Sentences with phrase «league in a fortnight»

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It comes just a fortnight after they were defeated by Manchester City, while their overall form hasn't been good enough and that's reflected in the fact that they sit in sixth place in the Premier League table, a point adrift of the top four and 12 points behind leaders City.

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.

While the squad reconvened on the training pitches in recent days, Mauricio has spent the last fortnight counting down the hours to his seventh Premier League meeting with Arsenal, his eighth overall, and plotting the Gunners» downfall in Saturday's 12.30 pm kick - off at the Emirates.

Squad numbers aside, Antonio Conte will be keen to see further improvements from his players in the next fortnight as they continue their preparations for the new Premier League season.

After losing 2 - 1 to Anderlecht in Belgium a fortnight ago, Tottenham Hotspur really need to beat their fellow 1984 UEFA Cup finalists tonight to get their Europa League campaign back on track.

«Big - league bowling has come to Dallas,» boomed a stentorian announcer at the league's premiere in Texas a fortnight ago (originally scheduled for October 13, the opening was hastily rescheduled for the 12th because the 13th fell on Friday), and in the two weeks since, big - league bowling has come to eight other U.S. cities as well.

Having gone into Week 4 as the only unbeaten team in the league, Cincinnati (3 -1-1) have slightly lost their way over the past fortnight but they will be looking to get back on track on Sunday.

Nevertheless, while answers will potentially be provided in the next fortnight, Arsenal were left to enjoy their kit launch which saw Foxx show his love for the Gunners, as seen below in his tweet, as he will hope that the Premier League giants are a little more unpredictable this year.

A fortnight after this semi-final, Wednesday were playing against Arsenal in the League Cup final (sponsored by Coca - Cola at the time giving it the most alliteratively titled cup competition).

The Blues have crashed out of the Champions League and FA Cup in the last fortnight and, although Guus Hiddink deserves great credit for steering the side up the Premier League table after a poor start, they remain outsiders to claim a top - six finish.

Manchester United take on Liverpool in the Premier League at Anfield at 8 pm this evening in what will be the match everyone has been waiting all weekend, more importantly, a fortnight for.

In all this, the Premier League returns this weekend after a fortnight.

It was nearly a fortnight ago when United beat Middlesbrough 3 - 1 at the Riverside, pushing their way into fifth place in the league with a battle on their hand's to earn a top four place and a UEFA Champions League position next sleague with a battle on their hand's to earn a top four place and a UEFA Champions League position next sLeague position next season.

Van Persie will be missing for at least a fortnight with the ankle injury he picked up at the Liberty Stadium, which Van Gaal says will offer Radamel Falcao, who has scored four league goals since his loan move from Monaco in September, more chance to impress.

United do not play another another league game until March 4 and with Mourinho already grumbling about the a gruelling fixture ahead of the EFL Cup final against Southampton in a fortnight's time — he must now turn to Shaw.

Stoke City at the bet365 Stadium in a fortnight will be their next Premier League clash with the UEFA Champions League returning three days later.

United have played well for the last fortnight, pulling out the stops in the cup tournaments, which is something United need to be doing in the Premier League, especially now the busy festive period is only weeks away, which is a period that matters for United and all the other clubs.

Every fortnight during 2011, The Seventy Two will round up the best football writing about clubs in the Championship, League One and League Two on other blogs across the world wide web.

Barcelona will be looking to avenge their 2 - 1 defeat at the Emirates a fortnight ago as they host Arsenal in the second leg of this all - important last 16 Champions League clash Tuesday evening.

While Allegri and his coaching staff will need to find a way of dealing with that, finally winning the league title, and emerging victorious in the Coppa Italia, would allow for much rest over the next fortnight ahead of the final in Cardiff.

Six games in and with another international break looming large, Everton are the ones contemplating spending the next fortnight at the foot of the Premier League table.

Chelsea now sit atop of their Premier League Cup group on four points, whilst these two teams will now reconvene at Cobham in a fortnight for league aLeague Cup group on four points, whilst these two teams will now reconvene at Cobham in a fortnight for league aleague action.

«As the major continental leagues resume following the winter break — Serie A and La Liga returned to action over the weekend, with Ligue 1 and the Bundesliga set to follow suit in the next fortnight — Pitchside Europe looks at 10 issues that will help determine the balance of power across the European mainland in the 12 months ahead.»

The Toffees will return from the international break in a fortnight ready for successive mouth - watering Goodison Park encounters, with the Merseyside derby on 7 April slated to follow seven days after the visit of Pep Guardiola's Premier League frontrunners, Manchester City.

Nevertheless, few could argue that this weekend is a better time than any to face United, who within the space of a fortnight have bowed out of two separate competitions and now face the ignominy of spending the second half of the campaign in the Europa League.

Blackpool's dream maiden campaign in the Premier League continued a fortnight ago, when the Tangerines turned Merseyside completely Orange on a day lifelong supporters will never, ever forget.

If it is the case that not intervening would have led to a significant massacre within this week / fortnight, there is a pragmatic lesser evil case for on balance supporting a not very well thought through intervention (the US has clearly not spent a long time doing this), and a stalemate, and then looking to the Arab League to mediate a political settlement over time in which the government can't win by massacre.