Sentences with phrase «of champions league places»
-- Liverpool (W9 D8 L4) reside in 7TH but are now five points adrift of the Champions League places after winning only one of their last five Premier League matches.
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They will host the Russians on April 5 with a tough trip to the VEB Arena a week later as they bid to emulate Manchester United, who finished out of the Champions League places last season but qualified by winning UEFA's No2 club competition.
With eight games to go we are sitting in fourth position — two points behind Liverpool who have played a game extra, and five ahead of the Blues who sit outside of the Champions League places.
With Liverpool and Chelsea heading up the top six, Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester United currently stuck outside of the Champions League places and the surprise contenders of 2015/16 — Leicester City and West Ham United — struggling at the other end of the table, fortunes can often be very different a year on.
Fifth - placed PSG closed to within four points of the Champions League places by winning 2 - 1 at Caen, while Lyon were the only other side in the top five to win, putting a tense week behind them to prevail 3 - 0 at home to Lens and climb to third.
Saturday's latest defeat left them five points adrift of the Champions League places — and ten behind leaders Leicester.
If man of the match Ashley Young and captain Wayne Rooney can keep fit and continue in this vein for the run in then United have a chance to finish in one of the Champions League places.
Just like I expect Arsenal to finish well outside of the Champions League places this season and get dumped out of the Europa League as soon as the knockout rounds start.
Inter Milan have dropped to fifth — 18 points behind leaders Napoli — and out of the Champions League places, but will be hoping to collect maximum points against bottom club Benevento on Saturday.
They are eight points out of the Champions League places.
As a fan, it was thrilling to watch Liverpool come good during essentially every big game this season, but the struggles against the rest of the league — 17 wins, five draws, six losses — nearly dropped them out of the Champions League places.
Antonio Conte is almost certain to depart at the end of the season following a disappointing campaign for last season's champions as they find themselves eight points outside of the Champions League places.
Arsenal bounced back from last weekend's defeat to a team not to be mentioned in midweek, by beating Leicester City 2 - 1, to keep us within a point of the Champions League places.
Arsene Wenger is clearly well aware about the protests being planned by the angry Arsenal fans for our Premier League match against struggling Norwich City at the Emirates stadium tomorrow, because the manager today issued a sort of rallying cry asking for us to support the team as he tries to avoid the complete disaster of dropping out of the Champions League places for the first time in his long tenure in charge of the club.
There was never any threat of dropping out of Champions League places.
It will also provide extra motivation for teams such as Liverpool and Tottenham as the competition progresses, with some of the best teams in the competition and potential winners from smaller nations — the likes of Ajax, Anderlecht, Salzburg and Zenit immediately spring to mind — already likely to be assured of Champions League places through their domestic finishes.
A rebuild is obviously neccesary with Arsenal finishing out of the Champions League places last season, and looking very likely to repeat that again this season, so it is obvious that Alexis is unlikely to get his wish to win a Premier League medal with the Gunners.
Louis van Gaal's charges remain three points adrift of the Champions League places after this slip up.
Schalke were hammered 3 - 0 at Nuremberg to drop down to fifth in the league and out of the Champions League places, having been dumped out of Europe's top domestic competition with a home defeat to Galatasaray on Tuesday.
Fourth place Manchester United are currently enjoying a five point cushion on the last of the Champions League places, while fifth place Liverpool's chances of catching them could be all but ended with defeat at Arsenal this weekend.
As for Arsenal, defeat in the north London derby against Tottenham last time out — their fifth in six league away games — means they are six points adrift of the Champions League places with a game in hand.
While Marseille remain only five points of leaders Paris Saint - Germain, they have dropped out of the Champions League places after Monaco leapfrogged them following their convincing victory against Caen on Friday evening.
The surprises fall further down the league and one in particular stands out, Arsenal finishing outside of the Champions League places.
And the fact that the 23 - year old's current club Borussia Monchengladbach are currently out of the Champions League places and that they finished fourth in the group behind Man City, Juventus and Sevilla this season may have played a big part in the player's decision.
Although things are looking up for Arsenal, I thought I would have a look at what we need to do to make sure that we do not drop out of the Champions League places for next season because of our ups and downs so far.
The veteran Dutchman has been giving youth a chance in recent weeks, with the surrendering champions 10th in the table and realistically out of reach of the Champions League places.
Christophe Galtier's limited squad may be stretched to their limits, but they will be keen to secure victory and overtake Marseille, to draw level with third - placed Monaco and within touching distance of the Champions League places.
Soldado left Spurs for Villarreal at the beginning of the campaign, and has helped the Yellow Submarine to the brink of the Champions League places.
