Sentences with phrase «cup points leader»

In each of the past six seasons, the Winston Cup points leader at the halfway point has gone on to win the title.

Not exact matches

They preferred to overlook statistics showing he is fourth on the list of 1964 money winners, the leader by far in Ryder Cup points and first in the Vardon Trophy standings, which list the average number of strokes per tournament round.

It is only halfway through the season for Arsenal, but Arsene wenger has already seen his team descend to 23 points behind the League leaders Man City and crash out of the FA Cup in the Third Round for the first time in his 21 years at Arsenal.

Real are now eight points behind La Liga leaders Barcelona in the Spanish title race, and will have expected to do better than take one point from two games against Spurs in their bid to retain the European Cup.

The Gunners have slipped to 11 points behind Premier League leaders Leicester City and were dumped out of the FA Cup by Watford in the quarter - finals on Sunday.

As the league leaders stretched their lead at the top of the table to 10 points with a 1 - 0 win at Stamford Bridge, Wenger was focusing on safeguarding Arsenal's passage through to the FA Cup final as they squeezed past Reading.

So as the Sprint Cup Series points leader, Edwards is now the pole - sitter.

Arsenal are three points behind log leaders in EPL, in the quarter final of the Capital One Cup, Joint top in champions league though second on away goals» rule, never lost a game since the start of the season.

The Red Devils face Sheffield United in the FA Cup this weekend, before returning to Premier League action against Newcastle United on January 12 as they look to try and close the nine - point gap that exists between them and leaders Arsenal.

The semis will be run on a best - of - seven basis, with the leader on points facing the No. 4 boat and No. 2 against No. 3; the best - of - seven final to produce the challenger is scheduled to begin Jan. 14, and the Cup defense itself will start Jan. 31.

I seem to remember early last season going through this same scenario, when we were even further behind the League leaders (in fact relegation was mentioned at one point) but our «despicable manager» turned it around, brought Arsenal all the way back up to Third Place, and helped us to retain the FA Cup before the seasons end.

We'll be out the League Cup, bottom of our Champions League group and about 7 more points behind the current league leader.

Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure is away on international duty at the African Cup of Nations with the Ivory Coast — and in his absence City have dropped to seven points behind leaders Chelsea in the deciding second - half of the season.

With the Blues drawing with Burnley last weekend and playing against Tottenham Hotspur in today's Capital One Cup final, City had a real chance to pile some pressure on the current leaders, who can now make it an eight point lead if they win their next league game.

Spurs are flying high in second in the Premier League, two points adrift of leaders Leicester City after Sunday's win at Manchester City, but Mauricio Pochettino now has the difficult task of juggling his squad for two different cup competitions, and their title challenge.

While things are looking pretty flippin» good from an Arsenal point of view right now, with a decent draw against Reading at home for the next round of the EFL cup as well as a good chance of topping our Champions League group and winning the last four Premier League games in a row, the Gunners are still faced with the worrying fact that we are still five points behind the current league leaders.

Defeats to Watford in the FA Cup and Barcelona in Europe leave the Londoners with just the Premier League to play for, and they have 11 points to make up on leaders Leicester City - albeit with a game in hand.

Trott's win leaves her eight points behind World Cup leader Kirsten Wild of the Netherlands on 300, while Kenny took an excellent bronze in the sprint — beating Francois Pervis of France in two straight rides.

With leaders Manchester City in Carabao Cup action, United would have the chance to close the gap at the top back to 13 points, and they will need to take something from the game to move back above Liverpool into second.

Les Bleus are in a fight to qualify for the World Cup finals next summer, sitting in second place in Group A, level on points with leaders Sweden and three ahead of their opponents this evening.

Arsenal currently sit in fourth position, 13 points behind league leaders Chelsea, although we have played a game less due to Sothampton's involvement in the EFL cup final last weekend.

Real started the day 19 points off leaders Barcelona and still reeling from their midweek cup exit, which prompted further speculation surrounding Zinedine Zidane's future as boss.

After losing their chance of winning the 2017/18 Russian Cup to Avangard Kursk and being ten points behind Premier League leaders Lokomotiv Moscow, the Europa League seems like CSKA Moscow's only hope for achieving glory this season.

However, there is little public appetite for a boycott of the World Cup in England, which has been reflected in comments by England manager Gareth Southgate (who has argued England should definitely participate) and also in media comment which has pointed to the danger England could be excluded from future FIFA competitions if a political boycott was imposed by the country's leaders.

Level on points with Premier League leaders Manchester City, 14 games undefeated across all competitions, top of their Champions League group and through to the quarter - finals of the EFL Cup; Arsenal «s start to the season has been hugely impressive.

«I know it's all a bit up and down but we have to learn from this,» Zidane told reporters with his team now out of the Cup and languishing 19 points behind leaders Barcelona in La Liga.

Our loss to Stoke in the FA cup was the first of three losses in four games, that now sees us 9 points behind the leaders Chelsea with a mountain to climb to gain some ground back on the top two.

Arsenal currently sit second in the Premier League, seven points behind leaders Chelsea, and face Reading in the semi-finals of the FA Cup this Saturday.

The 2 - 0 loss leaves Spurs 10 points behind leaders Chelsea in the Premier League table and likely to be relying on the cup competitions if they want to win a trophy this season.

Ghana failed to qualify a fourth consecutive place at the World Cup after missing out on the sole ticket to group leaders Egypt placing third in Group E with 7 points.

Although O'Connell was upset about the incident in which he blamed on the Cup driver of the # 88 Porsche, he also tangled with Jaime Melo of the # 62 Risi Ferrari which resulted in a crash and DNF for the GT points leader.

GTC points leader Jeroen Bleekemolen qualified sixth in the No. 22 WeatherTech Porsche 911 GT3 Cup.