Sentences with phrase «first midweek game»

Baseball is sitting 2 - 2 after dropping its first midweek game of the season at William & Mary, 10 - 4, on Wednesday.

Not exact matches

Manchester City's midweek defeat to Barcelona in the Champions League means that, after winning their first 10 games under Pep Guardiola, the title favourites are now without a victory in four matches.

Pep Guardiola's side secured their first win in four games after comfortably winning 2 - 0 against Watford in midweek.

If things go the way of Arsenal this week, as they did in midweek with the win in Olympiacos that kept us in the Champions League after having one foot and nine toes through the exit door after the first four group games, then we could soon be setting the pace domestically.

Fresh off becoming the record goalscorer for the England national team in midweek, Rooney will be looking for his first Premier League goal in 10 games and scoring against the Merseyside outfit would be perfect for the former Everton striker.

We had more players in the World Cup that are just getting back to speed and we played a midweek game in Turkey, yet it was still their team that tired first.

I first thought it was a bit strange that Arsene Wenger dropped Olivier Giroud to the bench against Leicester in midweek, and even more surprised that Alexis was moved into the centre - forward position, but Le Boss reckons hat many of his Arsenal team were suffering from fatigue after the Spurs game.

The first is also the reason why, even though I want United to win I do not want them to win easily, because their midweek game is the FA cup replay against West Ham who Arsenal face away in the Premier League on Saturday.

That the first team is on the bench waiting for a weekend decisive premier league match and or a ufl game midweek.

Arsenal fans are aware that the manager is going to put the domestic league games first anyway so we would not mind seeing a weakened Arsenal in the Europa League, but if there really is a risk of Alexis being handed a two game suspension by the English football authorities, as a report by The Mirror has claimed, then I think Wenger would want to use his star striker in the midweek match instead.

With arsenal still just taking the first few steps on the road to recovery after suffering the worst period the team has had to endure for many a year and setting a few unwanted records for the Arsene Wenger era, we could probably have done without this midweek game against a side that is not only the reigning Premier League champions but who are quite a bit further down their own road to redemption while still needing some points to make their survival in the top flight completely secure.

I'm usually more nervous watching us straight after a midweek game as the opposing team always look more prepared, and are almost first to everything, this time it was different.

This will be interesting because it comes after their first Champions League game in midweek, so the balancing act has to start for the club.

While there was less than 18,000 watching the first game between these in the FA Cup a week or so ago, any fans turning up at Turf Moor in midweek to see the replay will be hoping for more of a spectacle this time around.

Defence: Kieran Trippier, Davinson Sanchez, Jan Vertonghen, Ben Davies Toby Alderweireld made his first start of the calendar year midweek but I don't expect the Belgian to play two games in one week after only recently recovering from a long - term hamstring injury.

No midweek match for the Reds, and when the game kicks off tomorrow night, Jürgen Klopp's men will have had five days rest for the first time since the November international break, having played nine times in just over a month.

Hammers manager Bilic will be left fuming after the game as he was forced to make two early changes after Cheikhou Kouyate and James Tomkins were forced off injured early in the first half and look set to miss at least the midweek Premier League matches.

After playing an overtime game with starters midweek, everyone knew that Sporting Kansas City would bring a less than first - choice starting lineup.

They lost first choice defenders Smalling and Darmian in the midweek game against Wolfsburg.

Celtic won their first match in the last 16 European group games with a 3 - 0 victory over Anderlecht midweek.

Manchester United will begin their much - anticipated Champions League campaign at Old Trafford in the first midweek after the international break — sandwiched between a difficult trip to the Bet365 stadium and a home game against Wayne Rooney's Everton.

Erik Lamela, who returned in the starting lineup for the away side in midweek for the first time this year after recovering from hip surgury, might be a slight doubt after a lack of game time as Pochettino says his body starting to adapt again to minutes on the pitch.

-LSB-...] to see the first choice centre back pairing in the midweek European game, but Brendan Rodgers surprised a few people in picking a very strong line - up for this game.

David Moyes» first win in his fifth game since taking over from Slaven Bilic came after another good display at Manchester City on Sunday, where they were edged late 2 - 1, but it was not enough to lift the club out of the bottom three ahead of their midweek visit from Arsenal.

It's unusual to see the first choice centre back pairing in the midweek European game, but Brendan Rodgers surprised a few people in picking a very strong line - up for this game.

The Citizens had an extra game in midweek as well to get through, as they face Bristol City in the EFL Cup semi-final first leg which they won 2 - 1.

The gap between first and second may have been smaller last year than in seasons past, but that has more to do with the fact that Juve's lead as they reached the Champions League semifinal was so great that they could afford to ease off the gas and rest key players for midweek games.

First, congratulations to Real Monarchs» forward Mastanabal Kacher, who netted a brace in a midweek game against Sounders 2.