Sentences with phrase «season fixtures which»

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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.

Throughout his career, Tsai has been a fixture on food television with programs on the Food Network, including the Emmy Award - winning East Meets West with Ming Tsai, and on public television with Emmy nominated SIMPLY MING, now in its thirteenth season, in which Tsai is the host and executive producer.

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.

Despite our highly important fixture, attendance is expected to be down this evening, which could have an adverse affect on the players, and West Brom will be hoping to cement their place in the top division for next 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.

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.

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.

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.

earned a place in the Champions League Group Stages, and we also managed to «not lose» to a Top Club in an away fixture again, which can only help our confidence going into next seasons campaign.

The ban was put in place after there had been three instances of racist chanting at the ground, the first of which was directed at City's Yaya Toure in the same fixture last season.

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.

From now on, please no more rumours... let's enjoy our fixtures with our current crew and hope for the best... I'm looking forward to end this season anywhere above 4th (it becomes very boring) and reclaim our FA trophy... I don't care much about Tottenham (they are not a future threat at all even if they finish above us this season) but I really hope that ManUtd will drop somewhere below 4th which will make it difficult for them to get top class players (unless paying enormous cash)...

The team has shown heart in both premier league fixtures to get some sort of result, which is more than could be said for last season.

The Red Devils started their final fixture of the league season with 63 points, which is one short of their lowest ever Prem total — set back in the 2013 - 14 campaign.

Well there are alot of factors which are installed in the system before computerized fixture list is finalized, once the first draft of fixture list is compiled it is sent to all the 20 clubs playing in premier league & police departments of all regions hosting matches that season.

On what basis are you saying he had a bad season.On the basis of stats or what?If anything he just wasn't at top form.He was still making defenders look average.He's also not had only one good season.He was good in season 14/15 and even destroyed Arsenal in a home fixture that season.I don't know why people think he's average and a one season wonder.I urge you all to constantly keep watching a player before you say he's average.For the same reasons why people don't want Mahrez to be signed I can also equate them to why Ox should be sold.The team he's even in doesn't fit his style of play at all.The whole Leicester team struggled last season which even lead to Ranieri's sacking.

Ronald Koeman's side won the reverse fixture which began our decline from the Top Four, and as they have not ever won a game at the Emirates they will be keen to end the season on a high.

11 games left for the EPL... while the Gooner in me says we can tally up 33 points from the remaining fixtures... I'll be a little more realistic — I think 28 pts which should give us a total of 79 for the season.

The outcome of the talks which have taken place over the last 48 hours is, said the statement, that «the board, John Carver, his staff and players are absolutely focused on our current situation and the three hugely - important fixtures which remain this season, two of which are at St James» Park».

Palace frequently feed their pacy wingers with what a proponent would call a «quick vertical», which by its nature is less accurate than a safe sideways pass, while Norwich were involved in the PL season's four lowest pass - completion fixtures (and the two games with the fewest attempted passes; Palace were in five of the bottom nine).

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.

Following Arsenal's midweek half - triumph in Munich, experienced midfield Mikel Arteta has issued a rallying call to the rest of the troops encouraging them to put their continental disappointment to the back of their minds and full focus all energy on finishing in the top four to qualify for next season's European Cup, Arteta also guarded his Arsenal teammates of the dangers of heading into Saturday's fixture with Swansea in the wrong frame of mind «On Saturday, if we are not at it, we are going to face a really difficult team which is Swansea away from home.»

Whilst we have seen great attacking play from Swansea this season at times their defence has lacked coherence and strength which has led to the Swans conceding very poor goals with prime reference being made to their fixture at Anfield the Sunday before their Carling Cup final triumph, if Arsenal catch Swansea on a day such as that tomorrow then it could well be to quote Gary Neville «bingo time» for Santi Cazorla with the quick footed Spaniard having the potential to put a disorientated and poorly organised defence to the sword.

