Sentences with phrase «first couple of goals»

Captain Scott left the net where he has been stationed all season and tallied his first couple of Goals of the year..

Not exact matches

OK, the Foxes had a couple of lucky breaks — the first goal, miles offside.

He did score loads of goals in his first couple of months and has scored so far, which isn't bad for someone who only plays 2/3 of every Premier League game.

Theo's first three or four seasons at arsenal were quite disappointing saw glimpses of what he was capable of but always seemed to struggle then I think he stepped his game up and had a couple of better seasons 2012 - 13 season he was brilliant 21 goals off the wing had a really great season 2013 - 14 started the season strong but wasn't getting the goals he got the previous seasons had a bit of an injury then looked better than ever for a short period before his injury.

The Gunners are yet to register a goal in either of their first two games at the Emirates Stadium this season after a shock defeat to London rivals West Ham United on the opening day before being held to a goalless draw by Liverpool a couple of weeks ago.

Sanchez was all alone, and made a couple of darting runs into the 18 - yard area, during the first half, and, with a bit more support, could have nicked a goal or two.

The Colts will probably use that choice to pick a quarterback next year, since John Unitas, who played the first half — in which the Colts had to settle for a couple of Lou Michaels» field goals — and Morrall, who threw a 10 - yard touchdown pass to John Mackey, are both in their 15th season.

There is nothing in football quite like the joy of watching a young kid step onto a football field and score a goal in one of his first couple appearances.

Their first - half patience was admirable and their second - half execution clinical, but given the rabble that was United's defence after Fletcher nicked his goal it would have been practically a dereliction of duty not to plunder with a couple more.

Hoping for a couple of goals and a clean sheet in the first leg.

It was a hard - fought victory against Crystal Palace today, but Olivier Giroud's first goal was a quality moment and may quieten his critics for a couple of weeks at least!

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

So after scoring Serie A goals at the rate of one every other game in his first four seasons at the San Siro, a couple of years later he was shipped off to Corinthians in his native Brazil.

Arsenal have successfully navigated through Nasty Nervy November with a couple of draws but only the one defeat in the League Cup, and we have started Decisive December in awesome style with 9 goals in our first two games and are sitting happily in second place in the Premier League.

Arsenal should have been a couple of goals down in the first 20 minutes if not for a combination of luck and poor finishing on the part of the Swansea forwards who were running the defense ragged.

Another factor is that Welbeck has hardly had any competitive minutes on the field since he went out injured after scoring lots of goals in first couple of months of the season.

But the Golden Eagles also left points on the board in the first half, in Taylor's words, having a couple of drives stall and missing a pair of field goals.

There were a couple of decent goals, too, and Wayne Rooney had his first not - bad game in quite some time.

Arsenal have missed a couple of opportunities in the last couple of weeks where they could have opened up a small gap at the top of the Premier League, but thanks to Jamie Vardy breaking the Premiership record by scoring in 11 games in a row and also to Bastian Schweinsteiger for getting his first goal for Man United, Arsenal now have a valid chance to go top again this weekend.

He delivered with 24 saves on 26 shots as the Senators were held to two goals just a couple of days after racking up four in the first period.

The Croatian would easily be first - choice in front of Giroud, and scored another couple of goals yesterday to put Atletico level with Barcelona in La Liga.

Ramsey's performances this season, prior to injuring his hamstring in the first North London derby of this season, have been decent; but, given Ramsey's rise in stature and the expectations he has to live up to, as a result of his good performances in the last couple of campaigns, he wouldn't be satisfied with his displays — which included 2 goals and 1 assist — during the early phase of the ongoing season.

Unfortunately as is often the Arsenal way we managed to conspire to make the game difficult for ourselves, with a few minutes of the first half remaining Ox found himself with the ball on the edge of Everton's area, Hector available to his right and players closing, if he had managed to get a shot off first time then we would not have been chasing back towards our own goal five seconds later, instead Ox chose to shoot after a couple of touches in to a mass of Everton bodies when there were better options on, the ball broke to Delofeu who managed remarkably to stay on his feet for twenty or so yards before releasing Barkley, Koscielny had been dragged wide by Lukaku and Ox and Hector were in hot pursuit, they both probably had a chance to take the booking but allowed Barkley to continue, he took a speculative shot which would not have troubled Cech until it took a big deflection off of Gabriel and drifted into the gaping net.

There was no lack of effort or desire but a distinct lack of urgency as our boys huffed and puffed throughout the first half, creating a couple of decent chances but ultimately failing to really test Martin Fulop in the Sunderland goal.

