Sentences with phrase «league places for the first time»

This season has been a torrid one for our club and with us on course to finish outside the Champions League places for the first time in forever, as well as with Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez looking likely departures this summer, Bellerin may also be considering his future.

Arsene Wenger is clearly well aware about the protests being planned by the angry Arsenal fans for our Premier League match against struggling Norwich City at the Emirates stadium tomorrow, because the manager today issued a sort of rallying cry asking for us to support the team as he tries to avoid the complete disaster of dropping out of the Champions League places for the first time in his long tenure in charge of the club.

Inter Milan are fifth and after three games without a win or scoring a goal have no choice but to take three points at home against Cagliari on Tuesday to push for a Champions League place for the first time since 2012.

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That in turn has seen them fall to sixth place in the Premier League table, four points adrift of the top four, and it's certainly giving Mauricio Pochettino something to think about for arguably the first time in his tenure at the club.

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An eight - game winning streak beginning July 31 vaulted the Red Sox into first place for good, and Boston's 36 - 19 record since then is second in the American League during that time, trailing only the almost - never - lose Cleveland Indians.

The Cougars made the playoffs last season for the first time in a decade, doing so as the No. 10 seed, finishing with a 13 - 15 overall record and a 4 - 8 mark in the Mission Valley Athletic League — good enough for a mere fifth - place finish.

• Flaming Cincinnati Baseball fans in Cincinnati, burning with pennant fever for the first time in almost a decade, cast two and three ballots each to place five Redlegs on the National League All - Star team, indirectly set in motion half a dozen plans for amending the selection process next year.

Now it would appear that Arsenal have turned their attention to the Nice midfielder Jean - Michael Seri, who has helped the South of France club make it back into the top three of Ligue 1 and a place in Europe's elite competition, the Champions League, for the first time in over 50 years.

Neville said: «For the first time this season I am concerned as to whether Manchester United can fight them off in the scrap for the Champions League placFor the first time this season I am concerned as to whether Manchester United can fight them off in the scrap for the Champions League placfor the Champions League places.

When Ozil arrived Khedira missed him more so than anyone and at time it was said he would follow a year later which i believed to some extent... im sure he must of thought it through, but then the cl medal and his team being most feared came into thinking if he hadnt of already had those train of thoughts in first place that is... And now with a serious injury and his age risen moving to a league which has a reputation for shorter careers and higher physicality must come into his thinking no matter how tough he thinks he is.

Dan Jones, a partner at Deloitte who compile the yearly figures, said: «Chelsea won the Premier League in 2014/15 but off - pitch have been usurped by Arsenal as the top London club in the Money League for the first time since 2009/10, swapping places between seventh and eighth position.

Last season Arsenal struggled in the Premier League and missed out on a place in the Champions League for the first time in 20 years, and there were many protests and calls for the Board not to renew Arsene Wenger's contract in the close season.

It is not yet clear why Chelsea signed Luis in the first place, given Azpilicueta's fine form at Stamford Bridge for the last couple of years, and it seems plausible that he could be allowed a quick exit from the club after his difficult time in the Premier League so far.

For the first time in 20 years, Arsenal failed to secure Champions League football and underperformed with a dire fifth place finish last season.

By the time they had finished with Cleveland last weekend, winning three games out of four from a team that had spent all but five days of the season in first place, the Yankees were sixth, but only 3 1/2 games behind, and the rest of the American League was running for the hills.

For the first time ever under Arsene Wenger Arsenal finished below the Champions League places last season, and we all know that the endless speculation about whether he would be extending his managerial contract, after 21 years at the club, turned into a media circus with just about every single press conference ending with exactly the same questions.

Manchester City manager Manuel Pellegrini has, for the first time, admitted that he may be sacked for finishing outside the top four places in the Premier League this season.

Mohamed Elneny has never really become a regular in Arsenal's first team since moving to the Emirates from Basel over two years ago, and in fact has only 34 League starts since that time, but he is still determined to fight for a place in the starting XI.

Portsmouth's administrator has placed a valuation on the club for the first time and insists the Premier League outfit are an attractive investment.

This year's battle for first place was the closest in Money League history, just $ 1.7 m (# 1.5 m) separated Manchester United and second place Real Madrid: United's win in the Europa League Final proving critical in the club topping our list for a tenth time.

