Sentences with phrase «long cup competition»

Of course they are professional athletes, but a long PL season followed by an intense month long cup competition takes its toll physically, but perhaps more importantly mentally.

Not exact matches

Since returning from a long spell on the sidelines after breaking his leg at the 2014 World Cup during Mexico's defeat to the Netherlands, Moreno has gone on to star in La Liga, making 20 appearances in all competitions this campaign.

The year - long pattern of NHL hockey competition was repeated as the champion Detroit Red Wings and their arch rivals the Montreal Canadiens entered the Stanley Cup finals after eliminating Boston and Toronto...

Your a long time passionate fan Ivan but you may have just missed or maybe not, the greatest night at Highbury when we came back from 3 - 1 first leg deficit against Anderlecht to beat them 4 - 3 on aggregate to win the Inter Cities Fairs Cup (Eufa Cup) when it really was a top competition.

Excluding penalty shoot - out defeats, Chelsea are unbeaten in 21 FA Cup games, only one side has ever gone longer without defeat in the competition: Blackburn Rovers between October 1883 and November 1886 (23 games).

How about hull getting inspired by the fact that they got a draw at the emirates in the league after scoring twice, or that blackburn beat us at the emirates a couple of seasons ago in the same competition, or that arsenal needed extra time to beat them in the final or that ALMIGHTY birmingham beat us in a league cup final, so anything is possible as long as arsenal is involved

For Van Gaal, the FA Cup would represent a sign of progress, while for Wenger, retaining the competition would emphasise his belief that he can still deliver success to his long - standing employers.

I have to agree that winning the FA Cup again is a long shot but this competition is different from EPL.

Albeit winning the domestic cup competition can not be as significant as winning the Premier League or the Champions League — two most coveted pieces of silverware for any top club — it would have given Wenger's wizards the relief of having finally won a trophy after so long, as well as the belief to continue in the same vein in the future.

Problem is even if we go to the next round we still won't have either Lacazette or Aubameyang because Lacazette is out for 6 weeks minimum and Aubameyang is cup tied as long as BoRussia Dortmund is still in the competition (i think).

The FA Cup is littered with giant - killings over the years, and it is worth remembering that Sutton beat Leeds United in the last round, and that is all part of the magic of the competition, as long as it doesn't happen to your team!

With a bit of luck, he could be back in time for the 5th round of the FA cup, as long as we are still in the competition, as well as being ready to help us get through the first knockout round of the Champions League.

Well if Arsenal do end up being on the wrong end of one of the biggest upsets ever in the long history of football's oldest cup competition then Arsene Wenger will have a lot of questions to answer over his team selection for this evening's away tie against Sutton United.

was great to see crowely training with the first team today wont be long until he gets a game, maybe f / a cup next round or against villa lol, he will be fighting with zelalem next season for spot in the midfield, great to see competition coming through, and always great to see we stick to our philosophy and not waver in the face of financially doped teams.

As long as Arsenal do not mess up the FA cup final at Wembley later we will be able to look back with a smile on the season and look forward with real optimism to next season and the hope that the Gunners will improve once again and go from winning a cup competition to becoming the best team in England once more.

With Petr Cech first choice for Arsene Wenger, Ospina has had to settle for a back - up role in the cup competitions, and he has now dropped a significant hint that he may not be willing to settle for much longer.

I think arsenal see the Champions League as a chance to make more money and as long as you are still in a competition you can win it, the farther you go in this competition is the more money, i do not see Wenger buying Cup tied players just to try for the EPL, he would want to get more for the money.

It is known that in a World Cup year that players will do their best to build up their form ahead of the competition, and our superstar Alexis will no longer have that target in mind, but does that mean he can concentrate on his playing days for us?

After Arsenal proved the majority of the football world wrong by bouncing back from a horrible run of results and loss of form to beat Pep Guardiola's Manchester City to claim a place in the Wembley FA cup final and the chance to make both the club and our manager Arsene Wenger the most successful in the competition's long and illustrious history, Aaron Ramsey was reported by Sky Sports calling for the players to win it for the under pressure Frenchman.

