Sentences with phrase «knockout stages of last season»

19) Olympiakos — Greek champions Olympiakos made it to the knockout stages of last season's competition but will find it much tougher this year in a group including Atletico Madrid and Juventus.

Not exact matches

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.

Let's just rant at Wenger and show him no respect and while we are at it let's ignore the fact that we won the FA cup last season and are in the knockout stages of the Champions League yet again, something that most clubs can not manage with no injury problems and lots of money to spend.

Last season, United had to qualify for the UEFA Champions League from the play - off stage, beating Club Brugge 7 - 1 on aggregate to reach the group stages of the Champions League, where they did not qualify for the knockout stages, falling into the Europa League from the round of 32.

Citizens failed to qualify for the knockout round stages of the competition and finished bottom of the group last season without even winning a single game.

However, while they have been to the knockout stage in each of the last 13 seasons, they have failed to make it past the round of sixteen in any of their last six attempts.

The foundation of the Spurs revival was arguably laid by Harry Redknapp, who with the help of players such as Gareth Bale and Luka Modrić turned them into a top - five side, but it is Mauricio Pochettino who has taken them forwards to being a top - three side, finishing third and second in the last two seasons, and reaching the knockout stages of the Champions League.

I also watched four of Ajax's CL group stage games last season (Real Madrid and Lyon home and away) and both legs of their knockout tie with United the year before.