Sentences with phrase «narrow win at»

No it isn't that Wayne Rooney has gone over two months without scoring in the Premier League, it's that United's star man is a major doubt for the fixture because of an hip injury he sustained in last week's narrow win at Swansea.

Last week's narrow win at home to Sunderland was only their fourth of the term, a term littered with eight defeats; only the bottom two in the table − Blackburn and Wigan − have racked up more losses.

However I think they will have enough about them to get narrow win at home against a difficult opponent.

While such a ruthless rout of Arsenal will raise expectations around Liverpool, it followed an underwhelming start to the league campaign that saw Juergen Klopp's side draw the opener at Watford then claim a narrow win at Crystal Palace.

They opened with a narrow win at Burton and then backed back to back home wins over Aston Villa and Sheffield United.

Man U hasn't been great in the last 3 games starting from the narrow win at Hull City.

Ji - Sung Park scored a late late winner to give Manchester United a narrow win at Old Trafford over a determined Wolves side.

Not exact matches

When intensity wins out at the expense of survival, rather than in harmony with it, definitions and statements of exclusion narrow the scope of the society.

England weren't at their best against Australia, and they failed to dominate the way they should have during their narrow 2 - 1 win.

The field has been narrowed down to eight drivers still in the running for the Cup after Brad Keselowski saved his skin by winning at Talladega Motor Speedway last Sunday, bouncing Casey Kahne from contention.

Arkansas was (rather foolishly) given Top 5 hype this offseason and stands at 4 - 5 after a narrow win over Tulsa.

Everton striker Romelu Lukaku believes the Premier League strugglers will qualify for the last eight of the Europa League, after claiming a narrow first leg lead over Dynamo Kiev with a 2 - 1 win at Goodison Park.

Win that and another shot at Michigan, a team that has two narrow wins over the Wildcats, would await in Friday's quarterfinals.

This will be Pardew's 4th home game, and he has had two draws and a narrow defeat to Man United so far, and he thinks that the Baggies were unlucky not to win their last one at home to Everton.

Their only win in 10 games was a narrow 1 - 0 victory over Plymouth Argyle in the FA Cup — a competition they were booted out of 10 days later when they lost 2 - 1 at home to Wolverhampton Wanderers.

In fact the only bit of bad news from the narrow win over West Brom is that we have lost Gibbs as an option at left back, although as usual Le Prof doesn't think it is serious.

If you narrow down the regular season sample size and only look at teams with winning percentages of 60 or greater, this trend doesn't hold true.

So when we saw Diego Costa pull up after just 12 minutes of Chelsea's narrow win against Stoke City last weekend, it appeared likely that the Brazilian born Spanish international would probably miss the rest of the season, or most of it at least.

After narrowing our focus to look at home favorites in low - scoring games, we found that teams fitting these criteria have produced a 198 - 140 (58.6 %) ATS record which increases both our units won (48.39) and ROI (14.3 %).

But nothing in the last month, in which A&M went 1 - 3 with only a narrow win over ULM and switched quarterbacks while Auburn went 3 - 1 with only a loss at No. 1 Mississippi State, hinted that this was still a possibility.

It may well have felt like Deja Vu to the Arsenal and Germany international star Mesut Ozil at Euro 2016 yesterday, because despite the attacking midfielder producing an awesome and bewildering display of passing and creative football that had Northern Ireland chasing shadows in France, his national side Germany could only manage to win by the narrowest of margins.

Arsenal cemented their place at the top of the table with a win in 2016, scraping past Newcastle with a narrow 1 - 0 win.

They say great attacks win you games and great defences win you titles, and that's certainly true of United at their peak, who were able to grind out narrow wins even when not at their best due to having the likes of Jaap Stam, Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic keeping things tight at the back for all those years.

Goals may be at a premium in this one, and a narrow Millwall home win looks on the cards.

We have only won twice in our last 10 games on the road, and they were only narrow late victories at Burnley and Crystal Palace so we need to step up our own performance....

