Sentences with phrase «home team defence»

However, the home team defence remained strong and following a critical clearance on the line, the full time whistle blew, leaving the home side elated.

The resolute nature of the home teams defence also makes me want to avoid the goal markets.

Not exact matches

As Arsenal are at home the onus will be on us to try and break down the Chelsea defence, and I am sure that Mourinho will set his team up to soak up the pressure as they did against Man United last weekend.

But no one care to mention it is one of the best performance in defence — rather giving credits to Sunderland as the worst team in the league (fact is they never lose a single home game this season before this match).

The line up will have a pretty comical defence but you still expect us to do well considering it's a weaker team at home we're playing against.

I think it may well have done because not only did Flamini score two good goals, he also made some big tackles and worked tirelessly to stop the home team over running our defence.

Arsenal are the holders and should put up a rugged defence of our trophy, and as we are playing the Hull team that gave us a run for our money at Wembley last May, we can not expect an easy game even though we are now the home side.

Brilliant defence by both teams then led to the draw, but Oxford's solid earlier performance put them far enough ahead of the other teams to bring home the trophy.

Partnering Hummels in our team is the Brazilian captain and the only one of their back four who has shown any real consistency in defence at the tournament in his home country.

Viewers back home have rarely enjoyed watching any of their European exports as much as Son, but the sight of the rapier - like forward slashing through defences in England and Europe presents a double - edged sword for Shin Tae - Yong, head coach of the South Korea national team.

Even with my concerns over the Reds defence give me the home team to win and cover.

Negatives: The one problem Loko have had this season is struggling at home against teams that will sit deep in defence and thus nullify their deadly execution and efficiency of their counter-attacking game, emphasised in their shock defeats to Tosno, Amkar and most disappointingly Sheriff Tiraspol in the Europa League.

They're a team with the capacity to score goals on the road, with only Man City and Sunderland, two of the league's strongest defences on home soil, having kept United at bay for the full 90 minutes, while defensively, even though they have shipped double figures (12), United remain one of the strongest rearguards to break down, with Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic a rock - solid and reliable centre - back partnership.

Similarly to the Chinese Super League team, the only home nation players involved in the game came in defence with Nik Rimando in goal supported by central defensive duo Matt Besler and Chad Marshall.

The home team could have scored when, after playing the ball out of defence, Green fed Conor Hourihane but the shot was bravely blocked by Yoann Barbet.

Ominously, though, United must beat the worst team in the top flight, Blackburn, the side with the second-most porous defence, by a minimum of five goals if they're to enhance their claims of ending the first day of 2012 atop of the Premier League − as Man City are expected to take home maximum points from their trip to Sunderland on New Year's Day.

Striker Ibrahimovic was clearly ahead of the home team's defence with 12 minutes to play but there was no flag and he gladly lashed the ball home.

Jones for many years doesn't play five matches in a row and Rojo last season was left - back, on the bench and at home and in this moment he's had five consecutive matches also playing central defence, so we had phenomenal performances and a very good solid performance as a team.»

Home win but both teams to score because neither defence is great at the moment.

Santi Cazorla was excellent, while Mesut Ozil helped Arsenal create pockets of space around the edge of the box when it was regularly crowded by the deep midfield and defence of the home team.

The United team had a familiar look to it apart from the inclusion of Paddy McNair who was given the chance to shine again in defence, which meant that there was no starting place for Ander Herrera who had performed well in the last two home games.

Ipswich have collected a clean sheet in 47 % of their home games this season but their defence isn't at the races at the moment and they are facing a really in - form team too.

No team has shipped fewer goals at home than Sunderland this season (7), a shared honour I may add with the likes of Manchester United and Chelsea, a statistic which underlines how tirelessly Steve Bruce has worked over the last 18 - months in transforming a Sunderland defence which used to roll over for opponents on a regular basis.

So 3 - 2, and for a few seconds I still felt confident we would pick up 3 points but the defence just continued to capitulate and we witnessed a complete turnaround by the home team against a side of superstars.

The fans were audibly frustrated at their team's poor form and the home defence was exposed horribly by Hector Bellerin's well - flighted pass for Iwobi's goal.

1980 Joins Treasury after studying at Oxford University and the College of Europe in Bruges 1989 Joins the cabinet of Sir Leon Brittan, European commissioner 1993 Returns to Treasury as an assistant secretary to the Defence Team 1995 Sojourn at French Finance Ministry as chargé de mission direction de trésor 1997 After a year back in the Treasury, moves to Cabinet Office as deputy head of European Affairs Secretariat 2003 Becomes deputy director - general, immigration and nationality, at the Home Office 2004 Joins Foreign Office as director - general, globalisation 2010 Appointed permanent secretary at BIS