Sentences with phrase «blues ended their title»

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The timing of the talk about Arsene Wenger getting a new Arsenal contract could hardly have been worse, on the back of a title ending defeat by Chelsea that looked so simple for the Blues that the Gunners have been compared to youngsters kicking a ball about with the big boys in the playground.

Should the Blues fail to qualify for the Champions League this season, it may not be the end of the world for the Blues, as a less - congested fixture list was one of the reasons why Conte's side were able to claim their fifth league title last campaign.

Pep Guardiola's side go into today's game 11 points adrift of the Blues, and they can't afford to drop points in this sort of fixture if they want to have any chance of lifting the Premier League title at the season's end.

So while it looked like Arsenal having a lead and then losing to Watford was about to be repeated by our Premier League title rivals Chelsea today, it did not turn out that way and the Blues of Antonio Conte turned the game around again and ended up winning 4 - 2.

The Blues are set to part company with the Italian at the end of the season, with the club now almost certain to miss out on a top - four finish, after what has been a hugely disappointing defence of their Premier League title.

An U21 debut followed in December, and in a climactic end to the 2013 - 14 campaign, Musonda opened the scoring in Chelsea's U21 Premier League title decider against Manchester United at Old Trafford, while also getting on the scoresheet in the Blues» FA Youth Cup final triumph over Fulham.

With the FA Cup kicking off and then returning at the end of January, we should have a much clearer idea of where this season is going for the Blues once the month draws to a close, especially with Man City already runaway leaders in the Premier League, ruling out any chance of Conte's men retaining their title.

Chelsea ended Tottenham's title chase last season and the North Londoners are ready to topple the Blues this time around and win the ultimate prize.

What should have been a robust defence of their title win — and perhaps even the start of a new era of domestic domination under Jose Mourinho — quickly unraveled into the end of one managerial regime, as the Blues slumped to just four wins in their first 16 league games.

One of the reasons why the Blues went on to win the title last season is the Belgian's impressive saves like the one he produced against Sunderland at the end of last year.

A defeat at Stamford Bridge last month ended the Red Devils» FA Cup hopes, can they get revenge by putting a dent in the Blues» title push?

In fact, the last team to have won a game at Old Trafford were Carlo Ancelotti's now ailing Blues, when goals from Joe Cole and Didier Drogba sealed a 2 - 1 triumph nearly twelve months to the day ago, which, at the time, paved the way for Chelsea to end United's Premier League dominance and bring home the league title for the first time in four - years.

A man with a saxophone is standing outside the California Jazz and Blues Museum; Eso Won Books, a neighborhood institution specializing in titles about the black experience, has just opened for business; and people are meeting up in the park at the end of the block, across from a glorious Art Deco theater that was built in 1931.