Sentences with phrase «not title rivals»

Outside of a few teams, those in mid to bottom (the f ***** g chavs excluded) are premier league rivals, not title rivals.

They are not a derby rival, they are not a title rival, they are no rival.

Not exact matches

Bob, let the Gunners not take winning the treble for granted and start to underate the resolve of their main title rivals who are still in the 3 titles race.

Mertesacker wants to show the title rivals that they are genuine contenders from the start and not just in the second half of the season.

The Merengues were defeated on aggregate by Juventus this week in the semi-final, and thus will not be able to defend the continental title they won last year against fierce rivals Barcelona in Berlin.

Big teams don't rely on friendly refs, fair play from the opposition or title rivals dropping points.

Wenger and the mgt keep ranting how we now have money but when, it comes to biding wars they start shivering like a bunch of pussies.I remember no single comment section here the dm schinederin was not mentioned here, now he has gone to utd deluded fan say utd did nt win title after spending last time.They spent and improved from no. 7 To 4 now they will challenging for title no doubt, next season will be tough rivals are strengtheng, wenger has his usual new signing from injuries.I do nt care wether we add more players, but will be akb till wenger lifts the epl title!!!

not one of our forwards would start for our «title rivals».

i do nt care about whom we win against, if we win the title, of course it hurts when we lose against rivals and a draw against a top side is never an embarrasing result as you make it out to be..

Then if we got Lacazette too, I don't think fans will miss Alexis for too much longer, unless that is, he's driving one of our rivals to the title.

In fact I would even go so far as to say that there are only two realistic rivals to the Gunners, assuming of course that an injury crisis or loss of form does not derail our own title challenge.

That win for the Foxes, along with the dropped points by all of our main title rivals, was not even all that surprising because that is the way this season has been going since the start.

Another reason we should not panic is that our two main rivals for the EPL title, Man City and United, are struggling with their own injury problems.

Though it wasn't even for the lead, title rivals Jolyon Palmer and Felipe Nasr fought like mad for much of the race, going wheel to wheel on multiple occasions.

Could Wenger be willing to sell to a team he doesn't view as a direct title rival?

Rooney, having moved from Everton to Manchester United and won multiple Premier League titles with Liverpool's biggest rivals — would not be able to support an Anfield opponent so easily now...

Sunday's 4 - 2 defeat to local rivals Man United was the Etihad Stadium outfit's fourth loss in their last six Premier League fixtures and not only ended their hopes of retaining their domestic title but could even lead to the club failing to secure a top four spot.

Aguero will miss encounters with Leicester City, Watford, Arsenal and Hull City this month, handing Arsene Wenger a major boost as he won't have to deal with a full - strength title rival.

ofcourse we can forget chelsea as epl rival cause we are not going to be in the title fight while chelsea along with the manchester clubs will

Jose Mourinho will be focused on taking United back to the top of the tree, and while that may not happen this season with rivals Man City comfortably ahead in the Premier League title race, these possible signings could strengthen the Red Devils in the summer.

It's only delusion when United believe they are «title rivals» with city or when the ever effusive Pochettino arrogantly says Tottenham's «ambition» is the league or champions league and not in the domestic cups (man hasn't won a pin but at Wembley a beggar surely has a choice).

While the Rojiblancos do not share the same kind of rivalry with Barca as with Real, Griezmann could still be well advised not to strengthen one of their title rivals in La Liga.

Not because we are playing Chelsea, but because we are on top of the league gunning for the title and our title rivals are just beside us.

we need an enforcer, a bully - replacement for kos due to injuries aswell i do nt think getting lemar and keeping sanchez makes us title rivals

everyone seems to be in a rush to do interviews especially after the Man u game... its a big big win for us seeing as we have not had one over them in 4 years but in the name of all that is good this is AFC we are talking about and no matter how crucial a win is against one of our biggest rival we should just move on and focus on the next game and stop behaving and acting like a newly promoted side that caused a big upset by beating one of the favorites for the title... at the end of the day its a very important win but its still 3 points....

So even though Arsenal finish the calendar year of 2015 on top of the Premier League table, and having won more points over that 12 month period than any of our rivals, and are favourites for the title, the likes of Jamie Carragher can not help themselves in watering down any praise.

