Sentences with phrase «stage of last season»

A top ten finish would contribute into a good season for Bolton, who did show enough glimpses of top ten potential during the latter stages of last season when running some of the big teams close, to justify a possible top of the table push this season.

Pedro Obiang also had ankle surgery in the closing stages of last season following an injury sustained in March against Leicester City.

19) Olympiakos — Greek champions Olympiakos made it to the knockout stages of last season's competition but will find it much tougher this year in a group including Atletico Madrid and Juventus.

The highly - rated youngster knows Pellegrini well from their time together at Malaga where the pair helped guide the La Liga side into the quarter final stages of last season's Champions League.

It's funny that our team picked up momentum (we had good balance) in the late stages of last season when Ramsey was injured but things seemed disjointed soon as he returned from his injury.

There is no question that Arsenal suffered in the early stages of last season due to the World Cup hangover being felt by the Germany internationals in the side.

Despite being in better form than at the same stage of last season going into the FA Cup semi-final, Arsenal still managed to put their fans through the ringer again with a nervy performance at Wembley against a Championship side.

-- These two fierce rivals have clashed seven times in the FA Cup, with Manchester United edging this particular head - to - head with four wins to City's three, although the latter were victorious at the semi-final stage of last season's competition, winning 1 - 0 at Wembley.

Giroud and Sanchez both proved they could be the go - to guys in attack at different stages of last season.

A big part of Chelsea's title charge in the latter stages of last season stemmed from the squad being galvanized by the league cup win over Spurs, a team they got hammered by months previously.

Arsenal's Carl Jenkinson has only just returned from a long absence due to injury, that's spanned from an issue picked up in the middle stages of last season.

Juan Cuadrado will be motivated to regain the spot on the right that he lost in the end stages of last season.

The Hammers were expected to reach the group stage of last season's competition, but suffered a blip at this stage.

Now that Mathieu Debuchy has also returned from injury, he will have to fight with Hector Bellerin for the position at right - back, as Bellerin proved that he was more than up to the task in the latter stages of last season.

He broke into the Chelsea squad in the closing stages of last season, making his senior debut against Leicester City in the final game of the campaign.

But the Germans are a decent side, as well: they made the knockout stages of last season's Champions League, and Atletico Madrid needed penalties to get past them.

It was patently obvious that Bolton were playing much better football in the final stages of last season, with Owen Coyle getting the best out of a formerly rigid and one - dimensional Bolton side.

Truth be told, the reality that his circumstances could change started to hit the 25 - year - old Mathieu during the early stages of last season.

Atletico ended Bayern's dreams of a sixth European Cup title at the semi-final stage of last season's competition and Yannick Ferreira Carrasco's first - half strike set the Spanish side on course for a repeat of their victory on home soil in April.

By comparison, at this stage of last season they had nine goals and six assists, and Sanchez's shortfall this time around has really been significant...... Read more here....

Take a more closer look both players defensive performances in the knock out stages of last season's ucl (where we kept clean sheets), you'll be surprised how he didn't make those lists.

At this stage of last season we were top of the League, but amazingly had only scored 37 goals, whereas this season we have increased that by nearly 30 % and have a current total of 48 goals, with he scorers coming from every position on the field.

I think the pressure may have gotten to Iwobi a little last season because even though he had a great first couple of games for the club, in the latter stages of last season, his form did dip a little and he wasn't having the same impact in the team as he did beforehand.

Arsenal fans could be forgiven for hoping that our England international striker Danny Welbeck suffers a setback on his road to recovery from the injury that has kept him out of action since the latter stages of last season.

By comparison, at this stage of last season they had nine goals and six assists, and Sanchez's shortfall this time around has really been significant.

Wolves are currently a staggering 30 points better off than they were at this stage of last season's campaign.

They have not been trailing at half time in any league outing this season and they are six points better off than they were at this stage of last season.

Mahrez would add the extra needed pace to Tottenham's squad which seemed to be missing in some stages of last season.