Sentences with phrase «league race over»

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A number of leagues have sprouted around the globe over the past few years, each vying to become the world's premier drone racing organization.

Arsenal secured what could be a decisive win in the Premier League title race after claiming a 2 - 1 victory over Leicester City on Sunday.

Arsenal have had a difficult start to the Premier League campaign, despite successive 1 - 0 victories over West Bromwich Albion and Southampton, leaving them a long way adrift of rivals Chelsea and Manchester City in the battle for top spot in the English top flight, which already looks like very much being a two horse race.

Fellow Premier League outfit Sunderland were reportedly leading the race to sign the Belgian international on a season - long loan deal, however, the 20 - year - old posted a message on his official Twitter account and appeared to pour cold water over a move to the Stadium of Light.

Arsenal's win over the weekend now coupled with Aston Villa's shocking defeat now have Arsene's men only three points behind in their race for the final Champions League slot.

Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini still insists the Premier League title race is over despite several of his players believing otherwise as they prepare to face Wolves on Sunday.

Everybody talking about 4th place... who cares, season was over when we dropped out of the title race... Remember what a premier league trophy looks like?

With a dramatic Barclays Premier League weekend almost over, the race for the title, Europe and the battle for survival were all under the microscope whilst there was also three local derbies.

Spurs have climbed into the Premier League's top four courtesy of back - to - back victories over Southampton and Norwich City, and are building momentum in this wide - open title race.

The only downside, of course, is that the Premier League title race is now over before the advent calendars have come out, meaning the focus now moves on to the rather tedious race for fourth, which only Arsenal care about, and the race not to be sacked, which Arsene Wenger is not involved in anyway.

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He'll be hoping to add to that trophy haul when he makes his comeback, with Atleti chasing down Barcelona in the La Liga title race while they'll hope to still be involved in the Champions League in the second half of the campaign as they face a crucial week with a win over Chelsea perhaps not even enough depending on Roma's result.

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Despite the fact that Arsenal are not out of the Premier League title race yet, at least not mathematically anyway, you will not find many people other than Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players who are willing to even entertain the possibility that our hopes are not over for another year.

I concede the fact it has only been a handful of Premier League fixtures and the title race, as well as Champions League gold is probably a touch ambitious but I have been extremely impressed wirh Arsenal over the last few weeks and owe Le Prof a personally aplogy.

He is ready to leave this summer and hopes to have a similar experience to the one Milito had with Racing — Milito went back to Argentina in 2014 after playing in Europe for over 10 years, and was a key player as Racing Club won the league title.

The Frenchman admitted that the race for the Premier League title would have been over otherwise.

Now with the fun and games over, he'll be fully focused on ensuring that his side have no slip - up this weekend in the ongoing race for a top - four finish in the Premier League.

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While the Premier League title race is all but over already, they still have a chance to make this a special season fans will long remember, and a deep Champions League run would be just the ticket to do that.

Nevertheless Chelsea have every advantage over us in tittle race apart from the fact that our team is more than capable to match them toes to toes and also the fact that conte being new to premier league might hunt them in the long run

United are 16 points behind rivals Manchester City in the Premier League title race, with their hopes of finally winning the trophy again after a long wait surely already over before the end of February.

Now I think there is still reasons to be cheerful, I agree Man C & Chelski have spent & bought some good players, we all understand that 5 of those teams might be in the CL proper which is a huge distraction for those 4 - 5 teams.Chelsea will not be able to field the same 13 - 14 players all season, as for Man C they were very frail at the back last season, add to that 2 flying wing backs and I'm not sure they will be any better this coming season.LFC will most probably have CL as well if they qualify and haven't exactly bought great players apart from Salah who could be a good aquasistion for them.Spuds have sold a good player & strengthened a rival & still not bought a single player yet, Man U have bought 2 good players & in Lukaku have a proven goal scorer in the PL but if they play the same dour way they did last season & with the added games the CL brings will they perform week in week out in the league??? As for Everton yes they have released a lot of players and also brought in a lot too to give better quality in the squad as they have Europa league the same as US the big difference is I think we will play squad players & youngsters maybe with a few senior players all the way up to the QF This tells me most of our rivals will pave the way for us to field pretty much the same side every weekend in the PL thus giving us an advantage over all the other 5 teams playing in the CL & Europa, just remember the League has been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in theleague??? As for Everton yes they have released a lot of players and also brought in a lot too to give better quality in the squad as they have Europa league the same as US the big difference is I think we will play squad players & youngsters maybe with a few senior players all the way up to the QF This tells me most of our rivals will pave the way for us to field pretty much the same side every weekend in the PL thus giving us an advantage over all the other 5 teams playing in the CL & Europa, just remember the League has been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in theleague the same as US the big difference is I think we will play squad players & youngsters maybe with a few senior players all the way up to the QF This tells me most of our rivals will pave the way for us to field pretty much the same side every weekend in the PL thus giving us an advantage over all the other 5 teams playing in the CL & Europa, just remember the League has been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in theLeague has been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in theLeague basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in theLeague until we are no longer in the race.

