Sentences with phrase «goal down early»

Manchester United went one goal down early against FC Basel in their crucial UEFA Champions League match, and they're going to have to come back without their best central defender.

We can't fold even if we go a goal down early.

Not exact matches

Just seconds earlier, it had looked as though Drew Brees had decided the outcome, leading the Saints down the field while running the two - minute drill to perfection to set up New Orleans for the go - ahead field goal with just 29 seconds remaining.

«It's early to tell what the effect of the tax was, but certainly the market is calming down, which is in keeping with what the goal of the tax was.»

Chelsea will come straight at us and if they get an early goal our heads will go down and they will have a field day.

Gnabry was brought back early after failing to impress the West Brom boss and it looked like his career was in danger of going down the plughole, but the manager of Germany's Olympic team Horst Hrubesch kept faith with the winger and so far he has been richly rewarded with three goals from the first two games.

We particularly like the way Joao Carlos» own goal is foreshadowed earlier in the break, as Boa Esporte's attack breaks down.

Despite leading on a 2 - 1 aggregate after a match at Camp Nou the week before, Barcelona found themselves down a goal early after Antoine Griezmann stunned them with a goal before halftime.

So that could be a massive goal come the end of the season although the boss wanted to play down any early talk of getting back into the Champions League next season.

In the 1st half, it was like City attacking us every 2 minutes, I kept watching the clock, it was a long night especially we went 1 goal down so early.

Gon na get a few thumbs down for this but to be honest I would rather spend my weekends watching my team play beautiful attacking football and have the joy of watching beautiful goals such as Wilshere's goal v west brom last week and still finish in the top 4 with a cup final to look forward to than win the title having to force my eyes open to actually see my team win via an early goal and the rest of the game spent watching headed clearances from John terry

The only bit of criticism I can give is that we should have put the foot down on the gas much earlier in the game and tried to get an early goal.

In the end, it could come down to Arsenal's defending, which, in recent seasons, has hemorrhaged early goals in marquee games such as this one.

We concede an early goal and everyone's heads goes down.

The home side Preston North End had clearly watched our last game as they closed us down in packs just as the Cherries had and they soon got the reward of an early goal.

Kansas Statesliced Missouri's conference lead to a game and a half by defeating Colorado65 - 58, as Ed Nealy pulled down 16 rebounds and Tyrone Adams scored 20 points.In their earlier victory over Nebraska, the Wildcats established a Big Eightrecord for field - goal accuracy (77.1 %) by sinking 27 of 35 shots.

It's not about goals either his presence creates havoc in front of goal just like he did when he saved us 3 points in an earlier game when he was pulled down in the box and then Santi converted the penalty.

the thing is for that goal the defence did what they could do, tried to close down the shot, they had no gaps to make anything happen... it was a pot shot and the blame would have to go on Cech for that one... the only thing I could think that could have been done differently is Gabriel taking out Adebayor earlier

A solid performance after being forced to switch partners early on, and looked keen to try and get a goal down the other end during set pieces.

(if he can't get back because he's «injured» then surely he doesn't take off like that...) 76:46 Nouhou skies his attempt on goal 76:50 (at the earliest) ball is put back in play by SKC (ESPN is busy showing the replay not the action on the field) 77:01 long ball is played from the SKC defense down Nouhou's side

In the early stages of his career, he blossomed from a skinny bundle of potential into an attacking player who would hunt the ball out, anywhere on the pitch, then drive toward the opposition goal; now he is refining himself back down into a single - minded goal hanger.

Truth is many Arsenal fans are living in denial, that's why you get so many thumbs down for telling it as it is.Apart from the 2 goals we scored, yesterday's performance was poor considering that we were playing a hull B team at home.We kept them in the game for long periods of time instead of being incisive and finishing them off early when we had the chances.

The alternative is to keep Stanton but strip down the team around him, and that seems pointless unless the new goal is to try to win again when the slugger is in his early - to - mid-30s.

Sanchez was very poor 2day & shld have been substituted earlier bt the boss decided 2 remove Walcott instead, the 1st goal against us was supposed 2 be disallowed as Bellerin was struck down & injured, arsenal played the 1st half without a recognised striker on the pitch meanwhile we had 3 recognised strikers on the bench & finally why do we always play with fear when we play against a big team?

