Sentences with phrase «stage of the competition last»

We were eliminated in the quarter final stage of the competition last term by Watford, when the Hornets pulled off their best performance of the entire season to beat us by two goals to one.

At this stage of the competition last season, Madrid eased past La Cultural Leonesa 13 - 2 on aggregate, with James Rodriguez, now on loan at Bayern Munich, and Zidane's son Enzo, now at Alaves, among the scorers in the return game.

We lost out to the Ligue 1 club's youth team at home and away in the group stage of the competition last year, but will be more confident this time around in the lunchtime kick - off, having enjoyed a tremendous European campaign in which, like the first team in the UEFA Champions League, we saw off Real Madrid, Borussia Dortmund and APOEL to top our group.

The quirks of the FA Cup draw has paired together two sides who met at this stage of the competition last season.

The Arsenal legend will only be an option off the bench, but with a stronger side than we saw at this stage of the competition last season, and Leeds shorn of a genuine «gamebreaker» in Snodgrass's absence, the best hope for them is to probably play for a 0 - 0 and try to take the Gunners back up north for a replay.

The Gunners failed to heed the lessons learned by Manchester United at this stage of the competition last season, and were rescued from an embarrassing defeat by a combination of Cesc Fabregas & Theo Walcott being summoned from the bench in the second - half.

Not exact matches

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Arsenal took on Besiktas in the 2nd leg of their Champions League playoff tie against Besiktas last night, needing an outright win to progress through to the group stages of the competition for the 17th year running.

Five such «non-champions» emerged from the third qualifying round, including two teams that made something of a splash in last season's competition: CSKA Moscow — who last season beat Manchester City in the group stage — and Monaco, who roundly embarrassed Arsenal on their way to the quarterfinals.

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.

Arsene Wenger's side haven't been able to get past the last 16 stage of the competition since 2010, is this going to continue?

They have been here before of course, as last year they beat Fenerbahce at the same stage in the competition but there should be no room for complacency.

Pep Guardiola will have a task on his hands too as Monaco, who saw off Tottenham Hotspur in the group stages, knocked Arsenal out of the competition last year.

Now that Arsenal have given themselves a good chance of qualifying into the last 16 of the UCL, after a disastrous start by losing our first 2 games in the competition, I think some of us are still nervously assuming that we have been here before (whatever stage) and don't want to get our hopes up, understandably so!

At this stage of our «rebuilding» we have shown in the the last 5 seasons Arsenal and this present misfit managerial team are not good enough for that competition.

In fact the two sides have almost identical records over the last six games with only three points garnered and a poor FA Cup exit at the same stage of the competition apiece.

Further, places in the draw for the group stage are allocated not on the basis of whether a club happens to have won a title the previous season, but on their UEFA coefficient, a rolling points average based on a team's performance in all European competitions over the last five years.

With United winning their last Europa League match against Zorya Luhansk last month, they'll be hoping to build on that and continue to move towards qualifying for the knockout stages of the competition.

Costa failed to score at last summer's major competition in Brazil as the then reigning champions of the world were knocked out at the group stage and his one and only goal for the Spaniards came in a routine 4 - 0 Euro 2016 qualifier victory against Luxembourg in October last year.

Considering that Arsenal have not gone past the first knockout stage of the Champions League competition for the last six seasons, it would seem on the face of it that Arsene Wenger still has a lot of work to do with his players to make Arsenal one of the elite European teams with a realistic chance of lifting the European Cup.

Of course Arsene Wenger has worked miracles to keep the club in the competition through the lean years, and the Frenchman has managed to keep getting us through the group stage, but for the last four seasons, that is where it has ended.

The England striker returned from a hamstring injury last week in time to take on Real Madrid, helping his side to an emphatic 3 - 1 win to all - but seal their place in the knock - out stages of the competition, but has unfortunately picked up a knee injury at the weekend versus Crystal Palace.

Having created one and scored one in the last three fixtures in all competitions, the 22 - year old goes into their biggest game of the season — in the right frame of mind and will be gunning to prove it at the big stage against one of the biggest clubs in the world.

The Champions League competition is starting to hot up and Arsenal will not want to drop out of the last 16 stage for the seventh successive season.

Chelsea and Manchester United appear to be the form teams going into the last stages of the competition.

