Sentences with phrase «big league record»

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Signing musicians to recording deals is like playing big - league baseball: Even future Hall of Famers retire with far more strikeouts than home runs.

Daily Fantasy Football game Oulala.com have taken a look at Arsenal's record against the other «big six» Premier League teams when Ozil has featured in the side since he joined in 2013, as well as his individual contribution too.

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We know that Arsene Wenger will be intent on keeping up his admittedly very impressive record of getting us into the Champions League and even though it is very tight between second and sixth place and we have some very big clubs to contend with I am confident he will do it.

During his 17 seasons (1967through» 83), Bench batted.267 with 389 home runs (a big league - record 327 ofthem as a catcher) and 1,376 RBIs and won 10 Gold Gloves.

Now closing in on the records in Europe's «Big» leagues, all - time, two of those also held by Pep Guardiola.

Arsenal need to know that Pep is different from other Man city managers who were good but not to his standards it important for Arsenal to keep him away from Arsenal players because of Dortmund record but in this league he knows every team has money to barge big teams away from their players.

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The 23 year - old has shown himself to be a big - game player, setting a club record for Juventus, by scoring in five consecutive Champions League matches, including both semi-finals against Real Madrid in 2015, and the losing final against Barcelona the same year.

The fact of the matter is that the Gunners are on course to keep up our amazing record of qualifying for the Champions League and that is something that not one of our big Premier League rivals can match.

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The French top flight recorded the biggest net profit of any of the major leagues studied, with $ 87 million having been brought into Ligue 1 when player sales and acquisitions are considered.

Anichebe has scored a measly 24 league goals in his 186 appearances so far in his career with Everton and West Bromwich Albion combined, and hardly boasts any kind of record which would warrant a move to our big club.

And I'd be surprised if they didn't break the Premier League records for most points and biggest winning margin.

Since the serial title winner Sir Alex Ferguson left what was, undeniably, the biggest club in England, they have broken records left and right; They went from Premier League champions to finishing 7th, meaning Man Utd would have no European football of any kind.

Martinez has not convinced me — he has a pretty good goal record in Portugal and 7 goals in CL last season (failed miserably in Copa) but beside that he is not proven in any big league — no guarantee he will be successful in the hardest league as EPL.

Just like Arsenal the Spanish La Liga champions needed to overturn a four goal deficit from the first leg but unlike us they managed it and broke a Champions League record into the bargain, but unlike us they were the beneficiaries of the decisions of the referee and you have to then wonder what might have happened at the Emirates on Tuesday if Arsenal had not been on the wrong end of the big calls.

It was also a big win over a club that was one of the pre-season favourites for the Premier League, so after three games in a row that the Gunners recorded a big win it was perhaps inevitable that we Arsenal fans started to think of the title.

With the Gunners still to face Man United, the spuds, Man City and West Ham, the only side in that mini league to have beaten us, could this big game record prove to be the thing that secures a first title in 12 years for the Arsenal?

Arsenal may be a big club on paper, but we are far from it on the pitch, and that can be reflected on our league position & our record against top teams.

SI looked at every season in the big four sports since 1966 — the Super Bowl era — giving cities points for winning (five for a championship, three for a conference title, one for a division title) while deducting one for a last - place finish, two for being worst in the conference and three for having the worst record in the league.

Arsene Wenger himself has a big hurdle to overcome with his managerial record against Jose Mourinho, but the team themselves also have an awful record with games at Old Trafford, in fact we have to go back ten years for the last time we walked away with all three points in the League.

Moore's big night against Alhambra helped push the Cougars to a 6 - 1 record overall and a 3 - 0 mark in the Diablo Foothill Athletic League.

Against West Brom on Sunday, Wenger overtook Sir Alex Ferguson's record by taking charge of his 811th Premier League game.The Frenchman saw his side slip to their biggest ever defeat to us at Stamford Bridge in 2014, as we ran out 6 - 0 winners that day.

Higuain is not worth even half that fee, he reminds me of Cavani at Napoli not in a good way who also had a great scoring record in Italy but who's failed at PSG, he won't win us any league title because he's a bottler on the big stage like in the 2014 world cup final and 2016 copa america final!

The Blues showed just how good they can be last season, as they won the Premier League with a record amount of wins, and seeing as they've got a winnable tie in the Champions League round of 16, Conte should be readying his squad for a charge at club football's biggest prize.

The Chinese Super League has rapidly grown in this past year, having made some big money moves over the last 12 months, including record breaking deals for a number of South American superstars.

Why the media got it for Arsenal, we bottle some games we are expected to win, proving some pundits that hates the club right time after time, games are not comfortably won, last season we had a better away record than home, We have an overall poor result against the big teams for the past 5 years, we haven't won the league for 12 years now, we haven't made a proper challenge in Europe for 10 years and on top of it we have an Owner who doesn't care about football, just the money he makes, so many reasons.

