Sentences with phrase «group game at home»

They got a creditable 1 - 1 draw in their opening group game at home to Spartak Moscow but have not looked threatening in either of their games since.

Arnie's men will now focus on the crucial last AFC Champions League group game at home to Shanghai on Tuesday night with a place in the last 16 on the line.

Arsene Wenger was in now way suggesting that Arsenal should take it easy in our Champions League group game at home to PSG tonight, as he has called on his players to finish the job they have started by already securing a place in the next round by getting the result against the French champions to make sure that we finish on top of group A.... Read the full article here

The Frenchman may already have changed his tune, though, and has declared that he will be picking a strong Arsenal side for our first group game at home to the German Bundesliga outfit Cologne this Thursday, reports the Arsenal website.

Not exact matches

We will beat Galastaraay twice, Dortmund at home, beat Anderlecht away then lose the last game 2 finish second in our group and get Real Madrid in the knockout round, lose 8 - 1 at the Emirates and beat em at the Bernabeu 7 - 0, lose on away goals and Flamini will get sent off for a crunching tackle, Wenger complains and gets a 3 match touchline ban.

He had already endured a 15 - month ban in 1987 for testing positive for Cocaine, but he was caught out again, more iconically, at the World Cup in 1994, when he was lead from the pitch midway through a group game and sent home to face the music.

They lead the group despite having played three away games and just one at home, and they've already been to Serbia and Austria.

Members of the group organized dozens of people to take a knee outside U.S. Bank Stadium at every Vikings home game this season.

These things happen after all, but when you consider that the draw at home to Anderlecht was a huge factor in Arsenal not winning the group and then you look back and see how blatantly offside their first goal was in that game, you have to wonder whether there is someone up there who does not like us.

Even then, Everton away is definitely one of the hardest games of the season and we Wenger will have to manage the team so that we can get the result against Everton as well as having enough energy to beat Besiktas at home to qualify for the group stages of the Champions League.

Chelsea could be playing away to Real Madrid on Wednesday for their group stage game, whilst we could be at home against some unheard of team on the Tuesday.

Answer me this: does a team that screwed up their CL group stage to finish 2nd, got embarrassed in the CL last 16, got sent packing in the Carling Cup at HOME, bottled 2nd place in the league with 4 games remaining, and finished 12 points behind the domestic champions have everything in place squadwise to compete on all fronts?

A team that only conceded 1 in 6 group games ain't gonna concede 3 at home in one game.

The champions of Belgium are no pushovers, obviously, but they were well beaten at home by Borussia Dortmund in the last group game and Arsenal must do the same, injuries or not.

Even if there is an advantage to not playing in Europe, which there may well be, we only have two group games left and our EPL games after those are against Bournemouth and Stoke City, both at home, so how do you see the title race going over the next two months?

If we can win these games before CITY at home we could be well placed in the League and finish 2nd in the CL group, not all bad, though I'm sure in the last 16 it will be another mega fixture... Barca or Madrid probably.

Moving forward though, Bayern won 5 - 1 at home to Dortmund today also so champions league is going to be extra difficult to get out of the group and i do nt think we can considern bayerns form but if we play like this today home / away we are in for 2 cracker european games?

Arsenal go into the game looking for a win to strengthen their grip on second place in Group D and to keep up with Borussia Dortmund, who are at home to Galatasaray.

In the Champions League, Giroud has scored home and away against Bayern Munich, and also netted a crucial hat - trick to fire Arsenal through from their group in their final game at Olympiakos.

We have a relatively easy run during that period, 2 champions league games against the weakest team in the group and efl cup home game against reading, 1 away game at Sunderland and 3 home league games against swansea, Boro and the hardest one coming a month away against the filth.

While Zagreb are at home and are totally dominant in the Croatian league, they have a terrible recent UCL record; earning just a single point from their last group stage and losing every single game the time before that.

While things are looking pretty flippin» good from an Arsenal point of view right now, with a decent draw against Reading at home for the next round of the EFL cup as well as a good chance of topping our Champions League group and winning the last four Premier League games in a row, the Gunners are still faced with the worrying fact that we are still five points behind the current league leaders.

CSKA dropped out of the Champions League despite winning three of their six group games and they were competitive away from home, beating Basel and Benfica 2 - 1 and taking the lead in a 2 - 1 defeat against Manchester United at Old Trafford.

Now we have a game where we can finish top of the group, at home, and let's maintain the quality of our results until the game against Paris Saint - Germain and then we are in a good position to finish top of the group.»

Spurs now lie third in Group E behind Monaco and Bayer Leverkusen and are under serious threat of failing to reach the knockout phase with two games left away to the French side and at home to CSKA Moscow.

