Sentences with phrase «opening home fixture»

Despite the game sandwiched between our tame defeat at Chelsea and the opening home fixture with Bournemouth it is expected that the Hammers will field a strong side in order to secure Europa League group stage qualification.

As other managers have already intimated, there is obviously a reliance on Premier League rivals to stop City's march and, so far, that hasn't happened since the draw with Everton in their opening home fixture.

The Red Devils have only ever lost just one of their opening home fixtures in a Premier League season.

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pressure in an opening fixture at home.

Last weekend's 3 - 0 success at home to Bournemouth was a welcome fillip for Arsenal after they lost two of the opening three fixtures for the first time since 2011/12, the season following skipper Cesc Fabregas's departure for Camp Nou.

Both facilities will open on the day of all scheduled First Team home fixtures from until 15 minutes after kick - off.

Manager Jose Mourinho, who made it eight wins and three draws in his own unbeaten run against Russian clubs, had warned the players he would not tolerate the sort of «PlayStation football» which had seen his side ease up at 2 - 0 in their opening Champions League fixture at home to Basel.

They have opened the scoring in all but three home fixtures so far this term.

Benfica picked up a comfortable home win on their Champions League opening fixture this midweek by overcoming new boys, FC Astana.

Man City have bizarrely drawn every one of their five opening Premier League fixtures when at home, yet a draw would be a massive set back in their conquest to dominate football both domestically and continentally.

After picking up just one point in their opening three fixtures, three wins on the bounce with a convincing 4 - 1 victory at home to Stoke sandwiched between away victories in the North - East over Middlesbrough and Sunderland, left them in the top half of the table.

His side have capitalised on a favourable opening list of home fixtures by taking all eight of their points thus far in Wales at their Liberty Stadium, but an excruciating baptism of fire away from home has led to the Swans succumbing to expected defeats at Arsenal, Chelsea and Man City.

However, those were extremely tough opening fixtures and they soon made amends for their poor start by picking up points in their following two home encounters, drawing 0 - 0 with West Ham and defeating Wolves 3 - 1 at the weekend, both at Ewood Park.

There were a number of difficult fixtures that Blackburn could of began with and a home encounter with Everton is certainly one of them, but Rovers were particularly strong at home last season and if they can mirro that form this season, starting with a positive result on the opening day, then it could ultimately be what keeps them in the Premiership.

The home side are pretty much formidable when it comes to opening fixtures at home, having not lost their first game since a 2 - 1 loss to Swansea City back in 2014.

Blackpool, on the other hand, have made a brighter start even though the majority of their opening fixtures have been on the road, while they should have won their only home fixture to date had it not been for Fulham's late equaliser, so there's plenty to be positive about if you're a Tangerines backer.

Blackburn haven't won a home fixture since the opening day, when beating Everton 1 - 0, but a battling effort against Chelsea last weekend, losing 2 - 1 in spite of taking an early lead through Benjani's first goal for the club, should give Sam Allardyce's player the confidence to repeat the effort levels as another workmanlike performance on Saturday would make them difficult to oppose.

Millwall have actually scored the opening goal in eight of their twelve home games this season but have only been ahead at half time in two of those home fixtures.

The 6 - 0 loss to a rampant Manchester City side at home, when arguably their best three centre backs were out injured, was Watford's first league defeat of the campaign, having won two of their opening four Premier League fixtures and picking up eig...

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.

They are lacking a bit of punch going forward though as they have scored just four opening goals at home this season in their fixtures.

The Seagulls were a brilliant home side in the Championship last season, but they are heavy underdogs for this opening fixture on home soil.

City have been an unpredictable sort on the road so far, winning just one of their opening three away fixtures in the league: Tottenham Hotspur (0 - 0), Sunderland (1 - 0L) and Wigan Athletic (0 - 2W), while they were dumped out of the League Cup by West Brom at The Hawthorns last month, so there are still some fragilities that need to be ironed out by manager Roberto Mancini although the team have collectively dusted themselves off admirably and will stretch their unbeaten run to five games so long as they get a result away at Blackpool, who have yet to win a home fixture in the league up till now.

Although no games are that easy, we have faced two of our easier opponents in our first two home league games, and for the fourth season in a row we've failed to take maximum points from our opening fixtures.

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