Sentences with phrase «first game at the weekend»

After international break Perez will start the first game at the weekend.

Sakho started his first game at the weekend since suffering an injury in April, whilst Souaré has been absent from First Team action for 13 months after being involved in a car crash.

Not exact matches

Looking at the Toronto Blue Jays this season, the team has seen the highest attendance tally for its first three home games since 1994 — the year after the Jays won their second World Series (not counting years with weekend games, because they always draw larger crowds).

Sony, meanwhile, is expected to show off more of its VR technology this weekend at its PlayStation Experience fan event, which includes first looks at unannounced games that will soon launch.

I know we have Chelsea at the weekend but let's go to Zegrab with a strong squad get the game won in the first 45 mins Then make the changes.3 points Wednesday and 3 points Saturday PLEASE it will send mr mourineo into a meltdown.

He kept United in the game in the first half at the weekend as he continues to put in commanding display after commanding display.

Arsenal are set to face arguably their biggest game of the season at the Etihad this weekend, and it is not just for us to finish above Man City and clinch the usual Champions League quaklification, but also to stave off Tottenham finishing above us for the first time in Arsene Wenger's reign at the Emirates.

The North - East side are now tenth in the table but still only nine points from the drop zone so O'Neill will not be getting complacent and though he saw Frazier Campbell make a successful comeback on the weekend, scoring at home to Middlesbrough in his first game in over a year, Sunderland could still do with more attacking options.

Last weekend Pittsburgh moved into Milwaukee for a scheduled three - game series, the first of at least two dozen crucial ones that should pop up this year, and the picture began to change.

Playing them in the first leg as well as at Everton would leave them knackered by the time we play the home leg, not to mention the Leicester game on that weekend.

Stoke City at home before our first European game is not bad at all but travelling to Chelsea that weekend is about as bad as we could have wished, so obviously we could do with the Champions League throwing up one of our easier opponents for that matchday.

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.

Luckily Arsene had a chance to rest a lot of our first team in the Sunderland game at the weekend, so we should have our best side out and fit and fresh for the challenge from Liverpool, who have also had more than their fair share of fixture congestion lately....

Even though Arsenal piled the pressure on our Premier League rivals by taking all three points off Sunderland in the first game of the EPL weekend at the Stadium of Light, we are still locked on points with both Liverpool and Man City at the top of the table after they both managed wins of their own.

After the shock of Arsenal losing to West Ham in the first Premier League game, the Gunners did well to bounce back with an away win over a determined and well drilled Crystal Palace side at the weekend.

If Ramsey starts he should start for cazorla and give him a rest or Giroud and push sanchez as ST. Campbell deserves to start at the weekend he played very well and showed great vision, Campbell laid a beautiful ball off to alexis in the 1st half where he shoulda hit it first time and he grew into the game.

While one chance of silverware has disappeared, they did record an encouraging 1 - 1 draw at Chelsea in the first leg of their League Cup semi-final, with the return game at the Emirates following the weekend's encounter with the Eagles.

Swansea City look to build on their rousing victory at Crystal Palace when they take on Arsenal in Paul Clement's first home game as head coach this weekend.

Even though Alexis Sanchez has just returned to north London after an energy sapping return trip to South America where he played one home game for Chile and the other World Cup qualifier in Bolivia, you would expect Arsene Wenger top make the striker one of the first names on the team list to face AFC Bournemouth at the Emirates stadium this weekend.

Arsenal Aaron Ramsey's injury time winner against Crystal Palace at the Emirates last weekend gave Arsenal all three points and ensured that there were no slip ups in the very first game of the league campaign.

The former Dortmund star continued his impressive start at the weekend as well, scoring again to make it six goals and one assist in his first seven games for Arsenal.

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.

It is very early days in the Premier League season, of course, and Arsenal need to back up what we did at the weekend after winning our first game away to Watford, but it definitely looks like the weekend has done the players the power of good, and has restored some swagger and a lot of the confidence that was damaged in recent weeks.

He staked his claim to be involved in manager Arsene Wenger's plans for the new campaign by scoring a hat - trick in the Gunners» first pre-season game against a Singapore Select XI in the Barclays Asia Trophy earlier this month, and also impressed as a substitute against Lyon at the weekend.

But reading between the lines and knowing that Arsene Wenger likes to use the domestic cup games to give playing opportunities to the fringe players in the squad, it looks like we are going to get our first look at what the January signing Gabriel Paulist is all about this weekend.

A win was all important for Arsenal this weekend as we head back into the Champions League, with the first of two games against French club Monaco at the Emirates on Wednesday.

After bagging three goals in his first five games for the club — including one against Everton at the weekend — he now looks set to follow in the footsteps of the rest of United's long line of famous number 7's.

