Sentences with phrase «by league leaders»

Last Result: Although they may not have deserved it, Blackburn were beaten 2 - 1 last weekend by league leaders Chelsea in a gripping encounter which had seen Rovers take the lead, certainly not against the run of play mind, through the sparingly used Benjani before Chelsea stormed back to clinch all three points with goals from Nicolas Anelka and Branislav Ivanovic, the latter coming six minutes from time.

Included in this was total was an 8 - 2 thrashing of West Ham by league leaders Blackburn Rovers.

There was a big setback for Everton last weekend who were beaten at home by league leaders Leicester, leaving the Toffees with just the one win in their last six league matches, despite their heavy scoring.

Spurs will be looking to pounce on any potential slip - up made by league leaders Chelsea, who play Liverpool at Anfield, when they made the trip to Sunderland on Tuesday night.

Juventus were held to a scoreless draw at home by League leaders Inter Milan, who will consider themselves lucky to be leaving Turin with a point.

The pressure is building once again on Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger following his side's 3 - 0 defeat to Chelsea on February 4 where the Gunners were blown away by the league leaders.

The Red Devils have had a difficult campaign overall, as they haven't been able to keep up the pace set by league leaders Manchester City and crashed out of the Champions League in disappointing fashion against Sevilla last week.

46 goals scored by the league leader so far.

Not exact matches

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In the Sept. 5 issue of Fortune, we imagined a new kind of fantasy league: one focused on business leaders, where the stats are ruled more by market cap and earnings per share than on - base percentage and earned run averages.

The 2016 Cubs «did simple better» by leading the league in walks and hit by pitch, and were among the leaders in statistics such as team defense and walks allowed.

The Northern League, once a marginal party that called for the independence of the northern Padania region, became mainstream by appealing to national and religious sentiments under its new leader, Matteo Salvini.

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That viewpoint is supported by the fact that the Merseyside outfit are languishing in eighth in the Premier League table, 15 points adrift of leaders Leicester City.

League scoring leader Levern Tart, who was acquired by NEW JERSEY (24 - 27) in exchange for Barry Liebowitz.

The league leaders are showing they have that star - quality needed to take games by the scruff of the neck, while our side seem to be scrapping for their results all too often.

While a lot of Arsenal fans may be feeling that Arsene Wenger and the players have missed a trick by failing to win our away game at Bournemouth in order to capitalise on the very welcome defeat of the current Premier League leaders Chelsea last night, I look at things a different way.

We need leaders in this team... we seem to crumble when the pressure is on... I want to believe the young guns of then (Ramsey, Theo, Wilshere, Gibbs, etc) have matured by now... winning the league is not just having new signings but having leaders in d team... we need the likes of Caz, kos, Sanchez to step up n lead d team

It comes just a fortnight after they were defeated by Manchester City, while their overall form hasn't been good enough and that's reflected in the fact that they sit in sixth place in the Premier League table, a point adrift of the top four and 12 points behind leaders City.

This wasn't our best performance by a long shot, but the festive period is famous for throwing up shocks, such as a small club like Tottenham managing to gain only their fifth ever league win over the league leaders Chelsea.

Signing a player of the Argentine's quality without paying a penny would be shrewd business by the Premier League leaders.

And the home side will be buoyed by their battling draw against the league leaders Chelsea and a return to form after their recent slump.

Wilshere has now moved to praise the Premier League leaders, which may not be taken well by his employers, naming them as the best at present.

They need a leader on that pitch because the current senior players like Mert, Theo, Kos and Flamini are not doing as required in games where we would have run away with the league by now.

The year before that we did win our opener against Crystal Palace after beating Man City to the Shield quite comfortably but then our title challenge faltered and Arsenal did not win another league game for over a month and by mid-October Chelsea were runaway leaders.

At least Ramsey, as reported by The Guardian, the midfielder was sounding upbeat about the chances of the Gunners doing just that, despite the fact that out next opponents are the league leaders Leicester City who are in fine form and are coming to north London having produced a great away display to put another title rival Man City to the sword.

Led by Max «League Leader in Week 17» Kaplan who had 32 points and Team Shamberg member Todd «hot on his heels» Siegel had the 2nd most with 30 You know what's amazing — there are 4 pairs of Teams that are tied with each other going into the final week of the Season — each one of those pairs have split their 2 head to head meetings.

