Sentences with phrase «stage the games came»

Twenty percent of the energy used to stage the games came from renewable energy sources, even though Beijing still relies on coal for more than 40 percent of its electricity consumption.

Not exact matches

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.

When the Bracket came out, this one jumped off the page as the best potential match - up of Night 1 and with Team Apuli winning 13 - 6 in their first Game, the stage was set.

Messi, who started the game on the bench and came on around the hour mark, only to end up scoring a last minute equaliser, helped preserve the Blaugrana's now 37 - game unbeaten streak in La Liga with a fine strike in the later stages of the game.

Kentucky's freshman guard was a relative unknown coming into the season, but he's had some great games on big stages.

Into the modern era we come, and a post-rebrand Champions League that UEFA, in their hurry to ensure that all competing sides would get as many games as possible, had burdened with an entirely unnecessary second group stage.

Giroud hadn't had too many opportunities come his way during the match, but he made it count when fellow sub, Alex Oxlade Chamberlain got the ball in the box from a cross in the late stages of the game.

United dominated much of the game, particularly in the opening stages, although they fell behind to a goal from Christian Benteke that came after a sustained period of pressure from the visitors — Radamel Falcao would equalise on his return to the starting line - up, but United could not find the winner to extend their streak to seven matches.

So for me Ozil, Cazorla Coq to start and depending on how the game goes, Xhaka or Neny to come in for Cazorla in the later stage....

One bad game and u see Arsenal fans coming on here saying negative tins and throwing all manner of insults on the coach and players at this early stage of the season with less than 6 games.

Because of the skill of Campbell to scheme & wriggle past defenders, I am starting him on the bench to come on at a stage in the game and I'm giving Welbeck a complete rest from the match till the Palace game when he could be in my match day squad.

With all of the first round of international games now done and dusted, Arsenal can get back to business and our season really starts to hot up, with our first domestic cup action coming up along with the Champions League group stages and the Premier League to consider.

His dismissal came at a stage in the game when manager Diego Simeone had already withdrawn Antoine Griezmann for the more defence - minded Raul Garcia, meaning that Turan was desperately needed to support the lone striker in Mario Mandzukic.

Sanchez should have come on at a later stage depending on how the game was going.

Arsenal still have more more games to play before we reach the halfway stage of the EPL season, so there is a lot of water to go under the bridge and a lot of footballing twists and turns to come before someone gets to lift the big trophy in May, but our attempt to be that club is looking a lot better after the reigning champions Leicester City rose from their slumber to inflict a painful defeat on Man City yesterday.

Ramsey did need to come off, but what was the point of a DM at that stage of the game?

Barcelona came into tonight's game with little hope of making it through to the knockout stages.

painful the fans who watch our yearly garbage at d emirates don't come together and stage a massive protest... aob and akb rubbish... new season, same bs... this mahrez rumour is just that, a rumour... Wenger is too stupid to know what we want... my granny can tell u wat arsenal needs after watching just a game... «that no 12 doesn't know how to shoot the ball inside the net», she says....

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.

It's just a group stage game and it's come as Real Madrid go through a real rough patch, but what a result this week's win over Los Blancos was.

Arsenal fans found out all we needed to know about the France international star Geoffrey Kondogbia this season, as the central midfielder was easily the Man of the Match when his French Ligue 1 club Monaco came to the Emirates for the Champions League first - leg game of the knockout stages.

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.

They didn't see much adversity throughout the early stages of the season in 2015 and then come Playoff time, in a close Game, they weren't sure how to react..

It set the stage for his true coming out party in the national title game.

Manager Brendan Rodgers has come under increased pressure from the club's supporters in the immediate aftermath of the game at Old Trafford, but Coutinho insists there is no need to panic at such a early stage in the campaign:

i agree andy but its not just the 4 years of hard work that should be taken into account, firstly the fai hav missed out on millions at a time where money is already tight, and more importantly the fact that given, kilbane, o shea, dunne, duff, whelan and keane may be too old when the next one comes around and for a professional footballer to hav a chance to represent his country on the biggest stage of all taken away in this manner is cruel, there can be no argument against technology when there is so much at stake as for henry being labelled a cheat i do not agree as it came at him so quick and although he in fact handled it twice i do not believe it was pre-meditated like maradonnas effort or that disgusting dive by anelka at 0 - 1... can any1 who watched the game live please tell me how lass diarra stayed on the pitch let alone avoided a yellow??

