Sentences with phrase «rare home defeat»

But as we know, the Saints inflicted a rare home defeat on Louis van Gaal and his team.

Its not like booing Wayne Bridge helped stifle the left back as he had a pretty good game and helped the away side inflict a rare home defeat at Stamford Bridge.

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Their emphatic defeat away to Blackburn Rovers last weekend put memories of a jubilant yet rare league win at home to Sunderland the week before right to the back of everyone's mind, with the focus now reverting back to the many defeats Wolves have collected this season.

Ola Aina was handed a rare rest for that, playing just the final seven minutes of the contest, but was back in the side for ninety minutes alongside Michael Hector on Saturday, where Tomori was left on the bench for a 1 - 0 defeat at home to Sheffield Wednesday.

Alex McLeish sets his side up to defend in numbers away from home, and it has been poor defensive displays, rare ones at that, which have cost them valuable away spoils this season, with two of their three away defeats suffered the direct symptoms of conceding three goals in a single outing.

In the knowledge that their form on home soil is fairly solid — just one defeat in six — that they concede on the rare occasions — Joe Hart in the City goal having kept a staggering seven clean sheets in ten at home, five in his last six as well, and on the back of successive TO NIL home wins over Aston Villa (4 - 0) and Blackpool (1 - 0), you really are struggling to find any dent in their armour.