Sentences with phrase «match of a rival»

Easily the match of its rivals on paper, and entertaining to drive, but less exciting than some rivals

Another area where Volvo struggles to match some of its rivals is cost of ownership.

To tempt users away from Apple, the competitor must provide services that either replace or can match those of its rival.

Not exact matches

By analyzing games between professional Italian soccer teams, he found that matches played between intra-city rivals resulted in a substantially higher number of red and yellow cards, a fairly good indicator of unethical behavior in sports because cards are typically awarded for dangerous tackles or attempts to deceive a referee by taking a dive.

The Home Mini and Echo Dot do not match the sound quality of the HomePod, but consumers may see less need for a superior, pricier speaker from Apple once they have a rival one.

Even with Whole Foods under its umbrella, Amazon will never match the brick - and - mortar presence of its top rivals.

The athletic wear brand experienced a small public relations snafu this week when FIFA banned Luis Suarez, the star of Uruguay World Cup team, from the rest of the World Cup for biting a rival player in a match against Italy.

The Home Mini and Echo Dot do not match the sound quality of the HomePod, but consumers may see less need for a superior, pricier speaker from Apple once they have a rival set up.

Rival suitors Bob Iger and Rupert Murdoch, of Disney and Fox, will struggle to match the U.S. cable giant's synergies.

But in the meantime we have Arteta as captain which means he plays every game he is fit for when he is clearly not up to the standard of DM we need for the matches against our biggest rivals.

Sanchez scored the opening goal of the match before going onto pick up the Man of the Match award in the 3 - 0 demolition of London rivals Chelsea.

We also have our own form to fall back on however, having gone unbeaten since the opening weekend of the season, although our consecutive 1 - 1 draws with rivals Manchester United and Tottenham will not have us full of confidence going into the match.

Spurs were defeated by top - four rivals Leicester in midweek, and head into Saturday's match in fourth place in the table, having won nine and lost only three of their 21 matches to date.

Arsenal fans will be hoping from a look at this weekend's fixture list in the Premier League that it could be a good few days for the Gunners in our pursuit of the title, as many of our big rivals for the EPL trophy have matches that look harder on paper than our trip to Swansea and two of them are playing each other.

Uhh guessing this is a question from football retards exam night... We have one quality forward (currently off form) two decent strikers who can deliver in bursts (but probably wouldn't make the bench of most of rival top 10 european clubs we aspire to match) and three hugely overrated wing players who should be nowhere near starting in a team aspiring for top honours at home and abroad... Conclusion we need at least 3 new attacking options in the summer....

Our side has won eight of our nine matches since switching to a new formation, and our rivals on Saturday will need to be weary of the threat that our attack possesses, with Alexis Sanchez enjoying a particularly strong season.

With all of our main rivals emboldened with new players and our chasing teams catching us up rapidly, with both money to spend from BT sports AND ambition to match, how long can the lies and half - truths continue before either Wenger or the Board, or both, found out in the fact that the money they are getting in (which by some reports makes us the 3rd or 4th richest club in Europe) is NOT being invested back into the club, and more importantly into the team.

YingYang69: the referee association always stops officials refereeing a match where the referee or family members are supporters of one of the teams or even supporting a rival team in the town or county where the match officials hails from.

Example - in a crucial football match against your closest rival you leave out your best player who is the highest goal scorer in the league and also an assist number 1 of your team and then lose the match and drop down the peck.

In fact, it shows that nobody can match the Gunners when it comes to scoring options this season, as we have seen more of our players hitting the back of the net than any of our Premier League rivals, as well as the really big guns around Europe.

The Red Devils have fallen short of expectations this season with their early exit from the Champions League and an inability to match rivals Manchester City in the Premier League title race.

The Real Madrid superstar touched down in Manchester ahead of Portugal's friendly with Argentina; a match which will see him pitted against La Liga rival Lionel Messi.

We thank Warwick for their hospitality on the day of the match, and for their help in making sure we're ready to face off against our long - term rivals next month.

Wenger has managed more matches at Arsenal than the combined total of games of all his Premier League rivals at their current clubs.

The Gunners started the match out of sorts, giving our rivals ample space in our half, and our defence did not look like they were going to enjoy the best of days.

Team Kozin would move on to their second Game of the Night for a match - up with old Rivals Team Maione.

The Gunners put their rivals to the sword this weekend, beating them 2 - 0 in a very one - sided match - up, and a number of people insist that the display has shut plenty of our noisy neighbours mouths up.

