Sentences with phrase «headed goals in the league»

Though he only had two headed goals in the league, he was still an extremely effective box threat from crosses often choosing to bring the ball down with his chest whilst holding off grown men who suddenly mirrored Kevin Hart trying to guard against an NBA center.

Liverpool have been vulnerable from set - pieces this season, conceding seven headed goals in the league.

Not exact matches

The Magpies head into the international break in third place in the Premier League table after an 11 - game undefeated opening to the campaign which has seen them concede just eight goals.

Arsenal have allowed 11 headed goals this season 2nd most in the League behind Burnley's 14.

@ juhislihis, Head to Head is far more superior than goal difference in the champions league.

As a result, it would surely require a player to head out first to make space for Werner, but having spent so heavily on their attack, it's only logical that they address their issues at the other end of the pitch given that they possess the worst defensive record of the top seven Premier League sides this season having conceded 36 goals in 27 games.

That's right, De Gea's save was so good that it made this established Premier League striker stop in his tracks as he thought he'd headed in a certain goal against United.

The 6ft 5in striker heads into the tournament off the back of his best ever season; a season in which he contributed 29 goals in all competitions and helped guide Athletic Bilbao to the finals of both the UEFA Europa League and the Copa del Rey.

Chelsea have scored the joint-most headed goals in Champions League this season alongside Bayer Leverkusen (four).

Only 4 players in the top 5 leagues in europe scored 5 + goals each with the left foot, right foot and with the head...... Aubameyang, belotti, lukaku and cavani

According to stats from WhoScored, Morata's fifth headed goal of the campaign is now more than any other player in Europe's big five leagues of England, Spain, Germany, Italy and France.

Although much was made of Arsenal's zonal marking system in the aftermath of a goal conceded from a set piece against Manchester City, the reality is that both Premier League goals against the North London club this season have been the result of goalkeeping errors; Wojciech Szcz?sny fumbled a cross against Southampton and against City, Vito Mannone raced off his line only to get nowhere near David Silva's corner, allowing Lescott to head home.

Fletcher may have scored more headed goals than anyone else in the Premier League last season but is he really worth the same as Santi Cazorla or ten Michus?

As we head into the latter stages of the Premier League season with a title race yet to be completely decided, and a relegation battle ready to go right down to the wire, managers will be calling upon the fittest players in their respective squads to help them achieve their particular goal.

Olivier at the moment is the best at getting a goal from his head in the league.

Arsenal have a handy two goal advantage as they head into their home tie with Italian giants AC Milan in the second leg of their Europa League clash (KO Thursday 18th March, 20:05).

We can complain too much about the clinical side of the game from Arsenal this weekend, as the equalising goal headed in by Olivier Giroud just before injury time came from our one and only shot on target from the Premier League away game against Manchester United.

Stats to know; - only 4 players in the top 5 leagues in europe last season scored goals 5 or more goals only with their left foot, right foot and head... PEA, cavani, lukaku and belotti.Considering psg buying mbappe will certainly make 2 of those players available in the transfer window

Rested on Tuesday night was Alvaro Morata who after just four matches is halfway to matching the best tally of headed Premier League goals ever registered in a single season by a Chelsea player.

In total, he started just 13 Premier League games for Spurs, including last season's North London Derby at the Emirates Stadium, where he scored a headed own goal.

As well as being the leading scorer of headed goals in Europe's top five leagues this season, Morata has already matched Diego Costa's total tally of headers in his time at Chelsea.

on second note just found out squaka stats saying giroud is the deadliest striker in the prenier league with a goal every 88 mins better than aguero n others.plus since joining the gooners he has had the maximum number of headed goals to his name since.

No one can link up play, win possessions from goal kicks, score better with their head (too bad we don't lob the ball over the top every game, not in our philosophy I guess) and defend set pieces in the league than OG.

Sergio Aguero demonstrated why he one of the league's most in - form strikers as he beautifully rose to head home Manchester City's second goal against Watford on Saturday.

Jon Walters scored an unfortunate brace of headed own goals and missed a late penalty as Chelsea won 4 - 0 at Stoke City to reclaim third place in the Premier League on Saturday.

The Merseyside giants headed into Thursday evening's Europa League semi-final with a one - goal deficit, having fallen to the Yellow Submarine at El Madrigal in the first leg.

United appeared to be heading to a penalty shootout with Anderlecht in the Europa League, and desperately needed to find a goal from somewhere.

Dwight Yorke (Aston Villa, Man United, Blackburn, Birmingham, Sunderland)-- 38 headed goals in Premier League

However, ask a City supporter and they would tell you that the game is up there with the self - styled «biggest - ever derby» — when Vincent Kompany's headed goal sealed a 1 - 0 victory in April 2012 and put City in pole position to win their first league title in 44 years less than two weeks later.

Toronto is still head and shoulders above any other team in MLS and they proved it earlier this week when they stood their ground vs Tigres UANL in the first leg of a CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinal tie, winning the fixture with a late goal to get them across the line 2 - 1.

Since joining the Piedmontese outfit in January Puscas has scored 5 goals in 5 games, including a hat - trick against Cittadella in Domenico Di Carlo's first game in charge as head coach (see the video below), and generally given them the penalty box presence that they were so desperately lacking during the first half of the season (Novara don't have the league's worst home record by chance).

Manchester United head into tomorrow's fixture with Sunderland on a run of five straight League wins in which they haven't conceded a goal.

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They head into the clash at Carrow Road level on points in the league with Ipswich just a place above the Canaries on goal difference.

The tall forward has, like Sulu, scored 6 headed goals - the joint second-most in Europe's top five leagues this season.

Napoli head into the clash against Empoli on the back of 5 successive wins in the league which have seen them plunder 17 goals past opposition defences.

This is probably the best situation all round, Costa is the closest thing to a guaranteed 20 goals a season as you can get in the Premier League and he needs to be playing heading into a World Cup year.

The Portuguese winger has already scored 23 times in all competitions this campaign for the reigning Premier League champions and heads the top - flight scoring table with 17 goals.

Antonio Rudiger headed the opener inside three minutes before Danny Drinkwater struck his first Chelsea goal with an outstanding half - volley, and when Pedro added a third halfway through the first half, three points against a Stoke side who have not won at Stamford Bridge since winning promotion to the Premier League in 2008 were secure.

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The striker now has the most headed goals of any one in the Premier League this term, and the Chelsea man should take confidence from his strike against Spurs.

The Gunners had been trailing 2 - 0 after Philippe Coutinho scored his first headed league goal in England before Mohamed Salah added a second early in the second half with a deflected strike.

Interestingly, we have already equalled the total number of headed goals we scored in the Premier League during the whole of last season and, by this stage, we hadn't scored a single headed leagueLeague during the whole of last season and, by this stage, we hadn't scored a single headed leagueleague goal.

Looking further back, in 2015/16 we only scored a total of six headed league goals and during the title - winning campaign of 2014/15 we netted 10 headers, the joint - fifth highest in the division.

Since the start of the 2015 - 16 season, Arsenal have scored more headed goals in the Premier League than any other team (35)

He was allowed to track the ball and head it unchallenged, with Petr Cech conceding his 27th league goal against Liverpool - more than he has let in against any other opponent.

The hosts themselves have not been potent in front of goal with Salomon Rondon up front and perhaps Petr Cech can keep his 200th Premier League clean sheet as a result before we head into 2018.

Tottenham's clash with Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League at Wembley tonight will see two of Europe's most prolific goal scorers go head to head.

The France striker rose to head Alexis» cross past Fraser Forster and take his tally of goals as a substitute to 17 in the Premier League.