Sentences with phrase «win midway through the season»

Team Kaplan has struggled at times during the season, like any Rookie Team will, but showed their mettle in their shutout football win midway through the season.

Not exact matches

The Blues left Wembley with more questions than answers and it will not have escaped Antonio Conte's attention that the last two managers to win the Premier League (Ranieri with Leicester in 2015/16 and Mourinho with Chelsea in 2014/15) both lost the Community Shield at Wembley and were sacked midway through the next season.

Signed midway through the 2010/11 season, after spearheading Wolfsburg's improbable Bundelsiga title win 18 months before, Edin Dzeko became an important squad member during his time at the Etihad.

Along the way, Warnock points the finger of blame at: Gareth Southgate, Rafa Benàtez and Alex Ferguson, for all playing weakened teams in their respective clubs» matches against United's relegation rivals; the officials who allowed West Ham to win at Blackburn with a «goal» that didn't cross the line; Times journalist Pete Lansley, for upsetting goalkeeper Paddy Kenny by asking about his troubled personal life in an interview; the FA («rank amateurs»), for not punishing West Ham for fielding two ineligible players, Carlos Tevez and Javier Mascherano; and finally David Unsworth, for contriving a costly penalty miss for United against Blackburn midway through the season but then scoring from the spot at Bramall Lane for Wigan in the game that sent the Blades down at the Latics» expense.

Madrid went on to win the league with a record 100 point tally, but failure once again in the Champions League, on penalties to Bayern Munich brought on much anguish and midway through that same season speculation was rife that Mourinho would be seeking a change of environment.