Sentences with phrase «game against title»

We only took two Premier League points and people were saying that our title challenge was faltering but then we stormed back with three wins in a row and five of the next six, including the big game against title rivals Man City.

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In the AFC title game, against the Jaguars» league - best passing defense, Brady took control of the game, carving up Jacksonville to erase a 10 - point fourth - quarter deficit in minutes.
Over the last two seasons, Cardinal Gibbons has won every football game it has played — except four against American Heritage, two of those eliminating the Chiefs as they watched the Patriots march on to state titles.
On our first afternoon, Hiro and Louisa ran to the backyard, discovered the juniper orbs all over the ground and immediately invented a new game later titled, Avocado Smash, in which the helpless fruits were lobbed against the trunk of the tree leaving smears of luscious green on the bark and busted avocados on the ground.
19 march will tell if we can still win the title or no chance Everton game is the biggest game of the season On per he has been good this season he let us down in only 2 games against southampton and chelsea Barcelona game it was flamini fault
If Chelsea win against Arsenal, they could seal the title with four games to go by beating Leicester City at the King Power Stadium in midweek.
However, if the Tigers can knock off the Crimson Tide and then win the SEC Championship Game — possibly against a top - five Missouri team — there seems to be a real chance they could pass Ohio State and get in position to play for a BCS title.
On Monday night Liverpool visit the Emirates to face Arsenal, the first real test of the Gunners title ambitions after mixed fortunes in the opening two games against West Ham and Crystal Palace.
MSU cost Louisville a trip to play Notre Dame in the women's title game and a shot at minor redemption against Penn State in the NIT.
In fact Smudger, who scored the opening goal against Liverpool in the final game of the season in 1989 that gave Arsenal our most dramatic title win ever and inspired the book and film Fever Pitch, thinks that the resilience the current team showed at the Britannia Stadium proves that this squad is capable of going all the way and adding another title to our history of major honours.
I can nitpick on each of our 14 players performance in this game if i want, but I happen to think that overall, obtaining a draw against a title contender playing away, especially playing with 10 men for almost 45 minutes, was not such a bad result after all, not only if the standard is applied to a fragile team such as AFC, but also if it were to be applied to some other «fantastic» team such as for example, Leicester... I can imagine that if we were to loose the game the way Leicester did at the Emirates, many (visitors to this site) would be condemning our players bottlers, chokers instead of hailing them for defending bravely for 20 minutes with 10 men... LOL..
That was a potentially pivotal game for us in the title race and we went into it with high hopes against an injury hit team, but it was Rashford who took the glory on the day, stunning Arsenal with two goals in the space of three minutes to set us on the road to a damaging 3 - 2 loss.
With Florida flopping in its opener against Michigan and Tennessee barely squeaking past Georgia Tech in double overtime despite getting gashed for 655 yards last week, the Bulldogs could well take the division and give the Crimson Tide a game in the conference title bout.
The year before that we did win our opener against Crystal Palace after beating Man City to the Shield quite comfortably but then our title challenge faltered and Arsenal did not win another league game for over a month and by mid-October Chelsea were runaway leaders.
iwobi and ozil are not expected to play against big teams, why bench a 50m striker, Wenger is our problem, we still can fix it, this is just November, twelve points is just four games we still can win the title
The manager, the players and the fans become over confident over nothing.lets look at the last five games 2 - 1 against Spurs, Tottneham defeat Arsenal convincingly.And ended the crazy dream of the Manager, the players and the fans of winning the epl title.
The Nebraska winning streak, which included back - to - back national titles, had reached 26 when the Huskers arrived in Tempe last Saturday for a game against Arizona State.
We need some new blood in the squad to help with this title push and against Barcelona in the UCL last 16 games.
The Spartans (26 - 7), who won their fifth straight game, will play Monday against the No. 2 seed East Tennessee for the tournament title and an automatic berth into the NCAA Tournament.
To say the least, this result became a point of contention when a one - loss FSU team reached the BCS title game against Oklahoma instead of one - loss Miami.
And at no point did that Ohio State team, or any Ohio State team coached by Jim Tressel, stand a chance in any universe's 2007 title game, against any team.
He is also hungry to prove Mourinho wrong by stopping Chelsea from winning the Premiership Title and any games against Arsenal.
Two - loss 2016 Penn State and 2015 Stanford also had three wins against top - 25 teams and conference titles, and each lost one of its games by a single score, rather than getting blown out twice.
In the 1993 AFC title game at Buffalo, he spent most of the last three quarters on the sideline because the Chiefs» coaches went with a unit they felt would be more effective against the Bills» rushing game.
Alabama finished fourth in the AP Poll that year, because it lost a veritable title game against Notre Dame.
