Sentences with phrase «opening match against»

Head Coach of the Super Eagles, Sunday Oliseh, on Sunday, led the Eagles for a light work out, ahead of their opening match against Niger Republic in a Group C fixture at the 2016 African Nations Championship at the Stade Régional Nyamirambo, Kigali on Monday.

Arsenal's Champions League opening match against Dinamo Zagreb was poised to be a goals galore for the Premier League side, well, if numbers were anything to go by.

The England international who missed the opening match against Sunderland, where the Gunners were held to a scoreless draw, due to an injury believes that with quality players like Lukas Podolski and Olivier Giroud arriving in the squad, Arsenal is strong enough to deal with the void left behind by the Dutchman.

Ramsey scored in the opening match against Slovakia as Wales won the group.

Despite having a young backline, however, Sky Blue held its own for much of its opening match against the North Carolina Courage.

Unable to start pre-season with the rest of his team, Evans moved from light training to training with the first team, although he did miss his side's defeat in their opening match against Everton.

Stewart Robson is well known for his time with Arsenal, and the former midfielder claims that Cesc Fabregas was a liability for Chelsea in the opening match against Burnley.

The Pharoahs» opening match against Uruguay will be key.

Liverpool defender Gomez was named the Young Lions» new skipper on Wednesday, ahead of their opening match against the Netherlands at Doetinchem's Stadion De Vijverberg on Friday.

Even when Guus Hiddink committed the ultimate sin, according to football people in the know, by not selecting Cahill in the starting eleven for the opening match against Japan in the 2006 World Cup, he still accepted the decision.

Chris Eagles had only played in one of those four games, leaving the opening match against Burnley in the second half after suffering an ankle injury.

In the midfield, Andrea Pirlo and Daniele De Rossi will be the true determinants of how far this side can go especially in their opening match against Spain.

With France and England following, the co-hosts certainly need a result in the opening match against Sweden.

The striker suffered a hamstring injury in the United States opening match against Ghana in the 2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil, ruining his competition.

The Arsenal midfielder Aaron Ramsey may have only played a couple of half games for the Gunners since returning from his hamstring injury sustained in our opening match against Liverpool, but he is certain to start tonight for Wales against Serbia in the crucial World Cup Qualifying game.

But not nearly as annoying as watching Arias play in Friday's opening match against the 16th - ranked Gomez.

Fair play to him scoring 8 out of 8 matches but his major problems are the facts he needs 5 clear cut chances before putting one away, just like with the opening match against Romania, he already missed 3 sitters before netting, I will love to see the stats and look at how many chances he had in these 8 games before scoring the 8, probably 20 to be conservative.....

Italy striker Mario Balotelli has been strongly linked with Arsenal this summer, but his performances at the World Cup for the Azzuri were disappointing after the opening match against England.

His form for the Italians persuaded the Polish coach Nawalka to trust in Woj in their crucial opening match against Ireland.

Despite losing their opening matches against Aston Villa and Liverpool, they responded by beating West Ham United 4 - 3 away from home thanks to a Callum Wilson hat - trick.

Not exact matches

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.

That sloppy pass by the central midfielder cost Arsenal the game and a very similar one against Leicester City in the opening EPL match almost cost us points as well.

Monaco have managed just seven goals in their eight match run to the quarter finals, and will be up against a side that has only lost once in European competition since their new stadium opened in 2011.

Your opening fixture this season was a win against Arsenal — does that add to confidence going into this match?

3x Champs Team Lalez entered the 2017 - 18 postseason as the # 7 seed with an overall 11 - 7 record and were looking to get started off on the right foot with their opening round match - up against # 10 Team Purimetla.

It's worth noting that Benzema was left out of Real Madrid's match - day squad for their opening La Liga fixture of the season, against Sporting Gijon, and Rafa Benitez's side drew a blank in that fixture which could leave the Spanish giants realising just how important a member of their Bernabeu squad the French international really is.

As a result, they were tasked with a very tough opening round match - up against # 3 Team Hanessian and came up just a little short, falling by a final score of 82 - 69.

If Oklahoma State can win its rubber match against the Oklahoma Sooners in the Big 12 Tournament opening round on Wednesday, they'll get a chance to defeat Kansas for a third time in Thursday's quarters.

The first sign that Shapo was someone to keep an eye on at this year's US Open, at least for casual fans, came two rounds before his match against eventual semifinalist Carreño - Busta, when he beat Jo - Wilfried Tsonga in three sets.

Team Schwartz closed out their 2017 - 18 regular season schedule with a big win and were looking to carry that momentum into their opening round match - up against # 9 Team Maione.

