Sentences with phrase «league leaders man»

Bolton were beaten for the second match running when going down 2 - 1 at Birmingham last weekend, but we should point out that both reverses came away from The Reebok, and the other was an unfortunate 1 - 0 loss at league leaders Man Utd.

Nevertheless, this is a must - win game for the Blues; only three points would ensure the ten - point gap between them and league leaders Man City isn't allowed to grow, while they would also climb above the Magpies into fourth.

The Stamford Bridge are currently 8 points behind league leaders Man United who will face Arsenal at the Emirates on Sunday.

Liverpool stars are likely to be back in demand with the Reds travelling to West Brom, while league leaders Man City should score plenty at home to Swansea.

A lot of Arsenal fans did not expect us to get anything from today's away game against the Premier League leaders Man City, and that is how it turned out with De Bruyne, Aguero and Gabriel Jesus scoring to make it a comfortable 3 - 1 scoreline in the end, but that did not tell the whole story by any means and Arsene Wenger will surely point to a couple of key decisions that went the home side's way at crucial points of the game.

Perhaps if Mourinho feels that Ozil would help his United side challenge the current league leaders Man City in the second half of this season, but what would you Arsenal fans make of this deal?

However, the clash between the Gunners and Liverpool tonight is starting to take on the feeling of a must win for us, and that was only made more clear yesterday as the league leaders Man City overcome a determined Everton to make it three wins out of three, including one over Chelsea.

The 5th of November gives us the hardest test of all with a visit to the Etihad to take on the runaway League leaders Man City.

I suppose it is a bit hard on Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players to say that we are struggling in the Premier League title race, as the Gunners sit just two points off the league leaders Man City.

He then went on to say that his job is to worry about Arsenal and how we can keep up with and even pass the current league leaders Man City in the race to be crowned champions.

That would be stupid as the Gunners are only two points off the top and the current league leaders Man City and there is a very long way to go and plenty of time for many more twists and turns to this season.

Returning to reality we came across the new League leaders Man United, but somehow just blew them away in less than 25 minutes to lay down our real credentials as title challengers, and followed that up with four more wins, including becoming the first team this season to stop Bayern Munich winning.

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.

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.

The reigning Premier League champions currently sit nine points behind league leaders Man City following today's result, and with the news that midfield general N'Golo Kante has suffered an injury to his thigh, it remains to be seen whether Chelsea will mount a serious challenge for the title this season.

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.

Our opponent is runaway league leader Man City.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

If Nigel de Jong has indeed turned down a # 100k a week deal to stay at Man City we can assume he has done so not because he wants an even more obscene wage packet but because he may be ready to show some ambition and give up on the Premier League leaders after seeing his first team chances limited this term.

At least Ramsey, as reported by The Guardian, the midfielder was sounding upbeat about the chances of the Gunners doing just that, despite the fact that out next opponents are the league leaders Leicester City who are in fine form and are coming to north London having produced a great away display to put another title rival Man City to the sword.

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.

Inter currently sit in ninth place in Serie A, 23 points behind league leaders Juventus, and despite Mancini returning to the club in November, he has failed to inspire much of a transformation at San Siro, but the former Manchester City man believes that he needs a bit of time to mould the team to title - challenging quality.

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.

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.

The Gunners are up to third and now sit just two points off the leaders Man City and just one behind our north London rivals Tottenham, so with a very winnable looking game at home to struggling Swansea City next up in the Premier League, there is plenty for us to be happy and optimistic about.

Jose Mourinho's men, who are now 17 points behind Premier League leaders Leicester City and just two above 17th - placed Bournemouth, looked extremely vulnerable to the counter-attack in the first half.

In fact there are at least three key men at the current league leaders Chelsea who still appear to be pretty wary of the Gunners, which is probably increased this week as Arsene Wenger prepares to take the team to Stamford Bridge looking for a repeat of the match against them at home, which saw Arsenal inflict their heaviest defeat of the season.

The Reds slipped to ninth place in the Premier League table after the loss, and now sit 12 points adrift of leaders Man City as they look to keep up with the pack for a top - four finish this season.

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Someone should point out to Peter King that Old Waterbuckets took leave from his 25 - year «tryst» with wife Jane Russell long enough to lead the Rams to two NFL titles in his abbreviated, injury - ridden eight - year career, and that he was among the league leaders in punting, was an excellent placekicker and was a 60 - minute man who also played safety.

A local attorney and civic leader, Shea was the man most responsible for bringing National League baseball back to New York following the westward flight of the Dodgers and Giants four years earlier.

Chelsea's 2 - 0 win over Aston Villa, achieved thanks to a Diego Costa effort and an Alan Hutton own goal, lifted the Stamford Bridge side up to 11th place in the Premier League table, still some ten points behind leaders Man City.

Arsenal go to Old Trafford tomorrow needing a win to make sure that we do not drop more than one game's worth of points behind the current Premier League leaders, with Liverpool sitting on top of the table on 26 points, Chelsea one behind with 25 and the Gunners fourth and level on points with third placed Man City on 24.

Arsenal are now 15 games into the Premier League season, and despite the fact that our First XI don't have the distraction of playing any European football, we have lost 5 of those games, which has left us 15 points behind the leaders Man City already.

Even more shocking is the fact that the Reds have only lost two games so far, which is exactly the same as Arsenal, Man City and Man United, and are only six points below the League leaders.

If things go our way, the Gunners could end Saturday just six points behind the league leaders and closer to Man City as well.

Chelsea have started their defence of the Premier League title in average fashion, conceding seven goals in their opening three games, and already finding themselves five points off leaders Man City.

This goal means that the Man City keep up the pressure on league leaders Chelsea, who are currently drawing with Everton.

After Barcelona crawled over the line with ten men to earn a point away against Celta Vigo, the league leaders will be pleased to keep their hopes of going the whole season unbeaten alive despite major squad rotation.

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Arsenal have to pick themselves up after being soundly beaten by Man City on Sunday, but Arsene wenger doesn't think it was such a bad beating and is hoping the Gunners can bounce back and beat the League leaders at the Emirates tomorrow.

Have you forgotten that this season we have also beaten Chelsea, DESTROYED Man United who were top of the League, MASSACRED Leicester who are the current leaders who have lost to no other team, never mind beating a supposed invincible Bayern team that had won every single game up until then?

Then, both Teams got to feel what the Chicago Men's League is all about... They were knocked from atop the leader board with tough Hoops losses.

Arsenal fans can never really be hapy when our north London rivals win, but you have to admit that Tottenham have done us a big favour today in beating Man City and giving Arsenal the chance to move to within two points of the current league leaders.

This weekend my local Australian League team, the Newcastle Jets (currently second) beat the runaway premiership leaders Sydney City 2:1 playiing with 10 men for 80 minutes.

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.

Wenger's men will now meet Premier League leaders Chelsea in the Wembley showpiece on May 27th, for their third FA Cup final in the past four seasons.

The Man United striker finished the 2015 - 16 season as the team's scoring leader, netting 11 times in the Premier League and 17 times in total.

With Arsenal just five points behind the league leaders and with Leicester facing us as well as Man City this month, Wenger insisted that a few good results would see Arsenal right back in the thick of things and he clearly expects the clubs around us to have slip ups of their own.