Sentences with phrase «second home defeat»

Michu set Swansea on the road to a 2 - 1 victory at Newcastle as the misfiring Magpies slipped to a second home defeat in seven days.

Brighton, meanwhile, were left to reflect on only their second home defeat of the season.

The Blues were beaten by Liverpool at Anfield while Arsenal were humbled by Newcastle at The Emirates, but for Chelsea the situation isn't so bad as they still boast a two - point lead at the top of the table whereas Arsenal suffered their second home defeat of the season, once again against an opponent you would never have envisaged beating the Gunners on their own patch, and their latest setback could do no end of damage to the morale in camp.

Villa, who were previously unbeaten in seven heading into Christmas, have now lost back - to - back games in the league following the defeat at Arsenal, just two days before they succumbed to their second home defeat of the season to Liverpool.

Rovers have picked up seven points at home this season, the source of all of their points thus far in the league, but, were it not for Villa getting complacent after scoring an early goal within 3 minutes, Blackburn could have been staring down the barrel of a second home defeat.

It was only a second home defeat in 11 for the Blues, while City now require only one more victory to secure the title.

Thankfully there have been plenty of distractions «off the pitch» to keep our minds from thinking about the possibility of a second home defeat.

• Madrid's win in the first game was only Juve's second home defeat in 76 matches in all competitions (W64 D10); the other was a 2 - 1 defeat against SS Lazio on 14 October 2017.

A week later they drew 0 - 0 away from home, and then suffered their second home defeat 2 - 1 on 6 August.

Spurs to win: It's not too likely that Spurs are going to slip to a second home defeat this season at Wembley.

It was only their second home defeat in 35 Premier League games.

A second home defeat just doesn't even bear thinking about....

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To top it all off, apparently fans of the Dominican Republic have had to go blond, too, as they lost bets to Puerto Rican friends — Puerto Rico defeated the Dominican Republic in second - round play, helping the former advance to the semifinals while the defending - champion Dominican went home early.

I'm not surprised abt the game against spurs, i know will turn out to be a joke, we r so confidence we will defeat spurs bcus we hv Aubameyang n mkhitaryan and wembley is our second home.

He rescued Arsenal and won us the FA cup THE SECOND TIME, he again came off the bench to equalize and save us the shame of another season opener defeat at home.

Jose Mourinho has apparently not taken Chelsea's shock 4 - 2 home defeat to Bradford City lightly and is ready to offload as many as eight of his second string players.

Manchester United defender Chris Smalling has claimed that his side are targeting second place in the Premier League, as well as overtaking rivals Manchester City after defeating Spurs at home on Sunday.

But we should have beaten Liverpool in the second leg.There was also no justification of that.We might as well lose all our matches against the big teams and justify on the basis of it being a match against a big team.I mean home and away defeats is just unacceptable.Champions must also find ways to possibly win all their matches against the big teams no matter which ever way it goes.This is because that can make all the difference in winning the league.

Man U game was only the second home EPL defeat since the start of last season (first game vs Villa) so Arsenal should be favourites.

We had six wins, then one draw at home which was disappointing and a second draw or defeat would have been like we had dropped our level.»

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.

The Tigers» two losses were both demoralizing — a 10 - 0 suffocation at home against Alabama, and a last - second defeat on a goal - line stand against Florida.

Her perfectly thrown ball from center retired the potential game - tying run at home plate for the game's final out, securing the Colts their second NCS title in three years by defeating the nation's top - ranked team 1 - 0.

Pep Guardiola's side have 12 points with one match to play at Dinamo Zagreb, while Greek club Olympiakos, in second place on nine points, will definitely progress to the last 16 if they take a point against Arsenal at home and may do so even if defeated.

After inflicting on league leaders and rivals Manchester City - their first defeat at home in over 70 weeks, Manchester United continue their push for second - place against a struggling West Bromwich Albion on Saturday.

Manchester City slipped to their first home defeat since December 2016 as Basel won the second leg of their Champions League last - 16 tie 2 - 1.

Yeovil Town Ladies went down to a second successive 4 - 0 home defeat, but unlike the previous one against Liverpool, Yeovil offered a threat going forward, especially in the first half, which must bring them confidence ahead of 2 more home games in the coming days.

Spurs» form at Wembley, their temporary home for the season, and their natural improvement in the second half of the campaign (as in every season under Pochettino) have been factors but lessons from the City defeat were crucial.

Shalke came second behind Chelsea in their group, and suffered a heavy home defeat to the London side in Matchday 5, losing 5 - 0.

