Sentences with phrase «finish as runners»

They bounced back from that to finish as runners up in Portugal behind rivals Benfica, and ahead of Porto.

He managed 23 goals for Standard Liege in the 2013/14 season to help the club finish as runners - up in the Belgian league, before moving to Marseille where he found the net 33 times in 78 appearances.

City were expected to challenge Chelsea for the Premier League title but instead find themselves in a battle to finish as runners - up behind the newly - crowned champions.

We were third, having topped the table throughout January, and would finish as runners - up, the highest place yet achieved by a London club.

They have never previously lost 4 - 2 away in the first leg, but on the four occasions that the margin of defeat has been by two goals, they have prevailed only once, recovering to win 3 - 0 at home against Sporting CP in the third round of the 1993/94 UEFA Cup — they went on to finish as runners - up in the competition.

There were two very obvious options in today's Champions League draw that Arsenal fans and everyone connected with the club was hoping to avoid, as both Bayern Munich and Real Madrid are among the favourites to win the thing but somehow this year only managed to finish as runners - up.

Who cares if we've been top of the league for prolonged periods if we never win it or even finish as runners - up for that matter.

Wilkins» comments clearly relate to the Gunners title push last season, in which a dramatic final day saw us finish as runners up instead of Tottenham.

Manager Manuel Pellegrini may need the team to finish as runners up to hold on to his job.

We are on course to finish as runners up in the EPL and take away a second successive FA cup title.

Jason also took home $ 20,000 on his way to finishing as runner - up in the overall World Food Championships competition standings.

With another» if only» - season behind them, finishing as the runners up to surprise Champions Leicester City, Arsenal will of course be looking to take the leap in the 16/17 campaign and finally lift the Premier League trophy again.

Even though Arsenal finished as runners up to the Premier League champions Leicester City last season and thereby have an automatic place in the coveted group phase of the Champions League this season, while Chelsea had such a poor campaign that they did not even manage to scrape into the poor relation that is the Europa League, do not expect us to be favourites to win any transfer battle between the two clubs.

Since arriving in Turin, Bonucci has gone on to make almost 200 Serie A appearances for the Bianconeri, winning five Scudetti, two Coppa Italia titles, and he finished as a runner - up in the Champions League in 2015.

A fever caused last year's winner, Beholder, to withdraw, leaving Untapable (5 - 2) with a slight edge over Close Hatches (3 - 1), who finished as the runner - up to Beholder in 2013.

That was bad news for St. Francis which finished as runners - up for the fifth straight year.

Last year, they finished as Runners - Up for the second time in the Co-Ed League and they've been awaiting their chance to avenge that loss..

Only, they are still searching for that first Hoops League Crown after finishing as the Runners - Up last season..

Five teams entered the tournament and Burma, with two wins and a draw, finished as runners - up in the round robin format.

The 20 - year - old shone at the South American Youth Championships earlier in the year as he scored four goals for Colombia, who finished as runners - up to Argentina.

One of the reasons why a lot of people in football were so hard on Arsenal for not winning the Premier League title last season, despite improving our finishing position again and finishing as runners up to the surprise champions Leicester City, was that it was seen as the perfect chance for us with Chelsea flopping and both of the Manchester clubs struggling.

After losing a ghastly two games and finishing as runner - up, his team went 45 - 0 with three titles over the next three seasons.

Since 1942, the Wildcats have won eight national titles, finished as runner - up four times, and reached the Final Four on four other occasions.

Despite finishing as runners - up in each of his three seasons, he does not see his last opportunity at a high school title as a make - or - break proposition for his psyche.

In 2014, Rojo made 11 caps for Argentina and earned World Cup All - Star Team honours as his country finished as the runner - up to Germany in Rio.

It's another unwanted distraction for coach Thomas Tuchel, who after enjoying a strong season in charge was ultimately left disappointed after finishing as runners - up in the league before losing to rivals Bayern Munich in the Cup final.

