Sentences with phrase «newly promoted sides»

The former Newcastle United star confirmed what we all knew ahead of Saturday's crunch encounter with one of the newly promoted sides, Blackpool.

And as everyone knows, the novelty affect which comes with the Premier League for newly promoted sides doesn't tend to last long and so some form and stability is required from Blackpool in quick time if they're to remain competitive in a league where so many newbies have thrived in the opening quarter of the season, with the excitement of the Premier League still fresh in the system, before being hit with a hard reality check and with a fall from grace down the table.

United have won four of their last six Premier League visits to the Riverside (D1 L1) and Man Utd are unbeaten in their last seven (W5 D2) against newly promoted sides, keeping five clean sheets.

Rafael Benitez has lost each of his last four Premier League matches against newly promoted sides, having lost only two of the first 40.

From the teams we are playing this season, minus the 6 games against newly promoted sides we got 35 points.

Grade: 4/10 — Out of the three newly promoted sides, Dinamo have performed the poorest so far.

The stats suggest that Arsenal have a very good recent record against newly promoted sides, but there is no doubting an away trip to Burnley, who have comfortably beaten Liverpool and Watford at Turf Moor already this season, will be a very difficult obstacle to overcome.

Over the last three full seasons and the beginning of this season Arsenal have made ten trips to newly promoted sides into the EPL from the second tier Championship league.

The Baggies have to be concerned by their recent form, especially losing out to newly promoted sides.

Sunderland have actually only won one of their last 10 away games against newly promoted sides as well in a D4 L5 record and the last time that they ended a calendar year with a win was way back in 2007.

KEY FACT: Stoke have won seven of their last nine home Premier League matches against newly promoted sides MATCH ODDS: Stoke 6/5 Draw 9/4 Brighton 11/4 bet365 Pick: Half time score 0 - 0 @ 6/4 ANDY SAYS: Stoke win for me here, think Paul Lambert will get the win... 2 - 0 GRAEME SAYS: Stoke have improved and they should just about claim the three points... 2 - 1 SILKY SAYS: I can see a home win, think Stoke will take the victory... 2 - 0 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: At # 0.69, Jack Butland has to be a good buy

Tottenham have have won their last 13 Premier League home games against newly promoted sides, since losing 1 - 2 against Norwich in April 2012.

They have gone W12 D5 since then against newly promoted sides at Anfield.

Manchester City have gone unbeaten in their last 28 home games in the top flight against newly promoted sides (W25 D3) and two of those three draws have been against Burnley.

Everton are unbeaten in their last 11 games away from home in the top flight against newly promoted sides.

But the flip side of Man City, Liverpool and Man United struggling has been the likes of Leicester and Watford, as these two newly promoted sides have claimed a number of big scalps and find themselves in top spot and seventh.

The Red Devils were defeated 2 - 1 by Norwich City on Saturday, making it two back - to - back defeats against newly promoted sides.

This is the only league in the world where newly promoted sides can spend # 40 Million a year on players, the BPL in all honesty is at its most competitive, But as i mentioned before we can only attract / keep the high quality players if we show we are capable of winning silverware, We don't have a 700 million pound War chest to spend on players so were not gonna buy the league.

Plenty of newly promoted sides go on a run early as the league hasn't yet figured them out.

Match week 3 of the 2014/15 Barclays Premier League campaign for Arsenal sees them travel to King Power Stadium to take on Leicester City, who have been the brightest of the three newly promoted sides this season.

Two newly promoted sides do battle at St Mary's and do so with both teams desperate for points to help them out of the bottom three.

My point was more to do with nurturing a newly promoted side, but fair enough.

Royals boss McDermott has already worked wonders this summer, bringing in Pavel Pogrebnyak, Danny Guthrie and Garath McCleary without spending a penny in transfer fees and now the newly promoted side are looking to add further top tier experience to their Madejski Stadium squad with a move for Sunderland's Kieran Richardson.

We are well into season and still a newly promoted side is making us look like we are the one newly promoted.

