Sentences with phrase «opening game of»

They even imported cheerleaders from the Washington Redskins to promote the opening game of the season.

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 Many look up to premier players, and now the San Pedro Tigersharks have proven their skills by winning the opening game of the National Elite Basketball League (NEBL).

The image above is from the Deutsche Presse - Agentur and is of German defentar Lothar Matthaeus playing against Bolivia's striker Marker Etcheverry in the opening game of the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

That's $ 62,125 to be precise, as the harsh yet fair penalty for soliciting and accepting five free tickets to the opening game of the 2009 World Series — and then lying about it to the state Commission on Public Integrity.

He's visited Manaus, where England will play its opening game of the 2014 World Cup against Italy.

In the opening game of the season, Liverpool put four past the Gunners rearguard at the Emirates but the signing of Mustafi has helped tighten things up since and he has formed a promising partnership with Koscielny.

The club has also failed to keep a clean sheet since the opening game of 2013 against Espanyol.

Hutton has had a decent pre-season campaign but, as we know from often bitter experience, that will count for nothing come the opening game of the season.

Those of us who were there on 19 August 1967 for the opening game of the season against Sheffield Wednesday witnessed the debut of the player who went on to play more games for the club than any other, 799, in a long career that spanned 21 seasons.

As it was the opening game of the season against Sunderland turned out to be an anti-climax that will have many Arsenal fans feeling -LSB-...]

Despite giving London Welsh a scare in the opening game of the season, Watford had won only five of their matches during their campaign and this was reflected in the ten league places and 70 points that now separated the two teams.

Paris Saint - Germain striker Gonçalo Guedes found the net as Portugal's U21 side defeated Serbia 2 - 0 on Saturday in their opening game of the U21 EURO in Poland.

Wenger tried to change this in the opening game of the season by playing Ramsey central and Cazorla wide but once again this did not work.

Young has reportedly been angling to play in an advanced position behind the striker and in Villa's opening game of the Premier League season he was granted his wish.

Firstly, the 26 - year old creative midfielder did not feature in the squad for Tottenham in their opening game of the Premier league season, which they lost to Newcastle.

All 10 home clubs reported capacities of more than 99 %, while the average for the final round of fixtures was 97.92, a season high and beating the opening game of the season.

The 26 - year - old impressed during preseason but manager Thomas Christiansen dropped him for the opening game of the season against Bolton.

Fabregas started the opening game of Spain against Italy instead of a striker.

Akhmat's ties with Brazil extend off the pitch as well, with Brazilian football icon Ronaldinho invited to attend the opening game of the 2017/2018 season as a special guest of Kadyrov's.

Mbappe was substituted in the opening game of the Ligue 1 campaign against Toulouse, and has not appeared in the subsequent three matches - being left out entirely for one and kept on the bench for the other two.

Michy Batshuayi scored twice, including a late winner, to rally Borussia Dortmund to a 3 - 2 win over Atalanta in their opening game of the Europe League knockout stage on Tuesday.

Arsenal's opening game of the season was on a Friday night against Leicester and Lacazette scored after two minutes.

Having just lost the opening game of the month to Swansea, the outlook does not look good.

In fact, two of the three goals he has scored for Zenit so far are spectacular, in the opening game of the season against SKA Khabarovsk and against Spartak Moscow.

The fact that the club had just one senior striker available for the opening game of the season has probably prompted such action, with Tottenham clearly struggling in front of goal in their 2 - 1 defeat to Newcastle on Saturday evening.

We faced them at Stamford Bridge for the opening game of this campaign, and lost 2 - 1 in the closing minutes to a goal from Costa, who in my opinion should not have even still been on the pitch at the time.

In the opening game of the qualifiers earlier Thursday, Pakistan, a team composed of native - born players with no major or minor league experience, fell hard to Brazil, 10 - 0.

In the opening game of the new campaign, the Gunners rescued three points having been 3 - 2 down against Leicester with time running out.

2 — Gary Cahill and Cesc Fàbregas» red cards mean that Chelsea have picked up more red cards in the opening game of this season than they did through their entire 2016 - 17 campaign (0).

The winner in our opening game of the season away, instantly won the respect of a young Englishman from Lisbon.

Wigan Athletic manager Paul Cook claimed that his team fully deserved the 1 - 0 win over MK Dons in the opening game of the season.

The experienced shot - stopper endured a disappointing debut for his new side as Arsenal lost their opening game of the new campaign 2 - 0 at home to West Ham before beating Crystal Palace 2 - 1 away last weekend.

Liverpool are set to face the Bundesliga outfit in their opening game of the International Champions Cup...

His arrival, initially as player - manager, had been a surprise for many, most notably his predecessor Sammy Chung who had first learned of Dixon's appointment just 90 minutes before the opening game of the 1996 - 97 season when he opened the door to what he presumed to be his office to find the former Chelsea forward sitting at what up until that precise moment had been his desk.

-- Mark Hughes after the opening game of the season at Loftus Road: QPR 0 Swansea 5.

Apart from that poor result against» Spurs», West Ham have faired OK after winning their opening game of the season away at newly promoted Wolves.

The Reds would've been hoping to come out of that contest with at least a draw but will have to qualify the hard way even after their dramatic win against Ludogorets in the opening game of the group.

Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino looked ahead on Friday (7th August) to his side's opening game of the new English Premier League season — away to Manchester United.

A goal against Inter Milan in a friendly was a good start to his Spurs carrerr, but I was really impressed with what I saw from Janssen in the opening game of the season at Goodison Park.

Giggs named a strong team for the opening game of the China Cup with only Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey missing from the usual starting line - up, as the new boss gave Everton defender Williams the skipper's armband.

We may not have our new man in time for the opening game of the season next Sunday but I have faith that we will make our move before the window shuts.

Arsenal won their opening game of the Premier League against Leicester City at the Emirates.

# 453077354 / gettyimages.com Arsenal stormed to a 5 - 1 win over Benfica in their opening game of the Emirates Cup on Saturday afternoon, with young Frenchman Yaya Sanogo bagging himself four goals in the rout.

The Clarets defeated reigning champions Chelsea, 3 - 2 in their opening game of the Premier League campaign.

The last time the two teams met was on the opening game of the season, with penalties from Keaton Ward and Joel Phillips contributing to a 1 - 1 draw.

This pedestrian football however is harming them in front of goal — held 0 - 0 at Sporting Gijón in their opening game of the season where they never really looked like scoring, drawing 1 - 1 with Atlético Madrid where they never looked like scoring more than one and then another 0 - 0, this time with Málaga, where Cristiano Ronaldo was the only player who looked like scoring for the hosts, but he had an off day.

Their differing fortunes kicked off when the two met at Stamford Bridge in the opening game of the campaign, with the Clarets winning 3 - 2 in that one.

While the Premier League champions Chelsea and Manchester City have been phenomenal throughout the opening game of the campaign, both teams have struggled in early days and have started to tail off.

With Rooney coming back though, we may see Fergie also adopt a 4 -2-1-3 formation as he did at Everton in the opening game of the season.