Knicks fans were less than thrilled with the performance — much like Lakers fans last week — since it leaves New York with just a half game advantage over the Timberwolves (who play later Saturday night) in the race for the worst record in the league.

Wins over Chelsea and Newcastle repaired some of the damage in the league, and they even won at Old Trafford, though a late Aguero goal against rivals United did not look like making a difference in the title race, as Sir Alex Ferguson's side were still 12 points ahead even after this morale - lifting derby result.

There's activity all over the table, and while league leaders, Manchester City, are watching from home, there's plenty of action that can impact the race for Champions League spots and the relegation race league leaders, Manchester City, are watching from home, there's plenty of action that can impact the race for Champions League spots and the relegation race League spots and the relegation race alike.

The latest of which came after United's win over Southampton on Friday night, as he took to Twitter and had this to say about the Premier League title race.

So have they already handed over the initiative in the race for the Premier League?

The Saints stay in the playoff race, but would need a tremendous amount of help to move up the playoff ladder over the league's final three weeks.

With countless internationals with experience of playing all over Europe, coupled with their ability to compete against the likes of Chelsea and Man City in the Champions League, they have enough to suggest that they certainly would be involved in the title race at the very least.

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As you can tell, it's a pretty wide open race throughout the league and odds have shifted dramatically over the last couple months.

Turkish champions Galatasaray are also understood to be in the race for Konoplyanka, who starred in Dnipro's run to the Europa League final last season, and talkSPORT reported earlier in the week that they had made contact with the player over a potential deal this summer.

«I didn't sleep that night, my mind raced from when I was 12 fantasizing over playing Major League baseball, to what will I tell my family and friends on the phone.

So at last the international break is finally over and we can get back to the serious stuff of Arsenal's race to the Premier League table.

for me the race for the league title is already over.

I can vehemently declare that we are not winning the league and the title race is over for us.

The Premier League title race is over.

Fulham put the pressure on Cardiff City in the race for Premier League promotion with a resounding win over Millwall at The Den.

Rodriguez was accused of using «abusive and / or insulting words which included a reference to ethnic origin and / or colour and / or race» to Cameroon international Bong during the Baggies» 2 - 0 Premier League victory over the Seagulls on Jan. 13.

Huddersfield Town vs Chelsea Preview: Antonio Conte has already stated that title race is over with City pretty much blowing everyone away with 14 straight wins and Chelsea's league aspirations are just to finish in top four and if possibly comfortably.

The Canaries were desperate to earn their second victory over United this season in their race to avoid relegation from the Premier League.

«I'm over the moon,» she told Diamond League organisers after the race.

The men's event wasn't a Diamond League race but the majority of attention was on decathlon world record - holder Ashton Eaton who continues this year's focus on the one lap event over the barriers.

Mourinho, who later Sunday tackles Arsenal in a pivotal match in the race to finish in the Premier League top four and earn Champions League qualification, spoke to the newspaper as part of the 20th anniversary of Robson coaching Barcelona to a Cup Winners Cup victory over holders Paris Saint - Germain.

The women's 100m was the final Diamond League race of the evening and long jumps specialist Tori Bowie continued the sort of form which saw her claim 200m victory in Eugene and a win over 100m in Rome clocking personal bests of 22.18 and 11.05 respectively.

While Jose Mourinho said the title race is «probably over» after that derby defeat, Gundogan and City will not be taking their eyes off the prize with 22 league matches remaining.

As a result we're now down to four: Manchester City, who are ripping this season's Premier League title race to shreds; Barcelona, 5 points clear at the top of La Liga; Atlético Madrid, who've been drawing for fun over the last two months, and Inter.

United head into this one eight points behind the table toppers, and while a win would start to see some tightening in the league title race, a loss would give the visitors an extremely comfortable margin over the second place side.

With the Premier League title race now over, the FA Cup represents the last opportunity for Manchester United and Tottenham to lift a trophy this season.