Sentences with phrase «league campaign despite»

Team News & Lineups: Leicester City on the other hand has had a impeccable first Champions League campaign despite their domestic woes.

Having so far made just six starts in the League campaign despite his good form, the 27 - year - old is understood to be looking to leave the Nou Camp.

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The Scotland international has just enjoyed a brilliant campaign between the sticks for the south Wales outfit, despite his side's eventual relegation from the Premier League that is, with Marshall being voted as the club's Player of the Year.

Despite missing three months of the campaign, the 28 - year - old has still managed to score 14 goals in the league but has failed to find the back of net since the 4 - 1 victory over Liverpool at the start of last month.

The Reds finished in last place in the NL Central in 2017, despite Joey Votto having another MVP - caliber campaign and the lineup, in general, being around league - average.

He made his debut for the Gunners in an FA Cup fourth - round tie against Coventry City during the 2013 - 14 campaign, but is yet to make an appearance in the Barclays Premier League despite being named among the substitutes a handful of times.

Many pundits have been saying that the Spaniard has been extremely ineffectual this season despite playing every minute of every League game in this campaign, but with an obvious lack of backups since the sales of Matthieu Debuchy (who has been playing like a genius since joining St Etienne) and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain (who forced his move to Liverpool), the only option Wenger had was to give his place to Calum Chambers.

Despite it taking some time for the # 15.8 m summer signing to get his chance in the league ahead of Cesar Azpilicueta, the Brazilian has started every match in the Blues» promising European campaign to date.

Arsenal have had a difficult start to the Premier League campaign, despite successive 1 - 0 victories over West Bromwich Albion and Southampton, leaving them a long way adrift of rivals Chelsea and Manchester City in the battle for top spot in the English top flight, which already looks like very much being a two horse race.

Despite Chelsea's miserable Premier League campaign, Jose Mourinho looks like he will be given time to sort out the Blues fortunes.

Despite winning the league at a canter again last season, they had disappointing campaigns in the German cup and the Champions League and that is the sort of thing he joined them for in the first league at a canter again last season, they had disappointing campaigns in the German cup and the Champions League and that is the sort of thing he joined them for in the first League and that is the sort of thing he joined them for in the first place.

Ozil famously missed out on breaking the Premier League assist record last season, despite seeming being home and dry mid way through the campaign.

Despite a tough campaign, in which his club have endured heavy criticism and calls for the manager to leave, before earning a second - placed finish in the league on the final day of the season, Ozil has been a strong positive point amongst fans, whereas a number of his team - mates have come under fire.

Despite a somewhat disjointed performance from the Arsenal team we did at least manage to earn a point from the Premier League match against top four rivals Man City yesterday and the fans will be hoping that this can be the start of our usual strong finish to an EPL campaign.

Despite the FA Cup win over Arsenal, Watford have lost their last three Premier League games and will be lacking confidence and motivation, especially as they are comfortably 11 points clear of the relegation zone, so hopefully Arsenal can their revenge on a grand scale and set a marker for the rest of the campaign....

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.

As for the Premier League Title win, a miracle can still happen for Arsenal to win it this season as we are still mathematically in the race despite Man City having an arrogant campaign so far this season in the Premiet League.

So, I suggest Le Prof should include him in his squad for the Arsenal preseason games and the Charity Shield match and play him extensively in these games to test if he has the Premier League games strong spring in his system despite his dwarf like size that can make him stand the long stress that is the Premier League campaign.

However, Bastian Schweinsteiger has been omitted from Mourinho's European squad despite not playing a minute of Premier League football so far this campaign.

Fer is one of the few Queens Park Rangers players who may be in demand by Premier League sides in the summer, and despite a mixed campaign, he demonstrated his class here with some energetic midfield play and this fine finish.

Would the German join us despite not having Champions League football for the current campaign?

Despite finishing at the top of their Champions League group for the first time since the 2011 - 12 campaign, the Gunners were struck by bad luck in the last - 16 draw.

Celta have been playing a shadow side in La Liga while focusing on their Europa League campaign and remain a threat to United's hopes of reaching the final in Stockholm, despite their one - goal defeat in Galicia.

Carlo Ancelotti left his Stamford Bridge tenure DESPITE completing the domestic double in his first campaign and finishing second in the Premier League last term.

It was not just the new Arsenal signing Granit Xhaka's place on the subs bench for the first game of the Premier League campaign that was a surprise to many Arsenal fans and other football watchers, because our Spanish midfield maestro Santi Cazorla was also left out of the starting line - up, despite having played the full 90 minutes of a pre-season game the weekend before.

This Premier League campaign was always going to be about trying to reclaim a place in the top four, and Arsenal are just three points off that position despite having faced some very tricky away fixtures.

Sean Dyche has made Turf Moor a fortress for the Clarets for some time now and despite the fact that their home record so far this season has not been quite as impressive as last time, when they only lost six Premier League games through the whole campaign, they are still very hard to beat there and have also started to do the business on the road as well.

