Sentences with phrase «few games remaining»

Start a season with hope, only for it to drizzle away with a few games remaining.

That clinched United's sixth win in their last seven league games, and all but confirmed their place in the top four by extending the lead over fifth - placed Chelsea to fourteen points with only a few games remaining.

They were 12 points behind United with few games remaining, but they still pulled it off.

The Arsenal captain Mikel Arteta has only made 11 appearances for the club so far this season, and with only a few games remaining until the end of the season, he is still a week or two away from being ready to play.

Not exact matches

Whether you're an average guy just starting your running journey to shed a few pounds, or you're deep in the running game training for your next marathon, the importance of finding a good pair of running shoes remains the same.

Few executives show more public passion for March Madness than the Berkshire Hathaway (BRK - A) CEO, whose contest for Berkshire employees this year offers a prize of $ 1 million per year for life for correctly predicting the Sweet Sixteen, or $ 1 million for nailing the first 32 games, or $ 100,000 to the person whose bracket remains perfect the longest.

Whether Arsene Wenger chooses to rest a few first team players for the Champions League away game against Barcelona on Wednesday night remains to be seen, but judging from his comments in the press conference today reported by The Mirror, I would not be at all surprised.

Despite home - field advantage, it appears Georgia might have a few more questions to answer in a game that it must win to remain in the national title hunt.

A quick glance through the comments left by his followers shows just how well it went down, and it's good to see Evra in high spirits as he looks to make an impact in the next few months at West Ham while also remaining one of the best personalities in the game on social media.

He landed very awkwardly on his knee, but he flexed it a few times, walked it off and was able to remain in the game.

Sackrowitz's table shows that when trailing by 10 points, a coach typically should not go for two until fewer than six combined possessions remain in the game.

Back in August, I expressed skepticism about the perceived «end game» of four 16 - team conferences that people have been discussing for a long time, and I will remain skeptical as long as the Big East maintains at least a few major (ish) programs.

Porter is also a scare... his shooting appears to be good but questions remain about his health and winning potential, didn't like what I saw from him in last few games but who knows.

Linebackers are search - and - destroy specialists whose taste for the punishing blow remains one of the game's few constants

After their game had been postponed from Friday night to Saturday afternoon because of the manhunt for the remaining Boston Marathon bombing suspect, the Pittsburgh Penguins and Boston Bruins had a few special gestures.

In another thread, a few games ago, you asked me how many of the remaining games we would win.

I use «potential» here because we're still talking about only two real games and because few remaining opponents on FSU's 2014 schedule are dangerous in run defense.

Aged 43, he became the oldest quarterback ever to play in a championship game, and was one of the few remaining straight - ahead kickers in the NFL.

This season he has got the 19 year - old Chuba Akpom remaining with the first team squad although he has only made one substitute appearance in the Premier League plus a few minor cup games.

It'll never approach the levels aimed at him by Ranger and Flyer fans, but those playoff wins and the fact that they've chased him once or twice in the past few seasons has led to a definite sentiment here that Marty is overrated, soft, a crybaby (thanks to his stick - swinging fit after the Jokinen goal with 0.2 remaining in game 4 in 2009), and that his claim to be one of the greatest is just propaganda created by Marty and Lou.

There is a lot of encouragements guys - if we play the remain league games with that kind of intensity and passion (like it is becoming a trend in the last few games) a lot of teams will suffer in our hands; and it may not be as bad at the end of the season.

I wrote about it in the Bruins» 2014 preview, and it remained true a few games into the season.

He obviously won quite a few games and been a real important factor for us in remaining competitive in the playoff race.

In fact, his prolonged spell at the top of the game will help to push him harder as he attempts to remain as one of the world's elite for the next few years.

Despite having the fewest fixtures against the rest of the top six remaining out of all of those chasing the title, Chelsea do still have some difficult games to look ahead to.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

What the point of this win a few remaining games.

Its unfortunate that we lost the game, really, wanted to remain in the competition for a few more games to help with game time for some of our players and continue build the confidence of our youngsters

If a 17 year old ends up having to feature in 70 % of our remaining games I think more than few eyebrows will be raised at our transfer policy.

Detroit remains undervalued after being on the unlucky side of a few close games: They're just a few yards from being 8 - 2.

With so much riding on the remaining games, there will be plenty of pressure on us to perform in the last few games of the season.

Unfortunately as is often the Arsenal way we managed to conspire to make the game difficult for ourselves, with a few minutes of the first half remaining Ox found himself with the ball on the edge of Everton's area, Hector available to his right and players closing, if he had managed to get a shot off first time then we would not have been chasing back towards our own goal five seconds later, instead Ox chose to shoot after a couple of touches in to a mass of Everton bodies when there were better options on, the ball broke to Delofeu who managed remarkably to stay on his feet for twenty or so yards before releasing Barkley, Koscielny had been dragged wide by Lukaku and Ox and Hector were in hot pursuit, they both probably had a chance to take the booking but allowed Barkley to continue, he took a speculative shot which would not have troubled Cech until it took a big deflection off of Gabriel and drifted into the gaping net.

December is the month when players get tired from the past few months of football and see themselves pushed to the limit with a rush to get all of our remaining 7 games played and out the way before we can make any signings in January and freshen the squad up, and here is just why December is crucial to Liverpool's season.

That is to say, so much of a players performance remains out of their control, due to managerial preferences, league styles and game states, to name a few, that you can use numbers to paint any number of pictures.

However, Liverpool have already played both City and Arsenal home and away already this season — with the exception of Spurs coming to Anfield in a few weeks, the entirety of Liverpool's remaining games will be against sides that will, for the majority of the time, defend deep.

Embed from Getty Images With only a few games left to go in the season, the main focus for the Gunners will be to win their remaining games and secure second place ahead of Manchester City.

This season is going to be written off, so hopefully we see a few youngsters get their chance in the remaining games.

Getting 86 % of bets and 90 % of dollars, Boston's line has remained stagnant, dropping only a few cents as sportsbooks reduce the overall juice approaching game time.

The Trotters don't have maths on their side just yet and need to accumulate a few more points from their remaining games to stay up.

But hopefully, it soon will be, and with a few wins in the remaining games we can end up in the top half of the table, a position that didn't look likely earlier in the season.

The heart that the team have shown in the last few weeks to remain unbeaten in the last 6 games is commendable and just shows the commitment this side has.

Instead, the lead remains two points with one game fewer to go.

Our «Gotham City backdrop» kept falling over in the breeze, but I think one or two kids used it, anyway, and I pulled out a toss game I had whipped up after many of the kids had left for the remaining few to try out.

Boys high school basketball Southern Tier Athletic Conference (STAC) held eight games, Friday, as teams competed to finish the season strong, with just a few exhibitions remaining in the regular season.

None has the sheer volume of the iPhone's store yet, but few technology analysts think Apple will remain the dominant purveyor of apps for long: Android offers significantly more freedom for developers than Apple, so could lure many of them away from the iPhone; Palm has been in the apps game for years; Research in Motion has the business market cornered with its Blackberries; Nokia has legions of loyal European customers; and Microsoft is, well, Microsoft.

The cast is game, the production design is impressive and a few surprises await — but even as things heat up, the film somehow remains cold.

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Whether these will extend beyond the launch of the game remains to be seen, but Rockstar would be smart to keep it up — it requires relatively few resources and reaches a huge user base.

Of course they added in online functionality as well, but for the most part the game remains unchanged from the original, with a few filters thrown in for those that prefer their pixels a little more blurry.

Whether or not you're looking forward to the film, the original remains as of the few video game adaptations that stayed...