Sentences with phrase «challenging at the top end»

We finished October knowing that this team was more than capable of challenging at the top end of the table.

Having been tipped to challenge at the top end of the table, Ronald Koeman's side have been a major disappointment and odds of 33/1 to be relegated could look generous if they fail to improve.

The source material is taken from recent publications and is designed to allow for stretch and challenge at the top end.

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Wenger has changed too much from being under budget for more than a decade, unfortunately it has cost him his ability to adapt to the modern game and it's blatantly obvious, he should simply retire at the end of this season and and give his job to someone who knows how to challenge for the top spot in this modern era.

Anyway, another season ending and no glimpse, NO GLIMPSE at all of any improvement in challenging the top club in the league.

At the time of recording this performance was enough to put them top of the Playstation 4 leaderboards, but by the end of the challenge slipped down to sixth on the PS4 leaderboard and 22nd on all platforms - still pretty impressive!

To have any realistic chance of challenging for the title, however, or even to ensure a place in the top four at the end of this very competitive season, the Gunners have to continue to show this killer instinct, because looking at Chelsea and Tottenham's games yesterday it looks like they will not be giving us any help.

We might well end up with another FA cup trophy as well but something has changed, at least in the way the Gunners and our ability to really challenge the top of the table is perceived by the football media.

It's been too long without a league and with our main top players refusing to extend their contracts for now (Sanchez and Ozil), we need to at least challenge for the title till the end.

This is where we start to find out if this team has the mental strength to win or at least seriously challenge for the top spot right to the end of the season.

There have already been 10 clubs on top of the league this season, but we all know that any club can soon falter so Arsenal just need to get back to winning ways and hope that those around us slip up and the paper has been looking at the upcoming fixtures of the top six to see whose challenge is more likely to be looking strong at the end of the year.

At the end of the season we have not been challenging for the title but battling it out to get a top four spot.

And with Swansea being the first of three EPL matches against teams currently in the bottom five, Arsenal fans can reasonably expect to be at least challenging for top spot by the end of the month.

Therefore, a repeat of the 2012/2013 season injuries to our top Gunners should be forestalled by the Boss not to hinder Arsenal geniue title challenge in this season campaign that is already looking promising for us to lift the League title at the end of the season.

With Liverpool struggling at both ends and with Tottenham clearly not happy with Wembley Stadium as their home ground, Arsenal could be feeling pretty optimistic, but until Man City and / or United start to wobble then we are still only playing catch - up and may have to win our upcoming games against them to challenge for the top.

Spurs are playing their part in a truly remarkable Premier League season, and as Leicester City tightened their grip on top spot, so the Lilywhites took another step towards a likely title challenge at the end of the season.

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He is a player who has been involved at the top end of the table, following Liverpool's title challenge last season.

The Spelunky Daily Challenge gives every player one chance to complete a newly generated cave, the winner being the top scorer at the day's end.

The first two handheld Mario Tennis titles feature role - playing game elements, where the player controls a young boy or girl character who has enrolled at the Royal Tennis Academy and must set out to become the top - ranked player there, enter a tournament called «The Island Open» to challenge other tennis champions from elsewhere in the world, and afterward travel to the Mushroom Kingdom to challenge its stars, ending with a match against the game world's greatest tennis player of all, Mario.

Trent Hindman topped the time charts in Wednesday's opening Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge practice at Road Atlanta, ahead of Friday's season - ending round.

David Ostella will start Saturday's Pirelli World Challenge SprintX race from the pole, having taken M1 GT Racing's Audi R8 LMS to the top spot in qualifying for the season - ending round at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca.

On top of all the studying at the end of the term, you have to devote time to these challenging assignments that have to be flawless.

It may not be able to challenge the likes of the iPad Air 2 at the top - end of the market, but it still offers excellent value for money, decent performance and a well - considered design.

The challenge: The Hohe Scharte Nord (10.4 km and 1440 m top - to - bottom drop) is one of the longest — and most beautiful — downhill runs of Europe's Eastern Alps: ski non-stop at the end of the day for a well - earned soak in one of the two public natural spas, Alpentherme in Bad Hofgastein or Felsentherme in Bad Gastein.

- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».

For starters hitting the matchup tab tosses you into an area where you challenge other people in order to score league points, and at the end of the week if you're in the top 20 % of people you can advance to the next league.

Now, I'm not afraid of a good challenge myself (I've beaten the challenge levels at the end of all the newer Mario games, though they are a little over the top).

Usually at the end of a level is a boss character, providing an additional challenge on top of an already punishing formula.

While the Instigator mini-boss at the end of the demo certainly proved a challenge for me to overcome, Tate have promised over the top creations that will likely fill a large part of the screen.