Sentences with phrase «home games at the weekend»

Both also won important home games at the weekend.

Not exact matches

Looking at the Toronto Blue Jays this season, the team has seen the highest attendance tally for its first three home games since 1994 — the year after the Jays won their second World Series (not counting years with weekend games, because they always draw larger crowds).

After work and on the weekends, he scoped out the clearance aisles at Walmart, scanned a few items using Amazon's app and bought up toys, games, and home improvement items he realized he could re-sell for a profit.

Sunderland won 3 - 0 last weekend away to fellow relegation - threatened Norwich City, in what was a must - win game, and they will be keen to replicate that performance this weekend at home, and their manager has already confirmed he will be setting his team up in the same way.

Arsenal have a massive week ahead starting with today's FA Cup match at home to Watford, followed by our trip to Barcelona in midweek, and then a massive game away at Everton in the League next weekend.

That being said, I think he'll pick a weakened team Thursday night, given we're at home, our opponent is very poor, and we have a massive game at the weekend.

The North - East side are now tenth in the table but still only nine points from the drop zone so O'Neill will not be getting complacent and though he saw Frazier Campbell make a successful comeback on the weekend, scoring at home to Middlesbrough in his first game in over a year, Sunderland could still do with more attacking options.

His team earned a break in their schedule with a home slate of games at the end of January and a weekend off, but they still had team activities.

«United have only lost one game at home this season so the magnitude of the task is still there, but we are certainly better going into it for the result of last weekend.»

Beat MD soundly to start the season... same for Tulsa... win at home two hard games to USC and TCU (we might lose the TCU game after an excessive high from USC, if we lose to TCU we bounce back and beat K St, if we beat TCU we read or press clipping an get a L handed to us in Manhattan)... we lose to OU, ugh, I hope I am wrong... and then finish strong with close games at Stillwater and Lubbock that are W's... and lay the wood to Baylor, ISU and put up a huge payback whomping on KU Thanksgiving weekend in Lawrence (which seems odd for UT to play outside of Texas that weekend.)

But we should not write this game off just yet as Everton are still in poor form in the Premier League, only just managing to snatch a point off Leicester at home last weekend.

Playing them in the first leg as well as at Everton would leave them knackered by the time we play the home leg, not to mention the Leicester game on that weekend.

With Liverpool losing 1:2 at home against Palace this is a fine weekend for us, but we need to keep our heads cool and just focus on the next game.

Manchester United return to Premier League action this weekend, after an international break, and will face struggling Aston Villa at Old Trafford, before a home game against bitter city rivals Manchester City, who they are only two points behind in the table.

Norwich Away this weekend — then a weeks rest until next game v Sunderland at Home.

Stoke City at home before our first European game is not bad at all but travelling to Chelsea that weekend is about as bad as we could have wished, so obviously we could do with the Champions League throwing up one of our easier opponents for that matchday.

If Arsenal do as we expect them to this weekend and run out as winners of the home game against a struggling Southampton side getting used to their new manager Claude Puel, while he gets used to the English Premier League for the first time, then we will be heading into the next round of matches a bit closer to at least one of our big spending Premier League rivals.

Another reason though is to err on the side of caution with our best defender as there are bigger and more important games ahead, such as the FA cup semi-final with Reading at Wembley next weekend and the crucial home clash with Chelsea the following week.

St. team on a short week & dropped 9 spots - SEC teams get blown out & lose 5 spots - Big10 teams play a close game like Penn St. / Ohio St. last weekend & lose 2 spots - ACC teams beat 1 - 7 teams (MIA vs. UNC last weekend) by 5 points at home & move up 5 spots

«I love football and I love to sit at home with Sid watching all the weekend games on TV,» Esther Gillman says.

It's away to Bournemouth at the weekend and then Leicester at home and if we win both of those games we will be no worse than two points behind the Foxes.

The Frenchman is once again under pressure after only one game of the season, after succumbing to an opening weekend loss to Liverpool at home, conceding a huge four goals.

Arsenal are currently in 5th place in the Premier League after unbelievably losing to Man United at home this weekend, and it has been great to see the teams in Champions League having tough midweek games today and tomorrow.

Clemson has a tough game at NC State this weekend followed by a home matchup against struggling FSU before finishing the year with Citadel and South Carolina.

Naturally, there are examples which argue the opposite, as seen in the recent win at home against Liverpool, but McMahon wants to see the Red Devils play a more attacking game against City this weekend, in a game in which their rivals could land the Premier League title with a win.

