Sentences with phrase «season points champion»
Defending race - winner and regular season points champion Martin Truex Jr. starts third, followed by Kevin Harvick and Brad Keselowski.
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At this point, no champion challenger apparent has emerged with the potential of galvanizing this dissent (watching Season 3 of The Wire has taught me that even two or three reasonable challengers could bleed a Mayor's support and create some interesting results).
The 21 - year - old has been on the radar of both City and Chelsea at various points over the course of the season but it is last season's champions who are thought to be seriously considering a move for him.
Jose Mourinho's reigning champions are 16th in the Premier League table, only one point above the relegation zone, after their worst start to a season for 37 years.
A sensible suggestion from the Dane as United have now moved to within a point of fourth - placed Manchester City and will be desperate to qualify for the Champions League next season.
The Merseyside club secured their third successive season without Champions League football last term, leading to the sacking of manager Kenny Dalglish, and his Northern Irish replacement has been charged with the responsibility of improving his playing staff in the pursuit of closing the 17 point gap between their eight place finish and a top four finish.
Beating the champions twice is meaningless if you end up 10 points behind them at the end of the season like we did last season to Leicester, I would rather we win the matches that really count like last nights game against Watford, Liverpool did us a favour and we did not prepare properly for the game
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.
It's purely pointing out that the same squad who lost 4 - 0 to a side they finished only a point below last season were the same who managed to outplay the champions.
We are also preparing to start the season without Koscielny and Giroud due to their international campaign with France, and should we fail to pick up some crucial early points, we could struggle to get back on terms with the big teams this year, especially when we have to start juggling Champions League football also, where the likes of United, Chelsea and Liverpool do not.
«Without Petr this season I don't think the club would be champions because he played six important matches in the Premier League and without these points we probably wouldn't be champions.
With Man United's win over Norwich ensuring that Arsenal still need points from our final two games to secure a Champions League place for next season, the manager must get his team selection and tactics right and with more options than usual he has a tough job on his hands, but one of those choices for me has to be Santi Cazorla in the box to box role.
Even if we did that and ended up on 82 points, Chelsea could quite easily win their remaining five games as well and that would leave us 10 points off the champions, whereas last season we finished just seven points behind Man City, so let's not get too carried away with ourselves.
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 do believe liverpool can't win @ d Emirates buh am kinda scared cos of the FA cup, if we beat them and meet in the FA cup again, they will want to prove a point especially if they don't make Top 4, and I want to us retain the FA cup, cos I want d likes of GAbriel, debuchy, coquelin, ozil, carzola, chambers, to feel happy that they av made the right decision joining us infact I want the whole team to develop a champions mentality.I want my manager to be the most successful manager in FA cup history and lastly I want to be able to boast among oppostionfans that «Arsenal have won 3trophies in two seasons» (FA, com.shield.........?)
If chec can win us 10/12 points a season we are the champions then, where is the problem?
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.
This was the first race without a minimum pit stop time and thankfully things went pretty smoothly - well, unless your name is Lucas di Grassi, who suffered a car issue shortly after pitting and finishes the first third of the season with no points to his name - not great for the defending champion...
Arsenal only just missed out on the Top Four last season by one point after finishing very strongly and winning 8 of their last ten matches, and then capping it off when they beat the Champions Chelsea in the FA Cup Final.
The championship leader at the end of the normal 26 - race section will be awarded «regular season champion» and get 15 additional playoff points, with the rest of the top 10 also getting them on a 10 (for second) to one (for 10th) playoff point basis.
Arsenal are in the envious position of only needing one point to guarantee a place in the Champions League Group Stages next season, bur first of all they need to get their act back together and overcome a battling Sunderland side that also only need one point to avoid the drop.
Allow me to rattle off what this group has accomplished in the past 3 seasons: 2010 All Sports Series Champion, 2011 Chicago League Runners - Up, 2012 Chicago League Champion, 2010 and 2011 Volleyball Tourney Runners - Up, 2012 Volleyball Tourney Champions, 2010, 2011, 2012 Regular Season Points Champion..
In 2015 Arsenal only just pinched second place in the League by the skin of their teeth when Tottenham collapsed in the final games of the campaign, but Spurs got their revenge in style last season when they made sure of their second - place finish and ended 11 points ahead of a very disappointing Gunners side, that failed to even make the Champions League.
