Sentences with phrase «europa league place»

This was billed as a battle for a Europa League place, but few in the stadium were considering trivialities like awkward Thursday nights in Ukraine.

Jurgen Klopp's side will pay $ 75 million for Keita should the reigning Bundesliga runners - up qualify again for Champions League football — $ 70m if Leipzig hold on to their current Europa League place, dropping to $ 65m should they miss out all together on Europe.

Despite dropping one place to 10th in their second campaign, the Bulls slightly improved their point / match ratio and remained in contention for a Europa League place until early May.

German newspaper Bild said Liverpool will pay $ 75million (# 69.4 million) should Leipzig qualify for next season's Champions League, $ 70million (# 64.8 million) if Leipzig secure a Europa League place, or $ 65million (# 60.2 million) should they fail to earn a place in Europe.

La Viola are sitting in ninth in Serie A, but a seventh placed finish will be enough for a Europa League place if Milan finish in the top six.

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Out of the reckoning for next season's Champions League and far from assured of a Europa League place, Schalke are in real danger of missing out on European competition for only the second time in 15 years.

Inter are challenging for the Champions League places in Serie A and have closed the gap on champions, Juventus, Napoli and Roma and sit in 4th place which will guarantee a Europa League place next season.

If the winner of the League Cup finishes top four in the league, that Europa League place goes to the next best finisher in the league.

We move on, though — specifically to tonight's rare Thursday - evening match against Burnley, who these days are an uncomfortably tough team to play - a widely admired, over-achieving side who badly want the Europa League place that we currently occupy, and which we would happily surrender to them, as long as we were headed north into the Champions League and therefore in no further need of it.

If the FA Cup winner also finishes in the top four of the league (and qualifies for the Champions League) that Europa League place goes to the FA Cup runner - up.

With the news that England could get an extra Europa League place due to fair play rulings, it looks set that no matter what, Tottenham will be in Europe next season, and the game against Stoke is a chance for some of the fringe players to make a claim for a starting birth next season.

As far as this season is concerned, are you confident of finishing in a Europa League place despite the shaky form of late?

An occasional tilt at a Europa league place or a domestic cup every few decades is, maybe, the best a West Ham man can get.

TC there were some supporters saying that top four wasn't good enough but now we are fighting for Europa league place,

Liverpool are gonna have Keita and will buy Van Dijk, Tottenham will be even stronger and Chelsea will stay as strong as always and Arsenal will officially become a mid table club and will have to fight for Europa league place for many years.

We would all love to see Leicester beat Jose Mourinho's Man United in the later game today, and they have definitely been improving lately and currently sit in 8th and could still challenge for a Europa League place.

Although currently the East London club are in a Europa League place, whether they can maintain their impressive form is another matter and the 26 - year - old could well be tempted by the likes of the Gunners, Reds and Spurs.

As it is we did not even need our league position to get a Europa League place because we won the FA cup and so Wenger and the Gunners just had to get on with it, but most of us were dreading the effect these Thursday games would have.

Liverpool are currently in sixth, five points behind Tottenham Hotspur and a Europa League place.

I'm pretty sure that next season our lovely club will battle with Everton and Southampton for that precious Europa League place, with a squad finally devoid of any top attacking players.

Their extra goal difference means that we really have to win both of our remaining games and hope they lose their one, but their final game is against Southampton who are still fighting for a Europa League place and who just put six past an in form Aston Villa, so it is by no means a lost cause.

With Wolfsburg finishing out of even the Europa League places this season, Draxler may be able to be persuaded to move to the Emirates.

Bursaspor currently sit sixth in the Turkish top division, 13 points away from Champions League qualification and two points away from the Europa League places.

iii) Juan Carlos Unzue - He is the manager of Celta and has done a commendable job with them as they sit 9th just 4 points off the Europa league places.

* Two of the three Europa League places are reserverd for the winners of the domnestic cup competitions; the FA Cup and the League Cup.

Unfortunately, Pioli became victim of his own lofty expectations and was subsequently sacked with his team just outside the Europa League places in April of 2016.

The Blues are now tenth in the Premier League and Hiddink has given his players the task of getting into the Europa League places now.

A top - four finish is distinctly remote with 11 points separating them from fourth - placed Manchester City and even finishing in the Europa League places could be too difficult to achieve at this stage.

The last ten games of the season give us a nicer run - in than many of the teams we'll expect to be challenging for the Europa League places, but as detailed above we have to keep fighting for points.