Bournemouth have managed to get the better of Liverpool just once in 11 attempts in across competitions (D3 L7), which coincidentally happened in the corresponding fixture last season.

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That was the verdict of the Monday Night Football experts after the opening round of Premier League fixtures in which all of last season's top four claimed victories.

The away side won both of fixtures last season including the Foxes 3 - 2 win in April which went a long way to help secure their EPL status.

The Blues have already come through some big tests this season, which should make a home fixture against West Brom a relatively comfortable affair for them.

Mata, after seeing his side lose in this fixture last season, which incidentally is the last time United lost a match at the Theatre of Dreams, spoke of his desperation to win the derby, saying:

And furthermore, it was the platform they needed heading into a bumper schedule of league fixtures, all of which are very much winnable so a fruitful run of games could be on the cards as Everton look to get their season back on track.

This fixture is the third to be confirmed for Senior Professional Development Coach Frankie Bunn's Development Squad, which will also play at Curzon Ashton and Stalybridge Celtic ahead of the season.

United, in the first twenty minutes, had given City a game, which can not be said in recent seasons; last season this fixture was a 2 - 0 defeat for United.

Last season saw Chelsea build a 15 points advantage over Wenger's side after just 12 games, a period in which Arsenal won just four of their opening fixtures.

However, there is a 45 % chance of a draw, which is how the same fixture last season ended.

Clearly price tags and reputations hold no bearing in the Liverpool dressing room, with Dalglish sticking to his policy of choosing the right players for the right occasion − which means we could see a few more changes on Saturday, as this fixture is like no other they have experienced so far this season.

The Premier League title and Champions League qualification are both on the agenda when north London's finest renew their intense rivalry for the 38th time in the Barclay's Premier League era, in a fixture which normally promises a stack load of goals, as Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur lock horns at White Hart Lane on Wednesday night, incidentally where Spurs secured their first north London derby victory in the Premier League for eleven - years last season.

Wolves» fixtures at home this season haven't been too difficult, which I suppose doesn't entirely bode well for Sunday.

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.

This fixture ended two apiece last season in early March which was a result which many «experts» saw as a reason to dismiss the Foxes» title hopes.

City will be seeking the top spot in the league this season, so United must ensure the bitter blues do not win this fixture, which should keep them in the driving seat for the foreseeable future, which will give them the advantage, for now at least.

They won 2 - 1 in this fixture last season with a Harry Kane brace sealing the result and it would have been two from two earlier this term had it not been for Kieran Gibbs» rescuing strike in a match which Tottenham probably had the better of the play.

In the last six games between both sides in the Premier League, West Ham have claimed eight points (W2 D2), whereas Newcastle won both home and away fixtures in the 2010/11 season, which included a 5 - 0 home drubbing of their next opponents.

High flying Huddersfield Town roll into town tonight, for the season's opening fixture at the London Stadium, looking for the win which could take them to the very top of the Premier League table.

Bolton have returned just 22 goals in 20 home fixtures this season and they do have five clean sheets in their last eight home games which isn't bad at all.

This exact fixture twelve months ago was the fixture in which our season began to unravel in spectacular style, but we have good reason to believe that history will not repeat itself here.

Blackburn Fact: Rovers have failed to score in nearly half of their away fixtures this season (47 %) and failed to find the back of Portsmouth's (20th) net in their most recent away encounter which finished in a 0 - 0 draw.

But the under - fire manager is fortunate that this fixture will be contested at Ewood Park, which is of course where his team are without a win in four, but also where only four sides have won this season, with only Tottenham having done so in 2011 thus far.

The only slight concern could be the fact that the derby is on Wednesday (which is arguably the most important game of our season for many reasons but mainly to move further away from Lazio and of course Milan in order to qualify for the UEFA Champions League next season) so it would've been ideal to maybe rest one or two key men but the squad haven't had to play many games this season and every fixture from now to the end is like a cup final.