Sentences with phrase «season fixtures as»

The coach dropped a big hint that Awaziem could start their next pre season fixtures as he confirmed some players who were introduced in the second half of the FC Laussane Sport tie will be in the starting line up in their next game.

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These primarily related to inventory as we prepared for the upcoming holiday season, store fixture prepayments for bulk procurement and transformation related activities.

We're now in what everyone refers to as hurricane season, which is joining winter, spring, summer, autumn, Christmas and football as a fixture on the calendar.

Rosicky has spoken about this, as reported by Sky Sports, and despite saying that he is patient and still confident that Wenger will start to use him more as the fixtures start to come thick and fast, he is clearly a bit disappointed that he has not had a chance so far to build on last season.

Even though there is a trophy on offer, we do not really count the Community Shield as a fully competitive fixture even though both sides will be desperate to win and set a marker for the season to come, especially with both hoping to be in the frame to lift the EPL trophy next May.

Antonio Conte has endured a difficult star to his second season at Stamford Bridge, with the Italian having to deal with striker Diego Costa's antics as the player looks to leave the club after going AWOL as per the Sun, as well as the Blues losing their opening Premier League fixture to minnows Burnley.

The Citizens are back in action on Sunday as they face a tough trip to Merseyside for a clash with Everton at Goodison Park and will be hoping to avoid a repeat of the result in the corresponding fixture last season as the 1 - 1 draw saw them lose valuable ground in the title race.

Hughton was fired last Sunday and youth team coach Neil Adams has taken the reins as Norwich City prepare for five tough fixtures that will make or break their season.

As for City, Fernandinho will turn 33 in May, and although he has been a permanent fixture for Guardiola this season, the Spanish tactician will need to add depth and real competition in that area of the squad to ensure that the Brazilian stalwart isn't forced to play such heavy minutes again next season.

This article I read on bleacherreport sums up what a fan who wants the club success would like to see from than onwards: - Beat Bayern and progress above our mental block - Make top four and possibly as good as last season finishing # 2 likely getting positive result in our 5 most difficult fixtures (Spurs, Man U, Man City, Everton, Liverpool) & taking back some lost points - Ensuring we finish above any team in London except Chelsea of course - Win FA Cup best chance of silverware - Win UCL long reach but beating Bayern could spur the team and maybe make them believe coupled with playing any team except Barca, Real & Atletico in the round after and could we do a Chelsea 2012.

Saido Berahino The English striker has five goals and two assists this season, and if you made the mistake of benching him for his tricky fixtures last week (as I did), you'll definitely play him now, despite the prospect of Manchester United.

Mkhitaryan had an outstanding season in 2012/13, scoring 25 goals in 28 domestic league fixtures, finishing as the Ukrainian Premier League's top scorer and the attacking midfielder is seemingly seen by Liverpool as their top summer target.

Still, the absence of Gibbs could mean another star for Spanish youngster Hector Bellerin, who has made a few unexpected appearances in the first - team this season as a host of big names have been out of key fixtures.

«Friday Night Football» — a new fixture slot for the 2016 - 17 season — will be introduced with Mourinho's Old Trafford bow as United take on Southampton on August 19, while Sky viewers will get their first sight of Pep Guardiola's Manchester City the following day at Stoke City.

And as that was the player's third booking in Europe's premier club competition this season, it meant a suspension from Madrid's next Champions League fixture, which sadly for Alonso, just happens to be the final at the Estadio Dragao on May 24.

The Chilean, in the last two fixtures, led the line for his new club; He looked lively and, albeit hasn't been at the pinnacle of his prowess, he surely has a lot more to offer, as the season progresses into the business end.

As a reminder since we beat them 3 - 0 last season we have been alternating victories meaning neither team has won two straight fixtures.

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.

Not only did Arsenal not lose at Stoke, like we did last season, Petr has kept the team in confident mood as we prepare to face his old side next weekend in yet another crucial fixture in the race for the title.

Willian's career - high in goals for a single year is very low — as is typical for many wingers, but if he maintains this pace in Chelsea fixtures, he could be poised for the first double - digit goal season of his career.

The 24 year old had an outstanding season in 2012/13, scoring 25 goals in 28 domestic league fixtures, finishing as the Ukrainian Premier League's top scorer and the attacking midfielder is seemingly seen by Liverpool as their top summer target.

Arsenal were the favourites to win this season's Premier League before Sunday's 1 - 0 home defeat to Chelsea, which left Manchester City as the bookies» top tip, despite Leicester City leading the way with 15 rounds of fixtures left to play.

So he is saying that, as all the big teams will be involved in Europe next season the competition will be closer with both Chelsea and Liverpool losing the advantage of fewer fixtures.

Rooney's next chance to get on the scorsheet will be at weekend as Newcastle United are the visitors to Old Trafford and the 29 - year - old will be hoping for a repeat performance from the corresponding fixture last season, where he bagged a brace in a 3 - 1 win.