It sometimes seems like Leicester City are on top of the League by default, with Arsenal, Man City and Man United continually dropping crucial points in the title race, but Arsenal are still sitting pretty just two points behind the leaders.

Premier League champions Manchester City and title - leaders Chelsea have been beaten to the status as the most dangerous team in English football by, wait for it... League One outfit Brentford!

Chelsea have also recently been dumped out of the Carabao Cup by Arsenal after a semi-final defeat, and will be big underdogs against La Liga leaders Barcelona when they meet in the Champions League next week.

This was the vital game though for Real who trail leaders Barcelona by 16 points in La Liga after a poor campaign and it is their best chance of picking up some silverware outside of the Champions League, in which they are evenly poised against Manchester United after a 1 - 1 first leg draw at the Bernabeu.

Rollie Fingers tied a Padre mark by picking up his 16th save, and rookie Outfielder Gene Richards stole four bases in five tries, giving him 20 in 23 attempts and putting him among the league leaders.

While City look set to put together a strong run of form, they still trail Premier League leaders Chelsea by 10 points after 24 games.

Reinforcements will be expected at Old Trafford as the Red Devils continue to trail Premier League leaders Manchester City by some distance at the top of the table.

City are unwilling to match that amount but sources have told Goal that the Premier League leaders are hopeful they can avoid a repeat of the protracted summer saga by tying up a deal long before the transfer deadline at the end of this month.

The Gunners have slipped to 11 points behind Premier League leaders Leicester City and were dumped out of the FA Cup by Watford in the quarter - finals on Sunday.

Liverpool had the chance to close the gap on league leaders Chelsea yesterday, but were held to a 2 - 2 draw by Sunderland.

The league leaders have unquestionably been poor by their standards recently, but still have a bit of a buffer at the top of the table.

Who would ever have thought that the season's only no - hitter would be thrown by the Dodgers» Kevin Gross; that the only National League player to hit three homers in a game would be Atlanta shortstop Jeff Blauser; that Jose Canseco would be a Ranger; and that the National League strikeout leader, David Cone, would be anchoring the pennant drive for the Blue Jays?

Arsenal lost two away games in a row to go nine points behind the league leaders Chelsea as they were beaten by the gallant Manchester City side who rallied from behind to beat Arsenal 2 - 1 in the match.

We are only behind the league leaders by three points.

The weekend's woes were completed when the league leaders Man City scored a very late winner after it looked like they may be held by West Ham and that goal gives them a huge gap of 15 points over Arsenal.

Manchester United are Manchester City's closest competitors this year, but they still trail the league leaders by 12 points.

Next up for Eddie Howe's team is the trip to face the current league leaders Chelsea on Boxing Day and the Evening Standard reports that Jack has declared his desperate wish to help his parent club by helping his current one to stop Chelsea's winning run.

Premier League leaders Chelsea fell 4 - 2 at the hands of third tier Bradford City at Stamford Bridge, whilst reigning league champions Manchester City were also beaten at home by Aitor Karanka's MiddlesbLeague leaders Chelsea fell 4 - 2 at the hands of third tier Bradford City at Stamford Bridge, whilst reigning league champions Manchester City were also beaten at home by Aitor Karanka's Middlesbleague champions Manchester City were also beaten at home by Aitor Karanka's Middlesbrough.

The gap between the Gunners and the league leaders Chelsea had stretched to a massive and daunting looking 12 points after we lost back to back games against Watford and the Blues themselves, but Sean Dyche and his Burnley side did us a big favour today by holding Chelsea to a draw at Turf Moor, or did they?

That was the scathing assessment of the Arsenal midfielder by former Chelsea manager Glenn Hoddle following the Gunners» 3 - 1 defeat to the league leaders on Saturday.

With the number of talented pitchers with electric stuff seemingly increasing by the year, we like the league leader to record at least 265 strikeouts this season.

The Gunners have fallen to 16 points behind the league leaders Chelsea, albeit having played a match less, and more importantly, now trail Liverpool by five, with the Reds having played twice more than us.

Of course there was a great need for Arsenal to win the game against Eddie Howe's team as well but unless we now go on and beat the league leaders then our chances of being crowned champions at the end of the season will be hanging by a thread.