Sentences with phrase «knocked out of the title»

It wasn't a huge slide, but it was enough to cost them against Stanford and Arizona (quarterback Marcus Mariota's knee injury obviously didn't help) and knock them out of the title race.

Chelsea have had a horrible start to the Premier League season, and find themselves in 17th place on the League table and in real danger of being knocked out of the title race.

Liverpool are in shaky form of late, so Conte will see this as a chance to knock them out of the title race.

Not exact matches

They were knocked out of the Champions League quarter - finals to Liverpool on Tuesday night and failed to win the Premier League title against rivals Manchester Utd last weekend — after surrendering a two goal lead.

And few years back when we got constantly knocked out of the FA Cup early, we still had no chance at the title.

Barcelona top La Liga and will extend their lead to four points with a win against Real Madrid, going some way to sealing another league title at the Nou Camp, and will be high on confidence after comfortably knocking Manchester City out of the Champions League.

Alderweireld can play at either centre or right back and having won back to back domestic titles he may feel he has achieved as much as he can with his Amsterdam side and having been knocked out of the Champions League a move in January is a distinct possibility.

He added: «Transition's never easy, especially after a fantastic season, and just missing out on that title will have knocked the confidence of the players initially.

The Chilean has found himself under pressure at the Etihad in recent weeks with the side off the pace in the Premier League title race and looking likely to be knocked out of the Champions League.

Cast your mind back to a couple of seasons ago, when Arsenal had been knocked out of both domestic cups by lower league opposition and then waved goodbye to any hope of a title challenge and been taken to pieces at the Emirates by Bayern Munich.

Liverpool to knock Man C out of the PL title race tonight.

The Blues had been beaten to the Premier League title by Manchester United, and were knocked out of the Champions League, meaning the club were desperate for glory at Wembley Stadium.

50 - 70 mil striker might win you crucial games in EPL and CL... If we got that one we won't be knocked out every time from 16 - round of the CL, we might have taken the chances that we had against Utd and Chelsea... With this type of thinking we lost our title the season before when we were top of the league and I genuinely believe we lost that to City because we did not add striker as a main reason...

Last season, Leicester won the title but had hardly any distractions in the form of cup games, having been knocked out of the League Cup and the FA Cup at an early stage.

From an optimistic point of view, the team will have to focus only domestically once we get knocked out of the Champions League, an advantage that title rivals Leicester have had all season long.

It was only a week or so ago that some Arsenal fans were wringing their hands with despair and predicting a collapse of form and results that would see Arsenal slide out of the Premier League title race, exit the EFL cup and suffer the usual fate of being runners up in our Champions League group which would see us knocked out in the first knockout stage.

Here are the games guaranteed to knock somebody out of the title race for good:

It was at Madison Square Garden, this first defense of Foster's title since he took it by knocking out the elderly Dick Tiger of Biafra last May.

As bad as it would be for Arsenal to get knocked out of the Champions League, it could actually help us in our quest for the Premier League title.

USC went 10 - 2 and finished sixth in the country in 2011; the Trojans knocked Oregon out of the national title hunt with a 38 - 35 win in Eugene, then finished the season with a 50 - 0 pasting of UCLA.

From a national title perspective, the former is probably the more significant matchup, if only because a second loss would almost certainly knock the Crimson Tide out of the Playoff race.

Arsenal start to slip in title race, barca or Bayern knock out us of Ucl round of 16 again.

BOXING — AZUMAH NELSON of Ghana knocked out Pat Cowdell of Britain in the first round to retain his WBC featherweight title, in Birmingham, England.

It seems unlikely that City would allow their best player to leave the Etihad Stadium as they look to rebuild after a difficult season this term, with the club falling away in the challenge for the title and also finding themselves out of contention in the cup competitions after being knocked out early.

I've said before that the 2 months of January and February could be our 3 titles defining months in which we could gain ground or loss ground in the table and advance or get knocked out in the Cups.

Real have missed out on silverware altogether after Barcelona beat them to the Spanish league title, while Juventus knocked them out of the Champions League semi-finals.

