Sentences with phrase «eventual champions»

The most points lost in the last 8 games by eventual champions in recent years has been Man U (10 pts 2007, 9 pts 2013), Man City (8 pts 2014), Chelsea (8 pts 2006).

A struggle against QPR was followed with a man of the match performance against eventual champions Manchester City.

After beating eventual champions Leicester in February, Arsenal's attack ground to a halt amidst their lack of cohesive spacing.

The 22 - year - old enjoyed a breakthrough year in Ligue 1 last season as he scored 13 goals and registered nine assists in 34 league appearances as Lyon ran eventual champions Paris Saint - Germain close for the title.

Lacazette's 27 Ligue 1 goals in 2014 - 15 meant that Lyon ran eventual champions Paris Saint - Germain extremely close, and their star striker was linked with a host of big clubs that summer as a result.

Looking a little closer though and Tevez regains a bit of ground, three of his four Top 6 goals were scored against eventual champions Chelsea, and each time they were decisive goals.

He's lost a quarterfinal on penalties, too, to eventual champions Uruguay in 2011.

After five rounds, Rubin had just three points, and were yet to win despite playing four of the final bottom seven, as well as eventual champions Spartak.

By the time of him replacing Slutsky, Ufa were in the top half of the 2016/17 Russian Premier League, even achieving an impressive away win over that season's eventual champions Spartak.

He was again rarely troubled in wins over eventual champions Manchester City, and relegated Wolves.

But in a season where a turbulent start under ex-manager Rafa Benitez left Real with a lot to do to catch up with rivals Atleti and Barca in the Primera Division, Zidane did a stellar job in only finishing one point behind eventual champions Barcelona.

During that final round, Woods made a strong run at eventual champion Rory McIlroy and shot a 62.

Five - time winners Brazil were thrashed 7 - 1 in the 2014 semi-finals by eventual champions Germany at the Maracana, but Pele, considered one of the best players of all time, insisted that new coach Tite has formed a team ready to put his country's painful memories to rest.

One of the all - time great GP2 moments, eventual champion Romain Grosjean was fighting through from last after being disqualified from the feature race.

The underdog Wildcats stunned their way to the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament, losing by just two to eventual champion Kansas.

The Cambodians made it out of the group stage with a win and a loss, and then lost narrowly to eventual champions Iran in the semifinals; not bad for a country in the middle of a civil war.

Merrins also remembers May's hitting his second shot into the water on the par - 5 17th at Cherry Hills in the quarterfinals of the 1990 U.S. Amateur, handing the match to eventual champion Phil Mickelson.

Led by 6» 4» senior All - America center Jayne Appel, Stanford's front line, which goes 6» 4» and 6» 2» at the starting forward spots, and 6» 3», 6» 3» and 6» 5» off the bench, is bigger, deeper and potentially better than it was last year, when the Cardinal made its second straight Final Four before being ousted by eventual champion Connecticut.

This hotly contested affair between eventual champions Bayern Munich and second place RB Leipzig will go down as one of the most dramatic matches to have ever taken place in Germany's top flight.

Monday is commonly referred to as «golf's longest day» with over 800 players going for 56 U.S. Open spots, but the best of the best, and the likely eventual champion, has already earned his way into the field.

Venus's last - minute withdrawal from her much - anticipated match against Serena at Indian Wells in March — amid charges of gross disregard for the ticket - buying fan and speculation that their father, Richard, had ordered Serena to lose to eventual champion Venus in their semifinal match at last year's Wimbledon — sparked a public - relations firestorm that hadn't yet been doused.

The 1991 UNLV Runnin» Rebels, widely regarded as one of the best teams in NCAA history, entered the tournament with a perfect record before being bounced by eventual champion Duke in the Final Four.

They were upset by TCU in the season opener — just their second home loss in seven seasons — and whipped by eventual champion Texas.

With the entire roster returning from last year's squad that went 27 - 7, and lost to eventual champion Mater Dei - Santa Ana in the CIFSS Division I semifinals, the Cougars have been riding high as an unbeaten state and national No. 1 team.

Last season they finished a distant 8th with only fractional more than half the points of eventual champions Juventus.

