Sentences with phrase «goal drought in»

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.

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.

The Dutchman was irked by a question about his captain's goal drought in the Premier League.

The Chilean scored 12 goals in 19 league starts up to January 11, but Ozil's return to the middle has coincided with Sanchez's seven - game goal drought in which he has tended to hug the wing more.

21 year old Nigerian forward Fred Friday ended a six game goal drought in style for Dutch side AZ Alkmaar by scoring a hattrick to help them beat Turkish champions Besiktas 4 - 1.

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.

His 15 - game goal drought in the second half of the season played a huge role in Arsenal's failure to win the title for a 12th - straight year.

The former Manchester United and Real Madrid striker has hit a goals drought in recent games and Valencia directors are convinced Bayer could be tempted to sell.

Not exact matches

we lost the league last season cos of his goal drought, we lost the league in 13/14 cos of him wasting chances and Wenger not signing any striker.

giroud or so called «goal drought» in important matches must understand.....

Mo wants Utd to sign Ozil, yet, Sanchez wants City to sign him... Giroud takes a selfie, whilst explaining how it feels to end his 15 game goal drought and Wenger will never sell Ramsey's in a million year's?

The Rangers» 54 - year Cup drought finally ended thanks to the gritty leadership of Mark Messier and stingy goaltending by Mike Richter, but it was classy blueliner Leetch who won the Smythe after scoring 11 goals and 34 points in only 23 games.

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).

However with a goal drought now stretching back three months, any club interested in buying the former Manchester United man will have to do some serious thinking before pulling the trigger.

While Wayne Rooney ended their goal drought with the winner against CSKA Moscow, United remain the third - lowest scorers in the top half of the table, and have found the net nine times fewer than leaders Manchester City.

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.

While he has had his goal droughts, he has continued to lead the line for Jose Mourinho throughout the campaign, and although improvements will be expected from the Belgian in his second year, it has been a positive start overall.

Nevertheless, Conte makes a fair point as with his side competing for three different targets this season still, he can't afford to let a striker go and be short in that department, especially having not so long ago suffered with a goal drought having scored one goal in four games in all competitions earlier in the month.

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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?

The Team / Wenger or whoever letting Carzola take the crucial pen (bcoz of his goal drought) when we had players like ozil, alexis and giroud in form on the day to convert

-- Passing was horrendous in the 1st half — Sanchez has been giving the ball away a lot lately — Giroud undergoing a goal drought.

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.

The importance of the goals scored (i.e against which defense quality, score consistency «not score hatrick in one game and go drought for the next four games» and so on)... 2.

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.

The Senators snapped an 0 - of - 29 scoreless drought on the power play with a 5 - on - 3 goal to tie the game in the second period and got a brilliant performance from Craig Anderson, who made 45 saves, including 22 of 23 Pittsburgh shots in the second period.

The young striker has been playing well recently anyway and it is not as if he is on a goal drought or anything, his last club goal coming in the away game with Anderlecht.

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..

He scored 10 goals in the past 11 games and you called that a drought, you could have conjured a better article than this.

Another report in The Mirror reveals the awful fact that only two strikers in the whole of the Premier League have endured longer goal droughts than Olivier Giroud is currently on and to be fair to Swansea's Gomis and Newcastle's Siem De Jong, they do not have the likes of Ozil providing for them.

lets just establish that now... A man with genuine intent to win the league would firstly adress the the issue of squad depth both from a tactical perspective as in being able to bring in different personel an completley alter the way the team plays... you cant keep using the same players and the same formation and tactics every game teams will work it out... you wonder why Giroud is on a goal drought.

Back then his confidence was flowing and now that the frustration and desperation to end his goal drought is over, I expect to see Rambo chipping in regularly.

That's why Alexis is so awesome Even if he is in a goal drought, he still has to start every match because he has more to offer than just goals.

They say that a striker on a scoring drought or a team in a slump sometimes just needs a lucky goal or a lucky result to get them out of the rut and I think that is true of Arsenal and the likes of Alexis and Giroud.

However, Costa has only just ended a significantly long goal - drought, and there is no guarantee that he will be able to recapture the form of earlier in the campaign.

1 — Sadio Mane has scored his first goal in six Premier League games for Liverpool, ending his longest PL goal - drought with the Reds.

To be fair to the Arsenal and France international centre forward Olivier Giroud, his goal scoring form for club and country since breaking the long drought in front of goal that was plaguing him earlier this year has been very good.

While he's still seemingly got plenty left in the tank, as evidenced by his tally of 11 goals in 23 appearances so far this season, he has had his goal droughts and struggles too which may well have raised question marks over whether or not that is an area of the Barcelona squad that could be strengthened.

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.

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.

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

Regardless of whether Eden Hazard ends his goal - scoring drought in the next few days / weeks / months and returns to his 2014 - 15 form, it may be hard for Chelsea to keep him amidst interest from European giants like Real Madrid and Paris Saint - Germain.

Arsenal's creativity is in Limbo cuz of wenger, Arsenal's glory days is Lost in obscurity cuz of wenger, ArsenaL's Transfer dealings are dead cuz of wenger, ArsenaL's fluidity and tactics are shambles cuz of wenger, ArsenaL's injury crisis are unresolved cuz of wenger, ArsenaL's sub players are rust and hav forgotten what a being football pitch looks like cuz of wenger, Arsenal's defence is an eyesore cuz of wenger, ArsenaL's goals drought is pathetic cuz of wenger, ArsenaL's player favoritism is inhuman cuz of wenger.

Kinda makes sense though, the only reason people are asking for another CDM is because we all fear the possibility of injury to coquelin and know flamini is usless, beilick is inexperienced so it begs the question what happens if an injury where to occur, but wîth how many midfielders we have in the squad i think it could allow us to change a tactical approach and potentially experiment with people like Ramsey and Wishere potentially playing a deeper role??? But the striker is a must as i mentioned earlier Giroud went 8 games without scoring a goal and none of the other strikers stepped up to the plate, we cant have a drought of goals when your the quest for titles...

Tottenham Hotspur striker Harry Kane hasn't got his season off to the blistering start Spurs supporters may have hoped, but after ending his goal - drought in England's Euro 2016 qualifier against San Marino, he will be looking to quickly kick on.

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After notching up 26 goals in Burnley's promotion campaign last season in the Championship, England U-21 star Ings has scored four goals in his last five games after a six game Premier League goal drought.

Although Aston Villa ended their goal drought with a strike against Chelsea, it was another defeat that leaves Paul Lambert's side in trouble and the manager under huge pressure after a dismal campaign.

South Carolina 15, Tennessee 9 (Oct. 14): An offensive touchdown drought that started in mid-September against UMass officially became A Thing when the Gamecocks» defense produced a goal - line stand in the final 10 seconds, spoiling QB Jarrett Guarantano's first start in place of Week 1 starter Quinten Dormady.