Sentences with phrase «opening home league game»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

-- 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.

Most Gooners would like to see things neatly wrapped up before the opening Premier League game at home to Aston Villa on August 17th.

Dixon would preside over just three games this campaign — an opening day defeat at Shrewsbury, an 8 - 0 League Cup pummelling from Nottingham Forest, and a 5 - 0 home loss to Peterborough — before moving on, unhappy that his team selection was being «influenced» (i.e dictated) by the chairman.

Schalke 04 recovered from losing their opening two Bundesliga games against Wolfsburg and Hanover 96 to qualify for the Champions League group stage at the expense of Greek club PAOK on Tuesday and built on that success with what was a convincing home league win against LeverLeague group stage at the expense of Greek club PAOK on Tuesday and built on that success with what was a convincing home league win against Leverleague win against Leverkusen.

Gary Cahill is also set to return after serving his three - game suspension in the Premier League following his opening - day red card at home to Burnley.

The Toffees haven't lost a game of any kind since crashing to a 1 - 0 defeat at home to QPR in their opening league game of the season, winning four of their last five since.

0 % — Burnley have lost both of their previous opening games in the Premier League (0 - 2 at Stoke City in 2009, 1 - 3 at home to Chelsea in 2014)

City are though, without a win in any of their last three games away from home in the Premier league (D2 L1) and those results came after they had won their opening ten away games of the term.

The Toffees go to south Wales on Saturday to face a Swansea side embroiled in a fight for Premier League survival — but on an upward curve having won their past four home games and opened up a four - point buffer to the bottom three.

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 tilleague: 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 tilLeague 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 tilleague up till now.

The Blues are the hottest property in the Premier League right now, having won eight of their last ten league games, collecting 25 points from a possible 27, while it was they who last beat Sir Alex's men in Manchester — Joe Cole opening the scoring before Didier Drogba leathered home Chelsea's second in a 2 - 1 win which all but sealed the title for the League right now, having won eight of their last ten league games, collecting 25 points from a possible 27, while it was they who last beat Sir Alex's men in Manchester — Joe Cole opening the scoring before Didier Drogba leathered home Chelsea's second in a 2 - 1 win which all but sealed the title for the league games, collecting 25 points from a possible 27, while it was they who last beat Sir Alex's men in Manchester — Joe Cole opening the scoring before Didier Drogba leathered home Chelsea's second in a 2 - 1 win which all but sealed the title for the Blues.

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.

Rotary Field was dedicated and opened for play on April 28, 2002 and is home to boy's baseball house league games for 3rd - 6th grades, girl's softball house league games for all levels, 6th grade and under boy's baseball travel league games and girl's softball travel league games.