Sentences with phrase «local derby game»

A dead man walking as a manager and a local derby game does not bode well on this line for the home team.

Whereas the Gunners don't have their massive Alexis for this big local derby game.

Arsenal always want to win every game we play, of course, and just like any local derby the games against Tottenham take on extra significance.

Not exact matches

Every game is a cup final comparable to the fiercest local derby, with no greater basis behind it sometimes than Chelsea are top of the current tree.

The game marked Week 5 of Argentine Primera A and was a tragic end to the return of the local derby after a four year absence.

They local derby will make this game even more exciting with both sides desperate to prove themselves.

Both Man City and Chelsea have tough away games against Everton and Leicester City respectively, while Liverpool have the fierce local derby against Man United at Old Trafford.

Yesterday was his first taste of the big local derby against Tottenham and he wasn't overawed by the big game atmosphere — in fact he loved the way the fans got behind the team even when we went behind.

You just know that the Arsenal supporting Wilshere would love to do some damage to our local rivals and if he can help Bournemouth to take some points from the game while the Gunners beat Boro, a nice gap will have opened up ahead of the first derby match coming up soon.

If the boss thinks he is fit enough to face another game four days after that, he might think that Diaby's qualities would be more useful than Arteta's in the high pressure of a local derby.

Defeat to bottom side Leicester City after another insipid display, this time at the King Power Stadium in a game that represented a local derby of sorts, helped to turn Villa fans even further against Lambert as his side have struggled for goals all season.

This big game and local derby is not for the learner boys to start.

«I'm a local lad so the derby is really important to me and I would have liked nothing better than to play the full game and to be on the pitch when we got the winner.But as it turned out I was taken off and Lucas Leiva who replaced me played a crucial role in us getting the winning goal.I was hurt and disappointed at being taken off because, like I said, I'm a local lad and the derby means everything to me.»

Postecoglou's first such game at Nissan Stadium is the derby against local rivals Kawasaki Frontale, for whom talisman Kengo Nakamura finally won the J. League last season after countless near misses for his only professional club.

Both remain in the bottom three, but it could have been so much worse for Newcastle manager Rafael Benitez as his side trailed in his second game in charge against local rivals who had won their previous six derby encounters.

With the foundation of Olympique Lyonnais from an amalgam of local clubs in 1950, and the large crowds for derby games against St - Etienne, the cycle track was removed.

Coming off an away game in the Europa League the previous Thursday in Lille it's a relief that this away game comes as something of a local (well, NW) derby.

In the season's opening four games, Wanderers have already travelled away for one local derby and taken on three promotion candidates.

We speak about cup finals or Champions League games, or the local derbies, where he put in outstanding performances against Tottenham.

Plagued by fan violence at earlier home games, Hammers fans have not been put off supporting, especially for the local derby against Arsenal.

Following the game away the Etihad Villa lost their local derby the next weekend when they welcomed West Bromwich Albion to Villa Park resulting in a 2 - 1 defeat for Villa.

The Spanish coach led Saint - Etienne to a strong start to the season but they have won just one of their last seven games and were thrashed 5 - 0 in the local derby against Lyon on November 5.

It was a pretty entertaining local derby, and certainly a game of two halves.

Crespo scored a brilliant winner in the local derby against Fulham on Boxing Day, volleying home from a sublime Cole cross, and it was Cole himself, growing in stature with every performance, who netted the only goal of the game away at Manchester City.

Baba Rahman looks forward to what could be his first appearance in a London derby and recalls his memories of playing in games between local rivals earlier in his career...

I was looking forward to this game as it was a local derby and Carlisle don't really have many of them.

They have another winnable match on their hands on the weekend as they take on Espanyol in a local derby, with the visitors having collected just the one point from their two games so far in the league this term.

Could a 4th division local derby be the game of a lifetime?