Sentences with phrase «midweek round»

The festive season in English football is typically fraught with fixture congestion, but Chelsea are feeling the strain more than most this year, thanks to their involvement in the Carabao Cup and Champions League — not to mention the extra midweek round of Premier League games shoehorned in to make room for the World Cup at the end of the season.

Furthermore, Roma had been held to consecutive draws prior to the midweek round of fixtures, and the pressure was certainly building on Spalletti and his team to get back to winning ways to avoid being surpassed by their rivals.

We still have America's sweetheart Christian Pulisic and Darlington Nagbe, fresh off giving Tim Howard a Giovani Dos Santos flashback in the midweek round of MLS games.

The midweek round of fixtures worked out well for Arsenal with City, Liverpool, Manchester United and Everton all dropping points, but Walcott, who was made captain in the absence of Laurent Koscielny, claimed they are not looking at the table despite having just nine games to play.

They head into the midweek round of matches just a point above the drop zone and with only the one win in their last five league games now.

They go into the midweek round of action sitting in fifth place and fairly comfortable, but they have won just two of their last six league games.

Villa go into the midweek round of matches having dropped back down to third place.

Las Palmas are sat in the relegation spots in the Spanish top flight heading into the midweek round of action and they don't look too likely to pick up points in this fixture to help move themseleves out of it either.