The Kings led the series 3 - 2 as they sought out the first professional title in Sacramento history, but a controversial Game 6 that included numerous suspect calls against the Kings helped force a Game 7 that was ultimately won by Los Angeles.
Again, Leinart competed against a top college QB in a game that decided a spot in the title game.
Last March, in a game against archrival Brigham Young that would clinch the regular - season conference title, the lanky forward scored 38 points, including 16 of 16 from the free throw line, to lead Utah to a 96 - 85 win.
The 19 - year - old started in Chelsea's first game of pre-season against New York Red Bulls and in Wednesday's night defeat to Fiorentina — on both occasions in midfield — and could be set for increased involvement in the west London giants» title - defending campaign.
We are just 7 days away from the League match against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge, which could make or break our chances of catching our neighbours up in the title race, but conversely this FA Cup game against Southampton could also be just as important.
But when he sat down with Time Warner Cable SportsNet's Kevin Frazier for a program titled «Connected With... Dwight Howard» that aired after Tuesday's game against the Orlando Magic, he revealed that his surgically - repaired back was nowhere close to where it needed to be for him to be at his best, and it may have contributed to his issues early on.
The age and hunger of Tottenham's squad is one of its strengths, but it was also exposed as a weakness in the title run - in, when a lack of experience arguably cost them games against West Brom and Chelsea.
Clemson's line play was key to mauling Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl and will give the Tigers a chance against Alabama in the national title game.
But a battle against likely West champion Wisconsin is looking tougher and tougher, and Ohio State's chances of winning the Big Ten title game are only currently around 73 percent.
And after dropping an end - of - year check - up against a good Fresno State, the Broncos turned around and beat the Bulldogs a week later in the MWC title game.
United were famously on the wrong end of such a result against Arsenal many years ago, with the Gunners sealing their title triumph at Old Trafford leading to scenes of celebrations from the visitors on the pitch after the game.
Spot on bro... the problem with most of us Arsenal fans is that we've been made to accept average as our only option after been promised by Gazidis and other members of the board that we will compete with top European clubs... i feel some players need to be allowed to go in order for better ones who are ambitious and hungry for titles to come in... and someone made mention of Giroud saving Arsenal in a few games like the countless chances he's missed that could have put the club in better positions could be equated right... he should have done that against Watford, west brom and the rest... truth be told..
no... realy?!! Wnger blew the last chance to contend for the title last game, IT showed once again we cant win the important games against big teams.
Real are now eight points behind La Liga leaders Barcelona in the Spanish title race, and will have expected to do better than take one point from two games against Spurs in their bid to retain the European Cup.
The match in question, sometimes referred to as the «Battle of the Bridge» for the fighting that took place on and off the pitch, featured Chelsea overcoming a 2 - 0 deficit to tie the game against Tottenham and deprive the Spurs of their last chance to stave off Leicester City in the Premier League title chase.
Alcorn State, which lost in the SWAC tournament title game last season, has not won a non-league game against a Division I school in five years.
Wnger blew the last chance to contend for the title last game, IT showed once again we cant win the important games against big teams.
The idea that Arsenal's tactics were rigid and predictable was most obvious in that season when our Premier League title challenge collapsed after losing heavily in high profile games against Liverpool, Man City, Chelsea and Everton.
The South is just murderous, with No. 1 overall seed Florida, a possibly Joel Embiid-less Kansas, a talented Syracuse team that can't seem to get out of its own way and fourth - seeded UCLA, who just earned an extremely impressive victory in the Pac - 12 title game against the No. 1 seed in the West, Arizona.
If you want to win the PL title now is the time to get results against better teams, we failed to do that against Spurs, Man U and PSG, all games where we could argued to have been out played.
USC's Cody Kessler passed 10,000 career passing yards in the Pac - 12 title game against Stanford, and he put together a solid career despite NCAA sanctions (and coaching issues) lingering around the Trojans program like a bad cough.
Based on his game - winning efforts on Sunday against Alaves, it arguably doesn't make much difference to Messi anyway as he continues to lead Barcelona's charge for major honours this season as they remain the La Liga title favourites with a healthy 11 - point lead.
Among those incentives was a $ 2 million bonus for leading the Broncos to an AFC Championship title and a $ 2 million bonus for pulling out the win in Sunday's game at Levi's Stadium against the Carolina Panthers.
Arsenal may have shot themselves in the foot once again where the title race is concerned, going down to ten men against Chelsea after less than 20 minutes, and consequently losing the game 1 - 0 and dropping to third place in the Premier League.
we drew the game against a Man City side we dominated who had no Yaya Toure no Fernando no Stefan Jovetic, if a draw is awesome that explains why Arsenal are far away from winning the title the fans accept a draw in a game we should have won!
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