City set a new Premier
League record with a victory over Manchester United on the weekend and each of their last four Premier League wins have all been by a 2 - 1 scoreline.
If not for United keeper David de Gea having an out of this universe performance, tying the Premier
League record with 14 saves, the Gunners might have had this one.
Manchester City just broke the Premier
League record with their 15th consecutive league win and lucked out by getting Basel in the Champions League Round of 16.
36 — Harry Kane (36 goals in 35 games during 2017) now shares this Premier
League record with Alan Shearer (36 goals in 42 games in 1995).
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Brewer Rightfielder Sixto Lezcano, on the other hand, seemed to be getting everybody out, as he tied the major
league record with 10 putouts.
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Max Scherzer of the Washington Nationals tied a major
league record with 20 strikeouts in a nine - inning game on Wednesday night in a 3 - 2 win over the Detroit Tigers at Nationals Park.
The four - time All - Star has averaged 134 starts behind the plate in the last four years, and counting the postseason set a major
league record with 2,725 innings caught in 2014 - 2015 with the Royals, the most ever by a catcher in a two - year span in major league history.
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He went 23 — 4 with a 2.07 ERA, won the pitching triple crown (wins, ERA and strikeouts), set a major
league record with 13.2 strikeouts per nine innings, did not allow a home run in any of the 293 at bats against him with a runner on, permitted only three leadoff walks to score (he walked the first batter only six times in 213 1/3 innings) and struck out 37 % of all batters he faced.
However, Arsenal's Premier
League record with him is not great; just two wins from the nine games, which does suggest that he is either unlucky for us, does not really like us or does not referee games in the way that would suit us better.
Lankford wasn't the only Cardinal who went whiffing in 2000; St. Louis set
a league record with 1,253 strikeouts.
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Considering that last season the German came close to breaking the Premier
League record with 19 assists, in this campaign he has only managed SEVEN.
• On Sunday the Cardinals set a major
league record with their 16th straight errorless game.
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Not exact matches
This past summer, the
record - setting 11 - time World Surf
League champion realized a long - held aspiration to helm a designer surfwear startup
with the launch of Outerknown, which joins a growing wave of apparel brands and retailers embracing sustainable philosophies.
However, despite public fear and criticism of Steinbrenner's controversial decisions, eventually he led the team to an amazing comeback,
with six World Series entries between 1996 and 2003, and a
record as one of the most profitable teams in Major
League Baseball.
Bruno Mars has had two
records with impressive sales, though he'd need a third to be in the same
league as the five women listed above.
Signing musicians to
recording deals is like playing big -
league baseball: Even future Hall of Famers retire
with far more strikeouts than home runs.
As
with journalism, some of these amateurs will do extremely well, and will use their token - buying track -
record to break into professional
leagues.
Southampton have a
record of producing sublime talent —
with Gareth Bale, Theo Walcott and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain all products of the the Saints» academy, and Chambers has followed in their footsteps
with the move to Premier
League giants Arsenal:
This would repeat through the rest of the NL if no one claims him, and then it would start over again
with the White Sox, who have the worst
record in the American
League.
MOURINHO»S EXCELLENT
RECORD Here's a fact to impress your mates
with... Jose Mourinho has not lost any of his 13
league and cup matches against Arsene Wenger so far, securing seven wins and six draws.
They finished
with a
league - worst 5.37 ERA.One especially telling statistic: Texas scored almost six runs per game at homeand still had a losing
record there.
Even our
record in the PL is embarrassing, we should be running aways
with the
league now but instead we're trailing behind because the manager couldn't find a decent striker and a replacement for Coquelin and Cazorla during their injuries.
It's a do or die game for our champions
league hopes and what
with Wenger's (separate) poor
league records against Mo and Utd, this sure looks like being double trouble for us poor Gooners.?
He has most recently been linked
with a move to Tottenham Hotspur in the Independent, and
with the
record breaking # 5.1 billion TV deal seeing an avalanche of cash for Premier
League clubs, we could yet see him in England in the near future.
Next year's Premier
league, will be the most competitive ever, not only because of the calibre of managers but because all of the sides aiming for the title boast strikers
with impressive scoring
records.
The 27 - year - old has 17 assists in total this term and is on course to
record the most in a Premier
League season, breaking a
record currently held by former Arsenal striker Thierry Henry
with 20.
His teams»
record following Europa
League fixtures has been dire this season and it is something Spurs have struggled
with in the past too.
Last season Seattle became the first team in
league history to win its division
with a losing
record, as the Seahawks beat the Rams in the season finale to rise to 7 — 9.
Despite all of the injury woes the Bulls have had to deal
with this season, they're still the top team in the
league with a 37 - 10
record — and, perhaps more impressively, they're 9 - 4 without Rose in the lineup.
New York's 21 - 12
record ranks as the best in the American
League, and the Yankees» offense continues to roll
with an average of 4.85 runs per game.
Here's how high Lewis has taken it this season: He leads the
league with 1,045 rushing yards, and his 68 yards in a 24 - 17 victory over the Jacksonville Jaguars on Sunday helped the Ravens improve their
record to 5 - 3, best in the AFC North.
There are various theories as to why our club
record signing has not set the Premier
League alight,
with some injury and fitness problems clearly affecting him at times.
His worst
record for wins has come against Tottenham
with the German still yet to register a Premier
League win against Arsenal's North London rivals
with Ozil in the team.
The Bluebirds have the second best away
record in the Championship so far this campaign and are unbeaten in their last four
league matches,
with Neil Warnock's side suddenly emerging as potential promotion candidates.
Newcastle Manager Rafa Benitez is another one I could say has a
record because he won Champions
League and FA
with Liverpool and Europe
with Chelsea.
And while United's defensive
record this season is generally decent — along
with Burnley and City, they've only conceded 12 in the
league — there's been a strange theme of un-Mourinho-like mistakes.
It was announced yesterday that UEFA have agreed to change the seeding system for the Champions
League group stage next season,
with the new rules to favour the winners of the continent's major domestic
leagues rather than those
with a previously exemplary
record of qualification.
Fair enough, I just wonder if he'd still be playing top flight football if he had been at United from the start
with such a horrendous injury
record, Fergie would have shipped him off ages before his eventual recovery, dare I say he was destined to win the Premier
league the season he won it
with United anyways, he was the hottest striker in the
league for those two seasons, the only thing we lacked in his final season at Arsenal was enough creativity behind him and a lack of suitable replacement to take ocassionally take the load off him, but then Cazorla, Poldi and Giroud had been brought in for re-inforcements, he played
with a patently inferior team to Arsenal's that season at United,
with the exception of Rooney of course, he single handedly carried them to the title, what away to show loyalty.
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We know that Arsene Wenger will be intent on keeping up his admittedly very impressive
record of getting us into the Champions
League and even though it is very tight between second and sixth place and we have some very big clubs to contend
with I am confident he will do it.
I mean it is not as if we have a bad
record with injury problems or anything, or that after 12 years we are desperate to win the Premier
League.
-- He leaves
with a 100 %
league record over Wenger.
Aubameyang has 22 goals from his 25 Bundesliga outings this term,
with a
record better than a goal every 90 minutes at present, while Giroud has 12 goals from his 30
league appearances.
We are all hoping to see the consistency that has cost us
league titles in recent years and
with a better injury
record I think we could win it, but is this talk of a treble all bit far - fetched?