Sentences with phrase «group stage game against»

Vidal played the full game against Hercules in the Copa del Rey last week, and was handed a chance to shine in Barca's final Champions League group stage game against Borussia Monchengladbach.

Not exact matches

I watched the group stages games he played against Man City and was impressed.

And then he picked up that ankle injury and did not feature in Europe again until the end of the group stage and was injured again before the knockout games against his fellow Frenchmen from Ligue 1 club Monaco.

Bayern have drawn just one of their last 31 CL games (1 - 1 against Napoli in the group stage earlier this season).

The group stage of the 2014/15 Champions League kicks off on Tuesday evening, with two English teams in action — Liverpool return to the competition with a home game against Bulgarian minnows Ludogorets Razgrad, whilst Arsenal face a tough trip to Borussia Dortmund.

After drawing all three games in the group stage, Portugal broke a 0 - 0 draw in extra time against Croatia in the Round of 16 and needed penalties to dispatch Poland in the quarterfinals.

United will be busy in the month of August as they begin the new season with a home game against Tottenham on the 8th and will also face a two - legged qualifier in order to reach the group stages of Europe's elite club competition.

Arsenal made it hard for themselves last night against a team that never wins in the game in the Champions League Group Stages, but Arsene Wenger reckons that the result was skewed by poor refereeing, including the first goal and Giroud's sending off.

And remember we have already won against Best team of the moment in the group stage, then we know what to expect in the next round, bring ATM on in the R16, not because its an easy game but because we always need pressure to succeed, Zenit might shock us as we will take them the same way we took Zegreb, Olympiacos and Monaco last year.

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.

Well, he rested for a little under four minutes during Greece's first game against Romania, and then for the remaining seven games — four group stage, three knockout stage — Galis did not rest.

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.

They now top the Group after England and Russia drew in the later game, and now a win against the Three Lions will ensure their passage to the knockout stages.

After conceding the fewest goals in the group stages of the World Cup finals last summer, the 26 - year has conceded no goals in his three Premier League games, no goals from his one FA cup game, one penalty given away by Szczesny in the Champions League and the two in his debut against Southampton in the League cup.

Interestingly enough we scored in each of our group stage games and won all our games where we didn't concede, so if we deploy Cech on goal and make it tight at the back, we'll be up for it against any side!

As Arsenal lost their first two Champions League Group games to the outsiders, it is now imperative that the Gunners get something out of their two games against Bayern Munich or they will have little chance of progressing to the knockout stages.

As long as the Gunners can avoid defeat against Man United tomorrow, we will also avoid those two pesky play off games and go directly into the Champions League group stage, so an off colour De Gea would be a big bonus for us.

I agree that we can expect a lot more from Arsenal in a few weeks time, but there are some crucial games coming up quickly, especially the one against Besiktas which could see us drop out of the Champions League group stages for the first time in 16 years.

negatives -LRB--)-- terrible result — wengers team selection (arteta + ozil in particular)-- generally poor work - rate across the pitch and nothing like the backbone we showed against man city — handing dortmund initiative to top the group (we all know what finishing 2nd means)-- lack of hunger + desire — welbeck misses — still no joel campbell (who in my personal opinion is a big game / stage player)-- in all our «set - piece» training we totally forgot about the bread and butter of football which is making an impact in open play

Barcelona could only manage a 1 - 1 draw against Leverkusen and Roma, away from home and they only beat BATE 2 - 0 in their other away game in the group stages.

But they stumbled in the group stage, finishing second behind Romania, and that set up a knockout game against Argentina.

We had all the possession, but without any end product bar hitting the post it took a usual dodgy penalty decision against us to give Cologne a chance to go through to the next stage after all, despite losing their first 3 games in the Group.

Sir Alex Ferguson's 1000th game in charge of the Reds against Lyon in the group stages of the Champions League.

Arsenal have failed to win from their four previous trips to Russia (D1 L3) but then CSKA Moscow have lost eight of their last five games against English sides, including their games against Manchester United in the Champions League group stage this season.

Manchester United grabbed all 3 points on a comfortable night against FC Basel in their opening game of the group stages in the Champions League.

Real Madrid have already qualified for the knockout stages as group runnersup even if they beat Dortmund on Wednesday and Spurs lose their game against APOEL.

They faced a French side they had not beaten in a competitive game since October 1949 in Stockholm and a team that was looking to finish the group stages at the top of the group and avoid a game against Spain in the quarter finals.

Slovakia and England will play their final group game against each other at St.Etienne on Monday to decide who books their place in to the next stage and who could potentially miss out on progression.

He's also the youngest Uruguayan to make his debut at a World Cup — starting his first game against England in the group stage of Brazil 2014 — and has made 37 appearances for the national team since.

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.

He will play against his boyhood club this week when Manchester United take them on in our first group stage game of the Champions League.

Those games were the semi final against Holland at World Cup 2010, and then their 3 - 1 defeat in the 2014 group stage match against Costa Rica.

After a thrilling last minute winner against Wales, it's time to brace yourselves once again as England look to take on Slovakia in their third and final group stage game of Euro 2016.

The city will host four group stage games in the competition with England's fixture against Tunisia being the highlight.

Manchester City made their way into the knock out stages of Champions League after such difficult campaign as they confirmed their passage after grabbing an important win on the final group game against AS Roma.

When the game Sunday held a 2 - 1 scoreline indicating it was all but a lock for Team USA to get out of the group stage, the draw price for our 3rd fixture against Germany was nearly 4 - 1.

With the other game in Group A ending in a 3 - 1 win for Zurich, Gladbach now only need a draw against the Swiss side in the final group - stage game to progGroup A ending in a 3 - 1 win for Zurich, Gladbach now only need a draw against the Swiss side in the final group - stage game to proggroup - stage game to progress.

They will play their Group A games against the hosts Poland, Slovakia and Sweden at the Kolporter Arena in Kielce, and will be hoping to better their 2015 campaign during which they were unable to qualify from the group stGroup A games against the hosts Poland, Slovakia and Sweden at the Kolporter Arena in Kielce, and will be hoping to better their 2015 campaign during which they were unable to qualify from the group stgroup stages.

Their home record overall in Europe is fantastic as they have only lost one of their last 45 European home games since a loss against Hapoel Tel Aviv in the 2006/07 UEFA Cup group stage.

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

Liverpool make their return to the group stages of the Champions League with a chance to get a little bit of revenge against the side that beat them in the Europa League finals in Jürgen Klopp's first year at Anfield, and we've got the preview and team news, ways to watch, live coverage, and reactions for Wednesday's game.

Juventus might be good enough to do that in the group stage against teams we know they're better than because there's almost always going to be a next game to make up for it.

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.

The present champs of Europe made the trip to Signal Iduna Park on Tuesday night, as they faced off against Borussia Dortmund in the second game of the group stages of their new Champions League campaign, in which Real Madrid will be eager at retaining the title.

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.

The former Rangers defender has said that he will approach the game against the reigning champions like he did in the group stage that saw his team beat Argentina and draw with Mexico.

He's still the Netherlands top World Cup scorer with seven World Cup goals, and three of those came in the final group stages (no knock out games in either tournament), against Argentina in 1974 and a brace against Austria in 1978

Liverpool succumbed a 2 - 1 lead in the second - half to throw two points away against Sevilla in their first game of the Champions League group stages.

2011: Sent off after a petulant kick during England game against Montenegro in the 2012 Euro qualifying group stages.

Having to face Bayern Munich in the group stage for the second time in three years was unfortunate to say the least, but extremely shaky performances in both games against Roma and CSKA Moscow highlighted the need for an abrupt shake - up of operations at the Etihad.