Sentences with phrase «of embarrassing defeats»

If the unthinkable does happen at Wembley, and Roy Hodgson's side lose to the minnows, then it will become the latest chapter in a surprisingly long list of embarrassing defeats down the years.
Detailed reports and allegedly leaked audio paint a picture of an embarrassing defeat at the hands of the US military, and how the remains of dead Russian mercenaries are being held until after Russia's presidential election in March.

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You're all bent out of shape and butt - hurt because you were soundly beaten and you now are too embarrassed to own up to your defeat.
The Gunners were dominated in the opening half, and within 20 mnutes of the match, found themselves 2 - 0 down, and on course for an embarrassing defeat.
The Blues are already nine points behind table - toppers Manchester City and have suffered similarly embarrassing defeats at the hands of Burnley and Crystal Palace this term.
Considering PSG also embarrassed themselves in falling to a 6 - 1 defeat at the hands of Barcelona, to lose a tie that they led 4 - 0 ninety minutes earlier, it seems as if Wenger and PSG would be well accepted to each others expectations.
Arsenal fans should be getting used to some awful performances by Arsene Wenger's team this season, but this was surely one of the worst as we actually played our very best available team, while the embarrassing defeats to teams like Nottm Forest and Ostersunds were at least played by our reserves..
No other club in the world would put up with embarrassing defeats, humiliation, lack of tactics, buying pure dung, a pure disaster of a defence, do I have to go on and on and on and onnnnnn?
Following that embarrassing defeat there was a great debate among the Bruins as to just how many of them had been earning their large salaries.
Walcott's statement embarrassed the club's efforts in the dressing room during last week's defeat, in their attempt to raise the bar and create a atmosphere that we could turn this bad spell of performances around.
Just a week ago, Arsenal looked to be hitting form with the demolition of Stoke giving them a third clean sheet in a row, but that has all gone straight down the pan with our embarrassing defeat in Zagreb, and our even more annoying defeat by a Chelsea team that has conceded 12 goals and were already six points behind us before the game started.
Do u know hw many nights we av gone to bed heartbroken because of Arsenal embarrassing defeat?
1 A DEFEAT WILL END ARSENAL»S TITLE HOPE!Arsenal travel to White Hart Lane knowing that a defeat would virtually end their title chances, a conclusion many have already reached following embarrassing performances in back - to - back defeats by Manchester United and Swansea.2 IT WILL END WENGER»S EXCUSES IF SPURS WINS THE GAME AND THE TITLEWenger's excuse for failing to win the title for the last 12 years has mainly revolved around the greater resources of the likes of Manchester City and Chelsea.What could the reason be this time if Tottenham or Leicester wiDEFEAT WILL END ARSENAL»S TITLE HOPE!Arsenal travel to White Hart Lane knowing that a defeat would virtually end their title chances, a conclusion many have already reached following embarrassing performances in back - to - back defeats by Manchester United and Swansea.2 IT WILL END WENGER»S EXCUSES IF SPURS WINS THE GAME AND THE TITLEWenger's excuse for failing to win the title for the last 12 years has mainly revolved around the greater resources of the likes of Manchester City and Chelsea.What could the reason be this time if Tottenham or Leicester widefeat would virtually end their title chances, a conclusion many have already reached following embarrassing performances in back - to - back defeats by Manchester United and Swansea.2 IT WILL END WENGER»S EXCUSES IF SPURS WINS THE GAME AND THE TITLEWenger's excuse for failing to win the title for the last 12 years has mainly revolved around the greater resources of the likes of Manchester City and Chelsea.What could the reason be this time if Tottenham or Leicester wins it?
When we went to St. Mary's on Boxing Day we were on a run of 5 wins in row, and Southampton were rapidly dropping down the table, but the Gunners were severely embarrassed by a stunning 4 - 0 defeat.
Our embarrassing reversal in Munich, equalling Arsene Wenger's worst ever UCL defeat, we now are set to come up against our arch enemies Tottenham, who are on a run of ten games unbeaten.
