Sentences with phrase «home league defeat of»

Northampton gained a surprise 2 - 1 win at League One play - off contenders Bradford, condemning the Bantams to their seventh home league defeat of the season.

Not exact matches

CentureLink Field provides one of the most noticeable home advantage of any team in the league; it's incredibly loud (fans generated so much noise during Saturday's defeat of the New Orleans Saints that it caused a minor earthquake), making communication among players on the opposing teams virtually impossible.

Then in a month we went out to Watford at home in the FA Cup out in the last 16 of the ECL and have now snatched defeat from the jaws of victory in the league.

Aston Villa ended a run of seven consecutive Premier League defeats tonight with a 2 - 1 home win against Midlands rivals West Brom, but should Alan Hutton have been sent off after this shocking tackle on Saido Berahino?

The Red Devils were knocked out of the Champions League in a shock 2 - 1 home defeat to Sevilla this week, with Mourinho hardly responding well to the result.

Manchester City The reigning English champions, albeit a point ahead of Arsenal in the Premier League standings, endured a rather ignominious home defeat at the hands of Stoke City before the international break.

Defeat at home to Burnley in the Carling Cup was humiliating, while the Blues have been labouring in the Premier League since the turn of the new year.

The Potters have yet to win in the league this season, while it's been 40 years since they defeated United on the road as their rivals have won 15 of their last 16 home league meetings in all competitions.

It should be remembered that we beat Chelsea 3 - 0 at home back in September, but the contrast in fortunes following that game has been remarkable; the defeat ultimately galvanised Antonio Conte's side who went on to win thirteen league games in a row and ultimately run away with the title, while the Gunners let old habits bite them in the backside yet again as a very promising start to the campaign disintegrated after a number of poor performances and results.

If they avoid defeat they will equal their Premier League record of five home matches in a row without a loss, set in January - March 2007.

Arsenal were the favourites to win this season's Premier League before Sunday's 1 - 0 home defeat to Chelsea, which left Manchester City as the bookies» top tip, despite Leicester City leading the way with 15 rounds of fixtures left to play.

But we should have beaten Liverpool in the second leg.There was also no justification of that.We might as well lose all our matches against the big teams and justify on the basis of it being a match against a big team.I mean home and away defeats is just unacceptable.Champions must also find ways to possibly win all their matches against the big teams no matter which ever way it goes.This is because that can make all the difference in winning the league.

In fact there are at least three key men at the current league leaders Chelsea who still appear to be pretty wary of the Gunners, which is probably increased this week as Arsene Wenger prepares to take the team to Stamford Bridge looking for a repeat of the match against them at home, which saw Arsenal inflict their heaviest defeat of the season.

Real Madrid are in full and complete control of their Champions League quarterfinal tie with Juventus, having defeated the Italians in their home stadium, 3 - 0, giving Madrid a massive advantage heading back home to the Santiago Bernabeu.

Arsene Wenger's side might be in good scoring form at home at the moment, before and after the arrival of the former Dortmund stars, but their recent away Premier League form has been poor with two defeats and a draw, which has led to them losing ground on Spurs.

They take on the defending Premier League champions, Manchester City, at the Emirates, and would want to harness home advantage to impede Man City's ambitions of getting over their shock home defeat Stoke City this past Saturday.

That previous defeat was a time of real pressure on Arsene Wenger and the players as it left us below the spuds, having been knocked out of both domestic cups by Bradford and Blackburn and having lost at home to Bayern Munich in the Champions League.

Roma also failed to get out of their Champions League group and were then blasted out of the Europa League with a heavy home defeat to fellow Italian side Fiorentina.

Arsenal have lost just one of 18 Barclays Premier League home games against City (W11 D6 L1) and we've lost 22 times to them since 1992, our joint-most defeats to any opponent (along with Chelsea).

Schalke were hammered 3 - 0 at Nuremberg to drop down to fifth in the league and out of the Champions League places, having been dumped out of Europe's top domestic competition with a home defeat to Galatasaray on Tuleague and out of the Champions League places, having been dumped out of Europe's top domestic competition with a home defeat to Galatasaray on TuLeague places, having been dumped out of Europe's top domestic competition with a home defeat to Galatasaray on Tuesday.

The Red Devils dropped out of the Premier League top four yesterday after falling to a 2 - 1 home defeat to Norwich City, and are now six games without a win in all competitions.

They currently sit 16th in League Two and come into this game on the back of four straight defeats, three of them at home.

The manager has found his own position under scrutiny recently, with the Premier League champions five points adrift of pacesetters Chelsea and staring another last 16 exit at the hands of Barcelona in the face, after a 2 - 1 defeat in the home leg.

Los Blancos currently trail league leaders Barcelona by six points after 13 games, with their 4 - 0 home defeat to their rivals on November 21 setting them back and seemingly signalling the end of the road for Benitez.

But our next Premier League game, at home to the Southampton side that put four past us on Boxing Day, now takes on massive importance and I think we can say that another defeat in that will be a hammer blow to the chances of Arsenal being crowned champions in May.