As Wenger alluded to, however, Arsenal were helped by the early goal at Everton which settled everyone down.

I can maybe understand a team sticking to their principles being only one goal down as a game draws to close, but when you're 2 - 0 down with the clock ticking, you clearly need a plan B. Plan A (get into the final third and make as many sideways passes as possible) hadn't worked at all against West Ham, and with say 10 minutes left, I couldn't believe we didn't just stick Mertesacker upfront with Giroud and hit long balls and early crosses!

As I said earlier, Wenger has been treading water for years, but the sheer amount of top quality managers has pushed Wenger so far down the league, that we're currently a whopping 21 points off the top, and only in sixth on goal difference.

«You need the fans behind you so getting that early goal settles them and the players down.

then if we are lucky we might be able to find one from the next level down, or up and coming players who hopefully hit the ground running and get the goals we need, that is the unfortunate truth we have to face, we will have to fight it out with man u and others for these players and hope we can get someone in early.

Let's hope for an early goal to settle the fans and players down and that could lead to a big score from the Gunners.

He hit nine different receivers and was unfazed by losing star TE Mark Andrews early or the fact that OU's first four drives yet were denied points due to a fourth down failure, two fumbles, and a missed field goal.

Meanwhile, Arsenal are unbeaten in their last 15 games and go into this weekends clash in high spirits after coming from two goals down to defeat Ludogorets in the Champions league earlier this week.

We had chances to score the early goal to settle us down, with Iwobi shooting just wide and Mertesacker heading straight at Mannone with a free header from a corner.

We need an early goal to settle the nerves down, Otherwise this could turn out to be another very disappointing result.

«Our mistake was to concede a goal stupidly and too early in the game, after it's difficult when you're 3 - 0 down.

If you look at some of the goals conceded in the early part of the season, including in the champions league, it was down to attacking players not doing their defensive duties properly.

Had Gabe shut down Barkley earlier, he too could have prevented the goal.

Ivory Coast international Zaha scored both goals that night and the Eagles had an opportunity early in the second half when the winger was brought down on the edge of the box by Bruno, only for Yohan Cabaye to fire the resultant free - kick straight at Ryan.

The most recent games between West Ham and Southampton have seen a glut of goals, including the fixture earlier in the season when we went down 3 - 2 to a late goal from a soft penalty, after pulling back from a two goal deficit.

Twenty minutes later though, and Liverpool were a few mere minutes away from somehow getting through to half - time a single goal down, despite Spurs» early dominance, then came the killer blow; the goal that ended the match before the second - half...

Early in that season we had beaten them 2 - 0 at Upton Park with goals from Carroll and Downing, but we were the losers in the return, which was one of their seven wins in the run - in, going down 2 - 1 with Kouyate scoring our goal.

Newly - crowned PFA Player of the Year Mahrez admitted earlier in the season that despite all his goals and assists, he feared being withdrawn from the team if he didn't do his defensive duties, while Danny Simpson has said Ranieri sits him down and shows him in minute detail where he wants his right - back to stand while defending in each game.

As Chelsea came from two goals down to rescue a brilliant 3 - 2 win against Southampton in Saturday's early kick - off, one of the main talking...

The Dragons didn't have a great start as they were under pressure early on before eventually going one goal down on 13 minutes through Radja Nainggolan's super long range shot.

Villa have been really hit and miss at home this season and that is the only hope I can give Fulham, get an early goal and hopefully the Villa Park faithful will start to get edgy and that will filter down to the players.

From his early days in Madeira to his record breaking goal scoring exploits in the UEFA Champions League, we sat down with Cristiano Ronaldo ahead of Real Madrid's semi-final showdown with Manchester City.

The visitor was stunned earlier on as they were one goal down after 18 minutes of play when Artur Sobiech puts Hannover ahead.

The Clarets pulled off that surprise point at the Etihad earlier in the season, battling back from two goals down to pinch a point.

Kongolo looked to release compatriot van La Parra down his native left early on in a bid to catch the hosts off guard, and after Rajiv managed to draw a foul from American DeAndre Yedlin, nothing came of the resulting free - kick despite a hectic goal - mouth scramble.

Danny worked hard and he was to be rewarded early in the second half when he went down low to steer a header towards goal where it rebounded off a defender's leg but he couldn't keep it out.