I was actually disappointed that it stopped at four, because although the peformance (if you can call it a perfromance at all) was diabolical the score, though embarrassing to a degree, stopped short of being like the 8 - 2 at Old Trafford and to be honest we need a lot more of those huge embarrassing defeats to enforce change.
After Arsenal's hugely embarrassing 5 - 1 defeat to Bayern Munich in the Champions League, a result that has almost certainly sealed our European fate for yet another consecutive season, odds were slashed to suggest that Arsene Wenger would be leaving the club at the end of the season.
Come to think of it, most if not all of wenger signings are inspired by humiliating defeats or serious injury crisis, but not by a genuine desire to create a league winning side.If you look at most of the players we have now, they were either signed as a consequence of injuries, as cheap replacements, as free agents, after an embarrassing defeat or as a result of another club's financial woes (Malaga), being benched (cech).
With that being said, though, Corbin could use a win after his embarrassing defeat and loss of the Money in the Bank briefcase, so maybe we'll see his anger at his own failure show up in this match and drive him to victory over a possibly overconfident Cena.
Arsenal slumped to another embarrassing European defeat last night, this time at the hands of Dinamo Zagreb.
My dreams for the rest of the season for Arsenal are to win the Europa league, no more embarrassing defeats and for Wenger to step down at the end of this season.
Our side will be keen for a big performance against the Reds, having already been embarrassed by the Anfield club in August when they gave us a 4 - 0 thrashing on Merseyside, and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain will hopefully be on the end of both defeats having played at wing - back for us in the reverse fixture shortly before moving to our rivals.
The boys in green will go in to Friday's encounter with lowly Azerbaijan hoping to make up for the embarrassing defeat at the hands of Luxembourg last month.
If it's becos of Wenger's character traits such as stubbornness, doing too many jobs at one time & not spending enough time & effort on improving the team that resulted in Arsenal's embarrassing defeats, he has to be blamed, he's being paid 8m per annum that's more than some CEO «s pay!
Totally agree Chris.He is now well past his sell by date and defeats like have suffered against Bournemouth and Swansea are not only embarrassing but unforgivable.The results were bad enough but the performances are now all too familiar against theses lower ranked clubs.To expect us supporters to be blinded by League Cup Final and only a couple of decent performances so far this season is misjudging our feelings about his position This is a very well educated and intelligent man who can have no doubts about our attitude and utter disgust for him.He has allowed for us to make this personal now and he is deluded if he thinks e can collect another years salary out our expense.He knows his control is slowly being wrestled away from him and that really says it all.Ivan G is taking control and Wenger will be raging inside with this.Did he seriously expect things to continue until he felt it was time to just walk off into the sunset?Well he now knows his time at OUR club is fast running out.The day can't come soon enough for me.
Kasper Schmeichel is between the posts after pulling off a number of top saves in the defeat at Man Utd to ensure that it was an embarrassing evening for Leicester City, with Benjamin Mendy completing the defence, in a strange back three given he didn't play in one.
Walking out on a cup final early is poor saying the things after is poor we have had the most consistancy of any pl club for 20 years it goes bad we lose and we show no honor in defeat i never mentioned wenger i mentioned the lack of support in a cup final was sad and by walking out it showed we've been spoiled city did nt leave the semi early last year when we beat em they did nt leave early wehen they lost in league one and i cant stand city im arsenal through and through we won a cup last year and the year before were in another cup final and tempemental fans leave early even though it takes alot to get to a cup final maybe you need to lose more to lose respectable its hard it sucks but its a cup final bigger than the management our opinions for a day its about how you show you solidarity as a club win or lose every other club in england would of taken our spot in a heartbeat if they could of and we lea e early that shows spoilage and it was embarrassing to see we need to be stronger as supporters newcastle does nt like ashley yet they still show up and when was the last time they won a cup?
So far it is looking like Petr Cech will be Arsenal's only high - profile signing of the season, and after our embarrassing defeat to West Ham it was looking debatable as to whether the predictions that he would gain us 12 points a season were to become true.
Champions League runners - up to relegation dogfight in two years... With over half of the Bundesliga season having gone Borussia Dortmund sit bottom of the table following an embarrassing home defeat to 10 - man Augsburg.
