Sentences with phrase «opening match of the season»

Manchester United left back Luke Shaw is hoping to make his debut for the Red Devils this weekend, report the Daily Star, after the teenager's Old Trafford career was delayed by an injury he picked up in the final training session before their opening match of the season against Swansea City.

Defending champions Leicester City were upset by Hull in the opening match of the season, the first time that the previous season's winners had lost the first game the following season.

Although they beat us with a very late goal in the opening match of this season at Stamford Bridge (by a player who should not have still been on the pitch at the time!)

Sakho would then miss most of the opening matches of the season, coming back in November to start against Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United in the Premier League.

Everton have not had the best of starts in the Premier League this season, playing four matches so far; beating Stoke City 1 - 0 in their opening match of the season, drawing 1 - 1 all with Manchester City, which will be viewed as a good result, but them falling to straight defeats; 2 - 0 to Premier League champions Chelsea and a 3 - 0 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur.

Sterling has performed in all of the 4 opening matches of the season of Manchester City but his performances have been average at best.

Doncaster Rovers proved to be the most popular visitors with 16,749 attending the opening match of the season.

Arsenal will take on Crystal Palace on Sunday with a point to prove after losing to West Ham at the Emirates Stadium in their opening match of the season.

Morgan Schneiderlin is a 26 year old French midfielder who has struggled to make an impact in Old Trafford and Michael Owen believes that other players deserve to be called up instead of Schneiderlin and truth be told, Schneiderlin has only made 1 appearance so far out of the 7 opening matches of the season.

The Spanish club now has the task of defending their title as well as also having to protect their La Liga silverware and started on the right foot as Barcelona claimed a 1 - 0 triumph over Athletic Club in the opening match of the season.

Though the time is not fixed yet, but at 13th August 5 times English League champions will play their opening match of the season.

There was a lot of online bemusement regarding the selection of Lucas Leiva to face Southampton in the opening match of the season on Sunday, so I thought I'd take a quick look at his stats to see how he performed and what the trends are, particularly with regards to his tackling.

NEW ROCHELLE, NY — Splitting the two opening matches of this season's the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference season, the Iona College women's water polo defeated St. Francis Brooklyn College 14 - 5, then dropped a close match, 10 - 9, to Marist College on Saturday afternoon at Villanova University.