Prior to Tottenham's narrow 1 - 0 win over Swansea in December, the club were notorious for conceding late goals, most notably in the previous fixture when the side let in two late strikes at Everton in a 2 - 1 defeat.

They lost 3 - 0 on the road at Atletico Madrid last weekend, but bounced back with a narrow 1 - 0 home win against Malaga in midweek.

Last time these two meet was back in September 2017 when Manchester City absolutely dominated City at Stamford Bridge and although they scoreline suggest a very narrow win, it was anything but that.

In the League game at Goddison United secured a comprehansive 3 - 0 win while they also managed a narrow 1 - 0 win at Old Trafford.

Narrow wins over Fulham and Swansea followed before Suarez ended a five - game goal drought with a fortunate opener in a 3 - 0 win at Southampton, when Philippe Coutinho's pass deflected perfectly into his path.

Having won 2 - 1 in their last 4 games and that important narrow win over United last weekend, City are now 11 points clear at the top and should be odds on favorites to make it 15 straight wins this Wednesday by beating a struggling Swansea City side.

Having won 2 - 1 in their last 4 games and that important narrow win over United last weekend, City are now 11 points clear at the top and should -LSB-...]

Ibrahimovic marked his first start for LA Galaxy with the winning goal in a narrow 1 - 0 victory over the Chicago Fire at Toyota Park on Saturday, after scoring on his debut against city rivals LAFC.

Hazard's penalty was enough to seal a narrow win over Alan Pardew's side, which made Chelsea uncatchable at the top.

They are a price of 6/1 at bet365 to win by a one goal margin in this with Chelsea at 11/4 to take the narrow win.

While they're scoring enough goals at the minute, in the latter stages of the league and in the cups they'll need to protect narrow wins, and that's when the keeper needs to be at his very best.

The Red Devils suffered a shock loss at the hands of newly promoted Huddersfield Town last weekend and it showed the lack of depth in their team, though they did manage a narrow 1 - 0 win over Tottenham at home.

West Brom have been struggling at home and Chelsea have carried enough away form this season to sneak a narrow win.

That narrow loss to Liverpool was Rangers» fourth in six games, winning just the once during what has otherwise been a dismal spell − beating Stoke City 3 - 2 at the Brittania a month ago.

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A first win of the season in the league − a narrow and slightly fortuitous 1 - 0 win over Swansea at the Emirates — and a creditable draw away in Germany against the defending domestic champions, Borussia Dortmund, would suggest they are on the right path; however, their performances in both will have reaffirmed what Arsene Wenger already knew − that there is still plenty of work to be done on the training ground before the Gunners are back firing on all cylinders.

Their first win of the campaign came in the form of a narrow and somewhat fortunate 2 - 1 victory at home to Wigan Athletic, a side who were suffering a dip in form themselves at the time.

A narrow, and we would even say fortuitous win at home over Fulham on New Year's day remains Tottenham's only league triumph of 2011 — Spurs failing to win any of their following three league fixtures and as a result have seen their previously prominent stance in the table dwindle into one of growing concern.

Blackburn recorded a 3 - 0 win at Ewood Park while Stoke sneaked a narrow 1 - 0 victory at The Brittania.

Fans have been appalled with what they've seen so far this season from Alex McLeish and his team, with the club languishing down in 15TH following a dismal run of form which has seen them record one league win in 2012 − a narrow 3 - 2 success away at struggling Wolves.

Blackburn's only home win over Liverpool in seven meetings at Ewood Park came three seasons ago in a narrow 1 - 0 win, a Benni McCarthy second half strike separating the two then.

A win for Palace here and I think they will feel they are likely to be safe and I think given their form and the return of Wilfried Zaha, I think they will go to Vicarage Road and eke out a narrow win here, though perhaps not as dramatically as they did at Selhurst Park earlier in the season.

Manchester United Home win: Given the recent games between these at Old Trafford, it may be worth edging the home side to take a narrow win.

A narrow, hard - fought win over West Brom at the weekend kept the Blues top of the Premier League table.