Sentences with phrase «play against the champions»

When you play against the champions and are down to 10 men for such a long time... we are only three points off the lead and have Leicester and Southampton at home coming up.

Not exact matches

Lee Sedol, the reigning world champion in Go, played a five - game tournament against Google's «AlphaGo» computer in March 2016.

The Lions Tour of New Zealand will consist of 10 games played throughout the country between June 3 and July 8, including three Test matches against the three - time World Champions.

In my opinion it would be silly not to play our strongest side against the strongest of European opponents and that of course means the Champions League winner Petr Cech in goal ahead of David Ospina.

Forster has shot to prominence with his displays for Celtic over the last couple of years, but has now moved on from the Glasgow club despite their Champions League reprieve and upcoming play - off tie against Slovenian championsChampions League reprieve and upcoming play - off tie against Slovenian championschampions Maribor.

this is a man who played yaya sanogo against bayern munich in the knock out stage of the champions league rather than buy reinforcements

Arsene Wenger was never going to come out and say that Arsenal are out of the Champions League, as we still have the second leg against Barcelona at the Nou Camp to play in a couple of weeks.

When the odds were stacked against us and the world predicted that we would be playing Europa league in a few weeks, we went to the home of the Greek Champions and won.

If you add to that the fact that Arsenal haven't lost in any of their last 10 visits to Wembley, and the obvious inferiority complex that Tottenham have when it comes to playing Arsenal, and also that the Spuds have to play a massive Champions League game against Juventus just three days later, then it seems ridiculous that Arsenal are such a large price to win this game.

I still am not sure why Mick McCarthy opted to play such a weakened side, I know some would point out that the club went on to win their next fixture but its worth remembering that Wolves had also won their previous two matches prior to the Old Trafford clash so they would have buoyed up for the game and who knows perhaps they could have gotten a surprise result against the Premier League champions.

I think his only experience of premier league teams is playing in the Champions League, at home against Chelsea and winning.

Playing for England against the likes of Estonia and Slovenia is completely different to playing for Arsenal against any Premier League or Champions League oppoPlaying for England against the likes of Estonia and Slovenia is completely different to playing for Arsenal against any Premier League or Champions League oppoplaying for Arsenal against any Premier League or Champions League opposition.

We do have a Champions League game against Dinamo Zagreb on the Tuesday after the international break but it is at home and we do play on the Saturday beforehand.

There have been suggestions that the boss made some sort of promise to Ospina about his playing opportunities and from the first two games in the Champions League, especially the second game against Olympiacos when we were under great pressure to win, it seems like the Colombian is the first choice for all of the Arsenal cup games.

What has changed is just because we want to play against the top teams and we want to be in the Champions League.

«Obviously it is pleasing, first of all to be able to help the team with important goals in a Champions League knockout game [and] of course to come back to England and [win] against a team you're always motivated to play against,» Suarez told UEFA.com (via Daily Mail).

The players will know they need to bounce back this weekend and with the Champions League trip to face Bayern Munich coming up they are playing for their places, so expect a strong response against Hull.

The Ivory Coast international was denied entry to the UK last season as a result of his conviction, meaning he was unable to play against Arsenal in the Champions League.

As if I didn't know that Flamini left because of being subbed off in the champions league final against Barcelona, He was playing as a LB that day.

For starters we all know for sure that Santi Cazorla will not be playing, in fact it is now a full year since he last took to the pitch in a Champions League game against Ludgorets.

Arsene Wenger will hopefully not have to look for any reasons why Arsenal do not win away against relegation threatened Sunderland tomorrow, as we really need a good performance and the right result from the lads to go back above Man City and take a step closer to ensuring that we have a place in the Champions League next season and do not have the stress and inconvenience of a play off.

Gordon's scheduled «Proving Ground» match against Ring of Honor champion Dalton Castle in West Palm Beach on April 27 shows his progress in the company in only a year's time, and he plays an important role on the Young Bucks» cutting edge «Being The Elite» YouTube series.

After losing the North London derby this weekend, Arsenal are very unlikely to finish the season in the Champions League places so it looks like the Gunners only hope of qualifying for the elite competition will be from winning the Europa League, which recommences this coming Thursday with Arsenal playing against the Swedish minnows Ostersund.

# 2 Team Harlander will make their 2017 - 18 postseason debut on Sunday night against defending champions # 7 Team Lalez without having played a game in three full weeks.

He added: «If you can not enjoy playing Champions League against Barcelona, fighting for the title in the Premier League, being with this team, being in the best league in world, if you don't enjoy it, you must need to see a doctor.

It doesn't matter who it's against, or where it is, if our boys play like I know they can, we can be champions of concacaf.

He has not played at all since mid-November, when he was subbed during Arsenal's Champions League clash against Borussia Dortmund.

