Sentences with phrase «biggest title rivals»

Well City lost both games to Chelsea last season, their biggest title rivals (in the end) and still won the League.

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Most of us would probably prefer the two big title rivals to draw and claim just a point each, which would let Arsenal gain ground on both, assuming we win our own game at home to Brighton of course.

Not exact matches

Despite seeing gold output decline by 2 %, Newmont claimed the title of world's biggest bullion producer as it surpassed rival Barrick by 16,000 ounces in the first three months of the year.

On top of that, if bringing the former Barcelona man to Old Trafford also meant two of their biggest rivals could lose their best players, it would surely boost their title hopes for next season.

Arsenal fans will be hoping from a look at this weekend's fixture list in the Premier League that it could be a good few days for the Gunners in our pursuit of the title, as many of our big rivals for the EPL trophy have matches that look harder on paper than our trip to Swansea and two of them are playing each other.

Big teams don't rely on friendly refs, fair play from the opposition or title rivals dropping points.

We only took two Premier League points and people were saying that our title challenge was faltering but then we stormed back with three wins in a row and five of the next six, including the big game against title rivals Man City.

Rooney, having moved from Everton to Manchester United and won multiple Premier League titles with Liverpool's biggest rivals — would not be able to support an Anfield opponent so easily now...

Like their rivals Ohio State and Michigan State, the Michigan Wolverines put together a strong resume in the regular season, earning a share of the Big Ten title.

The forward also revealed that he is really enjoying his new central role, but will he fire the Gunners right back in to the title race and end another poor run against a big rival tomorrow?

It's a longjourney from a year ago, and yet the Galaxy, which last won the MLS title in2005, realizes there's an even bigger step to take, starting on Sunday in thefirst game of the two - game first - round series against L.A. rival Chivas USA.

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everyone seems to be in a rush to do interviews especially after the Man u game... its a big big win for us seeing as we have not had one over them in 4 years but in the name of all that is good this is AFC we are talking about and no matter how crucial a win is against one of our biggest rival we should just move on and focus on the next game and stop behaving and acting like a newly promoted side that caused a big upset by beating one of the favorites for the title... at the end of the day its a very important win but its still 3 points....

The Bianconeri will hope to solidify their spot at the top of the Serie A table and open up a bigger gap between themselves and title rivals Napoli.

It would not be quite as bad as the transfer deals that saw big Arsenal players like Samir Nasri, Ashley Cole or Robin van Persie sign for clubs not only in the same division but direct rivals for the English Premier League title, unless of course West Ham were to do a Leicester City.

But grieving requires time, and only minutes before, they had watched dreams — a SWAC title, a series lead against their biggest rival — die inches short of the end zone.

Many pundits have questioned why Chelsea let Matic go, with the move simultaneously weakening their title hopes and strengthening those of one of their biggest rivals.

We all believe that Man City are our biggest rivals for the title, and already they have lost Aguero for a month, the Argentinian striker said after he was stretchered off last night: «I think I'll be a month without playing,» Aguero said.

While you will find a lot of Arsenal fans ready to bemoan our fate, with the main complaint being that we do not match the ambition and spending power of our big Premier League rivals to really compete for the EPL title and the Champions League trophy, a new report by UEFA shows that Arsenal are actually in an elite group and that every club not in this group are the ones that are really in trouble.

Always in big clashes of our title rivals I wish for a draw.

Can our lo9cal rivals do us and every other title chasing club a big favour?

Not only could we do without a long list of Gunners having to sit out games every week, it would be a big help if our title rivals had to cope with the same sort of problems that have affected Arsenal over the first half of the season.

other big boys think with Wenger, Arsenal is not a team to give them headache, it's one less rival for the race to the title..

The team that I see as our only big rivals for the Title, they sit 2 points clear of us right now, they just tore Newcastle a new one, and are just about everybodys pick for the league, and the only real test in the league coming soon is at home to Man United (Pray for a draw), but whilst they are everybodys pick, they are favourites, they are still not untouchable.

There are still tumbleweeds blowing around the Emirates stadium wait in vain for Arsene Wenger to use the club's mountain of cash and bring in a player or two to help us achieve the very difficult task of competing with our big spending rivals for the Premier League title.

The player needs to have it at the back of there minds that we are going there for a clean sheet first because it's a very BIG away match with one of the title rivals (yes title rivals) and anything after a clean sheet is a very big boost to our title rBIG away match with one of the title rivals (yes title rivals) and anything after a clean sheet is a very big boost to our title rbig boost to our title race

Our rivals are winning with so many goals, if, a big IF, we are in the title race, this could affect us big time at the end of the league.

