Sentences with phrase «flight game against»

This will be our sixth top flight game against them in the month of October and they have never beaten us in this month of the year; in fact they've only drawn once.

Following on from that, Villas - Boas made the shock decision to select Lloris for the most recent top flight game against Aston Villa.

They have won their last two top flight games against Hull and Leicester banking clean sheets in each.

Not exact matches

Jarvis» first game in England's top - flight was against the Hammers and he quickly made his mark in the Premier League with a number of eye - catching displays.

A 4 - 1 win against the side that have proved to be Bayern Munich's biggest challengers in the German top flight this season meant that the game in the Stadio San Paolo was going to be nothing more than a procession, unless Dieter Hecking's side could make a fast start.

Let's chalk up a short - handed, come from behind, OT Win in the c0 - Accelerated Game of the Week against top - flight squad Team Harris to the unbelievable Regular Season Resume # 1 Team Maione has put together.

Since their victory against Tottenham last month Arsene Wenger's side have only lost one of their next six top flight games but come into this game having won just two on the road this season.

It's arguably a sensible move from Gattuso to reward his in - form frontman, but it won't be easy against a Juventus side which has only conceded 15 goals in 29 league games to earn the best defensive record in the top flight in Italy.

Not expert enough against top teams who love his reading of game so much they put a shit load of goals passed him... It's not just that's he is slow it's also because he is one of the worst distributors of a ball I have seen in top flight football... Just watch his passing to players with no option but to boot loose ball or pass back... It is truly shocking... so yes unless you're a 4th place junkie mert should be a bench player just like for Germany in World Cup

Elsewhere, top - flight teams tend to rotate a little in the cups these days, which means that away games against half - decent opposition can become potentially tricky.

The Gunners have won every single game against them since they came into the top flight and for the third time in a row it has come down to the dying minutes for things to go in Arsenal's favour.

Boycotts, or at least the threat of boycotts, are starting to rumble through top - flight fan bases: several thousand Newcastle United fans stayed away from their home game against Tottenham, and around half of Liverpool's away crowd stayed away from their team's visit to Hull City.

5) During this time, the South American joined an elite list of players to score five goals in a single game in the Spanish top flight, in a superb performance against Deportivo.

Manziel's task over the his final two games, then, is to put on shows against two top - flight SEC teams, LSU and Missouri, in spectacular wins that give Heisman voters pause.

Ahead of their home game against Valencia on Sunday, Real find themselves third in the Spanish top flight.

In turn, question marks could be raised about Jose Mourinho's tactics and approach to these games in particular, as United look to play more expansive football against the so - called «lesser» teams in the English top flight and have swept some of them aside with more attacking football.

After failing to hit the net in six top - flight games this year, the Foxes ended their dry spell when Jamie Vardy broke the deadlock in Monday night's TV clash against Liverpool.

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 will not draw much conclusions from a game with Bournemouth, because in a week, we beat City, we get destroyed by Southampton and then we win against a team that has it's first season in the top flight.

Unfortunately (given the way these statistics go against us) I still have to report that West Ham have won every home Premier League game against Burnley to date, and they haven't won a game in the top flight on our ground for almost 45 years.

Yeovil played their first - ever game in the top flight against Liverpool and this weekend they open their 2018 looking to open their account in FA Women's Super League 1.

Overall for the season they are W5 D4 L4 in the top flight at home but with them only having taken one clean sheet in their last eleven league games, even against a low scoring side like Burnley they are going to be a little vulnerable and therefore it is worth taking a punt on both teams to score at Coral for 8/11 odds * (Betting Odds taken at 10:58 p.m. on March 7th, 2018).

That having been said, they have averaged 3.3 goals per game against Burnley in the top flight with ten goals in three games against them.

A heavy loss against Liverpool in their last game at the Amex snapped a six match unbeaten streak of home form that they were on in the top flight (W2 D4).

Everton are unbeaten in their last 11 games away from home in the top flight against newly promoted sides.

