Sentences with phrase «higher end of the league»

Martinez signed Arouna Kone for # 6m from Wigan, but questions will be asked whether he can compete at the higher end of the league.

Not exact matches

Led by a group of former Stevenson and Deerfield high school basketball players, this is a team that will end up in the top half of the league with wins against some of the top teams.

However, with the Northern 2A league title within touching distance, spirits are high within the club and a win tomorrow will certainly put a league, cup double on the cards at the end of the season!

With another Premier League season almost at an end, it is a chance to reflect on the highs and lows of an intriguing campaign.

According to Spanish publication Marca, Real will exercise that clause at the end of the season, but possibly only to then sell Morata on to a Premier League suitor at a higher price of $ 50m (# 38.5 m).

If Wenger were to finally leave in the summer, when his contract ends, the new manager would be able to attract a higher calibre of player, and have more money to spend, if they were playing Champions League football next season.

3 League titles / 6 Fa cups and constant champions league last 16odd years out of 19 also but no matter what anyone says his time as our coach has come to an end even if we win the league which in fairness we have a great shot so going out of Europe could help us win the league for Wenger to leave on a high like fergie did... This has to be his last season in charge along with Stan the Conman... Money needs put into this squad to get it to the next level and a different direction because in all honesty when we beat Bayern they just did nt take their chances like they did last night and they already had a great squad and added to it in the summer with Costa etc... we had a real chance this year if we had brought in more than Cech and that is Wengers League titles / 6 Fa cups and constant champions league last 16odd years out of 19 also but no matter what anyone says his time as our coach has come to an end even if we win the league which in fairness we have a great shot so going out of Europe could help us win the league for Wenger to leave on a high like fergie did... This has to be his last season in charge along with Stan the Conman... Money needs put into this squad to get it to the next level and a different direction because in all honesty when we beat Bayern they just did nt take their chances like they did last night and they already had a great squad and added to it in the summer with Costa etc... we had a real chance this year if we had brought in more than Cech and that is Wengers league last 16odd years out of 19 also but no matter what anyone says his time as our coach has come to an end even if we win the league which in fairness we have a great shot so going out of Europe could help us win the league for Wenger to leave on a high like fergie did... This has to be his last season in charge along with Stan the Conman... Money needs put into this squad to get it to the next level and a different direction because in all honesty when we beat Bayern they just did nt take their chances like they did last night and they already had a great squad and added to it in the summer with Costa etc... we had a real chance this year if we had brought in more than Cech and that is Wengers league which in fairness we have a great shot so going out of Europe could help us win the league for Wenger to leave on a high like fergie did... This has to be his last season in charge along with Stan the Conman... Money needs put into this squad to get it to the next level and a different direction because in all honesty when we beat Bayern they just did nt take their chances like they did last night and they already had a great squad and added to it in the summer with Costa etc... we had a real chance this year if we had brought in more than Cech and that is Wengers league for Wenger to leave on a high like fergie did... This has to be his last season in charge along with Stan the Conman... Money needs put into this squad to get it to the next level and a different direction because in all honesty when we beat Bayern they just did nt take their chances like they did last night and they already had a great squad and added to it in the summer with Costa etc... we had a real chance this year if we had brought in more than Cech and that is Wengers fault!

We still have some important work to do before the end of the season and even if the Frenchman is planning to leave he will want to ensure that he does so on some sort of a high, perhaps with an FA cup to celebrate but if not then at least with our usual place in the Champions League.

Everybody at the top of the White Sox lineup has contributed: At week's end leadoff man Tim Raines had a first - inning batting average of.389, Joey Cora had scored 21 runs, Frank Thomas had hit 10 homers (no other player had more than seven) and driven in 25 runs, and sometimes cleanup hitter Robin Ventura was batting a major league - high.511 (23 for 45) with 22 RBIs.

Speaking to Dutch source De Telegraaf ahead of Thursday's European match, Blind has insisted that United are still keen to end the year on a high note, either through success in the FA Cup or the Europa League.

