Sentences with phrase «almost in a league of»

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In the 2016 - 17 Premier League season he won his second consecutive Golden Boot, netting 29 goals despite missing almost a quarter of the season to injury.

Keller points out that one of the reasons to own a franchise in the first place is because owners almost always make money when they sell; but in the U.S. most teams aren't making profits from attendance and TV revenues are small compared to other leagues, all of which dampens buyer interest.

Almost two - thirds of the top 1,000 primary schools in the 2013 league tables were schools with a religious character, although they only make up about one - third of all English primary schools.

Modern psychiatry, in league with Big Pharma, has devolved almost purely into prescribing medication for pseudo-medical illness, giving pills instead of compassion, and thus trivializing human suffering.

Joseph Smith was a snake oil salesmen in my books, besides I'm in the big leagues (Catholic) don't play with the minor league stuff and trust me I've been to almost every religion over my life searching for answers, I have a library of Bibles, Reference Books from all denominations and they all are the same, no one has answers just more questions.

Adam, I am sorry there may not be enough girl wrestlers to form a league but that doesn't excuse the fact that our Politically correct environment almost demands the separation of boys and girls in certain things.

The obvious candidate for Player of the Year at the moment, Chelsea star Eden Hazard has lit up the Premier League this season and looks almost guranteed to scoop the prize if he can help the Blues wrap up the title in their next few games.

Yes they realised their dreams in winning their 3rd and 4th league titles in 2012 and 2014 — one with the last kick of the season and the other almost by default.

While Griezmann has been linked with a big money move to the Premier League almost constantly since making his breakthrough at Real Sociedad, this is the first time that Niguez has been thrown in as part of the deal.

What has been quite different, however, is the fact that Arsenal have not been alone in this, or even out of the ordinary, as there have been almost no big moves made by any of the big Premier League clubs.

Chelsea striker Diego Costa always seems to get under the skin of Arsenal players when the two sides meet and — having scored five goals in as many Premier League games this season — the Spaniard is almost certain to start in North London.

History may show that coming from back from three goals down in Champions league is almost impossible but arsenal one of the very few teams to have done it.

It has never really been about how much you spend or how much of a genius you are, it takes sustained competitiveness at the highest level and / or that extra bit of luck to have a shot at it hence my [previous] happiness at being in the top four [lots of clubs would do almost anything to get in that league], however even that can get stale, to be realistic, I think progress would be aiming for the top two now, enough of these top four stories, it ran its course now we need to aim higher, when the top two is our priority, it becomes inevitable that whoever might be in front of us is bound to slip up on a few occasions ala Bayern and Dortmund, we should now set our sights on the top four of the champions league lol

It was lazy of Wenger to emphasize a family atmosphere especially in recent seasons, it almost, if not created a culture where everyone patted each other on the back fostering mediocrity, in the real world of the premier league and elsewhere, it is important to be fired up by competition even among the players, and with a manager of Wenger's stature, I'm sure he has enough in his locker to make sure said competition don't get nasty and counterproductive to overall team performance.

Hopefully, we grind out three points against a tired Lazio side that has been stretched between serie A, Europa league and 120 minutes of coppa italia while we've played just once in almost two weeks.

While for almost all of us it's a disappointment that we did not make it further in the Champions League, the improvements that the team has made can not be underestimated.

Liverpool had a terrible defence but almost won the league because they had the best striker in the world, now imagine having the best player and the best striker with some of the best midfielders on the globe, you could win anything with just one one top class defender and 3 average ones.

In fact, our entire season this year is one big «moment of truth», considering this is such an open season (it's almost new year and Leicester are top of league!!!!) and the condition for us to win the league are more in our favor than beforIn fact, our entire season this year is one big «moment of truth», considering this is such an open season (it's almost new year and Leicester are top of league!!!!) and the condition for us to win the league are more in our favor than beforin our favor than before.

... chelsea won the league last season virtually using the same set of players the whole season... Matic was in almost every game if not all... how did he stay injury free the whole season???

Last season, the forward managed to bag an impressive total of 26 goals and eight assists in 35 league appearances for Torino, a record of almost one direct goal contribution per game, a very impressive return indeed.

An attributable factor to our dropping of points in winnable games on Saturdays was almost definitely our domination of our BUCS league on Wednesdays and, therefore, complacency against stronger Saturday opponents.

Many of these guys are Back2Back Madison League Champs and almost all have won the Suburbs College / Prep League in the past as well..

Maybe it's the stretched out schedule that resulted in the league having played almost three quarters of its games before the all - star break.

The 24 - year - old South Korean international, who has 42 caps for his country, missed almost all of last season with a double fracture to his leg as Bolton were relegated from the Premier League but has been a regular in the Championship this season after returning to full fitness.

«By almost accepting West Ham suggests that he will be willing to go anywhere in the top 10 of the Premier League.

The fact is that we have not been so well set for the start of a Premier League campaign in years and until we have almost a full team of players in the treatment room as we have in the last few seasons, I for one am happy to assume that the Gunners have fixed the underlying problems and will have a strong enough squad to cope with the unlucky but inevitable knocks that come our way.

