Sentences with phrase «last champions league spot»

The win takes the Blues five points behind Tottenham Hotspur, who occupy the last Champions League spot.

Spurs are in fourth place and have a five - point lead over Chelsea in the race for the last Champions League spot.

Now with Gennaro Gattuso at the helm, Milan are making a late - season surge as they're eight points out of the last Champions League spot; however, it appears it's too little, too late as they had to hop over three teams for the CL spot.

Lazio, who were fighting for the elusive last Champions league spot, picked up a 4 - 2 win over Lecce who were a man down for most of the second half to finish tied at 66 points with Udinese but failed to make it to Champions League due to an inferior goal difference with Udinese.

Arsenal and Everton finished 4th and 5th respectively in the Premier League table last season, as Wenger's men narrowly edged the Toffees to seal that last Champions League spot.

As a result, Roma and Lazio remain one point ahead of Inter for the last Champions League spots.

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The versatile defensive weapon has found his route to a centre - back spot blocked by Daley Blind this term, and has only been used to fill the left - back berth following the long - term injury suffered by Luke Shaw during Man United's Champions League defeat to PSV Eindhoven last week.

Sport have also linked the Catalan giants with a move for Tottenham playmaker Christian Eriksen, with the club's sporting director Robert Fernandez spotted scouting the Dane at last night's Champions League match between Spurs and Real Madrid at the Bernabeu.

His surge of good form last term helped push Tottenham into the Champions League spots and 10 goals in 12 starts in all competitions is a pretty damn good strike rate.

Arsenal fans will obviously hoping that this is where the coincidence ends as well, because the Gunners got off to the worst possible start last year by losing at home to Liverpool (and when you consider they pipped us to the final Champions League spot by a single point that loss looks even worse).

Mustafi has become one of the first names on the Valencia team sheet since moving to Spain's La Liga two summers back but the Spanish club need money after missing out on the Champions League qualifying spots last season.

While Gattuso had his troubles early on, he has now guided Milan to a 10 - game unbeaten run in Serie A, winning their last five in a row and in turn dragging them back into the race for a Champions League qualification spot.

One of the features of the last few years has been Arsenal putting a brilliant run of results together and although it may be too late for a title challenge this time, we still need to secure a top four spot, as well as having the knockout rounds of the Champions League to think about — and the small matter of defending the FA cup trophy won in dramatic fashion last season to defend.

Arsenal on the other hand have won their last two matches, but were previously on a run of five games without a win, but are believed to be full of confidence after their win over Premier League champions Chelsea in the League Cup, which booked themselves a spot in the Carabao Cup final.

Arsene will never be fired directly, but maybe they are working on finding the future replacement already now — and maybe this will be Arsenes last season, should he fail to bring us at even a champions league spot.

Arsenal were drawn with AS Monaco in the last 16 of the Champions League, a surprise tie for the Gunners who were expected to face a European giant after they, yet again, failed to secure top spot in their group.

They got a morale boosting derby win over Manchester City last weekend, and will now be far more confident in their ability to clinch a Champions League spot.

Not only is it incredible that for two seasons in a row the Gunners have finished second in the Champions League group to Dortmund, but we also have the same points just like last year, and the top spot was decided on the final day with nothing we could do about it.

After seeing off Bayern Munich in the last round, defending champions Real Madrid will hope to book their spot in the final and take a step closer to an historic back - to - back Champions Leaguechampions Real Madrid will hope to book their spot in the final and take a step closer to an historic back - to - back Champions LeagueChampions League triumph.

But with fourth - placed United targeting a spot in next season's Champions League and with their commercial arm continuing to raise huge sums, Van Gaal has been told he can eclipse last summer's spending.

Manchester United look well placed to regain their Champions League spot, following a vital 2 - 1 away win at nearest challengers Liverpool, widening the gap to five points, after last year finishing a disappointing seventh under David Moyes.

Hart is still highly regarded by the rest of his City teammates, though, and is still capable of pulling off a solid performance, as he did in the Champions League tie against CSKA Moscow last week, but Pellegrini believes the 26 - year - old will respond positively to some serious competition for a starting spot.

Ernesto Valverde has done an excellent job to his point after being appointed last summer, guiding Barcelona to top spot in La Liga while they remain on course to challenge for the Copa del Rey and Champions League.

Spurs fans have been getting too big in their boots, following their wonder season last year, in which they only managed to finish in third, and Champions League football will no doubt hinder their chances of another surprise place in the CL qualifying spots.

