Sentences with phrase «mathematically out of the title race»

Arsenal are currently third in the Premier League table, 13 points behind leaders Leicester City, and all but mathematically out of the title race in a campaign that once looked like it might end with their first title triumph since 2004.

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I know that Arsene Wenger has a well deserved reputation for backing his players and that certainly goes down well in the Arsenal dressing room, but with the Gunners all but mathematically out of the race for the Premier League title, our Champions League exploits are more important than ever and with Mesut Ozil in poor form and suffering a crisis of confidence, an away match against Bayern Munich is not the right time for the manager to stick with him.

Despite the fact that Arsenal are not out of the Premier League title race yet, at least not mathematically anyway, you will not find many people other than Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players who are willing to even entertain the possibility that our hopes are not over for another year.

However, they were mathematically ruled out of the title race on April 24.