Sentences with phrase «game in hand against»

Manchester United must refocus to avoid a trophyless season: Despite the defeat, United have a one - point advantage over Liverpool for the second position with an extra game in hand against Bournemouth on Wednesday.

Gonzalo Higuain and Mario Mandzukic strike in Calabria to win the Bianconeri's game in hand against Crotone

If Manchester City lose to Arsenal, and we win our game in hand against West Brom, we replace our rivals in the top four.

Juve have a game in hand against Atalanta coming up on Wednesday, but will be watching to see what Napoli do today.

Arsenal are already six points adrift of the top four, albeit with their game in hand against Chelsea to be played on Wednesday night.

However, Vazquez has insisted that Real aren't considering Barca as their only opponents in the title race, and are also considering third - placed Atletico Madrid, who are two points behind Real ahead of their game in hand against Granada on Sunday.

The poor result on Merseyside has left the door open for the likes of Liverpool and Tottenham in the race for a top - four finish and the former can close the gap on their fiercest rivals to just four points should they win their game in hand against relegation strugglers Hull City in midweek.

& if they do drop 2 or 3 points against Man U Yellow card for either Matic or Fabregas then they get a suspension (although I'd rather beat them at full strength) Then we beat them 3 points dropped Win there game in hand against Leicester I think they'll drop points against Liverpool and or Crystal Palace the way there playing so say they win one lose one.

With Saturday's Michigan game in hand against Oregon State, it wasn't backup QB Shane Morris going in the game to down the ball but instead Wilton Speight.

As of right now Arsenal, with three games in hand against Everton and Liverpool, are still in the race for top four.

Not exact matches

8 — Romelu Lukaku has had a hand in eight goals in eight @premierleague games against former club West Brom (five goals, three assists).

The Patriots have struggled at stopping the run, ranking 30th in DVOA against the run, so they will have their hands full if the Titans are able to get their ground game going.

The loser on the other hand will drop of the bottom half (2 - loss) of the bracket and play against the Winner of # 1 Team McNichols vs. # 4 Team Massie in an elimination game on Sunday night.

Let's chalk up a short - handed, come from behind, OT Win in the c0 - Accelerated Game of the Week against top - flight squad Team Harris to the unbelievable Regular Season Resume # 1 Team Maione has put together.

The Jags are going to lean heavily on Fournette in a smash matchup against the Bills» horrendous run defense and this game could get out of hand early, which could scale back Bortles» volume in a big way.

The Red Devils have overhauled their neighbours and currently occupy third spot, one place and a solitary point ahead of City, who lost their game in hand 2 - 1 against Crystal Palace last night.

The Gunners were handed a major boost when the club revealed that the quartet were all set to feature in the game against the young Potters, in the latest stage of their rehabilitations.

In Denver's first two playoff games against New Orleans, the patriarch of big shots scored 67 points and handed out 12 assists without committing a turnover.

The Blues remain seven points clear of their nearest challengers Arsenal and they still have a game in hand, which will take place next week against Manchester United at Stamford Bridge, given that the Gunners are in FA Cup action on the same day.

i said b4 d Chelsea game dt Flamini nd Mert r like to hand brakes in a game against William costa oscar nd fabregas.

Having already beaten the Saints once this year and sporting a perfect 4 - 0 division record, they would have had their fate in their own hands with the last two games of the season division contests against those very same Saints and the Panthers.

The Red Devils have struggled with the right - hand side of their defence in particular during pre-season and manager Louis van Gaal flagged up the issue in the aftermath of the game against Ligue 1 giants Paris Saint - Germain.

«We suffer a lot at the moment but it's not, when you take a little bit distance and put things into perspective, you know, we are two games in hand, we are in the semi-finals of the cup to prepare against City.

Newcastle United caretaker manager John Carver will hand a rare start to French forward Emmanuel Riviere in this afternoon's Premier League game against Burnley.

Before the international break, Jurgen Klopp's side lost their first game 2 - 1 at the hands of Crystal Palace — their first defeat since the German coach replaced Brendan Rodgers in October — and will have been desperate to return to winning ways against City.

However, with respect to the game against Southampton in midweek, perhaps the biggest injury boost that has been handed to Arsene Wenger's side is that Morgan Schneiderlin, unarguably the Saints» best player so far this season, is out for the big game as a result of an abductor injury the French international had picked up during the 3 - 0 defeat to Manchester City at St. Mary's.

