Sentences with phrase «higher up the league»

Therefore both clubs will be looking to «hit the ground running» so to speak and aim to get as higher up the league as possible.

I want to help Bournemouth get as high up the league as possible and also for myself I want to play 25 or 30 games.

You have to find a level of consistency if you are going to challenge higher up the league.

Whatever we think of the owners, we've all said that on paper we should be higher up the league.

Not exact matches

«I just suspected that there were higher barriers for something to treat women, a lot higher than were set up for the male drugs,» said Sally Greenberg, executive director of the National Consumers League, which campaigned for the drug.

Over at Pine Trails Park, down the street from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High, a group of mothers of children too young to walk out spent the day signing up new voters with representatives from the League of Women Voters and getting anyone interested to sign various petitions.

We saw the names of some who had been students at the local high schools and community college; we saw the names of friends with whom we had grown up, members of our track teams and little league; some of us saw the names of family members.

They could more easily make the defense champions league quality with two or three high quality signings, then go for a striker like Lukkaku, I think Lukaku would raise the level of the strike force, and a stout defense would eliminate these embarrasing goals that we give up.

Despite playing every minute of every league game last season, Terry is now 34 and may no longer be able to play at that high level every week, with Stones showing with his performances at Goodison Park that he could be ready to make that step up and fill his compatriot's boots at Stamford Bridge.

It has never really been about how much you spend or how much of a genius you are, it takes sustained competitiveness at the highest level and / or that extra bit of luck to have a shot at it hence my [previous] happiness at being in the top four [lots of clubs would do almost anything to get in that league], however even that can get stale, to be realistic, I think progress would be aiming for the top two now, enough of these top four stories, it ran its course now we need to aim higher, when the top two is our priority, it becomes inevitable that whoever might be in front of us is bound to slip up on a few occasions ala Bayern and Dortmund, we should now set our sights on the top four of the champions league lol

Both sides have been particularly underwhelming in the Premier League so far, and it remains to be seen whether either team will be able to pick up form before the high - profile derby.

They are the highest ranked 1 - Loss Team after they put up an All Sports Series (not just this League, EVER) record — 128 Points — on Sunday Night.

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.

«I wanted to win that last game, finish top scorer and help PSV pick up the points record (88 points, a record for PSV and the highest total in the league this century).»

Reyes then threw a fastball that tailed back over the inside half of the plate, about thigh - high, and McGwire sent it sailing over the white hat of one of Major League Baseball's 40 special agents in the outfield seats, a detective from St. Petersburg, Fla., who resisted the urge to throw a hand up.

With Carr in center, the Brewers are solid up the middle defensively: Jose Valentin, one of the best fielding shortstops in the league, and second baseman Fernando Vina helped Milwaukee turn a league - high 186 double plays in 1995.

However, there is a dark cloud looming on the horizon and it is one that we are all to familiar with, the dreaded Arsenal injury curse, because we are even higher up in the table of Premier League injuries on physioroom.com.

Chelsea failed with an early bid for the versatile youngster but the Daily Mirror claims that whilst the bidding may see Stones» price - tag push up as high as # 34m, a sum greater than any Premier League side has previously paid for a defender, the Blues are reading to foot the bill.

With our form good and our confidence high, Arsenal fans are understandably looking up the Premier League rather than over our shoulders.

Do you think a guy putting up better points in the same league, at the same age, rated 60 spots ahead isn't thought to have a higher potential?

Sissoko is a regular in Didier Deschamps» national team set - up but may be interested in a high - profile move that could secure a taste of Champions League action though it's not instantly obvious as to how the marauding midfielder would fit into the Chelsea starting eleven given the presence of the likes of Nemanja Matic, Ramires and John Obi Mikel.

He lies to the fans with high hopes He bottles things up when the chance presents itself He later comes out to say we can't win the premier league That's what happens every season still some fans haven't realised this agony His time is up to leave but he won't He favours some players than others He later blames the fans as if the fans select the players He has never blamed himself For some unknown reasons, fans continue to show their loyalty by fully attending matches while they come out on social media to vent their frustrations Wenger is taking the love of football from people Hardly a day passes than Wenger not being insulted For how long will these sufferings continue?

From a United perspective it seems your fans get stitched up by the board every year.Early on each Summer you're linked with all manner of superstar signings (this year Mbappe), then once the season tickets have been sold it all fizzles out.Considering you have the highest season ticket prices in the league, it's a disgrace really.For years the excuse was that you were paying for the great new stadium, but after that you'd be competing with Europe's elite for the top players, that came and went and still a major lack of investment your squad needs.

Last February we came up against a side who were flying high in Germany, leading the league by 10 points.

However, latest claims suggest Ronaldo is not wanted at either side, and that a move to the Chinese Super League may end up being his best option due to his likely # 88million transfer fee and high wages.

