Sentences with phrase «league spot with»

Newcastle moved closer to a Champions League spot with an 8/11 3 - 0 thrashing of Stoke City and Aston Villa have slipped closer towards relegation zone.

Fernando Torres scored his first Premier League goal for six months as Chelsea revitalised their hopes of securing a Champions League spot with victory at Aston Villa.

Tottenham, providing Harry Kane stays fit, should join them leaving Chelsea and Liverpool fighting it out for the final Champions League spot with their meeting in the first weekend of May at Stamford Bridge a possible winner takes all contest.

After four wins on the bounce, Everton have put themselves into the reckoning for a surprise Champion League spot with only six points separated them...

The Yellow Submarine kept alive its quest for a Europa League spot with a 2 - 1 win over Leganés before one of our smallest crowds of the season at the Ceramica.

The only thing to focus on in Group H is the battle for the Europa League spot with both Borussia Dortmund and Apoel sitting on two points each.

we are meant to be a title winning team... not fighting for a champions league spot with liverpool and spurs

He has consistently achieved the champions league spot with Arsenal despite the club losing really good players.

Tottenham kept up their push for a Champions League spot with this easy win over Portsmouth at White Hart Lane.

UTD get UCL spot and we get Europa league spot with Everton..

Dortmund have gone from bottom of the table to 11th place, just 10 points off the Champions League spots with 16 games left to play... Surely not?

Not exact matches

With some teams already locked into a playoff spot and other teams fighting to extend their seasons, motivations are varied across the league and the lines in Las Vegas are especially volatile.

The Canadian bank finished the quarter with $ 81 million in US equity capital markets revenue, according to data from Dealogic, jumping four spots to sixth on the league table.

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We are used to being able to secure our top four spot without too much hassle, with Arsene Wenger managing to somehow maintain our place in the Champions League year - on - year despite the changes made to the squad, but this year will not be so easy.

The top four in the table increased their hold on their Champions League spots this weekend with wins, but some people are still discrediting Arsenal as serious challengers for top spot.

Once all the EPL games are over the focus will switch to the FA cup final at Wembley where Arsenal will fact the league champions Chelsea, and I feel that the goals could be intrinsically linked, with an unlikely top four spot likely to give us a great boost and help us get to Wembley full of form and confidence.

Hull City have won just one of their last 14 Premier League fixtures and now sit in 18th spot and Bruce could well do with January captures who could help his side extricate themselves from the position they find themselves in.

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.

remember... only two ore human beings in the team we win the league... thats 3 spots ahead of 4th with only two people!!

i think sterling would be laughing in amusement with no intention whatsoever of being seen playing europa league football much less fighting relegation spot with players that don't have any fight.

It's likely they'll have to settle for a playoff spot, but with the form they're in you'd fancy them against anyone in the league.

Their handling of Costa, one of the league's best strikers is terrible and you can see tension between Conte and their board with the lack of investments in players they want, but still they should have enough quality for a top 4 spot.

Despite the disappointment of eventually finishing in third place in the Premier League last season, Spurs are evidently keen to keep the same nucleus of the squad in place and build on their success last year as they currently sit with eight points from their first four games of the season leaving them just four points off top spot.

Manchester United can clinch a spot in the Champions League knockout round with a win over PSV Eindhoven this Wednesday.

Keep track of the hot stove season in Major League Baseball, with all the free agent rumors and done deals in one spot.

AM: And on the left there can be no debating Mohamed Salah deserves his spot, with the Egyptian topping the Premier League scoring charts with 14 goals in a superb debut season.

A star in her own right but now well on our radar having hooked up with the Premier League star, she'll hope her other half secures a spot at the World Cup this summer and we may well see her cheering her man on from the stands in Russia.

This year's all - star game marked the first time in event history that there was not a starting center in the line - up, with the league instead opting for three forward spots — and this hardly comes...

The result leaves Arsenal nine points off league leaders Manchester City already this season, with a top four spot surely the best Wenger's side can hope for this term.

In the National League, the Arizona Diamondbacks rebounded from a 93 - loss campaign to capture the top wild card spot with 93 wins in 2017.

Since Lawrence Taylor burst onto the scene with the New York Giants in 1981, every team in the league had been looking for another player who could rush and terrorize the quarterback from the outside linebacker spot.

With the season in England now officially over following the FA Cup final at the weekend, Telegraph Sport have published their list of the top 20 players in the Barclays Premier League and once again Chelsea are the ones left claiming the number one spot.

Chelsea are also not in immediate need of a new left - back, with two established stars in Cesar Azpilicueta and Filipe Luis battling for a spot in Jose Mourinho's starting lineup, although it has again been suggested that Atletico Madrid are looking at raiding the Premier League side for one of those, as they consider re-signing the Brazilian, according to reports in the London Evening Standard back in April.

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.

With the new Premier League season only a matter of weeks away, all eyes will be on reigning champions Chelsea and the race to usurp Antonio Conte's men from top spot in 2017 - 18.

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Instead of clawing with the St. Louis Blues for the bottom two seeds of the three guaranteed playoff spots in the Central Division, the Stars leap - frogged both the Blues and, even more surprisingly, the Chicago Blackhawks to win arguably the toughest division in the league.

Both Everton - chasing a Champions League spot — and Reading — struggling to get out of the relegation mire — had ample reason to approach this game with effervescent vigor.

Boston Red Sox, not yet missing absent Ted Williams, ripped off four wins over Baltimore, split pair of games with New York Yankees, took over top spot in American League.

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.

Olympique de Marseille remained in the hunt for a Champions League qualifying spot with a 2 - 0 victory away at FC Metz in Ligue 1 action on Friday evening.

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 have no European competition and have solely the league to worry about up until January, with the attacking options they have and sufficient time to rest between games you can bet they will be fighting for a CL spot, Everton will be challenging, Spurs will be outsiders for a CL spot in my opinion and I don't expect them to be in it much but I wouldn't count them out and then there is Arsenal.

Watford went into this game with the joint best defensive record in the league and having only conceded one, from the penalty spot, at Vicarage Road so it was not totally unexpected.

Granada host Malaga in this La Liga battle with the home side periously close to the relegation places and the visitors still battling for the Champions League spots.

However, one man that certainly deserved his spot in the team was Sanchez as the Arsenal forward has now been involved in 24 goals in his last 24 Premier League appearances with 18 goals and six assists.

I don't think there is much chance that the Arsenal we are used to would be willing to shell out such a fee, but with our place in the top four this season having come under huge threat, it wouldn't be too much of a shock to see the board invest to secure our place in the Champions League spots.

But both sides, or the managers of them at least, probably see this as the second priority, with the race to get one of the Champions League spots being the real goal for the season.

Our side has been on the look - out for an experienced defender to add to the ranks, and Luiz would certainly fit into that category, having won numerous trophies with Paris Saint - Germain and Chelsea, as well as having played a key role in helping the Blues to win the Champions League, and would be a huge boost to our team as we look to secure a spot in the top four, whilst also being available for the Europa League.