Sentences with phrase «league competition though»

He has yet to score for the Blues in Premier League competition though and knows he needs to step it up.

Not exact matches

By the mid-1990s, when Oracle had effectively neutered its competition, Ellison had begun making a sport of taking pot shots at Microsoft and its founder Bill Gates, though both were, by most measures, entirely out of his league.

If we win, we'll go to the Little League World Series (an international competition), though between you all and me, that's really a long shot!

What we do have though, according to the paper, is competition from La Liga club Atletico Madrid and Premier League rivals West Ham.

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.

He is a tremendous player, still one of the best in the league as a deep playing playmaker (it is true though that he doesn't have much competition for that, being that Carrick is his best competition), and not even that old as people make him to be!

The White Hart Lane wide - man has 21 goals to his name in all competition and Andre Villas - Boas must fear that one of Europe's «Elite» will nab Bale this summer, though clearly if Tottenham secure a Champions League berth there is less reason for such a move to take place.

United are likely to face competition for Begovic's signature though as a number of Premier League clubs are reported to be interested in the player.

Top players nowadays want Champions League football, and it looks as though the only way Dortmund will be able to provide that next season is by winning the competition this year.

Even though a player may rather be playing and be playing in competitions like the Champions League or the Europa League, they also want to maximise their earnings so it is rare to see a modern footballer decide to take a pay cut if he does not have to.

We also seemed to get the worst possible outcome every time there was a draw made for the Champions League or one of the domestic cup competitions, but that changed last year as the injury crisis gradually cleared up and we got some decent cup draws, even though we failed to make the most of this against Monaco.

Hart is still highly regarded by the rest of his City teammates, though, and is still capable of pulling off a solid performance, as he did in the Champions League tie against CSKA Moscow last week, but Pellegrini believes the 26 - year - old will respond positively to some serious competition for a starting spot.

Even though it is club football that really pays the wages of the players and with some real glory on offer in the shape of domestic cups, leagues and the Europa and Champions League competitions, it is fair to say that the biggest trophy in football is the World Cup.

The Premier League outfit will face competition from Barca though, with the Catalan side also supposedly interested in the Tunisia international.

All though a piece of silverware the competition has sadly lost its importance over the years... Premier league / champions league and even the Europa league cup have more importance!!

Arsene Wenger was clearly pleased with the way his Arsenal team performed against Barcelona at the Nou Camp on Wednesday, even though it was not good enough to keep arsenal in the Champions League competition.

And it looks as though keeping Louis van Gaal and his United team out of the Champions League competition could be the only way that Arsenal can beat them to a couple of our big transfer targets this summer.

Last year saw Villa host the Blues at Villa Park in the Capital One Cup and win with a single goal from Rudy Gestede and even though it was not a league match and the significance of the competition is often disputed, for the fans of these two teams, this was the match of the season.

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.

The Emirates Cup returns after missing a year due to work being done on the Arsenal pitch, and the Gunners have invited three sides that will be competing in the Champions League this season, even though we are going to be missing out on the Elite competition for the first time in 20 years.

Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri has significant Champions League experience though, having led Valencia, Chelsea, Juventus and Inter Milan in the competition during his respective tenures with those clubs.

But even though we are all desperate for the Gunners to do well in these cup competitions it is the prize of the Premier League trophy that we are really after.

They will face competition though as it's reported that Atletico Madrid are also interested, and so as he looks to further strengthen a backline that has conceded just two goals in the last eight league games, the Chelsea boss will likely have to act sooner rather than later.

Both Chelsea and Liverpool have thrived of late in the Premier League without dealing with the hangover of European football, and though Wenger says they have a slight advantage, they would rather be in the competition than not.

Since then, though, he has re-established his goal - scoring touch, finding the net 16 times in his last 17 outings in all competitions, with 13 of those goals in 11 league games.

Should the Gunners triumph, he would be the oldest coach to win the competition, and the second oldest coach to win any UEFA competition (though Jupp Heynckes would move him back down into third place if he ends up winning this season's UEFA Champions League with Bayern).

Arsenal 1 - 2 Barcelona 17/05/06, UEFA Champions League final The Gunners kept ten successive clean sheets — not conceding in a competition - record 995 minutes — en route to their first UEFA Champions League final, but goalkeeper Jens Lehmann's early dismissal in Paris proved pivotal, though Sol Campbell headed the Gunners in front.

Fellaini joined United from Everton for # 27.5 million in 2013, and has 15 goals in all competitions, though he scored just once in each of the past two Premier League seasons.

Though that may not be the case, we'll now be treated to two fantastic contests instead of just one with both teams chasing lofty goals: Bayern Munich hopes to become the first team to win this competition in back - to - back years since AC Milan in the late 1980s; Real Madrid hopes to end their elusive quest for «La Decima», aka their tenth Champions League title.

The closest competition for current Pjanic is the 2012 - 2013 vintage, during which he turned in slightly better numbers in chances created and key passes per 90 numbers, though it must be said that he only played 1,710 league minutes that season, a mark he'll surpass in his next match, so if nothing else, his performances haven't dipped with the heavier workload.

The report also states that we'd face competition from Tottenham Hotspur, Chelsea and Arsenal for his signature, though the latter two are unlikely to be in next season's Champions League.

Recently though, we have seen this sort of competition become prevalent throughout all leagues, exemplified by Spain's current La Liga campaign.

They have only won one of their last five away games though across all competitions (D3 L1) which is a surprise for them, but they were superb in a league draw at Arsenal in the week.

No Premier League player has more goals in all competitions than Salah's 14 this season and though he was quieter after the break, Coutinho picked up the mantle to stab home when Roberto Firmino's shot was saved.

Even though PSG have not been able to get consistency in the league, they have been doing well in the European competitions.

The English media often treat this competition with disdain as though it's the European equivalent of the League Cup.

The north London side face Atletico Madrid in the semi-finals of that competition, though they sit 14 points behind fourth - placed Tottenham in the Premier League.

There are world class clubs used to take part here and due to be the German league competition, most players are German though there are many foreign players also take part.

Wednesday's battling win over Newcastle in the League Cup should have done wonders for team morale at Blackburn, who are now into the last - eight of that particular competition even though they sit rock - bottom of the Premier League with just five points to their credit.

Despite appearing in Europe's secondary club competition as opposed to the significantly more prestigious Champions League, Mourinho will take this tournament seriously (though has admitted that this isn't ideal) and his squad selection for tonight's game against Feyenoord in Rotterdam...

They are unbeaten in seven away games though (W4 D3) across competitions but they are winless in four road games in the league (D3 L1), drawing their last three away from the Bernabeu.

Let's not forget what this famous club is all about, though; they are the most successful club in English football, having been crowned champions nineteen times, while they're also the reigning Premier League champions and last season's beaten finalists in this very competition, and they showed exactly why they've been champions on numerous occasions when grounding out a narrow victory away at Everton the following weekend.

The parting of ways seems to have ended on amicable terms though, as Jonas Lygaard, senior director of brand and business development for Konami said that the UEFA Champions League license has given Konami «a platform to create unique experiences and provided fans from all over the world with an opportunity to enjoy this competition first - hand».