Sentences with phrase «about challenging for the league title»

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One of the features of the last few years has been Arsenal putting a brilliant run of results together and although it may be too late for a title challenge this time, we still need to secure a top four spot, as well as having the knockout rounds of the Champions League to think about — and the small matter of defending the FA cup trophy won in dramatic fashion last season to defend.

That is why I think it is worth listening to anything positive the West Brom boss has to say about Wenger and it was interesting to read on Sky Sports ahead of Thursday's game what Pulis thought of the failure of Arsenal's challenge for the Premier League title this season.

According to physioroom.com there is currently no date set for his return and not long ago the club was talking about the end of March, by which time Arsenal could be out of the Champions League and the FA cup and our title challenge could be done and dusted.

If arsenal really been serious about challenging for the title, we will have to put down a marker at Chelsea to tell the rest of the league we mean business, so it is even a more important than Bournemouth in regards to our title aspirations.

While Wrighty understands and shares the frustration of fans about yet another faltering Premier League title challenge, he reckons we should have much more respect for the famous old piece of silverware.

Wrighty was talking about the latest challenge for the Premier League title, which suffered a little setback at the weekend as we failed to win the north London derby against Spurs.

I am fairly sure that a large percentage of Arsenal fans are finding it hard to get enthused about the defence of the FA cup trophy, because two points from the last three Premier League games has left the Gunners down in third place and our challenge for the Premier League title looking a lot less assured than it was a couple of weeks ago.

It is all about keeping focus for Arsenal and continu8ing to build the momentum that the performances and results have got us after the three draws in a row during November that looked like they might derail our challenge for the Premier League title.

There has been a lot of discussion about Arsenal giving up on progressing in the Champions League in favour of making a sustained challenge for the Premier League title.

He also has some very interesting things to say about why Arsenal are not looking like adding another trophy to the cabinest this year and why we seem unable to keep up a proper challenge for the Premier League title.

While Arsenal fans can console themselves with the fact that the season has just begun and there is plenty of time to bounce back and mount a challenge for the Premier League title, just as Chelsea did last season after a poor start that culminated in us beating them 3 - 0 at the end of September, it is hard to muster up much optimism about the Gunners right now.

There may still be some doubt about Arsenal having the fire power to consistently score enough goals to challenge for the Premier League title this season, whether that is fair or not, but apart from that the Gunners are showing all over the pitch that we are extremely strong.

Despite the fact that Arsene Wenger has been speaking recently about Arsenal fighting until the end of the season, he was well aware that any chances of us challenging for the Premier League title had long gone.

I have a sneaking feeling that Jose Mourinho is not really all that worried about Arsenal catching his Chelsea team and challenging for the Premier League title this season.

We never expected the boss to be too happy about this but it seemed like he was forced to accept that his team slipping down the Premier League table instead of finally challenging for the title was not good enough.

This year is about putting a real challenge for the title and going past the last 16 of the champions league.

The Arsenal legendary striker Nwankwo Kanu has been interviewed in his native Nigeria about Arsene Wenger's woes and the failure of Arsenal to make a serious challenge for the Premier League title, and he is adamant that it is unfair for the Arsenal fans to blame everything on Wenger because he has been in charge for so long.

Whether Arsenal can get back to challenging repeatedly for the league title while money is no object elsewhere and Uefa are halfhearted about FFP, we shall see.

Pochettino, though, has told Spurs that he is committed to the club and is excited about the squad he is building, with the team second in the Premier League and challenging leaders Leicester City for the title.

At the start of the 2014 - 2015 Premier League season, many Liverpool fans were optimistic about their chances of challenging for the title after finishing runners up to Manchester City in the previous campaign.

I must admit I wouldn't have put them among the all time greats to challenge for titles but the essence of the article I understood about using marginal gains to make incremental improvements leading in progression to a higher league position I got, to be honest the team with DiCanio, Cole, Carrick, Sinclair, Lampard, Defoe etc should have been a team challenging for the upper league positions but got relegated would have been a better example to me.