Sentences with phrase «league point better»

Arsenal may only be a single Premier League point better off than our opponents today, but you would normally expect a team like Watford to approach a game against us or any of the big hitters with some degree of caution, even though the Hornets are at home today.

-- Martinez's win percentage at Everton is now 29 % (the same as he had at Wigan)-- It's been 9 months (to the day) since we had consecutive league wins — We are currently 4 league points better off after 23 games than when we finished 17th under Moyes — Three home wins all season in the league — Six wins all season out of 23 games — 10 defeats at Goodison since the start of last season — The worst defence in the league in terms of goals conceded

Not exact matches

Their defense has fallen all the way to 29th in the league, and they are just 0.1 point per 100 possessions better defensively than the 14 - 33 Sacramento Kings.

In the AFC title game, against the Jaguars» league - best passing defense, Brady took control of the game, carving up Jacksonville to erase a 10 - point fourth - quarter deficit in minutes.

Elena Delle Donne's third season was the best of her short career, as she led the league in scoring with over 23 points per game on 46 % shooting, to go with over eight rebounds, a steal, and two blocks per game en route to winning MVP.

Kovalchuk leads the KHL, the second - best hockey league in the world, in points this season.

Facing off against a Texans team that gives the fifth most points up to tight ends in the league, he's a good play this week as well.

If the point of religion is to bring peace and guide a culture toward certain specific behaviors, primarily for order and the preservation of the good qualities of society, then how can one say that one religion is better than another or that a «religion-less» person who STILL acts the SAME way (i.e. does right unto their neighbors, lives according to the thing the bible suggests) but is more tolerant is not as high quality a citizen as another who is associated with a Major League Religious Team?

Why does Poch get all the plaudits when he has 3 of the best 11 premier league players [4 of them last season] and can't win anything / is 6 points behind us.

From a points perspective, we've still got a good chance of winning the league, but not with Wenger in charge.

As Arsenal fans, of course we want the team to do as well as possible, but I do think that Hamaan has a point, although it would be much better if Wenger and the club got the hunger back without us having to drop into the Europa League to do it.

Averaging a league - best 34.4 points while going 8 - 0 on the road this season, the Cowboys have every reason to believe that they can conquer Lambeau Field and advance deeper into the post-season.

However, Gareth Bale's transformation into one of the best players on the planet, helped Andre Villas - Boas lead Tottenham to 72 points in the 2012 - 13 campaign — a club record, although it was only worthy of fifth place and another year in the Europa League.

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.

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.

He has to go at some point and we will have to deal with the repercussions, good or bad, so if Leicester or Tottenham beat us to the Premier League title in May, is now a good a time as any?

But purely from a physical stand point he is one of the better athletes in the league up front and has good touch, passing ability.

I quite agree sell all the deadwoods but which player in his right mind would want to come to arsenal at the moment, remember people man u was in the same situation under moyes but we're able to attract better player's even when not playing champions league, the selling point from arsenal point of view is to tell players which they are trying to get what the plan is of getting back to top flight football by going for the Europa league over the FA cup and finishing in the top six otherwise if they go for wishy - washy arsene wenger stupid attitude of we've got quality all the squad we are competing for everything then I'm afraid We will end up with nothing

Like say we really gave the league a good go of it, but narrowly missed out by one or two points, it would mean we came close to the double, but at least we have something to show for it.

He didn't just improve his three - point shooting; he became one of the very best in the league.

Two of Marshall's four returning starters were the best underclassmen in the league at what they do — 6» 2» Skip Henderson scores (21.0 points per game last season) and 6» 7» Rodney Holden rebounds (8.8 a game).

At the end of the season Arsenal topped the league with 90 points, 12 points better than the previous season.

Talking Points Arsenal simply got to start scoring goals and average 2 goals - per - game at best, to revive their position in the Barclays Premier League table.

Vidal continues to say that Munich is the best team in the world, and he can certainly point to Arsenal's humiliation against Bayern in the Champions League to emphasise the gap in quality between the two sides, but he believes that Alexis will make the Germans into an even better side.

