Sentences with phrase «well against the champions»

His solution was one that worked perfectly well against the champions last week.

After being mere seconds away from a win over Liverpool at Anfield, the Blues started well against the champions.

Not exact matches

Just 25 years old, Salah still has plenty of room to grow, but has been nothing short of astounding for Liverpool this year, and entered the first leg of the Champions League semifinal against Roma in the best form of his career.

Irenaeus championed this understanding explicitly: «The Father of all» [47] is no less than «He who is impassible» (Against Heresies, 2.12.1).30 For Clement of Alexandria, this is true both for the nature of God (Stromata, 2.16) and for the highest achievable good of those who would truly embody the divine image: «Endurance also itself forces its way to the divine likeness, reaping as its fruit impassibility» (2.20).

To make matters worse, he was a leading champion of the good sense of the citizenry as against the nostrums of bureaucrats and so - called experts.

«We didn't start the season very well so it was very important to win these two games — Champions League against Maccabi Tel Aviv and the derby against Arsenal.

If you wasn't tryin your best to be a knobhead «Buddie» which round my part of NW London [buddie] means your dick... You'd know that Jack Wilshire was in the champion league final against barcelona and at that time he was round 18 yrs old and ran their much acclaimed mid-field ragged and it was a catalyst for him as from then on he was counted among the most promising mid-fielders arsenal and england had ever produced.

What better way to start than the second - leg against Monaco — with a 3 - 1 defeat suffered in the first - leg — this would be the perfect moment for Ozil to silence his critics, and spur Arsenal on to an epic Champions League comeback.

I appreciate the talent of Bellerin as much as the next man but let's not forget this is an away match in the Champions League against the next best team in the group.

Vidal continues to say that Munich is the best team in the world, and he can certainly point to Arsenal's humiliation against Bayern in the Champions League to emphasise the gap in quality between the two sides, but he believes that Alexis will make the Germans into an even better side.

I think that all our injury problems as well as having all the extra games from the Champions League and FA cup competitions had really taken it out of the players and we generally looked a lot fresher against Liverpool.

The Tigers have lost only once in the league under new manager Marco Silva, and that was against runaway Premier League champions Chelsea, whilst being able to boast of wins over Liverpool and Bournemouth, as well as a draw at Old Trafford and a 2 - 1 League Cup second - leg win over Manchester United to boost.

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The Gunners definitely had a change in luck this week when we were handed the best possible draw against Monaco in the Champions League.

I would prefer wenger say right I'm giving cech the biggest games, cup finals, EPL games against the top half of the league and games in the champions league against the best 2 sides.

It is quite obvious to see that our team is so good so far except for the first two premier league games and the champions league game against PSG.

In fact the next two months are fairly daunting, with a double header in the Champions League against the current holders Barcelona as well as the next round (or two hopefully) of the FA cup.

This is exactly what we should be doing, drawing out the positives yes its only a draw at home but it was last years champions and any point against them is a good result!

As for Tuesday nights champions league game against Olympiakos, we should know better than to take any team lightly....

Will have to do better against Premier league's bottom sides if they want to continue their Champions League qualification streak.

Who knows, he could do better than three FA cup wins in the last four years, three community shield wins in the last four years, twenty years of champions league participation and overseeing the building of a magnificient stadium that has propelled us into the top five clubs in the world, All I can say is this, after supporting Arsenal for over sixty years Arsene Wenger is the best their was, the best their is and the best their ever will be and despite numerous attempts to organise protests against him the anti wenger brigade has always failed miserably.

Arsene Wenger will hopefully not have to look for any reasons why Arsenal do not win away against relegation threatened Sunderland tomorrow, as we really need a good performance and the right result from the lads to go back above Man City and take a step closer to ensuring that we have a place in the Champions League next season and do not have the stress and inconvenience of a play off.

Pep Guardiola will know him better than the others given that his City side came directly up against Monaco in the Champions League round - of - 16 stage, and evidently the Spanish tactician saw something he liked to warrant his interest in signing Mendy.

For donkeys years now we have done the approximately same things: 1) We have a poor start 2) We pick up in September and we all think we are going to have a good year 3) Once the weather gets cold we lose games against all sorts and drop like a stone 4) Towards the end of March when the weather gets better we start winning again and we qualify for the Champions League (apart from last year) I have a feeling it will be broadly the same this year except Spuds and Liverpool are better for the last couple of years that they used to be and none of the big money three look vulnerable so we won't finish above them..

He added: «If you can not enjoy playing Champions League against Barcelona, fighting for the title in the Premier League, being with this team, being in the best league in world, if you don't enjoy it, you must need to see a doctor.