Obviously it will not be any use to Arsenal tonight in the Champions League away to Borussia Dortmund, or the Premier League game at Aston Villa this weekend, but Arsene Wenger is optimistic that the injury to our French right back may not be nearly as bad as first feared.

Chelsea retained their position as league leaders over the weekend after they came from one goal behind, the first goal they've conceded in seven games, to hand Tottenham their first defeat of the season in a 2 - 1 victory at Stamford Bridge.

Eight points in the first four games of 2017 meant another upturn in league position, but their defeat on 4 February at home to West Brom, and our win at Southampton that weekend, meant that we sat in 9th place in the table, two points clear of them in 11th.

Arsenal will be hoping to get back to winning ways against bottom - placed Sunderland at the Stadium of Light in the first Premier League game of the weekend.

Their win at Wigan last weekend was a first in eight attempts, and it should be straightforward for the Rams after Saturday's big one in the early game against rivals Brentford.

The sides clash at AAMI Park two days after Melbourne City and Brisbane Roar square off at the same venue, in the other game in the first weekend of finals.

They lost their first game of the season on the weekend in a 1 - 0 loss at Milwall.

Games against Barcelona at home, which will be an easier prospect for Valencia as Lucho may decide to rest his whole first team, and a home game against fellow strugglers Espanyol at the weekend will surely give him some breathing space if he manages at least to put a performance in against Barca and a win against Espanyol.

While the first team are travelling south this weekend for the game at Southampton on Sunday, the youth team will be heading in the opposite direction to play their most northerly league fixture of the season at Carlisle.

After this weekend, the Wanderers have another three A-League matches (two at home against Sydney FC and Brisbane Roar, one away against Adelaide) before travelling to Morocco for the Club World Cup where they play their first game on December 13th in Rabat.

The first PL game of the weekend sees Arsenal thump Sunderland 4 - 1 at the Stadium of Light, with strikers Olivier Giroud and Alexis Sanchez starring for the Gunners SAFC's solitary goal of the game came from a Jermain Defoe penalty in the second half.

With 19 points from their first seven games they sit level with league leaders Barcelona in La Primera Division and their win against fellow high flyers Malaga at the weekend proved to everyone that Diego Simeone's side will be a force to be reckoned with this season.

The group stage draw takes place in Monaco on Friday with the first two Europa league games scheduled for 15th and 29th September, which are prior to our weekend games away at West Brom and then home to Middlesbrough.

They are playing some sublime stuff at the moment and they have scored twelve goals in their last four league games and they totally destroyed Chelsea in the first half of their London derby last weekend.

Jose Mourinho's side go into the game having taken maximum points from our first two matches, while our opponents are yet to win, after drawing 2 - 2 at Leicester on the opening day, before allowing a two - goal advantage to slip against Arsenal last weekend, with the Gunners stealing a point right at the death.

Lasogga strikes twice to break the Hamburg log - jam The only team in the bottom - six to win this weekend, Hamburg's morale - boosting 3 - 2 victory at home to Augsburg effectively was the rainstorm at the end of the long, dry season, a day for fans of the northerners to celebrate their first win in ten games, their first goal in almost 600 minutes of Bundesliga play and a sudden change in fortunes for long - moribund front - man Pierre Michel Lasogga.

Since then, Rovers have thrown away two priceless opportunities to enhance their stance in the top - flight further, losing away to Bolton 2 - 1, despite boasting a numerical advantage for most of the second half, as well as throwing two invaluable points away last weekend when drawing 1 - 1 with bottom of the league West Ham, Kean's very first game in charge and it was a game where Blackburn produced one of their poorest performances of the season, certainly at home, where Rovers were previously a force to be reckoned with under» Big Sam».

Watford have conceded in each of their first four games of the season and but for a surprise win at West Ham last weekend they would have been in the relegation zone.

As well as this weekends game, Madrid want Bale to miss the international games with Wales, and then the first La Liga game afterwards, which is at home to Malaga.

The London Stadium detractors will say that this does not put us at a disadvantage, but the fact remains we have picked up 11 points from the 8 home games played to date, whereas the ten games on our travels have brought us just six points, with last weekend's win at Stoke our first this season on another ground.

Klopp's first game with the Merseysiders is due to be against Spurs at White Hart Lane next weekend.

With no FA Cup game to prepare for this weekend, a behind closed doors friendly was organised between Remi Garde's first - team and Villa's development side at the club's Bodymoor Heath training ground.

Manchester United host domestic rivals Manchester City at Old Trafford in the first game of the weekend after the conclusion of the international break, as the two English giants go head to head against each other in order to claim a top spot in the Premier League points table.