The mix of fixtures in the second half of the season is not bad for us in my view, as long as we get maximum points from smaller teams.

Its a particularly busy coupon today so take a look with Bet365, as the Stoke based brand has confirmed it has live feeds of a number of fixtures from England's second tier this season.

The Gunners are nine points behind Mourinho's men after a tough start to the season, but just as our injury crisis is easing off and we are going into a nice looking run of fixtures, losing Costa would be a real blow and they face an away trip to a Crystal Palace side that had a good win in their last game and who Neil Warnock will have very well organised.

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.

Indeed it seems that the Scot sees the former Ajax man as his first choice striker and whilst a pairing of Andy Carroll is used for some Liverpool fixtures the season Dalglish has looked to play Suarez up front on his own and taking advantage of the goals he can now hope to see coming from his new midfield signings such as Charlie Adam and Jordan Henderson.

The 26 - year - old has made two appearances so far this season after suffering an injury setback while with Belgium earlier this summer, but it sounds as though he's pushing to be a permanent fixture in Conte's line - up moving forward.

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).

He certainly loves this fixture and he's lit it up again with his performance today, surely all but ending the title race as a contest this season.

As Wenger pointed out in his post match comments on the Arsenal website, we have a better fixture schedule between now and the end of the season than the spuds.

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.

The Welshman has only been available for 44 % of Real's fixtures this season and is currently sidelined by a calf problem, according to Spanish publication AS.

Bakayoko has made 24 appearances in all competitions so far this season as he has established himself as a fixture of the Monaco line - up, but the 22 - year - old could be set to embark on a new challenge.

Spurs should win this as we've been awful in the tough fixtures this season, winning none, and only scoring one goal, but I think a score draw, 2 - 2.

And as disappointing and embarrassing as that would be, it might just help us our challenge for the Premier League title, as it would avoid some potentially harmfully congested fixture schedules at a key point of the season.

Arsenal have only played the Cherries three times before and have never conceded a goal, in fact both of last season's fixtures ended 2 - 0 in our favour and I can't really see this game as a banana skin for the Gunners.

The Belgian, a scorer as Tottenham thrashed West Ham in November's reverse fixture, has been outstanding all season.

We have won just 2 of our 8 fixtures away from the Emirates this season, and if David Moyes gets his team to play as well as they did in this weekends win over Chelsea then we are in for a very difficult night at our London neighbours.

The Arsenal legend Thierry Henry is very happy that Arsenal are top of the League, but he thinks that the Gunners should have opened up a bigger gap in the first half of the season as the second half is full of tough away fixtures.

We've drawn three on the trot our seasons's pretty much over boo hoo (sarcasm!!!!) Seriously... Reading through all these comments you'd think we'd lost three not drawn three tricky as they come fixtures.

Should the Blues fail to qualify for the Champions League this season, it may not be the end of the world for the Blues, as a less - congested fixture list was one of the reasons why Conte's side were able to claim their fifth league title last campaign.

Bring in Ospina for Cech; Gabriel for Koscielny (Kos is 31 and its time we start testing Gabriel and Holding beside Mustafi to see what our long term first choice defensive partnership will look like); Gibbs for Monreal (Wenger needs to start rotating these 2 more frequently as we need to ascertain if Gibbs can adequately produce the quality to hold that position from next season for a few years as I'm thinking this might be Nacho's last or penultimate season with Arsenal, it will also give a hint as to the type of Left - back to target in the summer — first teamer or backup and age as well); I'll like to see an Elneny — Xhaka partnership in this fixture as we might just never know, this might be our replica of the Kos Mustafa partnership in the centre of the park, Two disciplined (positionally, i mean) central midfielders who can play box to box; Chamberlain for Iwobi, and Perez for Alexis should do the work.

Wilshere has failed to remain fit for much of his recent years with the Gunners, but has now remained fit since joining Bournemouth, as well as building up his stamina and strength to be able to play the full 90 minutes in 13 fixtures this season, something he has only managed once since the 2014 - 15 campaign with AFC.

The players need to be ready both physically and mentally for this tough set of fixtures coming up, as well as for the rest of the season.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger could be managing the club in his last Premier League fixture this Sunday, with uncertainty still remaining as to whether he will leave or not at the end of the season.

They have a number of promising young centre backs who ought to be given an opportunity to prove themselves for the remainder of the season in the EPL matches.They simply can not be worse than the rapidly declining Koscielny and Mustafi who can not cope with the likes of Swansea, Bournemouth etc. let alone a team like Spurs.The lack of steel at the back impacts on our more attacking players as they know they need to score 2/3 goals to have any chance of producing a win.As usual Elneny has come in for criticism but the real culprits are our centre backs and Xhaka who seems to be a fixture regardless of being bang average.

While they are expected to end the season as Premier League champions given their nine - point lead over Tottenham currently, the busy fixture list next season will ask questions of their squad depth.