Not only would this weaken one of our big rivals for the title next season, it might affect De Gea for tomorrow's crucial clash with Arsenal at Old Trafford tomorrow and it was his amazing performance that stopped us beating them at the Emirates back in November.

Arsenal may have acquired Alexandre Lacazette and Saed Kolasinac in this summers transfer window, but we do seem to be lagging behind our rivals for the Premier League title, and one of our biggest problems is the danger of losing some of our biggest stars who only have one year remaining on their contracts, including Alexis Sanchez and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain.

Even if we do eventually miss the title... we would have proven a few points... it wont be for selling our most important players, it won't be because we strengthened a rival club; it wont be because a player became bigger than our club; forced his way out; we would have proven that it is not all about money / gains all the time; we would have had a coach who truly proved he is in charge and will not bulge to a player's pressure etc..

In the 1960s, Missouri had four top - 10 finishes, and the rivals won three total Big Eight titles.

One of the main reasons why a large number of Arsenal fans and almost all of the football media have been so hard on Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players for not maintaining the Premier League title challenge this season, apart from the 12 year gap since the Gunners were last champions of course, is because the struggles of our big Premier League rivals Man City, Chelsea, Man United and even Liverpool seemed to have opened the door.

Van Gaal could now raid his Premier League rivals for these three big names to continue building his squad up for a potential title challenge...

All three of our big rivals for the Premier League title have got off to the start we all hoped they wouldn't, so Jose Mourinho at Manchester United is looking as smug as possible and Antonio Conte is looking well suited to Chelsea while Pep Guardiola has hit the ground running at Man City.

Jose Mourinho is seemingly confident that his side can retain their Premier League title next season, despite the prospect of some heavy spending from his side's biggest rivals, including Manchester City and Manchester United.

With Arsenal having got off to a fairly shaky start to our latest attempt to win the Premier League title, the last thing we needed was for our big EPL rivals to get off to a fling start themselves, but that is just what has happened and now the Gunners are playing catch up to the big three of Manchester United, Chelsea and Man City who all have the maximum nine points from their three games so far.

Chelsea losing Morata and Man City losing Aguero could have a bigger impact though, and with Arsenal now back in the groove and winning games it might just allow us to catch and overtake these two title rivals.

The chances are that, soon after writing this about the injury problems that Arsenal's Premier League title rivals are facing, we will see one or more of our own big stars pick up a knock and be ruled out for a long time.

Most Arsenal fans will be the first to tell you that the Gunners are not quite firing on all cylinders so far this season, and after the summer transfer window saw the club actually make a profit rather than spending big to catch up with our Premier League rivals despite breaking the club's transfer record to sign Alexandre Lacazette, you won't find too many Gooners who are confident that the EPL title is on it's way back to north London next May.

I still see Manchester United as the main title rivals for City this season, with Jose Mourinho's record being key, while he should have Paul Pogba and Zlatan Ibrahimovic to come back when you really need those big - game players to make an impact.

Their rivals this season have dropped points; West Ham United 3 - 3 Arsenal earlier today was a big one, with United having the possibility to end Spurs» title chase this season with a victory, then onto relegating Aston Villa in a weeks time — see it could be a lot worse for United supporters.

Rounding off the ones to watch are four of La Liga's biggest teams as Real Madrid look to wrangle the title back from their rivals Atletico as it could be a defining year for Gareth Bale.

Steaua, like their close Bucharest rivals Dinamo, have dominated Romanian football with forty - one league titles between them, shared almost equally, and are the two biggest teams in the country.

Title rivals Chelsea and Tottenham have recorded some of the biggest gains this year after successful seasons that saw Chelsea regain its status as England's best, under dynamic new manager Antonio Conte.

Atletico won their 10th La Liga title in a campaign that saw them overcome the odds to beat their city rivals and the Catalan team to the title, despite the significant financial gulf between the rojiblancos and La Liga's «big two».

Because it is interesting, taking one of your biggest rivals star players and unleashing him against them in a potential title challenging side.

Los Blancos are only one point behind Atletico and Barcelona and one big signing could be enough for them to wrest this year's La Liga title away from their two biggest rivals.

However, Xhaka's reliability and the fact that he addresses a long - term problem area for Arsenal means that it will be Arsenal's Arsene Wenger who will have the bigger smile in North London, having taken an early step ahead of their title rivals.

The big surprise is why did Chelsea allowed a player who had helped them to win two titles in three seasons to leave for a rival club?