Sentences with phrase «second xi»

Mourinho's men are clearly the stronger team even with a second XI out but tactically United are all over the place and unless they can sort themselves out soon then it could get worse.

It was a shame for England, for whom a second XI had shown promising flourishes in attack.

Newcastle, now in the 4th and final Champion's League spot are in 3 competitions with virtually no second XI.

Their second XI is stronger than ours.

And once they are in the second XI then that part of the team will be fine too.

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Not exact matches

The second was President Obama's joint commitment for carbon - emissions cuts with Chinese President Xi Jinping in Beijing in November 2014.

«Second, by prioritizing stability over difficult policy choices in the run - up to the party congress, Xi may unwittingly increase the chances of significant policy failures.»

Xi began his second five - year term as party chief in October and at the end of the week will be formally appointed by parliament.

As he embarked on his second five - year term as China's President last week, Xi Jinping pledged to «Make the Skies Blue Again»: a riff on President Trump's «#MAGA» mantra that nodded to China's acute urban pollution problem.

A second source with leadership ties said Wang's rise had been fast - tracked in the same vein as other allies whose careers had overlapped with Xi in Fujian, most notably the Beijing party secretary Cai Qi, and Huang Kunming, who was promoted to head the central propaganda department late last year.

Although it has been the norm of late for a leader to begin grooming a successor in his second term, some analysts are predicting that Xi will buck the trend and keep his authority to himself — potentially setting himself up for a third term.

China's President Xi Jinping waves to delegates as he is elected to a second five - year term during the fifth plenary session of the first session of the 13th National People's Congress (NPC) at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 17, 2018.

In his keynote speech at the Boao Forum for Asia on Tuesday — his first to a foreign audience since starting a second term as leader — Xi pledged to open China's doors «wider and wider» to the world.

If so, what will happen if growth drops more sharply than Xi and Premier Li Keqiang plan and if the aspirations of the second generation of the middle class reach beyond money?

China's Xi now on par with Mao At the conclusion of a weeklong congress of China's Communist Party, Xi Jinping was elected to a second term as president.

Pony Ma is probably the second most powerful man in China after Xi Jinpeng, and I don't think this has gone unnoticed in the communist party.

Meanwhile in China, the world's second - largest economy, President Xi Jinping has every incentive to maintain stability ahead of this fall's Party Congress, where he hopes to use a raft of leadership transitions at the top of the Communist Party to consolidate political power.

This will give Xi greater sway to chart the country's course over the five years of his second term.

The second and lengthiest part of Istanbul, «Byzantine Constantinople» (330-1453), spans more than a thousand years, from Constantine's ambitious reign to Constantine XI's demise in 1453, as Ottoman troops climbed over the rubble of the city walls.

In 1938 Pius XI was considering a second encyclical which would enlarge on the point in an even more forthright way.

(Cf. Principles of Mathematics, Preface to the Second Edition, p. xi.)

As an example of the second type of one - sidedness, consider Pius XI's negative attitude toward the ecumenical movement in his 1928 encyclical Mortalium Animos.

When Italy invaded Ethiopia in 1935, Pope Pius XI declared wars of conquest to be unjust, and during the Second World War Pope Pius XII worked for peace and tried to protect the suffering.

The 29 - year - old is set to be rewarded for an impressive season last year where he forced his way into Louis van Gaal's starting XI and was even able to keep the club's record signing Angel Di Maria on the bench during the second half of the season.

French publication L'Equipe insist that the Frenchman won't be able to be accommodated as a second striker, and will be forced to play wide of the Gabon international, but he will have to vie with Mesut Ozil and Henrikh Mkhitaryan for a starting spot in the starting XI.

This is a home match, only the second group match, and our starting XI just played an exhausting 90 against Chelsea.

Pellegrini may have been having second thoughts over Cabellero's place in his XI for next weekend's Capital One Cup final when he made an impressive penalty save.

On paper you would think that playing Forest would be an easyish task, considering they have won only one of their last 8 games in the Championship, but League form goes out of the window when it comes to the FA Cup, especially when Wenger is forced to play some second string players to help the First XI team regain some strength for the Top Four challenge.

Someone above wondered why it took so long to file the action and why now... as to the second I would surmise that the Statute of Limitations was going to expire on the 20th of April (I disposed of my law books years ago and I'm not going to spoil speculation by actually doing any research to see exactly what the SOL is in Title XI cases) and they wanted to beat that.

Everton have named in - demand defender John Stones in the starting XI for their Capital One Cup second round tie against Barnsley at Oakwell tonight.

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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.

Would be a shame to lose him as he's FINALLY shown some consistency, and was probably our second best player last season, but it wouldn't affect the starting XI.

I certainly hope that Wenger doesn't send out a complete second team, as our Europa Cup side has looked decidedly listless in the their last two fixtures, drawing 0 - 0 at home to Red Star Belgrade and then our dismal 1 - 0 defeat to bottom - of - the - Bundesliga side Cologne, but he will have to rest at least half our First XI to prepare for the crucial visit of Jose Mourinho's United.

Danny Welbeck is properly fit again though, and the boss has brought his other summer signing straight back into the starting XI for the Gunners trip to White Hart Lane for the second North London derby of the season.

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The 19 - year - old broke into the Reds starting XI after returning from a loan spell at Championship outfit Derby County during the second half of last season and turned in a man - of - the - match performance in the Merseyside derby against Everton at Goodison Park last January.

The new XI looked very lively and full of energy, and Mertesacker got a couple of chances to increase our lead, but it is looking like we are going to end up losing the second half although we have been in command for most of it.

Obviously the new manager will bring in some new players, but for his first season, and probably second season (should he last that long), the majority of the squad, and first XI, will be players that have worked under Wenger.

We had a brilliant first XI second half of last season which had extreme strengths and our weaknesses minimised.

Arsenal's second team is preparing to face Cologne in Germany tonight hoping to secure top place in our qualifying group, and it is fair to say that if our reserves play with the same heart that the First XI did on Saturday then they will win this match very easily indeed.

Arsene Wenger has kept to his policy of playing his second (or third) string Arsenal side in the League Cup, and so I am not in the slightest bit surprised that he has named this XI tonight.

But Guardiola has a totally different mindset and field a second - string XI — though that would still be a formidable line - up — against United.

Reserving his best XI for the Sudamericana Cup, coach Reinaldo Rueda has frequently utilised a second or even third - string team in domestic competitions.

The win takes us back into second but before that Chelsea clash, the team, possibly a much changed XI, will travel to Aston Villa for Tuesday night's Capital One Cup tie.

Having fielded a relatively strong starting XI last round against Lazio, I would think the same would be the case on Wednesday night knowing that if Juve get a lead then advancement would become that much more of an easier task come the second leg in six weeks.