Sentences with phrase «group stage game for»

The Citizens were in impressive form in the group stage, winning their first five group stage games for losing a meaningless affair out at FC Shakhtar Donetsk on matchday six.

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The game was later resumed, and although Palestino lost 2 - 1 on the night, they managed to qualify for the group stage of the Copa Libertadores after progressing on away goals following a 2 - 2 aggregate draw.
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However, a 25 - year old soon - to - be San Antonio Spur named Manu Ginobili led his Argentine squad to an 87 - 80 upset in the group stage of the tournament, snapping a 58 - game winning streak for the Americans.
«It has happened in the group stage sometimes that we have rested players to prepare for the next Premier League game.
It is not really going too far to say that Arsenal v Galatasaray on Wednesday night is a must win game for the Gunners, at least if we are to keep our hopes alive of actually winning our UCL group this time and avoiding the likes of Bayern Munich and Barcelona in the first knockout stage.
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.
The guy kept our season afloat for the first 4 months with his goals, scored the goal to secure UCL group stages, scored both semi-final goals to take us to FA cup final, is the club's top scorer, has been involved in more goals + assists than anyone in the PL, scored more goals than the media's fave Costa from a deeper, wider position, plays every second of every game as if it was his last, is always smiling, helped instill a hungrier work ethic in the team — all in a first season.
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.
Just when it looks like Arsenal have caught a break for a change, like when PSG messed up their final game in the Champions League group stage to let Arsenal steal in and finish on top, lady luck remembers that Arsene Wenger is on her hit list and she strikes back, such as giving us the German champions Bayern Munich as a reward for topping the group.
The Gunners go into the match needing just one point from their remaining two matches to confirm top spot in Group H to cement their place as one of the top seeds in the knock - out stages of the competition, while a loss for our opponents could well see them closed out of the top two spots, but at least Cologne will have the wish to win the game to give them a chance of reaching the next stage of the competition, while Arsenal are already guaranteed progression.
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.
There's no guarantee that even finishing 1st in the group stage we will advance unless we focus for the whole game.
A lot will still depend on what happens with Arsenal when the final draw is made for the Champions League group stages on August 29th, but looking at how the Premier League games fall for the Gunners around and about the dates of our UCL group games, we could have a problem on our hands, Houston.
Okay Arsenal fans, I may be jumping the gun here, because the draw for the Champions League group stage games has not been made yet.
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.
A successful ’02 World Cup provided some hope for ’06 but the US lost 2 games and drew 1, failing to advance beyond the group stage.
We should pick up 3points but considering the way we are playing, injuries and thinking we should be clear at the top of the league, i wont get my hopes up because as of last weeks defeat and our last few games i do nt see us as contenders this season... its a fight for 3rd again for automatic spot i group stage of CL.
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!
But as much as our fringe players have succeeded in getting us this far, as well as past the group stage of the Europa League you do feel the likes of Giroud and Walcott have not taken on the initiative like they should for this game.
Italy's game may have been hindered by the Three Lions» insistence on hunkering down and playing for penalties, but the azzurri played far better than they had in the group stages.
we should have lost the game i really pity newcastle.if this goes on we will surely lose 8 0to chelsea 5 0to manure 9 0 to man city 5 0 to looserpool and for the first time ever we shall recieve a hefty beating from bayern 12 0 no top 4 this time round no progressing to the group stage of champions league only sanchez cech and coquelin have passion in the team the rest should just kindly leave
If Cavani had brought his shooting boots to the game a couple of weeks ago our Champions League group would be looking a lot worse and we would be on course for the same old, same old, finishing second and getting knocked out at the first knockout stage.
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.
Arsene Wenger has made wholesale changes, six in total, to the Arsenal starting line up for the opening game in the Champions League group stage.
Why are we keep talking about Europa League Arsenal are way better than just Europa League for cry out loud we still have the chance to go through our group stage we have 2 more games to play if we beat our 2 remaining of games which i believe we'll, then we'll still go through even though there is a lot of injuries in the team right now but we still have a good squad to beat any of those 2 team let's under the fact that Arsenal made mistakes on their first 2 games & of course our 4th game to bayern but they ain't s ** t
As Arsenal prepare for the fourth Champions League group game away to the Bulgarian champions Ludogorets Razgrad, we look poised on the brink of all but securing a place in the next round and hopefully winning the group to make that knockout stage earlier.
Before thinking about betting on a group winner, you'll want to know the fixtures for the group stages — if a team you want to bet on has a tough first game, you may want to wait until the first match is over or bet the first match individually.
He was a key figure for Spartak Moscow in their 1995 Champions League campaign, when they won all six group - stage games, and later won three league titles in Austria with Tirol Innsbruck before ending his playing career back at Spartak.
Things didn't get any better for the Reus household as Dortmund fell to a 3 - 1 defeat to Tottenham in their opening Champions League group stage game.
In the summer of 2008, Tadić was the youngest player named in the Serbia squad for the 2008 Olympics, starting his country's first game and appearing as a substitute in the other two as his country went out in the group stage.
Its a big game for Jose Mourinho and his men still have not qualified for knockout stages however sit comfortably with 12 points and even with a defeat they can make it to the knockout stages as group winners so we can expect Mourinho to start with some fringe players and we might see Ibrahimovic and Rashford starting upfront with Fellaini, Pogba and Mkhytaryan playing central midfield roles.
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.
Having already qualified for knockout stages as the group winners there is not much to play for City in this game and considering they play United on the weekend we -LSB-...]
Having already qualified for knockout stages as the group winners there is not much to play for City in this game and considering they play United on the weekend we can expect Guardiola to rest several key players.
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.
As Super Slav sat down to select his team and squad to face Romanian champions Astra Giurgiu, he was fully aware of the delicate balancing act needed to win the game and hence qualify for the Europa League group stage, whilst at the same time not compromising his team selection for the difficult away Premier League game at Manchester City on Sunday.
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.
This time it is for a place in the group stage of the Europa League which will mean an additional six Thursday games between now and the end of the year if we overcome them successfully.
It would not have been the end of the world for Arsenal given that there are still two more games left in the group stages, but it would have put them in a panicking mode going into the last two games.
After Liverpool initially led in that game, Moreno bore the brunt of the criticism for a second - half capitulation that cost Klopp a trophy in his first season and, maybe more importantly, instant entry into the group stages of the Champions League.
For an example, check out the Juve game @ Lech Poznan in the snow during the group stage of this year's Europa League.
In his absence, Liverpool have taken four points from their two league games and qualified for the group stages of the Champions League with a 6 - 3 aggregate win over Hoffenheim.
Ludogorets Razgrad, only founded in 2001, dramatically beat Steaua Bucharest on penalties in the last game of the play - off round to finish and so booked their place in the group stages for the first time.
Citizens failed to qualify for the knockout round stages of the competition and finished bottom of the group last season without even winning a single game.
«For me it is probably the stand - out game in the group stages, but there is no pressure on us because they believe they can beat us.
The thrashing leaves deposed champions Monaco four points ahead of Lyon and Marseille in second place, which brings qualification for the group stages of the Champions League, with five games left.
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.
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