Posted on 22 April 2018. Tags: Arsenal, europa, football feeds, guardian.co.uk, sport, sports news
The Frenchman will doubtless receive a vociferous send off as his departure draws closer but the response in the stands was distinctly low key during the victory over West ham The promise had come from Ivan Gazidis. Arsène Wenger’s final game at the Emirates Stadium, the chief executive thundered, would feature “a send-off that the world will take notice of”. That is for later – 6 May against Burnley, to be precise. But what of the manager’s …
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Posted on 16 April 2018. Tags: bromwich-albion, etihad, europa, europa league, manager, manchester, premier
What’s that? Manchester City led a game at half-time and went on to win? Are you sure? I thought they had soft mentalities and all that? Surely, you cannot mean that they are actually worthy winners of the Premier League? But they had lost their last three big matches! Finished, they were. Finished I tell you! And was it even worth Manchester United even breaking a sweat last week, Jose? Yes, the …
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Posted on 25 August 2016. Tags: astra giurgiu, europa, first-visiting, sport, West Ham United
• West Ham 0-1 Astra Giurgiu (Astra win 2-1 on agg) • Teixeira 45 All that hard work last season was for nothing. So were all those draining qualifying games this summer. West Ham United’s attempt to reach the group stage of the Europa League ended in frustration against Astra Giurgiu for the second successive year after the Romanians became the first visiting side to win at the London Stadium. Related: West Ham agree €28m (£24m) fee with Juventus …
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Posted on 18 August 2016. Tags: astra giurgiu, europa, the-18-year-old, through-on-goal, upton park, West Ham United
Astra Giurgiu 1-1 West Ham United Alibec 83; Noble 45pen Slaven Bilic was left to reflect on a costly 90 seconds after West Ham suffered more jitters in Giurgiu. The Hammers were leading the Romanian champions, Astra Giurgiu, 1-0 with nine minutes of the first leg of their Europa League qualifying play-off remaining when the 18-year-old Marcus Browne raced through on goal. Browne opted to square the ball seemingly for Michail Antonio to slide into an unguarded net and kill the match off…
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Posted on 15 May 2016. Tags: defeat-at-stoke, dismal-winless, europa, europe, only-if-united, premier league, sports news
West Ham United will be relying on Manchester United to do them a favour in the FA Cup final after their hopes of confirming their place in Europe next season were put in doubt by a needless 2-1 defeat at Stoke City. Slaven Bilic’s side looked set to hold off Southampton in the battle for sixth place after Michail Antonio gave them an early lead but they were unable to resist a determined fightback from Stoke, who ended a dismal …
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