Sentences with phrase «opening run of wins»

A similar scenario emerged after Pep Guardiola's opening run of wins as Manchester City boss in 2016.

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Ajax striker Arkadiusz Milik has already got off the mark in the tournament, netting the only goal of Poland's opening win, and is continuing his fine run of form from his club this season to his country.

The key sequence at the end: Georgia blocked a 27 - yard Oklahoma field goal on the Sooners» opening possession of double OT, then got a 27 - yard touchdown run from Sony Michel to win it.

The draw ends United's run of three consecutive wins in all competitions, as they now wait until after the international break to face Liverpool at Anfield on October 17 with the point on Sunday moving them up to sixth place in the Premier League table with 13 points from their opening seven games.

Ohio State was a seven - point favorite, had Heisman - winning QB Troy Smith, was top - 10 on both sides of the ball, and ran back the opening kickoff.

Kouyate was a virtual ever - present last season, making 30 Premier League starts, and has continued his good run of form this term, netting in West Ham's surprise win at Arsenal on the opening weekend of the campaign.

Adding to Larson's near - wins: he was also leading the season - opening Daytona 500 before running out of fuel on the final lap.

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In a key league showdown against Sheldon - Sacramento on Oct. 13, that right side of the line opened up another hole for their speedy back and he broke another big run, this time a 53 - yard touchdown in the Marauders 37 - 29 win.

The value of supporting a team that wins a cup comes not from the knowledge that your team is the best in any abstract or general sense, but from knowing that when your team was asked to do something, it did, and when it was asked to do the next thing it did that as well, and on and on through the season, until eventually the world ran out of questions and rewarded your persistence and fortune with a medal and a ride in an open - top bus.

For 2 years running, since the College / Prep League expanded to 20 Teams, 1 of the 4 «play - in» Teams have gone on to win both of their Opening Round Hoops Games..

There could be many Arsenal fans conceding that the Gunners were unlucky to be pitted against Klopp's Liverpool and Champions Leicester in our opening two games of the season, especially with our latecomers and preseason injuries, but perhaps we can now go our usual run of wins against the so - called «weaker» teams.

very happy for the win yesterday but i think we were very lucky they were chasing the game and the game was so open un still we could not capitalize on the counter-attack that is not the sign of a quality team Sanchez had so many opportunity one an one but could not run past defender Alexandre lacazette would have done a better job

Georgia got to even things up neatly, nullifying their only loss with a win and doing it the way Georgia's won most of its games: brutal defense with a relentless work rate, and a run game that would, at one point, break open the entire game.

But the devil, as always, is in the details, and by picking eight teams for the Open from the north, that pretty much dooms six or seven of them to also - ran status, and gives teams nine through 12 — who play in their own divisions against non-Open teams from Southern California — a much better shot at winning a California title.

He is a former standout player for his alma mater University of San Francisco, Major League Soccer «s Colorado Rapids and New England Revolution, professional teams in Bolivia and Holland, and A-League «s San Francisco Seals (whom he led during their historic US Open Cup semi-final run in 1997 that included wins over MLS teams San Jose Clash and Kansas City Wizards).

The apex of this run was a three - game stretch in which Otto: poured in 33 points in a double - figure win at Syracuse; capped a dramatic comeback with a last - second, game - winning lay - up in double - overtime at Connecticut; and broke open an ugly home win over Rutgers with a dominant performance at both ends of the floor.

Though Roma had only won one of their past 13 matches on their travels in the competition, beating Basel in 2009, they were hopeful of ending that run against Qarabag, who had been humiliated 6 - 0 at Chelsea in the opening round.

The immediate cause for the explosion of the back - three formation might be everybody copying Chelsea's success last year: After a mediocre opening six games to the season, culminating in a 3 - 0 loss at Arsenal, Antonio Conte switched Chelsea to a back three and promptly won 13 games straight and ran away with the league.

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.

After winning the opening game of the season, 4 - 2 over Southport, with two goals by Peter Morris, a disastrous run followed with only one more win from the next 17 games, and by mid-December, Stags were rooted to the foot of the table.

Ilkay Gundogan stressed that Manchester City have not won anything yet this season despite a stunning run of form that has seen Pep Guardiola's men open an 11 - point lead at the top of the Premier League.

Since putting in a storming opening half - hour before going off injured with a troubled groin in our 3 - 0 win over Spurs back in October 2009, Bendtner has been unable to put a serious run of games together and stamp his authority on the starting team.

