Sentences with phrase «games in hand»

Tahith Chong is on the bench following his recovery from injury with United seeking another victory, which will see them keep their challenge up with City, who will need to win their games in hand in order to topple United.

United have two games in hand over Southampton, who have been relegated into division two, but the bottom placed team, Reading, could probably stay up with a win in their last match, providing United lose both matches (Arsenal and Tottenham Hotspur) conceding goals aplenty.

Despite Oxford's 3 point lead in the standings, Cambridge have 3 games in hand meaning the result of this Varsity Match Preview will be crucial in determining who wins the league and makes it to the playoff final in Sheffield.

FC Dallas trails the Sporkin» Sporks of Sporkistan by 5 points, but they've got a couple of games in hand and it's still pretty early in the marathon.

That team also has only played three MLS games and has THREE games in hand over the Western Conference current first and second place teams coming in to the weekend.

FC Porto on the other hand are well placed in their domestic league just 1 point behind league leaders Benfica but with 2 games in hand and unbeaten so far in the league.

Under the guidance of a certain French manager, Arsenal were nine points behind Manchester United with three games in hand.

Arsenal came from 11 points (true that they had 3 games in hand) behind United in 1997 - 1998 and clinch the title.

I can see City falling off the pace quite easily while we just keep getting further ahead Probably win with four games in hand.

I really doubt Wenger learned from this year, I bet you any money he is pi $ $ ed that he screwed it (we had 3 games in hand and we blew them, history of our life).

If they win both of their games in hand, they'll be 12 points ahead of us, so we've effectively gained 6 points, not to mention how well we've caught Manchester City, who were equal on points with Chelsea back in December.

We may have games in hand but you have to win them to collect he points and at this itme of year every point is precious.

Ty from Arsenal fan TV would probably say «look on the bright side, we are ten points ahead of 8th place West Brom, with two games in hand»?

At the other end of the table, Boro sit six points behind the safety zone, albeit with two games in hand, and a loss today would put their Premier League life in jeopardy.

Liverpool's loss means that winning our three games in hand would put us back above them but United also have two extra games to play and are only three points behind them.

The first of those games in hand is on Thursday away to Man City, but I feel that City's disappointment on losing the semi-final and the fatigue that extra time at Wembley can cause could give United a real advantage.

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

The team is currently 14th on the table with just 39 points, though they have two games in hand.

They have two games in hand and only a four - point gap to Liverpool in fourth, and there's the wild - card option of the Europa League.

Assuming Arsenal win that result would leave us just three points behind Liverpool with two games in hand and just four points off City with one game in hand.

Liverpool are closer in the table to us and if we win our two games in hand we catch them.

It'll be tough but we have to win those games in hand, they are what keeps us in it, and we still have some tough fixtures in there while the others have less games to play.

Florida has two games in hand.

The Maple Leafs were +4000 to win the Atlantic before the season, but are just 10 points behind Montreal with 3 games in hand, so don't count out Toronto yet.

Never mind the games in hand, United are just a point behind us and a win for them tomorrow, back to 4th we go.

A dismal run of form has seen Arsenal fall to seventh place in the Premier League table, 10 points adrift of Manchester City in fourth with two games in hand.

Chelsea have only lost twice this season, are 4 pts clear, 2 games in hand, not many games left and they're playing QPR today.

Liverpool do nt have any games in hand either.

We HAVE to win our games in hand over Liverpool and get some goals, that will put us above them.

Manuel Pellegrini's side now find themselves five points behind Chelsea but the the Blues have two games in hand and could extend their lead to eight at the top of the table with a win over Southampton tomorrow.

Chelski are 4 points ahead and have 2 games in hand.

When they finally played all their games in hand they ended top as expected.

They do, however, have a couple of games in hand over some universities.

This is normally seen as a disadvantage as the theory is that points on the board are better than games in hand, but with Arsenal I am not so sure.

We're 10 points adrift of fourth, and although we have games in hand, can anyone see us winning those games?

So in a couple of weeks the Gunners could have two games in hand on our main two Premier League rivals, none of whom are still in the cup.

Nevertheless, Liverpool sealed the win and temporarily move up to third place having played an extra game compared to Manchester City, while they sit nine points ahead of both Everton and Manchester United, although the latter have three games in hand on them.

Those games in hand are only useful if we win them and in our current form and looking at the fixture list it does not look good, so my question is whether this might actually be better for Arsenal in the long run.

Unlike the other teams above us we have no games in hand on United and can only hope that their heavy fixture list causes problems while our own form takes a drastic upturn.

Even though we will have three games in hand that will not look good.

It's difficult alright as we can't win a game lately, but once we keep within the distance until we play our games in hand and see if Liv slip, it's not over yet.

If a club could get to within two points of Chelsea after winning two games in hand, that club would be in with a shout of winning the league.

When you look at the table it's all still there for us with our games in hand — we've just got to go and grab it.»

Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players are under severe pressure after crashing out of the Champions League and slipping out of the top four of the Premier League in recent weeks, although there is the cushion of knowing that we have two games in hand on fourth placed Liverpool and would go back above them if we win them.

«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.

damn, i read these comments and you would think we are playing like Man Utd or Spurs, we are two games in hand comfortable in 2nd with another FA Cup ifinal in our future, we are playing our best season in years!

We would have games in hand but it just shows you that the Gunners are far from secure, especially with a trip to Old Trafford in one of our final games.

We may have games in hand over the teams above us right now, but with a gap of five points between us and Liverpool in fourth we will have a desperate need to beat West Brom in the early game next Saturday or find ourselves dropping further away in the title race.

Our chances have sure improved but with how tight the West is (plus teams with games in hand) we are hardly a lock for the playoffs.

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.