Sentences with phrase «although winning all points»

So we can afford to drop about 9 points (although winning all points is what we should be gunning for.)

Not exact matches

The home team has won the last four meetings between these two teams, although the Blackhawks have come away with points in nine of the last 10 (7 -1-2).

Nobody is backing Arsenal to win at Leicester, although Lawro and Merson fancy the Gunners to take a point at the King Power Stadium.

Although they fell just a few points short of the win, Team Bartlett is the not the type to get down from one L..

Although home teams have won 59.2 % of their games by an average margin of roughly five points, those numbers shrink dramatically in games with low totals.

Lee Johnson's Reds have climbed to 17th in the League One table courtesy of winning three of their four matches over Christmas, although they remain only two points clear of the relegation zone.

The win takes City up to second in the table, although they remain three points behind leaders Leicester City, who saw off Liverpool.

I didn't (unfairly perhaps), expect us to come back and take it into OT (although at one point I secretly hoped we'd win with a Hail Mary just to fuck with the 10 Zona fans that showed up).

You may have a point on Boca, although by C - USA rules if FAU wins the conference they get to pick, and if they pick Boca there you go.

The spuds win means they have gone above Arsenal in the table, although a point tomorrow will put us back above them on goal difference, while Liverpool have crept up on us and are just a single point adrift.

Despite beating Arsenal 1 - 0 a few weeks ago, Fulham seem to be in all sorts of trouble, while Bolton are many people's tip to go down, although a 3 - 1 win at West Ham was deserved and points to better times ahead for the Lancashire club.

The Catalan giants finished just one point ahead of Real, having won their last five matches, although Zinedine Zidane's side deserve credit for running Luis Enrique's side close during the title run - in.

As a result, although there will be 3 points at stake for Arsenal, most crucially, the by - product of a prospective win could reinvigorate Arsenal's swagger and act as the springboard to rediscovering their best form.

It should be noted that although Leicester were 2 points clear of us and leading the race, they were never given a serious chance of winning the title by anyone — notice how the Guardian journalist doesn't even mention them in the above review of Arsenals prospects for the title.

The win kept the Sky Blues in the hunt for the Premier League title, although they are still seven points behind leaders Chelsea.

Nevertheless, Liverpool sealed the win and temporarily move up to third place having played an extra game compared to Manchester City, while they sit nine points ahead of both Everton and Manchester United, although the latter have three games in hand on them.

The resolution for our problems is so simple but Wenger won't address them n although I think over the course of the season we'll gain enough points to get into top 4, the balance if this team is so far from where it needs to be for a title winning team that it brings a tear to my eye...

As we are an offensive biased club and armed with greater self belief — all this plays into our strengths and we by and large succeed in winning and accruing points — although not without giving 90 minutes worth of heart palpitations to the home supporters.

We're 10 points adrift of fourth, and although we have games in hand, can anyone see us winning those games?

Another reason is that although a point would have been better than a win, we really needed to win to give ourselves a good chance of qualifying as we expected Olympiacos to beat Zagreb in Greece.

The example above demonstrates that, although Indianapolis won the contest, Tennessee covered the spread by losing by less than nine points.

You could say that Arsenal were lucky to come away from Paris with a point when we faced PSG in the Champions League back in September, although many will point to fact that their Uruguayan international striker Edinson Cavani and all the chances he missed was the main reason for them not sealing the win before Alexis Sanchez pulled us level.

& if they do drop 2 or 3 points against Man U Yellow card for either Matic or Fabregas then they get a suspension (although I'd rather beat them at full strength) Then we beat them 3 points dropped Win there game in hand against Leicester I think they'll drop points against Liverpool and or Crystal Palace the way there playing so say they win one lose one.

I really think that would be the best way for Arsenal to win a title as it would not give the players time to think about what they could lose, so although it is far from ideal to be nine points off the top, I do reckon that being underdogs suits Arsenal and as long as we keep in touch it will put pressure on Chelsea and not us.

Chelsea and man city have strengthened well and although we only came 7 points off the top I think it was the best opportunity we've had in a long time to win the league considering the managerial changes.

Although I wanted the 3 points, if this was the last deciding game of the season to crown the EPL champions, we would have won the league!

Our season is in need of saving at present, having fallen to five points off the top four, and our best bet on playing Champions League football looks like winning the Europa League, although there is still a long way to go in the competition.

Well im not in a wonderland he has his failings as we all do and great teams find a way to win good teams sit where we are 6 -5-4 but thats besides the point and it would be nice if your aunty had bolocks cause then we d be second but ive watched the games were an offensive team most the time although were terrible in the pissing rain but for the most part the game plans have worked weve created chances quality scoring chances one after the other problem is for me the finishing unless we sit back with 9 man behind the ball or ten when you push forward you will give up a goal if you lousy forwards fail to finish the set ups have been there this year but our strikers have failed to kill the games if we create quality chances and grab leads in the first 60 minutes like we have for the most part and in those games those games should of been killed even if we give a goal or two alongside the strategy but we failed to hit multiple should be goals we tried laca we'll see abou auba although hes a bit lazy so far but we'll see but we've lacked that quality in front goal a player the chances have been there im looking at the failure of the strikers and maybe that is his fault but monreal has scored as many goals recently as our strikers and thats sad our defenders or a midfielder will score and our stikers cant tally one in th first 60 mins of a game alongside them then were tired for last 40 give them hope there still only down one and we rue our missed chances while they push thats where iv been frustrated with this season not the tactics but the finishing

Although the championship is out of reach for Aston Martin in GTE - Pro, the No. 98 GTE - Am driver lineup of Pedro Lamy, Mathias Lauda, and Paul Dalla Lana have a 10 - point lead and are strong favourites to win the title.