Iker Casillas would only start one more game in the opening group stage game — a 4 - 1 win at home to Molde.

The following season Reina was handed his Champions League debut in a 1 - 0 win at home to Fenerbahçe in the group stage and would go on to play four games in the competition that season.

The season starts and ends with teams from the respective groups playing each other either home or away sandwiching the north group games where teams play each other both at home or away.

The group stage draw takes place in Monaco on Friday with the first two Europa league games scheduled for 15th and 29th September, which are prior to our weekend games away at West Brom and then home to Middlesbrough.

Despite the game sandwiched between our tame defeat at Chelsea and the opening home fixture with Bournemouth it is expected that the Hammers will field a strong side in order to secure Europa League group stage qualification.

Barcelona made it three wins from as many matches in Group D and extended their unbeaten run at home in the competition to 23 straight games.

Benfica have picked up 13 victories from their last 15 European home games, posting five in succession at the Estádio Sport Lisboa e Benfica since their only home loss in that sequence — 2 - 1 against FC Schalke 04 in the 2010/11 UEFA Champions League group stage.

Napoli's win against Dortmund means that, if Arsenal get a positive result at home in the next game against the Italians, they'll face the German side with a lead in the group.

That successful campaign began with a home win against Bayer Leverkusen, the former home of Andre Schurrle, while CSKA Moscow were in our group in 2004/05, Jose Mourinho's first season at the club (John Terry pictured scoring in the home game below).

The game has more significance, obviously, to Slovenia from a qualification perspective but England would not want to lose their top standing in their group especially in front of what promises to be a capacity crowd at the home of English football.

But that will change after Thursday's final Group H game at home to BATE Borisov as, with Arsenal already assured of progressing as group winners, the competition will not be back on the calendar until FebrGroup H game at home to BATE Borisov as, with Arsenal already assured of progressing as group winners, the competition will not be back on the calendar until Febrgroup winners, the competition will not be back on the calendar until February.

After 5 of the group stage games we're at home and in the one other game we're against Everton.

After failing to win any group stage games in his first season in charge, Rodgers, yet to taste defeat by a Scottish club in 67 games, achieved the required progress at the second attempt, albeit suffering defeats home and away to Paris St Germain and Bayern Munich and in the final fixture against Anderlecht.

Schalke 04 recovered from losing their opening two Bundesliga games against Wolfsburg and Hanover 96 to qualify for the Champions League group stage at the expense of Greek club PAOK on Tuesday and built on that success with what was a convincing home league win against Leverkusen.

«We have a game at home where we can finish top of the group.

In what was supposed to be a struggle, the toughest game of the group, and the game where Liverpool's European campaign hits the rocks, The Redmen achieved a deserved, if occasionally unconvincing 1 - 0 victory at home to Anzhi Makhachkala.

However, at home with the game sold out and the Stadium Saint Petersburg set to be rocking, I'd expect Zenit to be able to make it to the Group Stages.

Despite playing the second half with 10 men, Shakhtar Donetsk stayed perfect through two games in Group H with a 2 - 0 win at home against Braga.

Having drawn Basel in their first game and lost last time at home to PSG (3 - 1) in the second game, Ludogorets will have to win today in order not to exit the competition in the group stage.

However, Roy Hodgson's side kept the home side goalless to secure a one - point lead in the group, meaning their fate is in their own hands ahead of final games against Montenegro and Poland at Wembley.

Sporting also drew their opening game in the group, so all four teams are currently level on a point each, but with Schalke, Chelsea's biggest threat in this group, at home to minnows Maribor the Blues could really use a win here.

That despite Sir Alex Ferguson insisting changes are imminent, something he attempted in last season's competition only to end up with egg on his face on two separate occasions, both, incidentally, at Old Trafford: A much - changed United failed miserably to break down a mediocre Rangers defence in their first home game in the group, drawing 0 - 0 with the SPL side, while Valencia almost came away with a famous win on Match Day 6, albeit with the Reds already through to the latter stages, only to be denied by a second - half strike from Anderson.

They have won six of their seven home games in all competitions this season (D1) and saw off Feyenoord 3 - 1 in their other UEFA Champions League group stage home game this season at the Stadio San Paolo.

Yet, back at a sold - out Otkytiye Arena for their first champions league home game since 2013, the fans will be up for it and create a raucous atmosphere — just hopefully not one that saw a flare shoot out of the away end towards referee in the last group game against Maribor.

A draw at Atlético is fine, but a bad game against the weakest team in the group at home will really bring a lot of doubt and questions to a Barça side that's exceeded expectations in this young season.