Sentences with phrase «league finishes of»

With league finishes of 7th, 4th and 5th, and 3 managers later, the club has become unstable with much lower and inconsistent league results.

1992 - 96 saw league finishes of 4th, 10th, 4th, 12th and 5th.

1974 - 79 saw league finishes of 10th, 16th, 17th, 8th, 5th and 7th.

Ed Fulton, trading spokesman for Sporting Index, said: «A league finish of 73 points would not have been enough to qualify for Europe's elite competition in the recently concluded campaign and, with more teams vying for the league's top places than ever, they may continue to struggle.

Liverpool have already made many signings this summer as they look to improve on the sixth - placed Premier League finish of last time round.

Not exact matches

Edmonton, the worst team in the NHL last season, placed 29th in the Index, while Calgary (25th), Montreal (23rd) and Ottawa (19th) all finished in the bottom half of the National Hockey League.

Garcon has had one of the best finishes to the season of any receiver in the league.

As the unexpected success of Leicester City and Tottenham in the Premier League this season has shown, England's top clubs face an increasingly difficult job finishing high enough to secure entry to the lucrative Champions League.

Who has time for meditating at work when there are football fantasies, bowl (and football and basketball and baseball) pools, golf leagues, fitness centers, video games and coffee breaks to get finished before the end of the day!!!

I would love to take Giroud out of the equation last season, remove his goals last season to show ignorant people what league position we would have finished in, a league position which makes all those fantasy players a pipe dream because they only move to teams in the Champions Lleague position we would have finished in, a league position which makes all those fantasy players a pipe dream because they only move to teams in the Champions Lleague position which makes all those fantasy players a pipe dream because they only move to teams in the Champions LeagueLeague.

Rodgers guided Liverpool to a runners - up finish last term and subsequently a return to Champions League action but has seen his side struggle a fair bit this term, though this is in no small way down to the loss of Suarez to Barcelona.

«To play the first game (of the) Champions League, then to win with a good result, to score many goals, to finish the game with a clean sheet.

We should just focus on the premier league, You can forget about the europa league mate, if we carry on playing like that, we will finish bottom of group with 3 pts.

When Harry Redknapp's Spurs finished fourth in the 2011 - 12 Premier League, only to lose out on Champions League qualification because of Chelsea's form - defying victory over Bayern Munich, the mood at White Hart Lane was ultimately one of frustration.

Arsenal to finish 2nd, Liverpool miss out Premier League team of the weekend: Everton duo in after Chelsea win, plus Arsenal & Man Utd stars Manchester United transfer news

Arsenal currently sit fifth in the Premier League table and know they must win on Sunday to stand a chance of finishing in the Champions League places.

With another» if only» - season behind them, finishing as the runners up to surprise Champions Leicester City, Arsenal will of course be looking to take the leap in the 16/17 campaign and finally lift the Premier League trophy again.

Finishing 6th and making it back to the CL via the winning of the Europa league still spells trouble for next season since the gap with the top of the PL will have been established rather than a one of fluke.

Europa league trophy and either of FA or Mickey Mouse cup will be excellent for me regardless of where we finish as champions league and europa league will be secured.

He only started 16 Serie A games & finished with 7 goals & 7 assists in a tight Serie A. He's a big game player - scored in the Champions League final against Barcelona in 2014/15 & both legs of the semis against Real, & the recent Italian Cup final this season with his first touch.

it «s not that pretty to watch but it seems to be effective, it «s more the kind of football you would expect from a team in the lower leagues but finished off with some classy pro «s like Alexis, Ozil and co..

Even though Arsenal finished as runners up to the Premier League champions Leicester City last season and thereby have an automatic place in the coveted group phase of the Champions League this season, while Chelsea had such a poor campaign that they did not even manage to scrape into the poor relation that is the Europa League, do not expect us to be favourites to win any transfer battle between the two clubs.

After a summer of big spending, the new arrivals certainly look likely to continue at Old Trafford, with van Gaal attempting to revolutionise the squad at United after their highly disappointing 7th place finish in the Premier League last season.

Further, with the struggles of their rivals around them, there was certainly an opportunity to compete for the Premier League title or at least a top - three finish instead of a frantic scramble to qualify for the Champions League, which arguably looks unlikely at this stage.

