Sentences with phrase «off cup games»

But as a manager, make no mistake: he is deeply, deeply average (except in one - off cup games against superior opposition, in which he's quite good at winning ugly in a Mourinho - lite kinda way).

It will be an extremely tough game, but we seem to excel in these one off cup games.

City are huge favourites, but anything can happen in a one off cup game, as we saw with Wigan last week.

He is right of course, anything can happen in a one - off cup game, but surely we shouldn't start worrying about losing with all those stars in the side?

Not exact matches

On Sunday, two Adidas - wearing squads faced off in the World Cup final while their Nike - wearing brethren had been relegated to the third place game.

In such a silence, if you have turned off the television and tempted your child away from his games with a good book, you can hear other things: the chatter and call of cardinals who have found the birdseed; the crack of a log in the fire; hot coffee being poured into a cup; the ticking of your last non-digital clock; the rhythmic breathing of tired child (or parent) who has dozed while reading; the soft thud of a book sliding to the floor.

Well, I'm watching the World Cup matches just now, but I don't hesitate in turning the TV off when it's mealtime and I don't feel guilty for missing any games when I do.

Arsenal had won their last 9 games against Watford at home up until last season when the Hornets arrived for an FA Cup match (a competition that we hadn't lost a game in for 3 seasons) but we let our North London neighbours bully our stars off the ball and surprisingly lost the game 2 - 1 after going 2 - 0 down.

Here's to hoping this game got the World Cup rust off and he can start dominating

The Penguins couldn't finish off the Senators on the road and will have to take care of business at home in game 7 if they want to repeat as Stanley Cup Champions.

We played Cambridge 2s in a BUCS league match in the second week of term and lost 6 - 0, we then drew them in the second round of the BUCS cup and lost 3 - 1, holding them at 1 - 1 for much of the game before conceding two late goals — I think the contrast between these two results (and the performances) is a testament to our hard work on and off the pitch and gives us a lot to be optimistic about looking forward to next term.

Wales are unbeaten in World Cup qualifying but, with just one win from their opening three games, Chris Coleman's side really need to take some points off Serbia in Cardiff next weekend.

The Nashville Predators (53 - 46, +0.08 units) will be looking to bounce back from a disappointing loss on Monday night when they face off against the Pittsburgh Penguins (63 - 39, +5.77 units) in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Finals this evening.

With Premier League, Europa League and League Cup games coming thick and fast over the next month or so, they'll need quality and depth across the squad, and welcoming this quintet back into the fold having shaken off various injury issues will undoubtedly be a welcome sight for Wenger and his men.

The game sees the 2014 and 2010 world champions facing off in preparation for this summer's World Cup 2018 in Russia.

United, in 2001 - 02, slumped down to ninth in the table and crashed out of both domestic cups; City, while they've played appallingly in quite a few games and been on the end of three genuine hidings, go into 2016 in third place, a mere three points off the lead, and with the majority of their tricky away games already behind them.

Canadiens struck swiftly in sixth game at Boston, grabbing 2 - 0 lead in opening minutes on goals by Bernie Geoffrion and Rocket, added three more by Geoffrion, Jean Beliveau and Doug Harvey to beat Bruins 5 - 3, skated off with Cup for third straight year.

Arsene Wenger is clearly hoping to get the new Premier League season off with a bang as he has planned a busy schedule for the Arsenal players in the build up to it, with two games in Australia then two games in China before the Emirates Cup and the Community Shield.

HOCKEY Detroit Red Wings took 3 - 0 lead on pair of goals by Alex Delvecchio, demoted center, and deflected shot by sharpshooting Gordie Howe, held on to whip Montreal Canadiens 3 - 1 for fourth time in seven - game series, skated off with Stanley Cup at Detroit.

With the EFL Cup off Arsenal's season timetable following the 0 - 2 defeat against Southampton, this will entails less games for Arsenal.

I'd play Alexis against Southampton, maybe sub him off if needed, but after that he can rest until the City game really, I don't think Stoke will be much of a threat at the Emirates, nor Hull in the FA Cup.