Let's give credit where its due, spurs gave a good account of themselves drawing against a double defending champion real Madrid side, who last season ruthlessly dispatched a Munich team that had walloped us 10 - 2 the round before

The weekend before the EPL season kicks off Arsenal will face Chelsea again at Wembley Stadium for the Community Shield and unless we do a lot better against the title holders in that match there will be very little confidence among us Gooners that the new season will be the one which finally sees Arsenal crowned champions of England again.

Look the Bayern the barca and co are top top teams with huge history We need to concentrate to build up wins we need to win cups then league than we go and win the champion league the result today show that we are Lincoln in front of Bayern and a bit better as we scored against Bayern and Lincoln did nt score against us >> > I had a busy Tuesday as I was coming home I guessed we were 1 2 down I turned on the match to be 1 2 to see it go down hill I wished I never turned it on

This was the vital game though for Real who trail leaders Barcelona by 16 points in La Liga after a poor campaign and it is their best chance of picking up some silverware outside of the Champions League, in which they are evenly poised against Manchester United after a 1 - 1 first leg draw at the Bernabeu.

The talismanic skipper has been ruled out from Saturday's match against Fulham, as well as Wednesday's Champions League draw against Marseille.

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However, while there is hope for the Arsenal duo and the Liverpool hitman, things don't look good for Luke Shaw, the Manchester United left - back who broke his leg in a Champions League bout against PSV Eindhoven last season.

If Arsenal are to have any hope of coming away with a result against the Premier League champions they will no doubt have to be at their best.

Their hatred for one another has become so severe that they simply refuse to pass to each other throughout games, so perhaps it isn't a surprise that we saw the best of PSG once Ibrahimovic was sent off against Chelsea in the Champions League.

Indeed Bale himself may well hold off on any potential exit from the North London side IF Champions League football is secured, if it is not then it would take a brave man to bet against a potential move to join the Spanish side.

In the Metro report about Ferdinand's comments Welbeck is described as our secret weapon and the former England and Man United star spoke about how Welbeck was often at his best in big games and produced some of his best games for United against Real Madrid and Bayern Munich in the Champions League.

The player involved, German international winger Karim Bellarabi, must be feeling quite good about himself after scouts from Arsenal, Man City, Liverpool, Man United, Tottenham and Newcastle all turned up to watch him play for Bayer Leverkusen against the Russian club Zenit St. Petersburg in the Champions League this week.

Having to score three goals is a tough task against any team, let alone in the champions league, in the last 16, away from home, against the team with the best defensive record in the competition, on a narrow pitch with little space to create chances...

Fabregas is a Chelshit now, we must move on he left us when we needed him most and surprising we did well, we always played champions League against all odds.

Should this new recovery timetable be more accurate, it would rule him out of the double header against Napoli in the Champions League, as well as a meeting with Arsenal at the Etihad on November 5.

The Champions league final against Barcelona in 2006, is another good moment I enjoyed, although we lost the final to them.

With Jose Mourinho under fire and facing plenty of criticism for his handling of the squad and performances as well as the result against Sevilla in the Champions League, tensions are seemingly high and things are getting progressively worse with pundits and supporters launching attacks.

Ahead of a tough Champions League game this was a good away performance today against a good Crystal Palace side.

Besides several teams who have questions surrounding one or possibly two players, there is no squad that has so many issues heading into the final week of the transfer window... even Monaco, who have lost numerous players from their starting 11 have less controversy swirling in and around their club and they have champion's league play to contend with this season... just think of how ridiculous this situation is especially considering that we have had the same manager for over 20 years... no team should be better organized than ours... if nothing else, that should be the one advantage this team holds over all others, yet the exact opposite has occurred... this fact is even more disturbing considering the main argument against removing Wenger from his managerial position was that there was no suitable replacement and that people feared some sort of perceived drop - off if a new manager was brought into the mix... based on what we've witnessed since the time of his contract renewal a monkey with a magic eight ball could have done an adequate job... I hate to make jokes, in light of our current dilemma, but this team is so screwed up if I don't laugh about it, the only plausible response is to either cry or do something incredibly destructive... just look around this squad and try to see what our delusional manager sees that allow him to make such positive statements about our current team

Going up against the offensive juggernaut of Barcelona, Juventus will need its best showing of the UEFA Champions League on defense to come away with an upset win.

I suspect with a good win against Monaco it could take us to a different level (dare I say UCL champions?)

Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo scored one of the best Champions League goals in the history of the competition against Juventus on Tuesday night.

And yes: gained a single point against WBA and Norwich and that's why arsenal won't be champions till a good few more years

Before then we played really well against Barcelona in the Champions league only to be undone by the brilliance of Lionel Messi and Neymar Dos Santos, the two best players in the world.

We had a terrible start to our campaign and that affected out Champions league spot.Only this can help is if Wenger makes some good addition before our match against Leicester.But I don't think that is going to happen.