Arsenal need the points much the more however, having dropped down to a lowly sixth spot, and their hopes of a Champions League place will be very slim without a win.
Rubbish, I know Wenger very well, he knows Europa is one of the trophies that Can take him to UCL next season, I knew very well he is waiting for The last group stage Match of UCL for him to know the third place teams that will join Europa now he Have seen it I know very well he Will play our first team players now on, look at Manchester United last season They just focus only on eroupa and they made it, so As for Wenger with His way of decisions I think he will start playing our first team playerS if he really want to have power over arsenal Baord Next season because they have lost a huge amount of money this Season because of no champions league place, I think if he fails next season he will see the door off from his inheritance sit.
We get humiliated every season in that competition, and Leicester have already progressed further in one season, than we have in the last seven!!!! If there's one team that isn't deserving of a Champions League place, it's Arsenal.
Whilst the addition of a Champions League place is yet to pick the reputation of the competition out of the dustbin, this is a situation that is likely to change as the season develops and some of Europe's biggest clubs find themselves out of the running in their domestic leagues.
5th or 6th... So we should take the Europa more seriously as it's our only hope of a champions league place next season.
The unexpected draw between Reading and Chelsea combined with Arsenal's win against Sunderland is a big boost for their hopes of Champions League place.
There are also not yet assured of a Champions League place with fifth - placed West Ham only three points behind before kick - off.
I know winning a trophy is nice, and don't get me wrong, I am totally for us going all out at winning the FA Cup, but I definitely wouldn't want to win it at the expense of a Champions League place.
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The draw effectively ruled out CSKA's hopes of booking a place in the next round and the face that Igor Akinfeev conceded rubbed further salt in the wounds as the goalkeeper has now failed to keep a clean sheet in his last 42 Champions League games.
Arsenal currently sit fifth in the Premier League table and know they must win on Sunday to stand a chance of finishing in the Champions League places.
We have all but cemented our place in next season's Champions League this weekend, so we though we'd take a brief look at who could be joining us ahead of the new campaign.
A sensible suggestion from the Dane as United have now moved to within a point of fourth - placed Manchester City and will be desperate to qualify for the Champions League next season.
Even though Arsenal finished as runners up to the Premier League champions Leicester City last season and thereby have an automatic place in the coveted group phase of the Champions League this season, while Chelsea had such a poor campaign that they did not even manage to scrape into the poor relation that is the Europa League, do not expect us to be favourites to win any transfer battle between the tchampions Leicester City last season and thereby have an automatic place in the coveted group phase of the Champions League this season, while Chelsea had such a poor campaign that they did not even manage to scrape into the poor relation that is the Europa League, do not expect us to be favourites to win any transfer battle between the tChampions League this season, while Chelsea had such a poor campaign that they did not even manage to scrape into the poor relation that is the Europa League, do not expect us to be favourites to win any transfer battle between the two clubs.
The Merseyside club secured their third successive season without Champions League football last term, leading to the sacking of manager Kenny Dalglish, and his Northern Irish replacement has been charged with the responsibility of improving his playing staff in the pursuit of closing the 17 point gap between their eight place finish and a top four finish.
I'd like to think that I would have been one of the enlightened champions of Robinson's rightful place in Major League Baseball, that if I were a writer back then, my typewriter would have spit out all sorts of fiery missives in support of him.
please raise your glasses, and drink to 4th place and 18 seasons of champions league qualification.
Arsenal haven't played to potential so far this season, and although they have shown flashes of brilliance in those massive wins over Manchester City in the FA Community Shield and Galatasaray in the UEFA Champions League, Wenger's wizards are languishing at 8th place in the Barclays Premier League table.
Not only does lifting the Europa League trophy give you an automatic place in the Champions League for the following season, it is a highly prized piece of silverware and something that Arsenal and Wenger have never won.
While Wenger did do a great job of keeping Arsenal within the Champions league places since 2005, Arsenal have toiled away without any reward.
It would be hard to argue that we are assured to finish above the Blues, but should we get our form back on the up, we still have plenty of time to earn a place inside the Champions League places.
I can't decide on whether I want to commit to cementing our place in the top four before hoping to push on to win the title, but I also can't think of anything worse than hoping that United keep their six - point lead over our side, which leaves me stuck in the middle, but I feel like we should actually be concentrating on returning to the Champions League.
With Man United's win over Norwich ensuring that Arsenal still need points from our final two games to secure a Champions League place for next season, the manager must get his team selection and tactics right and with more options than usual he has a tough job on his hands, but one of those choices for me has to be Santi Cazorla in the box to box role.