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

The claim that what we saw was us not turning up is as pathetic and utterly unacceptable an excuse to use because we've been down this road before, WEEKS were spent hyping Arsenal up, players, fans and coaching staff alike spent weeks in advance talking about our real chances winning the league, our players back from injury and on the first game of the season, where we had renewed optimism and were swelling with expectation we cracked under the pressure to a team you expect to finish no higher than 8th.

«Jameis is going to realize that he is playing for a guy in Lovie who really gets the high ups and the low downs of the National Football League.

As of 11th Nov he had the highest sprint stats in the league and is always up there in terms of distance covered and sprints in the arsenal team.

The pacy and powerful attacking midfield star was never going to be cheap after a great summer tournament for the host nation but after Sissoko had made it clear that he was not up for a season in the second tier of English football and actually felt that Champions League football was a must for him I was not expecting such a high price tag.

You can't retain possession high up the pitch in the premier league with Sanchez up top on his own!

Add it all up, and the Rockets have scored 1.15 points possession on isolation plays, per Synergy Sports — best in the league by a mile, and on pace to be the highest such figure in 14 seasons of Synergy archives by a laughable margin.

Inviting Wells over for food and refreshments was an easy call, seeing that over the winter Towers had invited the free agent Wells to San Diego for a less hospitable undertaking: to rescue a rotation that had given up a National League - high 144 homers and walked more batters than any but the Cubs».

City are flying high in top spot in the Premier League, winning 16 of their 17 games and remain unbeaten while they've opened up a sizeable 11 - point lead in the title race.

Well he certainly turned up in the big Premier League clash with Man United in our last Premier League outing and Arsene Wenger has challenged his play maker, in a report on the Arsenal website, to keep up that high standard.

if our players can treat every game as one which will win us the league, we will perform at a higher level and just might wrap it up with games to spare.

That would give the prof the chance to go out on a high after the league disappointment highlighted the idea that the club needs a shake - up.

In the old days (like last year lol) if Arsenal (or any team in the Top Four) won the FA Cup, then the runners - up in the Cup Final would take their place in the Europa League, like Hull did last year, but now UEFA have changed the rules so that if Arsenal win the Cup again, then that last Europa place will go to the next highest - placed team in the League table.

Having offloaded Ben Foster to Birmingham City and seemingly not being too keen on Thomas Kuszczak as a sound first choice starter, a new keeper has been high up on Man United's list of transfer targets this summer and the likes of Artur Boruc (now at Fiorentina) and Manuel Neuer were repeatedly linked with a move to the Premier League side.

When the 70s came along, that number started to creep up in the mid-threes and when «The Great One», Wayne Gretzky, entered the league, scoring was at an all time high.

No teams in the prem press high up the pitch anymore you need to watch other leagues / teams like barca, bayern, dortmund, Atleti etc to see what high pressing looks like

One of the teams in the Oakland Athletic League that the Warriors had to beat twice in order to go unbeaten was an Oakland High squad led by Damien Lillard, who is now tearing up the NBA for the Portland Trailblazers.

Four goals in our last two games, with three of them being of very high quality, must have been just what the doctor ordered and perhaps the title of most lethal marksman in the Premier League might help to make up for the fact that he missed so much of it.

The sacking came despite Chelsea's highest league placing for just short of fifty years, finishing runners up to the distant memory of Arsenal's invincibles.

Athletes at every level — from Pop Warner and Pee - Wee leagues to high school, college and professional teams — are gearing up to play a game notorious for causing serious neck and spine injuries.

With the bid rejected by Spurs for Townsend believed to have been in the region of # 12m, it seems as though the package put together by Tottenham to offer for Rodriguez has little cash accompanying the player — and the Saints are likely to rate their star striker much higher than that, with manager Ronald Koeman sure to keen to see how he is able to link up with Graziano Pelle, the Italian who has started life in the Premier League well after signing from Feyenoord this summer.

His league game count was his highest since he clocked up 35 matches in 2010 - 11 and only 14 short of what he'd managed in total over the previous three seasons.

I've remained an Olivier Giroud fan throughout his ups and downs, but he is yet to prove that he can challenge the best forwards in the league for the Premier League Golden Boy, while Alexis Sanchez however is already one goal short of the Frenchman's highest league tally in a Gunners shirtleague for the Premier League Golden Boy, while Alexis Sanchez however is already one goal short of the Frenchman's highest league tally in a Gunners shirtLeague Golden Boy, while Alexis Sanchez however is already one goal short of the Frenchman's highest league tally in a Gunners shirtleague tally in a Gunners shirt (16).

He may be criticised for not showing up in the big games as often as he should, but Arsenal would be nowhere without the Premier League's assist king, who has a division - high 18 in total this season.

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