The fact of the matter is that under wenger we have our worst Eurpoean deafeat FA cup defeat League defeat in the past century He has more losses in the CL than any other manager and our home record in Europe is disgusting.

It was also Liverpool's fourth defeat of the league campaign, following away games against Burnley (12th) and Bournemouth (14th), and a home loss to Swansea City (17th).

mikel, chamakh, squillaccy, giroud, podolski, park, n that guy who played for just five minutes of FA cup etc... No. 4 next season, an early exit in champions league, crappy defeats (at home to Swansea) no cup n of cos a NEW and IMPROVED CONTRACT for Mr WENGER up to 2030 are just but a few things i expect... n not forgetting a 1 yr old prodigy (next bergkamp)....

Following their 3 - 1 home defeat to Aston Villa on the opening day of the new Premier League season, is was evident that the Gunners need to strengthen defensively, especially in the case of injuries and suspensions, and have identified Juanfran as a potential cut - price addition.

Champions League runners - up to relegation dogfight in two years... With over half of the Bundesliga season having gone Borussia Dortmund sit bottom of the table following an embarrassing home defeat to 10 - man Augsburg.

Man United have lost eight of their 24 Premier League fixtures and crashed out of the FA Cup at the first hurdle, suffering a home defeat at the hands of Swansea City in round three.

Having defeated Man United and Chelsea in recent weeks David Moyes saw his side lose at White Hart Lane but may feel that this win at home to the Tigers could get their faint hopes of a Champions League spot back on track.

While Chelsea do own the distinction of being one of only a small handful of teams to beat Arsenal at all this season — they have not lost a single match at home in any competition since a 3 - 2 defeat against Olympiacos in the Champions League... back in September.

First up is the visit of City, who may still be reeling after the shock home defeat by Stoke City in their last Premier League outing, so a fast start by Arsenal at home is definitely the order of the day, while I am sure that former United man Welbeck will be extra keen to inflict more damage on his old enemies.

Arsenal scraped through to the next round of the Europa League in a humiliating home defeat to Ostersunds this evening but a 4 - 2 win on aggregate overall.

As if it was not bad enough that Arsenal lost our first game of the Premier League season yet again, and just like in our opening day defeat to West Ham last season it was a home game, we did so after dominating the first half and taking the lead against a lacklustre Liverpool side.

As usual Jon you make some good points but with all respect to Leeds, Villa and Forest, no way would Spurs spend the amount of time in the lower leagues [just one year] that those three have spent recently and I'm sure you remember that great Spurs side in their double year dropping their first point after 14 games to Man City and suffering their first defeat to Sheffield Wednesday by the odd goal in three on Boxing day and almost beating our 66 point record [2 points a win in those days] which stood from the glorious thirties thanks to a shock home defeat on the last day of the season by West Brom with their frightening forward line of Jones, White, Smith, Allen, and Dyson and to make things worse the following year the signing of Jimmy Greaves, and don't let anybody tell different without doubt the greatest striker the English game as ever seen.

CSKA dropped out of the Champions League despite winning three of their six group games and they were competitive away from home, beating Basel and Benfica 2 - 1 and taking the lead in a 2 - 1 defeat against Manchester United at Old Trafford.

Sunday's shock defeat at home to West Bromwich Albion handed the Premier League title to Manchester City, and the abject performances from some of his bigger players did not go unnoticed by the Man United boss.

They will be desperate to maintain a challenge that has seen them suffer just three league defeats this season, only one of which was at home, a 0 - 2 reversal against London Tigers way back in October last year.

It wasn't just that City beat Spurs, they demolished one of the best teams in the league, away from home, after a week in which their mental fortitude looked very shaky after two spirit - crushing defeats to Man United and Liverpool.

Manchester City have wrapped up the Premier League title with a month to spare, courtesy of Manchester United's shock home defeat to basement boys West Bromwich Albion on Sunday.

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.

But the Blues will go into this game — with a bit of concern after their momentum was brought to a crushing halt by a heavy defeat in the Champions League Quarter - final first leg away from home against Liverpool.

Les Girondins are now back in front of their own fans where they have suffered just one defeat in their last six home league fixtures.

Paris St Germain have been hit with a partial stadium closure for their next European home match as a result of crowd incidents during their Champions League defeat to Real Madrid this month.

Manchester City slipped to their first home defeat since December 2016 as Basel won the second leg of their Champions League last - 16 tie 2 - 1.

However, a home defeat overshadowed with a series of missed chances and poor officiating from Mike Dean consequently left the club devoid of the chance to obtain possession of the Barclays Premier League title.

A 6 - 0 reverse at home to Manchester City was an even heavier defeat than most other teams have suffered at the hands of the odds - on favourites for the Premier League title, and they will have been disappointed going down 1 - 0 to Stoke in their last home fixture.

Crystal Palace are coming into this game on the back of 3 - 1 defeat in the hands of Arsenal and they will fancy their chances at home against current league leaders City to get something out of this match.