So maybe Ancelotti's strange decision to bring Khedira on as a sub in just one Champions League games, thereby making him cup tied, probably meant to put Arsenal off making a January transfer bid, may now just mean that Madrid will get even less for him.

i am not watching the game but i saw the lineup; they r with out RVP, Rooney, Mata, Hererra, Fletcher, Valencia, kagawa, Jones they r playing with all their young players.to be honest they r better off of the league cup this season.

The game between Arsenal and Chelsea is the main talking point from the Premier League weekend, unsurprisingly, or more specifically the controversy surrounding Diego Costa, Koscielny, Gabriel and the myopic referee Mike Dean and his assistants that just happened to be making a cup of tea or something when it all kicked off.

Welbeck position as a squad player comming off Arsenal bench to play 15 to 20 minutes in league matches and appear in Cup games are more suited to a rookie player like Campbell or Sanogo.

If it was over a one off game, maybe I could accept it as cup shocks do happen from time to time.

wenger must start playing Lucas with the inconsistencies in Ox and Walcot and the fact that Elneny and Iwobi are off soon to African cup, we must have Lucas prepared for EPL games

SZNY should start in goal, he got punished for what he did at Southampton by being dropped for the League and CL games, I have been p» ssed off with him but let's be fair and let him keep his FA cup appearances..

So game time is just 24 hours away, and to start off the buildup, let us look at the stats regarding this FA Cup tie between Southampton and Arsenal.

Preston sit six points off of Leeds in play - off places, and will be more than happy with their campaign thus far, although it wouldn't be unknown for a team to rest a number of players in the cup in order to concentrate on their league game.

The biggest surprise for me this evening with the Arsenal team selected by Arsene Wenger to face Tottenham in the Capital One cup game is that the boss has not picked Gabriel, and tha Braxzilian international defender who has just been let off his red card from the Chelsea game has not even made the bench.

Ooooooooo Haaaaaaahaaaaah!!!!!! i m really really happy guys because all the premier league big boys lost their games at their own stadium few minutes earlier in fa cup against small teams... it has really made my day and m very happy... chelsea lost 4 - 2 vs bradford at bridge man city lost 2 - 0 vs middlesborough at etihad southampton lost 3 - 2 vs our sanogo's crystal palace at saint mary's and lastly tottenham also losf at white hart lane vs leicester 2 - 0... I hope liverpool also lose today vs bolton at their own turf anfield in later match that would be something amazing guys all top teams gonna be out with our team hopefully tomorrow we will see off brighton and win the fa cup again and retain the cup and I think we r now favourites to win fa cup INSHAA ALLAH tis season again..

If Arsenal win this FA Cup match against Lincoln today, the win will not ease any pain the Gooners were allegedly have went through when Arsenal lost to Bayern Munich last Tuesday night at the Ems because there wasn't any pain the Gooners have suffered in the first place when Arsenal lost the match by a 1 - 5 away win for Bayern Munich which in my own observation was a rigged result for Bayern Munich by the match referee, his linesman and the other referee official who was behind the goal post, a match referee who earlier has denied Arsenal a penalty of their own but later connived against them to award a penalty to Bayern Munich and in the process sent off Koscielny to deliberately weaken Arsenal team strength to frustrate them in the game.

* 1981 was close, but Washington needed help from USC in a game that kicked off around the same time as the Apple Cup.

If Arsenal win this FA Cup match against Lincoln today, the win will not ease any pain the Gooners were allegedly had went through when Arsenal lost to Bayern Munich last Tuesday night at the Ems because there wasn't any pain the Gooners have suffered in the first place when Arsenal lost the match by a 1 - 5 away win to Bayern Munich which in my own observation was a rigged result for Bayern Munich by the match referee, his linesman and the other referee official who was behind the goal post, a match referee who earlier had denied Arsenal a penalty of their own but later connived against them to award a penalty to Bayern Munich and in the process sent off Koscielny to deliberately weaken Arsenal team strength to frustrate them in the game.

