Sentences with phrase «by relegation into»

In two seasons in Norway, Bradley transformed Stabaek from a club threatened by relegation into a spot in the Europa League.

Not exact matches

Spurs could be leapfrogged into the top four by either Manchester United or Allardyce's former club West Ham this weekend depending on results, while Sunderland will know that a win will take them out of the bottom three, at least provisionally before their relegation rivals Bournemouth and Swansea City play on Saturday afternoon and Monday evening respectively.

The Black Cats are currently sat in the relegation zone, but gave themselves a huge boost by beating Norwich City last week, leaving them only one point into the drop zone.

Everton currently sit 17th and hover above the relegation zone on goal difference, although they may drop into the bottom three if they lose by three goals or more away at Manchester United this evening.

U can't play football without a midfield and arsenal do nt have any in the squad and to think we could of had kante and bakayoko if Wenger had a brain but I'm seriously worried that arteta (xhaka) could get us into a relegation battle by giving the opposition the most assists in prem history

It can't have been easy coming into a team who've been blighted by relegation talk all season, yet the young defender has shown great maturity in his play throughout the campaign.

A world class player gets sought by teams like Real and Bayern and doesn't let his team fall into relegation.

Poor old Ronald Koeman took Everton into the Europa League positions last season, but after a summer when he had to sell his prolific striker Romelu Lukaku he failed to bring in a suitable replacement and the Dutchman was sacked after dropping into the relegation zone after being destroyed by Arsenal last weekend.

By the season's end, Palermo had climbed into 18th position meaning that once again they suffered relegation.

Having resisted the temptation to dismiss Bilic in the summer, when time and options were more plentiful, the owners had effectively painted themselves into a corner by tolerating increasingly desperate performances until even they must have known that the team were certain relegation candidates unless immediate changes were made.

With Swansea playing Liverpool I would hope that by 5 o'clock on Saturday we will be out of the relegation places and above both Swansea and Middlesbrough as we go into the second international break of the season.

During his final season in Germany, the club plummeted into the relegation zone before clawing their way back to seventh place by season's end.

Koeman, 54, who was sacked by Everton in October after a string of defeats saw The Toffees fall into the relegation zone, will be taking over from Dick Advocaat — the latest in a raft of unsuccessful appointments since 2014.

After a run of three straight defeats, hope was restored by two back to back wins over Crystal Palace and Liverpool, but Hull promptly lost three in a row and Leicester picked up points left right and centre to drop the Tigers into the relegation zone.

Before I lay into Stoke can I bring your attention to a peculiar decision by another relegation threatened side?

A squad player for County the following two seasons, he chipped in with a few goals, including a brace in the vital win over Grimsby in 2005/6 to stave off the spectre of successive relegations, but never made it into double figures and also had something of an attitude problem — probably the consequence of being worshipped by a family for whom he could, it seemed, do no wrong.

Wolves and Blackburn will go into» Survival Sunday» sat side - by - side in the table, a solitary point above the relegation places meaning victory for either side, regardless of whatever drama unfolds elsewhere around the country, would be enough to guarantee the victor a berth into the 2011/2012 Barclay's Premier League.

A broadly positive night amounted to further respite from a miserable season that, from excitement at their summer takeover by Chinese investors Fosun Group and a number of expensive additions, has spiraled into a battle with relegation to League One.

Lambert was axed as manager by Lerner on Wednesday after dropping into the relegation zone.

That was followed by the club, who are bottom of the Premier League and under threat from relegation, finding itself front and back page news heading into Saturday's match after allegations that senior players Jonny Evans, Gareth Barry, Jake Livermore and Boaz Myhill had stolen a taxi during the training camp in Barcelona this week.

By the time Guus Hiddink stepped in to replace Mourinho in mid-December, the club were closer to the relegation zone than the top half of the table, but the Dutchman steadied the ship as interim boss, overseeing an unbeaten run of 14 top flight games from Boxing Day into April.

Their manager, Owen Coyle, is now hailed as a genius by the Trotters» faithful and will take his team to Anfield this Saturday aiming to demonstrate just why his team have received so many plaudits this season, and why Coyle hasn't stopped receiving recognition for the job he's done in transforming a team threatened with relegation into one challenging for European football.

However, their fightback was brief, just three days in fact as they were thumped 4 - 0 at The Stadium of Light by a Sunderland side which hadn't won in fourteen beforehand, which just puts it into perspective just how topsy - turvy Bolton have been this season, while the fact remains that Bolton are still struggling in their battle to fend off relegation.

Nevertheless, Spurs managed to beat Hull 2 - 0 to further condemn the tigers to relegation, and allowed Spurs to go back up to 6th position, and back into the highly coveted and much wanted by everyone around them, Europa League places.

The fact we're even discussing the possibility of Bolton playing in Europe next season is a testament to how far the Trotters have come in such a short space of time under Owen Coyle, who has been lauded by the English media all season in binning their perception of being a relegation candidate and replacing it with one of mid-table stature, but also into a side which play some pretty slick football at times.

He dismissed claims by the club's fans that the government pushed the team into relegation after it starved it of fund.

They want to change the contempt with which they are treated, they want to end the blockage placed in front of them designed to quash their aspirations and heritage, they want to end the mentality of relegation that sees so many First Nations forced into to the lowest status imaginable by the political and cultural mainstream.