Sentences with phrase «league winning campaign»

Costinha inspired Porto to eight major titles during his time at the club and was a key cog in their 2004/05 Champions League winning campaign — Mourinh0's maiden European title.

One of the many threads woven in to the story of Leicester City's incredible Premier League winning campaign is that they revitalized the careers of a number of players unwanted by other Premier League clubs.

Chelsea enquired about Drinkwater last summer when they struck a deal for Kante following Leicester's historic 2015/16 Premier League winning campaign.

The Leicester midfielder is considered one of the most influential players of his club's Premier League winning campaign, and is believed to be a likely target for a number of top clubs.

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He called the alleged conspiracy «an act of unprecedented treachery: the campaign of a nominee for President of the United States in league with a hostile foreign power to bolster its own chance to win the presidency.»

The complaint describes the «conspiracy» as «an act of previously unimaginable treachery: the campaign of the presidential nominee of a major party in league with a hostile foreign power to bolster its own chance to win the presidency,» adding that WikiLeaks «disseminated the information at times when it would best suit the Trump campaign.»

The striker bagged the only goal of Boxing Day's 1 - 0 win over West Bromwich Albion, and that was Giroud's first league start of the campaign.

Last year we started off our League campaign with a last gasp win over Palace at the Emirates, followed by draws against Leicester and Everton.

Even though Arsenal finished as runners up to the Premier League champions Leicester City last season and thereby have an automatic place in the coveted group phase of the Champions League this season, while Chelsea had such a poor campaign that they did not even manage to scrape into the poor relation that is the Europa League, do not expect us to be favourites to win any transfer battle between the two clubs.

The Algerian winger has been a joy to watch in the Premier League in recent times, and won PFA Player of the Year for the 2015/16 campaign after his 17 league goals helped fire Leicester to a shock title viLeague in recent times, and won PFA Player of the Year for the 2015/16 campaign after his 17 league goals helped fire Leicester to a shock title vileague goals helped fire Leicester to a shock title victory.

With Arsenal desperately needing to win at the weekend, after a difficult start to the Premier League campaign saw us take just a single point from the matches with Liverpool and Leicester City, any kind of boost to our chances is very welcome.

I can understand the frustration of Arsenal fans who can see that yet another injury hit campaign is hurting our hopes of winning the Premier League title this season and that the January transfer window gives Arsene Wenger the chance to boost our title hopes.

The former England defender played every single minute of Chelsea's Premier League title - winning campaign last season, but it remains to be seen how much longer he can perform every week at that outstanding level.

My dear get your facts right Giroud was top scorer in the French league when he was signed, gervinho was the second highest goal scorer for Lille in the title winning campaign, moussa sow was the highest and hazard was no where near the two on goals, hazard however was signed by Chelsea the next season after he scored 20 goals and was put on wages even «crazy» man city at the time thought was crazy.pls zlatan was not in France when Montpellier won the league, hazard to Chelsea was 2012, gervinho to arsenal was 2011.

Clearly the big prize on offer to us this season is the Europa League but it looks like there will be some strong clubs dropping into it from the Champions League and it is never an easy competition to win and also tends to interfere with your domestic league campaign in the latter sLeague but it looks like there will be some strong clubs dropping into it from the Champions League and it is never an easy competition to win and also tends to interfere with your domestic league campaign in the latter sLeague and it is never an easy competition to win and also tends to interfere with your domestic league campaign in the latter sleague campaign in the latter stages.

After winning the Capital One Cup and claiming the Premier League title for the first time in five seasons, confidence is high at Stamford Bridge and Jose Mourinho will be expecting to add to his trophy cabinet in the 2015 - 16 campaign.

We start our campaign in three weeks away to Dinamo, the Croatian league winners who stayed unbeaten as they went onto win the title by 13 points, a feat only our beloved club can boast in England, but a major feat for any top tier side.

The best way to keep him at the club: 1) make proper signings to show him that the squad is getting better & more competitive 2) it is getting better for one objective only, winning major trophies (Premier league, Champions league) 3) extend Özil & Sanchez contract to show how viable the project is Xhaka is a great signing but he alone can't fix our issues that have hampered our campaigns specially in the last 2 seasons.

Arsenal were certainly helped by the fixture list this weekend which saw Chelsea and Liverpool face each other, but at the same time a lot of pundits did not expect us to win at Burnley, and you could say that we have not had much luck so far in this Premier League campaign.

Since then, however, Arsenal have rescued a seemingly impossible Champions League campaign and won all three of our league games including the crucial clash with ManLeague campaign and won all three of our league games including the crucial clash with Manleague games including the crucial clash with Man City.

The 22 - year - old Frenchman has caught the eye and won admirers in this season's impressive Champions League campaign for Monaco, attracting envious glances from Arsenal as well after they were dumped out at the hands of the Ligue 1 club.

A difficult campaign for the West Bromwich Albion striker hit a new low this afternoon as he had TWO penalties saved by Heurelho Gomes in Watford's 1 - 0 Premier League win at The Hawthorns.

