Sentences with phrase «group stage of this tournament»

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.

Defensively, it was heartening to see the forwards and midfielders chock - a-block with burning energy to drop back, defend, and help out their defenders, which was crucial to Arsenal progressing through to the group stages of the tournament.

Arsene Wenger has never failed to make it past the first group stage of this tournament this millennium but faces his toughest task yet after seeing his side lose three of their opening four matches.

The 25 - year - old Barcelona forward was a key player for his country in the group stage of the tournament, as he helped them secure a runners - up spot in Group B — ahead of 2010 World Cup winners Spain.

Manchester United took Turkish side Fenerbahce in important Europa League game in the group stages of the tournament and it turned out to be another disaray United performance as they found themselves behind in just second minute with Moussa Sow scoring with incredible overhead kick to put Fenerbahce 1 - 0 in lead.

Not exact matches

With the group stages of the 2014 FIFA World Cup now having drawn to a close, a number of the countries who were fancied for a tilt at the trophy have been knocked out of one of the most unpredictable tournaments in living memory.

The United States women are through to the quarterfinals of the London 2012 Olympics women's soccer tournament, and will only need a draw in their final match of the group stage to win their group.

The tournament starts with the 12 teams divided into three groups of four for the preliminary stage.

The group stage of the 2014 World Cup concluded on Thursday and we now know the 16 teams that will battle it out in the knockout phase of the tournament.

Following a dramatic and exciting last day of group games at Euro 2016, we all have a few days without football before the serious business of the knockout stage begins, so I thought it might be worth a look back over the tournament so far, with a firm eye on how the various Arsenal players have done so far.

However, a repeat of the embarrassing exit without a win in the group stages of last year's World Cup is surely not about to be repeated, and there's every chance of a decent run for England in France next year in a tournament that could start the foundations for building something better for Roy Hodgson's side.

The Germans were also the only team in the tournament to win all three of their games in the group stage with wins over Portugal (1 - 0), the Netherlands (2 - 1) and Denmark (2 - 1).

Dzeko played for his national team at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, leading the line for Bosnia & Herzegovina, but he was unable to help them make it out of the group stage in their first ever major international tournament.

However he has since been ruled out for the rest of the tournament after being left injured during his country's second match of the group stage.

Despite the pursuit of early - stage geographical diversity, seeding, which has been around in one form or another for most of the tournament's history, has kept them apart in the group stage, and this strange double - helix - like relationship does the rest.

The Three Lions should be relieved to sidestep Portugal, who have knocked them out in the quarter - finals of two major tournaments since 2004, and also beat them in the group stage of Euro 2000.

The tournament takes a winter break following the completion of the group stage, so should remain relatively unaffected.

The Gunners have lost their first two games of the group stage this season, leaving them with a mountain to climb as they take on tournament favourites Bayern Munich next.

Prior to the start of the tournament, I picked out 9 futures in the group stage...

The Arsenal and Costa Rica international star Joel Campbell will have been disappointed in his nation's showing at the Copa America centenary tournament in the United States this summer, as the Costa Ricans failed to make it out of the group stage.

I've always been a bit of a hopeless romantic when it comes to England and major tournaments, constantly looking for any reason to be optimistic when a little voice in the back of my head is telling me not to bet on us qualifying from the group stages.

On the other hand, England's back - to - back defeats in the group stage coupled with Italy's shock loss to Costa Rica on Friday saw them get knocked out of the world's biggest tournament.

The surprise qualification of the tournament Panama head to Russia to face Belgium in the group stages of the 2018 Russia World Cup.

The Falconets were defeated by Germany in the finals of both the 2010 and the 2014 event, but will have the opportunity to gain a measure of revenge after being pitted alongside the European giants in the group stage of the next edition of the tournament, scheduled for August this year.

After limping out of the Champions League group stage in November, Spurs now have work to do next week at Wembley if they are to avoid an early exit from Europe's second tier tournament, too.

Nigeria are due to face Lionel Messi and Argentina, but with Iran and Bosnia making up their group they have a great chance of making it to the knockout stages of the tournament.

France, who take on Romania, Albania and Switzerland in the group stage of Euro 2016, will undoubtedly miss the talents of Benzema, with the player himself said to be devastated at missing out on the tournament.

The new black and orange kit, made by Joma, will be first worn when Valencia take on Malaga this weekend and will also be used in select Champions League (Valencia have progress to the knockout stages of the tournament from their group), Cup and domestic league games.

Cesc will start only the final group stage match (after Spain have secured going through), but will most likely be used as a super-sub for most of the tournament.

For the boys in green, who will make up the oldest squad in the tournament, escaping the «group of death» to reach the knockout stages would be a real achievement.

But it should put them close to reaching the knockout stages for the first time after finishing bottom of their group at tournaments in 1996, 2004 and 2008.

Germany have reached the knockout stage in every World Cup since 1982 whereas France, champions in 1998, went out in the group stage at two of the past three tournaments.

Their elimination means they have now crashed out of two African Cup tournaments following their failure to make it into the group stages of the CAF Champions League, which led to their demotion to the Confederation Cup.

This underlined by the two players» 2014 World Cups: while Xhaka went, played and scored in the group stage, Gundogan's back injury ruled him out of Germany's tournament win.

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To the disbelief of many, Russia exited the tournament, along with Poland, at the group stages.

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

Portugal has been underwhelming for majority of the tournament but they somehow managed to sneak into the finals after three lackluster draws in group stages, two penalty shoot out wins in round of 16 and quarterfinals followed by their performance against Wales.

Carvalho played all 90 minutes in the victory over Ghana and 45 minutes in the 2 - 2 draw with the USA as Portugal crashed out at the group stages of a major tournament for the first time since 2002.

We are able to determine the probabilities of each team in the eight groups to proceed to the next stage in the tournament, and, eventually, the two teams in the final,» explains Achim Zeileis.

This resource contains 16 templates for the 2018 World Cup tournament of the matches in the group stages, of 16, quarter finals, semi-finals, thir...

The 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia update lets players choose one of 32 qualified nations to live out their FIFA World Cup dream and write their own history from the group stage to the final in Moscow in Online Friendlies and Online Tournament modes.

Single Player has a world cup tournament consisting of a group stage, second round, quarter finals, semi finals and final.

With the wild card and group stage complete, the action will now move to teams having their tournament life on the line for real during main week of action, kicking off Monday August 8 at 10 AM PST and continuing all week leading to the grand finals on Saturday, August 13.