The Newcastle boss believes his side are well - placed to not only challenge for a top - ten finish but to also mount a serious assault on the Europa League places, with the Magpies just four points shy of Liverpool in sixth - placed and even have the opportunity to reduce their arrears further this weekend.

Burnley was a clean sheet machine at Turf Moor early in the season as it flirted with the Europa League places.

Milan, which was bought by a Chinese - led consortium in April, spent more than 200 million euros (nearly $ 250 million) on new players in the offseason but is struggling to stay in the Europa League places.

If you believe the press, are going to be the next top 8 side to swash - buckle their way to the Europa League places.

Nevertheless, Spurs managed to beat Hull 2 - 0 to further condemn the tigers to relegation, and allowed Spurs to go back up to 6th position, and back into the highly coveted and much wanted by everyone around them, Europa League places.

Not exact matches

Last year we finished fifth, and don't forget Man U didn't fight to take that fifth place, because they were putting the Europa League first.

However, Gareth Bale's transformation into one of the best players on the planet, helped Andre Villas - Boas lead Tottenham to 72 points in the 2012 - 13 campaign — a club record, although it was only worthy of fifth place and another year in the Europa League.

Even though Arsenal finished as runners up to the Premier League champions Leicester City last season and thereby have an automatic place in the coveted group phase of the Champions League this season, while Chelsea had such a poor campaign that they did not even manage to scrape into the poor relation that is the Europa League, do not expect us to be favourites to win any transfer battle between the two clubs.

They sit in eighth place in the Serie A table after 11 games, 12 points adrift of the top four, while they've been held to back - to - back goalless draws by AEK Athens in the Europa League over the last fortnight to really ramp up the pressure on Montella.

Not only does lifting the Europa League trophy give you an automatic place in the Champions League for the following season, it is a highly prized piece of silverware and something that Arsenal and Wenger have never won.

The Portuguese tactician has claimed to be prioritising the Europa League competition, where his side are three matches away from lifting the trophy, which would in - turn earn them a place in the elite European competition.

A seventh - placed finish in Serie A coupled with defeat in the Coppa Italia final against Juventus on May 21 would see the Italian giants miss out on a place in the Europa League next season.

We are out of the FA cup — A first for Wenger, 6th in the league and the only thing that looks to be going for Arsenal is the League Cup (possibly) and the Europa League which we did not even want to be part of in the first league and the only thing that looks to be going for Arsenal is the League Cup (possibly) and the Europa League which we did not even want to be part of in the first League Cup (possibly) and the Europa League which we did not even want to be part of in the first League which we did not even want to be part of in the first place.

As previously reported by SI.com, the Premier League's big six, all four Champions League semifinalists, two Europa League semifinalists and a slew of other European powers are involved in the tournament, which takes place during the preseasons for all participating clubs and will kick off less than a week after the conclusion of the 2018 World Cup.

Yet now, at this time, sitting a very lowly and pathetic and embarrassing SIXTH place in the Premiership, after getting knocked out of the FA Cup by a team struggling in the Championship, and competing in the Europa League, (Which is basically the Championship) you feel you need to remind us of your loyalty and commitment to Arsenal Football Club.This same Club that despite you failing to achieve a Top 4 finish to give us our Champions League fare for this season, Increased your Salary to # 9m per year.I would remind you that you yourself have continually stated that a Top 4 finish was a greater achievement than winning a Domestic Cup Competition, so I will not allow the FA cup win of last season to enter into this letter.

After losing the North London derby this weekend, Arsenal are very unlikely to finish the season in the Champions League places so it looks like the Gunners only hope of qualifying for the elite competition will be from winning the Europa League, which recommences this coming Thursday with Arsenal playing against the Swedish minnows Ostersund.

The Gunners can afford for just one of the two other sides to lose, but even so, fourth place does not guarantee getting to the champions league next season, with Manchester United favourites to win this seasons Europa Lleague next season, with Manchester United favourites to win this seasons Europa LeagueLeague.

Podolski is yet to get on the score sheet with the Nerazzurri and the club have been so unimpressed with the forward that they've decided against placing him in their squad for the Europa League.

It hasn't always been convincing though, particularly in midweek in the Europa League against Zorya Luhansk, but against a Stoke side currently sitting in 19th place in the Premier League table, they'll be confident of getting all three points.

Manchester United saved Jose Mourinho's first season at Old Trafford by winning the League Cup and the Europa League, compensating for a disappointing sixth - placed finish in the Premier League.