Sentences with phrase «run of fixtures against»

Bolton have had a tough run of fixtures against the likes of Man City, Liverpool, Man United, Arsenal and Chelsea and Klasnic believes 18th place is not a true reflection of their ability.

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England ended their run of international fixtures in a positive way, beating the Netherlands and were denied a victory against Italy with a contentious penalty decision after the referee consulted the VAR system.

OUAFC also runs a Development Squad with a busy fixture list of friendlies culminating in Varsity against the Cambridge Kestrels in Hilary Term.

here's my big hope, is that hopefully with the return of walcott and that win against anderlecht maybe something might (like bad form) break in the season for us now and we hopefully go on a bit of a winning run til Jan, we have not got a really bad fixture til then mostly mid to lower league team (apart from the pool and united) not to be underestimated but winnable, we might just save our season till the next window very important period for us if we want to do anything in the league this season, if in top 2 or 3 buy jan i for one will be chuffed to bits then with all players back push on from there for massive optimism is my middle name COYG

Adelaide United winger Tarek Elrich scored the goal of his career and put himself in the running to win the Goal of the Year award with an fantastic solo effort in the Australian A-League fixture against Melbourne City last week.

The last time they had a run of difficult games, everyone expected them to lose and start sinking down the table, But that never happened and the same thing was said about their fixtures against Liverpool, Man City and Us..

Paris Saint - Germain are running critically low on available defenders ahead of their Ligue 1 fixture against FC Lorient on Friday evening with David Luiz, Marquinhos and Serge Aurier all absent.

Arsenal have won just two of their last SEVEN away League games, a record which needs to improve considering that Arsene Wenger's side face away fixtures against the likes of Manchester United, Spurs, Everton, West Ham and Manchester City in the run - up to the title.

This is little chance Griezmann and / or Diego Costa play, let alone start, against a Copenhagen side that is also set to rotate due to a demanding run of league fixtures.

It was a game that mirrored the final fixture of the previous season (against Everton) where we took the lead and had control of the game before conceding an equaliser against the run of play, and then lost it in stoppage time.

Burnley kick off a run of three consecutive away games tomorrow with a trip to West Ham United with future fixtures to come against West Bromwich Albion and Watford...

In our reverse fixture against them — also back in October — they won 1 - 0 at Second Meadow, although I'm fairly confident that our recent run that has seen us amass 41 points out of a possible 48, means it won't have escaped their notice that the Biggleswade United side they will be facing tomorrow will be a different proposition to the one they encountered last year.

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.

West Ham are now in the middle of the run of games that were meant to guarantee their safety before the fixtures became stickier against the bigger clubs from April onwards.

At Anfield, Spurs have lost 15 of their 24 visits in the Premier League and are currently on an eight match winless run against the Reds in all fixtures.

The league leaders look to have the friendliest run - in of their title rivals over the next few weeks, with fixtures against clubs that would normally be labelled «six - pointers» were it not for the maddening reality that the Foxes are playing it so safely in avoiding relegation that they're in danger of actually winning the league.

There is nothing formidable about the current Arsenal side even though our display against them in the league fixture, where we showed them an unnecessary level of respect, was the least impressive in our recent run.

The manner of the victory against a good Everton side who gained a point at the Emirates earlier in the season can also boost Arsenal before a tough run of league fixtures.

We have a tough game at the weekend against Arsenal and then we have a run of fixtures which are a bit more kind to us.

Interestingly, in the return set of fixtures which took place just two days later: West Ham (with juts one change; Bovington in for Peters) beat Blackburn 3 - 1 at Ewood Park to begin a run in which Rovers eventually slid down to seventh in the table; Ipswich took their revenge on Fulham winning 4 - 2 at Portman Road (although they were relegated at the end of the season); Manchester United recovered from their mauling against Burnley to hammer them 5 - 1 at Old Trafford; and Bolton overcame Sheffield Wednesday 3 - 0 in their return game.

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.

The Blues were last in action in mid-November when we beat Rosengard to clinch a Champions League quarter - final against Montpellier, and this Saturday we kick off a run of three home fixtures in the space of little over a week.

McTominay feels that United can take the inspiration from their away run of fixtures a few weeks ago in which United dealt with tricky fixtures against Watford, a 4 - 2 victory and, Arsenal, a 3 - 1 victory.

Despite losing previous fixtures at Old Trafford, Wenger remained optimistic because of their decent run against United at The Emirates.

Wenger has already ruled the 29 - year - old out of contention for the upcoming Premier League fixtures against Newcastle United and West Ham too, though he may yet be back for the run - in.

Barcelona are currently running on a twelve match unbeaten streak of form against Italian sides (W9 D3) and Lionel Messi has scored twelve goals in nineteen previous fixtures against Italian opponents.

Fraizer Campbell, a player who has only featured in a handful of games for Sunderland this season, scored a brace against Barrow whilst playing the role of assistant in Sunderland's third, so perhaps his classy display will put him into Steve Bruce's starting equation ahead of their home fixture with Bolton in a game Sunderland have to win to banish their poor run of league form.

#LUFC ran out 3 - 2 winners in the reverse fixture against #BWFC at the start of the season.

ANDREW CUOMO, WHO will turn 53 in December, ran his first political campaign — his father's original gubernatorial bid against Ed Koch — almost 30 years ago and has been a fixture of the national media almost ever since.