Sentences with phrase «opening game of the season at»

Kompany suffered a hamstring injury during City's opening game of the season at home to Newcastle United, and gaffer Manuel Pellegrini said that the initial prognosis was that the influential skipper could be out for at least a month.

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.

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

Not exact matches

Following the soft opening on September 29th at the Depeche Mode concert, Ludo Bird will celebrate their grand opening Monday, October 7th for the Kings first home game of the season.

Wenger has mostly used the second string squad at the start of any season to great effect, most teams aren't at full strength or match fit and he plays that Wengerball numbers game, throwing in squad players who are fit and raring to go whilst the first team get ready, we'll win 2 of our 3 opening games and he'd rather that than splash 100m on 3 players and get the same amount of points.

In fact Smudger, who scored the opening goal against Liverpool in the final game of the season in 1989 that gave Arsenal our most dramatic title win ever and inspired the book and film Fever Pitch, thinks that the resilience the current team showed at the Britannia Stadium proves that this squad is capable of going all the way and adding another title to our history of major honours.

The Golden Eagles had a postgame win expectancy of 90 percent or higher in seven games (including an unlucky season - opening loss to Kentucky) and an eighth game at 78 percent.

They opened the season with a 68 - 67 overtime loss to Windward - L.A., but came back 10 days later to beat the Wildcats 67 - 54 in the title game of the Redondo Union Battle at the Beach Tournament.

In the marquee game of this season's ACC / Big Ten Challenge, Duke opened as a 12 - point favorite against Michigan State at Olympic.

In the minutes before the kickoff of Nebraska's season - opening 55 - 14 starching of Michigan State, Cornhuskers coach Tom Osborne urged his players to embrace a possibility — an unprecedented third consecutive national championship — that would customarily send a coach searching for new ways to say, «One game at a time.»

Sky Sports go on to add that he'll also be expected to sit out friendlies against Roma, Barcelona and Mainz, and so his first chance of featuring for the Reds in the opening game of the season on August 14 at Arsenal could be under threat too.

The Indiana Hoosiers took on the Penn State Nitany Lions in the opening round of the Big Ten Tournament Thursday afternoon from Banker's Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, looking to extend their seasons at least for one more game.

The Gunners are yet to register a goal in either of their first two games at the Emirates Stadium this season after a shock defeat to London rivals West Ham United on the opening day before being held to a goalless draw by Liverpool a couple of weeks ago.

United and City have set the pace at the top of the table so far this season, picking up 19 points apiece from their opening seven games to break away from the chasing pack.

The Christiano Ronaldo player of the month case is pretty much open and shut, the man has been a velvet locomotive much all season, scoring at will and with metronomic efficiency — bagging 6 goals in 4 Prem games this month alone, oh and he did all that from the wing.

Alcorn State will have a quick turnaround when it plays at Creighton on Sunday in the second of a five - game season - opening road trip.

The Cardinals opened the season at 12/1 to win the title, but with a 19 - 6 start through the first 25 games of the season and the lowest team ERA in baseball at 2.44 the Cards have moved their way up the betting board.

Manchester United defender Chris Smalling is expected to be given the nod to start the club's opening Premier League game of the 2015 - 16 season against Tottenham at the weekend, Guardian Sport reports.

«When they bought Pedro from Barcelona at the start of the season I thought it would give Chelsea more width, with him on one side and Eden Hazard on the other, and they would open their game out a bit.

Or perhaps they would remember their wonder at how easy and inevitable it seemed — that having opened the season in Cincinnati by hitting the tying home run, No. 714, with his first swing of the year, it was obviously appropriate that the man who has been called Supe (for Superman) by his teammates was going to duplicate the feat in Atlanta with his first swing of that game.

Remember a few weeks ago, Arsenal fans, when the new manager of West Ham issued us with a stark warning that we would find his team an impossible nut to crack when they turned up at the Emirates stadium next Sunday for our opening game of the new Premier League season?

City, who are yet to concede in their opening three games of the new season, have not tasted defeat since the 4 - 2 reverse in the derby at Old Trafford against Manchester United back in April and Pellegrini says his squad are desperate to maintain their unbeaten run:

Of course we won on their ground in the opening game of the 2015 - 16 season when Reece Oxford famously kept Ozil in his pocket, but that followed ten consecutive defeats at the hands of the GunnerOf course we won on their ground in the opening game of the 2015 - 16 season when Reece Oxford famously kept Ozil in his pocket, but that followed ten consecutive defeats at the hands of the Gunnerof the 2015 - 16 season when Reece Oxford famously kept Ozil in his pocket, but that followed ten consecutive defeats at the hands of the Gunnerof the Gunners.

