Sentences with phrase «first league»

He is actually not great but had been much better for us at the beginning of the season — friendly games, the charity shield and the a few first league matches.

The FA Cup victory in 1990 was Ferguson's first trophy at Old Trafford and it sparked the most successful decade in the club's history by laying the foundations for United's first league title win in 26 years three years later.

He made his debut in Arsenal's first league win of the season, a 1 - 0 against Swansea.

James Okore's second - half equaliser was Aston Villa's first league goal in 659 minutes.

HIGHLIGHTS: Barça v Levante FC Barcelona First league game of 2018 and first win.

Juanfran's first league start for a month saw him take lots of touches (85, per WhoScored) and complete a robust 87 percent of his passes.

Victory for Cagliari snaps a three - game winless run and elevates them into mid-table, while Roma's first league defeat since December 4 sees them fall further off the pace of fifth - placed Inter Milan.

He refused to celebrate, but late goals from Arjen Robben and Thomas Muller wrapped up Bayern's first league victory over Dortmund in seven meetings since February 2010.

-- Jordan Henderson scored his first goal for Liverpool at Anfield in their 3 - 1 win over Bolton back in August., the side's first league meeting of the season.

In their very first league fixture of this season, the Gunners had to dig deep and find a way of overcoming a beleaguered Crystal Palace side that had lost their manger Tony Pulis a day before the season started.

The victory over United was the Baggies» first league triumph on the road since August.

Swansea were forced to hand first league starts of the season to central defender Kyle Bartley and wideman Marvin Emnes with Federico Fernandez and Wayne Routledge injured, while on - loan Tottenham midfielder Tom Carroll came in for the suspended Jonjo Shelvey.

Last July the Hammers started their pre-season by playing Czech First League side FC Slovacko in Rohrbach then Russian side Rubin Kazan in Krottendorf.

The very first league season of our beta is just getting started, so choose a faction and make your mark in a community - wide turf war, the Apex Cup.

We'd much prefer to be beside the seaside as Bournemouth become the very first league visitors to our new Stratford home.

It was Bayern's first league draw since October — a 2 - 2 against Hertha in Berlin — which also followed a Champions League game, their 3 - 0 defeat at Paris Saint - Germain which cost Carlo Ancelotti his job as head coach.

Bournemouth will have a permanent place in the West Ham record books as the very first league visitors to the London Stadium (or whatever future incarnation of naming rights that it takes).

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.

These are just world famous but I can tell you a number of players, Yugoslav first league was 4th or 5th european competition and had many world class players such as probably the best tandem in history Blagoje Mosa Marjanovic and Aleksandar Tirke Tirnanic, best dribbler of his time Dragoslav Sekularac?

But unlike in the previous game, Yeovil came roaring back and were so close in the 17th minute to scoring that elusive first league goal of the season.

The Stags ran out 3 - 2 winners, Joe Readman having the honour of scoring the Stags first League goal.

Marko Pjaca scored twice as Dinamo Zagreb beat Macedonian First League side Vardar 3 - 2 to advance 5 - 3 on aggregate.

Although the club has never won a top - level trophy, it has won the Soviet First League and Soviet / Russian Second League once and thrice respectively.

Amazingly it was Ronaldo's first league medal on European soil, nine years after arriving at PSV.

The Frenchman did, after all, inspire Chelsea's first league comeback from a 0 - 2 deficit under Roman Abramovich's ownership.

The remarkable feat was a personal triumph for Leicester's highly likeable and much - travelled Italian manager Claudio Ranieri who secured his own first league title in a 30 - year career that has taken him across Europe and beyond.

sensed another statement victory in their pursuit of the title but another defensive lapse enabled Gylfi Sigurdsson to seal Swansea's first league ever win in the Welsh clubs history at Anfield.

United had lost their last two matches there, not winning since a Robin van Persie and Danny Welbeck masterclass led to a 1 - 4 success back in David Moyes» first league game in charge.

DARK HORSE: El Dorado - Placerville (10 - 0)-- The Cougars have been opening eyes all season long while capturing the program's first league title since 1983 when El Dorado won its lone section championship.

The PFA Award nominee shared with his fans the MOTM award he received today after the win at Hull City saying:» First league start in four months... good to be back!!

When Watford stunned Arsenal at the Emirates Stadium in January it was the Hornets» first league win against the Gunners since 1988.

Albion's first league victory came against the Baggies at the Amex, and it was Gross that notched the club's first - ever Premier League goal, before the German and Hemed added further goals in a 3 - 1 win.

The podders analyze Vitolo's second league start and first league goal for Atlético and how he must factor into Diego Simeone's plans moving forward.

There was much talk about who Arsene Wenger would pick for Arsenal's first League match against Liverpool, and most readers agreed that Aaron Ramsey would not be one of the starters after his elongated exertions at the Euro2016 tournament with Wales.

This will mark the Reds» first league meeting with Swansea this season.

Later on Sunday, Barcelona FC will hold their first league game of the season, with 100,000 expected at the Camp Nou, where there will be a minute's silence.

I wonder whether Wenger will think back to the first League Cup fixture last year which ended in a 2 - 1 home defeat to Southampton and ended our interest in the «Mickey Mouse Cup».

Wenger was at pains to stress that the whole team is still not fully fit, but he still has another week to prepare for the first League game.

The striker bagged the only goal of Boxing Day's 1 - 0 win over West Bromwich Albion, and that was Giroud's first league start of the campaign.

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.

After introducing the game to young African - Americans in Washington, D.C., over 100 years ago, he helped organized the first leagues in the city, which is now one of the most fertile basketball areas in the country.

We have big players signing for the club again, our key players aren't leaving every summer the way they used to, our first league loss of the season came seven games in and was away to the probable champions.

A win or draw at the Emirates Stadium would practically seal their first league title since 2010.

The West London outfit require just two victories from their remaining five games to clinch a first league title since 2010 and their success will be well deserved after being top of the league since August.

Jack Wilshere's injury is worse than first feared & he's unlikely to be fit to face West Ham, in Arsenal's first league game on Sunday

The Saints knocked the Gunners out of the Capital One Cup in the quarter final, before beating Liverpool 1 - 0 in both the home and away legs to qualify for their first League Cup final since 1979.

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 tough game.

The Reds are currently sitting in fifth place in the table, six points off the top four, while Arsenal are third and targeting their first league title in 12 years.