Yeah but the reality is the to thing are closely related, If Wenger stays we won't win the league or the champions league any time soon.For us to win these type of trophies a top coach must come in, there aren't many who can achieve this but i believe 2 good candidates are out of work Ancelotti and Klopp, Wengrs contract should be finished by the 2016/17 season god willing.I say God willing because Wengers been talking about how he doesn't want to retire, obvious signs that he wants an extension to his contrct, i am one Arsenal fan who doesn't want to see an extension

The Merseyside club secured their third successive season without Champions League football last term, leading to the sacking of manager Kenny Dalglish, and his Northern Irish replacement has been charged with the responsibility of improving his playing staff in the pursuit of closing the 17 point gap between their eight place finish and a top four finish.

Last campaign, Kompany was only capable of making 13 appearances in all competitions as Man City finished fourth in the Premier League in Guardiola's first season in England.

I quite agree sell all the deadwoods but which player in his right mind would want to come to arsenal at the moment, remember people man u was in the same situation under moyes but we're able to attract better player's even when not playing champions league, the selling point from arsenal point of view is to tell players which they are trying to get what the plan is of getting back to top flight football by going for the Europa league over the FA cup and finishing in the top six otherwise if they go for wishy - washy arsene wenger stupid attitude of we've got quality all the squad we are competing for everything then I'm afraid We will end up with nothing

He also has pristine finishing with little back lift required just like Messi and Aguero (having a low centre of gravity plays a role as well) Sanchez is also not injury prone so any team he plays for will see him play a minimum of 30 league games per season despite his very high work rate.

What is the point of playing CL when we do nt have enough quality to make it to the later stages In the Premier League finishing 1st is success

Wenger is just trying to gain some time and hopefully finish his contract with a series of top four finish because winning the league or the CL is just an aim to far... Basically a total and utter impossibility.

«Mesut Ozil created more goals than any other Premier League player in 2015/16 — but despite finishing top of the assists table, he just missed the chance to set a new record.

Having finished outside of the top four, it remains to be seen whether or not the lack of Champions League football next season costs them in their transfer work this summer, while they will have to balance out their spending with sales too.

There is pressure of finishing top 4 Financial pressure and getting into Champions League next season

So it is the first time in ten years that Arsenal have gone unbeaten in the Champions League Group Stage and finished top of the group, and will go into the knockout stages full of confidence for a change.

That is the reality at Arsenal and the fans still singing «there is only one Arsene Wenger» (I pity those fools and deluded fans who still think that winning a game of football is by having the most possession and not taking a shot... Soon they will believe they won the league by finishing second, third or even fourth...), I applaud you.

With Liverpool looking strong in their pursuit of a top - four finish and the Champions League this season, there seems to be plenty of reasons as to why Can should stay at Anfield.

Man United boss Louis van Gaal will be handed a hefty transfer fee injection next summer with the level of funding dependent greatly on whether the Dutchman secures a top four finish and the resultant Champions League qualification.

Now, back to reality, we're still likely to finish 5th, and the lack of champions league football will hurt us.

We need to finish higher than 2 of these teams United, Chelsea, Liverpool, Man City and Spurs Reality 2: Winning Europa will be tough as hell but as we are the top ranked team our chances are better than finishing Top 4 in premier league.

Not really bothered about finishing 4th, maybe a year or so out of the Champions League will do us good.

So we have the very real risk of finishing below Spurs, the possible nightmare of Spurs winning the league and a big chance of fnishing outside the top 4.

For this to happen it will depend on where we finish, out of the champions league I think Wenger will be in trouble, sixth or below he will be out of the door — hopefully.

It would be hard to argue that we are assured to finish above the Blues, but should we get our form back on the up, we still have plenty of time to earn a place inside the Champions League places.

This season was the first where the winners of the previous UEFA Europa League gained automatic entry into the UEFA Champions League: Sevilla taking that berth despite finishing fifth in Spain (they are currently seventh).

Then the season unravels.We start well but towards end of December we have handful of injuries and we are struggling with our title challenge.But still great Wenger who does not believe in January transfer window does not buy anyone or buys Kallstrom and by march we have no chance of winning the league and we are looking at getting Wenger Trophy (Top 4 finish).

Not that any of the deals are particularly egregious, but if the team is aiming at the No. 1 pick next year, these moves could hurt their chances of finishing last in the league and getting top lottery odds.

The Bears just finished having one of the best interior O - lines in the league last year so the guy isn't even a need.

However, a Metro report this morning claimed that our north London rivals, fresh from their latest failure to finish above Arsenal in the Premier League table, are planning to hijack the move with a transfer bid of their own and have agreed to meet his release clause of around # 25 million.

We will probably either finish 2nd or 3rd in the grup and if it happens to be the latter we may as well look at europa league as a realistic chance of winning a title.