Upset special: Look out for Jimmy Heryford of Sutter, a three - time Northern Section champ and state qualifier who hasn't won his first state match, but can do it in style against state No. 12 Amuro Easton of Calvary Chapel - Santa Ana in the opening round.

Spain head into the match after drawing with Germany 1 - 1 with Rodrigo opening the scoring after a sumptuous through ball by Andres Iniesta, whilst Argentina won 2 - 0 against Italy at the Etihad.

we have at most 4 real quality outfielders i.e. players that other top european teams would take... ozil sanchez santi and kos... in my books you need 6... we are two short but worse the quality of others is lower than needed... only bellerin coq and wilshere have that potential... and there are problems with each still... we should have put in bids in june for griezman kondogbia and the Burussia striker as all could have been prized away with right bid plus players thrown in IMO... now its too late and wenger is in some weird gallic world of existential hope and denial and fans are just praying we do nt lose opening 2 matches for first time in over two decades... but no one is really confident against a team which is sure to finish around mid table...

The France midfielder had been one of the stars of the Gunners» solid start to the season, and backed that up with a match - winning performance in his country's opening World Cup qualifier against Finland.

The No. 1 ranked man in the world, Novak Djokovic, plays an early evening match at the 2012 Italian Open against young Australian star Bernard Tomic at the Centrale stadium court.

The former Borussia Dortmund man has scored 30 goals in his two seasons at Bayern Munich but last season was dropped for crucial encounters, including two fixtures against Barcelona in the Champions League, and was also left out of the starting eleven for the opening Bundesliga match of the season.

The match - ups for the opening quarterfinals are: Holmes vs. Prater in the heavies; Cassidy vs. Taylor in the light heavies; the sharp Colbert against Chiaverini in the middleweights; Randy Shields vs. Juan Cantres in the welterweights; Pat Dolan vs. Johnny Sullivan in the lightweights and Walter Seeley vs. Hilbert Stevenson in the feathers.

The Reds have only taken four points from their opening five matches, with all of those coming against Bulgarian minnows Ludogorets.

They remembered last year's U.S. Open title match against Austin, in which Martina had won the first set 6 - 1 and then, at 4 - 4 in the second, at break point, dumped a shoulder - high forehand volley into the net and eventually lost 1 - 6, 7 - 6, 7 - 6.

As in, the hours beginning last Thursday night, which was couch - potato nirvana: NBA Finals Game 7 (highest rating since 1998), Team USA's stirring comeback against Slovenia (most TV households for a soccer match in U.S. history) and, for a snack, the U.S. Open and its ocean views.

Portugal failed to win any of their three group stage matches, leading for just under 20 minutes total in the group stage after Nani opened against Iceland.

Giroud opened this season's account with an excellent strike against Crystal Palace, and hopefully will add to brilliant record against Newcastle in today's match, but will the fans EVER be happy with Olivier, even if he scores 40 goals?

He didn't practice on the unfamiliar Court Philippe Chatrier before his first match there, against former French Open champ Michael Chang in the second round.

That kind of performance in the opening half against the Blues will have them rocked, and we simply can not afford to go into the match using our usual system, which includes Olivier Giroud playing as the sole striker.

Arsenal have done it again by putting all thier backs on coquelin's shoulder and now he gets injured who will replace him?flamini «can't pass the ball and leaves arsenal open», arteta «no chance and was one of main reasons arsenal drew 3 - 3 against andrelecht» and the other candidate wilshere «bullshit he can't defend properly and might as well leave the club» I would prefer Christoph Kramer who is tall, mobile and will provide cover for our defence and in the recent match against Australia he came on as a substitute and provided the basic cover Germany needed.

Liverpool's high pressing game will come to not in this big PL game because the Gunners have more than prepared themselves to negate whatever the Reds have on offer against them in the game by making themselves bigger in the game than the Reds have imagined by inflicting on them a heavy punishment on the field of play during the playing of the match to make them pay for the sin they've committed against Arsenal by giving them a dose of their own medicine for having the audacity to come to the Emirates Stadium and took away all the 3 points that were at stake in an opening day PL game without at least leave a point for Arsenal to collect in the match..

You mite not like Giroud here but he scores against teams like this, he opens up some incredibly frustrating match, we can not win the league playing the same pattern against every team.

I think Tottenham Hotspur will bid their time in this game and not play an open attacking game on the onset of the match, but play with caution defending against the early assault of the Gunners» attacking machines.

I think Tottenham Hotspur will bid their time in this game and not play an open attacking game at the onset of the match, but play with caution defending against the early assaults by the Gunners» attacking machines.

The 29 - year - old has been in stunning form during all three of City's opening games of the season and turned in a man - of - the - match performance against Everton on Sunday afternoon as the visitors maintained their perfect start to the campaign.