Sentences with phrase «knockout stage»

Roma progressed to the Champions League knockout stage as Group C winners after beating Qarabag 1 - 0 on Tuesday.

They haven't kept a clean sheet in any of their last seven European knockout stage matches at the Emirates though.

Nevertheless, Xhaka - an unknown quantity to a large proportion of fans this summer - is sure to be the player most essential to success for the young crop of Swiss players hoping to at least reach the knockout stage.

Group leader Tottenham defeated Real 3 - 1 in Wednesday's other game in Group H to advance to the knockout stage.

Ten - man Bayern Munich secured their place in the Champions League knockout stage with a comfortable win over Group F rivals Olympiakos.

Totally surprised indeed to see Sango who has not played this season at all for Arsenal got included in the Arsenal's Ucl knockout stage A list.

Xhaka, an unknown quantity to a large proportion of fans this summer, is sure to be the player most essential to success for the young crop of Swiss players hoping to at least reach the knockout stage.

On an emotionally charged night at Anfield, Liverpool required a two - goal victory to seal their progress to the knockout stage of the Champions League

If Korea get to the knockout stage, his summer will extend into July.

UEFA Champions League resume this week with the first knockout stage (round of 16) matches including some very high profile ties set to be played over the next couple of weeks.

Arsene Wenger was understandably buzzing after Arsenal went to Greece and turned our Champions League record there on it's head with a brilliant performance and a first Olivier Giroud hat - trick to consign Olympiacos to the Europa League and keep alive the Frenchman's amazing record of reaching the knockout stage of Europe's elite club competition.

As Arsenal prepare for the fourth Champions League group game away to the Bulgarian champions Ludogorets Razgrad, we look poised on the brink of all but securing a place in the next round and hopefully winning the group to make that knockout stage earlier.

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.

also great shout at getting past first CL knockout stage.

Basically 8 of the 12 teams will advance from their group into the knockout stage.

Russia, ranked 65th in the world by FIFA, will hope to avoid the fate that struck South Africa in 2010, when the host nation failed to reach the knockout stage for the first time.

Yet again the Gunners exit the Champions League at the first knockout stage, with the manner and size of our defeat hard to stomach.

God forbid, if we lose both of fixtures against them, I can't see us qualifying into the knockout stage.

God forbid if we lose both of these games, there's no chance for us qualifying into the knockout stage.

Considering that Arsenal have not gone past the first knockout stage of the Champions League competition for the last six seasons, it would seem on the face of it that Arsene Wenger still has a lot of work to do with his players to make Arsenal one of the elite European teams with a realistic chance of lifting the European Cup.

It doesn't seem as though the Spanish tactician needs too much given his side are currently enjoying an eight - point lead at the top of the Premier League table while they've sealed their place in the knockout stage of the Champions League already.

If we can't qualify into the knockout stage, I would rather choose us finishing last, not playing Europa League and instead focus on the domestic league.

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.

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.

However, they've made a real statement of intent early on this season so far, as they've opened up an eight - point lead over their Premier League rivals at the top of the table and have secured their spot in the knockout stage of the Champions League.

We do however need to become invincible in the knockout stage of the champions league.

And that is so important, as we have seen in recent years when the Gunners went out at the first knockout stage after drawing one of the very best clubs in Europe.

It's down to the quarterfinals of the Champions League following a thoroughly dramatic knockout stage.

Think it has finally arrived that Arsenal will end out of top 4 and out of the Knockout stage of Champs Lg.

For that we need to have the same sort of lure as clubs like Barcelona and Real Madrid and to be able to do that we need to be winning things like the Premier League and looking capable of winning the Champions League, rather than getting put out at the first knockout stage every year.

But there are also a lot of reasons to think that what the Portuguese have done for more than a decade now is simply mind blowing, and each time it finds its way back to a knockout stage, we'd do well to remember it.

Ostersund have made it to the knockout stage of the Europa League because they are such an excellent team, a real unit that works together and do a brilliant job of having each others backs.

City sit top of the Premier League table, five points ahead of their nearest rivals while they've already advanced to the Champions League knockout stage.

The last time that Arsenal progressed from the first knockout stage into the quarter - finals of the Champions League was in 2009.

It was always going to be a disappointment for Arsenal to exit the Champions League at the first knockout stage once again and the fact that our opponents Monaco were a team that most people expected us to beat made that all the harder to take this time.

... meanwhile since they ain't in d Knockout stage they MUST still play 5more games.

If Cavani had brought his shooting boots to the game a couple of weeks ago our Champions League group would be looking a lot worse and we would be on course for the same old, same old, finishing second and getting knocked out at the first knockout stage.

We played with Sanogo and out of form Ox last time against them in the knockout stage.

we do nt bottle qualification for CL knockout stage.

The solitary signing of an already injured Kim Kallstrom when we already had massive injury problems sent a lot of fans into meltdown and once we were put out of the Champions League at the first knockout stage yet again, the only thing left was the FA cup and the Wenger trophy.

If it is not a referee like Mike Dean denying Arsenal two good penalty shouts and forcing us into an FA cup replay that we could really do without, it is a Champions League draw throwing us up against one of the big favourites Bayern Munich in the group stage and then the only team worse than the Germans in the knockout stage.

Defend well and you still have a good chance of reaching next knockout stage in teh 2nd leg, thats what we saw in UCL this evening.

That's despite being top of the Premier League table with an eight - point lead along with a place in the Champions League knockout stage, all while scoring 38 goals in 11 league games and 12 in four in Europe.

Not sure how much teams get in the Europa League but the new BT deal come in next season so your probably talking 10m + easily if they get to the last 32 (an extra knockout stage in the Europa league).

It was only a week or so ago that some Arsenal fans were wringing their hands with despair and predicting a collapse of form and results that would see Arsenal slide out of the Premier League title race, exit the EFL cup and suffer the usual fate of being runners up in our Champions League group which would see us knocked out in the first knockout stage.

And beat Bayern Munich tomorrow night at the Allianz Arena in the first leg of the two legged encounters of the Ucl knockout stage match between them and us.

While they're all - but safe to go through to the knockout stage, United missed the opportunity to seal the deal and top spot in Group A in Switzerland.

Many teams still in UCL will look at him as an option to bolsterbefore knockout stage start.

Following a dramatic and exciting last day of group games at Euro 2016, we all have a few days without football before the serious business of the knockout stage begins, so I thought it might be worth a look back over the tournament so far, with a firm eye on how the various Arsenal players have done so far.

The Round of 16, or knockout stage, is comprised of the top 2 teams from each group in a single - elimination bracket.