Sentence examples for cup encounters from inspiring English sources

Kirk also believes the players' experience — and their past World Cup encounters — will give them an advantage.

More immediately, Croft is set to miss Leicester's Aviva Premiership clash with London Irish this weekend and the Tigers' back-to-back Heineken Cup encounters with Perpignan.

Previous League Cup encounters at Stoke Stoke City 1-2 LiverpOctober 2011 2011 Luis Suarez performed at his menacing best in this fourth-round tie, scoring twice as Liverpool came from behind to win.

For quality and drama the recent European Championship paled by comparison with the average Champions League and even the 2002 World Cup failed to produce a match to rank alongside some of the more memorable European Cup encounters.

France has won the last two World Cup encounters, 2-0, in Mexico City in 1986 and then the quarterfinals in St. Denis in 1996, on the dreaded penalty kicks.

It's a dream game". There have been more important U.S. games in recent years -- against Brazil in the round of 16 in 1994 and Germany in the 2002 quarterfinal, and perhaps the Confederations Cup encounters with Spain and Brazil last year.

Preamble Good evening everyone for what, hopefully, will be an intriguing League Cup encounter.

Michael Cheika insists Australia are still underdogs for Saturday's make-or-break World Cup encounter with England despite the beleaguered hosts' damaging defeat to Wales.

A persistent knee injury meant that apart from the inaugural Gillette Cup encounter with Leicestershire he rarely figured for Lancashire in 1963.

Spain vs. Portugal 2 30 p.m. Eastern TV: ESPN, Univision Spain and Portugal, rivals from the Iberian Peninsula, meet in Cape Town for their first World Cup encounter.

Chris Robshaw has warned Scotland that a dirty tricks campaign at Murrayfield today would only serve to galvanise England before the 125th Calcutta Cup encounter.