Sentences with phrase «league leaders arsenal»

The Reds will now look to bounce back by beating the league leaders Arsenal at Anfield at midday on Saturday.

The Red Devils arrive with an extra day off having played Newcastle on Tuesday, while the Reds took on league leaders Arsenal on Wednesday.

The Blues have enjoyed an efficient start to the season and sit usefully within striking distance of league leaders Arsenal.

Everton travel to the Emirates stadium this Sunday to take on league leaders Arsenal.

Both sides were involved in 3 - 3 thrillers in midweek — United let a late 3 - 2 lead slip away to Newcastle while the Reds salvaged a point in stoppage time against league leaders Arsenal.

It all started at lunch time on Saturday when league leaders Arsenal visited Anfield.

League leaders Arsenal travel to the Cardiff City stadium this weekend to take on Cardiff.

Liverpool sent a strong message to their top 4 rivals with an incredible performance against league leaders Arsenal, starting the game at such a high tempo that Arsenal couldn't catch a breath.

Therefore, Klopp, with the backing of the CEO Ian Ayre, should be able to recruit some reinforcements, hopefully before next Wednesday's crunch Premier League game against Premier League leaders Arsenal.

The Chilean's side currently trail joint league leaders Arsenal and Leicester City by three points, but such has been the inconsistency of all the teams in England so far this season, the title remains very much up for grabs.

Not exact matches

Emmanuel Adebayor has stated that Arsenal are lacking in squad depth in comparison to Premier League leaders Chelsea.

Since sensationally beating the League leaders Leicester, Arsenal have drawn with Hull in the first FA Cup game, lost to Barcelona in the Champions League and succumbed to both Man United and Swansea before yesterday's fight - back to draw at Tottenham.

Arsenal are currently in 5th place in the Premier League at the halfway stage, and although we are only 8 points behind the leaders, many Arsenal fans think we are simply not playing well enough to challenge for the title — and in fact may have a battle just to finish in the Top Four.

While a lot of Arsenal fans may be feeling that Arsene Wenger and the players have missed a trick by failing to win our away game at Bournemouth in order to capitalise on the very welcome defeat of the current Premier League leaders Chelsea last night, I look at things a different way.

With Arsenal's win and continue run of form in recent games as regards to keeping the pace with the league leaders in the title race we take some things from the game into consideration.

The title race will then be blown wide open as Spurs will be level on points with the league leaders and Arsenal will be six points behind the Foxes with a game in hand.

The year before that we did win our opener against Crystal Palace after beating Man City to the Shield quite comfortably but then our title challenge faltered and Arsenal did not win another league game for over a month and by mid-October Chelsea were runaway leaders.

It is only halfway through the season for Arsenal, but Arsene wenger has already seen his team descend to 23 points behind the League leaders Man City and crash out of the FA Cup in the Third Round for the first time in his 21 years at Arsenal.

If Arsenal had not slipped up so many times to allow the current Premier League leaders to open up such a big, and frankly unbridgeable, gap at the top of the table then we Arsenal fans would have been hoping for the boost that our team would get when the injury hit Spanish midfield star Santi Cazorla was fit to play again.

Arsenal are having their usual glut of injuries, and they are going to be strugling to keep up with the League leaders until we get some of our squad back.

Martin Keown believes Arsenal will be in full attack mode when they welcome the visit of league leaders Chelsea to the Emirates Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

It sometimes seems like Leicester City are on top of the League by default, with Arsenal, Man City and Man United continually dropping crucial points in the title race, but Arsenal are still sitting pretty just two points behind the leaders.

The result leaves Arsenal nine points off league leaders Manchester City already this season, with a top four spot surely the best Wenger's side can hope for this term.

Among top - flight clubs, only leaders Manchester United have been in better form than Arsenal over their last eight league matches.

Chelsea have also recently been dumped out of the Carabao Cup by Arsenal after a semi-final defeat, and will be big underdogs against La Liga leaders Barcelona when they meet in the Champions League next week.

So while Arsenal have dropped way behind the league leaders, we have not found ourselves too far away from the top four and that infamous Wenger trophy is still well within our grasp.

But I am not sure that I quite share the optimism of our German international star Mesut Ozil, who The Mirror have reported as insisting that Arsenal are not out of the race for the EPL title race just yet, despite the fact that we are not even in the top four of the table and are currently 13 points behind the league leaders Chelsea.

