Sentences with phrase «leagues place»

Casey, I HAVE studied theology, I suspect a LOT more than you, as well as biblical archeology at an Ivy League place.

Tell the strikers who start, probably Giroud and Welbeck, that they are playing for a Premier League place and the chances are that they will reward us with goals.

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.

But seriously, we can't seriously believe that we are more interested in the top four than we are in the title, but staying in the Champions League places obviously remains the minimum for us.

From what I can see, the last real links with us signing the Turkish international came over six months ago, and he has not had the best season with Bayer Leverkusen statistically, but has been a key player in the side which finished third in the German top division, helping them to earn a Champions League place for next year.

I think it means we are in the running for a Champions league place next season.

Arsenal need the points much the more however, having dropped down to a lowly sixth spot, and their hopes of a Champions League place will be very slim without a win.

The board nor their puppet will not spend money trying to get us back in the champions league places.

While Wenger did do a great job of keeping Arsenal within the Champions league places since 2005, Arsenal have toiled away without any reward.

Surely not if the club — a multi million pound business — misses out on a Champions League place again.

While Mourinho's side are only five points off the relegation zone, they are a whopping 12 points behind Arsenal and the Champions League places.

I am not suggesting that he will field a weaker team with that FA cup replay in mind, as securing a Champions League place is more important to Liverpool (he would love the top four to be called the Rodgers trophy believe me).

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.

Manchester United will be looking to continue their recent improvement and close the gap on the Champions League places in this afternoon's trip to Chelsea.

With Man United's win over Norwich ensuring that Arsenal still need points from our final two games to secure a Champions League place for next season, the manager must get his team selection and tactics right and with more options than usual he has a tough job on his hands, but one of those choices for me has to be Santi Cazorla in the box to box role.

Jose Mourinho's mission to make Manchester United back into a trophy - hoovering monstrosity has, after one year, ended with two cups and a Champions League place, which he'd probably have taken at the beginning of the season.

Finishing the season with an unbeaten run to clinch a Champion's League place, then getting absolutely hammered in Europe the following season....

If we get Lemar and Seri and possibly a CB, we can be contenders but so far I feel 3rd at best and it will be a scrappy battle for the Champions League places.

The Gunners will know this weekend could have serious repercussions on the Champions League places with Liverpool and Southampton doing battle, Man United facing a potentially difficult trip to Swansea and Spurs facing bogey team West Ham.

The defending Premier League champions have endured a horrific run of form, which has seen them fall from title contention to the verge of missing out on the Champions League places, with Liverpool closing the gap on them in fourth place.

A striker that can make up for the loss of Alexis will be needed if we are to challenge for the Champions League places or even the Premier League title, and speculation is already rife linking us with a whole host of attackers.

Their extra goal difference means that we really have to win both of our remaining games and hope they lose their one, but their final game is against Southampton who are still fighting for a Europa League place and who just put six past an in form Aston Villa, so it is by no means a lost cause.

After losing the North London derby this weekend, Arsenal are very unlikely to finish the season in the Champions League places so it looks like the Gunners only hope of qualifying for the elite competition will be from winning the Europa League, which recommences this coming Thursday with Arsenal playing against the Swedish minnows Ostersund.

Arsenal are currently in sixth place in the EPL table, which is the same position they were in at this stage last year, but we are five points lower and dropping away from the crucial Top Four and the Champions League places.

The Gunners need to win both of their remaining Premier League matches to have any hope of reaching the Champions League places, and first they will have to take all three points from their home tie against the already - relegated Sunderland.

I'm pretty sure that next season our lovely club will battle with Everton and Southampton for that precious Europa League place, with a squad finally devoid of any top attacking players.

Arsenal's win over Everton today proved to be pointless with no Champions League place earned, but the match has also cost us two of our defensive stars.

A clear example of this is the Champions League places given to Spurs and Leicester last season.

Liverpool are currently in sixth, five points behind Tottenham Hotspur and a Europa League place.

The Gunners boss finished outside the Champions League places last season, the first time his side have failed to do so in his 21 - year reign with the club.

Fourth - placed Tottenham looked certainties for a Champions League place until defeats to Liverpool and Fulham opened the door for Arsenal and Wenger is confident the Gunners, who are currently four points behind their north London rivals, can close the gap.

We have a BIG fight for the Champions League places, not to mention the FA Cup where we have got practically a bye into the 6th Round, so we still have lots to look forward to in that competition.

Soldado left Spurs for Villarreal at the beginning of the campaign, and has helped the Yellow Submarine to the brink of the Champions League places.

Christophe Galtier's limited squad may be stretched to their limits, but they will be keen to secure victory and overtake Marseille, to draw level with third - placed Monaco and within touching distance of the Champions League places.

The more cynical might suspect that Gold and Sullivan — by piling stylistic and philosophical concerns onto the traditional target of a minimum league placing — are just trying to persuade fans to renew their season tickets.

Victory for Louis van Gaal's side would lift them to within one point of the Citizens, who have only won one of their last five league games, in the race for the fourth and final Champions League place.

The Pensioners sit a whopping 14 points off Tottenham Hotspur in fourth and the Champions League places, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to see how the west Londoners will guarantee qualification for Europe's top table next season... at least not via their league finish.

He is certainly a stubborn man, who looks like he is aiming for a Champions League place rather than the Premier League title.

He's discussing the Champions League placing, and was actually quite balanced by citing one that went in our favour.

It will be nice not to have to look over our shoulders and not have to worry about a Champions League place in the last few games.

Arsenal not only have Champions League football again next season, unlike Manchester United and Chelsea who will surely be interested if he becomes available for transfer, but Arsenal are also the only team in the Champions League places crying out for a striker.

So why would Ozil move to a team that can't even get close to a Champions League place, when he is already at one of the top teams in the world working under one of the best managers in the world?

One stat hardly proves anything, as you can see Southampton too have had a swashbuckling style this season going forward that has propelled them into contention for the Champions League places.

Spurs narrowly missed out on the Champions League places last year, finishing just one point behind north London rivals Arsenal in a race that went down to the final day of the season.

They will be hoping to consolidate a Champions League place next season and finish above Liverpool, who are only a single point behind in the table.

That will be extremely hard to take as the dogfight for the Champions League places is becoming extremely tight, with the hated Mourinho creeping up and just 2 points behind us as well.

The veteran Dutchman has been giving youth a chance in recent weeks, with the surrendering champions 10th in the table and realistically out of reach of the Champions League places.

As it is we did not even need our league position to get a Europa League place because we won the FA cup and so Wenger and the Gunners just had to get on with it, but most of us were dreading the effect these Thursday games would have.

The result sees West Ham stay fifth, four points behind Spurs in the race for the top four Champions League places.

Although the result wasn't exactly what fans wanted, Skrtel thinks the performance proves that Liverpool can climb from 10th in the table to finish in the Champions League places this season.