Sentences with phrase «opening goal of the game against»

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A Man Utd predicted line up as the Red Devils take on PSV in their opening game of the Champions League, with Anthony Martial tipped to start after his superb debut goal against Liverpool at the weekend...

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.

Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers heaped praise on # 32.5 million summer signing Christian Benteke after he opened his account for the club with the only goal of the game against new promoted AFC Bournemouth on Monday night.

A more open game certainly suits Walcott better and he does like playing Chelsea, with his record of five goals against them only bettered by the six he has put past Newcastle.

With 15 strikes to his name, Ronaldo has registered more goals in the opening eight rounds of the season than any other player in La Liga history, a feat all the more remarkable for the fact that he missed one of those games — a 4 - 2 defeat against Real Sociedad.

Much of the attacking attention has been focused on Alvaro Negredo, with the Spaniard having gone seven games without a goal since opening the scoring against Stoke City on the opening weekend of the season.

Wenger promised us he would rest Sanchez for the first month of the season, but with us being two goals behind to West Ham in our opening game, Le Prof then brought him on as substitute and he has since started nearly every single game, so it should really be little surprise that he finally suffered a groin strain against Man United in our last League game.

They did, however, play outstandingly well at home against Manchester United, which was an inexplicably open game, with both sides going hammer and tongs at each other's goal, and showed that they can ruffle their opponents when they discover their rhythm and haveA one of their better days.

He opened the scoring against Dinamo Zagreb on Tuesday night with a well taken goal that showed his skill and growing composure in front of goal while his lung bursting run into the box showed the desire that has also become a key part of his game.

Milan Djuric has not been able to complete 90 minutes of football in any of his last 10 games, but the Bosnian came in with the opening goal in the recent game against Middlesbrough.

He played an hour of an Under - 21 game against Crewe at Rangers» Harlington training ground this week, as did Sandro, who scored the opening goal in a 3 - 1 win for the home side.

Cristian Zapata scored the opening goal of Copa America 2016 as he volleyed in Cardona's corner on 8 minutes in Colombia's game against the United States in Santa Clara

First they defeated Stoke 1 - 0 thanks to Wayne Rooney goal in opening game of the season and they almost got three points against City at Etihad with Rooney again on scoresheet only for a defensive error which lead to equalizer towards the end of second half.

That once great team Ajax, after a shaky beginning in these group games, made an uneasy start in Amsterdam last Wednesday against City though City's opening goal by Samir Nasri was against the run of play.

Mum let me stay up late on Saturday to watch Steven Gerrard lead England out against Italy, they may have lost 2 - 1 in their opening game but Daniel Sturridge scored our goal, and I'm proud of all our Red's performances.

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.

Last weekend against Leicester was the first time Burnley have scored two goals inside the opening 10 minutes of a Premier League game.

The team had reacted positively to a tough 3 - 1 defeat against Tottenham in their opening Champions League fixture and put together a run of three Bundesliga wins that saw them score 14 goals and concede just once — the only goal allowed in their first six league games.

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.

Eden Hazard — The Chelsea star suffered a few knocks in Belgium's 3 - 3 draw against Mexico where the winger also scored the opening goal of the game.

Chelsea lost 2 - 1 against West Ham earlier in the season but they do have that great record against the Hammers and they are yet to concede a goal in the opening 15 minutes of any league game this term.