Sentences with phrase «home staging group»

Not exact matches

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All we need is a home win and any result that doesn't resemble the second leg against Bayern in the group stage and all will be fine.

Meanwhile, yesterday's loss at home to CSKA Moscow means they are likely to exit the Champions League at the group stages once again, continuing their poor record in this competition in recent years.

The group stage of the 2014/15 Champions League kicks off on Tuesday evening, with two English teams in action — Liverpool return to the competition with a home game against Bulgarian minnows Ludogorets Razgrad, whilst Arsenal face a tough trip to Borussia Dortmund.

It has come down to this, the easiest way to qualify for the champions league group stages is to draw both matches of the next 3 ties 1 - 1 away and 0 - 0 at home, then win the final on penalties.

The young forward may well have get a goal or two in the group stages and with home support could well help Poland go far.

Malaga will hope to continue an impressive unbeaten Champions home record this season to reach the quarters and repeat the victories over AC Milan and Zenit St Petersburg in the group stage.

United will be busy in the month of August as they begin the new season with a home game against Tottenham on the 8th and will also face a two - legged qualifier in order to reach the group stages of Europe's elite club competition.

Juventus» progress hadn't quite been so smooth: they'd lost away at Newcastle United in the first group stage, then qualified as runners - up in the second after losing at home to Deportivo la Coruna, and home and away against Manchester United.

Even then, Everton away is definitely one of the hardest games of the season and we Wenger will have to manage the team so that we can get the result against Everton as well as having enough energy to beat Besiktas at home to qualify for the group stages of the Champions League.

Sporting Cristal play Guarani in the final game of Group 8 in the Copa Libertadores on Tuesday night, with one of the two sides set to go through to the knock - out stages and the other set to go home.

Eliminated in the group stage of UCL (failing to beat lowly Qarabag home and away).

Chelsea could be playing away to Real Madrid on Wednesday for their group stage game, whilst we could be at home against some unheard of team on the Tuesday.

Answer me this: does a team that screwed up their CL group stage to finish 2nd, got embarrassed in the CL last 16, got sent packing in the Carling Cup at HOME, bottled 2nd place in the league with 4 games remaining, and finished 12 points behind the domestic champions have everything in place squadwise to compete on all fronts?

Everton look set for qualification from the group stages of the Europa League as they overwhelm Lille at Goodison Park, with some dreadful defending allowing Phil Jagielka to head home from the corner.

Look at the rugby team who were knocked out at home in the group stages who gave the Australians a guard of honour as they left the field.

Barcelona could only manage a 1 - 1 draw against Leverkusen and Roma, away from home and they only beat BATE 2 - 0 in their other away game in the group stages.

One could argue that overconfidence affected us last year as we lost out on top spot in the Group Stages thanks to throwing away a 3 - 0 lead at home to Anderlecht, and of course our depressing 3 - 1 defeat at home to Monaco when everyone was certain we were the hot favourites.

As if the challenge to get back into the top - four places or even win the title was not already daunting enough, the Premier League fixtures, which were revealed on Wednesday, has only added to the Frenchman's woes with five of their six matches directly after Europa League group stage fixtures away from home.

While Zagreb are at home and are totally dominant in the Croatian league, they have a terrible recent UCL record; earning just a single point from their last group stage and losing every single game the time before that.

Liverpool will be brimming with confidence in front of adoring home fans and excited about going into the group stage.

They suffered a heavy home loss against Manchester United in that group stage.

United's away from has been not the best this season and they have relied heavily on their home form so far while Sevilla also have had similar issues losing 8 away games in the league and failing to win any of their away matches in group stages.

A decade has passed since these sides last faced off in the Champions League, Liverpool winning 4 - 1 at home and drawing 1 - 1 away in the 2007 - 08 group stage.

Arsenal and CSKA Moscow were paired up in the 2006/07 UEFA Champions League group stage and it was the Russians who came out on top from those encounters, winning 1 - 0 at home and drawing 0 - 0 on the road.

Agudelo didn't earn much playing time and while Dwyer scored a few goals, he was sent home after the group stage.

Iker Casillas would only start one more game in the opening group stage game — a 4 - 1 win at home to Molde.

The following season Reina was handed his Champions League debut in a 1 - 0 win at home to Fenerbahçe in the group stage and would go on to play four games in the competition that season.

The giants from Munich are at home for the first leg on Wednesday and know that they will have to take a strong advantage for the away leg to progress to the group stage of Europe League competition.

At the home venue of Juventus, Barcelona could not win but still they have one match left in Champions league group stage but already secured their first position on the group and qualified for the round of last sixteen in UCL.

The group stage draw takes place in Monaco on Friday with the first two Europa league games scheduled for 15th and 29th September, which are prior to our weekend games away at West Brom and then home to Middlesbrough.

Despite the game sandwiched between our tame defeat at Chelsea and the opening home fixture with Bournemouth it is expected that the Hammers will field a strong side in order to secure Europa League group stage qualification.

UEFA Champions League (group stage to final only) • Biggest home win 7 - 0: Arsenal v SK Slavia Praha (see above for details)

Bayern Minich club chairman Rummenigge is wary of taking the Swiss side lightly on home soil as Bayern chase a place in the lucrative Champions league group stage.

Records UEFA club competition • Biggest home win 7 - 0: Arsenal v SK Slavia Praha 23/10/07, UEFA Champions League group stage

Benfica have picked up 13 victories from their last 15 European home games, posting five in succession at the Estádio Sport Lisboa e Benfica since their only home loss in that sequence — 2 - 1 against FC Schalke 04 in the 2010/11 UEFA Champions League group stage.

Drawing 1 - 1 away from home in the first leg, Roma looked confident in grabbing that group stage ticket, but they fell short after finding themselves finishing that match with...

We met them in the 2008/09 group stage, winning 1 - 0 at home and losing 3 - 1 in the Italian capital.

Rapid Vienna boosted their hopes of making the Europa League knockout stage as they won for the first time in Group G thanks to a 2 - 1 success at home to FC Thun.

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.

They have met Roma before, their previous meetings came in the 2008/09 group stage with Chelsea winning 1 - 0 at home and then losing 3 - 1 out at Stadio Olimpico.

On their first match of Group Stage match from Group L they beat German club Asugsburg by 3 - 1 goals at home.

Bayern will be strong favourites to progress against unfancied Besiktas — the group winners every other side secretly wanted to face — however Jupp Heynckes will warn against underestimating the Turkish champions who beat the second best side in Germany RB Leipzig home and away in the group stages.

• The first leg was Juve's joint heaviest home European defeat, equalling their 3 - 0 loss against Manchester United FC in the 2002/03 second group stage and the 4 - 1 defeat at home to Bayern on matchday six in 2009/10.

It is not likely to happen for them and they will probably go home after the group stage.

Roma's record at home to English clubs is W8 D3 L4 but they were on a three match winning streak at home against English opposition before they lost against Man City in the 2014/15 Group Stage.

Spurs should fear no - one after finishing the group stage with more points than anyone else and they are at home in the second leg, which is usually considered an advantage.

• Jürgen Klopp's side picked up seven points at home in this season's group stage, drawing 2 - 2 with Sevilla FC before a 3 - 0 scalp of NK Maribor.

Celtic make it into the Group Stages for the second season in a row while Kazakh's Karagandy must make the long journey home with nothing to show for it.

He then found the net in his maiden home European appearance (which was also his first start at Anfield), and in his first Champions League group - stage match too.