Sentences with phrase «league at the tasks»

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Not only have Pep Guardiola's team yet to lose in the league, with just one draw and nine EPL wins so far this season, they are scoring on average more than three goals a game, so we know it is going to be a tough task for the Gunners at the weekend.

United boss Louis van Gaal then handed the forward a full debut in their disappointing Champions League defeat at the hands of PSV Eindhoven in midweek due to the absence of captain Wayne Rooney, however, the 19 - year - old struggled with the task of leading the line on his own.

As he now faces another difficult task on Wednesday night with his side looking to advance to the Champions League final at the expense of Manchester City, he will hope to add to his haul of 16 goals in the competition already.

Liverpool's task of making it through to the next round of the Champions League looked tough enough already, but look at what else will be distracting them tomorrow night.

I wonder what are dithering in the transfer market truly costs... last year it might have costs us the top 4 and champions league... now that's a pretty penny... this year it already cost us a small fortune considering what Lacazette would have cost last year and I'm not even including opportunity costs... ultimately it might cost us Lemar, if the speculation is true... why are we seemingly the only club that can't pry a player from Monaco, especially considering the obvious Wenger connection... Wenger should stop wasting precious time criticizing PSG and worry about the task at hand... was anyone seriously surprised by the frugal managers thoughts on the matter

Arsenal, having garnered just 11 points from their first 8 Premier League games, look like a side that has its task cutout to finish in the top 4 at the end of 2014/15 Premier League season.

Arsenal have an uphill task on their hands to qualify for the quarterfinals of this season's UEFA Champions League, as they need to score at least 3 goals to have any smidgen chance of overcoming an AS Monaco side that won by a huge margin of 3 - 1 in the first leg at the Emirates last month.

With the Merseyside club in the middle of the race for the Premier League top four, fans will be hoping that none of this distracts one of their best players from the task at hand.

After bringing in 11 new players, expectations were sky - high at the San Siro with Vincenzo Montella tasked with building on their qualification for the Europa League last season.

Their form in the league wasn't great either, as they followed a 5 - 0 thumping of Aston Villa with disappointing draws with Chelsea and Everton, and were then beaten in a crucial game with Manchester United, who won 3 - 2 at the Etihad Stadium with a last - minute winner from none other than Robin van Persie, who was indeed making a huge difference in the title race, as his goal put six points between league leaders United and City, giving Mancini's side a real uphill task to retain their title even before the half - way point of the season.

Following the disappointing elimination from the Champions League at the hands of Roma, keeping their amazing run in La Liga going while juggling injuries and lack of fitness was a difficult task for Valverde.

Spurs are flying high in second in the Premier League, two points adrift of leaders Leicester City after Sunday's win at Manchester City, but Mauricio Pochettino now has the difficult task of juggling his squad for two different cup competitions, and their title challenge.

Arsene Wenger has been at pains this week to keep the Arsenal players» feet on the ground and their minds on the task ahead following the euphoria of rescuing our Champions League campaign from being up the creek without a paddle.

Having been relegated to the Championship, the Black Cats will face the difficult task of trying to keep key players at the club in order to get back to the Premier League as soon as possible.

They are a load to deal with near the rim at each end of the floor and a truly tough task for anyone in the League..

The Gunners beat Premier League champions Chelsea in the Community Shield here at the start of the season on penalties, but has a much bigger task in hand for today's final match - up.

Arsenal fans have had an awful week in which we've had to wade through the troublesome task of accepting there will be no champions league football at the Emirates next season.

The second - leg of the mouthwatering Champions League Quarter - Final with Real Madrid will be played tonight at the Bernabeu but Juventus face an uphill task they want to progress through to the Semi-Finals as they were defeated 3 - 0 at the Allianz Stadium last week.

Lyon face a tough task as they continue their bid to reach the 2018 final at their own ground; in the round of 32 they face Villarreal, who have the most wins and goals in the UEFA Europa League.

Last week's 3 - 1 defeat to Tottenham at Stamford Bridge has left the reigning Premier League champions facing what looks to be an insurmountable task to finish in the top four.

After losing to Dinamo Zagreb away and Olympiacos F.C. at home, Arsene Wenger's side are for sure in desperate need of a result if they want to have a realistic chance of reaching the Champions league last 16 stage, but the task ahead of Gunners is everything but no easy as on the other side stands the German giant Bayern Munich who is in superb form.

The Chilean is delighted to sign for Citizens and will have a hard task at his hands in the toughest league in the world.

Signed from Southampton in 2007 as a highly - rated young left - back, Bale was transformed from an inconsistent, injury - prone defender into one of the most dangerous attackers in world football while at Spurs and holding onto him without the allure of Champions League football, was always going to be a thankless task.

Spurs have a mammoth task if they are to stay in the Europa League after falling to their biggest defeat of the season at Borussia Dortmund

Hosting Bournemouth at Wembley may not seem like the biggest task of his managerial — and in isolation it's not — but just three days later Spurs travel to Madrid to face Champions League holders Real Madrid in matchday three of this season's competition.

With the Interlull successfully navigated, we can return to the task at hand - Arsenal qualifying for the Champions League next season.

Survival was confirmed on the penultimate match of the season as Sam Allardyce achieved what was almost an impossible task as The Black Cats ensured their Premier League status at the expense of their North - East rivals, Newcastle United.

Rafa Benitez knew he had a serious task on his hands this summer after he decided to stay at Newcastle United following their relegation from the Premier League.

Not only does he face the monumental task of bringing a demoralised and self - destructive Villa back to life after a humiliating final season in the Premier League, but he also needs to learn that English football fans are a dab hand at making people's lives difficult on Twitter.

It's even more unthinkable to go down to League 1 on 51 points, but that is now a reality and the task at hand is for the players is to play to win.

Facing Paris Saint - Germain to kick off your UEFA Champions League campaign is already a difficult task at the best of times, but during the summer transfer window, Celtic's job was made even harder.

As if the task at hand wasn't daunting enough, Holloway will be without arguably his two most consistent performers this season in Charlie Adam, who pulls all the strings in the heart of the Blackpool midfield, and striker DJ Campbell, Blackpool's leading goalscorer in the Premier League this season with nine goals.

It is understood that Sanchez has even laid down an ultimatum that he will not sign a new contract unless they qualify for the Champions League, which does seem like a tough task at this point.

I was so impressed with the spirit with which Arsenal played with in the second half of their Champions League clash with Udinese on Wednesday, however the ease at which the Italians tore through what is still an exposed and not up to the task Arsenal back - line frightens me.

It's not often that you're going to see United at 5/2 to win a league home game, but that is the size of the task ahead of them on the weekend.

The third is that while we are still in the Champions League — I invite you at this junction to pause, face the general direction of Manchester and laugh — and as great as it is to play against Europe's best (and second and third best) teams, the reality is this squad doesn't look up to the task of winning it.

In fact, the club were on the brink of becoming shipwrecked under negative Woy, with Dalglish's first major task being to steer the Reds well away from any potential threat of relegation, which at this point looks every inch a possibility — Hodgson leaves Dalglish with a broken team which lost three of their last five league fixtures and as a result now find themselves precariously close to the relegation zone.

I am, though, under no illusions as to the mammoth task that awaits Chelsea at Old Trafford − where United are unbeaten in their last 23 league games, winning 22 − against a team who in their last home assignment slammed right goals past Arsenal.

During my keynote address at the 2008 National Concussion Safety Summit in California, I took the league to task for not doing a lot more than it was doing at that point on concussion safety.

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