over to the Both Teams To Score market at Bet365, because both teams have found the back of the net in each of the last four meetings at Ewood Park.

We expect both sides to find the net, given how many goals the champions have been conceding, so we're backing both teams to score at very tempting odds of 21/20 with Ladbrokes.