A win for the Gunners will keep them on track for a title challenge and will also effectively knock the Red Devils out of the race for the top four.

It's going to be extremely hard to get out of the group now but I would not bet against us against bayern as we have a good record against them so let's back our team, and you Wenger haters, leave it till the end of the season to moan as getting knocked out of the cl might even give us the best chance to win the title that we al crave!

The Tide needed a blocked kick to top Tennessee, beat Virginia Tech by 10, beat LSU by nine, came back to survive Auburn with 1:26 on the clock, and knocked Colt McCoy out of the national title game (but probably would've won anyway).

The chances are that, soon after writing this about the injury problems that Arsenal's Premier League title rivals are facing, we will see one or more of our own big stars pick up a knock and be ruled out for a long time.

To be honest maybe a lot of fans would agree that a Spurs win would also knock Arsenal's chances of winning the title out the window, but surely one of our players wouldn't say that in public would they?

Their season was sizzling out, having been knocked out of the Champions League and losing to United at home when they could have won the title, to then go to Tottenham who are supposed to be the big challengers and put them to the sword - it could have been any football score you wanted.

In the season following that historic double we were a Bergkamp penalty from knocking Manchester United out of the FA cup semi-final, and a late collapse enabled them to take our Premier League title from us.

Celta knocked Los Blancos out of the Copa Del Rey 4 - 3 on aggregate but with Madrid gunning for the title I can't see a repeat result.

Juventus won a fifth consecutive Serie A title last season, equalling an Italian record, but they missed out on Champions League victory when Bayern Munich knocked them out of the competition at the quarter - final stage.

United were knocked out of the Champions League by Sevilla and then gifted the Premier League title to rivals City with a shock home defeat to rock - bottom West Brom last weekend.

Manager Andre Villas - Boas has already conceded the title and we have been knocked out of the Carling Cup and have little chance of winning the Champions League.

«Transition's never easy, especially after a fantastic season, and just missing out on that title will have knocked the confidence of the players initially.

Now Mourinho has settled, United fans will expect their side to challenge for the league title next season and make the knock - out stages of the Champions League.

While his Sevilla are winless in five in La Liga and were knocked out of the Champions League at the round of 16 stage by Leicester City, they have at times looked like worthy title challengers this season, and remain on course for a first top - four finish since 2010.

Juventus, despite winning the last two domestic titles at a stroll, were knocked out of Europe's top club competition at the group stage this season.

A stunning comeback at the Emirates, coming from 2 - 0 down to win 3 - 2 in an extraordinary affair, was to be the first of three sensational results which would turn Spurs into a dark horse in the Champions League, after sailing through to the knock - outs and on the verge of nailing top spot in their group, as well as enhancing their claims for a serious title challenge with a hard - fought win over Liverpool at White Hart Lane.

Klopp's Borussia struggled in the league before they had been knocked out of Europe even in their two title - winning seasons so I am not convinced Klopp knows how to handle both demanding competitions, especially with a team that doesn't have a natural left full - back, a decent defensive midfielder and a central defender needed to win the league.

«Last night, Hillary knocked it out of the park,» he wrote in an email to supporters titled: «Wow wow wow.»

His first defence of the title came against Dan Henderson who previously knocked Bisping out cold back at UFC 100, still, to this day it's one of the most replayed knockouts in MMA history.

Showtime Boxing: WBC Super Welterweight World Champion Jermell Charlo knocks Charles Hatley out cold in the sixth round of their title bout.

Showtime Boxing: Anthony Joshua makes his first title defense after knocking out Dominic Breazeale in the seventh round of their IBF Heavyweight World Championship.

Just like with the original Wii, first - party and exclusive titles are really where the Wii U needs to knock it out of the park in order to incentivize a console purchase.

Bandai Namco Entertainment has been knocking it out of the (bleeping) ballpark lately with its anime - based gaming titles.

They fall in love, boff a bit - which enhances his game no end while wrecking hers - fall out, split and reunite on Centre Court when she returns (after being knocked out of the tournament) to see him recover from two sets down to take the title.