Sentences with phrase «knockout games»

Most of the knockout games will be decided by one goal or penalties.

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

There is not really any such thing as an easy game in the last 16 of the Champions League, but Real Madrid players, fans and manager will be quite pleased to have drawn the German Bundesliga club Schalke for the knockout games due to be played in February.

Arsenal's Europa League knockout games begin with an away match in Sweden.

Lionel Messi, for example, has hardly missed a minute in the league and was also present for five of the gruelling run of Copa del Rey knockout games in January and February.

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.

As a result, games like this — knockout games, basically — for English teams have been precious rare before Christmas.

The extra rounds of playoffs — a new fourth layer this year will have two wild - card teams in each league squaring off in knockout games on Friday — have created a tournament flavor in which the hot team trumps the better team.

Since then the postseason has been expanded three times: The LCS was stretched to best - of - seven in 1985, the Division Series round was added in 1995, and now the wild - card knockout games.

hey guys it seems petr cech will be playing the league games alone and ospina will be playing the knockout games including the champs league like what barcelona do with ter stegen and bravo

I agree about Mustafi and the Cazorla link helped him out and sometimes Granit does put the CBs under pressure because he can't find a forward pass or is too scared too, but facts are facts Mustafi made 1 start at the 2014 WC & 2 sub appearances making a total of 132 minutes only in the group before he got injured, I disagree he «helped» Germany win the WC as he simply didn't play enough and didn't play any knockout games so was only a squad player who played 1.5 games in total, he can play well but tends to panick and finds himself out of position ALL the time, he is a liability diving into tackles and trying to make interceptions he has no.

I think it'll be kind of rude and Ulreich's confidence might take a hit if we say «You're not playing in knockout games, because those are live or die».

The group stage is about qualifying, the knockout games mean that you go through or you don't and I think that's exactly what the boys need.

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

Did you see Messi in the world cup knockout games when he was not getting service?

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.

«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).

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.

According to Petr, the final Group game in Athens is already a knockout game.

when we are already winning... BTW Yeah this game was imp... its a fking knockout game.

I just hope we can win our Champions Leage group and win a knockout game, that will be progress — not at the rate we want but progress still.

«I can only imagine his head is not in the right place at the moment because if you go to Shakhtar in a knockout game he's the only recognised striker in the team and you sit on the bench.

In truth, big difference between a knockout game and playing in a mini league that you know you'll get through in.

The team we support is playing in the fa cup semifinal which is a knockout game and your focused on a Chelsea game no offence mate but you need to get your priorities straight I get the game has significant consequence on our league position both sat and the end of the season but weather you watch it or not it wont change the outcome of there match so focus everything on our game and watch arsenal and then if you care that much watch the repeat later

But seriously guys, is there nothing more important to discuss for a knockout game than a shirt swap?»

You've got a wonderful opportunity to score your first Barcelona goal, in the process almost certainly killing a two - legged Champions League knockout game, and you want to — stop me if I'm wrong here — smack it as hard as you can?

And if England haven't found three more world - class strikers by the time Russia 2018 rolls around, he might be just the man to come on late in a crucial knockout game.

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

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

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

Ticket face value is usually around # 60 to # 100 only, but if you were to buy through ticket exchange site like viagog it can cost anywhere between # 295 to # 1000 for a high profile knockout game.

However, despite the consistency with which they excel in the competition — they haven't lost a two - legged knockout game since 2013 — Valverde says reaching the final is still significant for the club.

There was a lot of debate about this, with some saying Arsenal should never treat a CL knockout game as a training exercise, while others argued that finishing 4th in the Premier League is more important.

In the first knockout game of Euros 2016, underdogs Switzerland and Poland will take each other on in what is sure to...

Williams, who suffered a shoulder injury in that first knockout game, then battled through the pain barrier to play 90 minutes and score the equaliser as Chris Coleman's men recorded a historic 3 - 1 quarter - final victory over Belgium.

We were 5 yards slower than Olympiacos — a team that has never won a knockout game in this competition until tonight; another record for Moyes to add to his collection.

2000 — France have not won a knockout game at the European Championships since 2000 when they last won the competition.

Two New York State legislators are double - teaming «The Knockout Game» with a law designed to inflict severe penalties on those who elect to play.

Whether the so - called «knockout game» comes from coordinated violence or random mischief, there's only one sane response: End it.

The goal of the knockout game is to bring a victim...

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco want to criminalize the «knockout game,» making it a gang assault with a sentence of up to 25 years.

Assemblyman Jim Tedisco (R,C,I - Glenville) today announced he is introducing new legislation, the «Knockout Assault Deterrent Act», to protect innocent bystanders from being victimized by the so - called «Knockout Game» — a brutal new trend whereby gangs of youths target unsuspecting people and sucker - punch them in an attempt to make them unconscious — in some cases causing serious injury and even death.

Tedisco and Farley's bill, which is being drafted and is expected to be filed next week, will make any person regardless of their age who is convicted of Knockout Game individual assault or gang assault will be subject to 25 years in prison (currently it's between 4 - 15 years depending on the age of the defendant).

The legislation would ensure that juveniles who «play the Knockout Game» are sentenced as adults.

State Legislators seek 1st in nation law to ensure «knockout game thugs» get up to 25 years in prison regardless of their age for sucker - punching and assaulting innocent bystanders

The Crown Heights Jewish community announced a cash reward for arrests in the alleged «knockout game.»

Cumbo, who enjoyed a handy victory in the Democratic primaries in September, came under fire from many in the community in the interim between her election and her swearing - in, when she published an open letter on Facebook blaming a series of alleged «knockout game» attacks in Crown Heights on tension between the neighborhood's blacks and Jews.

Who would mind playing golf with Tiger Woods, or enjoy the New York Knicks knockout game from the VIP suites.

The first new addition is the Knockout game mode.

Knockout Game: Reducing Violence in Black Communities with Therapy by Mark Charles Hardie, Huffington Post