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Alexis Sanchez missed out on a place in the starting XI for a Premier League game for the first time since his January move from Arsenal, with Romelu Lukaku also on the bench.

Arsenal have lost four league games out of five for the first time under Arsene Wenger, they're six points behind fourth place, and the manager is about to sign a two - year extension that pretty much only he and the board want him to sign.

Arsenal finished outside the league's top four last season for the first time since Wenger arrived at the club in 1996, and are now 14 points behind fourth - placed Tottenham, with five matches remaining.

Not much has really changed with the Gunners; they finished with four points more than they did in last year's second - place run, but Tottenham, Chelsea, Liverpool, and City all rose up far enough to push them out of the Champions League for the first time in 20 seasons.

Arsenal won the FA Cup last year but finished in fifth place in the Premier League, the first time they have failed to qualify for the Champions League since 1997.

The runaway Premier League leaders will secure their place in the last eight of the Champions League for just the second time in their history barring a remarkable last 16, second leg collapse when they host Basel on Wednesday, boasting a 4 - 0 first leg lead.

1934/5 saw some improvement in the league position when for the first time Town finished in the top half of the table, a creditable 8th place overall.

The 19th took place at the National Stadium of Wales in Cardiff on 3 June 2017, Madrid running out 4 - 1 winners to claim a 12th European title, becoming the first team to retain the trophy in the UEFA Champions League era, and overcoming Juve in the final for the second time following their 1998 success.

The three teams below Blackpool are five points behind but two of them, Bury, who were league leaders for some time, and Accrington, who missed out on their chance to go top a few weeks ago, have a game in hand which could take them within a win of first place.

However, off the back of a larger Anfield, the return of Champions League football and the arrival of some fantastic talents thanks to far shrewder recruitment, for the first time in years, Liverpool seem to be genuinely well placed to challenge all of its domestic and continental rivals for silverware.

Pep Guardiola suffered league defeats home and away to the same opponents in a single league season for the first time in his managerial career as City are left to fight for a top - four place.

• Struck a career - best 22 league goals in 2009/10, a feat which lifted him into third place on the Blues» all - time top scorers» list, as Chelsea completed the double for the first time.

Of course, Sinclair has had a few bad years behind him but the time is right for the one - time Chelsea boy to kick on, potentially showing Premier League fans what made Manchester City sign him from Swansea back in 2012 in the first place.

For the first time in seven years, though, the fourth - place team in Serie A will qualify for the Champions LeagFor the first time in seven years, though, the fourth - place team in Serie A will qualify for the Champions Leagfor the Champions League.

Among the Azerbaijan Premier League last season 3r place holder FK Qabala will play for the first time against Borussia Dortmund which also at home.

Arsenal will play Russian club CSKA Moscow in the quarterfinals as they look to win the Europa League for the first time and seal a place in next season's Champions League.

Dabo and Miazga retained their places for the league trip back to the Dutch capital on Sunday to face Ajax, where the odds were upset again as Vitesse won 2 - 1 to record a league win there for the first time since 2013.

Luckily for Sanogo, Alexis popped up in the right place at the right time to pounce on the loose ball and net his first Premier League goal for the Gunners.

Finishing sixth in the Premier League, for the first time, United had one last chance to earn a UEFA Champions League place, by winning the UEFA Europa League, which they did, beating Ajax 2 - 0 at the Friends Arena in Stockholm, Sweden, earning a group stage berth in the Champions League next season.

In the following Championship season, Rodriguez was able to break into the first team and hold down a place for the first time, starting 37 league games with a respectable return of 14 goals.

It's certainly led to their decline its eighth place at the table, and with very little point advantage over the teams which are behind them, so theoretically it could happen after this round for the first time in the season they move to lower part of league table.

Jeremie Boga kept his starting place for Rennes for the first time in the league this season — a reward for his goal last time out — and he played well once again in a 4 - 2 win away to Troyes.

Arsenal currently sit in third place and face elimination from the group stage of the Champions League for the first time since the format change in 2003.

He has already tasted League Two and National League football, he is tall and strong, and we are confident that in a couple of years time he can be competing for a place in our first team.

But, over the past few months, the German has been as reliable as ever with Arsenal climbing the league table and securing a place in the top three for the first time in many years.

City needs three points to keep themselves in a hunt for champions league places while Hull City will be confident having moved out of relegation zone for the first time this season -LSB-...]

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