Sentences with phrase «first league defeat since»

All Spurs could muster by way of a response was a stoppage - time drive from Lucas Moura as the hosts were left to come to terms with their first league defeat since December 16.

His newly - promoted side (post-Joey Barton, pre-Steven Defour) suffered their first league defeat since Boxing Day against Swansea, then savoured a tactical triumph against the Reds.

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.

Not exact matches

Come the other year when Arsenal went the whole season without a defeat in the Premier League, Barcelona were attracted by Marc Overmas and Emmanue Petti, the two joined Barcelona, they played few games, and sometime on the bench, as a result Emmanue Petti decided to go back to England and joined New - Castle and always regret leaving Arsenal, then the other year it was Alexander Hleb, he was the best dribller in Arsenal team, he went again to Barcelona, he was never given some games, I think he only played few games as a sub, and his carrier was destroyed by Barcelona, then come Henry, he again went to Barcelona, he played some games but not like he used to do at Arsenal, he was not looking like a star player anymore, he decided to go to America, then there was Fabrigas, he joined Barcelona again, since he was one of their juniors, I think he played for two seasons, and supporter used to booing him, he decided to come back to Arsenal, by then Arsenal had already resplaced him with Ozil, and he joined Chelsea, then come Alexander Song, he pushed to go to Barcelona, he was always on the banch, and never been on first eleven, then he ended up regreting joing Barcelona, and wanted to go back to Arsenal, but normally Wenger do not take players who pushed themselves to be out of Arsenal, lastly there was Vermuleen, he went to Barcelona and ended up not playing at all but when playing for Arsenal they used to be star players.

The Portuguese winger has scored 25 goals in 147 appearances for the Red Devils, but hasn't featured for the club since Louis van Gaal's first Premier League game in charge — a 2 - 1 defeat to Swansea City.

Arsenal are going great guns at the minute, still unbeaten in the Premier League since the first game of the season and with just the EFL cup loss to Southampton to add to that early defeat by Liverpool.

Tonight's Champions League fixture against Anderlecht will be a test of Arsenal's «big boys» credentials, as they will be playing away in this competition for the first time since the 0 - 2 defeat at the Westfalenstadion on Matchday 1.

Last season was the first time that Tottenham have finished above us in the League table since Wenger became our manager 21 years ago, and they were also in front of us when we played them at the Emirates earlier this season and everyone was predicting an Arsenal defeat.

The Eagles currently sit bottom of the table, and have picked up just one point since recording their first and only league win of the season, when they defeated Chelsea on October 14.

More recently we've witnessed relegated Wigan Athletic beating mega-wealthy Manchester City against all the odds in the 2013 final, League One outfit Bradford City recovering from a 2 - 0 deficit to defeat Premier League leaders Chelsea 4 - 2 at Stamford Bridge in 2015 and just last February Lincoln City shocking Premier League Burnley to become the first non-league club since 1914 to reach the cup quarter - finals.

Manchester City slipped to their first home defeat since December 2016 as Basel won the second leg of their Champions League last - 16 tie 2 - 1.

Arsenal have not lost three matches out of first four games of the season since the 1982/1983 season while the last time we suffered three straight defeats in the league was in January 2012.

Burnley have four clean sheets in their last seven league games now and this is their first away games since their loss at Manchester City, which remains their only away defeat of the season.

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 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 League game, their 3 - 0 defeat at Paris Saint - Germain which cost Carlo Ancelotti his job as head coach.

Another poor performance from Arsenal saw them go down 2 - 0 at home to Schalke in Group B of the Champions League, their first European defeat at the Emirates Stadium since 2009 and first to non-English opposition since Internazionale won at Highbury in 2003.

Newcastle lost against Palace earlier in the season, the first time they had suffered a defeat against the Eagles since back in 1998 (all competitions) having posted a W8 D3 record against the London club before this season's league meeting.

Southampton's first defeat at St Mary's since we beat them in February was our fourth straight success in the Premier League, the first time we have managed a winning sequence of that length since April 2015.

Barcelona's shock 2 - 1 defeat at home to Valencia was their third straight defeat in the league for the first time since 2003.

Even with a game in hand to come, Madrid have never overcome such a deficit to win the league and to remain in the title race would realistically need to inflict Barca's first defeat since they last visited the Bernabeu back in August to win the Spanish Super Cup.

Liverpool will be looking to defeat Chelsea both home and away in the same Premier League season for the first time since 2011 - 12.

He had been dropped despite his two finishes in last week's 3 - 0 Europa League defeat of Sparta Prague securing their first win of the season and his first goals since January.

A win would see Liverpool record four successive league victories for the first time since December 2016 - the team they defeated in that fourth game last season was... Manchester City.

This will be just the third ever Premiership meeting between the two sides yet already, just five games into the season, it's a pivotal one between free - falling Bolton, who have now lost three games on the spin in the league following their emphatic 5 - 0 home defeat at the hands of Manchester United last weekend, and a Norwich side still looking for their first Premiership victory for well over six years − it has been a great deal longer since they were victorious on their travels, mind.

Stoke avoided defeat in the Premier League after going behind for the first time since November 2016 against West Ham - they had lost their last 13 in a row when they'd fallen behind.

-- Blackburn begin the weekend four points adrift of safety and only one above rock - bottom Wigan Athletic, with Rovers still searching for their first league win since their 4 - 3 defeat of Arsenal at home on 17 September (their only win of the season thus far).

Newcastle United picked up a 3 - 1 defeat against Benfica on the first leg of their Europa League campaign on Thursday, but the Magpies manager Alan Pardew remains optimistic with his team's chance in advancing into the next stage especially since they managed to score an away goal.

They began their away campaign bright enough, thumping Wigan and West Ham 6 - 0 and 3 - 1 respectively, but since then their away form has dipped having suffered their first league defeat of the season in Manchester when losing 1 - 0 to Man City, a bitter result which was later backed up with a rather uninspiring 0 - 0 draw at Villa Park in their very next outing.

Tottenham finished above Arsenal for the first time since 1995 last season and have not tasted defeat against their arch rivals in the league in over three years.

Brighton had not conceded more than two goals in a game before this match and their response to this emphatic defeat will be a first big test of character since winning promotion to the Premier League.

Wolves are seriously struggling in front and their two late strikers in defeat to Bolton last Saturday was the first time since the opening day that Wolves had managed to score more than the solitary one goal in a single league match.

That said, it is rare nowadays for Steve Bruce's side to take a heavy beating and I suspect his boys may put up a fight at Old Trafford, where United will host their first Premier League match since that heavy defeat in the Manchester derby.

Arsenal's Premier League title hopes suffered a huge blow with a shock home defeat as Watford secured their first top - flight win over the Gunners since 1988.

Saints marched on to their first League Cup final since 1979 when they defeated Liverpool on Wednesday night at Anfield.

Leeds still have not won at Brentford since 1950, as the Whites dropped another match in West London as Brentford won 3 - 1 over Leeds, sending the Yorkshire side to another defeat that leaves the club looking over their shoulder as the rest of the league is catching up to the lead that Leeds grabbed on everyone else after the first seven matches.