Sentences with phrase «current league leaders»

It has certainly been an unpredictable season so far though, highlighted by the success of current league leaders Leicester City and the terrible results of the holders Chelsea.

Manuel Pellegrini's side are six points behind current league leaders Chelsea, while defeat to Newcastle put them out of the Capital One Cup, which they also won last season.

And I hate myself a little bit for saying this, but I think that Chelsea are on the comeback trail and could do us a favour against current league leaders Leicester in Monday night.

However, Chelsea lost again this weekend to West Ham, making it a worryingly high four defeats for the campaign already, and putting them 11 points behind current league leaders Manchester City.

Arsenal are nine points behind current league leaders Manchester City at the moment and Arsenal will collide against the Citizens at th...

Napoli are charging towards manager Maurizio Sarri's first Scudetto in Italy this season, battling with current league leaders and champions Juventus.

Lippi makes no mention of current league leaders, Inter, one of the few top flight sides where his huge skills failed to produce postive results, during a disappointing 1999 - 2000 season.

The Gunners face current league leaders Leicester City before the first leg at the Emirates, and Manchester United away afterwards.

Despite not having the best ending to his Dortmund time, many believes that Klopp can make positive difference at Liverpool this season, notably since in terms of points, they're not far off top four place or even current league leader.

There's all to play for in La Liga as current league leaders Real Madrid take on their closest rivals, Atletico Madrid in what should be another fiesty derby.

The reigning Premier League champions did not show a great deal of ambition in an uninspiring performance at the Etihad Stadium that allowed current league leaders City to go 18 points clear at the top of the table.

Eddie Howe's side have won their last four league games in a row, and with seven wins so far this term, they sit just two points behind current league leaders Derby County.

Huddersfield Town are set to host current league leaders Manchester City at the Kirklees Stadium on Sunday, 26th November 2017 which will be the last game of the weekend in premier league.

Mumbai City FC might have bowed out of the second season of the Indian Super League (ISL), but they bowed out with their heads held high, as they defeated defending champions and current league leaders Atletico de Kolkata (ATK) 3 - 2.

Their only loss on home soil happened against current league leaders Cardiff so really, Wolves have propped themselves up well.

Defending champions and current league leaders Bayern Munich take on relegation battlers Eintracht Frankfurt in the Allianz Arena hoping to hold on to their 5 goal lead at the top of the table.

Its a massive game where top of the league Manchester City take on Serie A's current league leaders Napoli in a mouth watering clash.

It was a big mach between current league leader against runners up and both teams were determined in snatching all three points.

Avoiding defeat here would keep their confidence up ahead of a visit from current league leaders Liverpool on Sunday.

Current League leaders Chelsea are battling in the relegation zone on the same merit.

Crystal Palace are coming into this game on the back of 3 - 1 defeat in the hands of Arsenal and they will fancy their chances at home against current league leaders City to get something out of this match.

Arsenal are now 19 points behind current league leaders Manchester City and should be focusing on finishing in the top four spot if they are to earn a Champions League qualification for next season.

It looks like Arsenal's north London rivals Tottenham are going to win again as they are currently 2 - 0 up at home to West Brom and the Gunners must follow suit in our away game with Swansea City to keep up with the spuds and keep in touch with the current league leaders Chelsea.

But he also knows that this was just a small step for Arsenal if we are to overhaul the current league leaders Leicester City.

With the current league leaders Manchester United heading to the Emirates next weekend, this game has come in the nick of time and if Arsenal continue to play at the high level we saw today, we might even see the Gunners on top of the table.

Arsene Wenger may not be thrilled by the fact that his side only managed one point in two games against the current league leaders and runners up so far, but he can at least rest easily knowing he won't be meeting them again anytime soon.

At least the current league leaders did not win their own midweek game against Liverpool, but they did get a point and all Arsenal fans know that nothing less than a win will do for us at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.

In fact there are at least three key men at the current league leaders Chelsea who still appear to be pretty wary of the Gunners, which is probably increased this week as Arsene Wenger prepares to take the team to Stamford Bridge looking for a repeat of the match against them at home, which saw Arsenal inflict their heaviest defeat of the season.

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.

It was another disappointing weekend in the Premier League for arsenal and the other sides hoping to chase down the current league leaders and pip them to the title, as Chelsea won quite comfortably away to the reigning Champions Leciester City, and that was despite our hopes that the row between Costa and Conte that kept their main striker out of the squad might have a negative impact.

That would be stupid as the Gunners are only two points off the top and the current league leaders Man City and there is a very long way to go and plenty of time for many more twists and turns to this season.

But once the dust has settled and Arsenal are hopefully celebrating a vital three points against the current league leaders Leicester City, all eyes will turn north to the Etihad Stadium where another key match will be played.

In fact they are going to0 have a nice wedgeof cash to add to their transfer budget for the January transfer window and that is likely to be bad news for the Gunners as we hope to complete a few good signings of our own and catch the current league leaders in the second half of the season.

He then went on to say that his job is to worry about Arsenal and how we can keep up with and even pass the current league leaders Man City in the race to be crowned champions.

And I would expect the law of averages to kick in a bit to see the current league leaders drop some points, especially considering that there are six big clubs fighting it out at the top.

That is because their opponents at White Hart Lane will be the current league leaders Chelsea and the sooner that someone puts the brake onto their momentum the better for Arsenal, and for every other club hoping to beat Chelsea to the title.

Now we will have the chance to put that right against the current League leaders.

We'll be out the League Cup, bottom of our Champions League group and about 7 more points behind the current league leader.

The Gunners were just a few minutes from moving to within a single game of the current league leaders Man City, but unfortunately they grabbed a 90th minute goal away to Crystal Palace.

On this particular Saturday afternoon, Bayern, defending Bundesliga champions and current league leaders, are entertaining FC Köln.

Arsenal fans can never really be hapy when our north London rivals win, but you have to admit that Tottenham have done us a big favour today in beating Man City and giving Arsenal the chance to move to within two points of the current league leaders.

Okay we can say that there are all sorts of factors over the course of a season and that those early games may not be representative, but they did include an easy win over the current league leaders as well as the first two games when injury and fitness problems ravaged the team and we only took one point from the two.

While things are looking pretty flippin» good from an Arsenal point of view right now, with a decent draw against Reading at home for the next round of the EFL cup as well as a good chance of topping our Champions League group and winning the last four Premier League games in a row, the Gunners are still faced with the worrying fact that we are still five points behind the current league leaders.

The good news for Arsenal came at Anfield, where Jurgen Klopp saw his Liverpool side take all three points off the current league leaders Leicester City.

That is because our north London rivals Tottenham did us and everyone but Chelsea a big favour by beating the current league leaders.

Huth has played for the current league leaders Leicester 27 times, has three goals to his names and has one Man of the Match award this season.

And going on how he thinks the spuds will do, that would be enough for the Gunners to finish above our north London rivals, but not above the current league leaders Leicester.

Perhaps if Mourinho feels that Ozil would help his United side challenge the current league leaders Man City in the second half of this season, but what would you Arsenal fans make of this deal?

The Premier League has been really unbelievable this season, who would have thought before the season started that Leicester would be the current league leaders and league champions Chelsea would have a poor campaign.