That rumour came before United signed Alexis Sanchez from Arsenal in January, but it seems Jose Mourinho is still keen to recruit similar attacking players in a bid to catch up with runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City for next season.

Arsenal haven't had a natural born leader in defence since the days of Sol Campbell, so Evans, who win multiple Premier League titles during his time at Man United, would be a signing that would seriously improve Arsenal's defence, a position they haven't been particularly strong in for years.

As the league leaders stretched their lead at the top of the table to 10 points with a 1 - 0 win at Stamford Bridge, Wenger was focusing on safeguarding Arsenal's passage through to the FA Cup final as they squeezed past Reading.

Luiz's form has certainly contributed to Chelsea's improvement, with Conte's men now sitting in fourth place in the Premier League table and just a point adrift of joint leaders Manchester City, Arsenal and Liverpool.

Vardy has been in scintillating form this season, scoring a division - high 15 goals to inspire the Foxes to their unlikely position of second in the Premier League table, two points adrift of leaders Arsenal.

The runaway League leaders Chelsea are 8 points ahead of us, and 5 ahead of Liverpool in second place, but a win tonight will mean that it is virtually impossible for Arsenal to catch up against an 11 point lead.

The Premier League leaders opened the scoring in the 18th minute, after a fine lob from Sergio Aguero left David Ospina hopeless in the Arsenal goal.

Poodlksi over Campbell 100 % he was the leader of assists of the premier league before injury playing on that left side, the only bad thing about Arsenal are the fans that tempt to forget easily, however Im glad this is not Football Manager or Fifa and Podolski is over Campbell for sure

While some Arsenal fans as well as the generally not as sympathetic folk who make up the football media will call any attempt to come up with a reason for Arsenal falling to nine points off the Premier League leaders Chelsea just looking for an excuse, I think we have to look at the latest season full of injury problems and accept that this will have a negative effect on the Gunners or any side for that matter.

Arsene Wenger is going to have a dilemma on Tuesday if he is intending to rotate his starting line - up like he has done in Arsenal's last two midweek games, with the massive game against League leaders Man United next weekend.

There was only one thing to worry about for Arsenal fans, well for me at least, as the Gunners cruised to a 4 - 1 victory over a good Newcastle United team fresh from a win over the Premier League leaders Chelsea.

Arsenal currently sit in fourth place in the Premier League, three points adrift of leaders Chelsea, while qualification to the next stage of the Champions League has been confirmed.

Arsenal lost two away games in a row to go nine points behind the league leaders Chelsea as they were beaten by the gallant Manchester City side who rallied from behind to beat Arsenal 2 - 1 in the match.

With the current league leaders Manchester United heading to the Emirates next weekend, this game has come in the nick of time and if Arsenal continue to play at the high level we saw today, we might even see the Gunners on top of the table.

Arsene Wenger is well aware that he has not beaten Jose Mourinho as Chelsea boss in eleven games with Arsenal, but he believes that he now has a team capable of shocking the League leaders at Stamford Bridge.

The Arsenal shareholder is now citing him to quit out of»em barrassment», due to being 11 points behind league leaders Leicester City, which is just pure ludicrous.

The Spanish playmaker scored twice in United's 3 - 1 victory against Villa to move them above neighbours Manchester City into third and keep the pressure on Arsenal in second and remain eight points off league leaders Chelsea, who they face at Stamford Bridge in two weeks.

The weekend's woes were completed when the league leaders Man City scored a very late winner after it looked like they may be held by West Ham and that goal gives them a huge gap of 15 points over Arsenal.

As Charlie Nicholas says, Arsenal are slightly on the backfoot already this season given we already find ourselves five points behind the league leaders after three games, but we will undoubtedly catchup and once we do, it's then important that we don't drop anymore points due to lacklustre performances.

First of all I want to make it clear that I do not expect Arsenal to overtake the current group leaders Borussia Dortmund and win our Champions League group.

Beat Chelsea and there is still a chance that Arsenal could catch and challenge the current Premier League leaders for the title.

At least the current league leaders did not win their own midweek game against Liverpool, but they did get a point and all Arsenal fans know that nothing less than a win will do for us at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.

Do not believe for a second what Arsene Wenger said in the Arsenal press conference today which is reported on the Arsenal website ahead of the trip to face the Premier League leaders Chelsea.