France international Anthony Martial, who has bagged 27 goals in 95 games during his United career, has also been handed a start by Jose Mourinho for their match tonight, with the winger having reclaimed his place in the side after starting on the substitutes bench for their fixture against Stoke on Saturday.

The 21 - year - old, who handed in a transfer request on Tuesday afternoon, starts against his former club as he will partner captain Phil Jagielka at the heart of the Toffees defence for the game against the Tykes.

Forget about d game in hand, d match against manutd is a must win, not only to ensure dat we finish above but also to give ourselves d best chance of finishing at 2nd.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

Arsene Wenger would have had to hand in his Arsenal team selection before he knew how West Ham would line up today, but even though the big centre forward has not started a Premier League game for about three months, I could have told Wenger that Andy Carroll would start against us today.

Looking at the Premier League table at the end of round 35 of the Premier League, Arsenal go into Monday night's clash against Swansea City on 70 points, level with Manchester City and five clear of Manchester United, with Arsene Wenger's men having a game in hand over both the Manchester clubs and with form clearly on their side.

As for Arsenal, defeat in the north London derby against Tottenham last time out — their fifth in six league away games — means they are six points adrift of the Champions League places with a game in hand.

Mesut Ozil again had a hand in both Arsenal's games against Man City last night, and the scorer of the first (brilliant!)

negatives -LRB--)-- terrible result — wengers team selection (arteta + ozil in particular)-- generally poor work - rate across the pitch and nothing like the backbone we showed against man city — handing dortmund initiative to top the group (we all know what finishing 2nd means)-- lack of hunger + desire — welbeck misses — still no joel campbell (who in my personal opinion is a big game / stage player)-- in all our «set - piece» training we totally forgot about the bread and butter of football which is making an impact in open play

Cardiff, though, head into Friday's blockbuster with a game in hand, and three points against Wolves could push the Championship title race right to the wire!

But Baker Mayfield will be the best player on the field in the Sugar Bowl, and he'd be tough to bet against if he has the ball in his hands and a chance to win the game late in the fourth quarter.

After sitting out Game 3, he's playing for the New York Knicks against the Miami Heat in Game 4 with a bulky wrap around his left hand, and playing well.

Seattle was scheduled to play 39 of its final 48 games against wild - card contenders or division leaders, «so it's in our hands,» Piniella says.

After this weekend's games, which saw Liverpool, Tottenham and Man United all win, we are now ten points of the Top Four and our game in hand will be against today's victors Man City on Thursday, which nobody can seriously believe we have any chance of even getting our pride back by beating the side that has only lost one League game all season.

The Club of the Principality have a game in hand — against Racing Club de Lens on Sunday — and will surely be looking to put daylight between themselves and OM.

Of course we know that Pierre - Emerick Aubameyang will get a rest as he is cup - tied in the Europa League, Arsenal face a tough away game against an in form Newcastle United on Sunday and to add to the problems we have been handed the early kick - off, so you can see why the Frenchman might want to rest a key player or two.

Striker Tomer Hemed will be missing for Sunday's clash, following the three - game ban that was handed to him by the FA for an incident in Albion's narrow win against the Magpies.

We have always managed to get the Top Four in previous seasons but this time though our final placing does not lay in our hands as we await the outcome of Liverpool's game against West Ham, and there are arguments that if we do not make the Top Four and play in the Europa League instead, then maybe we won't get the sudden drop in confidence we get every year after being slaughtered in the Champions League.

Also, the following weekend our match against Sunderland is postponed because of FA Cup so we will have a game in hand.

Perhaps that is why his two goals against us in that game from work down our right hand side where Per Mertesacker was charged with dealing with him.

Even more recently, In the game at Stoke, he failed to call a clear hand ball against Kurt Zouma, denying us a potential penalty kick.

With Jourdan Lewis» one - handed game - sealing interception last Saturday against Wisconsin, Desmond Howard thinks the two best picks in college football history...

The 19 - year old scored a brilliant hat - trick in our first pre-season game against a Singapore XI and he has done nothing in the chances handed to him since to suggest that it was a fluke and that he is not ready for some first team action this season.

The England international has been forced to sit out United last two games against Liverpool and PSV Eindhoven, with Marouane Fellaini taking his place during the 3 - 1 victory over their bitter rivals and then summer signing Anthony Martial was handed the lone striking role in the Netherlands on Tuesday night.