This will be Arsenal's last chance of silverware this season, having fizzled out of the Premier League title race, and will likely be under more pressure than our rivals, but form generally goes out the window in these sorts of matches.

Imo we've been doing a lot better with refs over the past 2 or 3 years (they cost us a lot of matches in the previous 5 or so seasons, far more than our rivals) but seeing that Dean was going to ref this game was a concern still.

Leicester City will top the Premier League this Christmas, regardless of the result in Monday's match between rivals Arsenal and Manchester City.

The fact is that; not only are most of our players too mediocre to be coveted by our rivals; but they would be very reluctant to even match the exorbitant wages that Arsene Wenger has given our deadwood staff every time they enter into contract talks.

As the report notes, it comes at a time when Walker is expected to seal his # 50m move to Manchester City, after Tottenham's Premier League rivals finally agreed to match their hefty valuation of the England international.

Should United end up drawing or losing the match, Lingard's miss will go down as one of the major turning points in a match that the Red Devils need to win in order to keep up the pressure on rivals Man City.

Manchester United were thrashed 6 - 1 by rivals Man City in 2011, the Red Devils» worst home defeat since 1955, and Blue Moon Rising TV have voiced a match - report of the shock result in a creative Fifty Shades of Grey style.

Tottenham aren't going to want to see any of their top players leave this summer, but with the pressure of being unable to match wage offers from rivals coupled with their track record of failing to win major silverware, it could all count against them if United really do come knocking.

Antonio Conte's men appeared to be on course to secure the crown due to their healthy lead, but two defeats in three matches have allowed Spurs to come within striking distance; online sports betting websites such as Guts now have Tottenham at odds of 9/2 to beat out their London rivals.

The fact of the matter is that the Gunners are on course to keep up our amazing record of qualifying for the Champions League and that is something that not one of our big Premier League rivals can match.

Brazil face eternal rivals Argentina in Beijing this Saturday in a friendly match that represents one of the highlights of the international break — and two of the Selecao's star players look to be in fine fettle in Brazil training ahead of the fixture.

Athens side Panionios were so sickened by the prospect of allowing arch rivals AEK Athens to use their ground for their forthcoming Europa League match against Dundee United that their fans decided to trash their own stadium.

Chelsea's second match of 2017 is away to our north London rivals so Arsenal fans will be hoping that Tottenham can at least stop Antonio Conte's team from winning.

First of all there is the fact that Wenger signed Ozil from Barca's great rivals Real Madrid who were savvy enough to include a clause in his contract that means they get first refusal to match any bid from a Spanish club, something they would surely do to stop Ozil being able to set up goals for the likes of Messi, Neymar and Suarez.

Now we are entering December, and the Arsenal starting XI have played 5 intense midweek games less than every single other rival in the Top Six, as all of them have had tough Champions League matches to contend with.

Despite a somewhat disjointed performance from the Arsenal team we did at least manage to earn a point from the Premier League match against top four rivals Man City yesterday and the fans will be hoping that this can be the start of our usual strong finish to an EPL campaign.

Apart of Ozil and Sanchez, one could say Arsenal are still gribpling with the terms of to regularly be buying top class players as they have not been able to match or undo their 3 main title rivals of the 2 Manchester clubs and Chelsea when it comes to be buying world class players regularly in the transfer market to overhaul their teams which have seen Arsenal failed to win the PL and Ucl titles for more ten years or so even after they've repaid to a large extend the loans they took to build the Ems Stadium.

The following Sunday we will have the easy the task of beating Palace (who haven't won a game since December), which will put us above our rivals, having played the same amount of matches.

The good news for Danny and Arsenal is that he is due to start training again this month and although it is likely to take a little time for him to get match fit this is a big boost to the squad that has been struggling with more injury problems than all of our rivals.

This match wasn't going to be an easy one going by our usual manner of not taking advantage when our rivals drop points.

Real Madrid suffered a humiliating 3 - 0 at the hands of fierce rivals Barcelona at the Santiago Bernabeu on Saturday in a match that effectively ended Los Blancos» title hopes.

A long - serving Evertonian and Merseyside Derby rival, Tony Hibbert is surely not one of the names in Gerrard's mind for his farewell match.

If Arsenal do as we expect them to this weekend and run out as winners of the home game against a struggling Southampton side getting used to their new manager Claude Puel, while he gets used to the English Premier League for the first time, then we will be heading into the next round of matches a bit closer to at least one of our big spending Premier League rivals.