Sentences with phrase «of heavy defeats away»

Following their struggles domestically and their setbacks in terms of heavy defeats away from home in Europe this season, Barca will need to make changes to their current squad giving Luis Enrique's successor the best possible chance of continuing their illustrious history of winning major honours.

After all, we are coming off the back of a heavy defeat away to Sheffield Wednesday and we are in the middle of an injury crisis.

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Whereas Arsene Wenger and his players have proved this season that we are no longer like lambs to the slaughter in games against the big boys, beating Man City and Man United away and not suffering any heavy defeats, our record of being flat track bullies has not been up to the usual standard.

But the Blues will go into this game — with a bit of concern after their momentum was brought to a crushing halt by a heavy defeat in the Champions League Quarter - final first leg away from home against Liverpool.

Since the injury to Pedro Obiang West Ham have picked up just four points from five games including three heavy away defeats; and the sad thing is there doesn't seem to be any obvious solution to the problem for the remainder of the season.

• Heaviest away defeat 5 - 1: FC Bayern München v Arsenal 15/02/17, UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg 5 - 1: FC Bayern München 04/11/15, UEFA Champions League group stage 4 - 0: AC Milan v Arsenal 15/02/12, UEFA Champions League round of 16 first leg

Both sides were on the wrong end of heavy 4 - 1 away defeats last weekend, against Brighton and Liverpool respectively, although the Swans have since picked themselves up, dusted themselves down and made it through to the sixth round of the FA Cup.

• Heaviest away defeat 3 - 1 on four occasions, most recently v KKS Lech Poznań 04/11/10, group stage 2 - 0 on four occasions, most recently v FC Dynamo Kyiv 10/03/11, round of 16 first leg

Now Blackburn have shipped eleven goals in their last two away outings and although they will return home for Saturday's crunch meeting with fellow relegation candidates Wolves, two heavy defeats over the course of just a few weeks could do no end of damage to the morale in camp.

Defeats on the road to Sunderland (2 - 1), Everton (3 - 0) & Arsenal (6 - 2) mean Rovers are without a single away point this season but their most recent performance, despite suffering a heavy defeat, might be a sign of things to come from a Rovers side that do boast a recent win at home to bitter rivals Burnley.

• Heaviest away defeat 6 - 1: FC Bayern München v Porto 21/04/15, UEFA Champions League quarter - final second leg 6 - 1: AEK Athens FC v Porto 13/09/78, European Champion Clubs» Cup first round first leg 5 - 0: twice, most recently v Arsenal FC 09/03/10, UEFA Champions League round of 16 second leg

Their position in the table now looks worryingly precarious, with only a solitary point keeping the relegation zone at bay and a heavy defeat possibly on the way at Stamford Bridge, they could soon join the likes of relegation mainstays West Ham and Wolves inside the bottom three should their goal difference take a battering, which, considering they post the worst away defence in the entire top - flight — having shipped 22 in 9 away matches — is a likely scenario.

As for our dear Arsenal PL title win prospect next season, there is no cause for alarm to raise any alarm by any Gooner despite the heavy defeat we suffered at the hands of Chelsea yesterday in far away China in hotly contested friendly match we played between ourselves.

In fact, if you were to ignore their two humblings away to Arsenal and Chelsea, results you would expect considering, Blackpool have conceded 19 in 15 league matches thus far, a similar defensive record to that of Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur were you to eliminate their heaviest defeats.

Destiny Watford, United States: In a community whose environmental rights had long been sidelined to make room for heavy industry, Destiny Watford inspired residents of a Baltimore neighborhood to defeat plans to build the nation's largest trash - burning incinerator less than a mile away from her high school.