Sentences with phrase «facing title rivals»

The last thing Barcelona needed ahead of facing title rivals Atletico Madrid this weekend was more dropped points, but that's what happened at Las Palmas.

They will face their title rivals Birmingham City on Sunday 25th September at Burton Albion FC.

Chelsea return to Premier League action on Tuesday night, as they face title rivals Liverpool at Anfield.

Not exact matches

Despite investing heavily in the likes of Paul Pogba and Romelu Lukaku in the last two years, the Red Devils still face a significant gap between themselves and title rivals Man City this season.

With Barca off the pace in the title race with rivals Real Madrid ahead and with games in hand, Enrique is facing the very real prospect of ending up with no major trophy this season which would be a disaster considering how successful he has been since taking the job.

With potential title rivals Manchester City hammering Crystal Palace at the Etihad Stadium earlier in the day and Chelsea yet to place, van Gaal's side face losing ground on those sides currently above them.

Their title credentials will be tested at Saturday lunchtime when they travel to Stamford Bridge to face an out - of - form Chelsea side as manager Arsene Wenger looks to record his first ever league victory over his arch rival Jose Mourinho.

Our north London rivals Tottenham will be facing a Man City side that will be desperate to get back to winning ways after their loss against Leicester and after Man United conceded that late equaliser to Chelsea on Sunday, the current top four are, realistically, the four clubs that could win the title this season.

# 13 Florida at # 15 FSU (Saturday 8:00 pm ET) As we've mentioned all season, Florida has exceeded expectations and continues to win, and they'll face Alabama in the SEC Title Game with a chance to make the NCAAF Playoffs — But first they'll take on bitter rivals FSU on the road.

Guardiola may have given up (and it will certainly be interesting to watch them next week against Tottenham) but our goalkeeper Petr Cech thinks quite the opposite, and points out that we still have games to face against all our title rivals, and if we win them all we can close the gap at the top.

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Having to face their two main rivals for the title in back - to - back weeks is brutal, but everything that they've done so far suggests that they're up to the challenge.

With Arsenal facing our London rivals and the current Premier League title holders Chelsea in China today, most Arsenal fans will expect to see the new striker signing Alexandre Lacazette in the starting line - up and probably in the centre forward position that he used to occupy for Lyon.

And lets face it, the PL winners up until 2005 really only had to beat one main rival to the title.

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The Catalan giants travel to the Spanish capital to face their fierce rivals in what is a must win fixture for Messi and co. if they are to have any chance of winning this year's La Liga title.

Jack loves Arsenal and although he will not be playing for us this season and will not be able to play against us, he will be facing all of our rivals for the Premier League title and I am sure he will want to do everything in his power to take points off them and give the Gunners a boost in the quest to become champions again.

The chances are that, soon after writing this about the injury problems that Arsenal's Premier League title rivals are facing, we will see one or more of our own big stars pick up a knock and be ruled out for a long time.

Arsenal will not have to face our Premier League title rivals Manchester United until after the next international break, but when the Gunners do travel up to Old Trafford for the match on the 19th of November, one of the players that could prove to be the keys to an Arsenal victory is the France international star Laurent Koscielny.

Admittedly Middlesbrough weren't the toughest opposition Jurgen Klopp and his men will face this season, but the ruthless and stylish manner of their win will not have gone unnoticed amongst their title rivals.

A defeat at home to domestic rivals Porto, put the Lisbon side even mathematically out of contention to win the league title and hence the prospect to face Porto in the final may provide them with a chance to exact the revenge.

The Reds have maximum points from their opening two Premier League games courtesy of 1 - 0 wins over Stoke City and Bournemouth, but now face the challenge of a trip to a potential title rival.

Real Madrid bossed over their El Clasico rivals during the Spanish Super Cup in August, but they face a fight to retain the title, having fallen eight points adrift after just 13 games into the season.

The dejected look on Cristiano Ronaldo's face at the final whistle of his Real Madrid side's 1 - 0 crushing defeat over minnows Osasuna last Sunday told you all you need to know about their waning La Liga title hopes as they slipped 7 points behind fierce rivals Barcelona - sitting comfortably in first place in the La Liga table.

PSG's chances of beating Monaco again and wrapping up the Ligue 1 title against their closest rivals in satisfying fashion have been boosted by the news that Kylian Mbappe has been passed fit to face his formative club.

Arsenal last won the title in the 2003 - 04 season and face clawing back a nine - point deficit on London rivals and leaders Chelsea, who drew 1 - 1 with Liverpool.

Liverpool face rivals Manchester United at home on Saturday, live on Sky Sports Premier League, and know a defeat would leave them 10 points adrift of Jose Mourinho's side in the race for the title.

In order to deal with political rivals and other threats he needs to work with Nova, the Ghost that was at one point the protagonist of an action title created by Blizzard, and she - in turns - recruits a few other familiar faces, like Rory Swann and Matt Horner.

[Note: In Home Alone (1990), Macauley Culkin watched a scene from a fictional B / W gangster film videotape titled, «Angels With Filthy Souls» (a take - off on the Cagney film Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)-RRB-, in which gangster Johnny shoots a rival gangster named Snakes, while saying, «Keep the change, ya filthy animal!»]