Sentences with phrase «performances in both games against»

His performance in the game against Sporting Lisbon lead to his starting role against Braga, and the defender who can play as a full back or defensive midfielder didn't dissapoint.

He was also criticised for his performances in the games against Manchester City.

Having to face Bayern Munich in the group stage for the second time in three years was unfortunate to say the least, but extremely shaky performances in both games against Roma and CSKA Moscow highlighted the need for an abrupt shake - up of operations at the Etihad.

Not exact matches

The bowl operates similarly to other fantasy football platforms: Users will select a team of nine players — who score points based on their real - life, in - game performances — and face off against teams assembled by other contestants across the country.

Nick Foles proved he could still play with a steady performance against the Giants in his first start for the Eagles this year after Carson Wentz went down with a season - ending injury, and the Philadelphia defense proved they're still fearsome when they essentially won Eagles» Christmas game against the Raiders on their own.

NOT a great performance all the same, but, it is NOT a EPL game where you have a 1 off 3/1 or 0 outcome, this, is the qualifier for the UCL, and as such is a 2 leg affair, and 0 - 0 away in Turkey, against a team that beat Chelsea pre-season, is a good result.

Considering Arsenal's tight schedule, the duo are not going to play every game and with a few more performances like the one against Hull, Mohammed Elneny may well rise above the pecking order in central midfield before the start of next season.

oh dear 4th place junkies wet their pants with performance against shampton b team... walcott the greatest winger in the history of the game iwobi a revelation.....

Opta - powered fantasy football game www.oulala.com have taken a closer look at Petr Cech and analysed how he has fared in Arsenal's opening games against his performances from last season.

Yes we need to put in performances like that week in week out every game against every team right until the end..

A Good performance from all the players.no team is easy to beat at this closing stage of the league: If a half goal exists in the game of football and guarantees 3points, I had take a half goal and 3points against any opponent no matter how lowly placed.

No one expected Bellerin to have a big impact, when he was thrown into the deep end, the same could be said about Coquelin, So, why not wait and see if Bielik can do the same, he seemed okay in that position against the MLS superstars, well, at least wenger was happy with his performance in that game.

I can nitpick on each of our 14 players performance in this game if i want, but I happen to think that overall, obtaining a draw against a title contender playing away, especially playing with 10 men for almost 45 minutes, was not such a bad result after all, not only if the standard is applied to a fragile team such as AFC, but also if it were to be applied to some other «fantastic» team such as for example, Leicester... I can imagine that if we were to loose the game the way Leicester did at the Emirates, many (visitors to this site) would be condemning our players bottlers, chokers instead of hailing them for defending bravely for 20 minutes with 10 men... LOL..

Couper Moorhead mentioned on twitter that two years ago the Heat opened up the playoffs with a franchise record setting offensive performance against Charlotte in a game 1 win.

Gangi had one last awful performance, throwing three picks against Boise State, but in the other six games of that late stretch, he had 18 TDs to three INTs.

He was quoted in the Independent after the excellent performance against Galatasary: «Obviously it is a good lift before the Chelsea game.

A guy who never turns up in big games, and is happy to just coast from game to game, with the odd good performance here, and there, against weak opposition.

He closed the year by scoring 30 or more in nine of his final 10 games, including a 44 - point performance against reigning league champion Georgia Stars.

Still unbeaten this season, yesterday's game saw our Netball 1s earn their spot in the quarter final of the BUCS Northern Conference Cup after another incredible performance against our local rivals, University of Manchester.

Here's his performance heads - up against first - team All - ACC tailback Elijah Hood in the ACC Championship Game.

Arsenal have not lost either of the two games that we have played in November so far, but we could have done and our performances in those two games against Ludogorets Razgrad and Tottenham will surely bring up the questions about whether or not this season's version of the Gunners can avoid the usual nightmare that is November.

After dropping seven consecutive games and losing its coach, Ole Miss rebounded with an impressive offensive performance against a stellar defensive team, and showed enough fight to pick up its first road win in conference.

We will have to wait and see whether the Arsenal and England defender Kieran Gibbs is selected by his national manager Roy Hodgson for the friendly game against France at Wembley tonight, which is bound to be an odd and emotionally charged encounter after the terrible terrorist attacks in Paris, but with England wracked by injury problems and having to play a very young team, as well as the limp performance put in by Ryan Bertrand at left back against Spain, I will be surprised if Gibbs does not start.

