Sentences with phrase «home against bottom»

So its pivotal they keep winning three points at home against bottom table teams.

Some match days will be tougher than others, there are even half - a-dozen where points are unlikely to fall their way, so when you see a fixture like this — Blackpool at home against bottom - of - the - league West Ham — you know the manager will be drilling it into his players just how significant a game this is.

The Red Devils slumped to another home embarrassment on Sunday, only managing a draw at home against bottom side Fulham.

When we're at home against the bottom twelve clubs I don't see him using this formation.

We barely where able to squeak out a win at home against a bottom of the barrel team Buffalo doesn't deserve to be anywhere but the bottom.

Not exact matches

Looking at the last two home games, against the bottom two teams in the western conference, only a point is won?

but its a bit sad to see that i as i know more about arsenal fans than other fans, to say from the bottom of my heart, that the fans on here are as worse as the worst if not the worst fans out there... arsenal being on a run, with özil scoring one of the best goals i have ever seen on tuesday, draws against the best defensive side in the league and no they arent stoke city or something they are SPURS equally title challenger as any of arsenal man city, man united, chelsea, liverpool, a team that sent man city home when they (city) looked unbeatable..

The Black Cats fought against relegation in 2012/13 and will be hoping to pick up some points against fellow bottom - half teams such as Fulham, Southampton and Crystal Palace in their opening three games, though they then face a tricky home game against Arsenal.

just to remind you that we are ARSENAL top 5 team in the world, why shouldn't we expect for more, lost to Monaco at home, ridiculous loss to the SPUDS, nail biting last minute games against bottom teams....

Serie A's bottom side cancel game on safety grounds.Just when it seemed it couldn't get much worse for Serie A club Parma, it now appears that the league's bottom side have been forced to cancel their upcoming home game against Udinese, reports The Mail.

Our record is so bad against top teams, especially away from home, that I wouldn't be surprised if teams at the bottom of the table have a better record than we do.

Home games against United and Arsenal lurk towards the end of the season — just in time for a heroic return from Kane, perhaps — but all of their remaining away games come against teams in the bottom half.

A home game against the bottom club in the Premier League, whose confidence must be lower than a snake's bellybutton, is just about the ideal opportunity for Jack to get closer to his scoring target.

this is the kind of win which is equally important as win against manu as all our rivals won today even chelski won courtesy brad guzan this shows the mental toughness which we r getting it could have easily been 1 - 0 at half time but players kept calm and in the end 3 pta came home.Now about match this game shows exactly the importance of having a player like giroud u just see the impact of giroud against bottom half teams so both giroud and wallcott are necessary depending on opponenets also ozil had a very good game glad that Rambo scores now come on u Bavarians just please home supporters please make arsenal a fortress like Highbury rest our players will se interesting times ahead

Well where are the similar stories about the magical Jose Mourinho's failure to make the mega money splashing Man United even top four contenders, or the untouchable Liverpool of Jurgen Klopp's capitulation against the bottom club Swansea (at home no less just a week after they were tonked by Arsenal on their own ground)?

Derby ended the 1989/90 season only three points (plus, obviously, goal difference) above the relegation zone, but throughout the season had won by two or more goals in eight of their nine home games against the rest of the bottom half, and so ended up safe with a goal difference of positive - 3.

Also the last thing we want is to give the spuds a boost in their own attempt to finish in the top four, with their next game against Liverpool at Anfield while we have a home tie with bottom of the tanle Leicester City.

Everton, under Allardyce, have only won four of their last 17 games and have succumbed to heavy losses against Arsenal and Tottenham, whilst also losing to the likes of Bournemouth, Watford and Burnley, as well as drawing 1 - 1 at home to rock bottom West Bromwich Albion.

A home game against bottom side Burnley should offer them a chance to get three points on the board you would imagine, but then again, the Clarets simply have to come out and throw the kitchen sink at this.

We have done very well against the bottom 10 teams and if not for some questionable officiating (e.g. Aston Villa at home and WBA and Stoke away) and injuries (Swansea at home and Stoke and Everton away), we might have done even better.

Watford have scored in each of their last nine home games in the league and should make value to get something on the board against the Baggies who are rock bottom of the league.

However they have been dropping points consistently at home against midtable / bottom table clubs and West Brom are no pushovers who will come to frustrate United.

Southampton have conceded just one goal in seven home games against bottom half opposition whilst scoring twenty at the other end.

