Sentences with phrase «knockout game against»

But they stumbled in the group stage, finishing second behind Romania, and that set up a knockout game against Argentina.

They now face a knockout game against an impressive looking Italy, so will the Arsenal defender soon be joining Cech in leaving France?

In the knockout game against Columbus Crew SC that went the distance to penalty kicks, Atlanta lost.

And his tournament took a worse turn today as he was left out of the starting line up for the knockout game against Slovakia, only to see Germany put on their best attacking display so far, with the former Arsenal transfer target Julian Draxler taking most of the plaudits thanks to an assists, a goal and his all round game.

And then he picked up that ankle injury and did not feature in Europe again until the end of the group stage and was injured again before the knockout games against his fellow Frenchmen from Ligue 1 club Monaco.

England will be facing Russia, Wales and Slovakia ahead of likely knockout games against Romania and then Portugal or Italy.

Not exact matches

Play Cech in my the knockout stages and compensate Ospina with an equal number of games against the smaller teams in the EPL.

And those goals all came in four of the games, as we failed to score against Stoke City, Chelsea, Southampton, Hull City and Barcelona, so it is not too hard to see why we have slipped off the top of the Premier League and are looking at another Champions League exit at the first knockout stage.

«Obviously it is pleasing, first of all to be able to help the team with important goals in a Champions League knockout game [and] of course to come back to England and [win] against a team you're always motivated to play against,» Suarez told UEFA.com (via Daily Mail).

The team followed that up with a knockout round win over Northern Ireland before heading into last week's game against Belgium as a +460 underdog to win in regulation.

Arsenal has won knockout games in that period against Milan, Barcelona, Bayern and Monaco.

With a key game against Spartak Moscow next week to seal qualification for the knockout stage of the Champions League, followed by a busy lead - up to the festive period which includes the Merseyside derby next weekend, the last thing Klopp wants is to see Matip out for an extended period of time.

Debuchy is not what we need, he is at best useful for EFL cup games against lesser division teams and Europa league groupstage games, not in d Knockout round where we might face Dortmund, ATM, Celtic etc.....

It has been, somewhat gleefully, pointed out that Arsenal have lost ball three of our previous away games against Olympiacos in the Champions League and so we might as well forget qualifying for the knockout stage.

Zlatan has never won the champions league because he's only scored once in the knockout stages that was for AC Milan against Arsenal apart from that he never shows up in big champions league games whether it's for Juventus, Inter, Barcelona, Milan or PSG

Well, he rested for a little under four minutes during Greece's first game against Romania, and then for the remaining seven games — four group stage, three knockout stage — Galis did not rest.

It's a similar story in the Conference Cup for the team, earning their place in the quarter finals in February after their game against Chester on Wednesday 25th November went to knockout stages, with our team winning 2 — 0.

They now top the Group after England and Russia drew in the later game, and now a win against the Three Lions will ensure their passage to the knockout stages.

Arsenal have certainly been impressive in the first leg of each of their knockout ties, beating Ostersunds and Milan without conceding a goal to take the pressure off heading into the second game and they will hope for similar fortunes against Atletico if they are going to progress to the Final

As Arsenal lost their first two Champions League Group games to the outsiders, it is now imperative that the Gunners get something out of their two games against Bayern Munich or they will have little chance of progressing to the knockout stages.

The projected three month absence will, if accurate, see Wilshere miss away games against Liverpool, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur, as well as the first knockout stage of the Champions League, should Arsenal progress, though he would be back in time for any quarter - final.

Bayern have required emphatic victories in the second legs of both their knockout games already this season against Shakthar Donetsk and Porto, but they simply can't afford have a repeat of the game in Portugal against the Catalans, as another 3 - 1 defeat will almost certainly leave them with too much do against a strike force of Lionel Messi, Luis Suarez and Neymar.

The Gunners used up all their bad luck in last weeks game against West Brom, but now with injuries easing and the extra confidence gained from being on the brink of reaching the knockout stages of the Champions League, I can see a landslide win for Arsenal.

After trying and failing for years to win our qualifying group the Gunners finally came out on top this season by pipping the French champions PSG in the final round of games, only to be rewarded by a knockout round against the German Bundesliga champions Bayern Munich.

It is a massive game after all and Ospina did nearly cost us a place in the knockout stage last season after a terrible game against Olympiacos.

Against Liverpool, however, it all boils down to two games of knockout football to keep City's ambitions of winning the Champions League alive.

Real Madrid have already qualified for the knockout stages as group runnersup even if they beat Dortmund on Wednesday and Spurs lose their game against APOEL.

Chelsea are drawn against FC Barcelona and they play important games around both Champions League ties in February which means Chelsea need to have enough lead over the top 4 rivals to risk dropping a few points when knockout stages begin.

The Ronaldos, after earning a point in a thrilling 3 - 3 draw against Hungary, barely snuck into the knockout phase, on the strength of Ronaldo's third game performance (and his photogenic abs, probably).

«The plan is for him to be with us at the Club World Cup, and we'll see if he can play the first game,» he said, adding that the club would appeal against the decision taken by UEFA to give defender Dani Carvajal a game's suspension for deliberately time wasting in order to force a yellow card away to APOEL Nicosia with the aim of going into the knockout stage of the Champions League free of cards.

The forward is unlikely to be fit for next week's Champions League Group F match against Olympiakos, a game Arsenal need to win by two goals to qualify for the knockout phase of the competition.

If Brazil wins this game they are sure to qualify for knockout stages and with Neymar in fine form they will be slightly favourite going into the match against Colombia who themselves have some massive names in their ranks with the likes of James Rodriguez, Rademal Falcao, Jackson Martinez playing upfront.

City have won all three of their Champions League games and if they win against Napoli on Wednesday their qualification is ensured knockout stages.

The knockout stages start with a trip to Stamford Bridge for the first leg of the Round of 16 against Chelsea, and this is without a doubt the biggest game of the season for both teams.

In between now and our next opportunity to gain ground on Aston Villa, the home game against Blackburn, we do have to play two important knockout matches.

Against Lyon, he won the game to send his club into the knockout phase and in the process reached 100 goals in 105 games.

It's no longer news that the Euro 2016 was an epic tale of anguish, failure and disappointment for the big names in Europe as an obscure team, which found it difficult acing their games both at the group stages and the knockout phase came out of obscurity against all prevailing odds to lift the most prestigious trophy in all of Europe to the amazement of all eyes.

Then there are the other aspects of this game that are also worth mentioning, like the fact Link can wield a baseball bat, sadly not against enemies because Link with a baseball against Yuga, it would have been a total knockout in the very first encounter but with Yuga passed out on the floor and not Link.

Its only major flaw is that the fear of entering the octagon against a vicious opponent doesn't translate at all to the game, but that won't stop you from wanting to keep playing and getting knockout after knockout.