Sentences with phrase «last game of the weekend»

However, that pressure could be cranked up to the max by the time our game at the Emirates kicks off, purely because ours is the last game of the weekend and that gives all of our rivals bar City the chance to stretch their lead.

Not exact matches

The logic: The Packers» offense looked bewildered last weekend in their shutout loss to the Vikings, but as home dogs in the final game of the season between two teams with nothing to play for but divisional pride, I like them to keep things close.

Both the Eagles and Vikings scored three times in a row in their games last weekend, but we're betting against the trend this time around because I don't think there's going to be a ton of scores in the game in the first place.

Nearly two dozen frustrated fans are suing the creator of Pokémon Go, after technical failures left them unable to play the game at a festival celebrating it in Chicago last weekend.

He played well while I was away with two home runs and 4 RBI's during one of his games last weekend.

It was a huge hit when I made it for football munchies last year... might have to make a batch for this weekend's game come to think of it!!

They beat Stoke last weekend 2 - 1, and avoiding defeat on Saturday evening will mark a new club - record unbeaten run of 15 games.

should we revel in the victory over the weekend, yes of course we can knowing that your as good as your last game and victories breath confidence in the team and into to our fans.

With a goal and two assists, the Belgian probably had his best game of the campaign against Man City's kids last weekend.

But confidence will be high in the Chelsea camp as well after 10 league games without defeat, and last weekend's 5 - 1 FA Cup rout of Manchester City.

For me it is a no brainer because not only is Theo in form, with some very sharp sub appearances before last weekend's game, but he is a player that we simply must keep hold of.

OK, so they managed a creditable 0 - 0 draw at Wigan last weekend, although the decision to bring back Leroy Lita from his loan spell at Charlton smacked of desperation, while the Daily Mirror report tension in the camp ahead of Saturday's game against Spurs.

Arsenal made up for last weekends crazy loss to West Brom by going all out to beat Dinamo Zagreb from the kickoff on Tuesday, and now that the Gunners have to score at least two goals in Athens in a fortnight Per Mertesacker believes that we just have to copy that template, and go all out for the win from the beginning of the game.

To get an idea of what a «typical» week might be for a student - athlete facing a big weekend game, SI chronicled the comings and goings of Vaughn, a top player in a top program, during the time between Tuesday's Colorado game and last Saturday's showdown with Iowa State.

The Hammers have won just two of their last ten Premier League games and will still be looking their wounds after being annihilated 5 - 1 by Arsenal last weekend.

«United have only lost one game at home this season so the magnitude of the task is still there, but we are certainly better going into it for the result of last weekend.»

As his senior season ended last weekend, he led the nation in blocked shots (5.7 per game), topped the Stags in rebounding (8.5), averaged a career - high 13.9 points and won his third Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference defensive player of the year award.

College GameDay aired a segment this Saturday about last weekend's Michigan — MSU game, titled «Making of a Miracle».

Gon na get a few thumbs down for this but to be honest I would rather spend my weekends watching my team play beautiful attacking football and have the joy of watching beautiful goals such as Wilshere's goal v west brom last week and still finish in the top 4 with a cup final to look forward to than win the title having to force my eyes open to actually see my team win via an early goal and the rest of the game spent watching headed clearances from John terry

There's no denying that Lingard comes into the game in good form and with plenty of confidence, especially after bagging a crucial brace in the win at Arsenal last weekend.

The 28 - year - old has only managed three goals so far for the Red Devils, and has been linked with the likes of Juventus and AS Roma after being dropped by van Gaal for last weekend's game against Southampton.

He said: «Well after the shambles of Arsenal's last home game in this competition, when they nearly blew it against Ostersund, Arsene Wenger will play a strong line - up with a free weekend to follow.

Heading into the last weekend of October, five of eight conference members are within one game of the conference lead in the loss column.

Last weekend Pittsburgh moved into Milwaukee for a scheduled three - game series, the first of at least two dozen crucial ones that should pop up this year, and the picture began to change.

Baltimore harassed Ryan Tannehill into one of his worst performances of the year last weekend and has held opponents to just 222 passing yards per game in 2016.

However, I think that may have been more precautionary on the part of the boss, because this week in an interview on the Arsenal website Wenger said he just had a decision to make on players like Ozil, Ramsey and Mertesacker who missed last weekend's game but have been involved during pre-season.