As Arsene Wenger quite rightly pointed out, there is still a little bit of work to do before we can be guaranteed to avoid the Champions League play off at the beginning of next season.
Arsene Wenger has made an early foray into transfer market after buying just one player, Petr Cech, in the entire summer last year, which suggests that the 66 - year - old may be feeling the pressure to deliver success in the next campaign.The Gunners extended their Premier League title drought to 12 seasons as they finished behind champions Leicester City by 10 points.
The 2013 - 14 Premier League champions were fined # 49m and handed a spending cap after not complying with FFP regulations last season but Mourinho believes the punishment was not severe enough and went as far to suggest that they were fortunate not to be docked points:
The point made previously about how expensive it will be to get the players in that will bring champions league back th the Emirates: It was the current first team squad that failed to qualify last season after 20 years in the competition and it loooks as if we are going to need a positive second half of this season to finish in the top four.
I will do a full season review at the end of the year, I hope that I am doing a review of the Premier League champions at that point.
Season points determines playoff positioning and regulation status, playoff determines champions?
Out of the Champions League and sitting only three points clear of Atléti in the La Liga table, there's the real possibility this season will go horribly sour for the Catalan giants.
While the Blues are just a point above the relegation zone having lost nine of their 16 games so far this season, they are 14 points adrift of Manchester United who currently occupy the fourth and final spot for Champions League qualification.
However, after dropping two points to Newcastle this week, United chiefs are worried that defeat to Liverpool coupled with good results for their top four rivals will all but end their chances of qualifying for next season's Champions League.
The 59 - year - old has earned plenty of praise this season, not only for the fact that Napoli continue to push defending Serie A champions Juventus in the title race, as they trail them by four points with seven games remaining, but more so because of the style of football that he has implemented at the San Paolo.
Los Merengues need to step things up in a big way soon, or their form will continue to deteriorate to the point where they'll have to fight just to make the Champions League next season — and with just a one - point cushion on fifth place coming into this match, their fight for that relevance may be coming sooner rather than later.
This has left them six points off the Champions League qualification places with only nine games to go until the end of the season.
Costa has scored less Champions League goals than Rickie Lambert this season, while he failed to find the net at any point during the Blues» triumphant Capital One Cup run — although he did strike via a deflection during the final against Tottenham Hotspur.
Not only is it incredible that for two seasons in a row the Gunners have finished second in the Champions League group to Dortmund, but we also have the same points just like last year, and the top spot was decided on the final day with nothing we could do about it.
The reigning Premier League champions currently sit nine points behind league leaders Man City following today's result, and with the news that midfield general N'Golo Kante has suffered an injury to his thigh, it remains to be seen whether Chelsea will mount a serious challenge for the title this season.
The Pensioners sit a whopping 14 points off Tottenham Hotspur in fourth and the Champions League places, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to see how the west Londoners will guarantee qualification for Europe's top table next season... at least not via their league finish.
Chelsea are flying high in the Premier League this season, four points clear of Southampton and six points clear of current champions Manchester City.
A lot of people are suggesting that the Gunners need to finish next season as champions to save Wenger but as he pointed out in his interview yesterday, reported on the Arsenal website, winning the Premier League is not that easy.
To go away to the home of the Champions and come away with a well - deserved point augurs very well for our season.
Spurs narrowly missed out on the Champions League places last year, finishing just one point behind north London rivals Arsenal in a race that went down to the final day of the season.
Things are not going well for Antonio Conte and the reigning EPL champions this season who are now just three points above Arsenal.
They will be hoping to consolidate a Champions League place next season and finish above Liverpool, who are only a single point behind in the table.
The Spaniard's side have won 11 of their 12 Premier League games so far this season to open up an eight - point gap over their nearest rivals, while they've comfortably qualified for the knockout stage of the Champions League.
Arsenal played Dortmund away on Matchday 1 of this season's Champions League, looking to pick up a point or three, after drawing three successive games in the Premier League.
Okay Arsenal fans, it may not be time to hit the big Pink Panic Button just yet, especially as the point the Gunners gained against Sunderland last night ensured that we will go straight into the Champions League group stage next season.
Currently sat in fourth place nine points adrift of leaders Barcelona, they look as though they will surrender their title this term, and also have an upcoming Champions League quarter final with last season's winners, and cross city rivals, Real to contend with.
«If we did pick up a few points away from home against the top four teams last season then I think we may have been champions, but that wasn't to be.