Frosinone secured promotion to Italy's top flight for the first time in their history by beating Crotone 3 - 1 back in May and they will hope to make an immediate impact when they take on Torino at the Communale Matusa while another newly promoted side Capri, stocked with loan signings from Juventus and Fiorentina, will take on Sampdoria hoping for a surprise while Palermo face Genoa.

Chambers apparently had a number of offers from across England, however it was to be newly promoted side Middlesborough that Chambers would end up.

Chelsea scored a few nice goals against a newly promoted side who are being pretty much universally touted as guaranteed to be relegated.

everyone seems to be in a rush to do interviews especially after the Man u game... its a big big win for us seeing as we have not had one over them in 4 years but in the name of all that is good this is AFC we are talking about and no matter how crucial a win is against one of our biggest rival we should just move on and focus on the next game and stop behaving and acting like a newly promoted side that caused a big upset by beating one of the favorites for the title... at the end of the day its a very important win but its still 3 points....

The hosts should have too much class for the newly promoted side and Wolves to win to nil at 11/10.

The Clarets have picked up solid points away at Newcastle United and Man City the newly promoted side could well do with some extra quality to help push them out of the drop zone.

This is the first time we've lost 4 away in a row in close to 90 years as well as the first time in a lot of years since we lose to a newly promoted side.

However, Liverpool's attacking prowess proved too much for the newly promoted side and their unbelievable pace on the counter was the difference.

Gus Poyet has seen his newly promoted side pick up two wins from two, the latest being thanks to a Craig Mackail - Smith winner.

Yet the same is true of Burnley, their fellow newly promoted side, who have just picked up their sixth win of the season and are sitting six points clear of the relegation zone and eight points above the Tigers.

Since then they have lost to Crystal Palace and Newcastle United without scoring, while they were also held to a 2 - 2 draw by fellow newly promoted side Burnley.

Hull City are another newly promoted side that are favourites to be relegated this summer.

Despite his troubles at Arsenal, Bendtner would still be a good signing for a newly promoted side due to his experience in the Premier League.

The newly promoted side defeated what was arguably Pep Guardiola's finest Barcelona team 2 - 0 at the Camp Nou.

The Gunners lost 2 - 1 to newly promoted side, Brighton last weekend in a game that showed the lack of effort and lack of managerial awareness from the Arsenal team and coaching staff.

However, the Baggies have won just one of their last 11 games against promoted sides in the Premier League (D4 L6), but their last home win against a newly promoted side was against Burnley in September 2014.

Many expected the newly promoted side to be languishing in the relegation area but they have proven everybody wrong with an exciting brand of football that has surprised fans and opponents alike.

Etebo who put up a five star display in the tie has been linked with a move away from the newly promoted side, after starring for Nigeria at the Olympics in Rio and the senior team during the World Cup qualifiers.

However, the Foxes haven't lost any of their last nine league matches against Burnley (W6 D3) and they haven't lost a home game in the Premier League against a newly promoted side since back in 2001 and are favourites here.

Cardiff got a draw away to fellow newly promoted side Hull City last weekend and will hope they can continue their decent start at home, where they are still unbeaten after a win and a draw against Manchester City and Everton respectively.

Of course, that campaign brought plenty of poor displays against average sides, and the Blues drew home and away to the then newly promoted side.

Livorno 0 - 2 AS Roma highlights: French tactician, Rudi Garcia make a positive start on his new career with AS Roma as he guided his side in grabbing an important away victory over newly promoted side, Livorno on Sunday.

Crystal Palace continue to get themselves back into winning ways after snatching all three points against fellow newly promoted side, Cardiff City this weekend.

Before the season kicked off, many Liverpool fans would have pointed to December's first match as one of the easiest of the first half of the season, with the newly promoted side the pick of most to head straight back down to the Championship at the first time of asking.

After only grabbing a point from their latest league fixture, Giallorossi were determined in getting back on winning ways against the newly promoted side.

It would be hugely disappointing if we lost our captain to Harry Redknapp's newly promoted side but it wouldn't necessarily surprise me.