Sentences with phrase «second league appearance»

Samper suffered a fractured fibula and ruptured ankle ligaments during his second league appearance of the season against Eibar.

To begin with, the game at Villa Park will be Danny Welbeck's second league appearance for the Gunners.

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Sub-plots: Daley Blind is poised to make his 50th Premier League appearance for the Reds on Sunday, while Danny Welbeck is set to return to Old Trafford for the second time since leaving United for Arsenal in 2014; the England forward scored the winner when the Gunners visited in the FA Cup last season.

In France Lacazette has a great average record of a goal every second game for Lyon, but last year he improved immensely and scored an incredible 28 goals in 30 League appearances.

He has made over 100 league appearances for Fenerbahce, who are currently second place behind Besiktas.

Barcelona were expected to cruise through to a second Champions League semi-final appearance in six years, however, they were knocked out to Roma on the away goals rule after the Serie A side mounted an incredible comeback.

The England international was making his third appearance since recovering from a leg injury which has prevented him from playing a second of Premier League football this season.

He has been sorely missed, he is our second top scorer with 6 in his 14 premier league appearances, his direct running often causes havoc in the opposition half, and on the break he makes us so much more dangerous and incisive on the break.

Level with Welbeck is a striker signed from the French second tier and yet has been brilliant for the Hammers, scoring six league goals in just eight appearances.

Today is the Champions League quarter - final second leg and Messi's club, Barcelona, are in prime position to make another semi-final appearance after they defeated Roma 4 - 1 at the Nou Camp last week.

John Terry went from zero to hero on his 700th appearance for Chelsea as they drew 3 - 3 with Everton in the Premier League after an exhilarating second half at Stamford Bridge.

Gaitan played a key role in the Eagles» title triumph this season, scoring four goals in 27 league appearances and has reportedly agreed terms to become United's second signing of the summer.

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Players making second season appearances in a particular league are all expected to improve tremendously, so expect Alexis, Gabriel, and Ospina to make massive improvements.

He scored 11 goals in his first 22 appearances, including the fastest league goal in Arsenal's history, in 37 seconds against Wolves in November 2010.

I do not include losing final appearances or second place in the league, as I have more ambition for our club than those who regard Community Shields and near misses as trophies.

For most soccer teams, a 17 - win season, which included a second place league finish, a No. 2 seed in the playoffs and a quarterfinal appearance, would be a success.

The 28 - year - old spent the second half of last season on loan at Fulham, scoring six times in 12 league appearances, including a hattrick against bottom - club Wolves.

Spurs were the second of five clubs to give Thatcher a chance in the Premier League, but he only reached 50 appearances for one of those teams — Wimbledon, who were fittingly dubbed the «Crazy Gang».

Aarons has made an instant impact since breaking into the Newcastle United first team set - up this term, scoring in his second Premier League appearance as well as netting against Man City during his side's superb Capital One Cup win away at Man City.

A huge surprise, Frank Lampard is the second highest appearance maker and leading scorer from midfield in the Premier League era, and undoubtedly one of the finest players of his generation.

Ozil has also scored twice in his 15 league appearances to help Arsene Wenger's side to second in the table.

His last appearance came from the bench against Liverpool in the Champions League quarter - final, second - leg last week when the striker claimed he «couldn't run» after 24 minutes on the pitch.

Draxler's form dipped in the second half of the campaign as he finished with two goals and six assists in 26 Bundesliga appearances, helping the Royal Blues finish third in the league.

In total, Coquelin made 22 appearances for the Gunners last season as they finished third in the league and won their second consecutive FA Cup after a 4 - 0 thrashing of Aston Villa.

Ethan Ampadu is now Chelsea's second youngest player to play in the Premier League after he made a cameo appearance against Huddersfield on Tuesday.

He was a key figure as Roma finished second in Serie A last season, scoring 15 goals in 31 league appearances.

Jan Bednarek — Saints» other scorer in that game — will be confident of maintaining his place in the side to make the second Premier League appearance of his career.

He's been with us for almost a year, signing on 10th August last year as the club made a number of signings to bolster the development squad, and then spending the second half of 2015/16 at Altrincham for whom he scored five goals in twenty National League appearances.

Sadio Mane scored and assisted for the second time in his four Premier League appearances at Anfield as Liverpool continued their fine early - season form.

Forshaw came through ranks at Everton and went onto make two first team appearances, his first in the UEFA Europa League against BATE Borisov in December 2009 and the second from the bench in the Toffees Premier League fixture against Wolverhampton Wanderers in April 2011.

After Heung - Min Son had given us a first - half lead, the prolific England striker netted our second of the game to draw level with Teddy Sheringham on 97 goals in the competition, before breaking the record 11 minutes later in only his 135th Premier League appearance in our colours.

Even with England striker Andy Carroll at the spearhead of a strong lineup, the Premier League side came off second - best against a club making their first appearance in Europe.

Yoshida concluded with a word on defensive colleague Jan Bednarek, who made his second consecutive Premier League appearance alongside the Japanese at the King Power Stadium.

This meeting also saw Phillipe Senderos make his second — and subsequently final — Premier League appearance for the Blues when he replaced Saha in the dying seconds.

In the process they qualified for the Champions League group stages for the second time in their history, with their only previous appearance at this stage of the competition being in 1999/00, also our maiden voyage with Europe's elite.

On the opposite right flank, Tommy Smith set Collin Quaner (making his second straight Premier League appearance) into an inviting amount of space, before the German's teasing cross into the central six - yard box managed to evade every player within the vicinity.

This match will be the 155th head to head appearances so far and second of the league.

It is the second time the 20 year old will be playing in the Cup this season for the high flying Turkish side, but he is still waiting for his first league appearance after 18 months at the club.

It was the veteran Estonian defender's first Premier League goal and only his second for the Reds in 44 appearances.

And in their 7 matches of Champions League 2003 - 04 appearances have only 2 wins, first comes vs. Ajax and second come vs. Milan.

Catalans finished the season in style, looking at all the competition in the last 22 appearances Barca enrolled 19 wins, two draws and one defeat, and that defeat came in the second leg match against Bayern Munich when it was all settled, while the last draw was in the last La Liga round when Barca have already secured their new league title and thus Enrique has sent somewhat mixed team to the pitch.

The second half was a different story as we took the game by the scruff of the neck with Dele showing what he's all about on his 100th Premier League appearance.

Toure's solitary appearance for City this season came in the Champions League qualifier second leg against Steaua Bucharest.

Although he is averaging more than a goal a game against German opposition — 16 goals in 14 appearances — that figure is boosted by his five - goal haul against Bayer Leverkusen in the second leg of the Champions League round - of - 16 tie on March 7, 2012.

He then teed up Ousmane Dembele to double Barca's lead in the second leg of the last - 16 clash before registering a century of Champions League goals on his 123rd appearance to complete a 3 - 0 victory, 4 - 1 on aggregate.

After making just 11 appearances in the second half of the 16/17 season, Mowatt would make just one appearance this season before moving on loan to League One side Oxford United under former assistant manager Pep Clotet.

Aguero became the second - fastest player to score 100 Premier League goals early on in the game, with his ton in 147 appearances putting him behind only Alan Shearer.

Per Mertesacker has the joint - second best pass accuracy of any Premier League defender that has made more than five appearances this season.

While he would like to play for the Brazil national team again - his last appearance was back in 2008 - he is focused on the club's second leg against Real Madrid in the UEFA Champions League, as well as United's relentless push towards regaining the Premier League crown.