Per has bags of experience and defensive quality and we need him to show it all at the weekend, but that is exactly what he did in his last big game against EPL rivals, when he helped us to beat Chelsea at Wembley to lift the FA cup.

Louis van Gaal and Man United, meanwhile, were in turmoil, but after a terrible run of results saw them lose four games on the spin they managed to bounce back with a win over Swansea City last weekend.

Now with the Braves, Sanders was hitting.226 but had an on - base percentage of.333 through last weekend's games.

Even if a sloppy pass or a momentary lack of focus leads to a goal there should be enough attacking ability in the Arsenal team to get away with it, as we did last weekend, but I do think it is a concern and especially so in a big game like the one coming up at Man City.

Wenger just feels that the team need to maintain the quality we have shown in the last few games, but admits that he is still wary of Burnley this weekend.

Sanchez was slated a bit for his poor showing at Chelsea last weekend but you can count those sort of games from him on one hand.

It was a rare show of emotion from Arsene Wenger towards the end of the Arsenal v Burnley game last weekend, but Le Prof admitted that he may be at fault but claimed that he was unaware that he was not allowed to remain in the tunnel after his sending off.

With a key game against Spartak Moscow next week to seal qualification for the knockout stage of the Champions League, followed by a busy lead - up to the festive period which includes the Merseyside derby next weekend, the last thing Klopp wants is to see Matip out for an extended period of time.

The 24 - year - old was sent off in their game against City last season, meaning he missed crucial end - of - season fixtures against the likes of Chelsea and Crystal Palace, when Liverpool dropped crucial points before eventually conceding the title to this weekend's opponents.

That seems to have been the ideal chance for the young defender and he has grabbed it to such an extent that he is now in front of Calum Chambers in the pecking order, having been chosen to partner Laurent Koscielny when the France international returned to face Leicester City in our second Premier League game of the season last weekend.

Second, the final games of the WS should be scheduled for the last weekend in October, all Fri - Sat - Sun play - off games played during the day, and the first round of the play - offs expanded to a best - of - seven series.

Queretaro's game against Club Leon last weekend was the best match of the weekend, as «Los Gallos Blancos» ran out 5 - 4 winners thanks to a brace from Emmanual Villa and further strikes from Yasser Corona, Orbelin Pineda and Angel Sepulveda.

But I am suggesting that we try to play with some of the solidity and determination that won us the game against Man City at the Etihad stadium last weekend.

The war of words continue after the controversy surrounding the Carlos Tevez offside call in last weekend's game.

the Leicester game was not, as you suggest, between the last 16 Europa League double header, it is the weekend after the second leg of the Europa Cup round!

Apart from their two FA cup wins against Blackpool in round three and Bournemouth last weekend, Paul Lambert's men have on a terrible run, with just one win from their last eight EPL games and that was in the first week of December.

After reviewing last weekend's game between Chelsea and Man U I believe many of us agree that the better team lost as evidenced by the statistics.

Ramsey has certainly made a good start though, as he has been a key figure for the Gunners as we bounced back and bagged a first Premier League win in four games last weekend and then again as we pulled our Champions League arses out of the fire in Athens, after which Steven Gerrard called him the best in the division in that role.

While speaking on the radio Thursday with Stoney and Bill, Jim Harbaugh said that he nearly went for the win after Jake Rudock found Jehu Chesson on 4th down during the final play of last weekend's game with Indiana.

Nonetheless, last weekend's 2 - 0 win over Hull City moved them above Spurs into sixth, with Liverpool just a point ahead of them with six games remaining.

We suffered an early blow last weekend when losing 1 - 0 to Stoke City, and can't afford to be collecting only one win every three games, or we will end up in the bottom half of the table, but obviously that is not a statistic which will carry on.

Wenger blamed the 12 day gap between games as the reason for Arsenal's poor start against Liverpool a few weeks ago, then he claimed a lack of confidence for the start against Lincoln last week, but as most of our first team played last weekend and scored many goals in the second half then neither of those should apply this time around.

Three of their players will miss the game through suspension; the attacking midfielder Valentin Eysseric, centre - back Souleymane Diawara, and right - back Gregoire Puel - both of whom were sent off in the tempestuous defeat to southern rivals SC Bastia last weekend.

We saw last season in both games against Bayern Munich what a catastrophic impact the loss of Laurent Koscielny could have and it happened again last weekend at Watford.