City found themselves 3 - 2 behind and staring down the barrel of a home defeat against the Ligue 1 leaders — but a brilliant last 20 minutes saw them score three times to head into the second leg with a two - goal advantage.

• Heaviest home defeat 2 - 5: Lyon v VfL Borussia Mönchengladbach 05/11/74, UEFA Cup second round second leg 0 - 3 twice, most recently v FC Bayern München 27/04/10, UEFA Champions League semi-final second leg

Arsene Wenger his side back to Old Trafford for the second time this season on Sunday, after suffering a shock 1 - 0 home defeat at the hands of Swansea on Monday night.

LE HAVRE, France — Angry fans of second division French side Le Havre spilled onto the field following a 2 - 0 home defeat to struggling Quevilly on Friday, the second such invasion in French football this month.

Wednesday's 3 - 1 quarterfinal second - leg defeat at home to Juventus exposed the frailties in Real's team and their over-reliance on Ronaldo and centre - half Sergio Ramos, whose absence through suspension against Juve left Real hugely vulnerable at the back.

After all, it halted a run of four straight defeats and a difference in confidence was plain to see as they started the stronger of the two and unsurprisingly took the lead after 19 minutes as Aaron Cresswell's first - time cross was wonderfully swept home by Lanzini for his second goal of the season.

It's been a horrendous run of form and after opening the scoring at home against Leicester on the weekend, they found themselves behind in the second half, but Dwight Gayle managed to get them back level only for an own goal to sink them to a 3 - 2 defeat just four minutes from time.

Niasse converted a Theo Walcott header across goal — just 57 seconds after he replaced home debutant Cenk Tosun — to end a run of three straight top - flight defeats for the Toffees.

Clinching their third straight Bundesliga crown this weekend courtesy of a 1 - 0 home victory over a surprisingly resilient Hertha Berlin and second - placed Wolfsburg's identical scoreline defeat at Gladbach, Bayern Munich now have no fewer than 25 domestic championships in the strong room and looking at the season's tale of the tape — just two defeats, 24 wins out of 30, 77 goals scored and only 13 conceded — the competitive deficit in today's top - flight is there for all to see.

It is not often that you score 4 goals away from home but still end up losing but that was the case in the Second Division game against Blackburn Rover on 25 November 1989 where goals from Dicks, Brady, Slater and Ward could not prevent the Hammers suffering a 5 - 4 defeat.

• The first leg was Juve's joint heaviest home European defeat, equalling their 3 - 0 loss against Manchester United FC in the 2002/03 second group stage and the 4 - 1 defeat at home to Bayern on matchday six in 2009/10.

Goals from PSG's star - studded trio of Neymar (20), Kylian Mbappe (34) and Edinson Cavani (40 pen) helped PSG on their way to a convincing win at Celtic Park before a Mikael Lustig own goal (82) and Cavani's second (85) condemned Celtic to their heaviest home defeat in European competition.

Meanwhile Wolves, who go into the game on the back of consecutive away defeats to Everton and Chelsea, will look to record their second straight win at home following their 3 - 1 victory over Wigan last month.

• Salzburg's 0 - 4 loss at home to Parma in the first leg of the 2003/04 UEFA Cup second round is the club's joint heaviest European home defeat.

Arsenal's heaviest defeat in this competition came at home to Russian opponents, going down 5 - 2 against Spartak Moskva in the 1982/83 first round second leg.

This was then followed by defeat against Southampton at home, before a crushing 5 - 1 defeat to already relegated Newcastle United on the final day as the Tottenham season ended in a whimper, allowing their bitter North London rivals Arsenal to pip them into second place in the table, as Spurs dropped to third.

Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale were left out completely as Zinedine Zidane made six changes from the Champions League home defeat to Juventus but they ran out comfortable winners thanks to Isco's superb free kick and Casemiro's second - half finish.

PARIS — UEFA hit Paris Saint - Germain with four different charges following their 2 - 1 loss at home to Real Madrid in the Champions League round - of - 16 second leg on Tuesday, which completed a 5 - 2 aggregate defeat.

Sergio Escudero scored 26 seconds into the match as Sevilla defeated Atletico 3 - 1 at home on Tuesday to advance to the Copa del Rey semifinals 5 - 2 on aggregate on Tuesday.

A controversial 3 - 0 defeat at home to Real Madrid saw Ajax pipped to the second Champions League Group D qualification spot by Lyon.

Matt Phillips» first international goal secured a first victory of McLeish's second spell in charge after he returned to action with a home defeat against Costa Rica on Friday.