Sentences with phrase «league campaign»

We can look forward to another hard league campaign next year with excitement.

Regardless of those displays, our second string has managed to come away with the desired results, and it has allowed us to try and concentrate on our domestic league campaign.

Manchester United kicked off the new Premier League campaign in style, with the team rolling over the likes of West Ham United, Swansea City and Leicester City at the start of the season, but tough challenges have yet to come.

The Old Trafford club started their UEFA Champions League campaign with a defeat away from home at the hands of Dutch club PSV Eindhoven.

In La Liga, they have been hot and cold this campaign, sitting 5th in the competition — held up by a strong home record which has always been vital to them in successful Europa League campaigns in the past.

Last year's big winners included the likes of Chelsea's Eden Hazard and Everton full - back Leighton Baines, but this year's edition brings a wave of change befitting of a particularly bonkers Premier League campaign in which the reigning champions scraped mid-table and the new ones left jaws a-gaping from the opening day.

The Blues get their easiest fixture of the group to start their UEFA Champions League campaign with this season.

Manchester United to host Tottenham in the first game of their new Premier League campaign on Saturday.

We've been trekking through this Champions League campaign for so long that I nearly forgot where this road started, and how we reacted when the path was revealed:

With the Champions League coming up next term, rotation will be key for Pochettino, and I believe with a couple more signings, perhaps a centre - back as well as an attacking midfielder, the squad should be strong enough to cope with a strong Premier League campaign as well as a run in the Champions League.

We are set for an historic day at the Emirates tonight as we kick off our first Europa League campaign against the German stragglers Cologne and by rights we should be red hot favourites if we played our first team against them.

Isco has inspired Malaga to two wins in their debut Champions League campaign so far and the mismanaged Spaniards also sit third in La Liga after a great start to the new season.

For now, he wants to focus on performing for Leipzig, who will take part in their first ever Champions League campaign after finishing second in the league last season.

Manchester City start their Europa League campaign at Salzburg without the services of striker Emmanuel Adebayor, who is struggling with a dead leg.

«Everyone at Sydney FC is looking forward to our upcoming AFC Champions League campaign which kicks off in February next year.

Poyet joins fellow newcomers Aaron Cresswell, Cheikhou Kouyate and Mauro Zarate at Upton Park, as Allardyce looks to reshape his squad following a difficult Premier League campaign last season.

The second half of our 2016 - 17 Premier League campaign begins with the visit of Manchester United.

Arsenal's Champions League campaign kick started yesterday, with the Gunners looking to win against Besiktas, on aggregate, to progress to the group stage of one of the most appetizing club competitions.

Kalas spent last season on loan at Middlesbrough enjoying a successful league campaign for the Championship side that narrowly ensure promotion to the Premier League.

JDT kick off their 2017 Malaysia Super League campaign against Kedah FA on Friday, and follow up with a game against Felda United the week after.

A mid-season break is long overdue in England, with the Premier League the only major competition in Europe to plough on for an entire league campaign without a temporary shutdown.

The first of many surgeries to come came shortly afterwards on a persistent shoulder injury, and his first Premier league campaign finished without a Premier league goal.

Everyone at the club is focused on winning back to back A-League titles and embarking on our most successful Asian Champions League campaign ever.»

With the a draining Europa League campaign coming up for the Gunners next season they are going to need more depth to their squad as when you consider there are 38 league games, up to 15 games in the Europa League (should they reach the final) up to 6 games in the FA Cup and the same in the League Cup, Arsenal could end up playing in 65 games over the course of the season.

Arsenal managed to last an entire Premier League campaign unbeaten in 2003/04 and their fans still won't shut up about it.

Even though the North Londoners may have come away from the North East with three points in the end, it wasn't as convincing a performance as it should have been against a truly woeful side well on their way to putting together to worst Premier League campaign since Derby County's 11 point finish in 2008.

Yesterday's victors will likely go into the final as favourites somewhat, having much the better league campaign, but neither us nor City will be taken lightly in the final, and it should make for a blockbuster end - of - season finale.

Everton's dismal Europa League campaign continued with a heavy Goodison Park defeat to Italian side Atalanta.

In United's case, they've had a tonne of it and have based virtually their entire league campaign on grounding out results.

They are seeking a first league title since 1968 and will embark on their first ever Champions League campaign following the third place finish last season.

Claudio Ranieri's team eased what has been a difficult start to the season by getting Leicester's first Champions League campaign off to a fine start with a simple 3 - 0 win away to Brugge.

So there is still real hope that the fantastic forward will be running out onto the Emirates pitch when Liverpool come to north London to get our Premier League campaign underway in a little over two weeks.

With the league title wrapped up and City's Champions League campaign ended by Liverpool, the club can cope without their all - time leading scorer, who has 199 goals for the Manchester Club after scoring 30 in all competitions this season.

The ISUZU iV League campaign won the prestigious «Ottocar Silver Award» at the AutoVision Awards 2017 held during the recently concluded International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Having played every minute of Arsenal's league campaign up until Sunday, Arteta will be a big loss for the team, having been one of the more consistent and better performers for Arsenal so far, in what has been a disappointing season.

The League Cup and the Europa League were probably at the bottom of United's wishlist at the beginning of the season, but circumstance — read: United's fairly miserable league campaign — meant that the latter became absolutely crucial.

Levante, meanwhile, did have one of their star names poached by a bigger club as Costa Rican goalkeeper Keylor Navas made the move to Real Madrid on the back of a strong league campaign last term, followed by an impressive showing for his country at this summer's World Cup.

Manchester United had a dismal Premier League campaign under Mourinho and after earning CL qualification (via Europa League), the former Chelsea boss must splash the cash to improve his team in the summer transfer window.

Hull KR are in search of their first win in this season's Betfred Super League campaign when they take on Catalans at home on Thursday night.

Team News & Lineups: Leicester City on the other hand has had a impeccable first Champions League campaign despite their domestic woes.

He has been unable to participate in the Gunners» Europa League campaign due to UEFA's rule that has made him cup - tied for the Gunners.

Chelsea and Jose Mourinho will kick start their new premier league campaign tonight against Burnley.

The Howard League campaigns for a society with less crime, safer communities and fewer people in prison.

Secondly, Barcelona's current league campaign sees them sitting in first place ahead of Atletico Madrid by seven points.

wish he did nt say this he played his reserves the whole europa league campaign until we face milan so all our «stars» were rested he will never change

However, Tomaszewski says Wenger is making the Arsenal no. 1 a scapegoat incase his side miss out on Champions League football after a stuttering League campaign so far.