Sentences with phrase «season against all expectations»

Winning a game deep into injury time ranks highest in football fan euphoria but when it seals a club's safety for another season against all expectations you can forgive the Vallecano pitch invasion somewhat.

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The Tottenham Hotspur forward, who has already scored 29 goals in all competition so far this season, is set to make his Three Lions debut against Lithuania tomorrow night, with the weight of expectation firmly on his shoulders.

i would answer to that with that game against leicester city i for my feelings had really great expectations of walcott... but i am extremely disappointed that sooooo many players let the season fail..

You seem to accept the mediocrity that is now so familiar and all to common with this Manager.If you really are pleased and delighted with THAT performance against a team likely to be relegated this season (just look at their remaining fixtures) then it only shows how much higher the expectation levels are of the majority of supporters than others.YOU are quite clearly in that minority.

The next criticism leveled at Arsenal was the perceived failure to handle pressure and expectation, such as the first leg of the Champions League knockout phase against Monaco last season and the opening day of this one against West Ham.

I think keeping Sanchez against his will shall be a huge mistake on so many levels first you will keep a player who clearly doesn't want to play for you and hence will play with half esteem in a crucial season that has so much expectations floating around.

He just won them the premiership trophy a season ago and he did so against all expectations but since the season started, he had found it difficult producing the magic that led them to a title last season.

James has exceeded his salary - based expectation just once in four regular season meetings against them over the past two seasons, as he's been held to 42.7 percent shooting.

He has a solid matchup against the Warriors, owning an Opponent Plus / Minus of +2.98, although his track record against the Warriors during the regular season isn't great: He's exceeded salary - based expectations just once in his past four meetings, although the lone exception did come on Christmas day last season.

Expectations and hopes are high in the Valley of the Sun as the Arizona Cardinals get set to open the NFL season at home Sunday against the New Orleans Saints.

Diego Simeone may choose to rest some of his usual starters on the weekend due to the upcoming second leg, but against José Luis Mendilibar's men, who are clearly outperforming their expectations for this current season, he may want to reconsider.

Actual supporters of the Magpies will probably think different, with the team's 5 - 1 annihilation of local arch-rivals Sunderland a fortnight ago extremely hard to eclipse, but to win at The Emirates, against all the odds and expectations, takes some doing and considering the amount of effort they put, the manner in which they set themselves up, kept their positional discipline and their application was second to none makes their 1 - 0 win over Arsenal in the capital unquestionably their best result of the season to date — As controversial as that may be.

Despite his side's impressive start to the season, coach Guardiola has sought to temper expectations of a strong run in the Champions League by claiming history is against his new club.

A draw at Atlético is fine, but a bad game against the weakest team in the group at home will really bring a lot of doubt and questions to a Barça side that's exceeded expectations in this young season.