Sentences with phrase «drop more points against»

Only one point separates the Gunners from Tottenham Hotspur in fourth, but in what is shaping up to be a tight battle for the Champions League places, Arsenal can ill - afford to drop more points against a struggling team.

I would not be surprised to see them drop more points against the Saints but if not I think it will be close and that gives Arsenal the chance to hit the front.

Not exact matches

City are better than us this season, so I wouldn't read too much into that result, the game against Stoke is more important — we can't afford to drop anymore «easy» points.

May sound perverse but I think a more evenly matched top 5 will offer us a better chance of at least still being in the mix later in the season — no one team likely to dominate and walk away with it and all dropping a few points against each other.

Fans, however, are more focused on the bizarre decision to bench Kolasinac for what is arguably a must - win game after dropping points against West Ham.

we still have 35 more games to go and obviously other teams will definately drop points and Arsenal needs to make sure they win their big games against the top teams.

Christiano Ronaldo and Real Madrid are really hitting form at the right time and are now more motivated for ucl, but their being 15 points behind Barcelona, knocked out of the Copa Del Rey and dropping unnecessary points against small teams, this season, should also not be taken for granted.

This is on what these two are truly arguing; Wenger uses the cup as an example against Neville but Neville isn't really belittling our ability to win games, but rather, that in the long run of a whole season it is more likely for us to drop points due to relying purely on skill which is far more linked to form then something like physicality.

As well as some fantastic games and results, Arsenal managed to drop points against the likes of Sunderland, Swansea, Stoke, Crystal Palace and West Brom and we paid the heaviest possible price for that inconsistency, as the more consistent but less talented Leicester City swooped in and took the Premier League trophy.

They can say that the bigger clubs will drop points against each other, so it will be more open than ever but also more interesting.

He then was asked what we need to do in order to challenge and he said be more regular with our performance levels and beat the smaller teams we often dropped points against.

I feel its good to experiment against the weaker teams, i do nt see Burnley offering much in terms of competition so lets go and get 3 points and hope tams in front us drop some more points.

We have to get out of that funk as we can't afford to drop more points aside from the Chelsea game we have failed to win games with authority against big teams.

The more points they drop against small teams early on, they'll have to make up against the big teams later on.

While Spurs did demonstrate a potentially fatal wobble when they dropped two points at home against West Bromwich Albion on Monday, Hiddink demonstrated a remarkable arrogance when he suggested that Tottenham — who had more English titles than Chelsea until the middle of the last decade — were entering uncharted territory.

a draw is a bad as a loss now cos it ll only extend Mourinho's unbeaten record against Wenger n would make us drop 2 more points, going 4point from the top

Despite their miraculous campaign so far, I still feel like City and sadly — Spurs look like the biggest title threat so far, and I'm hopeful that the Mahrez - Vardy party will continue for two more rounds, because our own inconsistency means we must hope that others will also drop points against the lesser sides.

Looking at the net points that we dropped and the points deficit that we have against the eventual champions, we can see that with just 8 more points, we would have been alright.

United dropped points against the likes of Burnley, Hull City, Sunderland, West Brom and Leicester over the course of the campaign, results which ultimately cost them from achieving anything more than a top four finish.

Leading 2 - 0 at half - time, Arsenal could have played quite conservatively in the second half and just let the game drift away, but they seemed buoyed by news of Ludogorets leading in Paris and seemed determined to kill the game off against Basel as soon as possible, as that would put more pressure on the Parisians if PSG got wind of the fact that Arsenal were in no danger of dropping points.

«It means there could be even more importance not to drop points against the teams who don't compete for the championships.»

Arsenal dropped more points in the title race following a 3 - 3 draw against Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium in midweek and the result was most certainly a very disappointing one for the Gunners.

Talking point: Northern Ireland showed more attacking intent than against Poland after manager Michael O'Neill made a number of changes from the opening game against Poland, including dropping striker Kyle Lafferty to the bench, Conor Washington came in and worked hard to close down Ukraine's defenders, while his team - mates closely marshalled Ukraine's wide man, Andriy Yarmolenko and Yevhen Konoplyanka.

Morris has dropped in 14 or more points in 13 of his 25 games since the All - Star Break and scored 15 points in each of his past two games against Toronto.

Antonio Conte's men dropped more points in Sunday's 1 - 1 draw against West Ham at Stamford Bridge to leave their chances of Champions League qualification seeming increasingly remote.

If points are dropped against Bournemouth, it would be far more difficult to do that, so this is a bigger game for Liverpool than perhaps some people realise.

They done so by the skin of their teeth in previous seasons, but last season Bolton finished a clear nine points above the drop, with the teams results definitely improving in the second half of the season under new manager Owen Coyle, so there were promising signs from the Reebok club that they can do a lot better than they for the most part last term, when positive form was almost non-existent and despite some valiant and brave efforts against some classy opponents they just couldn't convert their courageous performances into points which would have propelled them up the Premier League and into a more respectable finishing position.

The defending La Liga champs have made a poor start to the new term as they drop more points in the draw against Levante.

Markey's support for the bill, and more specifically her unsubstantiated claim that a bishop had briber her to drop it, was used by Barnwell as a talking point against her.

Well, the movie appears to mostly take place in the early - to - mid 1930s — the synopsis says the movie takes place in Europe «between the wars,» (meaning between WWI and WWII), «all against the back - drop of a suddenly and dramatically changing continent» (this earlier synopsis is even more revealing of this point).