Sentences with phrase «first league win»

Saints headed to the London Stadium at the beginning of the 2016/17 campaign fresh off the back of a first league win of the season over Swansea.

In the event, they responded to last week's disappointments with a positive performance and earned a first league win since beating Leicester 2 - 1 on 14 February.

Liverpool hammered City 3 - 0 at Anfield the last time these two met, giving Klopp his first league win against one of the «top six» at home.

Their record in Manchester is shabby, as have been some of their recent displays against the 19 - time champions of England, but the Gunners will care less about their underachieving past — this has been a week where they've had too defy the critics, sceptics and plenty of damning statistics in order to keep the haters off their back, and they're prepared to go through the motions all over again on Sunday, when they'll be targeting their first league win over United in Manchester since 2006.

Gerard Houllier hasn't seen the honeymoon period end earlier than he would have hoped, with Villa's two successive wins in the league (beating Wolves 2 - 1) and in the Carling Cup (beating Blackburn 3 - 1) all but a distant memory now as the Villains (3.75 VCbet) seek out their first league win in five matches.

Both teams were looking for their first league win as none of them were victorious on their opening Serie A fixture.

Atdhe Nuhiu scores twice for Sheffield Wednesday as the Owls secure their first league win since mid February after beating Leeds at Elland Road

Goals from Carlos Pena, Josh Windass and Alfredo Morelos saw Rangers register their first league win at the Ibrox and while Kranjcar did struggle to get into the flow of the game, he did come up with the timely moments of magic like the one in the video below.

Palace boss Sam Allardyce, who celebrated his first league win at Anfield, has guided the club to the brink of safety after accumulating 38 points thanks to some remarkable recent results against Arsenal, Chelsea and now Liverpool.

Third - placed Liverpool can gain more ground in the race for a Champions League place, whilst Southampton are still precariously positioned just two points above the relegation zone despite a first league win since November last week at West Brom.

It was nevertheless an impressive win for Rovers, who registered their first league win over Everton at Ewood Park for seven years.

The levels of anxiety around Birmingham were growing before the ever - green Kevin Phillips fired the club towards their first league win for a little over a month.

-- 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).

James Ward - Prowse floated a free kick to the far post for Bednarek to cushion a volley past Courtois as a first league win under their new manager appeared to be on the cards, only for the visitors to hit back with three goals in only eight minutes.

Victor Moses put the icing on the cake with a neat finish to secure Chelsea's first league win of 2018.

The Golden Eagles bring the Wildcats to the Valley as both teams search for their first league win.

They are searching for their first league win in five games, following two draws and two defeats in their most recent four outings.

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Seattle enters the Sunday April 22 1:00 p.m. (ESPN) match looking for their first league win after their first league draw (0 -3-1 -5).

Although we recorded a 2 - 1 home win and the first League win under new First Team Coach Steve Holland, just 20 minutes into the game Nicky Maynard broke his leg.

Inter registered their first league win of the new season against Pescara over the weekend, with Mauro Icardi's injury time strike sealing three points for the Nerazzurri.

Queens Park Rangers are still eying for their first league win this season when they face Aston Villa at Loftus Road on Saturday.

The 2 - 0 victory over Manchester United was Wenger's first league win over the Portuguese at the 13th attempt and kept the hopes of Champions League qualification alive.

AS Roma 1 - 0 Juventus highlights: AS Roma finally picked up their first league win this year after they surprisingly beaten the current Serie A leader, Juventus in front of passionate fans at Olympico, Rome.

They had finally sealed their first league win in five years, which was a fully deserved success.

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

Goals from Branislav Ivanovic, Pedro and an Oscar penalty gave the Blues their first league win in three games and only their fifth of the season, but Chelsea fans did not hold back in making their feelings heard about sacked manager Jose Mourinho and the players» performances so far.

We went back in 2013 with the development squad in a game played on the same Saturday afternoon as the first team were picking up a first league win of the season at Sheffield Wednesday.

It was their first league win this season when Mane has not been present, and they must make do without the 25 - year - old after he suffered a season - ending knee injury.

Last weekend they recorded their first league win of the season beating the bottom club who haven't picked up a single point this season 3 - 1.

I am more hopeful, and the return of Lanzini, and the confidence of the team gained by our first win in midweek, will I believe lead to our first league win of the season, and only our eighth when visiting Newcastle.

Outside of university, I have recently joined Burscough FC on loan from Salford FC for the upcoming couple of months and in my first three games, already helped the team to their first league win of the season, which was very fulfilling for me as it was great to be already making a positive impact on the team.

In this excellent in - depth preview, Tony Scholes reckons that his side were robbed of a point by the referee in last years fixture and have real chances of getting their first League win over the Gunners for over 40 years.

It was Watford's first league win over Arsenal in 29 years, and it's one that they'll savour and look to use to put together a run of results after struggling in recent weeks.

He was obviously happy that the Gunners finally got their first League win for a month, but just as importantly we kept a clean sheet despite being up against one of the Premiership's most in - form striker Romelu Lukaku.

That was the first league win over Chelsea in years and after a slow start to the season it suggested the Gunners could finally reclaim the crown of English champions.

Not exact matches

Hillary's fiery commencement speech, the first ever by a Wellesley student, won her national attention — a spot in Life Magazine's feature on the class of 1969 and a speaking invitation to the League of Women Voters.

Becky Hammon, who became the first NBA assistant coach last year, and this year coached the San Antonio Spurs to a win in the NBA's Summer League, told Fortune, «Now that this door has been opened, maybe we'll see more of it, and hopefully it will not be a news story.»

In May he became the all - time top - scorer in the top five European leagues, and his 42 goals in competition helped to lead Real Madrid to their first La Liga title since 2012 and become the first team to win back - to - back titles in Champions League history.

Dickey led the National League in strikeouts and became the first knuckleballer to ever win the Cy Young this season.

A World Series showdown between the 104 - 58 Los Angeles Dodgers and 101 - 61 Houston Astros appeared inevitable when they each won their first two games in the respective league championship series, but the New York Yankees and Chicago Cubs had other plans.

In his first stint as a coach, he won two Ivy League Championships as the Defensive Coordinator at Dartmouth, led units that set defense and kicking records at Lafayette, and turned two high school programs around.

Liverpool reached the Champions League final for the first time in 11 years after a 7 - 6 aggregate win against Roma on Wednesday.

There are people that may argue that Lebron is currently better or Jordan was historically better, but a look at the raw numbers tell you why he's the first player ever to be unanimously chosen as league MVP (the second year in a row he's won the award).

The most amazing thing about this year's amazing American League race is the fact that the Chicago White Sox, who haven't finished first since 1919, are going to win the pennant.

«To play the first game (of the) Champions League, then to win with a good result, to score many goals, to finish the game with a clean sheet.

Wolves secured a well - deserved promotion to Premier League football on Sunday following a 2 - 0 win over Birmingham that will see them compete in England's top division for the first time since the 2011/12 season.

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.

Last season was our first second placed finish in a whopping 11 years, but still no where near winning the league.

They haven't won the league since the first satellite was sent to space.