Sentences with phrase «european league competition»

They were defeats Liverpool on their last league matches which live up them on the run of European League competition on next season.

Considering the post obstacles in the season, team Barcelona is in the top out of the five top European league competitions.

Embed from Getty Images The Premier League is labelled as one of the toughest, most unpredictable and by a long stretch the most entertaining of all the top European League competitions.

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In May he became the all - time top - scorer in the top five European leagues, and his 42 goals in competition helped to lead Real Madrid to their first La Liga title since 2012 and become the first team to win back - to - back titles in Champions League history.

He has faced Premier League teams too including two games against Chelsea in the Europa League semi-finals the year the Blues won the competition, and holding Liverpool to a 1 - 1 draw at Anfield, but it another European game that he remembers the most.

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.

Inter offered him a bumper paycheck, no prospect of being anywhere close to qualifying for any European competition or winning the league.

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I just feel that sticking with wenger, as a fan, I'm essentially saying I'm happy with 4th place, to play in a European competition we realistically can't win, as arsene is simply incapable of winning the league again, football has moved on, arsene hasn't kept up unfortunately.

Arsene Wenger has insisted that he is not ready to prioritise the European competition over the Premier League, but should he reconsider?

But on the bright side, we might actually win a European competition finally, if we play Europa League.

Perhaps a trophy to0 celebrate would help, especially if it was the Europa League because that would get us back into the elite European competition, but there is not too much confidence that this Arsenal team will have any silverware at the end of this campaign and in a Beinsport interview Wenger sounds to me as though he could finally be starting to see that the club needs a change at the top.

It is certainly true that the last two Premier League champions did so without Champions League football to worry about, but neither Chelsea nor Leicester had Europa League games either, so is Wenger right to say that being in the lesser European competition will help Arsenal in the Premier League?

In fact it would be hard to find winning teams in any big national league or in European competitions that don't use this formula, or at least use the whole team to defend.

For European club competitions, UEFA applies club coefficients to determine how many tournament spots different leagues have earned.

The goal from Hummels was the 70th home goal for the Bundesliga giants in all competitions this season — tacking on to their mark as the highest - scoring team in any top - five European league.

English sides have won just one of their last eight European finals in all competitions (Manchester United vs Chelsea in 2007/08 Champions League).

In Porto's opening European Cup fixture — a 2 - 2 draw away at Dyanmo Kyiv — the legendary stopper equalled Xavi's record of Champions League appearances, when he made his 151st outing in the competition.

They're running away with the Premier League title and have dominated their opponents so far in European competition too.

Manchester United have no European competition and have solely the league to worry about up until January, with the attacking options they have and sufficient time to rest between games you can bet they will be fighting for a CL spot, Everton will be challenging, Spurs will be outsiders for a CL spot in my opinion and I don't expect them to be in it much but I wouldn't count them out and then there is Arsenal.

Not so long ago they were league champions, and champions of both European competitions!

I want us to come 3rd and get Europa league it will give the team a wake up call and we will have a huge chance of winning a European competition for once Only downside is will our squad be big enough to play Thursday Sunday till the end of the season

We are of course still in the Champions League, having reached the knockout stages of the competition for the 13th consecutive term, and despite coming up against the same team who knocked us out of three previous European campaigns, we have reason to be more confident next time around.

The Spanish governing body believes that the competition should be held in May, when it is also cooler but will have less of an effect on European leagues.

Should they do so, football's trademark competition will clash with the Christmas period and the time before it in the major European leagues.

The elite European competition is a different animal than the Premier League, or any domestic league for that mLeague, or any domestic league for that mleague for that matter.

The poor results of English teams in European competition suggest Premier League sides have begun to believe the hype that surrounds our domestic game.

«In fact the EPL has just started and I am sure Manchester United would not need the player urgently for any crucial game either in the league or European competitions.

On a positive note at least we won't be embarrassed by Bayern or Barca next season obviously its better being in the Champions league but we don't ever look like winning it at least we have a chance of winning the Europa League I personally would be happy winning that competition as our European record is shocking one cup winners cup in 24 years of European footleague but we don't ever look like winning it at least we have a chance of winning the Europa League I personally would be happy winning that competition as our European record is shocking one cup winners cup in 24 years of European footLeague I personally would be happy winning that competition as our European record is shocking one cup winners cup in 24 years of European football..

