Sentences with phrase «advantage over champions»
Swansea have doubled their advantage over champions Leicester City through a smart finish from Martin Olsson.
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Tottenham all - but ended our hopes of making the Champions League through our league position, leaving us eight points short of Chelsea in fourth, while Liverpool and Spurs also hold seven and nine point advantages over us.
He's been the best golfer on earth over the past calendar year and was the defending champion, and we were on a course that should accentuate his strengths and reward his distance advantage even more than normal.
Manchester City came into this match with a surprising advantage over Paris Saint - Germain, having earned a 2 - 2 draw in the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal tie.
All of our rivals will be in similar situations of course, so we can not complain too much but it does make avoiding the two legged Champions League play - offs extremely important and a big advantage over the team that does finish fourth.
Besides several teams who have questions surrounding one or possibly two players, there is no squad that has so many issues heading into the final week of the transfer window... even Monaco, who have lost numerous players from their starting 11 have less controversy swirling in and around their club and they have champion's league play to contend with this season... just think of how ridiculous this situation is especially considering that we have had the same manager for over 20 years... no team should be better organized than ours... if nothing else, that should be the one advantage this team holds over all others, yet the exact opposite has occurred... this fact is even more disturbing considering the main argument against removing Wenger from his managerial position was that there was no suitable replacement and that people feared some sort of perceived drop - off if a new manager was brought into the mix... based on what we've witnessed since the time of his contract renewal a monkey with a magic eight ball could have done an adequate job... I hate to make jokes, in light of our current dilemma, but this team is so screwed up if I don't laugh about it, the only plausible response is to either cry or do something incredibly destructive... just look around this squad and try to see what our delusional manager sees that allow him to make such positive statements about our current team
They take on the defending Premier League champions, Manchester City, at the Emirates, and would want to harness home advantage to impede Man City's ambitions of getting over their shock home defeat Stoke City this past Saturday.
Madrid hold a healthy advantage over Atletico Madrid ahead of their second leg Champions League semi-finals clash after a Ronaldo hat - trick in the first leg.
With this in mind, squads from conferences that are perceived to be weaker — Kentucky, Louisville and perennial Big 12 champion Kansas (who will be pushed by Oklahoma State and Baylor)-- have an advantage over ACC, Big Ten and perhaps even Pac - 12 contenders, if that conference can to live up to its preseason hype, in the race for top seeds.
Arsenal look to have some advantage over Chelsea in the running to hire three - time Champions League - winning manager Carlo Ancelotti next season.
Tottenham Hotspur saw their slim away goals advantage in the Champions League over Juventus wiped out in matter of minutes as the Premier League side were beaten by their Italian's counterpart at Wembley.
Juventus grabbed an early advantage in their Champions League semifinal with a 2 - 1 win over Real Madrid, who looked strangely lethargic at times.
TURIN: Cristiano Ronaldo has thanked Juventus fans for their generous applause for his overhead bicycle kick which helped Real Madrid gain a three - goal advantage over the Italians in the Champions League.
Vucetich, who also led Monterrey to three consecutive CONCACAF Champions League titles in his career, said the only advantage Liga MX teams have over MLS is that they play a more creative game.
Far from it being a fleeting winter fancy, Arsenal are fully prepared to sign David Villa in the upcoming transfer window, with their Champions League qualification giving them an advantage over rivals Spurs.
Most people remember that Red Star (Crvena Zvezda) won Champions Cup on penalties against Olympique Marseille in 1991 but what most people outside Yugoslavia don't know is that normally free - flowing attacking - minded Red Star took a rather conservative approach in ECC Final as they hoped their experience on penalties would give them advantage over Olympique.
That's why, with such an advantage over the Swiss champions heading into Wednesday night's return fixture at the Etihad, Guardiola has license to experiment with his line - up.
Germany coach Joachim Low believes Brazil will have an important advantage over the three - time champions in their World Cup semi-final on Tuesday.
Real Madrid got an advantage over their opponent, Paris Saint - Germain in the first leg of their Champions League knock out stage battle at Santiago Bernebau.
Juventus's 2 - 0 win in Fiorentina had put them top on Friday, but Maurizio Sarri's side responded in style to maintain their one - point advantage over the six - time defending champions.
This is where the Red Devils gain an advantage over the European champions.
A Ronaldo double propelled holders Real to a 3 - 1 advantage over PSG in Spain, while Messi grabbed a vital away goal for Barcelona in a 1 - 1 draw at Premier League champions Chelsea.
Throughout their recent 2 - 0 Bundesliga defeat at Hoffenheim, they were inexpicably reticent to flood the opposition box and in the 3 - 0 home win over a ten - man Anderlecht in the Champions League were astonishingly pedestrian at times, for long periods struggling to make their numerical advantage count.
In the TC category, Paul Holton holds an eight - point advantage over Nick Wittmer with Greg Liefooghe and defending series champion Toby Grahovec still in contention.