The Frenchman has recently come under fire as he was part of the embarrassing 3 - 1 home defeat against Monaco, missing many guilt edge opportunities.
During their only regular season meeting back in Week 5, Team Malvin suffered an embarrassing defeat to Team Massie by a final score of 120 - 73.
It is a sad state of affairs when our goalkeeper was the Man Of The Match in Arsenal's woeful defeat at Tottenham yesterday, but the fact is that we could have been severely embarrassed if Petr Cech hadn't been on the pitcof affairs when our goalkeeper was the Man Of The Match in Arsenal's woeful defeat at Tottenham yesterday, but the fact is that we could have been severely embarrassed if Petr Cech hadn't been on the pitcOf The Match in Arsenal's woeful defeat at Tottenham yesterday, but the fact is that we could have been severely embarrassed if Petr Cech hadn't been on the pitch.
If you look at most of the players we have now, they were either signed as a consequence of injuries, as cheap replacements, as free agents, after an embarrassing defeat or as a result of another club's financial woes (Malaga), being benched (cech).
Manchester United will play their final home game against Hull City, in what has been an abysmal season of transition and embarrassing home defeats.
But just when it seemed it would be an embarrassing defeat for West Ham and a massive three points for their troubled visitors, Carroll returned to action for the first time in three months and reminded all of the terrific talent he is.
Another desperate and disinterested performance ends in a disappointing and embarrassing defeat at the hands of fellow strugglers Swansea City.
United suffer an embarrassing 3 - 0 defeat and chances of them progressing to the next round were slim.
Whilst Van Gaal has always insisted his philosophy will take time to bear fruit (and the history books prove that it's usually worth the wait), it was difficult to withhold all criticism in the wake of a 5 - 3 defeat to Leicester City, especially when the wounds from our embarrassing 4 - 0 defeat at MK Dons were still so raw.
It's really a question of whether Wolves can learn from their embarrassing defeat by Fulham.
Miodrag Bozovic, who won the cup with Rostov in the 13/14 season, started the season as head coach, but he only lasted 12 matches before he resigned at the end of September following an embarrassing cup defeat to Syzran - 2000 from the Russian 2nd Division.
Parker's arrival late in the summer transfer window of 2011 coincided with a turnaround in Tottenham's fortune following an embarrassing opening pair of defeats at the hands of...
We round of the week with two of those embarrassing banana skin FA Cup defeats.
There haven't been a huge amount of completely embarrassing defeats in Hull's season, but being dismantled 0 - 3 at home by a John Carver - led team has gone to be one of them.
End of the season edition of Paddy Power's #FanDenial is upon us and it features the best reactions after Spurs» embarrassing defeat at Newcastle United yesterday.
The 33 - year - old Real Madrid star pulled a victory from thin air against Egypt, trailing 1 - 0 prior to two stoppage - time strikes, but couldn't prevent an embarrassing defeat to one of the weakest Dutch sides in recent memory.
Because we were already in 2014 the first stop is tie that took place a few days prior to the League Cup thrashing by City; Fat Sam fielded a team of kids against League 1 Nottingham Forest that ended in an embarrassing 5 - 0 defeat.
Arsenal survived a major scare to secure their spot in the last 16 of the Europa League despite suffering an embarrassing 2 - 1 home defeat to Ostersund.
The Gunners failed to heed the lessons learned by Manchester United at this stage of the competition last season, and were rescued from an embarrassing defeat by a combination of Cesc Fabregas & Theo Walcott being summoned from the bench in the second - half.
A dismal performance at home to Fulham last weekend, who had previously won just one of their last 35 matches away from home in the Premier League, coincided with an embarrassing defeat which was later greeted by a chorus of boos from the home support as the final whistle rang out.
An embarrassing 2 - 0 defeat to bitter local rivals Tottenham Hotspurs and an even humiliating 3 - 0 thrashing at the hands of fellow London rivals Crystal Palace in the space of one month have left the Gunners jostling the 6th and 7th positions on the Premier League table.
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