Sentences with phrase «knockout stages only»

Not exact matches

Having lost our first two Group matches, Wenger is well aware that only a win will be good enough to give the Gunners a chance of making the knockout stages this season.

We can't sacrifice the club's ambitions and wellbeing on the altar of a player's personal glory, it's the business end of the competition and Cech has the experience of having won it, Ospina conceded three goals [home and away] against PSG, the only opposition on the level of those we'll be meeting from now on, three goals against in the knockout stages is bordering on disastrous as we all know how tight these affairs are.

Both played for Argentina in the World Cup in a team that conceded just 4 goals and only one in the knockout stages against Germany in the Final.

Because of Colombia's struggles at the other end though, Ospina and his team mates only just crept through to the knockout stage as a third placed side and will now play Argentina and that will probably be that for arguably thye unluckiest man in football right now.

This should live up to expectations and it will be an entertaining clash between two sides desperate to get the win, not only to help their cause in advancing to the knockout stage but also for pride.

In the history of the CL, there have only been three occasions of a team turning a 3 goal deficit in the second leg of the knockout stages to advance in the tournament.

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

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.

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.

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.

Three English clubs have qualified for the knockout rounds of the Champions League this year, with only Liverpool missing out on on the next stage of the competition.

Manchester United also face Wigan at home in the fourth round of the FA Cup and will face St Etienne over two legs as the Europa League knockout stages begin next month in what promises to be a busy period for Mourinho's men who are the only Premier League club still battling on four fronts.

Fenerbahce qualified for the group stages of the Europa League with a 5 - 0 aggregate victory over Grasshoppers, and with the group they have been drawn in, it will only inspire them to reach the knockout stages of the competition.

By February 2017, United had sailed through to the knockout stages of the Europa League and Leicester City were Premier League champions in name only.

That strategy actually paid off very well - they clinched knockout stage progression with two group games left, and backed into winning the group despite losing their only match of the group stages on the penultimate match day.

They basically took their room for error down to the wire, with only a win over Olympiacos in Greece on the final day of the group stage being the difference between playing in the Champions League knockout stages and heading off to the Europa League in the new year.

GENT and WOLFSBURG are the only a couple of knockout stages of the Champions League that has not already met at least once in European competitions for the past decade.

Thanks to dumb and arbitrary rules that are only now being changed because they are dumb and arbitrary, Aubameyang is unfortunately cup tied to Dortmund who, like CSKA Moscow, were bounced from the group stage of the Champion's League and were given a berth in the Europa League knockout stages as a consolation prize.

FC Porto are a unique club in the current European football landscape: they are probably the only regular feature in the Champions League knockout stages not coming from one of Europe's biggest leagues or financed by a millionaire.

FC Barcelona visited Celtic Park on Wednesday night in a bid to not only book their place in knockout stages but also finish as group winners.