Sentences with phrase «goal drought»

And then after his long goal drought the big man added to his first goal with a second half goal which pretty much put the tie to bed.

The Portuguese, who'd been on a mini goal drought chose the right time to end his poor scoring form, and he did so in style too.

That lengthy goal drought is now officially a thing of the past.

I have to agree and I think the team goal drought is like that of an individual player's.

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Diego Costa has ended his seven game goal drought with the opening goal, as Chelsea took the lead against Southampton at Stamford Bridge.

On the other hand Benzema and Ronaldo also tried hard where CR7 is in goal drought in the season of La Liga.

Point stopped a nine - game goal drought with his 21st goal on the power play at 2:47 of the second but the Devils pulled even at 2 just 26 seconds when Hischier scored during a 2 - on - 1.

Arsene said he is looking for a striker because Giroud scores in a moment and often has some spells of goal drought.

Craig Gardner, the scorer of the team's only two goals at St Andrews this season, is suspended for Saturday's game so the burden of scoring will once again full upon the shoulders of strikers Cameron Jerome and Nikola Zigic, who between them have amassed just two goals in the league this season, as Birmingham look to end a 300 minute goal drought at St Andrews in the league.

Results have worsened for Jose Mourinho's side during the Belgian's seven - game goal drought for his club, so it's little surprise to see the Sun link United with a big bid for Tottenham's Harry Kane as another option up front.

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal has backed club captain and star striker Wayne Rooney to end his recent goal drought against Liverpool, and is hopeful that the England international will lead his side to victory at Anfield on Sunday.

The reason he often goes on goal droughts is he often ends up isolating himself uptop, waiting for a cross that when the likes of Walcott and Campbell are put under pressure never comes, in my opinion he should be dropping back when he realises this, and this is the reason he can never be that 20 + goal striker.

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Now that Giroud has ended his longest ever goal drought as an Arsenal player and in some style with his well taken double at Hull, should he start again against Watford?

Aguero was the highest goal scorer in the league last season, but he went through goal drought too but no one slated him.

Mahrez ended a personal Premier League goal drought of 11 hours and two minutes with his strike in this match.

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger has made a worrying claim about the form of his striker Alexandre Lacazette after the Frenchman's recent goal drought.

The Arsenal goal drought continues, and with Liverpool next on our fixture list, we're going to have to sharpen up, erm, sharpish.

A hapless Hazard trudged off after just 15 minutes with a groin problem, his struggles this season encapsulated by his 2,289 - minute goal drought with Chelsea.

Alvaro Morata ended a personal goal drought stretching back to December 26 as the Spain forward put Chelsea ahead with a clinical finish in the 42nd minute.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger has played down speculation about the current goal drought affecting his top scorer from last season, Alexis Sanchez.

The Barcelona superstar has not scored in the last four games, the worst goal drought in more than two years dating back to January 2014.

Even though I thought that the way Norwich had set up and the lack of width from our so - called wide players was not helping him, I thought it was sure to be Giroud to get the hook, especially with his confidence at rock bottom after his longest goal drought since joining the Gunners.

Sterling's goal drought over he then went on to score again and is likely to be sharp against us, assuming Rodgers keeps him up front.

The Arsenal and France striker Olivier Giroud may have scored two good goals in the FA cup replay against Hull City recently to end his longest ever Arsenal goal drought, but not much else has gone right for the big man, including having what looked a perfectly good goal disallowed against Everton.

The Portuguese international ended a two - game goal drought by scoring twice in Los Blancos» 5 - 1 win over Sporting Gijon last Sunday but he has failed to reach the level of performance which has seen him win three Ballon d'Or's since 2008.

Lionel Messi suffers from goal drought where he is standing in front of the milestone of 500 career goals.

Loic Remy and Radamel Falcao are both injured, so Diego Costa will lineup in attack, ahead of Eden Hazard, who ended a 30 - game club goal drought at the weekend and Oscar, who bagged a hat - trick at MK Dons.

After passing sometimes goal drought, Uruguayan striker Luis Suarez has back to the form and scored pair of goals and so, the team of Valverde picked and easy victory at the opponent field.

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Daniel Alfredsson, who had a nine - game goal drought before tonight's game, banked in the game winner with just.04 seconds left in overtime incredibly after Detroit got a 3 on 1 with less than ten seconds remaining.

Steven Stamkos ended his eight - game goal drought Sunday with this beautiful break - away goal during the Lightning - Canadians Game 2.

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Performance against Watford copy paste today Lacazette goal drought continues Alexis smiles I smile bcoz I don't want Bournemouth to get relegated But IT»S TIME TO GO!!!!!!!!

Are there teams that are hsving goal droughts like ours...... something is wrong and i think its tactics or technical not the players

Charlie's knees - up celebration added to this moment of beauty, and burnt into my eight - year - old head, so much so that the next time I notched in the playground attempts were made to mimic this joyous occasion (although due to a Lee Chapman-esque goal drought I did have to wait a while, but that's another story).

the result was his famous goals drought which only ended with a hat - trick or so about the last game of that season.

A Johnson dunk finally ended the long drought, and although a nearly four - minute field - goal drought followed, Toronto stayed within striking distance.

The Canadiens captain skated into the slot and beat Andrei Vasilevskiy up high to end a 13 - game goal drought dating to Nov. 30.

what are you helping a striker that goes 12 - 20 games goal drought do?

Vossen ended a six - match goal drought on Saturday and will fancy his chances against a defence that shipped five goals against Arsenal on the same afternoon.

Daniel Sturridge ended his long - running goal drought in serious style on Saturday when he fired Liverpool 2 - 0 up against Aston Villa at Anfield.

this is what Giroud profited from that's aside the many he still missed and the historic goal drought of the 2nd half of the season which made Ozil unable to to break Henry's assist - record and more importantly made us lose the title.

The Gabon international also made a classy gesture to team - mate Alexandre Lacazette last weekend, as he gave up on a hat - trick for himself by allowing the Frenchman to end his own goal drought and take the second penalty against Stoke City.

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Fernando Torres has been ripped to shreds for his performances over the last few seasons — the man who scored the Euro 2008 - winning goal has struggled with both club and country since then — and although things were bad during his final seasons at Liverpool, they got even worse after a # 50M transfer to Chelsea, where the price tag combined with an incredible goal drought left him as the butt of jokes throughout England.