Sentences with phrase «season against his old club»

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The 24 - year - old scored his 17th goal of the season for City last night in a 2 - 0 win against Reading — the club's first game since sacking Roberto Mancini as manager.

Manager Roberto Mancini travelled to the Spanish capital to watch the 20 - year - old in action for his club in a league match against Atletico Madrid last Sunday after receiving glowing bulletins from scouts in the early weeks of the season.

The 21 - year - old has seen his club only keep two clean sheets all season — both against 10 men (Arsenal, Everton).

The playmaker could have rejoined his old club, only for Wenger to decide against exercising his first refusal on him, and he and Costa have now played a big part in Chelsea's fine start to the season.

Blackpool is set to be a tough challenge for the highly rated 19 year - old, who joined Chelsea from SPL giants Celtic in 2011, with former Birmingham City manager Lee Clark facing a losing battle when it comes to trying to keep the Seasiders in the second tier after a chaotic season that has been overshadowed by fan protests against the club's ownership.

Ironically, the season will start for Cech with a Community Shield match against his old club Chelsea on August 2.

The North London club have been monitoring the 21 year old's progress since the beginning of the season, a mission that was sparked after Wenger was impressed by his performance against Greece at the Euro 2012 finals.

Gotze was only a sub in many games this season, but notably against Barcelona and his old club Dortmund in a Cup semi-final, and this is the reason why Struth is unhappy for his client: «Of course he was disappointed and that did bother him,» Struth continued.

The highly - rated 19 - year - old, who signed a new long - term deal with the club at the start of year, attempted to force his way into Wenger's plans for the new season by scoring a hat - trick against an admittley poor Singapore Select XI and his goal haul certainly didn't go unnoticed by the boss, who says he plans to keep the player at the club this season:

The 24 - year - old has been excellent for the Lancashire club and that earned him his debut for England earlier in the season, where he started against Germany in a friendly.

Nobody expects the team to go through the whole season without a small dip and yes we should be winning against the smaller clubs time and time again, however it's the same old story every season and it would be ignorant to assume Arsenal won't drop points.

The defender is now set to come up against his old club Roma in this season's Champions League group stage, and says he is fully prepared from jeers and whistles from his old supporters, even though he is delighted to be returning to face them.

The 28 - year - old spent the second half of last season on loan at Fulham, scoring six times in 12 league appearances, including a hattrick against bottom - club Wolves.

with this situation, which is undoubtedly Wenger created, the waters are so muddy now I'm not sure things can return to normal... no matter what is said through official club channels, this is clearly their fault... when they rolled the dice with the whole Sanchez negative media spin to protect Wenger, when he didn't start Sanchez against Liverpool last season, (how ironic) they sunk to a new low... it's become too easy to deceive, just think of all the manufactured lies that have come from the mouths of Wenger and Gazidis since we've arrived at the Emirates... the only reason we allowed them to happen for so long is that we hoped it would eventually lead to something of some consequence and all would be forgiven... well I don't forgive them and I certainly won't forget anytime soon... the worst part is the lies are oftentimes so juvenile that you can only conclude that the club must think that we're a bunch of intellectually challenged 10 year olds....

In addition to that, Ronald Koeman's side have the best goals - against record in the Premier League this season, better than the clubs they sold those players to, with Reds ace Lovren looking the worst buy of the lot as Brendan Rodgers» side let in 12 more than the Croatian's old team.

Having created one and scored one in the last three fixtures in all competitions, the 22 - year old goes into their biggest game of the season — in the right frame of mind and will be gunning to prove it at the big stage against one of the biggest clubs in the world.

Joining the club at just 11 years old, Boli made his first team debut with the club during the 2008 season, scoring his first goal against Amiens SC on May 6, 2008.

Robert Beric wouldn't have been a familiar name to Spurs supporters at the start of the season but the 21 year old Slovenian has already made his mark on the club after scoring against us for Maribor last month.

The 29 - year - old appeared to suffer a serious back injury in the club's first match of the season against local rivals Atletico Madrid.

The Holland international will be making his first appearance for the club against the Old Trafford club and says he «can't wait for it to start» ahead of the match which could go a long way to deciding who finishes second behind Manchester City this season.

Harry Kane is enjoying a sensational season for Spurs and the forward's hunger to give his club the lead against his old side led to a number of half chances in the opening exchanges, although clear opportunities were limited in the first half.

Ibrahimovic will turn 36 this year and despite the fact the player is stepping up his recovery from the knee injury sustained in the UEFA Europa League against Anderlecht at Old Trafford in April, he is unlikely to play again before 2018 which could see him play for United until the end of the 2017/18 season, which would uplift the club with another striker in the mix and give current strikers Romelu Lukaku, who arrived for a # 75 million fee from Everton and Marcus Rashford a little more insight into the world of Zlatan.

The 24 - year - old, who spent last season on - loan at Aston Villa, has made a total of 57 appearances for Chelsea since making his debut for the club against Birmingham in 2011.

Whilst Fabinho would be a great addition to have at United this summer, he seems to be a player who is on the radar of the club, but merely a secondary option if primary options fail, so there could be a chance he would roll up at Old Trafford before the closure of the transfer window, but I would envisage that Mourinho would like to have his business conducted before pre-season starts, especially before the UEFA Super Cup, which will be the last match before United open their Premier League season at Old Trafford against West Ham United.

Intelligent with the ball as well as without it, the 19 year - old is unmissable cog in Ajax's title challenge this season, which is exactly why the Ajax crowd collectively held their breath when he suffered a serious injury in their club's derby match against Feyenoord earlier this month.