Sentences with phrase «game against league»

In the game against the league leaders, Rashford played as lead striker as Zlatan Ibrahimovic was out.

Brighton gets a home game against League Two side, Coventry.

Following the 1 - 1 draw at Morecambe four days ago, the Clarets pre-season moved over the border into Yorkshire this afternoon and a game against League One Bradford City and...

Arsenal faces a busy fixture list due to playing in the Europa League and Wenger offered a hint as to his team selection plans for the game against League One side Doncaster.

The 21 year old broke into the starting line up for the game against Sporting Braga after distinguishing himself in his first game against League giants Sporting Lisbon, where he was introduced as a substitute in the 31st minute.

As for Bournemouth, they will be on cloud nine at the moment after their remarkable comeback victory against Liverpool last weekend from having been 3 - 1 down in the game against the League's top scorers.

Buffon deserves the world and every good thing possible, but a shutout in a huge game against a league rival is a pretty nice present for our beloved captain.

The fact is that Wenger is certain that both Mikel Arteta and Aaron Ramsey will not be available for next weeks game against the League leaders Chelsea.

III championship game against league rival Riverbank.

Most remarkably, Stourbridge — from Tier 7, remember, the Northern Premier League — scored the only goal of the game against League One Northampton Town, overcoming a gap of four divisions and booking their place in...

Arsenal were very impressive in the first half against Galatasary, in fact they controlled the game right up until Wojciech Szczesny got himself dismissed, but there is no doubt that Sunday's game against League leaders Chelsea will be a different kettle of fish.

Arsene Wenger is going to have a dilemma on Tuesday if he is intending to rotate his starting line - up like he has done in Arsenal's last two midweek games, with the massive game against League leaders Man United next weekend.

The prospect of two games against the league leaders just before the trip to Manchester was thought to be too much for them, but it has worked out exactly the opposite.

Liverpool's draw with Man City today means that they have now taken 20 points from 10 games against the league's top six — more than they have managed in the same number of games against the league's bottom six.

Not exact matches

In the AFC title game, against the Jaguars» league - best passing defense, Brady took control of the game, carving up Jacksonville to erase a 10 - point fourth - quarter deficit in minutes.

In the daily games, participants pay to compete for cash prizes against others in online leagues based on imaginary teams assembled from rosters of real players, which accumulate points based on how those players perform in actual games.

The Time Warner deal, which would give AT&T access to content like HBO's «Game of Thrones» and Warner Bros» «Justice League,» reflects AT&T's effort to compete for advertising dollars against Alphabet's (GOOGL.O) Google and Facebook (FB.O).

Only vegan food will be served at the Rovers» Conference League game this afternoon against Lincoln City at New Lawn, in Nailsworth, Gloucestershire — both on the terraces and in the hospitality areas.

He should play domestic cup games and league home games against relatively easier oppositions to make him grow further.

A Man Utd predicted line up as the Red Devils take on PSV in their opening game of the Champions League, with Anthony Martial tipped to start after his superb debut goal against Liverpool at the weekend...

Hopefully we have recovered from our game against Besiktas and can focus on the Premier League, because that's one of the important targets of the season.»

One of the Premier League players who has really improved his game this season is Spurs winger Nacer Chadli, who has been in amongst the goals and one of his side's most dangerous attacking players — he thoroughly deserved his goal against Chelsea at White Hart Lane.

«We didn't start the season very well so it was very important to win these two games — Champions League against Maccabi Tel Aviv and the derby against Arsenal.

I'm sure this isn't going to be something that is raised again, given that Alexis is too busy repaying the boss by scoring his third goal in the last two Premier League games, however it's right that he should know not to go against Arsene Wenger's instructions.

In fact our only Champions League game that topped this one in the past five years was our 2 - 1 win against Barcelona at the Emirates.

He has faced Premier League teams too including two games against Chelsea in the Europa League semi-finals the year the Blues won the competition, and holding Liverpool to a 1 - 1 draw at Anfield, but it another European game that he remembers the most.

