Sentences with phrase «tough qualifying group»

Northern Ireland did extremely well to finish second in their tough Qualifying Group, finishing above the Czech Republic and Norway to end up second only to the unbeaten Germans, but they were then given another difficult task in the Play - Offs against Granit Xhaka's Switzerland side.

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Swim went well then I jumped on my awesome new bike to find that I hadn't charged the battery for the gears so I was stuck in the toughest gear with 900meters of climbing ran a 1hr23min off the bike which I was pretty happy with, finished 3rd in age group so qualified for the World champs only to be disqualified for speeding in a go slow zone ♂️ Ah well onto the next one!

Story so far: In a tough group, Italy did what was required, qualifying second courtesy of 1 - 1 draws with both Spain and Croatia and a 2 - 0 victory over the Republic of Ireland.

Spurs could have their own tough test tonight against Bayer Leverkusen and they are by no means certain to qualify from their group as they are second with just four points from the first three games and with the Germans just a point behind them.

Atletico Mineiro can not qualify for the last 16 tonight regardless of what happens, but with a tough home tie against current group leaders Colo Colo to come in their game, they will be very keen to take all three points and give themselves a cushion.

With England facing perhaps their toughest game of their Euro 2016 qualifying group tonight, CaughtOffside looks at five reasons that there is surely more misery to come for fans of the Three Lions.

The Super Eagles are back and have the attacking pieces to make some noise in Russia after going unbeaten in Africa's final round of qualifying and averaging two goals per game in a tough group that included Cameroon and Algeria.

England's group wasn't the easiest containing Uruguay, Algeria and Australia, but it certainly wasn't the toughest either as England proved by qualifying for the next stage with ease, winning all three of their matches.

It was a tough group for Jose Mourinho's Manchester United, and a group that United will need to work hard against in order to qualify for the knockout stages.

Nigeria qualified from a tough World Cup qualifying group that included African powerhouse Cameroon and Algeria with defenders William Troost - Ekong, Leon Balogun and Shehu Abdullahi among the top performers.

Later today will see Arsenal play their first match of the group stages, a tough away trip to the Ukraine to play a Dinamo Kiev side which defeated Spartak Moscow 8 - 2 on aggregate in the qualifiers.

«We had a tough group, but as we made progress, we saw we had the chance of qualifying and we took it.

FCP qualified from a tough group that also involved Monaco, Leipzig and Besiktas