Sentences with phrase «against relegation»

Three games to go, and we owe it to all the teams fighting against relegation to give them all our fullest attention.

Key game: Tough away games against relegation rivals and encounters with the top six lie ahead, so a win at home to Stoke this weekend is vital.

You're happy with a point and single chance created against relegation team?

This has included three straight draws including a 2 - 2 result against relegation rivals Reading last weekend.

We scored 13 goals in the last 2 games against relegation fodder.

Okay maybe we should all be aware that we can not win every single game, but a bit of confidence can go a long way this weekend against relegation fodder.

With it's back against the relegation wall only three points clear.

Too costly of a mistake for your team and teammates fighting against relegation.

The young Austrian has been one of the few positives for Villa in a difficult season which sees them battling against relegation in the Premier League.

I mean, sure, Arsenal could reel off a couple wins against relegation candidates Stoke and Southampton and look good doing so, but that doesn't mean they are in any way prepared to compete with the top half of the table, which is what we all want.

Gaining top flight football didn't help the fortunes of Newton Heath - they simply lost even more games now that they were playing higher class opposition and the team struggled against relegation in the 1890's.

Holding on, and quite quite frankly being dominated in the 2nd hakf at home against relegation threatened Hull.

Liverpool even struggles to draw against relegation battling teams.A liverpool side without 5 key players managing to put 3 past the arsenal?

Aaron Ramsey's first half goal was enough to give Arsenal all three points against the relegation threatened side and maintained the recent good form for Arsene Wenger's side.

Villa will be major underdogs in this tie after a difficult season fighting against relegation in the Premier League, and Cole admits it would be a huge achievement if his side could somehow go on to win the competition, beating a big name like Liverpool along the way.

Out of the shadows the AKBs will pop out like bats from a cave, when Wenger wins against a relegation side, with their all too known phrases like «Arsene knows best», «what do you know about the club», «we don't have a penny in the bank» (yet we pay an old man 8 mills a year and pay 43 and 35 mills for players), and so on and so on.

Chelsea and Eden Hazard ruined Spurs» title challenge last term, and the Belgian could prove key to the Blues run - in with games against relegation strugglers Middlesbrough and Sunderland coming along.

Crystal Palace fans can be forgiven for desiring a season of mid-table obscurity after so many recent battles against relegation from the Premier League.

Celtic's drive to the Ladbrokes Premiership title hit an unexpected speed bump with a goalless draw against relegation battlers Dundee at Parkhead.

Following on from two MASSIVE victories against relegation candidates Reading and QPR, Villa now find themselves seventeenth!

Now after another failure at the weekend, with a home draw against relegation contenders West Ham United, a top - four place looks highly unlikely — as they are now ten points adrift with just six games remaining.

We played against a relegation battling team and I don't think we should be happy to force out a win cos we are more respected than them cos we av been in this league for years and the manager knows better how to play the league better.

After conceding early against relegation favourites Fulham, it took two late goals to relieve the tension around Old Trafford, only for them to concede a 90th minute equaliser in a 2 - 2 draw.

Mainz 05 looked dominant and in control of their Bundesliga clash against relegation strugglers Hamburger SV, but they were rocked by a horrific injury to Colombian midfielder Elkin Soto.

Crystal Palace gave themselves an enormous boost in the battle against relegation on Saturday.

Arsenal are now 2 - 0 up against relegation threatened Hull City as Aaron Ramsey has added to Alexis Sanchez» opener at the KC Stadium as the Gunners look to go above Manchester City in the table.

Their rivals Birmingham are still scrapping against relegation and so there is immense pressure on them going into this derby day fixture.

In Saturday's early kick - off in the Premier League, Chelsea survived a scare against relegation - threatened Southampton as they had to come back from 2 - 0 down...

Arsenal are 6th in the Premier League table at the moment and they will collide against relegation threatened Swansea City tonight.

Newcastle return to league action after the international break with an away match against relegation rivals Norwich City.

Jurgen Klopp's men will need to take their recent Tottenham and Arsenal form into the remaining games and try to banish the recent defeats against relegation candidates Hull City, Leicester City and Swansea City.

The remarkable resurgence of religious commitment among some American Jews — often the best and the brightest (coupled, alas, with the increasing indifference and assimilation of others)-- can be traced to a stance that runs directly against the relegation of Judaism to the realm of the private.

Something Giroud has never done even against a relegation team!

You would think that there would be little that Arsene Wenger could say after the Gunners were destroyed in their fourth straight away game, especially against a relegation candidate like Crystal Palace.

An inspired substitute appearance from Olivier Giroud has kept Chelsea's top four hopes alive, after they secured a stunning 3 - 2 victory from two goals down against relegation battlers Southampton on Saturday.

Norwich City were far from favourites against Manchester City but earned a vital point in their battle against relegation thanks to an impressive defensive effort.

Juventus haven't scored three goals on the road in any match since December, and that came against relegation - bound Hellas Verona.

now we are edgy against a relegation threatened team at home, who were denied a stonewall penalty in the dying minutes of the game

Branislav Ivanovic had earlier kicked off the post-Mourinho era with a towering header on six minutes as caretaker boss Steve Holland enjoyed a dream start against the relegation - haunted Black Cats.

Le Prof will continue to champion this brand of boring and quite ineffective soccer, but hey at times against relegation quality squads Arsenal will be pleasing to the eye.

Both seasons run at the same time, so you'll sometimes see a domestic game where the starters all rest against a relegation candidate, then gear up for a showdown against another elite team in EuroLeague / EuroCup.

Its extraordinary what SOTO have done, considering so many pundits declared there season to be a fight against relegation rather than a serious challenge for Champions league qualification.

Golum Dean making a terrible penalty decision that fortunately wasn't converted against relegation desperate Newcastle.

Against relegation level teams like Bournemouth, they should have completely dominated and dictated the tempo of the game, but they did not.

Same crop of players we have been using for ages...... Same old Mr. Potato Head...... First time we made a formation change...... Win against a relegation team who haven't won a game since before Xmas.