Sentences with phrase «tie against last season»

Not exact matches

Red Harris completed 37 passes against Army last season, tying the most single game completions by any quarterback in the nation.

Last season Diaby made just one senior appearance for the 2015 FA Cup winners as he was named in manager Arsene Wenger's starting XI for the Capital One Cup tie against Southampton at the Emirates Stadium and lasted for just over an hour before being replaced by Santi Cazorla.

Alex Iwobi on the other hand has shot to prowess in the last nine months, and was even chosen ahead of a number of team - mates to start against Barcelona in our crunch Champions League tie last season.

Evgeni Nabokov, a holdout last season, again played like an elite goalie; center Patrick Marleau, who had three goals against the Blues, replicated his 28 - goal regular season (tying Cheechoo for the team lead); forward Nils Ekman, previously a journeyman minor leaguer, chipped in 55 points while playing fewer than 15 minutes a game.

Now if we actually go back to last season, Arsenal played that pair in midfield against Man City and won 2 - 0, against Man United won 2 - 1 and tied 1 - 1, against Liverpool won 4 - 1, against Chelsea tied 0 - 0 and won 1 - 0.

With their win over SEC Tournament top seed Auburn, Collin Sexton and the Crimson Tide earned a bit of breathing room, even if a defeat in tomorrow's semifinal against Kentucky would be Bama's 15th, which would tie last season's Vanderbilt squad for the most losses ever for an at - large.

Last season he scored 25 goals in 43 games in all competitions for Bayern, and demonstrated his qualities with a superb strike in the Champions League second leg tie against Barcelona:

Hazard has struggled for form this season, and has so far only found the net in the FA Cup tie against MK Dons last month, and Arsenal fans wasted no time in reminding him of his misfortune.

Against Real Madrid in 2014, against Barcelona in 2015, against Monaco last season and now against Liverpool, Guardiola sides have seen the tie slip away in relatively brief periods in which it has lost defensive discipline and conceded two or three goals in a matter of mAgainst Real Madrid in 2014, against Barcelona in 2015, against Monaco last season and now against Liverpool, Guardiola sides have seen the tie slip away in relatively brief periods in which it has lost defensive discipline and conceded two or three goals in a matter of magainst Barcelona in 2015, against Monaco last season and now against Liverpool, Guardiola sides have seen the tie slip away in relatively brief periods in which it has lost defensive discipline and conceded two or three goals in a matter of magainst Monaco last season and now against Liverpool, Guardiola sides have seen the tie slip away in relatively brief periods in which it has lost defensive discipline and conceded two or three goals in a matter of magainst Liverpool, Guardiola sides have seen the tie slip away in relatively brief periods in which it has lost defensive discipline and conceded two or three goals in a matter of minutes.

Last season against Real Madrid his Bayern side lost the semi-final first leg 1 - 0 at the Santiago Bernabeu before being humiliated in the return leg to eventually lose the tie 5 - 0 on aggregate, further highlighting that he can't always rely on the home tie to bail his teams out of jail.

Walcott spent most of last season recovering from a bad knee injury that he suffered during an FA Cup tie against Tottenham during the 2013 - 14 campaign and is yet to win back a regular place in manager Arsene Wenger's strongest starting XI.

Prior to the Match Play Championship last week, Hideki finished with tied for 6th in Arnold Palmer's tournament and earlier this season won a playoff against Rickie Fowler to claim his second career PGA title.

The French side to banish the ghosts of last season's collapse against Barcelona and — amid a wave of hype for their Champions League prospects — send the holders crashing out after a back and forth tie.

A tie against a Cheltenham side that just about managed to cling on to their Football League status at the death last season and are currently sitting in 20th spot in League Two should be a formality for any Premier League club; although West Ham have endured embarrassing exits in the past to the likes of Darlington, Rotherham, Stockport (twice), Chesterfied and Aldershot.

Last season, Southampton won 1 - 0 at Old Trafford, and held Chelsea to a 1 - 1 tie at Stamford Bridge; his performance in both matches was evidence that he's ready to be battling for midfield dominance against the best players in world football.

Anyone who saw the first leg of the Copa del Rey tie against Barcelona could be forgiven for thinking it was a completely different team to the one that played and improved so well last season (a cynic might well say that Peter Lim and Gary Neville had decided to let the Salford City players, disguised as Valencia players, have a run on the Nou Camp pitch).

Our last 4 FA Cup home ties (against Watford, Leeds, and Barnsley last season and against Watford this season) have also sold out which was pretty much unheard of at our place in the past.

The final tie sees Real Madrid go up against German outfit Borussia Dortmund in what will be a rematch of last season's semi final.

Juventus has seen Tottenham the last two seasons, so if you think they're going into their Champions League Round of 16 tie against Spurs totally blind then that's a little naive.

Still it is a home tie and the Hammers have only lost one of the last 8 home FA Cup encounters and that was last season in the 6th round replay against the other team from Manchester.

It will be 49 years this season since we won it but, having reached the semi-finals only to lose in 1971 and 1978, we got to the last four again in 2012 with superb, and unexpected, wins against Ipswich, West Brom and Fulham along the way while a year later we won our third round tie against Manchester United at Old Trafford 4 - 3.

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.

The fifth - round tie was the first game the striker had started in this season's competition, having previously played just 10 minutes of the replay against his former club Fleetwood last month.

Tuchel's scintillating counter-attacking and energetic defensive press has established Dortmund as one of the most watchable teams in Europe and after being drawn against Mauricio Pochettino's Tottenham side — who have also produced some outstanding football this season — in the Europa League last 16 the match was billed as the tie of the tournament.

KEY FACT: Wigan have won their last two cup games against City — the 2013 FA Cup final and a quarter - final away tie the following season MATCH ODDS: Wigan 20/1 Draw 7/1 Man City 1/6 bet365 Pick: Man City win & over 3.5 goals @ 11/10 GRAEME SAYS: Wigan might get a replay but have to go with City, but could be close... 0 - 2

It called to mind the first hour of the first leg of the Round of 16 tie against Bayern Munich in last season's Champions League.