It's star players suffer burnout thanks to 38 gruelling league games and however many else in domestic and European cup competitions, but this is, of course, complete rubbish.

This result hasn't prompted Arsene Wenger to prioritise the Europa League however, at least he has refused to admit to such a thought, but the European competition looks our best bet to qualify, albeit a slim chance.

The mouthy one Jose Mourinho has no reason to want to help Arsenal or any other of the Premier League clubs involved in European competition this season.

Winning the European competition should take priority at this stage in the campaign, with two more wins in the tournament granting them entry to next season's Champions League competition, as well as the European Super Cup.

Arsene Wenger's team have been relegated to the Europa League after 20 years of qualifying for the Champions League, while our German opponents are looking forward to their first appearance in any European competition in 25 years.

Lukaku is believed to be keen on playing Champions League football next season, and having proved he can be deadly in front of goal, more than deserves a place in the European elite competition.

Of course, we've had a fair few false dawns from Premier League sides in Europe before (hello, Arsenal), but it's always exciting to see progress from English sides on the European stage, particularly after a dire few years in the competition.

Though the Blues have surged into contention for a top - six finish in the Premier League and qualification for European competition, by all accounts the season will go down as a massive disappointment for Chelsea.

Lastly you could see a lot of empty seats again as fans haven't forgotten the season is still terrible, and we all know who's responsible for this, and apart from getting Atletico, I don't see the ground filling up again this season, but whatever competition the Europa League may be, it's a European trophy and a chance to get back to the Champions League and I want us to win it.

Pre-season training and the increasingly commercial and lucrative tours that clubs like Arsenal go on may be just a pale shadow of the competitive action of the Premier League and the domestic and European cup competitions, but it is still very important for a number of reasons.

Because there is a world cup in summer 2018, both premier league and European competitions will end earlier than usual date.

Considering that Arsenal have not gone past the first knockout stage of the Champions League competition for the last six seasons, it would seem on the face of it that Arsene Wenger still has a lot of work to do with his players to make Arsenal one of the elite European teams with a realistic chance of lifting the European Cup.

Last season Celtic won every competition open to them: the Scottish League Championship, the Scottish Cup, the Scottish League Cup, the Glasgow Cup and, finally and unforgettably, the European Cup, the prize in a tournament for the champion clubs of all the major football nations of Europe.

With Arsenal, Man City and Tottenham all still involved in European competition, the fact that we all have more expensive squads with greater strength in depth than the surprise Premier League title chasing club Leicester City was somewhat nullified.

Yes, it might impact European leagues more severely than others but so do the majority of other competitions and barely anyone bats an eye - lid, yet as soon as it's suggest taking place in the Gulf it's completely unworkable.

One good thing you can say about Arsenal since we last won the Premier League title is that, unlike other big clubs like Manchester United, Chelsea, Liverpool and Man City, the Gunners have always finished in the top four and have always secured a place in the elite European competition that is the Champions League.

Arsenal haven't fallen out the top - four in over 20 years, and should maybe welcome the opportunity to play a season without the elite European competition, especially considering the last two Premier League titles have been won by a team without any European football whatsoever.

Jose Mourinho and Man United have Europa League games to worry about and their first group game is followed by a home game against Southampton who are also in the second European competition.

It depends which of Arsene Wenger's comments about Arsenal and the approach to our season in the unfamiliar European competition that is the Europa League you have been listening to I suppose, because the Frenchman has been a bit contradictory on the issue ever since we first found out our fate on the final day of last season.

Despite our noisy neighbours impressing in the elite European competition this term in our absence, and having started the league campaign much the better thus far, unless they can actually bring some sort of silverware to the club, their cockiness will continue to be overlooked.

While we toiled away in multiple competitions, notably fighting valiantly against the best teams in the world, the Foxes have cunningly used their lack of European misadventures to string together decent performances in the League.