Leicester are 10 -3-1 at home over this season and last against sides in the bottom half but Middlesbrough will be a tough nut to crack.

They couldn't hold on to a lead at home against Aston Villa last time out though, which will have been a frustration for boss Steve McClaren against the bottom side in the league.

So while the fact that Arsenal scored five goals away from home is impressive in itself, that it was against a side six points adrift at the bottom of the table takes some of the gloss of the victory.

The Swans are stuck in the bottom two of the table and snapped a four match losing streak with a 0 - 0 home draw against Bournemouth on the weekend.

Romanian outfit CFR Cluj debuted in the Champions» League group stage last season against AS Roma, defeating the Italians 2 - 1 at home; however, they ended up at the bottom of the table.

So far this season Chelsea have won all of their home games against sides from the bottom half of the table and again, the Blues were defensively sound with four clean sheets in those five.

Newcastle were frustrated in a home draw against bottom side Aston Villa on the weekend, but any point could prove valuable at the end of the season.

In the 2015 portion of the 2014 - 2015 season West Ham only won three league matches, all home games against sides struggling at the bottom of the division.

But against the bottom team at home, come on....

Yet, despite their current ninth place not being a complete disaster, their inconsistency plagues them and after conceding a late equaliser at home in a 1 - 1 draw against bottom club Anzhi in round 15, Kononov has been dismissed as manager.

They don't have the splashy wins against big - name opponents that Bournemouth does, but they've made a habit of winning at home and drawing on the road against the rest of the league, which should be more than enough to keep their heads above the bottom three.

Rovers currently occupy 18th place, the first of three relegation spots, but victory on Saturday at home to 17th placed Wigan Athletic would guarantee Blackburn's stint in the bottom three would be a brief one, while even a draw would stand them in good stead of escaping the drop zone, although victory is somewhat imperative considering fixtures as golden as this, against a team in close proximity and a fixture they would highly rate their chances in, don't come around too often.

Just three teams have accrued less points on their own patch than Rangers (10 from a possible 36; W2 D4 L6), who have won one − a 3 - 1 success against rock - bottom Wigan − and lost three of their last four at Loftus Road, where they were beaten 2 - 1 by Wolves in their last home game.

Those are three tough fixtures and Rovers did well to avoid defeat in all three, but all three were at home and while Blackburn are undefeated in their last two away ventures in the league, both of those away encounters were against the two sides right at the very bottom of the table in Burnley (0 - 1) and Portsmouth (0 - 0).

Just the words» second - from - bottom» would usually have those alarm bells ringing, though Wigan, despite having only West Ham below them in the table, can take a lot of heart from the fact that victory on Saturday, at home against fellow struggler's Fulham, has the potential to lift them as high as 14th in the table.

Osasuna are bottom of the table and have the worst home record in the league this season (1W, 6D) and just a marignally better away one (2W, 3D) going into this clash with Luis Enrique's side, who are coming off a morale boosting Clasico win against arch rivals Real Madrid.

The Tangerines, against all odds, find themselves in the healthy position of 10th, six point clear of the bottom three, and on Sunday, in front of the Sky Sports cameras, will go in search of their third home win of the season in front of a capacity Bloomfield Road crowd.

The Foxes have missed the boat a few times lately with three draws in their last four games, with each of those ties happening at home against sides in the bottom half of the table.

Goals have been the biggest problem area, failing to score at the weekend away at Wigan, when losing 1 - 0, while the two they crated and converted at West Ham are nothing to write home about; a pently and a defensive error against the side rooted to the bottom of the table.

The majority of their wins this season have come against all the odds, so on the one rare occasion where they are outright favourites to win a Premier League encounter, the word typical would instantly spring to mind were they slip - up in what on paper looks a straightforward home match - up with second from bottom and winless on the road Birmingham City.

The fixtures computer should come up with an end result such that in each half of the season we play roughly half of our home games against teams that finished in the top half in the previous season, and half against teams from the bottom half.

He was our only winner in the bottom tier of the Football League as Jamal Blackman and Alex Kiwomya were on the wrong end of 2 - 0 scorelines for Wycombe Wanderers and Crewe Alexandra respectively, and Alex Davey couldn't prevent Crawley Town slipping to their first defeat of the season, 3 - 1 at home against Notts County.

Jose Mourinho's United team had needed to win against West Brom to keep the title race alive but surprisingly lost at home as Jay Rodriguez's header gave the league's bottom side a 1 - 0 win at Old Trafford.

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