Sentences with phrase «number of rivals for»

Welbeck will now have to vie with a number of rivals for first - team football, with both Alexis Sanchez and Olivier Giroud in top form battling for a centre - forward role, as well as Theo Walcott, Lucas Perez, Alex Iwobi, Aaron Ramsey, Mesut Ozil and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain vying for the three remaining attacking roles.

The Brazilian featured in 19 Premier League matches last term, with most of those coming because of injury absences, and he now finds himself with a large number of rivals for a starting place.

Not exact matches

Walmart, which has stepped up its competition with rivals like Target on a variety of fronts of late, is expected to beat analysts» sales expectations for the most recent quarter while Target's numbers are expected to disappoint.

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.

But there no question of any EU «boots on the ground» in Libya, which has become a main launching point for people traffickers since being plunged into chaos with two rival governments and a significant number of Islamic State militants, EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said last week.

Samsung is Apple's single largest parts supplier, selling its rival a number of key components for both the iPhone and iPad.

Dropbox said 500 million customers have signed up for its cloud - based file storage - and - sharing service, highlighting its popularity as it battles Box and a number of other rivals.

Some have already started to question whether the company can live up to its $ 68 billion valuation in the wake of all of its problems, and in the meantime, a number of regional rivals continue to raise funding in a bid to position themselves as credible alternatives in a rapidly evolving market for mass transportation.

In a separate tweet, Ventrice had the following troubling comment: «Wow, a number of ECMWF EPS members show a maximum - sustained windspeed of 180 + mph for #Irma, rivaling Hurricane #Allen (1980) for record wind»

The U.S. Department of Public Health estimates the number of compulsive gamblers in the nation at nearly 6 million — a figure that rivals the statistic for alcoholism.

The Australian chicken market is dominated by Ingham's (40 per cent share) and rival Baiada (33 per cent), and a number of smaller players account for the rest.

A number of WCB investors, including Bega Cheese, which sold its 18.8 per cent stake to Saputo last Thursday, have decided Murray Goulburn's rival bid for WCB was too risky.

A lot of fans, past players and even pundits are asking for us to sign Benzema and if we do that would be a big F**K YOU to either Theo or his agent, whoever was holding the club at ransom for a pay raise and back to the wings you go... Get a feeling now seeing Pedro going to Chelsea whom has won everything there is to win and to me is on a different level than Theo could have been ours if 1) Walcott wasn't homegrown to make up that number and 2) to prevent him from going to a rival.

Despite the prospect of being without his number one stopper for next weekend's clash against title rivals Manchester City, Mourinho instead decided to criticise Carneiro for her decision to treat Eden Hazard whilst they were vulnerable to a counter attack:

He had fought for good health on and off for a number of years with the same indomitable spirit that led him to many a victory on the river both as oarsman and the architect, as Head Coach, of a record series of Boat Race victories for Oxford over rivals, Cambridge in the 70s and 80s.

There are a number of reasons for this - as well as the obvious loss of downforce, by following in the wake of another car the dirty air generated causes the follower to slide around and overheat their tyres, which makes the idea of a driver dropping a couple of seconds behind a rival a more effective strategy.

The Gunners are known for poaching a number of Spanish talents, predominantly from Barcelona's youth academy, but following their London rivals recent wins in the UEFA Youth League and in England, they have now moved to raid them also.

Wilshere has had a number of injuries already in his young career, and has become the butt of a number of jokes from Gunners fans as well as rival clubs for his lack of fitness and regular off - the - field antics.

The Blues will no doubt be a tough nut to crack again, especially as the easing of the FFP rules means that they can spend big money to strengthen an already strong squad, but I am not so worried about our other rivals for a number of reasons.

With Conte still reportedly unhappy about the number of players at his disposal, Wenger has given his view on the matter, but believes Chelsea have contributed to their own problems and has insisted that he doesn't feel sorry for Arsenal's rivals.

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I am writing this article before Arsenal and our Premier League rivals like Man City and Leicester City kick off for the first matches of the new year, so the numbers in the statistics I am using to compare our assist king Mesut Ozil with other players doing well in the same position will have changed by tonight.

However, these reports may suggest a deal is closer than is actually the case, with Kluivert claiming he'd be open to playing for a number of other top clubs, including United's Premier League rivals.

The Mobb's 33 - man roster (twice the typical number for teams) also varies year to year: with injury (concussions and ankle injuries are most common, though every game I attend has at least one athlete on crutches), retirement, defections to other teams, and recruitments of formerly hated rivals.