This is their 4th season in the Men's Adult League (they were apart of the original League back in 2012) and in every year since it's inception these Guys have finished as the Runners - Up.

In her first year of high school competition, O'Keeffe won her first of three consecutive SJS Division I individual titles, but was disappointed that Davis finished as the runner - up to St. Francis in the team standings.

Granite Bay, making its first appearance in the top division, finished as runner - up for the second consecutive year.

Gilmour has now won two titles from three finals in the past month after claiming the FZ Forza Prague Open and finishing as runner - up at the Yonex Belgian International before this success.

Only finishing as runners up in previous World Cup certainly left a bitter taste for Argentina players, notably their super star Lionel Messi.

The Spanish side finished as runners - up in Group E, finishing second to Liverpool and above the likes of Spartak Moscow and Maribor with 9 points on board.

Lyon, whose league campaign begins against Lorient on Sunday, finished as runners - up to Paris Saint - Germain last season.

Mkhitaryan was included in Bundesliga team of the season in his first year with Dortmund helping them to finish as runner ups in the league and DFB Pokal.

The season promised so much for Arsenal but they will certainly look at the positives after finishing as runners - up, their highest place finish since moving to The Emirates in 2006.

Two years later he was named the League One Player of the Year as Brentford won automatic promotion to the Championship, after finishing as runners up to Wolves.

World 200m champion Dafne Schippers recovered from a poor start to finish as runner - up in 11.09 ahead of Tianna Bartoletta's 11.11.

Inspired by his brilliance, the club finished as runners - up in the First Division twice and finished in third place once, as well as reaching an FA Cup final in 1954.

Manchester United also competed in the Settembre Rostese 8th Trophy in Turin, which is for players born in 2004, finishing as the runners - up, which shows how good the Academy currently is with talented players throughout the club.

Fresh from a 49.07 PB clocked when finishing as runner up to two - time world silver medallist Javier Culson in Hengelo, he became the first decathlete to win an event at a Diamond League meeting, his 49.16 putting him clearly ahead of fellow American Johnny Dutch with 49.77.

Poland's two - time Olympic discus silver medallist Piotr Malachowski claimed his fourth Diamond League series win after finishing as runner - up to Sweden's Daniel Stahl who threw 65.78 m to Malachowski's 65.27 m.

The Italian manager has not failed in his time at Chelsea after winning the Premier League title against the odds in his debut season at the club and finishing as runners up to Arsenal in the FA Cup.

The Serbia international was a key part of Klopp's side that won back - to - back Bundesliga titles in 2011 and 2012 and finished as runners - up in the Champions League in 2013.

I suppose the fact that Real Madrid finished as runners up in the qualifying group has affected the odds and the fact that a Sky Sports report reveals that Zinedine Zidane is happy to be cautious about bringing Bale back into action.

Over in the women's 100m hurdles and another of the winners in Zurich — Tiffany Porter — ensured her season ended on a high, clocking a UK record of 12.51 when finishing as a runner - up to world leader and Americas team - member Dawn Harper - Nelson with a 12.47 Continental Cup record as well as African all - comers» record.

During that stretch, Milan won seven Serie A championships, but more memorably and more impressively, they dominated Europe, winning four Champions League titles and finishing as runners - up three more times.

Cristiano Ronaldo isn't having a great time of it at the moment - he lost his FIFA World Player of the Year title to Lionel Messi (finishing as runner - up) and then revealed that he misses Manchester!

He finished as runner - up to Ronaldinho for both the Ballon d'Or and FIFA World Player of the Year awards [9].

Since 2005, Liverpool and Manchester United have both won and lost in the final, Chelsea have lifted the trophy for the first time in the club's history and Arsenal have finished as runners - up.

For Lille OSC, their most successful era occurred in the post-World War Two years between 1945 and 1954 when they claimed two Ligue 1 titles — finishing as runners - up on four other occasions — as well as winning four Coupe de la Ligues.