Should we fail to win this weekend, we will likely fall five points behind Manchester United, as well as nine points behind Liverpool whilst having played two times less, leaving our Champions League qualification hopes in tatters.

With the Stamford Bridge outfit five points and a game in hand clear at the top of the Premier League and still in the Champions League there is a chance this could be the Portuguese's best season yet as a manager.

You'll just get a response of «he's not good enough to win us the league» with the only back - up point of «Henry said so....

As reported by Metro, the summer signing from Lyon has been talking about life at his new club in the Premier League and he made a point of praising the attitude and effort that he sees from Alexis in training as well as out on the pitch.

Arsenal fans will obviously hoping that this is where the coincidence ends as well, because the Gunners got off to the worst possible start last year by losing at home to Liverpool (and when you consider they pipped us to the final Champions League spot by a single point that loss looks even worse).

Barca are well on course to win major honours this season as they have a nine - point lead in La Liga, have advanced to the Champions League knockout stage and are still in the Copa del Rey.

I hope that the Broncos have learned their lesson at this point and are asking college QBs, «If things don't work so well at QB, would you rather play H - back / tight end, or play minor league baseball?»

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The 28 - year - old has the powerful physique that would make him an ideal Premier League weapon, Chelsea's acquisition of Diego Costa perhaps being a similar case in point, and Bacca may well be tempted by a high - profile move to Man United.

more to the point for an Economics graduate, who doesn't understand inflation moaning about the fact the the price of players has gone up considering annual revenues of the premier league teams have shot up too is incredibly stupid... But hey Wenger knows best; he wouldn't be in a position not having to spend over the odds for quality players if he acted in the first place, that's the icing on the retard cake there for me..

Although injuries have put a serious damper on the season's first quarter, undoubtedly its high points have been the matchups between the league's best teams.

If Liverpool lose the Champions League final, finish 1 point behind us, and we finish 2nd and lose next round or the FA Cup final, then in my opinion they have the better season.

We could have hoped for a better opener to our champions league campaign, but ultimately we shouldn't be too disappointed with picking up a point away to PSG.

The strongly coveted Kylian Mbappe is a name everybody is talking about, after helping his Monaco side to the Champions League semi-final, as well as playing a key role in his side's push for the Ligue 1 title, which they are three points from sealing with three matches to play.

I fully accept that Arsenal were far from their best in our latest Premier League game, but we did end up taking all three points off Sunderland in front of a relieved home crowd at the Emirates.

There is nothing that Arsenal can do to affect the state of the Premier League table, at least until Monday night when we play host to a West Brom team that has not been showing the usual defensive solidity that we expect to see from a Tony Pulis managed team but is still a point better off than the Gunners.

That strike could well end up helping them to win the league, as the Blues are currently seven points clear in first place with a game in hand.

Following their elimination from the Europa League, all the focus will now be switch to La Liga, and having missed out on the opportunity to open up a nine - point gap over the bottom three, they may well yet find themselves dragged back into a relegation scrap.

We are 6th place We are 8 points behind 5th place A top team with top players can handle playing 3 Cup tournaments and do well in the League.

He also leads the League with 27 total points as well.

1) They lost by 2 points to clearly one of the best Team in the League or 2) A Loss is a Loss is a Loss..

After scoring a league - best 118 points during the regular season, the Washington Capitals (+365) enter the postseason as the presumptive favorite to hoist the Stanley Cup.

They can get baskets from multiple guys at multiple positions on the floor and are becoming very difficult to contain but their true improvement is on the Defense end where they are allowing just 61.2 points against (3rd best in the League).

Through 12 Weeks, they are also the best Defensive unit in the League (despite their lack of true rim protector) as they are allowing under 65 points per Game.

They are only allowing 62.7 points agains per game which is 4th best in the League right now.

You never know what will happen, though, when you're missing one of the best point guards in the league.