Even with the changes Arsenal should have no trouble disposing of Brighton, who we have beaten every time we have met them in this competition and, surprisingly, our last away FA Cup tie was at the same venue two long years ago.

Arsenal already have a long and distinguished history in the annals of the game and especially in the oldest cup competition in the world, the FA cup.

Here we take a moment to remind ourselves of five of the greatest FA Cup finals in the competition's long and illustrious 137 - year history.

Not only did he win the Champions League five times, but the first two times he did so the competition was known as the European Cup — that's how long he remained at the top of his game.

To have a long competition in physically draining conditions a few months prior to a World Cup probably doesn't do the African teams much of a favour either I wouldn't have thought.

They have a quarter - final tie against Swansea in the FA Cup to look forward to, and now that they are no longer in Europe, football punters who are planning to make a wager with Stakers.com on the FA Cup may be taking a fresh look at Tottenham's chances in this competition.

What a terrifying vision of the future of football we've been served up this week.AC Milan, once the pride of a powerful and thriving seria A now reduced to shadow boxing against a really not that great United.All because they deserted their natural (and rather beautiful) defensive style of football to join the circus, brought in foreign players (especially brazilians) who think jogging back to defend is beneath them and generally put two fingers up to Italy's historic football traditions.Much good as it done them, and what a boring game?I concede that a lot of football fans nowadays do nt remember anything before the cheque book league but even they must have been struck by the sheer mind numbing pointlessness of it.Even the stewards were asleep by half time.As for the porto match well all that can be said is that they made the gooners look like an half decent well balanced football team, no mean achievement when you think about it.At least we, ve had the pleasure of listening to all those gooners and Mancs waffling on about how great they are which is always hilarious.Especially the stuff about Rooney, just wait till the World Cup when some Italian or South American defender takes him under his wing for half an hour and then see how great he is.If he can survive the WC without being sent off it will be a miracle.All the recent hype has done him no favours at all.Not that the World Cup really inspires these days, its glory days are long over and it's become a competition decided by referees rather than great play.Bear that in mind if Roons has to take the walk of shame, it's not his fault, someone told him he was a truly great player like Bobby Charlton or George Best.The problem is he looks like he believes them.

United and Benfica go a long way together in this competition — as 1968, a teary - eyed Matt Busby led the Red Devils to their first European Cup win in Wembley, a decade after the side lost as many as eight players (23 in total) to the Munich Air Disaster while attempting to return from a victorious European encounter against Red Star Belgrade.

Furthermore, although rather begrudgingly, they no longer have the distraction of any other cup competitions meaning their full attention and focus will be lavished on the league from now on, not that you would have noticed judging by how they fared a few weeks back.

As you probably know, the FA Cup is a competition with a long and rich history.

Tottenham have lost each of their last seven FA Cup semi-final ties - the longest such run in the competition's history.

Y is everyone so happy that utd lost, i would have rather had it we kicking their arse, although they did loose 4 - 0, which makes their 7 - 1 victory looked long gone and lost, although people might argue (as usual) no berbatov no rooney, but they had a pretty strong line up in my opnion with the likes of giggs, fletcher, chichrito etc... Well even if we do win the CC its nothing to go on ranting abt because the critics and other fans will hit us back saying well its just the carling cup a competition to breed young talent..

Homologation meanwhile has yet to be finalized but Porsche expects the GT4 Clubsport to be be approved for the Ultra 94 GT3 Cup Challenge here in Canada along with the VLN Long Distance Championship Nürburgring, Pirelli World Challenge, Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge, Pirelli GT3 Cup Trophy in the USA as well as for other club - level competition events around the world.»

What's more, this island paradise, which is only 21 miles long and lies in the middle of the north Atlantic, will play host to the 35th America's Cup next summer after seeing off stiff competition from New York and San Francisco.

Last night saw the 2015 Capcom Cup come to a close, and with it the final Ultra Street Fighter IV pro-tour competition, with the long - running title retiring to make way for Street Fighter V, which will be the pro-tour game of choice for 2016 onward.

In his keynote speech during the banquet, Cromwell discussed his long attachment to the Gale Cup, dating back to 1976 when he won the competition as a law student at Queen's University.