Sentences with phrase «first league match of»

It would appear that Newcastle have themselves back on track after losing their first league match of the new calendar year at Blackburn.

Star playmaker Manuel Lanzini and box to box midfield force Cheikhou Kouyate are available for their first league match of the season, as both are on the bench.

As we approach Arsenal's first League match of the season on Sunday, there is a lot of discussion about which teams should be favourites to win the Premier League title come May next year.

Since 2010, Arsenal have won just one of their seven first league matches of the season due to a combination of not making new signings until the end of the transfer window and players either being injured or not fit after pre-season.

Not exact matches

It isn't enough to simply get Under 21 games and a few cup matches with the first team, because those fixtures don't necessarily offer players the true physicality, feel and experience of playing in the Premier League.

Arsenal fans also want to see the side defend well as that is another area of concern with Koscielny and Mertesacker not available for the visit of Liverpool in the first Premier League match.

As Arsenal look to kick off their Champions League campaign by picking up some points away to Paris Saint Germain in the first match of the group phase, there were some concerns about Arsenal's star centre back.

The Gunners have conceded at least three goals in four of their last six first leg matches in the last - 16 of the Champions League.

Livermore, who has come through the ranks at White Hart Lane, started Spurs first three league matches of the season but the signing of Moussa Dembele has since forced him to the bench.

NorthEast United were the whipping boys of the first - ever Indian Super League season, winning only three of their 14 matches in the eight - team division.

We lost our first match to Aston Villa, audaciously brought in Ozil on deadline day and where topping the league by the end of December.

The ban means that he will not only miss this weekend's FA CUP FINAL match against Chelsea, but the first two games of the Premier League 2017/18 season.

Wenger and the Gunners will be expecting a spirited showing from Swansea in their first match under new manager Bob Bradley, but they are still on a terrible run of six Premier League games without a win and in none of those games have they kept a clean sheet, conceding 12 goals while Arsenal have scored 14 in our last five.

So judging by the fact that it was the French central midfield star Francis Coquelin sat next to the boss today ahead of the Champions League match at home to Ludogorets Razgrad, I assume that Le Coq is set for his first Arsenal start since picking up a knee injury in the Premier League win over Chelsea.

The midfielder started his first Premier League match of the campaign in midweek, coming in for the sidelined Aaron Ramsey, and is believed to be in line for a new deal.

Arsenal players haven been overly played this season because of the Europa league where we have been playing mainly our B team and Ozil and MK haven't had too many games before Christmas so i think our first 16 players are not heavily over worked and will have less to do in the coming weeks, we should be more worried about match fitness then fatigue,

The 19 year - old has not yet played a League match for Leicester's first team but won the Academy Player of the Year last season and played a full 90 minutes against Hull in the League Cup this season.

The Gunners need to win both of their remaining Premier League matches to have any hope of reaching the Champions League places, and first they will have to take all three points from their home tie against the already - relegated Sunderland.

While the Stamford Bridge outfit have been top of the Premier League since the first day of the season, the Gunners have had to win their last eight matches in order to even get close to touching distance of the Blues.

Speaking about Sanchez's experience in the competition, Mourinho said «Alexis played Champions League for a few years with different clubs», with the Man United boss then adding «Of my other boys, Lukaku is the first season in the Champions League, Rashford, Martial, Lingard, just a few matches.

United have not scored a first - half goal at home in the Premier League since September and have drawn five of their last eight matches at Old Trafford 0 - 0.

Tottenham Hotspur are through to the knockout stages of this season's Europa League after a narrow 1 - 0 victory against Serbian champions Partizan Belgrade at White Hart Lane in a match that was briefly suspended due to three individual pitch invaders causing havoc in the first half.

Manchester City came into this match with a surprising advantage over Paris Saint - Germain, having earned a 2 - 2 draw in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal tie.

The 24 year - old now looks set to feature in his fifth Premier League match of his career, his first since December 2014.

The 21 - year - old caught the eye after netting his first goal for the club in a man - of - the - match display versus Sunderland in January, but struggled to make an impact on the Reds first - team, having made just 11 Premier League starts in his first season at Anfield.

That made the Hornets the first side to secure automatic promotion to the Premier League, putting them four points ahead of fourth place with one match to play.