Manchester City have gone unbeaten in their last 28 home games in the top flight against newly promoted sides (W25 D3) and two of those three draws have been against Burnley.

The Blues» win against West Ham was our second in the past 11 top - flight games at Stamford Bridge.

This is actually the first ever top flight meeting between the two at Vicarage Road but the Hornets have won only one of their last nine league games against the Clarets.

Chelsea have snatched late wins in both of their games this season and they only drew against Burnley the last time they hosted them in the top flight.

The Clarets have done remarkably well in the top flight his season, with eight points from five games and five of those points have come out on the road in fixtures against Chelsea, Spurs and Liverpool.

They will have been knocked in confidence with a defeat at Swansea last time out and you can look at their last two home losses in the top flight, both 2 - 1 defeats against Man City and Tottenham, so not easy games.

It has been great form from the Blues and home and away overall they have remained unbeaten in their last six (W4 D2) in the top flight, and they have lost just one game since that shock defeat against Crystal Palace back on October 14th.

Then, 24 hours later, we take our first steps in this season's FA Youth Cup with a home game against Preston North End at Stevenage, before we return to Wembley once more for another top flight outing against Brighton & Hove Albion on Wednesday evening.

They have won two and drawn two of their last four home games against Chelsea now and they took a 2 - 0 home win over Chelsea last season in the top flight.

They are scoring freely and the Toffees have also won five of their last seven home games in the top flight against Chelsea as well (L2) which is two more than they recorded in their previous 17 in the competition against them.

They have failed to take a clean sheet in any of their last eight away games in the top flight which means that they will be vulnerable in this one, even against an unconvincing Stoke side.

So Rovers have claimed a top flight scalp already, even though it was after playing most of the game against a Swansea side who had been reduced to ten men.

The 26 year - old's maiden Premier League strike, which won the game for the Terriers, is up against seven other November goals in a public vote to decide the top flight's best goal last month.

Chelsea have actually failed to score in their last two home fixtures now in the top flight, but both were tougher games against Arsenal and Man City.

With the Toffees an ever - present in England's top flight, and plenty of recent cup draws pitting us against the team from Goodison Park, there are no shortage of games to look back on in the second edition of our «Past sampler» series.

Three points on Tyneside against Crystal Palace would be a massive boost for them and they have posted a decent W3 D3 L1 record over their last seven home games in the top flight and are favourites to bank the three points on Saturday.

Southampton are unbeaten in their last six games in the top flight against Newcastle with a W4 D2 record and have won their last four on home soil against them and they have been convincing wins too, the Saints having scored at least two goals in each of those four wins and they took a clean sheet in three of them as well.

Stoke have managed to claim four wins in their last five home games in the English top flight against Newcastle, so they will be pretty confident heading into this one.

That should earn him a start for this game, and luckily enough Morata is going up against the side who have conceded the most headed goals away from home in the top flight.

During a remarkable month from the end of April until the end of May, Keita scored eight in five Serie A games for Lazio, kicking off his sensational run with a hat - trick against Palermo - the fastest in the history of the Italian top flight - in a 6 - 2 triumph.

Palermo have won only two of their 11 previous games against Empoli in the top - flight, losing six times and sharing three draws.

Any concept of competitiveness in today's game is as tenuous as if it were a bunch non-league postmen, plumbers and supermarket shelf - stackers turning up for a third round cup tie against illustrious top flight superstars; with not even the hint of a potential banana skin in sight.

Already he has played over 12 top flight league games in Nigeria for struggling Gombe United, and he even played in their last weekend game against Shooting Stars before arriving in Abuja from where he flew to Norway.

Overall, Jones has kept seven clean sheets in eight league outings for the Red Devils, and another shutout against Huddersfield Town this weekend would set a new top - flight record after nine games into a single season.

Key Stat: Bolton have lost 8 of 11 Premier League home games this season, but Swansea have only been victorious on one occasion away from home against top flight opposition (0 - 2 Aston Villa).