This is the sad reality for Brendan Rodgers and his team, who despite a 13 - game unbeaten run stretching from mid-December until their defeat against Manchester United at the end of last month, could soon find themselves eight points adrift of a Champions League spot.

Arsenal are on a good run of form of late, wining 13 of their last 15 fixtures, and it's not beyond the realms of possibility that they could turn the tie around but will need an early goal to stand any chance of securing a spot in the Champions League quarter - finals.

The 22 - year - old enjoyed a superb campaign last term, his ten goals and seven assists proving key in the Stadio Olimpico side's run to secure a Champions League spot, and it's no surprise that there is growing interest in the former Santos man.

The Bavarian side lost their Bundesliga crown to Borussia Dortmund and slipped to third spot before being dumped out of the Champions League by Inter Milan, all of which led to Louis Van Gaal leaving the club before the end of the last campaign.

Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players had to give it their all towards the end of last season, and to be fair to them we did win our last five Premier League games but unfortunately it was not quite enough as Jurgen Klopp and Liverpool pipped us to the final Champions League spot by a single point.

Sterling enjoyed a strong season last term, netting 11 goals in all competitions, and was one of only a handful of players to come out of the 2014/15 campaign with any credit as Brendan Rodgers saw his side failed to retain their spot in the top four and therefore lost out in the race for Champions League qualification.

The Gunners brought in only two players this summer in Alexandre Lacazette and Sead Kolasinac, whilst overseeing a number of exits, and after finishing outside the Champions League spots last term, you would have expected much more improvements.

As seen in the last - 16 tie with AC Milan, the Armenian international's quality at this level can make a real difference, and with Arsenal hoping to book their spot in the final and take a big step towards qualifying for the Champions League next season, Wenger will be desperate to see him return sooner rather than later.

Except for a silly defeat to Spurs and an off - day with Monaco which cost us our Champions League last 8 spot, we've looked good.

Arsenal's disappointment at losing out on a Champions League qualification spot masked a decent run of wins at the end of the season — mirroring Chelsea's results across the last five games.

Arsenal still need to secure a Champions League spot for next year and we want to get it done as soon as possible and not still be worrying about it in the last few weeks of the season.

The defeat leaves United fifth in the table, and a considerable six points behind rivals Manchester City who occupy fourth spot and the last Champions League qualifying position.

Arsene Wenger's side have now lost five of their last six in all competitions, losing in the Carabao Cup final to Manchester City while slipping 13 points adrift of the top four in the pursuit of a Champions League qualification spot.

Last weekend's loss to Arsenal stretched the gap between Liverpool and Arsenal to five points, but with a Champions League spot the aim this season, Liverpool will feel they are performing well enough.

Toronto FC engraved their first ever chapter on the Estadio Azteca turf — the same turf where Pelé won his third and last World Cup and Diego Maradona scored one of the best ever World Cup goals — with a 1 - 1 draw against Club America, which earned them a spot in the Concacaf Champions League final.

A second - half goal from Max Meyer has secured Schalke's spot in the Last 16 of the Champions League after winning 1 - 0 away to Maribor.

The 52 - year - old guided the team to the Premier League title last season, but they are already 14 points off the top, and 12 points behind form the Champions League spot.

Following Valverde's rescue last year, the Foundation will be aware that a vital money - spinning Champions League spot is still possible, so Djukic has gone while it remains so.

Shakhtar will look to climb to the top two spots from this point, and for this they need to win atleast two games; in their favor, they have managed to accomplish this feat in the last three years and have progressed to the Champions League round of 16 twice.

Tottenham Hotspur are winless in the top - flight since the last international break, and this has seen them fall four points adrift of Liverpool, who hold the final Champions League spot.

However, Brendan Rodgers» side were hindered by a slow start and currently sit four points behind last year's champions, who occupy the fourth and final Champions Leachampions, who occupy the fourth and final Champions LeaChampions League spot.

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Victory against Chelsea at Turf Moor on Thursday would take them to within five points of last season's champions and lift the Clarets above Arsenal into sixth spot — within reach of securing qualification for the Europa League, which would be a remarkable feat for a club from a town of just 70,000 inhabitants.

A last - gasp 2 - 1 win at Stoke City in mid-December kept Palace in sixth, level on points with Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United in the Champions League spots; since then, they have collected just three points from a possible 27 and sunk to 13th place, 15 points adrift of the top four and just eight above the drop zone.

The rivalry between these set of fans peaked when the Irons fans celebrated as Tottenham lost out on the final Champions League spot on the last day of the 2005 - 06 season.

Roma are third in Serie A and hold the last Champions League qualifying spot with seven games remaining.