Chelsea had a disappointing season finishing the league in 8th place despite going into the league campaign as reigning champions.

Fit: With his natural athleticism and rocket arm, Darnold looks to be in pole position for top pick honors despite his checkered final season in L.A.. His carelessness with the ball last fall (13 interceptions and a nation - leading eight lost fumbles) may worry Browns fans who just watched DeShone Kizer toss a league - high 22 picks in his 15 - game debut campaign, but it's easy to envision Hue Jackson finding a way to bottle the flashes of brilliance scattered within Darnold's inconsistent final season at USC.

The Senegal international enjoyed a fine debut campaign in the Premier League — scoring 12 goals in 23 appearances under Sam Allardyce — but despite impressing in east London, the forward may not have been expecting to catch the eye of van Gaal.

At the end of last season, and in this pre-season, Arsenal were in such scintillating form that we were being talked about as genuine Premier League contenders, and despite our sluggish start to the new campaign we are definitely in with a shout, and could even go above leaders Man United next weekend.

The Bosnian forward looked likely to be sold this summer, despite scoring 16 times in his debut Premier League season last campaign and generally impressing — barring a barren spell after the new year.

And with the Leicester City and England striker Jamie Vardy having just enjoyed a stellar campaign in the Premier League and being a lot of people's choice for the Player of the Season, despite falling just short of picking up the golden boot, it seems churlish to be negative about the latest Arsenal transfer rumours.

There has been a lot of talk lately that Jose Mourinho's Chelsea could be in line to emulate Arsenal's invincible season of a decade ago, but despite his good start to the campaign at Stamford Bridge, just where does he rank amongst the best managerial runs after 12 games of a Premier League season, scroll along to find out!

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.

Choupo - Moting, 29, who only joined on a free transfer from Schalke last summer — has impressed hugely for Stoke — despite their struggles, and a number of Premier League rivals are keen on landing him, impressed with how he has performed in his debut campaign in England.

Despite several blips early on in the current Premier League campaign, Arsene Wenger's Arsenal are seemingly back on track after recovering in recent weeks with some impressive results.

Despite the Tigers shipping out a league high of 73 goals, Boro being dubbed as the most boring Premier League side ever and the Black Cats failing to turn up all season, we pick 11 individuals who were the shining light in an otherwise gloomy league campaign for their respective league high of 73 goals, Boro being dubbed as the most boring Premier League side ever and the Black Cats failing to turn up all season, we pick 11 individuals who were the shining light in an otherwise gloomy league campaign for their respective League side ever and the Black Cats failing to turn up all season, we pick 11 individuals who were the shining light in an otherwise gloomy league campaign for their respective league campaign for their respective sides.

He had a fantastic campaign, scoring 17 league goals, despite not playing for one of the strongest teams.

Any Arsenal fan would tell you, if you ask them of course, that this season has been the most disappointing in recent years, despite the fact that they are in a pretty good position in terms of Champions League qualification for next campaign, at this stage with the final few weeks to go.

As a midfielder, the aim every season should be to notch around ten goals or more and Ramsey did exactly that despite only starting 20 Premier League games, having suffered from injuries during the latter part of the campaign.

Di Maria should get another chance and despite starting the campaign off with a flourish, looked a shadow of the player who won the Champions League with Real Madrid in 2013 - 14.

Despite making a promising start to his Premier League career and impressing in some big games, Boulahrouz suffered injuries that eventually saw him restricted to just 13 league appearances in the 2006 - 07 camLeague career and impressing in some big games, Boulahrouz suffered injuries that eventually saw him restricted to just 13 league appearances in the 2006 - 07 camleague appearances in the 2006 - 07 campaign.

The Reds have remained unbeaten through their European campaign, but a tough test awaits them, despite being the only side to have beaten the Citizens in the Premier League this term.

Despite the criticism he has endured, Ibrahimovic has still managed to make an impact for United this campaign and has now scored six goals in the Premier League, which is a higher tally than several of Europe's top strikers have mustered in their respective leagues.

Despite a significant dip midway through the season, David Villa ultimately enjoyed a successful first campaign — ending with a wonderful goal in the Champions League Final.

Despite title favourites Manchester City drawing at Burnley on Saturday, United's odds for winning the Premier League are 66/1 and it seems unlikely that they'll be able to bridge the 13 point gap between now and the end of the campaign.

Despite a disappointing first half of season, with a horrendous CL campaign following by departure of the manager, Lyon was a real contender for the French league, finishing second behind an untouchable PSG side.

Pochettino is on course to guide Spurs into the Champions League for a second successive campaign, despite the fact their transfer budget, for fees and wages, is dwarfed by all of their rivals.

The Belgian international has impressed at Goodison Park this term, despite the Toffees struggles in the Premier League, and the striker has netted 17 goals for Roberto Martinez's side this campaign.