Sentences with phrase «against direct rivals»

Liverpool face a crucial trip to Manchester City on Sunday afternoon, looking to maintain their good record against direct rivals and keep pace with the Premier League's top four.

All these games except QPR are against direct rivals for top 4.

To claw back those points, we will have do well against our direct rivals.

Perhaps most frustrating though is their inability to look a threat away from home against their direct rivals as they've struggled against Liverpool and Chelsea in recent weeks, while they weren't much better when they secured a 1 - 0 win over Tottenham at Old Trafford last month.

We won our games against direct rivals (except Chelsea and Man U) and kept winning against other teams.

That's eight points out of a possible 42 for United, and ultimately that isn't good enough as they need to pick up points against their direct rivals.

That's 9 out of 27 points against direct rivals of similar calibre.

In our first match against a direct rival, we dismantled Arsenal at Anfield, winning 4 - 0.

Manchester United holding on to their runners up seat in English Premier League following an important win against their direct rival, Liverpool at Old Trafford.

«I'm very happy as it was important to earn three points against a direct rival, but a lot remains to be done.»

Not exact matches

Arsene Wenger was obviously not happy that Arsenal dropped three points against one of our direct rivals for fourth place, but although he rued the defensive «mistakes» he felt that his team were tired but refused to blame anyone for the calamitous two goals we conceded.

If Wenger didn't have room for him, buy him and loan him, so at least he wouldn't be playing for direct rivals and against us.

So even though Man City are direct Premier League rivals to Arsenal, I was glad to see them beat Southampton at St. Mary's today, because it puts the pressure on Jose Mourinho and his players, especially as they could only manage a point against Sunderland.

Who has man u played before they suddenly become world beaters?the only strong test man u has this season was against real Madrid and they lost, every player in arsenal is rubbish buh every rubbish in another club is world Class, u guys r saying all maner of rubbish against ozil now, forcing him out of our club, even when dude has not said anything, tomorrow u guys will still come here and be blaming Wenger for selling to a direct rival, hope u guys won't cry murder if ozil should go to man u?

Not when your the «captain», not when we had arguably our best XI with the players available against a Swansea B team that you allow to make a comeback and win at home specially when your other direct rivals had negative outcomes!

Before you curse Wenger vehemently remember that Man U lost to Everton today and Liverpool drew against West Brom yesterday and these are our direct rivals for top four places.

The infamous trio of losses were against our direct title rivals but I am adding the Everton loss to make it 4 as the margin is exactly the same as Man City's and Everton finished 5th.

Leo Messi and Javier Mascherano are in the Argentina side that has a crucial game at the home of direct rivals Uruguay followed by a home tie against Venezuela.

These two might not be direct rivals and have not played against each other often enough to have a full fledged rivalry but they have been constantly battling for the crown of biggest club in the world.

Pogba's direct red card means that he will have a suspension of three games, which means that he will miss the game of the season against domestic rivals Manchester City.

Playing a crucial match against their direct qualification rival, Switzerland, Seleccao das Quinas immediately try to take hold of proceedings by putting in an attacking display straight...

That somewhere or «someone» has to be the lowest common denominator over the past 26 matches against one's direct rivals, and within which you've only picked - up 26 points (the lowest of all of the top 6 Clubs), with the LWCs being above you with 44 points?!

With the BMW M4's direct rivals getting on a bit, we pit it against a foe far tougher - the Porsche 911 Carrera.

Rather flippantly, we'd say that the Ford Fiesta ST has no direct rivals, but in terms of size it goes up against the Renaultsport Clio, Vauxhall Corsa VXR and Peugeot 208 GTi.

As with its diesel siblings, the petrol Evoque has no direct rivals though its pricing places it against the petrol variants of the BMW X3, Land Rover Discovery Sport and Mercedes GLC.

More importantly, the sexier, lighter, higher - tech new XF is competitively positioned against its most direct rivals in the Mercedes - Benz E-Class, BMW 5 Series and Audi A6, and also sets a few new benchmarks in the premium business sedan sector.

Volvo S60 Cross Country does not have a direct rival but the model will be pitted against the likes of entry level sedan and SUVs like BMW X1, Audi Q3 and a few other names that are priced along the same lines.

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