But there appears to have been a change in tactics based on the opening two games at the start of the season as they have been looking for the long - ball option up to Benteke more often that not and it has rewarded them with back - to - back 1 - 0 victories over Stoke City and newly promoted AFC Bournemouth.

In what is shaping up to be one of the most open Premier League title races ever, those four games could be absolutely crucial at the rate of which Tottenham lost points in Dembele's absence this season.

They open the season in thorny fashion, with three of their first four games at Seattle, New England and Cincinnati.

Back in October, in their opening game of the season, they won comfortably at home 3 - 0.

Arsenal have been performing extremely well this season, and have gone 12 games unbeaten in the League since our opening day defeat to Liverpool, but as usual very few pundits, or even Arsenal fans, think that we can actually go on and lift the trophy at the end of the season.

The 19 - year - old scored within the opening 100 seconds of tonight's game at Norwich City to notch his seventh Premier League of the season.

Three weeks ago, we took a look at how the opening games of the season had affected the temperatures of given coaches» seats.

At 21 years of age, Walker's shown great maturity for Spurs this season and with the Euro Championship just around the corner, he's going to have to keep it up if he wants to line up for England's opening game against France this summer.

The Frenchman is once again under pressure after only one game of the season, after succumbing to an opening weekend loss to Liverpool at home, conceding a huge four goals.

After losing the opening game of the Premier league season at home, Arsenal fans can expect Arsene Wenger to make some changes to the starting line - up and probably not just to fill the gaps left by Aaron Ramsey and Alex Iwobi picking up injury problems in the loss to Liverpool.

The three Arsenal victories, in last season's Premier League meeting at the Emirates and FA cup final before this season's Community shield, have all seen us take the game to Chelsea and that should be the plan once again, without being too open and forgetting about being hard to beat of course.

Two things to keep in mind with regard to the Jets: 1) This game comes after their bye; 2) They open the season playing five of six against 2015 playoff teams, just two at home.

Hart's future at City has been cast in doubt after manager Pep Guardiola left him on the bench for the opening three games of the season.

Stoke haven't kept a clean sheet in the league since Jack Butland did his ankle in March — seven games at the end of last season, plus the opening five of this — and have recorded just one win in that time.

The Palace boss is under pressure already after losing their opening game of the season and saw Yannick Bolasie leave for Everton this week, and so a marquee signing would be most welcome at Selhurst Park and he'll hope they can get the terms of the Benteke deal right.

They won their opening game of the season last weekend, beating Brentford 1 - 0 at home, although this trip up north is completely different and will really test them.

Both teams have been at or near the top all season long and it is only fitting that they have both Clinched a spot in Top 2 Hoops game in the Opening Round of the Playoffs before the Regular Season even finishseason long and it is only fitting that they have both Clinched a spot in Top 2 Hoops game in the Opening Round of the Playoffs before the Regular Season even finishSeason even finished up.

Arsenal's # 42.5 million signing started his career at the club by bringing great belief to the team and fans, after a disappointing home defeat to Aston Villa in the opening game of the season.

Although most fans would have anticipated a high - scoring game before the start of the season, Sunday's total opened at 44.5 and 79 % of bettors have taken the under.

Davis was also suspended 25 games at the end of the 2014 season for testing positive for an amphetamine, a discipline that carried over into 2015, causing him to miss Opening Day.

With Steelers star running back Le'Veon Bell suspended for the first three games of the season, the Patriots opened as 6 - point home favorites at the prominent Las Vegas sportsbook.

Mathieu Flamini was brought in for free from Marseille at the age of 20, despite his tender age, Flamini played in 20 games in his opening season, and when he left after 4 seasons at the end of his contract, it was a bitter blow as he had become the main man in defensive midfield.

Tonight's total opened 212.5 at Bookmaker and, as has been the case in every playoff game this season, the majority of bettors are taking the over.

By season's end City had been involved in the Premier League's top four games for pass completion, including the opening - day 3 - 0 romp at West Brom and this efficient dismissal of Watford — a freshly promoted, improved version of the team who had raced into a 2 - 0 lead in an FA Cup game at the Etihad just seven months previously.

It was the North London club's worst performance of the season so far as they suffered a comprehensive loss in their opening Group D game at the Signal Iduna Park.

In addition to standing alone in the annals of the game with a win at Whistling Straits, the 22 - year - old reigning Masters and U.S. Open champion would join an elite club of three — after Ben Hogan in 1953 and Woods in 2000 — to win three majors in a single season.

It is highly unlikely that Llorente will slot straight in as first choice striker at Spurs and will probably look to take some of the weight off the shoulders of Harry Kane, who has endured a difficult start to the season, failing to find the net in his opening three games.