Sentences with phrase «opening home league»

The Premier League television requirements were not particularly kind to us with our opening league game last Monday evening at Chelsea, followed by this game on Thursday evening, and then we face Bournemouth in our opening home league game next Sunday.

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The Gunners have won five successive home matches in the Premier League and are unbeaten in 10 at the Emirates Stadium since losing to Liverpool on the opening weekend of the season.

Arsenal have gone seven home league matches in a row without conceding a goal from open play — all four goals against them in that period have been penalties.

The year before that Arsenal won the Asia trophy, the Emirates Cup and the Community Shield as we won every game before losing our opening league match 2 - 0 at home to West Ham.

He said limited preseason practice time mandated by the CIF — Milpitas played a scrimmage on Aug. 18 and opens the campaign Aug. 25 at home against American — is a concern, as is the loaded league schedule the Trojans play annually.

Avaya Stadium, which opened in February 2015, has a capacity of approximately 18,000 and is the home field for Major League Soccer's San Jose Earthquakes.

They» are even harder to beat when opening the season at Gillette Stadium, but Sunday's 20 - 18 loss to the Arizona Cardinals ended the league's longest winning streak in home openers and was the first loss in a home opener since the stadium opened.

Jose Mourinho has seen his side start their Premier League title defence poorly with Chelsea opening the campaign with a 2 - 2 home draw with Swansea City before losing 3 - 0 away at Man City on Sunday.

Arsenal fans are obviously desperate for the Gunners to get a win away to Leicester City at the weekend after the disappointment of losing our opening Premier League match at home to Liverpool.

Arsenal may have bounced back pretty well in the Premier League after the shock of losing the opening league game at home to WesLeague after the shock of losing the opening league game at home to Wesleague game at home to West Ham.

Fed up with so many doom and gloom merchants, why not embrace the fact we are 12 unbeaten at home, going into a match that could see the top 4 open a gap and push us towards champions league football again.

Arsenal can not go to the top of the Premier League with a home win over Man City this evening, because of that pesky Leicester City side of Claudio Ranieri, but we can open up a four point lead over the club that is likely to be our main rivals for the EPL title.

Chelsea are big favorites once again this week, with opening odds of -382 on the moneyline (via Pinnacle) at home against Premier League newcomers Leicester City.

Although the Clarets lost 1 - 0 to Swansea on this season's opening day, that is actually there only home defeat in the last 17 League games, stretching back to before Xmas.

So the last couple of appearances from Lacazette have been very encouraging for the Gunners and whereas I thought previously that Arsene Wenger might ease the new striker into Premier League and first team life with Arsenal, I think we can now expect Lacazette to start the opening game at home to Leicester City on Friday and to quickly show just why the boss broke the club's transfer record to sign him.

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.

After the shock defeat at home to Burnley in their opening EPL game Chelsea have bounced back strongly and won all four since, including an away victory at Tottenham and Leicester and at home to Everton, so you have to say they are doing well and for that reason the Gunners must approach Sunday's league meeting with caution.

Following their 3 - 1 home defeat to Aston Villa on the opening day of the new Premier League season, is was evident that the Gunners need to strengthen defensively, especially in the case of injuries and suspensions, and have identified Juanfran as a potential cut - price addition.

However, Blind also deserves plenty of credit as he produced a composed finish to fire home the opening goal of the game and keep the Red Devils on track for their fourth consecutive league win.

We are caught in the catch 22 else we would have heard something positive from above MR is caught between supporters and high management / owners but he has to come out of it and change the way he conducts his approach to situations in front of him and become the 12th man chelsea antonio conte did very well tonight I must admit I am a fan as I watched him conduct Italy at the euros and now tonight with chelsea he is the 12 man and after watching the opening matches of the premier league I think it is going to be between city chelsea united for the pole position i know its to early to call but the matches down the road between Chelsea and Liverpool and united and city should give us a better insight but i think conte might just run away with it Arsenal again will face another tough match Leicester as they lost at the weekend too they will have to pull their socks up at home the liverpool match should awaken every one at the Arsenal and the Leicester meeting wont be easy but it might just turn our boys to real warriors

The Gunners travelled to the German capital to take on Bayern in their opening leg of their Champions League knockout match - up, but have come home knowing they have a huge mountain to climb when they face them at the Emirates next month.

