Sentences with phrase «won over the festive period»

Just two wins over the festive period emphasised their urgent need for fresh impetus, as well as their needs for goals, having mustered just six in as many league games.

Not exact matches

This wasn't our best performance by a long shot, but the festive period is famous for throwing up shocks, such as a small club like Tottenham managing to gain only their fifth ever league win over the league leaders Chelsea.

Over the festive period just gone — SB Nation Soccer hopes you had a lovely one — City played four games, winning two, drawing one, and losing the fourth.

But the Gunners, despite all our injuries, still managed to win through against Man City, and Wenger revealed after the game that we can't expect to see Alexis back at any point over the busy festive period.

Even without a selection of first team players the Hammers went eight league games unbeaten over a tricky and busy festive period, and the win over Everton came without five first team defenders.

Of course, all the talk was of Harry Kane's goalscoring feats afterwards but beyond that, the players spoke of a determination to start well against the Saints and to maintain a momentum over the festive period that has seen us chalk up four wins in five matches leading up to 2018.

Owen Coyle will have no doubt hand - picked plenty of positives from a festive period which didn't exactly reap may rewards in terms of points, though even the potential manager of the season will have his fair share of concerns regarding his team's current frame of mind following ta three - match sequence without registering a win in the league, a run that probably wasn't remedied by a 2 - 0 FA Cup third - round victory over Conference side York City simply because it was scruffy and very fortuitous, not to mention required Coyle to draft in his big boys in the dyeing embers of the game.