Before that there were two wins at either end of 2001 including the famous PDC / Barthez goal, a memorable victory in the opening week of the 1986/87 season and exactly 40 years ago today West Ham ran out 2 - 0 victors with goals from Trevor Brooking and Billy Jennings.

«THE Official Story of Liverpool FC», the smash hit stage show, returns to the city at the end of the month with a three - night special run of shows at EchoTwo, Echo Arena and we've teamed up with the show and LFC to give two lucky readers the chance of winning a pair of tickets each to the opening night.

What is true in a season when no team has been able to put together a run of wins (apart from Leicester) is that the title is open and beating City will be important.

This fightback checked a run of one win in seven opening - day games, and it takes us to the top of the table.

Ray opened his account with the only goal of the game at home to Huddersfield, notched his second in a 2 - 1 win at Burnley, and then went on an astonishing run for one so inexperienced.

The team had reacted positively to a tough 3 - 1 defeat against Tottenham in their opening Champions League fixture and put together a run of three Bundesliga wins that saw them score 14 goals and concede just once — the only goal allowed in their first six league games.

Our win last week was probably the best so far against a Sheffield Wednesday team previously unbeaten and it was a third successive win and took our unbeaten run to six games, all this coming after we'd been beaten 4 - 1 on the opening day of the season against Watford, a result that left us wondering how far we might be behind the others in this league.

Britain's Rachel Atherton extended her record winning run to 14 with victory in the opening round of the 2017 UCI Downhill Mountain Bike World Cup.

That defeat against Aston Villa on the opening day of last season started a run of 14 wins, 8 draws and 0 defeats.

West Brom could open their accounts in 2011 in style were they to ground out some form of a result at home to Manchester United, whom they've never beaten in a Premier League contest and in their most recent meeting with the Red Devils at The Hawthorns, during the 2008/2009 league campaign, shipped 5 as United ran riot winning 5 - 0.

After an impressive goalscoring run for Everton's Under - 18s in the opening few months of the 2017/18 season, he became the first player to be born in the 21st century to play for the Blues» first team when - aged 16 years 286 days - Gordon came on as a substitute in the Toffees» 3 - 0 Europa League group stage win over Apollon Limassol in Cyprus.

«We need to get things back up and running and get the fans behind us and try and get the two titles still open to us this season that we have not yet won either,» said Valverde, who must pick up his players ahead of their Liga tie with Valencia Saturday.

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.

Applegate ran surprisingly close in California's open primary in June, winning 45.5 percent of the vote compared to Issa's 50.8 percent.

Greenfield opened the account in 2013 when he was considering running for a state seat, his office said — one year before getting named chairman of the Land Use Committee, and the same year he was re-elected to his first full term after winning a special election in 2010.

Creator found an opening in the stretch and ran down Destin in the final stride to win the $ 1.5 million Belmont Stakes by a nose, the closest possible margin of victory.

He also left open the possibility of running for the seat in the regular election cycle in 2016, when many expect the Democrats will win a majority of seats in the State Senate.

With 585 constituencies, the party can run 10 open primaries a week from January 2014, each one in a different part of the country, starting with seats notionally held by the Conservatives pre-2010, then those notionally won in 2010, then the target seats for 2015, then the rest.

In the 19th district, left open by the Senate run of Mack, radio talk - show host Trey Radel won over former Capitol Hill aide Chauncey Goss and state Rep. Paige Kreegel.

With one of the most highly regarded public campaign financing systems and term limits, City Council elections have been opened up for candidates of modest means to run, and sometimes win.

«We are attempting to win,» she emphasized to The Hill... But she also spoke about the longer - term goal of opening up the electoral process by providing a template for how a campaign can be run without going to any great lengths to solicit big - dollar donations.

A former de Blasio administration staffer running for an open Queens City Council seat has won the first labor endorsement of the race.

FX opens the new year with the return of the Emmy Award - winning hit drama Justified on January 17, and will continue to run Tuesdays at 10 PM ET / PT.

The 53 - year old Italian won at the 2008 running of the event when driving an open - top Austin Healey 100S, but this year he'll compete in GT cars and saloons.

He qualified second one race ago at VIRginia International Raceway (VIR) and started the front - row streak with Lone Star Racing with a pole - winning qualifying run in the season - opening event weekend at Circuit of The Americas (COTA) in March.

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To celebrate the final major of the Tennis calendar, US Open 29th August — 11th September, we will be running a few competitions with the help of a few of our friends around the globe, giving you the chance to win Virtua Tennis 4 Merchandise and copies of the game.