Sentences with phrase «stage game against»

Vidal played the full game against Hercules in the Copa del Rey last week, and was handed a chance to shine in Barca's final Champions League group stage game against Borussia Monchengladbach.

Not exact matches

The Gunners MUST be cautious in their game against Spurs in the early stages of the match to enabled themselves to first have a firm foothold on the ground before venturing to attack.

Play Cech in my the knockout stages and compensate Ospina with an equal number of games against the smaller teams in the EPL.

A Good performance from all the players.no team is easy to beat at this closing stage of the league: If a half goal exists in the game of football and guarantees 3points, I had take a half goal and 3points against any opponent no matter how lowly placed.

I watched the group stages games he played against Man City and was impressed.

He has one bad game against a resilient unit in the latter stages and people are writing him off?

And those goals all came in four of the games, as we failed to score against Stoke City, Chelsea, Southampton, Hull City and Barcelona, so it is not too hard to see why we have slipped off the top of the Premier League and are looking at another Champions League exit at the first knockout stage.

The problem with us is that we can win against any of them just as much as we are capable of losing against them, we can be a real Jekyll and Hyde team, if we go out playing like we think we already won tonites match, we could easily get stunned by AC, when was the last time we won a home game in the knock out stages of a European tie, 6 or 7 years ago.

And then he picked up that ankle injury and did not feature in Europe again until the end of the group stage and was injured again before the knockout games against his fellow Frenchmen from Ligue 1 club Monaco.

He needs 167 more yards to set the mark, and under the circumstances, it's reasonable to think he has a shot against Atlanta in what figures to be a high scoring game during primetime on a national stage.

The Predators needed one goal in the early stages of their game against the Blackhawks, as Rinne did the rest for them in net.

Bayern have drawn just one of their last 31 CL games (1 - 1 against Napoli in the group stage earlier this season).

The group stage of the 2014/15 Champions League kicks off on Tuesday evening, with two English teams in action — Liverpool return to the competition with a home game against Bulgarian minnows Ludogorets Razgrad, whilst Arsenal face a tough trip to Borussia Dortmund.

After drawing all three games in the group stage, Portugal broke a 0 - 0 draw in extra time against Croatia in the Round of 16 and needed penalties to dispatch Poland in the quarterfinals.

The Gunners were handed a major boost when the club revealed that the quartet were all set to feature in the game against the young Potters, in the latest stage of their rehabilitations.

United will be busy in the month of August as they begin the new season with a home game against Tottenham on the 8th and will also face a two - legged qualifier in order to reach the group stages of Europe's elite club competition.

Anyone who is at this stage has a desire to go as far as possible, but we're not thinking further than the game against Malaga.

Arsenal made it hard for themselves last night against a team that never wins in the game in the Champions League Group Stages, but Arsene Wenger reckons that the result was skewed by poor refereeing, including the first goal and Giroud's sending off.

And remember we have already won against Best team of the moment in the group stage, then we know what to expect in the next round, bring ATM on in the R16, not because its an easy game but because we always need pressure to succeed, Zenit might shock us as we will take them the same way we took Zegreb, Olympiacos and Monaco last year.

Then on Sterling's first appearance in City colours against Serie A giants AS Roma on Tuesday morning he was booed by a section of supporters in Melbourne as his fell over in the opening stages of the game.

Even then, Everton away is definitely one of the hardest games of the season and we Wenger will have to manage the team so that we can get the result against Everton as well as having enough energy to beat Besiktas at home to qualify for the group stages of the Champions League.

The problem with Giroud is that he has his off days in the big stage games like against Monaco he was absolutely awful.

With a key game against Spartak Moscow next week to seal qualification for the knockout stage of the Champions League, followed by a busy lead - up to the festive period which includes the Merseyside derby next weekend, the last thing Klopp wants is to see Matip out for an extended period of time.

It has been, somewhat gleefully, pointed out that Arsenal have lost ball three of our previous away games against Olympiacos in the Champions League and so we might as well forget qualifying for the knockout stage.

Although Arsenal fans, players and manager will be disappointed to have been knocked out of the Capital One Cup at such an early stage, there were some real positives to take from the game against Southampton.

Zlatan has never won the champions league because he's only scored once in the knockout stages that was for AC Milan against Arsenal apart from that he never shows up in big champions league games whether it's for Juventus, Inter, Barcelona, Milan or PSG

Well, he rested for a little under four minutes during Greece's first game against Romania, and then for the remaining seven games — four group stage, three knockout stage — Galis did not rest.

