Sentences with phrase «league over the festive period»
Not exact matches
This wasn't our best performance by a long shot, but the festive period is famous for throwing up shocks, such as a small club like Tottenham managing to gain only their fifth ever league win over the league leaders Chelsea.
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Arsenal's most expensive signing ever Alexandre Lacazette has admitted that while he was playing for Lyon in France he had always enjoyed watching the Premier League games over the incredibly congested Christmas period and was intrigued to see how we all coped, considering that most other European Leagues had a break over the festive period.
There are plenty of games over the festive period of the Premier League, with both Arsenal and Chelsea facing some important fixtures in the coming weeks.
Arsene Wenger and Jurgen Klopp have been the main critiques of the congested festive Premier League fixture schedule, which keeps fans entertained up and down the country over the festive period.
Even without a selection of first team players the Hammers went eight league games unbeaten over a tricky and busy festive period, and the win over Everton came without five first team defenders.
Whilst a number of top European soccer leagues take a break over the Christmas and New Year period, the Premier League continues to serve up a feast of festive fixtures, much to the delight of sports fans around the world.
Owen Coyle will have no doubt hand - picked plenty of positives from a festive period which didn't exactly reap may rewards in terms of points, though even the potential manager of the season will have his fair share of concerns regarding his team's current frame of mind following ta three - match sequence without registering a win in the league, a run that probably wasn't remedied by a 2 - 0 FA Cup third - round victory over Conference side York City simply because it was scruffy and very fortuitous, not to mention required Coyle to draft in his big boys in the dyeing embers of the game.
Just two wins over the festive period emphasised their urgent need for fresh impetus, as well as their needs for goals, having mustered just six in as many league games.