However, more names continue to be linked with a move to the San Siro, and as noted by MilanNews.it, Conti is a target for the club as they look to hold off competition from a number of rivals both in Italy and abroad.

A number of clubs across the continent are said to be keeping an eye on his progression, with Spurs believed to be one of the more interested parties, but now a report in Italian publication Calciomercato is claiming that Arsenal are preparing to take the fight to their North London rivals for his signature.

The Reds and Gunners have both been strongly linked with a number of the same targets in recent months, but the former may now struggle to rival Arsenal for players signatures.

«Shanghai is known to be an unpredictable weekend for a number of reasons: it's tough on cars, tyres and power units and the weather is often precarious, but I can predict that we won't be as fortuitous with our pace, compared to our rivals, as we were in Australia.

One of the main reasons why a large number of Arsenal fans and almost all of the football media have been so hard on Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players for not maintaining the Premier League title challenge this season, apart from the 12 year gap since the Gunners were last champions of course, is because the struggles of our big Premier League rivals Man City, Chelsea, Man United and even Liverpool seemed to have opened the door.

Laurent Koscielny was also unable to return to action for the opening Premier League weekend, and Calum Chambers and Rob Holding were fielded at centre - back, and failed to stop rivals Liverpool from putting four goals past them, highlighting the lack of numbers at the back.

Choupo - Moting, 29, who only joined on a free transfer from Schalke last summer — has impressed hugely for Stoke — despite their struggles, and a number of Premier League rivals are keen on landing him, impressed with how he has performed in his debut campaign in England.

Three goals would have been satisfactory for Spain to slay their chequered rivals for the number one spot but instead they carved out one more than required, meaning they take up pole position ahead of the vital final game.

The numbers make a big case for the collective success of Serie A being worth far more to Roma by the time her rivals have made the knockout rounds.

The Watford forward hit the ground running and, at one point, looked like a rival to Mohamed Salah for the bargain of the season award after putting in a number of eye - catching performances following his # 11.2 million move to the Vicarage Road.

There is rival interest from a number of Brighton's Premier League rivals, and that is one reason they have tried to get the deal done quickly for the 21 - year - old.

The 22 - year - old, who plays for VfL Wolfsburg since arriving from Bundesliga rivals Schalke 04 last summer, it is believed that a number of heavy - weights European clubs wanted to sign the highly rated winger.

Alves wore the number four jersey in honour of the late Carlos Alberto for the qualifier against bitter rivals Argentina, having based his game on Alberto's swashbuckling style.

In its bid for the hearts and budgets of America's film industry, New York City holds a number of strategic edges against its California rivals.

But Dilan also doled out $ 10,000 to Make the Road New York, whose staffers are volunteering in large numbers for the rival campaign of Jesus Gonzalez.

That permanent change to the structure of the county organization would be a victory for reformers and progressives, who complained that the number of those positions were expanded by Lopez in order to fend off challenges from rivals.

But Quinn's decision to distinguish «qualified» and «unqualified» lesbians betrayed an undiminished resentment over Nixon's support for her 2013 rival and made her the butt of untold numbers of social media posts.

In fact it rivals meat, egg and dairy industry funded research papers for the sheer number of errors and misleading statements.

From Doris Kearns Goodwin's 2005 book «Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln» as adapted by Kushner and directed by Steven Spielberg, the movie «Lincoln» focuses on one principal activity, which was the president's role in convincing a sharply divided House of Representatives to vote for the Amendment already passed by the Senate because Lincoln's party had the numbers there.

Their act is being undermined by a rival, Steve Gray (Jim Carrey), who attracts a younger demographic with such numbers as not only walking across a bed of coals but lying on them for an entire night, and ultimately by drilling a hole in his head, allegedly through the one angle that does not destroy the brain.

It's Bodine's job, along with the rest of an American strategist team, to help boost his numbers, but unfortunately for her the opposition has selected an all too familiar team to help them led by Bodine's long - time rival Pat Candy.

It isn't the most distinctive shape on the road (at a quick glance, you could confuse the Giulia for any number of rival sedans), but it is good - looking in a purposeful way.

Not green enough to qualify for the brand's Ecomotive badge, of course, but markedly more environmentally responsible than a number of rivals which have CO2 emissions of 220 g / km and above.

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Make no mistake, the Jazz excels in a number of key area: it leaves all its supermini rivals — and a number of people - carriers — for dead in the versatility and practicality stakes.