Sentences with phrase «home advantage against»

Liberec will be eyeing a shock, and top spot in Group H, when they have home advantage against early leaders Sevilla.

The French side will attempt to revive their Group F campaign when they play with home advantage against Apoel Nicosia, while Eintracht Frankfurt play Maccabi Tel - Aviv in Germany.

Not exact matches

They also find themselves up against a new kind of competitor — nimble, focused, entrepreneurial enterprises, deeply embedded in their home markets, with significant cost advantages, ready access to local talent and often a hard - driving founder.

A Toronto reporter asked Harper, a Washington Nationals outfielder, whether he'd have a beer to celebrate a whopper of a home run and the Nationals» win against the Blue Jays, taking advantage of Ontario's lower drinking age.

It's worth noting that although home - field advantage has been historically overvalued by college football bettors, the exact opposite is true when betting against the public.

As we expected, this pattern of bettors overvaluing home field advantage is amplified in «must - win» games which creates value betting against these home teams.

We need a strong performance, and match their home - advantage intensity with our newfound good form against big teams.

Conte's men have a mountain to climb in their second leg against Barca at the Nou Camp, having drawn 1 - 1 at home to give the visitors the away goal advantage.

Arsenal are heavy favourite to beat Bournemouth, who despite having home advantage haven't had much success against the top 6 teams this season.

After our home victory against Leicester, they had two weeks without a fixture — Ranieri took advantage of their early elimination from the FA Cup and gave the players a week off training to get away and forget about football.

Antoine Griezmann missed a penalty early in the half — slamming his spotkick against the crossbar — but Atletico took advantage of Real's reshuffled right flank two minutes later, as Juanfran found some space out wide and sent in a lightning cross which was duly fired home by Carrasco — the game's outstanding individual during the second half.

In what will likely determine home - field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs, New England is listed as 2.5 - point road favorites against...

Liverpool already have home advantage and a nice easy cup draw against Exeter City, three divisions down and I would not be surprised if the TV dates went against us as well.

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?

So is Wenger right to really push to make the most of home advantage and risk a point in the hope of a morale boosting win against a big club?

So should Arsenal take advantage of their injury crisis and treat this game like a home tie against a weaker side and go for all out attack?

The Penguins will try to take advantage of their home ice in Monday's Stanley Cup Final opener against the Nashville Predators.

In this article, we focus on Betting Against the Public and Home field advantage.

We go into the game as odds - on favourites, and with home advantage you wouldn't back against that, but don't make the mistake of thinking they will give us an easy game, as they rarely do.

«We know that's what we've got coming; that's what we've got to try to find a way of trying to deal with and the only advantage we have is the fact that it is at home where our fans do give us enormous support and also they're sensible fans they realise that we have got a big job on our hands, they will be expecting us to give our all against Arsenal.

Arsenal need to be strong on positional play rather than being strong on challenges and play more like Germany with Monreal as Lahm and sanchez as goetz against Chelsea cause once arsenal get that advantage of home support at the start with small probing like isolation of matic and not fabregas cause he should be clumsy at certain uncertain stages for Chelsea and also Welbeck running at ivanovic

Our away fixture against Beskitas will provide an early opportunity to give it a try as their only chance in qualification is to use the home crowd and our jet - lag to their advantage and put in a convincing first - leg.

Excluding the Vikings and their home - field advantage, the Rams would be the biggest favorite of any other Super Bowl matchup at -8 against the Bills.

In what will likely determine home - field advantage throughout the AFC playoffs, New England is listed as 2.5 - point road favorites against Pittsburgh.

Texas might actually have a home - field advantage against USC!

Even with home - field advantage, the Indians are a +125 underdog in Game 1 sending Trevor Bauer to the mound against Rick Porcello and the Red Sox -LRB--135).

The Reds have looked sharp so far in pre-season, even beating Barcelona 4 - 0 only last weekend, but with home advantage, we should most definitely be taking all three points against our rivals.

Stuart McCall's Bradford are unbeaten at home all season, and have only conceded 17 goals in that time so will be looking to take an advantage into the away leg but they come up against a Fleetwood side who have the third best away record in the division.

Brighton, who have a very winnable home game against Wigan now have a four point advantage over Newcastle, and with only four games left, maximum points really are a must as Rafa Benitez's side travel to Portman Road.

There is a world where the Patriots fail to generate any pressure against a strong slate of opposing quarterbacks and the secondary is unable to cover for five seconds at a time, eventually costing them home - field advantage in the playoffs.

Just when it seemed things couldn't get any worse for Arsenal, who have been severely hit by injuries to the fulcrum of their team and made a totally unacceptable start to their season, Wenger's wizards failed to harness home advantage and pick up 3 points against a resurgent Hull City.

I see us getting an unassailable advantage at home against them, like in previous first legs in the knockout rounds.

Since opening, there's been a ton of public support for Toronto, which does make sense — they played an incredibly entertaining last match against Montreal to advance, and they also have home - field advantage in the title game.

When we raced into a three goal advantage at half time in our last home game against Southampton it got me thinking as to how many times we had been three goals ahead just half way through a game in the sixty years I have been following West Ham.

Home advantage meant little, you only had to see Leicester's result at the Etihad last week to realise that Arsenal were coming up against a team in top form playing with no fear whatsoever.

City found themselves 3 - 2 behind and staring down the barrel of a home defeat against the Ligue 1 leaders — but a brilliant last 20 minutes saw them score three times to head into the second leg with a two - goal advantage.

In our two most recent games we shared the spoils, with a comprehensive Southampton victory (3 - 0) at the London Stadium just a fortnight after we had thrown away a two goal advantage in the home game against Watford last September, the catalysts for early season discontent which saw us sitting in a relegation place at the time.

They collected a good point against Spurs at home last weekend, but having played most of the second half with a man advantage, they did disappoint in not taking the game by the scruff of the neck.

But they were terrible in the first half of their Boxing Day fixture against Everton, but the question is, really, can West Brom pull themselves up and out of their slump to take advantage at home?

The two German teams - Bayern and Dortmund were the only CL quarterfinalists hosting the first leg to lose, while Atleti and Juve both made home advantage count against Leicester and Barcelona respectively

LONDON — Mauricio Pochettino says Tottenham will not gain an advantage from playing Saturday's FA Cup semifinal against Manchester United at Wembley Stadium, their temporary home for the season.

They get home soil in this League Cup third round tie, but home advantage hasn't offered them many returns in recent games against the Citizens.

Bakambu doubled the advantage against Fabio Capello's side before Ji Xiang whipped home a free kick to give them some hope.

Despite, Spurs» inconsistency in league form, they have performed much better away from home, something that may be their advantage against City on Saturday, but with the home side unbeaten in the league all season it will be a tough ask of the visitors.

Mauricio Pochettino has insisted that his Tottenham Hotspur side will have no advantage against Manchester United by playing at Wembley — their temporary home — on Saturday for a place in the FA Cup final.

Elsewhere, Lazio edged a six - goal thriller 4 - 2 against Salzburg as all four home sides took an advantage into the second leg.

The home side, under the stewardship of Christian Gross for the first time at White Hart Lane, equalised shortly before half - time but we restored our advantage soon after the restart courtesy of a header from Roberto Di Matteo, a player who enjoyed scoring against Totttenham.

If you account for both teams being well rested, the team with home court advantage covers more than 60 % of the time against - the - spread!

In the match against Botafogo, home advantage played a crucial role in getting the three points.

The bianconero goalkeeper upset with Juve's inability to take advantage of Roma's home draw against Parma Juventus shotstopper Gigi Buffon...