As Blogging the Boys points out, the Packers are 0 - 5 against teams ranked in the league's top half when it comes to points per game.

Arsenal fans will have been a bit worried to say the least when the news came in on Saturday that our opponents for the first game of the Premier League season had just put the mighty Barcelona to the sword, with a 4 - 0 win against a strong side including their former striker Luis Suarez, Messi, Iniesta and all.

A 1 - 2 reverse for Watford is clearly a bad result for them and great for Gillingham, however I would not be so quick to condem them to defeat against us in the next league game.

With his doubles against Sunderland and Burnley, the 25 - year old has bagged eight goals in those six games and for a player that does not even play as the main central striker, it just shows you how good Alexis is and the fantastic form he has found since swapping La Liga for the English Premier League.

It's a do or die game for our champions league hopes and what with Wenger's (separate) poor league records against Mo and Utd, this sure looks like being double trouble for us poor Gooners.?

He only started 16 Serie A games & finished with 7 goals & 7 assists in a tight Serie A. He's a big game player - scored in the Champions League final against Barcelona in 2014/15 & both legs of the semis against Real, & the recent Italian Cup final this season with his first touch.

Arsenal could do with the goal threat of Lacazette in such a big game against a defensively solid Spurs side riding high in the Premier League.

Watching yesterday's game against fucking West Brom, the absolute dross of the premier league, I really have no clue how United are second in the table.

Wengers method of bluffing the board & fans to keep him for a further season... > We loose enough games to take us completely off winning the league, then say it wasn't in our control, we then fight till the end and win last few games so we look good and like we worked hard to earn the 4th place trophy.He then links us with awesome transfers (which we all know wont happen), and finally while Man U / City and Chelsea organise pre-season friendlies against top clubs, we play the weak ones, win and look all good to go next season without any additions... AND THEN REALITY STRIKES..

We have three Premier League games coming up but you would expect the two against Watford and Hull City at home to be won.

We have big home league games coming up against Liverpool and Chelsea next month and we should have no fear going in to them.

Last season Arsenal came close to becoming the best defense in the entire league with good defensive stats, but this good news was smashed by the conceding 22 horrible goals against the teams in the top five, 20 of those on away games to those same top teams (Chelsea, City, Liverpool, and Everton).

Manchester United travel to the Hawthorns hoping they can win their third Premier League game in a row against West Bromwich Albion, having beaten West Ham and Everton in recent weeks.

Arsenal finished Premier League game week nine with a scoreless draw against Middlesbrough at the Emirates.

Whether Arsene Wenger chooses to rest a few first team players for the Champions League away game against Barcelona on Wednesday night remains to be seen, but judging from his comments in the press conference today reported by The Mirror, I would not be at all surprised.

The tiny Presbyterian school, highly rated academically for more than 125 years, was unbeaten in 12 league games and was the obvious choice to represent the conference against Providence in Philadelphia on March 8, the first step toward a possible NCAA championship.

In those same 14 games I mentioned the only clean sheets were against Reading in the EFL cup and our last league game against West Brom.

Tottenham should also have been excited at the prospect of closing the gap on the league leaders Chelsea, but they also couldn't bring the required game needed to beat, or even score against relegation - threatened Sunderland, and they will also have to lick their wounds at such a missed opportunity.

This game will not be easy for the Gunners as the spuds have only lost one league game so far, against Man United on the opening day, and that is one fewer than us.

Man Utd hope to have fellow Spaniards Juan Mata and Ander Herrera fit for the game against Cristiano Ronaldo's Champions League winners.

A Tuesday night game against the Canes was never a big deal, but especially now when the team is a.500 squad that spends half its season looking like one of the worst teams in the league.

After a very poor start against Liverpool, followed up by a draw against the Premier League Champions, the last thing Arsenal needed was another break for international games.

not so good here, in one game concerning Oxlade, it was against Chelsea in the league.

A Good performance from all the players.no team is easy to beat at this closing stage of the league: If a half goal exists in the game of football and guarantees 3points, I had take a half goal and 3points against any opponent no matter how lowly placed.