Grot has benefitted massively from dropping into the under 23's and getting full games, he scored his first Leeds goal against Sheffield Wednesday a couple of weeks back.

Lonergan earned his pay - packet during the first half as he made a couple of very good saves to deny Reading a sure goal.

The show continued in the second half, and Barça completed their best performance of the season with a couple more goals: first, Philippe Coutinho scored his first in La Liga with a trademark Coutinho strike from outside the box into the top corner, then Suárez made it 6 - 1 and completed his hat - trick.

As I have mentioned earlier, the «summer seven» had limited Lewis Holtby's chances of making it into the first - team, and for some unknown reason, the German was mostly unable to transfer his form in the cup competitions to the Premier League, despite playing a part in a couple of goals throughout the season.

Granted a couple of calls that went Arsenal's way shouldn't have (in particular Best's first «goal» — that should have been allowed, obviously), but the barrage of horrible calls was unforgivable.

Every thing has been said about «that goal «and iv only watched it 50 times but it's just one of a dozen things that has defined this season imo, 9 men at Boro, 2 pens at Cardiff to name a couple, but one thing for sure, none of this team or Nuno and his staff will ever forget season 2017, 18, when Neves reflects on his career in a decade or so, regardless of his World appearances and champions league wins (hopefully with us) and Nuno looks back on his first season in England, this will be where it all started.

@shard, now that Vela has scored a couple of goals in as many games, do you think he deserves a second chance in the first team and if so, where is his best position.

Zaha rounded off proceedings in the first half for the Eagles; after dancing through a couple of Town attempted blocks, Skipper Tommy Smith was the man to vitally stick his body between the ball and the Town goal before the Ivorian international could mount any sort of offensive manoeuvre.

The first half was mostly disappointing with only a couple of chances, and they lack urgency unless they fall a goal behind or after they return for the second half.

Giroud who did not start in the match, had come off the bench to score two goals for Arsenal with his first two touches, thus for a couple of hours, sending the Gunners to the top of the Premier League table.

A first leg 3 - 2 defeat against Mauricio Pochettino's Espanyol gave them every chance of progression to the semi finals thanks to the 2 away goals they scored at Cornellà - El Prat, a feat that the mighty Barca couldn't achieve when dropping two points there in a League visit just a couple of week before.

If only Kouyate had managed to get on the end of Carroll's splendid cross in the first couple of minutes, or if Chicarito's shot against the bar had been inches lower, then an early goal might have set us on our way to a more convincing victory.

Randolph has been clearly at fault for a string of goals over the past couple of months (more than any other player according to Opta) and a better keeper would have prevented both yesterday, even though the first might well have been disallowed for a foul.

Although the Citizens dominated possession, they struggled to break their newly - promoted opponents down for large parts, testing goalkeeper Mathew Ryan on just a couple of occasions before the first goal.

He had a couple standout performances, most notably when he came on against Bayern Munich in the first leg of the Champions League round of sixteen and added much needed energy and scored the equalising goal.

One of the first things discussed was relationship contracts — yep, the contract in The New I Do that asks couples to talk, agree to and write down how they want to structure their relationship based on their goals and values, the same contract that Modern Love essayist and creative writing professor Mandy Len Catron used when moving in with her romantic partner, Mark, and that she highlights in her book, How to Fall in Love With Anyone.

When sitting in the NICU «s «grief room «opposite a crying couple who are obviously going through the worst moments of their entire lives, that first goal wins every time.

And for those first couple weeks of life, your primary goal as a new mom is to keep that birth weight from falling more than 10 %.

To understand whether their career goals require taking a couple of courses or spending a few years getting more training, scientists should first figure out what aspect of cybersecurity they're interested in, says Diana Burley, a professor of human and organizational learning who teaches in GW's PISCES program.

Chances are, you will achieve your first job as an assistant professor (if that is your goal) with fewer years of research training than your «Ph.D. - only» compatriots, who typically do a couple of extended postdocs of three or more years before reaching the point where they can compete for a faculty appointment.

I realize that it is already the 9th of January, but seeing as this is my first post of 2017 I thought I would share a couple of my goals for the year.

That's why I like to take the first couple of weeks of January to contemplate my goals and dreams for the new year, to ensure that my life is heading in the right direction.

Here are a couple of my favorite first date tips that will lead you to what needs to be your goal - securing date # 2.

With lots of young people: Launched in 1995, Acing a first date: my advice with to this, if you have a date planned, make it a personal goal to put your phone down for the couple hours you are meeting with someone.

It is a first step toward our strategic goal of bridging the information divide through digital resources, coupled with educational partners.

The goal is to have your book appear on those first couple of pages, so making sure you select the right Amazon tags is the first step.