Hugo Lloris is one of the best goalkeepers in Europe and, even though he penned a new long - term contract only last summer, the likely absence of Champions League football next term will almost certainly see illustrious suitors sniffing around in the coming months.

The fact that the league has made money and because the players have a revenue split of 57 %, the salary cap has risen each year and now the lockout in 2004 has almost become irrelevant.

Parker is very disparaging about almost every aspect of Mertesacker's game, also claiming that Arsenal will not be able to achieve our Premier League goal with the BFG in the starting line up.

The salary he'd get (almost $ 7M / year) puts him in the top 15 of guards in the league.

As already noted, with City so far clear at the top of the Premier League and with almost all their rivals in disarray, it could mean Guardiola can really focus on this competition like few other managers of English clubs have had the luxury of being able to do in recent times.

To me this is almost a must win, Our next 3 premier league games after stoke, Chelsea away, Leicester Away, Man United Away, with the small matter of a visit to Zagreb and WHL to meet Spurs in the Capital One Cup.

So no Pellegrini, I don't agree with your statement, especially at Arsenal where a top four finish is the highest accolade we will ever receive under Wenger, a manager who has been in charge of the club for two decades and had the best chance by a mile of winning the league this season, but blew it (almost inevitably).

While neither the Jets nor the Seahawks are ready to challenge for the playoffs, they are two of the most promising teams in the league, and almost mirror images of each other.

Browns WR Travis Benjamin: The problems at quarterback finally caught up with Benjamin the second half of the season, but he still had by far his best year in the league with 68 receptions, almost 1000 yards receiving and five touchdowns.

This kept him out of the Champions League final although he would probably not have played anyway but he would almost certainly have been in the France starting XI at Euro 2016 where he would have played alongside Laurent Koscielny and it is this French connection that I think could be key to the Gunners beating the likes of Man United to his signature this summer.

... the fact is some gunner fans have forgotten that we almost won the league 2 years ago without sanchez nor cech and with the same olivier giroud as our ONLY strike force, and as we know if not for lack of depth and injuries we would av won the league that year... now we av sanchez and cech plus welbeck, we now av the depth, all we need is a fit team and we will win the league next season... I believe in this team and frankly, its high time we put all the doubts away and stand with the team and manager with or without a new striker signing... COYGs!!!

He has taken thousands upon thousands of showers in minor league ballparks in all 50 states and several countries, and almost all of them were lonely showers, since he is usually finished by the sixth inning.

I am not just talking about the possibility of the side finishing sixth in the Premier League missing out because of the FA cup winner's place either, but the almost unthinkable situation of us finishing lower than sixth.

I am not trying to absolve Arsene Wenger of all the blame for what looks like being a most frustrating Premier League title challenge for Arsenal this season, as the unfancied Leicester seem to be the ones that will make the most of the poor performances of the usual suspects Man City, Chelsea and Man United, but you have to admit that the Frenchman has had some pretty rotten luck with injury problems once again, while Claudio Ranieri has been able to name his strongest 11 players in almost every match.

Of course we will, especially, as usual, against the top teams in the league... Wenger still thinks he can avoid the «subject» and present us with an almost finished Arteta or even an elusive Diaby for excuses...!!

Whatever it takes could mean a lot more than we previously thought, though, as the Daily Mail is reporting that Premier League rules on wages and the limit of how much they can rise from one season to the next will almost certainly force Arsene Wenger to sell at least two of the club's other big earners in order to offer Alexis and Ozil the wages they want.

That would give us nine, which would make us at least level on points with Chelsea who currently have six and would almost certainly catapult us back to the top part of the table and put Arsenal back in contention with the teams hoping to lift the Premier League trophy next May.

After Arsenal's hugely embarrassing 5 - 1 defeat to Bayern Munich in the Champions League, a result that has almost certainly sealed our European fate for yet another consecutive season, odds were slashed to suggest that Arsene Wenger would be leaving the club at the end of the season.

Scoring against almost all Premier league teams and leading in terms of Premier league goals and assists against our current crop of players.

We used to dominated almost 3/4 of the teams in the league for 60 - 70 minutes a few seasons back with the exception of those that were in the top 5, where it varied.

Debuchy and Arteta out for almost the rest of the season Jenkinson doesn't even have it in his contract that we can recall him Poldi let go Sonogo let go We sign a 17 who has only played 6 games in a average league You couldn't make this S % # $ up Who allows a buisness to be run like this Here comes a panic cheap buy

the truth is that we did nt have a first 11 or squad to win in a weak league last year... so far chelsea and the manchester clubs have invested in big changes... and almost certainly for the better... spurs and leicester (if they keep konte and mahrez) can build on their foundation of last season..

Although almost every Arsenal fans has already accepted that the Gunners will not be going through to the next stage of the Champions League after losing 5 - 1 in the first leg away to Bayern Munich, it would be nice for Arsenal to get something out of the return leg at the Emirates tomorrow, if only to build up a bit of the confidence that the hammering in Germany took away.