In a race where eventual title rival Felipe Massa couldn't stop spinning off and in only Hamilton's second F1 season, the 2008 British Grand Prix is certainly one we will remember for some time.

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.

Unfortunately, the spectacular goal couldn't secure PSG the win, and despite leading 2 - 0 at half time they conceded two goals in the dying minutes to draw the game and lose ground on their title rivals.

He didn't want to strengthen a direct title rival and especially Arsenal and Arsene Wenger.

But wenger did not name Sanchez in the squad against our title rivals, and after the game Le Prof revealed that Alexis had had a «minor setback» and would now miss the busy Christmas period but would be ready for the New Year games which was expected to start with this weekend's cup game against Sunderland.

Its not good business bro if we award rivals the title.

As per Pep Guardiola in his press conference on Friday though, it looks as though he's suffered a setback and will not feature against Liverpool in the early - season crunch clash between the two Premier League title rivals.

Not only is it a blow for the Red Devils to lose to a title rival, but it also ends their perfect start to the campaign and they will now hope to bounce back immediately and get back to winning ways next week both against Feyenoord in the Europa League and Watford.

It would not be quite as bad as the transfer deals that saw big Arsenal players like Samir Nasri, Ashley Cole or Robin van Persie sign for clubs not only in the same division but direct rivals for the English Premier League title, unless of course West Ham were to do a Leicester City.

Then in the third EPL game after the international break we see Chelsea come to Arsenal, with City going to Swansea and United hosting the champions Leicester City and it is not inconceivable that after that weekend the Gunners will be right up there with our rivals for the Premier League title, where we are supposed to be!

Today I watched a Chelsea side, whom were focused, motivated and intent on proving a point against their title rivals, not play to their best and still win a high - tension game comfortably.

It is not often that two title rivals sell key players to each other, and Mourinho admitted he was surprised to get the chance to sign Matic when he got a phone call from his agent in the summer.

I do not just mean that we now have a four point lead over one of our main title rivals, although any extra gap is good as I do expect Pep Guardiola's talented team to bounce back.

While you will find a lot of Arsenal fans ready to bemoan our fate, with the main complaint being that we do not match the ambition and spending power of our big Premier League rivals to really compete for the EPL title and the Champions League trophy, a new report by UEFA shows that Arsenal are actually in an elite group and that every club not in this group are the ones that are really in trouble.

Not only could we do without a long list of Gunners having to sit out games every week, it would be a big help if our title rivals had to cope with the same sort of problems that have affected Arsenal over the first half of the season.

Arsenal still have to make sure that it counts by winning our away game against AFC Bournemouth tonight, but the Gunners were probably not expecting any of the main rivals for the Premier League title to slip up in this latest run of games.

other big boys think with Wenger, Arsenal is not a team to give them headache, it's one less rival for the race to the title..

In addition we rely on our rivals to make mistakes which isn't what title winning teams should be doing.

The team that I see as our only big rivals for the Title, they sit 2 points clear of us right now, they just tore Newcastle a new one, and are just about everybodys pick for the league, and the only real test in the league coming soon is at home to Man United (Pray for a draw), but whilst they are everybodys pick, they are favourites, they are still not untouchable.

Chelsea go into the match with City five points clear of Manuel Pellegrini's side but will be wary not to write off their main rivals for the Premier League title yet after already losing an eight point lead gained earlier this season.

In truth, Barca also look a better bet than United right now in terms of challenging for league titles and the Champions League, so there seems plenty of reason for Gooners to be optimistic he won't end up at their rivals.

Not enough for them to challenge us for the title but perhaps enough to help them take points off our rivals.

It was a crucial win for the Red Devils, not only to put them firmly in control of claiming second place, but it prevented their bitter rivals from celebrating winning the Premier League title against them, as Pep Guardiola's side needed to win.

man u or man city this year they actually bought the players to strengthen them so don't write either pep or jose they are both tactically superior to our manager and will motivate their players all season long and they have the depth to compete on all fronts, pochettino needs to go to spain or Italy too good of a manager for the spuds, so yes i support arsenal but i'm envious of what our rivals have and realistic about our title chances.