But there were warning signs too, with mistakes in the first game against Portugal going unpunished and a worrying performance against Greece overshadowed by the four Germany goals.

The Wolfpack are consistently good but never experience true success, and because Doeren hasn't changed that, either overall or in single - game upsets — at NCSU, he's 0 - 15 against P5 teams that finished with at least nine wins and 25 - 11 against everybody else — he is facing more pressure than his performance warrants.

Montana gave a solid performance against the Vikings in the NFC divisional playoff game.

All well and good, but facts are facts (everyone seems to have a hard - on for stats right now) and that Man City performance was the only significant win against the top 6 this season — it's not a measure of how we typically perform in these games.

Aubameyang will probably have a great impact and influence as he will encourage the other players to raise their game as seen in Rambo's performance against Everton.

Opta - powered fantasy football game www.oulala.com have taken a look at the Welshman's performance data from the Premier League last season and compared it against the man he'd most likely be looking to oust in the Barcelona first team, Ivan Rakitic.

Put in another excellent performance in a Chelsea shirt, keeping his side in the game with some vital saves against Blaise Matuidi, Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Cavani.

After being dropped for Manchester City's game against Leicester City in midweek, club captain Vincent Kompany is the latest big name to find himself benched for poor form, following two awful performances against Barcelona and Liverpool.

The club have won their last five home league games against Nottingham Forest keeping clean sheets in the last three but will be disappointed with their performance during a 1 - 0 loss at home to Sheffield Wednesday last time out.

As witnessed this season with the Away performances against all the teams (bar Palace) in the lower reaches of the League.You could have written Southampton's tactics before the game as it's what most teams do against us.We continue to be unconvincing and like you Anders S I do not offer the excuse of the side being full of replacements for rested First Team players.

In the last three games against Manchester United, Bournemouth and Arsenal we have shown great performances and we need to keep going this way.

And after an excellent game in the Asia Trophy final against Everton to back up the brilliant performances right at the end of last season, Walcott has done everything asked of him to prove his worth to Arsene Wenger.

Overall we showed that we are not that bad and that we can play against good teams, but we've seen good performances in individual games before, it's about making it through the entire season with that sort of commitment and it's all I've really asked for.

The manager did say after the game, however, that Wilshere was just being rested and would play against Wolfsburg today but he is now under even more pressure to put in a brilliant performance.

It's still one game at a time, but for me losing against Chelsea at home outlines the following performances in the derby matches, so I waved good bye to the title already.

we are too hit and miss in our games, some games we dominate like against utd but then the next game we can be rubbish like the west brom and norwich game, no consistency in our performances which lets us down

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It would have been the perfect game for Coquelin's reading of the game and defensive ability but if Flamini can repeat his performance against the spuds then it will go a long way towards Arsenal being able to stand up to Leicester in the middle of the park.

All of you want Wenger to sign Kondogbia because of one Emirates cup game he played against us i doubt if Monaco will approve his sale.Do you actually judge a player's quality base on one game or a series of nice performance he puts in week after week?

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.

LeBron James turned in one of the greatest NBA Finals performances in history during a losing effort in a pivotal Game 3 against the Golden State Warriors on Wednesday.

I think that Ospina's performances for Arsenal have been excellent, if he produces saves like he did in the World Cup, particularly the game against Argentina then few of us will be talking about a replacement for him.

But the performance in the victory at Turf Moor was a complete contrast to that against Liverpool, with Arsene Wenger's side proving they can win games without being at their best.

Tough game against Everton il take any win regardless of performance we just have to stay in touch with City at all cost.

With Arsenal going into the crunch Champions League game against Barcelona at the Emirates, the Gunners will need exactly that kind of performance from the combative midfielder in order to contain the Catalan attack.

But then again, we have also improved our tactics and performances in the big games and if we are going to find it harder against the lower placed clubs, how much harder will our rivals find it?

Coming off a 28 - point performance against the Los Angeles Lakers last Thursday, it was the first time Nurkic has scored at least 20 points in consecutive games this season.