Sentences with phrase «first home league game»

Goals from Dušan Tadić and Jan Bednarek had given Mark Hughes a 2 - 0 lead in the Welshman's first home league game, but that hope died after a tough eight - minute spell.

The Domzale game was the first, Juventus came next, and now the first home league game.

The Dansoman Carl Reindorf Park has seen a major face - lift ahead of their first home league game against West Africa...

Talking of Liverpool... Jurgen Klopp came close to winning his first home league game.

Not exact matches

Every baseball player is a unique snowflake, a thumbprint, a story that takes them from their first tee - ball game through their teen years, into their first professional experience, hundreds or thousands of miles from home, surrounded by peers who would all garrote each other to make the big leagues.

Our first league game of the season, at home to West Ham, may look like a nailed on three points, especially with the way we have been playing over the last few weeks, but the Hammers are already into competitive games in the Europa League and we could find that their fitness levels are higher, so we will need to be ready for a toughleague game of the season, at home to West Ham, may look like a nailed on three points, especially with the way we have been playing over the last few weeks, but the Hammers are already into competitive games in the Europa League and we could find that their fitness levels are higher, so we will need to be ready for a toughLeague and we could find that their fitness levels are higher, so we will need to be ready for a tough game.

Dodgers utility man Kiké Hernandez had the game of his life Thursday night, hitting three home runs and driving in seven runs to lead his team to an 11 - 1 win over the Cubs to clinch the National League pennant and the franchise's first World Series trip in nearly three decades.

This was the first time Arsenal conceded three goals in the first half of a home Premier League game and the first time they have done so in a home league game since March 1989 against Nottingham FLeague game and the first time they have done so in a home league game since March 1989 against Nottingham Fleague game since March 1989 against Nottingham Forest.

0 — Arsenal failed to score in a European home game for the first time since February 2016 (0 - 2 v Barcelona in the Champions League).

The La Liga and First League giants exchange goals for much of the game, but ultimately Villarreal gets the last shot off and seals a crucial home win.

The stats don't lie but don't forget either that the Gunners have just won back to back Premier League games away from home for the first time this season, so our self - belief is up and as an Arsenal.com report shows, Wenger believes that it will be a good day to be a Gooner.

The National League player of the week was Chicago Cub reliever Jim Bullinger, who saved four games last week and hit a home run in his first big league aLeague player of the week was Chicago Cub reliever Jim Bullinger, who saved four games last week and hit a home run in his first big league aleague at bat.

With Arsenal in dire need of winning our second Champions League group game after losing the first, a home clash with Olympiakos seemed the ideal game.

That is now the first two home Premier League games that Arsenal have failed to score a goal, although the world and his wife knows that the referee robbed Aaron Ramsey with the awful offside decision against Liverpool.

The summer before that we struggled to a draw and a loss in the Emirates Cup, played well to beat Man City in the final pre-season game and then lost to Aston Villa at home in the first Premier League game.

You can never tell what to expect with this Arsenal team, Westham can have all their best players, be on a solid run of wins and we turn them over easily, or they might be going through a bad patch and without a few of their best players and beat us so easily it will be embarrassing, the only thing consistent about us is our inconsistency, if am not mistaken they turned us over at home in the first game of the season, with a 17 year old boy in their first 11 and about 3/4 new to the country and the league....

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.

Drafted in the first round back in 2009 (25th overall), Trout tore through the minor leagues posting a.342 batting average, 23 home runs and 108 stolen bases in 286 games.

The first League One game of the season will show new Southampton manager Alan Pardew, formerly of West Ham United, first game for the Saints live on SKY at home to Millwall who will provide a stern test.

There is some very good news for Gooners if the latest Arsenal transfer rumour turns out to be true, and boy do we need it after the horror film that was our first home game of the Premier League season.

The building work on Anfield is expected to increase the stadium's capacity to 54,000, but it may also necessitate that the Merseyside giants play their first two league games of the season away from home, allowing maximum opportunity to increase the building work.

The four Premier League games are; Swansea at home, Middlesborough at home, Sunderland away and then the first north London derby with the spuds coming to the Emirates.

Arsenal's last home Europa League game was dire after taking a win over Ostersunds for granted, but Ramsey knows that we can't do the same tomorrow, despite our lead from the first leg in Milan.

After returning to winning ways with a first victory in five Premier League games on Saturday, Arsenal embark upon the first of three straight home games on Sunday afternoon.

Gordon played his first nine major league seasons in Kansas City, hitting.269 /.348 /.435 with 262 doubles and 134 home runs in 1,136 games.

So the last couple of appearances from Lacazette have been very encouraging for the Gunners and whereas I thought previously that Arsene Wenger might ease the new striker into Premier League and first team life with Arsenal, I think we can now expect Lacazette to start the opening game at home to Leicester City on Friday and to quickly show just why the boss broke the club's transfer record to sign him.