Although it would seem that most JustArsenal readers have given up on the Gunners winning the title, the fact remains that there are still 27 points up for grabs and the race is far from over.

Although public bettors aren't willing to take the points with USC, they are taking the Trojans to win straight up at +155 odds.

Well this game today, although brave effort by the team overall, just points out that to win the EPL, Arsenal is going to need to invest a little more to bring in one or two special players who can «Unlock» the door.

Although he may not have come out and said it, you just know that Arsene Wenger would absolutely love to have seen his Arsenal side record a first win against his managerial rival Jose Mourinho, even though the Frenchman admitted after the game that all three points would still not have been enough for the Gunners to win the Premier League title this season.

Our win this weekend closed the gap between fourth and seventh to only one point, with Tottenham, Liverpool and Burnley joining us currently in the battle for the European places, although many of us will still be hoping to join the race for the title, which currently looks like Manchester City's to lose.

there is some suggestion that wenger is backtracking on his fervent stance regarding what players would be staying at the club for the remainder of the season... some might deduce that this is all part of a much bigger, more elaborate plan... by shifting the blame wenger is attempting to, not so slyly, flip the narrative... by doing so he hopes to evoke empathy from his most ardent supporters, while attempting to rally any fence - sitters, whose faith was waning unless a more legitimate agent of blame emerges... unfortunately, and incredibly insulting to the fans, when wenger attempts to spin a tale and / or tries to eat his own words, he doesn't seem to play it all the way through in his head, so invariably gaping holes emerge... say we believed his version of the truth, would that not make him either an incredibly well - paid custodian of destruction or a spineless jellyfish because what manager worth his weight in salt would stay at a club that didn't give him final say after 20 years of supposed «success»... no matter the answer, neither bodes well for us... how ironic, in a way, since many pundits claim this team has lacked a «spine» for some years now... so whether we win, lose or draw on Sunday is frankly immaterial, as the problems will remain, and although it will be easier to digest if we left the Pool with 3 points, it might just be the worst result for the betterment of this club... a fact that both breaks my heart and baffles the mind

Although the number of previous game matches and overall units won wanes at each data point, we do see our systems return on investment increase as we focus on higher scoring offensive teams.

Although betting against the public produced a winning record for second half bettors, it was still well below the 52.38 % break - even point.

Although the home team has won by an average of 26 points per game this series, there's reason to believe that the tides will change this evening.

Although the team has not been firing on all cylinders we have been creating the chances and have been scraping by in all our wins, but as Theo Walcott says, it is getting the points that matter at this stage of the season.

His side picked up a dramatic last - gasp win over Wales last time out to put themselves in pole position to finish top of the group, although Slovakia's victory against Russia leaves them with plenty to play for too while the Welsh will also be hopeful of picking up three points on Monday night.

Please idiots stop commenting on Giroud if you wish to finish 4 th then support him, if you want to win the PL the he had 4 chances 3 sitters, how many of those chances would Martinez, Falco, Cavani score that's the difference between a top side, and Wiltshire May as well sat at home with me, awful couldn't lace Febregas boots and never will, the balance of the side was good today although we had bo tempo and no focal point, swop play ozil in the middle leave Wiltshire off, and Sanchez left, and Cavani up front then play chambers DM SORTED

The last few games Giroud started we won or drew but they were struggles and we played poor and although that is not all on Giroud it was very much Arsenal of last season when we ended up with 71 points.

Although taking the points seems safer than taking the moneyline, over the long haul you can see that it's actually more beneficial to roll the dice and take the short underdog to win straight up.

As a general statement, bettors improve their expected win rate by roughly 2 % by getting an extra half - point, although the further you get away from the spread, the less a half - point is worth.

With this draw, Mauricio Pochettino's men are now eight points clear, although the Blues can close that gap to five points with a win over Burnley on Thursday night.

After going four games without a win it was crucial that the Gunners got back to winning ways, and Arsene Wenger admitted in the after match interview that, although it was not the best performance, it was the three points that mattered the most.

Prior to the clash in Istanbul Arsenal were 8/5 to win at Goodison Park and although the performance at the Vodafone Arena was poor the Gunners don't deserve to have been pushed out to 13/8 to pick up three points on Saturday evening.

Arsenal had to fight hard to get all three points at Newcastle yesterday, and with many of our close rivals also winning, Arsene Wenger is sure that it is going to be a hard slog to hang on to a place in the Top Four, although he believes Chelsea are too far in front at the moment to be caught before the end of the season.

And although the mega rich club from Manchester have won all four of their league games so far, it is very early days and the five point gap is really not a lot.

We need at least a point to keep our hopes alive and even if we somehow get all three, Olympiacos will most likely win and we'll need a victory in Greece which we haven't gotten in a few attempts (although mostly playing our second squad).