Sentences with phrase «match against the league leaders»

Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger opted to leave Lacazette out of his starting line - up for the match against the league leaders, and instead decided on going with Alexis Sanchez up front and Iwobi and Mesut Ozil in support of the Chilean.

Not exact matches

In fact there are at least three key men at the current league leaders Chelsea who still appear to be pretty wary of the Gunners, which is probably increased this week as Arsene Wenger prepares to take the team to Stamford Bridge looking for a repeat of the match against them at home, which saw Arsenal inflict their heaviest defeat of the season.

But once the dust has settled and Arsenal are hopefully celebrating a vital three points against the current league leaders Leicester City, all eyes will turn north to the Etihad Stadium where another key match will be played.

It is not exactly like Arsene Wenger to give his rival managers any sort of help in working out how Arsenal are planning to play ahead of a match, especially a match as important as the one against the Premier League leaders Leicester City on Sunday is.

Tottenham just got the first test of loss of the season of 2016 - 17 against league leader Chelsea in the very last match.

Crystal Palace are coming into this game on the back of 3 - 1 defeat in the hands of Arsenal and they will fancy their chances at home against current league leaders City to get something out of this match.

So the loss against the Reds has given them a major setback in the Premier League title and they go into the next round of matches sitting in third place, but ten points behind leaders Chelsea.

League leaders Wolves had a wobble last weekend as they slipped to a 2 - 0 loss against Nottingham Forest and that means that have failed to win in two consecutive matches for just the second time this season.

Tevez has been ostracized by City boss Roberto Mancini since he refused to warm - up during a Champions League group match against Bayern Munich, and has not played for the league leaders since 21 September,League group match against Bayern Munich, and has not played for the league leaders since 21 September,league leaders since 21 September, 2011.

After their big winning streak of eight matches came to an end with a 1 - 1 draw at Sheffield United, which was a very lucky point for them, they lost in their big contest against league leaders Wolves at home on the weekend.

Diego Costa has missed enough Chelsea matches thanks to his dodgy hamstrings but the league leaders will miss him for Wednesday night's league game against Tottenham after he picked up a fifth yellow card of the season in the 0 - 0 draw away to Sunderland at the Stadium of Light.

Ebbsfleet extended their unbeaten run to eight matches as they fought back for a 2 - 2 draw against National League leaders Macclesfield, who finished the match with 10 men at Kuflink Stadium.

Real Madrid's match against Celta Vigo was postponed due to Balaidos being damaged by a storm, meaning the Catalan side have now played two games more than the current league leaders.

Their last league meeting here was Jose Mourinho's final match in charge of the club, as they lost 2 - 1 against the then league leaders.