Sentences with phrase «season fixtures against»

The 24 - year - old was sent off in their game against City last season, meaning he missed crucial end - of - season fixtures against the likes of Chelsea and Crystal Palace, when Liverpool dropped crucial points before eventually conceding the title to this weekend's opponents.

The underlining and telling criticism was the players collective disinterest in putting in at least a shift in a pivotal early season fixture against one of your top rivals.

Not exact matches

Because second half of the season presents us beautiful away fixtures against manure, spuds, Liverpool, mancity, everton and a home game against chelski.

Your opening fixture this season was a win against Arsenal — does that add to confidence going into this match?

It's worth noting that Benzema was left out of Real Madrid's match - day squad for their opening La Liga fixture of the season, against Sporting Gijon, and Rafa Benitez's side drew a blank in that fixture which could leave the Spanish giants realising just how important a member of their Bernabeu squad the French international really is.

Januzaj was deemed surplus to requirements by van Gaal during the summer, and despite impressing in an early Premier League fixture against Aston Villa, he was sent on a season - long loan to BVB.

Losing 2 - 0 over two fixtures against Chelsea was an upgrade vs. last seasons performance.

The former Borussia Dortmund man has scored 30 goals in his two seasons at Bayern Munich but last season was dropped for crucial encounters, including two fixtures against Barcelona in the Champions League, and was also left out of the starting eleven for the opening Bundesliga match of the season.

Gerrard doesn't possess many happy memories in fixtures against Chelsea, not least his now infamous slip which effectively ended Liverpool's title hopes last season, and applauding Jose Mourinho's side onto the pitch would be slightly awkward.

Burton have a decent record against Birmingham in recent times, having beaten them convincingly home and away last season, although this one looks like a fixture in which the away side will be looking for a result.

Bordeaux are prone struggle without towering centre - back Lamine Sane; they did so earlier in the season when the defender was out injured for the away fixture against Paris Saint - Germain, losing 3 - 0.

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

If you think about their fixture, they had a difficult start to the season, I mean they played against Everton and managed to beat them 6:3 on their home, they played City at the Etihad and they managed to take a point and they also played against Arsenal and took three points.So in terms of fixture it is the same as Arsenal.

Arsenal face off against Swiss side Basel on Match Day Two, in a fixture that'll see Champions League football return to the home of Arsenal for yet another consecutive season.

It also comes as no surprise that despite having a reduced role so far this season, Fabregas now seems to be up for a fight right as the fixture against Arsenal creeps up.

Goals from Gary Cahill and Diego Costa handed the Blues a victory in the reverse fixture earlier on in the season and the Merseyside outfit are without a win against Chelsea in the last seven meetings between the two in all competitions.

I wrote an article some seasons back suggesting Fabianski should replace Szczesny in our return fixture against Bayern Munich (he did anyway, as Szczesny for injured).

Our team have two fixtures remaining, which are both against Hull and they will be looking to finish the season with a couple more wins.

United's failure to find the next on multiple occasions in a game has been somewhat of a flaw for the Red Devils this season, with games against Huddersfield and Stoke standing out as being two fixtures which the Red Devils really should've come away with all three points from.

Mourinho moved to fill any void by signing Pedro from Barcelona and Cuadrado failed to make Massimiliano Allegri's starting eleven for any of Juventus» opening three Serie A fixtures of the season, before starting against Genoa on Saturday, a game in which he struggled to have much of an impact.

Final Thought If Arsenal can finish with 35 points or more come the 28th of December with an away fixture against the Hammers, Wenger's men would have given themselves a good chance of finishing in the top 4 at the end of the 2014/15 Premier League season.

The 19 year old has played in some key fixtures this season and has featured against the likes of Manchester City, Arsenal and Liverpool coming off relatively unscathed.

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.

Picked up just his second yellow of the season against the Welsh side in a season that has seen him become a permanent fixture in the United XI and drastically improve his consistency.

