Sentences with phrase «missed on goal difference»

Last year was only missed on goal difference; this year we are miles away in points and even from all our main rivals, not just one or even two of them.

Not exact matches

By comparison we only missed out on top four on goal difference last year.

Last season we only missed 4th place on goal difference.

Missing out on 6th place only on goal difference, the ingredients are there for Dougie Freedman's side to do well, and they will hope to make the most out of some tricky opening fixtures against Burnley, Reading, Nottingham Forest, Queens Park Rangers and Blackburn.

We'll draw with Italy and Uruguay, but miss out on goal difference — and Hodgson will leave.

After narrowly missing out on the league title the past two years on goal difference, it will be now their time to progress and forget the disappointment of recent years.

Those days are gone and now the PL is extremely competitive and you can miss out on CL football by 1 point or goal difference.

Add to that the fact that many of the squad made their Championship debuts this season, and a victory against the Latics may (depending on the other results) see us miss out on the play - offs on goal difference alone.

The Seagulls came so close to automatic promotion last season missing a place by the cruellest of margins as Middlesbrough took out the second automatic promotion spot on goal difference.

They only missed out on topping the group behind Portugal on goal difference and they could well spring a surprise in Russia with a threat going forward and tight defence.

Unfairly thrown in at the deep end, Hall was famously substituted in the first half as Wanderers missed out on the Play - Offs on goal difference.

Manchester United's 3 - 1 victory sealed European football next season with a fifth placed finish in the league, but their inferior goal difference meant they missed out on Champions League qualification to rivals Manchester City.

The Reds are only missing out on top spot due to goal difference currently, and will be hoping that results elsewhere mean they can leapfrog Manchester City and Arsenal on Sunday.

That was the season that finished with «Aguero» and United missing out on the title on goal difference.

A fifth - placed finish in his second season saw Van Gaal's side miss out on the elite European competition on goal difference, but he won the Emirates FA Cup, which suggested the season was not all that bad with United back on the trophy trail.

The Trotters first season back in England's second division for 48 years ended with the club missing out on a play - off place to Leicester City via goal difference.

Arsenal missed out on a place in the Champions League on goal difference.

However, they could miss out on Europe altogether if they're not careful, as Liverpool have now leapfrogged them into fifth — the Reds boasting a far superior goal difference and will host Spurs on the final day of the season.

They were close to going up last year, missing out on goal difference to Middlesbrough for the runners up spot they claimed this year with Newcastle winning the league on the last day.

What these organisations could usefully do is encourage the focusing of existing commitments of aid and philanthropy on smart development goals of the Copenhagen Consensus — and ignore the miss by the UN last month of an historic opportunity to actually make a difference.