Sentences with phrase «knockout stages took»

Not exact matches

Real Madrid take on Schalke 04 in the first Champions League knockout stage in a bid to become the first side to reclaim Europe's premier club competition.

When the draw for the knockout stages of the Champions League takes place on Monday, England will have an unprecedented five sides in the draw for the last 16.

All knockout stage series will be best - of - five, single elimination, with the finals taking place May 15.

Now we need to take this forward into the knockout stage, where it gets even more serious.

The visitors were looking to take a step towards ending their poor history against Italian sides in the knockout stages of European competition, and although they didn't particularly impress, they will be delighted with their efforts in the Italian capital.

Although it is pretty hard to take the fact that along with Arsenal being knocked out of the Champions League at the first knockout stage yet again, making it seven years in a row, we did so with a record breaking aggregate scoreline of 10 - 2, it has not been all doom and gloom for the Gunners this week.

I hope wenger does not take it as MICKEY MOUSE CUP VERSION - 2 and keep playing the kids coz we may be really embarrassed in the knockout stages in europe, especially against the likes of the above mentioned teams and a.c.milan, lazio etc... who are in a descent form in this competition so far...

and UEFA take it more seriously before the knockout stages, it will continue to have this weird feeling of unimportance, which is a shame, since getting to even the second UEFA competition should be a special thing.

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.

Having failed miserably as Mexico coach and then had all manner of problems at Notts County he know finds himself taking Ivory Coast to the World Cup where he will have to negotiate the competition's group of death if he is to take the African nation to the knockout stages.

However, I would like to admit that wenger needs to take the europa league seriously now especially from the knockout stages coz we are not guaranteed a place in the top 4 and (may I be proved wrong) if we miss the top 4 and wenger bottles us out of the europa league by playing our second team, certainly then he is to blame.

Arsenal take on the Champions League holders in the knockout stage again and Wenger says their previous victory can give his side belief.

CSKA Moscow can take a huge stride towards the Champions League knockout stages if they secure three vital points when they host Benfica on Wednesday.

It'll take a miracle in that third match if the Green and White Army want to advance to the knockout stage, but they have to take care of business against Ukraine first.

Southampton beat Inter Milan 2 - 1 to secure a famous victory that takes them to the brink of the Europa League's knockout stages

PAOK started brightly and, knowing victory would guarantee a place in the knockout stage, took the lead on six minutes.

«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 new black and orange kit, made by Joma, will be first worn when Valencia take on Malaga this weekend and will also be used in select Champions League (Valencia have progress to the knockout stages of the tournament from their group), Cup and domestic league games.

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.

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.

Arsenal have a chance to be in touching distance of qualifying for the knockout stages of the Europa League as they travel to take on second - place Red Star Belgrade.

Real Madrid are set to take on Tottenham Hotspurs on Wednesday night, 01 November 2017 at the Wembley Stadium in front of 90,000 fans in what should be a cracking game in the Group stages where both teams will be looking to ensure their passage to knockout stages with a win.

Comfortable lead to take to the Etihad When teams play in the knockout stages of the Champions League, there are two things that are particularly important, the first one is to take a healthy lead in the first leg more or if you are playing at home and the second one is to avoid conceding the away goal.

Monaco have taken yet another big step to ensure that they qualify for the knockout stages of the Champions League competition.

Real Madrid took Sporing Lisbon in the Champions League 2016 - 17 group stage game and they booked their place in the knockout stages with a win.

Arsenal have already qualified for the knockout stages of the Champions League but they will be taking on FC Basel in the last group game on tuesday 06 December 2016.

«He also qualified Nigeria for the World cup and took the nation to the knockout stage of the World Cup against all odds,» the statement noted.