At the end of the day, Leicester have already achieved their goal by avoiding relegation and the only feelings that they should be feeling right now is «excitement» with the chance of winning the league or at the least qualifying for Champions league football and that will keep their adrenaline running high, which is a good thing and it will help them.

Following their impressive display over I Rossoneri Arsenal are now 4/1 to win the Europa League outright, and with Wenger's job hanging in the balance it would be typical of them to go all the way and end what has been a disastrous season on a high.

End of last season The Gunners ended last season on a high, with a third place finish in the league, and an FA Cup win for the second year running.

Cole actually hasn't been a high - end starter except for in one season of his career, in 2015 when he threw 208 innings with a 2.60 ERA: in the last two seasons, Cole has produced a 103 ERA + — just above league - average — and thrown 319 innings.

Okay Arsenal fans, the season is over for another year and it actually turned out to be a reasonably happy ending, with the last day disaster of Tottenham handing us our highest finish since we won the Premier League with the invincibles in 2004, although the real goal of the EPL title could not be grasped once again.

That's probably better than all the matches, maybe, but at the end of this it's always better to play in the Champions League and all the cups and play all the matches, because you can compare yourself with higher - level opponents.»

I hope we win the Europa league and Wenger decides to leave on a high (at the end of this season), however at no stage do I want (or see any profit in) my team losing.

I hope we win this Europa and Wenger leaves at the end of this season, with Champions League football, we can sign excellent players for the new manager to compete at the highest level without paying a huge amount of money, but I am afraid of Atletico honestly speaking.

Arsenal find themselves at 5/1 in the football betting odds to end the current Premier League campaign as the highest finishing London club ahead of rivals Chelsea and Tottenham.

After a dominating performance in Week 1, Team Knox came back down to earth in Week 2 as they struggled to get it going on both ends of the court, netting 21 fewer points than their total from Week 1, while also giving up a league high 95 points in Week 2.

Or Marc - Andre Fleury, who ended up with the highest save percentage of any goalie in the league after the Pittsburgh Penguins let him go in favor of shiny new goalie Matt Murray.

This is an exciting, deep conference in 2017 because the bottom of the league is more high - end than it has been of late.

At the end of the day, Arsenal fc are supposedly a Big Club, Where Wenger set high standards when winning the premier league in his first year or so in charge and achieved further success in the following seasons, up until the invincibles era!

He made his intentions clear early on when he scored twice in our opening home game when we won 4 - 0 vs QPR and he continued that rich vein of goalscoring throughout this campaign ending as 2nd highest scorer in the Premier League.

Also, there is an extra fourth qualification spot for the Europa League available via the Fair Play initiative (if the Premier League ends up in the top three of the Fair Play rankings in Europe, the highest ranked team that has not qualified for European football will automatically qualify for the UEFA Europa League first qualifying round).

The high end games (finals and semi-finals of cups and top 4 meetings in the league) are where Arsenal have suffered from being unable to match our free spending rivals.

To be able to field a footballer who is always up for a fight on the pitch — to be the leader and take responsibilities in a way he has done at Arsenal could prove vital for any football club, especially at the top end of the Premier League where the stakes are so high that one slip - up could lead to a landslide.

Gameweek 21 of the Premier League brought an end to 2017 with teams across the English top - flight aiming to end the calendar year on the high.

Oxford ended the 1920s on a high, winning the 1929 Varsity Match under the leadership of team captain Clarence S. Campbell, who would later serve as president of the National Hockey League from 1946 to 1977.

The story arc of Liverpool's season ends way higher than where it began: Back in August, every fan would've taken 76 points and a Champions League place.

Seven Premier League matches were played on Saturday, and 24 goals were scored, but the major talking point at the end of the day was the red card handed to Premier League player of the month and Liverpool forward Sadio Mané for a high - footed, studs up lunge on Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson.

The extravaganza that is the Premier League is back and the high flying Chelsea travel to Swansea in a bid to extend their winning run and possibly go on top of the League table should the Manchester derby end in a stalemate.