As reported by The Mirror today, Sherwood has played down the fact that his team were beaten at home by Burnley in their final Premier League game and suggested that he will instruct his players to go out with an open and attacking frame of mind in the FA cup final at Wembley on Saturday.

After beating Chelsea on penalties in the Community Shield at Wembley, Arsenal's Premier League campaign started with an entertaining 4 - 3 home triumph against Leicester City on the opening night of the season.

Manchester City's game is the only draw this season, in addition to the opening day victory over Crystal Palace at home; but, with other Premier League heavyweights in Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester United, Tottenham and Everton to visit, Arsenal need to raise their game and get those 3 points, more often than not.

It's been over two months since Ramsey conjured up a home win in the Premier League for Arsenal against Crystal Palace, on the opening weekend of the season.

Although Middlesbrough were just promoted back to the Premier League this season, bettors like their chances at home in the opening match, moving Boro from +149 to +130 at Pinnacle.

After that, however, Arsenal go to Stamford Bridge to face Chelsea after the opening Europa League match at home to the German side Cologne, so it would have been good for us to get more from the opening three games than just three points as we are now under serious pressure to not lose touch with the teams at the top before the season has really got going.

As if it was not bad enough that Arsenal lost our first game of the Premier League season yet again, and just like in our opening day defeat to West Ham last season it was a home game, we did so after dominating the first half and taking the lead against a lacklustre Liverpool side.

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.

Since the stadium opened in 2010, the Red Bulls probably have one of the best home records, if not the best, in the league.

After suffering a 2 - 0 loss to Tottenham Hotspur at home in the Premier League opening weekend as well as a 1 - 0 loss to Huddersfield Town at the John Smith Stadium, Newcastle United will be biting for some points this weekend as the Hammers prepare.

He rose to head home a corner in the dying minutes of Serie A game against Udinese, becoming only the second goalkeeper to score from open play in the Italian league in the process.

He made his intentions clear early on when he scored twice in our opening home game when we won 4 - 0 vs QPR and he continued that rich vein of goalscoring throughout this campaign ending as 2nd highest scorer in the Premier League.

The title race in German Bundesliga is blown wide open as in midweek, league leader, Bayern Munich suffered a shock home defeat from Mainz.

Leicester City are the visitors for a Premier League clash, in what will be Jürgen Klopp's side's opening match at their expanded home.

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Away from home in the Premier League this season Burnley have picked up a great W2 D2 record for them, including a shock win at Chelsea on the opening weekend of the season and a win at Goodison Park against Everton recently.

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.

We are so lucky that Liverpool open the Barclays Premier League season with a game at home against Stoke City.

Predictions: Juventus has started the season with 100 % record at home in the opening 5 league games but they have been underwhelming against the bigger sides and Napoli will be aware of that.

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.

Home comforts has been about the only thing Villa supporters have been able to rely on this season, with the Villains having lost just one of their opening nine league matches at Villa Park this season — Arsenal the exception, but the likes of Manchester United and Chelsea have left Villa's tepid arena without full share of the spoils, so while Houllier is struggling to pick a starting XI he remotely has any confidence in, at home, Villa's misfits have at least been difficult to bHome comforts has been about the only thing Villa supporters have been able to rely on this season, with the Villains having lost just one of their opening nine league matches at Villa Park this season — Arsenal the exception, but the likes of Manchester United and Chelsea have left Villa's tepid arena without full share of the spoils, so while Houllier is struggling to pick a starting XI he remotely has any confidence in, at home, Villa's misfits have at least been difficult to bhome, Villa's misfits have at least been difficult to beat.

The season started promisingly enough as the Stags won their opening seven home league games with new signing Terry Eccles in prolific goal - scoring form including two hat - tricks.

Wolves have scored 12 goals in their seven away games this season and home and away they have yet to concede in the opening fifteen minutes of a league match.

Admittedly, Liverpool's defensive shape for the opening 37 minutes was hardly archetypal, but when playing against the best attacking side in the league at home, I'd be surprised to find anyone who thought Agüero, Jesus, Silva and De Bruyme were not going to cause Liverpool problems.

Arsenal have not lost a home league game since the opening day of 2013/2014 season against Aston Villa.

The Black Cats managed to arrest the rot in the league last weekend with a creditable draw at home to Swansea City as Jermain Defoe's second - half strike cancelled out Bafetimbi Gomis's fine opening goal.

-- In their last three home league games, Wolves have conceded a combined sum of five goals − but what's strange is that all five were conceded in the opening 45 minutes.

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.