Sentences with phrase «goals in the first knockout»

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And those goals all came in four of the games, as we failed to score against Stoke City, Chelsea, Southampton, Hull City and Barcelona, so it is not too hard to see why we have slipped off the top of the Premier League and are looking at another Champions League exit at the first knockout stage.

«Obviously it is pleasing, first of all to be able to help the team with important goals in a Champions League knockout game [and] of course to come back to England and [win] against a team you're always motivated to play against,» Suarez told UEFA.com (via Daily Mail).

Llorente emerged as one of the world's most exciting strikers during his time with former club Bilbao, particularly in the 2011/12 season when his 29 goals in all competitions helped the unfancied Basque side to the Europa League final, and he memorably struck a superb volleyed goal against Manchester United in the first knockout round.

David Luiz, in theory, notched his first International goal for Brazil Saturday against Chile in the knockout rounds.

Although they've had poor domestic performances, Monaco did qualify top of their group despite scoring just four goals, earning them a spot in the knockout stages in the competition for the first time in over 10 years.

Brady netted twice for Ireland during the tournament, including a vital goal to secure a 1 - 0 victory over Italy in the Group Stage and the first goal against France in the 2 - 1 knockout round loss.

You've got a wonderful opportunity to score your first Barcelona goal, in the process almost certainly killing a two - legged Champions League knockout game, and you want to — stop me if I'm wrong here — smack it as hard as you can?

Arsenal have certainly been impressive in the first leg of each of their knockout ties, beating Ostersunds and Milan without conceding a goal to take the pressure off heading into the second game and they will hope for similar fortunes against Atletico if they are going to progress to the Final

Our French striker Olivier Giroud scored his first ever hat - trick for Arsenal as we beat Olympiakos to reach the knockout stages of the Champions League, and he has now scored 13 goals from just 15 starts in this campaign.

At least we can go to Monaco without fear and play for a big win because a 1 goal win / draw / loss all result in the same outcome, us sadly exiting the CL after the first knockout round yet again.

A game with eight goals and many twists, was the highest - scoring first - leg knockout tie in Champions League history.

The goal was the first goal conceded by Spain in the knockout phase of a tournament since 2006.

Comfortable lead to take to the Etihad When teams play in the knockout stages of the Champions League, there are two things that are particularly important, the first one is to take a healthy lead in the first leg more or if you are playing at home and the second one is to avoid conceding the away goal.

It's Ireland's first Euro knockout appearance in their history, and it came after two goals in the toughest group of the six.

The game is Liverpool's first knockout match in the competition for nine years, though they enter it having topped Group E without defeat and racked up 23 goals — including two 7 - 0 wins.