Their 4 - 0 record after those first four games, and the fact they no longer have to face much bigger schools such as Cosumnes Oaks - Elk Grove or Vista del Lago - Folsom in league games, greatly improves the odds of getting a high seed in the upcoming CIF Sac - Joaquin Section playoffs.

All the Arsenal players were hoping that Petr Cech was going to break the Premier League record for clean sheets in this momentous game, but the big goalkeeper was beaten by an unbelievable goal from Yaya Toure.

But somewhere along the way, when the big decision came up — whether or not to live like a Trappist monk and supplant Ruth and Cobb in the record books and earn $ 200,000 a year — Mickey decided to enjoy life and earn only $ 80,000 a year and be content with being merely the most colorful and exciting and best ballplayer in his league during his own time.

In previous seasons, the Selection Committee attempted to go to great strides to avoid regular season rematches of both the conference and non-conference variety, with a particular emphasis placed on keeping league rivals apart until at least the Elite Eight, though the 2011 Tournament saw a pair of potential Big East Round of 32 matchups, thanks to that conference placing a record 11 teams in the field.

And even if they finish 11 - 1, there could be four or more Power 5 champs with 13 - 0 or 12 - 1 records, since the Big 12 is the only major league that currently lacks a title game.

They don't lose many games at home, they are a stable team in the Premier League and they have a good record against many big teams.»

They've made a name for themselves and their big - play ability helped the Bulldogs earn a 10 - 0 record in the regular season, their sixth SFL title and fourth - straight undefeated league championship.

I was hoping that Arsenal would produce a convincing performance in the Premier League yesterday and record a big win over Southampton, As we all know that did not happen and you could argue that the Gunners were lucky to get any win at all, but thanks toa late goal from Danny Welbeck all the points did go to Arsenal.

Any win for Arsenal over today's visitors to north London would take the Gunners to just two points behind Chelsea, who currently sit fifth in the Premier League table and have seen their own top four hopes disappear after losing their long unbeaten home record against Tottenham last weekend, but a big win for Arsenal could help to pile even more pressure onto the Blues before they face West Ham later today.

It is the 11th time that the league's top seeds will be matched up in the big game since 1975 (when the NFL's playoff format began basing home field advantage on teams» regular season records), and recent trends favor a Seattle victory: the NFC has won the last six Super Bowls between No. 1 seeds.

It is fair to say that in games against a big Premier League rival, a draw and a point is not too bad a result and that has certainly been true for Arsenal in recent seasons, as we struggled to avoid heavy defeats and began to have a terrible record and even a bit of a mental stumbling block when coming up against the likes of Chelsea or Man United.

Dier has fixed many defensive issues, the 22 - year - old has been a big reason due to Tottenham having the best defensive record in the league this season.

On paper, it doesn't seem to be the biggest weakness that the Red Devils have given that they've conceded just 23 goals in 30 Premier League games this season, giving them the second - best defensive record in the top flight.

Even after the academy graduate Francis Coquelin came back from his loan spell at Charlton and surprised us all with his fine form and combative performances, recording the best stats in the Premier League for a defensive midfielder, lots of Arsenal fans were calling on the manager to go into the transfer market and spend some big money, which he did this summer to sign Xhaka from Borussia Monchengladbach.

But the bigger money is on the Celtics, who still hold the league's best ATS record this year at 24 -14-2 despite a 6 -10-1 December clip.

That makes 27 different Dodgers on the DL in 2016, tying the big - league record, and we've still got some time left before expanded 40 - man rosters make the DL unnecessary.

Most Arsenal fans will be the first to tell you that the Gunners are not quite firing on all cylinders so far this season, and after the summer transfer window saw the club actually make a profit rather than spending big to catch up with our Premier League rivals despite breaking the club's transfer record to sign Alexandre Lacazette, you won't find too many Gooners who are confident that the EPL title is on it's way back to north London next May.

KEY FACT: In Liverpool's only previous PL visit to London Stadium they won 4 - 0 to record their biggest away league victory at West Ham MATCH ODDS: West Ham 4/1 Draw 3/1 Liverpool 8/13 bet365 Pick: Under 4.5 cards 8/13 ANDY SAYS: Easy win for Liverpool here, don't say how West Ham will compete... 0 - 3 GRAEME SAYS: West Ham need to get something I think they might claim a point... 1 - 1 SILKY SAYS: Hard one but I believe that Liverpool will land the win... 1 - 2 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Just under # 2, Mo Salah is a great deal

This was my biggest worry all along.Despite our league position and our record.

Unheralded big man who helped Houston to league's best record is coming off dominant performance in opener

Wisconsin holds a record of 20 - 9 after going 11 - 9 in Big Ten play, but don't mistake that league record for a mediocre team.

Our biggest victory over Middlesbrough that I can recall was in the final game of our record breaking Premier League season of 1998 - 99, when two goals from Trevor Sinclair, and one each from Lampard and Keller gave us a 4 - 0 victory and a finishing league position of fifth League season of 1998 - 99, when two goals from Trevor Sinclair, and one each from Lampard and Keller gave us a 4 - 0 victory and a finishing league position of fifth league position of fifth place.