After a summer of mishaps, missteps, and misinformation that came close to ending with Messi still yet to sign a new contract, Neymar in Paris, and a midfielder from the Chinese Super League as the only reinforcement, the Catalan club announced on Friday the signing of 20 - year - old star Ousmane Dembélé from Borussia Dortmund for a fee worth up to $ 150 million — the highest sum paid by a club that's not funded by the nation of Qatar.

To that end, Roma's quarter - final second leg vs Barcelona at the Stadio Olimpico drew in the second - highest amount of TV viewers for a single Champions League night this season so far, behind only Tottenham vs Juventus at Wembley in the round of 16.

Tottenham Hotspur has announced record revenue of # 306.3 million for the year ended June 30th, 2017, boosted by their highest ever Premier League fini -LRB-...)

The Colombian international was an ever - present in the Premier League during the second half of the 2014/15 campaign and ended with the highest save percentage of any goalkeeper to have played at least 10 matches.

Arsenal fans will be relieved that the team ended a horrid week with some reprieve and finally arrested a bad run of league form, but it may well be too late to catch high - flying Leicester, who sneaked a 1 - 0 win past Crystal Palace.

The Toffees are eager to end a miserable campaign, which has once again brought no prospect of silverware, or even a final for that matter, on a high note; by finishing above Liverpool in the Barclay's Premier League.

It has now been confirmed that two top Premier League sides, Liverpool and Manchester United will take part in the hunt to add a high quality defender to their ranks, at the end of the current campaign.

Part of this problem could be considered to be that the most used central midfield pairing, Lucas Leiva and Charlie Adam, aren't particularly dynamic nor inclined to get on the end of crosses (of which Liverpool have had more, per game, than any other team in the league apart from Wolves — more of which, will be discussed later), so this only leaves a certain number of players who will be able to get into the box in the more rigid 4 -4-2 utilised for most of this season. Inspite of this, however, 58 % of Liverpool's goals have come from inside the 18 yard box, the highest in the league so far this season in terms of percentage of goals scored by each individual team, suggesting that this is the best avenue of attack for Liverpool, so the question has to be: why have Liverpool only managed to score 14 times, the 10th lowest amount of goals in the league?

The Watford captain is hoping to end his own season a high though, as they face Crystal Palace in the semi-finals of the FA Cup this weekend and could finish in the top half of the Premier League too.

Instead, he should start the countdown to the end of his reign and try to go out on a high in the Europa League.

I will still support the players and manager until the end of the season and I believe we can still win the league, but we need to find a higher gear or 2 asap to have a chance.

He made his first - team debut for the latter towards the end of the 2013 - 14 season and within a year was hitting the high notes in the Champions League, curling in a superb goal in a 4 - 3 loss to Real Madrid last spring.

After all, this time last season Chelsea were third, nine points ahead of Arsenal, yet by the end of the season Arsenal finished six points ahead of their London rivals and three places higher in the league.

Luckily, Robert Elston in the Chief Exec's end of season report (dated May 24th 2015) gave me this positive info: — Everton's average attendance lasts season in the league was 38,400 — our highest in 11 years (since the season we finished 4th)-- no doubt on the back of our amazing season the previous year — 25,000 early bird season tickets for 2015/16 were bought by 20th May 2015 — Last season only 15,000 tickets were unsold for home fans (8,000 unsold away fan tickets)

However, Tony Pulis is determined to not only end the club's third consecutive spell in the Premier League on a high with a top - ten finish but also with plenty of momentum, ahead of their FA Cup final showdown with Manchester City later this month.

It's boasts an impressive set of specifications and features that put it in the same league as high end collegiate strength and conditioning equipment.

At the higher end of the market, to get into the Ivy League, more and more Chinese students are opting for American private high schools (ideally, the traditional feeder schools such as Exeter, Hotchkiss, Lawrenceville, etc.).

Unfortunately, the screen resolution continues to be the same 800 x 480 pixel, something that put's it in the league of many a high end smartphone.