Sentences with phrase «matches against their rivals»

The Portuguese is known for being a cautious and defensive manager, but Neville has warned him that that will not go down well in a home match against rivals Liverpool.

And Monte Vista jumps right back into the fire after a holiday break with a Jan. 9 EBAL match against rival San Ramon Valley - Danville.

While Chelsea FC's match against rivals Manchester United at Stamford bridge ended in an exciting 1 - 1 draw, the Blues defender was stretchered off the pitch screaming in pain, after he landed awkwardly while challenging for an aerial duel in the second half.

Chelsea boss Antonio Conte has slammed the Premier League ahead of his team» match against rivals Manchester City at the Bridge this weekend.The Italian tactician feels the Blues has been penalized by the English Premier League match schedulers in...

They play the game incessantly, altering strategic calculations, building a list of friends to play with, trading grudge matches against rivals and friendly competitions with friends.

Not exact matches

The athletic wear brand experienced a small public relations snafu this week when FIFA banned Luis Suarez, the star of Uruguay World Cup team, from the rest of the World Cup for biting a rival player in a match against Italy.

But in the meantime we have Arteta as captain which means he plays every game he is fit for when he is clearly not up to the standard of DM we need for the matches against our biggest rivals.

Brighton's remaining fixtures, however will encourage rivals, as their remaining matches include trips to Burnley, Manchester City and Liverpool as well as a home tie against Manchester United.

Shaw has recovered from injury but faces a race against time for full match fitness in time for the clash against rivals Liverpool over the weekend.

Example - in a crucial football match against your closest rival you leave out your best player who is the highest goal scorer in the league and also an assist number 1 of your team and then lose the match and drop down the peck.

However despite Giroud's best efforts, as well as a goal in the midweek clash against Ludogorets, Alexis still kept his place for the following Premier League match against North London rivals Spurs.

The Real Madrid superstar touched down in Manchester ahead of Portugal's friendly with Argentina; a match which will see him pitted against La Liga rival Lionel Messi.

We thank Warwick for their hospitality on the day of the match, and for their help in making sure we're ready to face off against our long - term rivals next month.

Team Isaacson played a truly remarkable Dodgeball match Monday night, not budging at all against Rival Team Bemoras.

Chelsea and Brazil winger Willian was wrongly booked for a dive in the Blues» Community Shield match against London rivals Arsenal, as Antonio Conte's side search for an opener.

Tottenham aren't going to want to see any of their top players leave this summer, but with the pressure of being unable to match wage offers from rivals coupled with their track record of failing to win major silverware, it could all count against them if United really do come knocking.

It is at least a big match against another promotion rival Sheffield Wednesday and that is their big priority but so is the Premier League for Arsenal.

Athens side Panionios were so sickened by the prospect of allowing arch rivals AEK Athens to use their ground for their forthcoming Europa League match against Dundee United that their fans decided to trash their own stadium.

Arsenal won their second consecutive competitive match in three months against 10 - man rivals Chelsea today as the Gunners secured their third Community Shield victory since 2014 with a 4 - 1 penalty shoot - out victory over the Blues following a 1 - 1 draw in normal time.

Despite a somewhat disjointed performance from the Arsenal team we did at least manage to earn a point from the Premier League match against top four rivals Man City yesterday and the fans will be hoping that this can be the start of our usual strong finish to an EPL campaign.

This is according tot the Daily Mail, who are reporting that Luiz, who joined the club for # 34M from PSG in 2016 as per BBC, is to be out injured for the next fours weeks, meaning that he's set to sit out the matches against the Blaugrana and their London rivals.

If Arsenal do as we expect them to this weekend and run out as winners of the home game against a struggling Southampton side getting used to their new manager Claude Puel, while he gets used to the English Premier League for the first time, then we will be heading into the next round of matches a bit closer to at least one of our big spending Premier League rivals.

A goal from Robert Earnshaw secured all three points for Nottingham Forest from this match against their local rivals Derby County, a result that takes them into the top six.

Unfortunately, it's against one of our biggest bitterest rivals in the EPL and London, Chelsea — and yes, they are cruising into the derby from their latest matches, while we are barely pulling through.

Over the next week alone we have a testing trip to Bulgaria for a match against Ludogorets, before facing rivals Tottenham in the league.