Regarding the timing of the announcement, with five league games and the Europa League final stages still to come, Gazidis said: «We wanted the opportunity that the Arsenal family could come together and I think we are going to see some fantastic atmospheres from now until the end of the season.

Iv had enough of it now at this stage that by the time it comes around to watching a game the minute I see Wenger on the line it puts me in bad form.

That tie has already been previewed so this concentrates on our game at Swansea, and a game against them at this stage of the season should come as no surprise.

Paul Cook's team came into the game after having the chance to top the table even at this early stage in the season.

This means when push comes to shove at these important stages of the season, the club don't have enough quality or know how to score enough goals to win games.

Vardy came on to score England's first goal of their 2 - 1 victory over Wales in the Three Lions» second game of the Euro 2016 group stages having been an unused substitute in the 1 - 1 draw with Russia in Marseille.

I was hoping that we would see Sam Byram feature at some stage during the game but it still came as a (positive) surprise that he was introduced as early as half time and that it was Angelo Ogbonna who was replaced.

Mourinho has tended to rest Valencia for the Champions League games this term, and Meunier could prove the perfect fit for the latter stages of the elite competition, provided he does not get Cup - tied by making an appearance in the coming group stage games.

Was comfortable until Montero came on when he really struggled to deal with his trickery in the closing stages of the game.

The collision happened in the latter stages of the game on Saturday when McNaughton came out second best after a 50/50.

Lokomotiv on the season have no Champions League appearances and this is this first appearances on the Europe stage, which standing them their first meeting against 18 times Portuguese Primeira league winner Sporting CP.Lokomotiv have already their 8 games on Russian Premier League and they have only conceded one defeats, which comes on their last / 8th games against Rubin Kazan by 3 - 1 goals.

There was speculation at the end of the season as to whether Rooney had played his last game for the club, coming on in the final stages of the UEFA Europa League final in which United beat Ajax 2 - 0 to lift the trophy, the only major honour United had not won in their illustrious history.

And because nothing comes easy for this team, Can got himself a groin injury in the latter stages of the game.

Chances came and went for both teams in the early stages, and even though time was ticking on, there was no doubt in my mind that there were more goals in this game.

However, there's an obvious trend when it comes to Liverpool's opponents for these warm up games, and some noticeable tactical systems at play even at this early stage.

Wednesday's game will be the fifth official match ever between Barça and Roma, with the previous four coming in the Champions League group stage in 2001/02 and 2015/16... the last one of those games was a 6 — 1 Barça rout at Camp Nou... For Barça, Leo Messi and Luis Suárez scored twice each that day, Gerard Piqué scored once, and Edin Dzeko pulled one back for Roma in second half injury time...

He's still the Netherlands top World Cup scorer with seven World Cup goals, and three of those came in the final group stages (no knock out games in either tournament), against Argentina in 1974 and a brace against Austria in 1978

Ospina proved himself how hard it can be for a goalkeeper to come into games of this magnitude from the cold with his performances in the group stage last season, so to put on a stellar showing was a great effort from the keeper.

Costa Rica almost certainly have the upper hand when it comes to dealing with tropical climates; an advantage that may show its worth especially in the closing stages of the game.

A promising, but so too a very much frustrating match, Liverpool's long - awaited return to the Champions League group stage was disappointing, as from doing the hard work — having to come from a goal down — to then dominating the game, the team once again threw away what should have been three points, instead taking just the one.

We will do the best we can to make the fans happy and we will take each group stage game as it comes.»

Jurgen Klopp's Group E leaders came into the game knowing they needed to avoid defeat to be sure of reaching the knockout stage for the first time since 2008 - 09 - and Coutinho gave them the lead with a fourth - minute penalty after Mohamed Salah was fouled by Georgi Dzhikiya.

That despite Sir Alex Ferguson insisting changes are imminent, something he attempted in last season's competition only to end up with egg on his face on two separate occasions, both, incidentally, at Old Trafford: A much - changed United failed miserably to break down a mediocre Rangers defence in their first home game in the group, drawing 0 - 0 with the SPL side, while Valencia almost came away with a famous win on Match Day 6, albeit with the Reds already through to the latter stages, only to be denied by a second - half strike from Anderson.