As Manchester City face Borussia Mönchengladbach, look back at the sides» two meetings at the same stage of last season's competition, including a six - goal thriller at the City of Manchester Stadium.

• Madrid have lost only one of the 32 UEFA competition ties in which they won the first leg away from home, most recently beating Bayern at this stage last season (2 - 1 away, 4 - 2 home aet).

Despite the club not faring well in the Premier League, outside of the top four, Louis van Gaal's side finished fifth in the league, earning a UEFA Europa League group stage place and winning the Emirates FA Cup, for the twelfth time, twelve years after their last success in the domestic competition.

The Lilywhites are in top form right now with eight wins on the bounce in all competitions, but they have had some tough times at this stage of the competition, having lost their last six FA Cup Finals in a row.

Citizens failed to qualify for the knockout round stages of the competition and finished bottom of the group last season without even winning a single game.

To add a little perspective to the result, Real Madrid, holders and winners of the competition in 2016 and 2017, last lost a game in the group stages back in October, 2012 - a run of 30 group matches without defeat.

This season, United may not be happy about competing from the group stages of Europe's secondary competition, but it is a trophy the club have never won, so Jose Mourinho may look into having a go at winning it now the winner's gain UEFA Champions League qualification, which may come in handy should the race for top four be as competitive as it was last season.

We last met Bolton in this competition at the fourth round stage in 2009/10, winning 4 - 0 at Stamford Bridge courtesy of goals from Salomon Kalou, Florent Malouda, Deco and Didier Drogba.

Juventus won a fifth consecutive Serie A title last season, equalling an Italian record, but they missed out on Champions League victory when Bayern Munich knocked them out of the competition at the quarter - final stage.

The last meeting between the sides was way back in year 2005 at the same stage of the competition where Bayern edged the tie with 3 - 2 aggregate win over Arsenal.

Whereas hosts Liverpool go into the game full of confidence after slaying Chelsea at Stamford Bridge last week, Manchester City will be crushed following Tuesday's 2 - 1 defeat to Napoli, which has left their hopes of reaching the latter stages of the competition in tatters.

For the seventh consecutive season, Arsenal were knocked out of Europe's premier competition at the last - 16 stage, as they were beaten 5 - 1 home and away by Carlo Ancelotti's Bayern.

-- 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.

Pochettino's side failed to make it past the group stage of Europe's elite club competition last season.

Hapoel went into the game on the back of five straight wins, conceding just one goal in the process, but they had no answer to the all - round skill of Atletico, who have now won 14 consecutive matches in European competition since a 2 - 0 defeat at Udinese in last season's group stage.

This was the competition of FIFA CLub World Cup where in last Wednesday night at at Sheikh Zayed Sports City, the semi final of the competition was staged between Real Madrid and Al Jazira.

United now find themselves in the quarter - final stages of the competition for the first time, getting at least a round further than last season when they were beaten at this stage by finalists Liverpool.

That last time that Arsenal won all three of their group stage home matches was back in 2010/11 and the decline can be seen it the fact that they have lost seven of their last 17 home games in the competition proper.

In February last year Sutton United, a tier below English football's fourth professional league, staged the biggest game of their history, a fifth - round FA cup tie against 12 - time winners Arsenal with the eyes of the world on the most romantic fixture in that season's competition.

Juventus, despite winning the last two domestic titles at a stroll, were knocked out of Europe's top club competition at the group stage this season.

Last season, United won the FA Community Shield, the EFL Cup, and the UEFA Europa League, earning a place in the group stages of the Champions League this season, which United could not do by finishing sixth in the Premier League, the competition the club found tougher than the others.

Conte appeared to favour his second - choice goalkeeper during the early stages of the Cup competition last term, and it could be a similar case with Willy Caballero likely to make his Blues debut.

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.

Unfairly disposed to doomed distribution prospects and perhaps unfortunate dismissal during its initial reception comes Lucrecia Martel's long - awaited fourth feature, Zama an epically staged period piece, which premiered out - of - competition at the 2017 Venice Film Festival after over four years in the making and arriving nearly a decade after her last film, 2008's The Headless Woman.

Competition for Ogier will come from a Ford Fiesta RS race car driven by Robert Kubica — who won the first two stages of last year's opener, pulling 36.8 sec clear of Ogie.