Not able to find any positives in a very convincing win against the previous seasons champions in a semi-competitive fixture..

A player who likes scoring against United and who got the winner in this fixture at the Etihad Stadium earlier in the season, Sergio Aguero is horribly off form for City at the moment and that leaves them short of inspiration as they look for a much - needed win here.

Bayern at currently playing in a league where they are champions before the start of the season and will make sure they don't lose against arsenal cause it is only big fixture in 2015 for them only whereas arsenal has city, Chelsea, United to think about.

Victory at Old Trafford means United have won the last three meetings between the two sides and Mata, who netted three times in the two fixtures last season, hailed the importance of the latest win against the Merseyside outfit:

Grenada managed to beat them on the opening day of the Spanish league season while the former La Liga winners had to rely on a last minute penalty from Joan Cuenca to get a draw against Rayo Vallecano in the last round of fixtures.

Having said that I like to look at the bright side of life and if the squad can not show up for a season opening fixture against Liverpool we can forget about the rest of the season.

This weekend's game against Tottenham is always the biggest fixture for Arsenal fans to look out for when the season starts, and this year the significance is even higher due to our respective League positions right now.

Many Arsenal fans are getting worried about the fixture congestion in this final quarter of the Premier League season, but our one free weekend so far (just gone) happily coincided with our round of 32 Europa League tie double - header against Ostersund.

Also, rre season was a joke, every team we played were «easy» fixtures, is it that hard to test our players against bigger teams in pre season so we get a better idea of what we need to improve on.

Did Man City win their home fixture last season at the Ethiad against us?

The coming together of a number of like - minded souls, the first time in a number of years for some, gave a home fixture against Stoke something of an attraction that has been lacking in recent seasons.

Liverpool have won just one of their last 10 Premier League games against Arsenal (W1 D6 L3), and Arsene Wenger's side haven't lost in this fixture for the last five seasons.

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.

Emerging from group stage fixtures against Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund with three wins and a draw suggests they are ready — and last season's runners - up, whose progression was only confirmed on the final matchday, do not quite seem the proposition they would have been a year ago.

Sven Goran Eriksson, who had taken over as coach in 1984, came close to landing a third Scudetto for Roma during the 1985 - 86 season but his side came unstuck in the penultimate league fixture of the season against lowly Lecce.

It wasn't an entirely perfect 90 minutes for Mourinho as Ibrahimovic picked up his fifth booking of the season for a foul on Leroy Fer, which means he'll miss the next fixture against Arsenal.

His final goals of the season came against West Ham United in the last home fixture of the season when he bagged a brace to finish the season with nine goals in all competitions.

Liverpool are easy winners out on the road over West Ham earlier in the season and that have gone W2 D1 in their last three league games against the Irons, scoring a total of ten goals in those 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.

The Clarets won this corresponding fixture 1 - 0 last season and they are unbeaten in their three previous Premier League home games against Stoke (W1 D2).

Martin O'Neill will be cursing his luck after leading scorer Steven Fletcher was stretchered off in Scotland's international fixture against Wales last weekend and it has been confirmed that the former Wolves man will miss the visit of Manchester United and the rest of the league season, the same goes for Lee Cattermole who will look to regain fitness for next season as injury has prematurely cut short his 2012 - 2013 campaign.

Burnley won the Championship last season to move into the Premier League for a third time, and just under a week ago the 2016/17 fixtures revealed that we would kick off with a home game against Swansea City.

It's Hull up first for the Clarets in the Professional Development League as we look for just our second win of the season against a home side who, having started poorly, have won their last two games against Cardiff and Coventry with the second, a home fixture, being played in the KCOM Stadium immediately after a home first team game.

The Clarets dug out a point in this corresponding fixture last season and they are D2 L2 in their last four against the Red Devils in the top flight.

The Clarets have done remarkably well in the top flight his season, with eight points from five games and five of those points have come out on the road in fixtures against Chelsea, Spurs and Liverpool.

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