The main reason, though, is the timing of the game for the early Saturday kick off when they have a massive FA cup replay against Man United on Wednesday.

the obvious fact is that the club began to stagnate in football terms a decade ago after the CL semi against man utd and has been in outright retreat over the last 3 years... some fans were calling for wenger to leave in 2011 - 12 as it was clear he could not cope with a more competitive environment others have been more tolerant, hanging on to fa cup glory and hoping that he would somehow self correct his weak and erratic management style but most now realise that is not possible and that the club will deteriorate further under his management so also want him gone, that has left a hard core of wenger loyalists who are either fixated with the past (selecting episodic good and bad times to justify wengers decade long failure) or too frightened of the future to contemplate a change (with selective reference to failed managerial changes by way of justification) or both, to conclude, through a mixture of panglossian fatalism and corporate philosophising, how lucky we are to have such an honourable and educated man in charge... along with their confused references to club loyalty and addiction to computer games these are troubled souls who need our sympathy and concerned medical advice... SO JUST F OFF STOCK UP ON CANNED SOUP AND GO SUPPORT ASTON VILLA ON FIFA!

Harry Kane was on the bench on Wednesday night for the FA Cup replay against Newport, but was not used, so he — and most of those who will represent Spurs tomorrow — will be as fresh as any of the Arsenal players who have a had a full week off since their last game.

But recently in the FA Cup game and for England he has been carded and even sent off for these habits.

After the season we had, with all the crap that came with it, all the bad play bad behavior, then it just pisses me off how some people don't let you enjoy two good games against city and against che after winning a cup in the manner that we did.

Ibe will be cup - tied for Sunday's FA Cup game against Aston Villa, although Rodgers will be hoping that Sterling can shake off the recent allegations and turn in a decisive performance that could book the Reds an FA Cup final against either Arsenal or Readicup - tied for Sunday's FA Cup game against Aston Villa, although Rodgers will be hoping that Sterling can shake off the recent allegations and turn in a decisive performance that could book the Reds an FA Cup final against either Arsenal or ReadiCup game against Aston Villa, although Rodgers will be hoping that Sterling can shake off the recent allegations and turn in a decisive performance that could book the Reds an FA Cup final against either Arsenal or ReadiCup final against either Arsenal or Reading.

Koscielny was the same when he was new, he had many moments where he switched off, best example was the Carling Cup final, so choosing Mert who has a talent for reading the game and large experience is the logical choice to make.

Wenger is not Mourinho who is very good at «one off» type cup games (sadly).

Lose 1 game out of the first 9 League games, qualify for the European Cup and now in second place in their group with strong chance of making the play - offs!

It flooded through him when he walked onto a basketball court — the jump shots with crumpled paper cups he took as a little boy after every high school game his dad coached, the million three - man weaves, all the sweat and the squeaks and the passion so white - hot that twice during his career he had rocketed off the bench to scream... and blacked out... and five or six times every season the backside of his suit pants had gone rrr - iii - p!

St. Louis went up 3 games to 1 with a chance to knock off the defending Stanley Cup champions but Chicago was able to get a double - overtime goal from Patrick Kane to keep them alive in Game 5, and a monster second period in Game 6.

Great player to have on the bench, throw him in the last 10 mins to kill the game off, can rotate and start him in Cup or against opponent that has big but slow strikers.

Sometimes I wonder what Wenger is thinking, bringing players that haven't played 5 mins together to a cup game, no creativity in that midfield, it is better arsenal sign off from the EPL cup than insulting ourselves.

Wenger was careful with Danny after that and he was only given some playing time off the bench until the Christmas congestion period when he was used in rotation, and for Cup and Europa League games but his confidence seemed to have disappeared by then, especially when Aubameyang was bought in January to relegate him even further down the pecking order.

Well your righ with met spend but in amount paid out for players no net were 5th but i agree our champions league performances have been poor we had some tough draws and the premier league is more demanding then the other leagues in strwnght of competition and games played still excuses do nt win but that monaco loss left me shaking my head in cl we get theough the group but cant muster the strength needed for knockout and we should be performing better were under performing for the talent xhaka has frustrated me hes got the talent and plays well but cant hold focus in games he drops off and loses his marks our academy is doing well but yes it is tougher now to break in to the first team iwobi has done well but one or two seasons away from being there if he does turn himself elite ever has to score or he will just be another ox but i think its been a wake up call to the club we finally have to act theres a wave of ideas to not only get us back to winning ways but become title contenders and i think give him the extension one year its a world cup year and that will also allow our players esp strikers who been very poor this year realized its tough to play in englad and next year will have a better idea what it really takes to win here shore up some spots and depth and were in contention fail and the changes will happen but let him have one more year the fact were willing to spend shows me an upturn from the decline