Over the past few campaigns there are always stints were whichever team won the league were not playing their best football but would pick up wins and that's Arsenal's biggest problem, machine like consistency.

The 34 - year - old centre - back was in fine form last season, playing every minute of the Premier League title - winning campaign, but clearly the club legend is in the latter stages of his career and moves to bring in a long - term replacement would appear to be sensible.

Pellegrini has spent an incredible # 172m on just eleven players since taking over at the Etihad Stadium, and although he won the Premier League and Capital One Cup double in his first campaign with the club, he looks set to finish trophyless this term and possibly even out of the top four after a surprisingly poor recent run of form.

The Gunners travel to Paris to take on the French champions this week as they look to kick off their Champions League campaign with a win.

Manchester United came from 1 - 0 down to earn a 2 - 1 win over CSKA Moscow in the Champions League tonight for the perfect ending to their group stage campaign.

In the National League, the Arizona Diamondbacks rebounded from a 93 - loss campaign to capture the top wild card spot with 93 wins in 2017.

Arsene Wenger's side came in to the game having won just one of their last six Premier League opening games before the Leicester clash, and seemed certain for more problems even though record signing Alexandre Lacazette handing them a perfect start to the new campaign.

Among his most impressive triumphs in his managerial career is the Champions League title won with Liverpool in the 2004 - 05 campaign after a stunning comeback against Ancelotti's AC Milan in the final.

Arsenal managed an excellent run towards the end of last season, winning 8 out of their last 10 games meaning that they managed to qualify for next seasons Champions League campaign.

Arsene Wenger has often spoke about consistency being vital in the long format of a league campaign and in the past Arsenal have often managed to go on long winning or unbeaten runs, but that has been distinctly lacking this season.

It should be remembered that we beat Chelsea 3 - 0 at home back in September, but the contrast in fortunes following that game has been remarkable; the defeat ultimately galvanised Antonio Conte's side who went on to win thirteen league games in a row and ultimately run away with the title, while the Gunners let old habits bite them in the backside yet again as a very promising start to the campaign disintegrated after a number of poor performances and results.

Luiz sat out Chelsea's Barclays Premier League win over Everton after playing twice for Brazil during the international break but he has been an ever - present in their Champions League campaign.

Kouyate was a virtual ever - present last season, making 30 Premier League starts, and has continued his good run of form this term, netting in West Ham's surprise win at Arsenal on the opening weekend of the campaign.

Olympiakos picked up their first win of the Champions League campaign to consign Dortmund to the bottom of the group.

Liverpool may not have done enough this season to win the Premier League title, but by any metric, the Reds have had an excellent campaign, both domestically and in Europe.

Tottenham have the talent and the ability to win out, but they will need at least one more favour from another Premier League outfit — much like Leicester profited on Spurs» defeat to Chelsea in the last campaign.

Isco has inspired Malaga to two wins in their debut Champions League campaign so far and the mismanaged Spaniards also sit third in La Liga after a great start to the new season.

The Brazilian international scored just two goals and providing only three assists in 36 Premier League appearances during Chelsea's successful Premier League title - winning campaign.

The first time he did it the side were undefeated in the league for the whole campaign and on the third time he smashed the Serie A record, by finishing with 102 points and 33 wins.

If we win and Olympiakos lose in Munich then we are back on course to qualify from our Group after our unbelievable start to out Champions League campaign.

Arsenal have only won two Premier League away games this season — their joint - fewest tally after nine away games of a campaign in the Premier League era

His first season in the Premier League saw the Blues win their fifth league title with an astonishing 93 points, a campaign that included his side winning a ridiculously impressive 13 games in League saw the Blues win their fifth league title with an astonishing 93 points, a campaign that included his side winning a ridiculously impressive 13 games in league title with an astonishing 93 points, a campaign that included his side winning a ridiculously impressive 13 games in a row.

The Premier League's joint - leading scorer, with 19 in the current campaign, has now been lavished with praise by a man 52 - years his senior, with Hurst even comparing the 21 - year - old to Germany's World Cup winning forward Thomas Muller.

He moved on after one campaign, joining Fenerbahce, where he has won a Super Lig title to go along with the FA Cup and Champions League he won at Chelsea, as well as four Portuguese titles.

United still have a good chance of winning the FA Cup before the campaign is done, and are near - certainties to get back into the Champions League next season.

It's been a mixed start to the campaign as they have taken five points from four games with one win, two draws and one defeat to show for their efforts so far, but there is certainly progress since their miserable season in the Premier League last year.

Despite winning the league at a canter again last season, they had disappointing campaigns in the German cup and the Champions League and that is the sort of thing he joined them for in the first league at a canter again last season, they had disappointing campaigns in the German cup and the Champions League and that is the sort of thing he joined them for in the first League and that is the sort of thing he joined them for in the first place.

While the disastrous competitive Arsenal debut made by their former number one Petr Cech has sparked widespread hilarity and taunting among the knuckle dragging Chelsea fans, they have hardly had the perfect start to their own campaign to win the Premier League.