Sentences with phrase «in first leg»

After a 4 - 1 defeat in Poland in the first leg, the Bhoys lost 2 - 0 at home last night at Parkhead, and were eliminated 6 - 1 on aggregate.

we struggled for a win against koln in the first leg with a full strength side at home.

Barcelona did it with ease especially against Man City in the first leg.

I'm actually proud of the way the team played today, it didn't even look like the same Arsenal that played in the first leg.

Put alongside the constant collapses in the first leg of Champions league knock out stages, the constant hammerings by big teams, most notably a season - ending run that led to us shipping 20 goals virtually without reply in just four matches against Man City, Chelsea, Liverpool and the Toffees.

The damage was done in the first leg against Monaco, of course, but the way the players, especially Olivier Giroud, shrugged that off and got back on with the job of winning matches was truly remarkable.

However, the Gunners have a big problem after our star player was rather harshly sent off in the first leg.

They don't even need to counter like they needed to in the first leg.

Buffon, not sure what age he is but that save in the first leg when it was 1 - 0 reminded me of Oliver Khan and P Schmeichal, but in his own right he's Buffon.

His all important headed effort gave us the lead in the first leg, while his acrobatic finish in the second proved to be nothing more than a consolation.Regardless, Giroud is still the holder of an impressive record, despite many Arsenal fans feeling he's nowhere near good enough to be playing for the club.Few strikers get the better of Manuel Neuer — a player widely regarded as the best goalkeeeper in the game — and even fewer score against him with regularity condolence to the families affected by the Paris terror attack - the whole world let's pray that no more life goes down

In turn, their focus will now be on the Champions League, where they face Manchester City in Paris in the first leg of their quarter - final clash on Wednesday night.

I seriously think we had bad luck in the first leg.

We will f*ck up our group again and come second and get drawn against Bayern again or someone of that calibre and then get f*cked in the first leg and Wenger will say, «we are now going to try to make the impossible possible» like he always says when we try and get something away at Bayern when we're 2 - 3 down on aggregate...

lets focus on the result... we slate the team for often losing in first leg of last 16 CL and then when wr tactically play it well and get a draw still people are not happy!!

They face Villarreal in the first leg of their semi-final on Thursday.

Ospina made three riks last week against Milan in the first leg, the first one, diving at the Italian player's feet and missing the ball, the player stayed on his feet, Ospina got away with it.

While their defence left plenty to be desired in the first leg and will need to be much better this time round, they will be confident that they have the goals in their line - up to turn the tie around and dump Guardiola and City out of the Champions League on Wednesday night.

The best approach (with this Arsenal team) is to aim for a clean sheet in the first leg.

In the CL especially in the knockout stage when they won in the first leg they end up loosing in the 2nd leg and the reverse is true provided who they played with.

Arsenal were beaten by Inter Milan 3 - 1 at the Emirate stadium in the first leg of the champions league, but Arsenal went to thrash them 4 - 1 and the game ended 5 - 4 on aggregate in favour of Arsenal.

Try and get a good result in the first leg.

If one takes a look at the first leg encounter one would see that Ostersund team consists of speedy players who were only unlucky not to score at home in the first leg.

AC MILAN V ARSENAL: THE MATCH PREVIEW The Rossoneri take on the Gunners in the first leg of Europa League's Last - 16

Liverpool face Roma at Anfield in a week's time in the first leg of their semi-final tie, and so Klopp will be desperate to have as close to a fully - fit squad as possible at his disposal for a crucial period in the campaign.

You can expect us to mess up in the first leg and almost turn it around in the second leg.

Chelsea defended well in the first leg of the round of 16 tie between the teams, and took a 62nd minute lead.

Spurs added an insurance goal in the first leg at home, but collapsed in the second half.

The same thing happened in the first leg — continuously giving him the ball on the right to pick out a target or go 1 v 1 on the outside with no end product... Crossing the ball was Madrid's only idea and it was pathetic to see.

In fact, beating PSG in the first leg may have finally started to awaken them from their season - long stupor of inconsistency, because they've been a step above their previous level for the last three weeks.

The Champions League Round of 16 has been a brutal slugfest so far, and Paris Saint - Germain are certainly showing a few bruises after their humbling 3 - 1 loss to Real Madrid in the first leg.

At Chelsea (home) last year he squandered 3 absolute sitters and i am not even going to bring up Monaco where he could have scored 5 in the first leg.

The sending off caused Espanyol to drop to nine men as the game carried a bad tempered edge, but Barca prevailed 4 - 1 in the first leg.

Neymar and Paris Saint - Germain were supposed to cause Los Merengues serious problems, but Madrid posted a 3 - 1 win in the first leg at Parc des Princes, and Neymar was injured in a Ligue 1 game between the two legs.

Or think of it this way — Aaron Ramsey was spectacular in the first leg.

Monaco were very underestimated but they deserved it by playing well in the first leg.

The Merseyside giants headed into Thursday evening's Europa League semi-final with a one - goal deficit, having fallen to the Yellow Submarine at El Madrigal in the first leg.

His goal in the first leg has given City a fighting chance.

The Red Devils were held to a goalless draw in Spain in the first leg of their last - 16 Champions League tie against the La Liga outfit, but they'll be confident of getting the result they need back at Old Trafford next month to advance.

The Gunners were cruising to a comfortable 3 - 0 win away from home in the first leg to put themselves in a commanding position, but there was late work for the Colombian international to take care of.

The Spanish side secured a 1 - 0 triumph in the first leg following Adrian Lopez's late winner, but the Reds ran out comfortable winners as a Bruno own goal as well as strikes from Daniel Sturridge and Adam Lallana secured a 3 - 0 victory in front of an emotional Anfield.

The Spanish giants have it all to do in the second leg after falling to a 2 - 0 defeat to their German rivals in the first leg, and Wolfsburg certainly deserve plenty of credit and will be difficult to break down again.

Vazquez had some magical passes that I found Gio and Altidore struggled to capitalize on, I thought they both looked better in the first leg.

Bayern ground out a win in the first leg, and there is no denying that Pep Guardiola's side looked far from their best to continue their struggles in Europe after needing extra-time to see off Juventus in the last round.

Peter Crouch was able to give Harry Redknapp's side a valuable goal in the first leg of their last 16 tie with AC Milan — Spurs went on to draw 0 - 0 in London to confirm their place in the quarterfinals.

Atleti will always cause their compatriots problems with their relentless defensive focus and intensity, and that was evident in the first leg before Fernando Torres was sent off.

They won 2 - 1 in the first leg in Spain last week with Jesus Navas scoring an own goal before Thiago Alcantara scored a deflected second.

Straight after Arsenal had won the return leg 2 - 0, Jardim refused to shake Wenger's hand and said: «In the first leg, when I wanted to shake his hand, he did not thank me, so this time even though Arsenal did everything possible to go through, I chose not to thank him,»

In the first leg we failed, which was surprising given our form.

Its been better with performances recently just like most recent seasons but its still the same glorious failure... we aren't going to win the EPL and in the CL we make sure we lose heavily in the first leg so that in the other leg we play our hearts out and still lose so that we can get some sympathy and make it look like we tried.

While they didn't perform well enough in the first leg at the San Siro, the Welbeck incident was certainly a turning point.