Just ask yourself, if Pique gets injured before El Classico or before a Champions League Semi Final against say... Bayern, would you be comfortable at Umtiti playing RCB?

He impressed for Costa Rica at the 2014 World Cup, and again in the Champions League when he netter against Manchester United for Olympiacos in the Champions League, but has since struggled to get any regular playing time in north London.

This is the fourth time a team will play the final of the European Cup / Champions League in their own stadium after Real Madrid in 1956/57 (2 - 0 win against Fiorentina at the Bernabeu), Inter Milan in 1964/65 (1 - 0 win against Benfica at the San Siro) & Roma in 1983/84 (losing in a penalty shoot - out against Liverpool at the Olimpico).

Santalab dislocated the shoulder during the first leg of the Asian Champions League final against Al Hilal, but remarkably played in the second leg in Riyadh last Sunday.

Pogba has not played for United since going off against FC Basel in a Champions League game back in September.

Shaw is set for a lengthy spell on the sidelines after being stretchered off in the first - half on United Champions League opener against PSV Eindhoven following a strong challenge from Hector Moreno, who has also played under Pochettino, and it was revealed after the game that he has suffered a double fracture of his right leg.

Now that he's in the playoffs for the first time since 1996, Garner hopes the Raiders continue to play like a rejuvenated team when they travel to New England for Saturday night's divisional playoff against the AFC East - champion Patriots.

Borussia Dortmund are playing against Juventus at the Westfalenstadion in the second leg of their Champions League last 16 tie on Wednesday.

The 26 year old Argentine played a key role in Real Madrid's Champions League triumph last season, putting in a Man of the Match role in the final against local rivals Atletico, and then greatly impressed at the World Cup finals.

It even went to an extent where the Daily Mail claimed that Ozil was «nicking a living» — a quite personal attack — as Arsenal crashed out of the Champions League against Bayern Munich, despite further revelation that the World Cup winner was playing with a hamstring injury which ruled him out for six weeks.

He also played the entire of of Barcelona's shock 1 - 0 defeat to Celta Vigo last Saturday, despite Barcelona having a Champions League game against Ajax this Wednesday.

Brendan Rodgers to play Steven Gerrard in advanced role against Ludogorets in the Champions League (Independent).

The player involved, German international winger Karim Bellarabi, must be feeling quite good about himself after scouts from Arsenal, Man City, Liverpool, Man United, Tottenham and Newcastle all turned up to watch him play for Bayer Leverkusen against the Russian club Zenit St. Petersburg in the Champions League this week.

Say we stumbled our way to the Champions League final and were lined up against Madrid, Barca or Bayern; Cech, Sanchez, Xhaka, Ozil, Bellerin and Koscielny on our team sheet would give me full confidence as they could easily be playing for any one of the three, Lukaku and Higuain will be decent too but not for 75 million pounds though.

There have been some absolutely sensational games of football that have been played in the past 12 months, from Man City's 5 - 3 win against Monaco in the Champions League, to Barcelona's dramatic 3 - 2 win at the Santiago Bernabeu in April.

In fact while Arsenal played reserves against BATE, Chelsea had a crucial Champions League game against Atletico Madrid.

He played Champions League against Maribor and a Capital One Cup game.

Not only didn't we get the results (at least one win against any of those 3 would mark a champion IMO) we also didn't play up to our potential or for 90 minutes.

Fabregas is a Chelshit now, we must move on he left us when we needed him most and surprising we did well, we always played champions League against all odds.

Infact, if not for the stupid red card that Aturo Vidal got playing against Real Madrid, Bayern Munic in my view was the strongest team in the champions league and was on course to win the damn thing.

Arsene Wenger was soundly citicised for playing David Ospina ahead of Petr Cech in the game against Olympiakos, and for his second game in the Champions League we were beaten yet again.

Besides several teams who have questions surrounding one or possibly two players, there is no squad that has so many issues heading into the final week of the transfer window... even Monaco, who have lost numerous players from their starting 11 have less controversy swirling in and around their club and they have champion's league play to contend with this season... just think of how ridiculous this situation is especially considering that we have had the same manager for over 20 years... no team should be better organized than ours... if nothing else, that should be the one advantage this team holds over all others, yet the exact opposite has occurred... this fact is even more disturbing considering the main argument against removing Wenger from his managerial position was that there was no suitable replacement and that people feared some sort of perceived drop - off if a new manager was brought into the mix... based on what we've witnessed since the time of his contract renewal a monkey with a magic eight ball could have done an adequate job... I hate to make jokes, in light of our current dilemma, but this team is so screwed up if I don't laugh about it, the only plausible response is to either cry or do something incredibly destructive... just look around this squad and try to see what our delusional manager sees that allow him to make such positive statements about our current team

A trip to Switzerland in midweek awaits shortly after, with the Champions League clash against Basel to play.