I may be looking a bit too far ahead here, with Arsenal first having two crucial Premier League games away to Swansea City and at home to Man United to get through, with the international break sandwiched in the middle, but the news that Olivier Giroud will be back in training next week made me consider when the centre forward would actually be back in action.

In each league, four wild card teams are seeded, with No. 1 playing No. 4 and No. 2 playing No. 3 in a best - of - three series, with the first two games at the site of the team with home - field advantage.

A 3 - 0 victory for the Gunners at home against Chelsea, meant that Arsenal have beaten the Blues for the first time in the Premier League in ten attempts, whilst the Gunners also finally broke the record of having not scored against Chelsea in the last six games.

The first was to stick with David Ospina in goal for the second Champions League game at home to Olympiacos.

0 — Everton failed to have a shot on target in a Premier League home game for the first time since December 4th 2011 vs Stoke (2211 days ago).

Tampa Bay, which has a league - best 65 points, lost 5 - 1 to Calgary before its bye week and 4 - 1 to Vegas in its first game back Thursday - both at home.

Aston Villa have become the first big - name English club to plan «Refugees welcome» banners at their next home game, and one would hope other Premier League clubs will follow suit and also donate towards the cause.

Arsenal have the small matter of an away game with the spuds and a home game against Leicester City to get through first, both in the Premier League, and then we are back on the trophy trail.

Wenger enjoyed his first Premier League win over Mourinho last season as Arsenal beat United 2 - 0 at the Emirates, and his side are currently on a 12 - game winning streak at home.

That's 5 for 10 in late games, also it's interesting that the league has had the teams swap who plays at home first for the last several years, and that the Vikings haven't played at Lambeau in September since 2008

• Jim Essian, Chicago White Sox catcher, on hitting his first major league home run in his 101st game: «I wanted to go into my home run trot, but I realized I didn't have one.»

The first two games after the international break are both at home, with Man United in the Premier League on the Saturday and orussia Dortmund in the Champions League the following Wednesday.

We only won one of our first six League games but now we have won six on the bounce going into the international break and are set to face Liverpool at home afterwards.

For the year, all Rodriguez had done was take the major league lead in home runs (17), RBIs (49) and runs (43); become the first player to hit eight homers in Yankee Stadium in April and the first to drive in 10 runs in a game there; and move within two homers of becoming the first player (chart, page 41) to hit 400 before his 30th birthday.

Perhaps Arsene Wenger has let the recent success of a change in the usual Arsenal formation go to his head, because at first glance it is pretty hard to work out what system the Gunners will be using tonight in our must win OPremier League home game against Leicester City.

Despite his great qualities like speed, strength and aggression his inexperience has shown itself in crucial games, remember the Chelsea game, he put himself in a position to get a red card by falling for Costa's Antics (Arsenal would have won that game if we remained 11 or if Mertesacker was playing especially considering we were playing deep), he played Lewandowski on - side for Bayern's first goal in the champions league, the shaky first half in the home game against Liverpool.

The Hawks currently have the fourth - best record in the league, but they're 2.5 games behind the Pacers to move up a seed, so they're looking to beat the Knicks to ensure they stay ahead of the Boston Celtics, over whom they have a 1.5 - game lead, for home - court advantage in the first round.

Albion's defence will need to put an end to Lacazette's impressive form at the Emirates Stadium, as he became the first Arsenal player to score in his first three home league games since 1988.

As if it was not bad enough that Arsenal lost our first game of the Premier League season yet again, and just like in our opening day defeat to West Ham last season it was a home game, we did so after dominating the first half and taking the lead against a lacklustre Liverpool side.

Jose Mourinho and Man United have Europa League games to worry about and their first group game is followed by a home game against Southampton who are also in the second European competition.

As usual Jon you make some good points but with all respect to Leeds, Villa and Forest, no way would Spurs spend the amount of time in the lower leagues [just one year] that those three have spent recently and I'm sure you remember that great Spurs side in their double year dropping their first point after 14 games to Man City and suffering their first defeat to Sheffield Wednesday by the odd goal in three on Boxing day and almost beating our 66 point record [2 points a win in those days] which stood from the glorious thirties thanks to a shock home defeat on the last day of the season by West Brom with their frightening forward line of Jones, White, Smith, Allen, and Dyson and to make things worse the following year the signing of Jimmy Greaves, and don't let anybody tell different without doubt the greatest striker the English game as ever seen.

They won their first ever home Premier League game against us, and have actually won half of our meetings (four out of eight).

Perhaps if Arsenal were at home, he could get away with it, but away from home in the first Champions League game of the season?