A title winner with Atletico Madrid in 2013/14, the former Ajax man also did well to help Southampton to 7th place in the Premier League last season, with the second best goals - against record in the country, behind only eventual champions Chelsea.

It also was the same last season in college in the sense that Browning's team went to the Open Division, in this case the NCAA College Football Playoff where it lost in the semifinals to eventual champion Alabama, while Smith's team went to the Rose Bowl and posted a come - from - behind 52 - 49 win over Penn State.

Two years ago Indianapolis Cathedral might have won a state title if three players hadn't cramped up in overtime of the team's regional final against eventual champion Ben Davis.

As well as these star names Anzhi have also built up a strong squad of South Americans (Diego Tardelli, Jucilei da Silva, Joao Carlos) and Eastern Block players (Odil Ahmedov, Aleksei Igonin, Shamil Lakhiyalov) putting themselves in a good position for a convincing league campaign and eventual Champions League qualification.

The 1970 Italian Grand Prix is remembered for the tragic accident in qualifying which killed eventual champion Jochen Rindt.

She actually retired in her quarterfinal match against eventual champion Caroline Wozniacki, who was No. 1 at the time.

In 1986 they became the first African side to reach the knockout stages, winning a group containing Portugal, Poland, and England, and only losing narrowly to eventual champions West Germany.

Incredibly, eventual champions thwarted Bella Vista's postseasons runs each of the last four seasons.

They finished in first place in the regular season in the Clausura, but lost to eventual champions Santos Laguna in the quarter finals of the playoffs as a gruelling Copa Libertadores travel schedule took its toll.

Eventual champion El Toro also had a Mr. Baseball finalist in 12 - 1 pitcher Jake Jackson, but for Jackson to have been a more serious contender to the other three he would have had to have had solid hitting totals in addition to the pitching.

Feyenoord finished 21 points behind eventual champions PSV Eindhoven, who finished two points clear of second - placed Ajax.

The immediate aftermath of the Maine Road meltdown wasn't that bad, with back - to - back victories recorded over Bournemouth and Leicester but as proceedings wore on, the poor results continued to pile up — the club conceded 4 goals on three more occasions — at Swindon, Hull and eventual Champions Millwall, the earlier victory over the Lions one of those oddities that any given season will throw up.

Bayern Munich are in crisis — so long as your definition of «crisis» is «currently sit in third place in the Bundesliga through six games, after winning the league by 15 points last season and also pushing eventual champions Real Madrid to extra time in the quarterfinals of the Champions League.»

Drawn in a horror group at the Asian Cup, Oman were hammered 4 - 0 by eventual champions Australia and lost 1 - 0 to beaten finalists South Korea.

Despite a dismal away record last term, Clyde had the fifth - best home record in League 2, collecting just a point less on their own patch than eventual champions Arbroath managed.

The event was highly criticized by Mentzer, as well as many others, because he was in better shape than ever before, yet lost to eventual champion Arnold Schwarzenegger.

At Copa America 2011, a tournament hosted by Argentina, the Albiceleste drew their first two matches and lost in the quarterfinals to eventual champions Uruguay, on penalties.

Juve, who lost to eventual champions Barcelona but beat Paris Saint - Germain and Serie A rivals Roma last year, will play the Bundesliga champions in Philadelphia on July 24 and the Portuguese participants four days later in Harrison, New Jersey.

Umtiti made 35 league appearances for Lyon last season, scoring once and assisting twice as they ran eventual champions Paris Saint - Germain close for the title.

Play times been moved before and «the eventual champion should not be deprived of knowing they are the best and didn't win by default.»

This capacity to continue to create the genuinely new is a significant motif in the testimony of Second Isaiah (e.g., 41:17 — 20), culminating in his disciples» envisioning of the creation of «new heavens and a new earth» (65:17; cf. 66:22), holding within itself the promise of the eventual championing of divinely intended order over all that threatens to inhibit it.

@sam - afc Exactly... What balance doesn't he want to effect — the balance of a team always finishing about 10 points behind the eventual champions.

If the eventual Champions came out of this Opening Round game I would not be surprised one bit; that does not just go for Team Maione either... Team Zimmerman has a tremendous amount of talent and if they can figure out a way to just cut down on a few wasteful turnovers and staying within themselves, they really can be the last team standing.