Chelsea could be playing away to Real Madrid on Wednesday for their group stage game, whilst we could be at home against some unheard of team on the Tuesday.

It's a similar story in the Conference Cup for the team, earning their place in the quarter finals in February after their game against Chester on Wednesday 25th November went to knockout stages, with our team winning 2 — 0.

They now top the Group after England and Russia drew in the later game, and now a win against the Three Lions will ensure their passage to the knockout stages.

Leicester will go into their game against Club Brugge later this month knowing that a victory will secure their qualification for the knock - out stages of the Champions League.

Mix it together with the stakes and stage of an NBA Finals game against the best basketball team in the world, and you've got a cocktail of sadness unlike any other.

Before this Arsenal away game at Swansea City, Arsene Wenger spoke about how our recent poor results against Garry Monk's team have been caused in the latter stages of the game, so he urged his players to keep focused and working hard right until the end of the match.

The Formula 1 eSports Series will begin in September and consists of three stages, to whittle down the competitors for the final weekend — where the 20 best gamers will go up against each other.

Roy Hodgson now has a selection headache following the performances from his fringe players as Ross Barkley and Townsend himself, reminded many of their qualities against a top international side in a game which the Three Lions dominated during the closing stages.

After conceding the fewest goals in the group stages of the World Cup finals last summer, the 26 - year has conceded no goals in his three Premier League games, no goals from his one FA cup game, one penalty given away by Szczesny in the Champions League and the two in his debut against Southampton in the League cup.

Interestingly enough we scored in each of our group stage games and won all our games where we didn't concede, so if we deploy Cech on goal and make it tight at the back, we'll be up for it against any side!

As Arsenal lost their first two Champions League Group games to the outsiders, it is now imperative that the Gunners get something out of their two games against Bayern Munich or they will have little chance of progressing to the knockout stages.

As long as the Gunners can avoid defeat against Man United tomorrow, we will also avoid those two pesky play off games and go directly into the Champions League group stage, so an off colour De Gea would be a big bonus for us.

I agree that we can expect a lot more from Arsenal in a few weeks time, but there are some crucial games coming up quickly, especially the one against Besiktas which could see us drop out of the Champions League group stages for the first time in 16 years.

Towards the end of the game against the Magpies, you could sense a few tired minds and legs in that Arsenal camp, so the international break may have come at the right stage too.

SC Sporting's first game in the national tournament will be against McClean, a talented team from Virginia that has plenty of national stage experience.

Behind only Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi in La Liga's scoring charts this year, the 27 - year - old has shown his ability to perform on the biggest stage, performing in high profile games such as the Super Cup win over Chelsea, where he netted a superb hat trick, and scoring against giants Real Madrid and Barcelona in league games.

negatives -LRB--)-- terrible result — wengers team selection (arteta + ozil in particular)-- generally poor work - rate across the pitch and nothing like the backbone we showed against man city — handing dortmund initiative to top the group (we all know what finishing 2nd means)-- lack of hunger + desire — welbeck misses — still no joel campbell (who in my personal opinion is a big game / stage player)-- in all our «set - piece» training we totally forgot about the bread and butter of football which is making an impact in open play

Arsene Wenger spoke to Sky Sports after the game and he admitted that he was on edge as we went into the latter stages, knowing that the players had put in a huge shift against Bayern Munich that was bound to take it's toll.

Whoever wins this pivotal game will reach the league's summit, albeit briefly if Watford win against Ipswich later in the day, but at this stage of the season with the table as congested as it is, creating some breathing space will be more important for the team that comes out on top on the south coast.

Champions league is a different ball game esp @ d knock out stage where they needed to score... they went all out against PSG and they conceded

Given their recent form and how they've delivered in big games against Chelsea and Liverpool, United will be highly fancied by many to get the job done on Tuesday night and progress to the next stage of the Champions League.

Barcelona could only manage a 1 - 1 draw against Leverkusen and Roma, away from home and they only beat BATE 2 - 0 in their other away game in the group stages.

The projected three month absence will, if accurate, see Wilshere miss away games against Liverpool, Manchester City and Tottenham Hotspur, as well as the first knockout stage of the Champions League, should Arsenal progress, though he would be back in time for any quarter - final.