However, the reigning European giants have demonstrated their fallibility in recent weeks, losing back - to - back matches against fierce rivals Real Madrid, before being defeated 1 - 0 by Real Sociedad on Saturday.

He is an academy lad and should play against rivals in home matches.

this is the kind of win which is equally important as win against manu as all our rivals won today even chelski won courtesy brad guzan this shows the mental toughness which we r getting it could have easily been 1 - 0 at half time but players kept calm and in the end 3 pta came home.Now about match this game shows exactly the importance of having a player like giroud u just see the impact of giroud against bottom half teams so both giroud and wallcott are necessary depending on opponenets also ozil had a very good game glad that Rambo scores now come on u Bavarians just please home supporters please make arsenal a fortress like Highbury rest our players will se interesting times ahead

A MATCH AGAINST A TITLE RIVAL IS A 6 POINTER, SO IF WE CANT WIN, WE MUST NOT LOSE EITHER!!

Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino is claimed to have attended Holland's friendly match against Ireland two weeks back, in order to have a closer look at the winger, but will now face competition from close rivals Arsenal in the race to sign him.

If you win a match against a title rival, mathematically it is 3 points but logically it is 6 points!

Former world chess champion Bobby Fischer, who is on the run from U.S. authorities for tax evasion and for flouting economic sanctions against Yugoslavia with his $ 5 million 1992 match against his old rival Boris Spassky in Belgrade, apparently hasn't reformed.

Their inability to beat the biggest sides is reflected in the Premier League — in the last 3 seasons, Arsenal have won just 3 matches against their top 4 rivals, a run which includes 11 defeats.

What do you make of Zidane's choices for the match against their local rivals today?

The defender made his return from injury to start today's crucial North London Derby match, and we can thank him for not only bagging the opening goal, but helping our boys to keep a clean sheet against our rivals in the 2 - 0 win.

It is not exactly like Arsene Wenger to give his rival managers any sort of help in working out how Arsenal are planning to play ahead of a match, especially a match as important as the one against the Premier League leaders Leicester City on Sunday is.

Our side hasn't hit top form yet this season, while our rivals have been consistently winning the majority of their matches, but I feel that our performance against Manchester City proves that our players are really up for the big games this year.

The reigning champions picked up a valuable point in their last league match against local rivals Racing Club and will hope to improve their form with a positive result against the Ecuadorian side.

Courtois, hasn't had much to do so far in this match, came up with a superb save to deny Swiss midfielder Granit Xhaka from equalising in the Blues» Community Shield match against London rivals Arsenal.

So many great matches to come against 4th place rivals City United Liverpool Everton Spurs Swansea West ham Southampton and now Newcastle.

At least Theo has shown up in some big games for us, and actually had some match - winning displays including a few hat - tricks & great goals against rivals - I've got more hope for him still than Ox.

I could go back and remember the 6 - 3 loss against Man City, the 1 - 1 draw against Everton and 1 - 0 loss to Man Utd in the 2013/2014 season and many other matches over the past 3 seasons where Giroud has been a phenomenon and joy to our rivals.

In our first match against a direct rival, we dismantled Arsenal at Anfield, winning 4 - 0.

England failed to score for the first time in 18 matches as they lost their opening European Under - 21 Championship tie against Group B rivals Portugal.

Giroud travelled with Arsenal for Tuesday night's match against Swansea City, but the 31 - year - old will likely be left out ahead of the shock move to the rival club.

Failed to win the last match against Las Palmas yesterday at Santiago Bernabeu, Real Madrid has lost their top ranking position to their most rival club another Spanish giant Barcelona.

A Spanish government commission has imposed fines of 3,000 euros each on four Real Madrid fans who displayed Nazi symbols at last month's La Liga match against city rivals Atletico at Real's Bernabeu stadium.

However, with United now just a point behind City in fourth, and their rivals up against Arsenal in their next Premier League match — a draw would put both sides, or a loss for the blues, would put them at risk of being overtaken by Van Gaal's squad if they can win against West Ham and Bournemouth in their last two games of the campaign.

Lionel Messi scored the equalizing goal for Barcelona during their El Clasico match against arch rivals Real Madrid.

The 29 - year - old appeared to suffer a serious back injury in the club's first match of the season against local rivals Atletico Madrid.