Sentences with phrase «weekend league tie»

Not exact matches

The 26 - year - old missed the defeat to Manchester City on Sunday, but Conte will undoubtedly now hope that provided he has a clean bill of health, he can return to action this weekend before facing Barcelona in their crunch Champions League tie next week.

The club's academy coach, Eamonn Dolan, will take charge for Reading's Premier League tie against Manchester United this weekend.

There were some calls after the game for Giroud to be reinstated in the starting line up and although he did regain his place in this week's tie in the Champions League, it's still uncertain as to whether Giroud will start against Spurs this weekend.

If they stay in Europe and the FA cup United could have 25 more games before the end of the season, at an average of one every four days starting with the second leg of their Europa League tie tomorrow and then the EFL cup final this weekend.

There is now just one more tie to play on FA Cup fourth round weekend, with Mark Hughes taking his Stoke City side to Spotland on Monday evening to face a Rochdale side who are having an impressive season in League One.

The following weekend we are at Old Trafford, where our record is less than good, and then we have the crucial Champions League tie with PSG to decide who tops the Group.

The 24 year - old is set to return to the senior playing squad for the Premier League tie with Sunderland this weekend, having survived his way through three Under - 21 matches over the past two weeks.

Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho has once again claimed that he will be rotating his squad for the weekend's Premier League tie with Arsenal.

Hector Bellerin has insisted that Arsenal's Thursday night Europa League match with Cologne is taking priority over the weekend's crunch tie with Chelsea.

The Frenchman was talking ahead of the weekend's all - important tie against Manchester City, where a loss could leave them little chance of earning a spot for next season's Champions League competition.

The Catalan giants took another step closer to winning the La Liga title at the weekend with their win over Leganes, while they have a Copa del Rey final to look forward to next month and hold a healthy 4 - 1 lead over Roma in their Champions League quarter - final tie.

With Arsenal taking a 4 - 1 win to Russia in the Europa League this week, even the fact that CSKA Moscow are a tougher team to face on their own turf, the feeling is that the tie is abut over, so with the Gunners also now in touching distance of Chelsea in the fifth Premier League place, there is an argument that Arsene Wenger should have one eye on our EPL game at the weekend.

Many Arsenal fans are getting worried about the fixture congestion in this final quarter of the Premier League season, but our one free weekend so far (just gone) happily coincided with our round of 32 Europa League tie double - header against Ostersund.

Per Mertesacker has been ruled out for the rest of the Premier League campaign, having had to have been taken off during the weekend's tie with Norwich City.

With a crucial north London derby clash with Tottenham in the Premier League this weekend and with the home tie against the Bulgarians finishing 6 - 0, the manager could have been tempted to rest some of the big stars.

The opening weekend of the 2017 - 18 Premier League season did not disappoint as Arsenal came back to beat Leicester City 4 - 3 in the final 10 minutes in the very first match of the year, while Burnley upset Chelsea 3 - 2 and Watford tied Liverpool 3 - 3.

Arsenal fans and Arsene Wenger will be hoping that the Bosnian international star Sead Kolasinac does not join our German international defender Shkodran Mustafi on the sidelines for this weekend's Premier League tie, because the left sided defender has been a real breath of fresh air since we signed him on a free transfer in the summer transfer window.

They will probably not be in the Arsenal starting line - up to face Everton at Goodison Park in the Premier League on Sunday, having completed the Europa League tie in Serbia last night, but the goal scoring hero Olivier Giroud along with Jack Wilshere and Theo Walcott who played big parts in the goal will be hoping that they have done enough to feature in Arsene Wenger's plans for the weekend.

Playing the weekend tie with midweek Champions League tie on their mind, The Reds didn't put on their best eleven, as Jurgen Klopp opted to rest some...

Playing the weekend tie with midweek Champions League tie on their mind, The Reds didn't put on their best eleven, as Jurgen Klopp opted to rest some of his team's important names.

Mathieu Debuchy is set to play at centre - back this weekend in the tie with Newcastle United in the Premier League.

City have no fresh injury concerns ahead of the game, but with their last match being just 48 hours ago, Paul Tisdale could well rotate his squad to keep players fresh - especially with an FA Cup third round tie against Premier League West Brom coming this weekend.

After clinching their sixth consecutive Bundesliga title over the weekend, Bayern Munich turn their focus to their tie with Sevilla in the Champions League.

Celebrating Chelsea's 4 - 0 drubbing of West Brom in a Premier League tie over the weekend, Alvaro Morata and Davide Zappacosta enjoyed some downtime together in London on Sunday.

This season hasn't exactly been extraordinary considering the standards set by these two clubs, but the meeting of Manchester United and Manchester City this weekend is still a massively important tie as both sides look to finish in the Champions League places.

With a maiden Champions League semi-final tie around the corner in mind, Hayes made four changes from the weekend win over Manchester City.

Coming into last weekend tie after their convincing Champions League tie, AS Roma looking confident when entertaining their guess.

The second League Cup semi final that took place this week was the first leg tie in 2014 against this weekend's FA Cup opponents, Mancheter City.

Norwich proved a sterner test at the weekend than what was desirable with this crunch Champions League tie approaching, but the confidence gained from grounding out a result after going a goal down and spurning numerous chances shows that this Arsenal side are vastly different from previous years.

Arsenal's club record signing — Mesut Ozil returned from injury last week and featured in the gunners 3 - 0 thrashing of Hull City at the KC Stadium over the weekend, after being out for several weeks with an injury he picked up during the gunners second leg Champions League tie against Bayern Munich at the Alianz Arena.

On their last outing in the league, Pardew masterminded a 2 - 0 win away from home over Birmingham City, which was no easy feat, and with a fresher set of legs, with Bolton having recently contested two FA Cup ties within the space of four days, the Magpies may well prove a popular betting selection at the weekend despite the fact they've won only four times at home in the league all season (W4 D5 L4).

With Manchester United tackling an in - form West Ham this weekend but having also the distraction of a UEFA Champions League Last - 8 tie with Chelsea on Wednesday, Arsenal could be primed and ready to capitalise on a favourable weekend schedule which sees both their title - rivals, Chelsea and United, make awkward trips to Stoke and West Ham respectively as they toy with Blackburn Rovers at the Emirates.

Even though the Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger says that the possibility of getting back into the tie against Bayern Munich is not impossible, he is thought to be seriously considering resting several key players with the Premier league match during the weekend in mind.

«LONDON — Chelsea claimed partial revenge for their stormy loss to Manchester United at the weekend by prevailing 5 - 4 when the teams resumed hostilities in an end - to - end fourth - round League Cup tie on Wednesday.»

First, there was their issues in the first leg of this quarter - final tie at Anfield, losing 3 - 0 and then blowing a 2 - 0 half time lead at home against Manchester United on the weekend, in their chance to wrap up the Premier League title.

Can has been ruled out of the Merseyside derby against Everton this weekend and will also miss the second leg of the Champions League quarter final tie with Manchester City.