Sentences with phrase «goal drought at»

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.

Sheffield Wednesday's Joey Pelupessy was surprised to learn how long Jordan Rhodes had gone without scoring before ending his goal drought at Hull City on Saturday.

Lukaku has scored three times in two games over the international break, and will now hope to end his goal drought at club level after going seven matches without finding the back of the net for Manchester United.

Arsenal are going through a mini goal drought at the moment having gone three games without a goal from anywhere.

It is quite another to say to a young player, you are no3 striker after giroud, who will go on a goal drought at some point and walcott who wants to play on the wing and will almost certainly get injured.

The defending champions are enjoying a six - match unbeaten run in the league − five wins and one draw − whilst Nani and Wayne Rooney both ending their goal droughts at home to Wolves last time out could be an ominous sign of things to come.

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We may be appeased at first but can you imagine the comments on here if he goes on a goal drought, paid # 60m and................

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

At 33, he should be in the twilight of his career, so every goal drought is evidence of his expected downfall, which should presumably come any day now.

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?

We need a win Alexis not only ended his goal drought with style but also perfect timing to be at his best for CL

The Belgium international made a fine start at Old Trafford before a recent goal drought, which has seen him fail to find the back of the net in his last five games for the club.

Chelsea 1 - 1 Southampton: Diego Costa finally ends goal drought, but Tadic levels after lightning start at the Bridge Chelsea midfielder Nemanja Matic — «We'll be failures if we don't win it!»

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.

May I go by dis way to ask you all, how many prolific seasons does V'persie had with Arsenal to end there premier league title drought with his goals before he was been bought by Almighty Manu by Sir Alex at his 29 worth more than Vardy's 20million?

Not only did his superbly smashed goal seal the win for the Gunners by putting us 3 - 0 up at the break, but it ended the mini scoring drought that people in the football media had begun to bang on about.

I get the criticisms, I truly do, but a lot of fans blindly deny the fact that he does score goals for us, and highlight his drought at the end of season as though that was the story of his season with us, neglecting the fact that before that he was scoring near on a goal a game in a time where we desperately needed it to secure CL football when it was in no way guaranteed..

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.

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.

Giroud has not been at his best either and after Arsene Wenger failed to, or decided not to, sign any more forwards in the summer transfer window, Arsenal fans are hoping that the team can quickly put this scoring drought behind them and start banging in the goals again.

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.

Pacioretty, with the man advantage, ended an 11 - game goal drought to give Montreal a 3 - 2 lead at 16:29 of the second period.

Nigeria ended a 19 - year Africa Cup of Nations title drought Sunday with a 1 - 0 final victory over Burkina Faso at Soccer City thanks to a late first - half goal from Sunday Mba.

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.

They have now failed to score in any of their last five league games for the first time ever and their goal drought is currently standing at 465 minutes.

Narrow wins over Fulham and Swansea followed before Suarez ended a five - game goal drought with a fortunate opener in a 3 - 0 win at Southampton, when Philippe Coutinho's pass deflected perfectly into his path.

Finally, with County enduring a goal drought and the Gers recording three clean sheets on the trot before this weekend, Rangers to Win to Nil looks good at 17/10.

Luis Suarez scored twice for Barcelona to end his drought in front of goal and maintain his side's lead at the top of La Liga with a 2 - 0 win over Leganes...

The same can be said about Giroud who can not score a goal at the moment which is shown as he is on his longest drought of 9 games.

He scored the Blues only goal to give them the early lead at the 62 ′, until Lionel Messi equalized in the 75 ′ and ended his own personal scoring drought versus Chelsea.

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Goals 41, 42 and 43 came at Anfield in a 3 - 3 draw, but then a four game drought when nobody in an Everton jersey scored seemed to put the brakes on the record - charge.

Aston Villa 1 Chelsea 2Branislav Ivanovic's rocket gave Chelsea a crucial 2 - 1 win at Aston Villa — despite the hosts ending their 11 - hour goal drought -LRB-...)

Goals have dried up, literally, with Villa's 0 - 0 draw at home to Birmingham last Sunday extending their goal drought in the league to 296 minutes.

A recent 10 - game goal drought underlined why Selke is yet to establish himself as a centre - forward option for Germany, but he showcased his finishing ability once more with an impressive brace in a 2 - 1 win over Cologne at the weekend.

Juventus» 2 - 0 win over Chievo Verona kept up the pressure on Napoli at the top of the table and it was a welcome sight for fans as Gonzalo Higuain ended his goal drought with the second strike of the game.