They should be able to handle Wake Forest at home and a slightly improving N.C. State squad on the road, and lord knows they are playing fading Georgia Tech at the right time (this weekend), but even if they continue their coast - then - surge balancing act through those games, they still have to get by South Carolina in Columbia (seven percent) and potentially Virginia Tech again (32 percent) in the conference title game.

Swansea City look to build on their rousing victory at Crystal Palace when they take on Arsenal in Paul Clement's first home game as head coach this weekend.

After that we can easily say that we want Tottenham to lose or drop points at home to Southampton and for Man United to do the same away to Middlesborough, but the final game of the weekend is a trickier one to call as it sees the two sides directly above us take on each other.

Even though Arsene Wenger made a complete change to the Arsenal starting line from the weekend draw away to Chelsea in the Premier League, he was still not willing to take too many chances in this Carabao cup game at home to Doncaster, so the visitors were facing a strong Gunners side including Walcott, Giroud and Alexis Sanchez up front.

A great weekend for Mauricio Pochettino's side as they knock off Manchester United at home while their two rivals lose difficult away games against teams who also need the points, for different reasons.

Newcastle are at Southampton next weekend then have consecutive home games against Swansea and Man City.

Even though Alexis Sanchez has just returned to north London after an energy sapping return trip to South America where he played one home game for Chile and the other World Cup qualifier in Bolivia, you would expect Arsene Wenger top make the striker one of the first names on the team list to face AFC Bournemouth at the Emirates stadium this weekend.

New York is 2 - 6 in its last eight games, including an embarrassing sweep at home against the lowly Atlanta Braves last weekend, mustering up only four runs of offense in three games.

They won their opening game of the season last weekend, beating Brentford 1 - 0 at home, although this trip up north is completely different and will really test them.

Our Premier League game this weekend at home to Southampton, for instance, is one in which you would expect us to dominate the ball and be faced with a determined and deep lying defence, so it may not be suited to the Spaniard.

Sportsbooks» betting %'s around the market are a little thin this weekend due to so many games in a small time frame (3 in 7 days for most teams), but right now the public is fairly heavy on Middlesbrough +142 at home vs. Burnley.

If Henry did help to inspire the brilliant Arsenal performance, hopefully it will continue and our next game on Sky Sports, at home to Aston Villa next weekend, should be an easy win if it does.

The home side should have some confidence after a strong (but losing) performance at Man City last weekend, and the visitors had to play a Champions League game against Atletico Madrid on Tuesday night.

They'll have a big test this weekend at home against the Packers in what should be the most popular game of the week.

off topic guys but i hope we get to see rosicky play his final game at home on the weekend even if its for a few minutes as a sub for his loyalty to our great club, gutted he did nt fulfill his potential with us and we can only wish him the best in his next chapter of his career, gunner for life and the next..

There is still a lot of anger among some Arsenal fans, even though the planned protest against Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal board at the home game against Norwich City last weekend seemed to show more support for the beleaguered boss than a united determination to see him replaced as manager.

Troyes enter the fray on the back of an eight - game winless streak in Ligue 1, including a 2 - 3 home loss at the hands of Marseille last weekend.

They get a home game against a Burnley side who finally managed to snap their long winless streak of form with success at Turf Moor over Everton last weekend.

The Clarets collected a 2 - 1 home win over Everton last weekend and that finally snapped their winless streak which was at eleven games.

Eight points in the first four games of 2017 meant another upturn in league position, but their defeat on 4 February at home to West Brom, and our win at Southampton that weekend, meant that we sat in 9th place in the table, two points clear of them in 11th.

No changes have been made to the Chick - fil - A Kickoff Classic games scheduled for MBS over Labor Day weekend or Atlanta United's scheduled home match at MBS with FC Dallas on September 9.

They were undefeated in two La Liga games prior to their 2 - 3 home loss against Deportivo La Coruna at the weekend.

The current United star only has one game left until he turns 20 — at home to Tottenham Hotspur next weekend.

Games against Barcelona at home, which will be an easier prospect for Valencia as Lucho may decide to rest his whole first team, and a home game against fellow strugglers Espanyol at the weekend will surely give him some breathing space if he manages at least to put a performance in against Barca and a win against Espanyol.

Burnley have been fantastic on home soil this season having gone W11 D2 L3 across all competitions and if you break that down to just their last eight games at Turf Moor, then their form reads W7 D1, with that draw happening against Chelsea in the Premier League last weekend.