In addition to honest and open communication concerns, there are also fundamental issues of managerial incompetence, poor negotiating strategy, procrastination, dithering, lack of ambition, lack of willingness to compete with the top teams in the league despite supposedly being financial heavyweights, desperation at the very end of the window, compounded by promises made when Arsene was re-signed and poor team selection decisions for the first three matches, further compounded by a pattern of incompetence during transfer windows and in general management of the team in recent years that understandable has fan patience at a very low level.

Arsenal are currently on a run of nine league matches without a clean sheet, and if they concede against City tonight it will be the first time they've gone ten in a row without keeping their opponents out since February 2002.

The powerful striker looks certain for a summer exit after Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp dropped Benteke from the match day squad against Arsenal in their first Premier League game of the season.

Rodriguez helped FC Porto to back to back domestic titles in his first two seasons at the club and is one of the leagues top assist makers and has also racked up eight goals in 17 matches.

Arsenal fans will finally get the chance to see the summer signing that we all hope will make the difference in our challenge to regain the Premier League title next season, after Petr Cech watched from the bench as the Gunners won the first match of pre-season to qualify for the final of the Asia Trophy against Everton today.

Arsenal could really do with a win in the Premier League's first match of the weekend, though, to stretch that gap between us and Everton, so maybe Ronald Koeman also did us a favour at the weekend by beating our next opponents West Brom and making it two defeats in a row for Tony Pulis and the Baggies.

Chelsea face West Brom in their next league match on Monday evening, and Morata's continued absence surely presents the chance of a first start up front for January signing Olivier Giroud.

However, the team he put out got a good point as with the league win against the saints this team has shown that without a first team starting they are capable of getting results last season and in previous seasons would have lost both those matches.

In fact I reckon he might even be in line for a first start of the season when the Bulgarian champions Ludogorets Razgrad come to London on Wednesday for the next Champions League match, and if you are thinking of coming then I know that you can still get Arsenal tickets from here at a good price.

When the Gunners are up against lower league oppositio0n on a cup, for instance, we often hear the old adage that we have to match the work rate of our opponents first and earn the right to play and exert that superior quality.

The latter duo are nearing a return to first - team action, with the Spaniard making the bench for Arsenal's last Premier League match with Norwich, but was not selected to enter the field of play.

During his first season at Arsenal, Seaman conceded just 19 goals in the 38 matches of the league, and the club claimed the title in May of that year.

After the Spurs match there is another international break and Arsenal's first two games after it could be absolutely massive for our hopes in the Premier League this season as well as our chances of ending the six year cycle of qualifying but not finishing on top of the Champions League group.

The second leg of the Champions League group stage is less than 50 hours away and there are plenty of exciting matches as the first - round field starts to take shape.

If Arsenal do as we expect them to this weekend and run out as winners of the home game against a struggling Southampton side getting used to their new manager Claude Puel, while he gets used to the English Premier League for the first time, then we will be heading into the next round of matches a bit closer to at least one of our big spending Premier League rivals.

The Champions League may not have been too much fun for Arsenal this season, although it did have it's good moments with the brilliant final group match win away at Olympiacos that got us through and the home win over the German Bundesliga giants Bayern Munich, but the competition could be the key to Arsenal sealing the first transfer of the summer.

Well, this time the Manchester United manager's rage is probably justified because his side were robbed of a perfectly good goal during the first half of their Premier League match against Middlesbrough on New Year's Eve.

After returning late to first team training, Giroud is still yet to build up his physical fitness to match the demands of the Premier League.

I am writing this article before Arsenal and our Premier League rivals like Man City and Leicester City kick off for the first matches of the new year, so the numbers in the statistics I am using to compare our assist king Mesut Ozil with other players doing well in the same position will have changed by tonight.

If the Arsenal and France international defender Laurent Koscielny is right, then Arsenal fans should be in for a treat today when the Gunners play host to Crystal Palace in the final match of the first half of this Premier League season.

Redknapp is looking to strengthen his squad next month after taking over a club rooted to the bottom of the Premier League without a win in their first 15 matches.

I don't think that Arsenal have ever been in the position of losing their first two Champions League Group matches ever before, but all it means is that the Gunners will now be desperate to get their first three points on the board.

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