Sentences with phrase «of dropped points»

You add that up and that is a lot of dropped points that they have suffered in that sequence of matches and that is why they have fallen well out of the title race.

that's it — we couldn't emulate the Invincibles last season and we had Ospina (who is not Chech but neither was it his fault for any of our dropped points)... Having said that i still think there's a lot of positives for this season: > After FA cup win — we have gained a better winning mentality > This season we starting with Le Coq and Chech > Players are in good form and we don't have injuries (aside from Welbeck, who even if fit wont easily get a starting place)

It's primarily the latter that usually leads to a lot of dropped points.

We finished 3rd last season and while I think that injuries were a problem many of our dropped points stemmed from tactical flaws than a lack of personnel.

With Man City away to Burnley, Chelsea hosting the Saints, Spurs going to Old Trafford and Rodgers taking Liverpool to his old club Swansea, the chances of dropped points are very good.

A lot of people are assuming that because Chelsea have only lost twice that they are unlikely to lose again, yet they forget that Chelsea have also drawn 7 (could be 8 after QPR) which is also a source of dropped points.

But the Gunners did not make use of any dropped points as usual.

Most of our dropped points this season been due to poor performance on our side and not on unlucky decisions.

Finally this squad has shown over the years to lack character and fighting spirit resulting in an ever predictable amount of dropped points against small teams and an inability to deal with pressure.

Arsenal don't have the luxury of dropping points in the League table anymore.

«We are determined to bounce back from the disappointment of dropping points at home, though I don't think we played badly at all against Blackburn.

We both failed to take advantage of them dropping points away to Liverpool in midweek, and this will surely kill our chances should we lose today.

We should be feeling confident after the second half performance against Lincoln City last weekend, but that confidence is likely to be fragile and with Tonly Pulis teams often causing the Gunners to misfire I think we have to look at the possibility of dropping points or even losing, but where would that leave us in terms of the top four?

To compound his anger, Sunderland were awarded a spot kick just minutes later with Jermain Defoe making no mistake from the spot as it looked as though Arsene Wenger's men could be in danger of dropping points.

Ourselves, we are not the type of team that will take advantage of every dropped point either..

However, if we are holding on to any title ambitions like Arsene Wenger suggested, we need Chelsea to falter and I believe that the more pressure Antonio Conte and his players have on them the better the chances of them dropping points.

All we can hope at the moment is those in front of us drops points while we gain and we do not owe mancity a thing, they needed that win.

If any team ahead of us drops some point before we play our match, it is either we draw or lose our match, has anyone noticed that?

Man U next fixtures will probably do us the favour of them dropping points

Let us hope that this trend of dropping points at home doesn't continue against Stoke next Saturday!

All this dithering around affects the whole club and puts us in danger of dropping points early on.

Arsenal fans already know the pitfalls of playing your top players in both competitions and the danger of dropping points following big European games, so our dropping down to 5th last season could end up being a blessing in disguise as our rivals show signs of fatigue.

Leading 2 - 0 at half - time, Arsenal could have played quite conservatively in the second half and just let the game drift away, but they seemed buoyed by news of Ludogorets leading in Paris and seemed determined to kill the game off against Basel as soon as possible, as that would put more pressure on the Parisians if PSG got wind of the fact that Arsenal were in no danger of dropping points.

The situation of dropping points but not drawing games is basically the same.

By doing this Guardiola has continued the glorified tradition of dropping point of the second league match, last time we lost to Hercules.

With Song and Eboue in lineup, we always have more chance of dropping points anyway.

The disadvantage of the drop point blade is that it is not as sharp as the clip point therefore a less suitable option for piercing.

How can you even do negative training at all, much less avoid the pitfalls of the dropping point?

At this time you can basically choose from a variety of drop points on the mountain and literally ski down in any direction you want.

Community consensus on the cause of the drop points the blame at

Not exact matches

That means Theranos is using full blood draws, from patients» arms, rather than a few drops of blood from pricking patients» fingers, which up to that point had been one of the company's key competitive advantages.

But the sudden drop - off in sales in January, which pointed to a deeper dysfunction, was arguably worse than both of those combined.

The Fed Audit, which has consistently been fought by the Senate, could easily be dropped - with Republican legislators being able to point to the endorsement of the beltway's leading libertarian think tanks as evidence of being tough on the Fed.

The Bank of Canada announced this morning that it is dropping its target interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 0.75 %.

Gross domestic product contracted at an annual rate of 0.5 % in the second quarter and 0.8 % in the first, which is exactly what the Bank of Canada predicted in July when it dropped its policy rate by a quarter point.

As the price of fuel has dropped, it's been taking up a smaller and smaller share of these expenses, to the point that now, he estimates, fuel only makes up about 15 percent of airlines» spending (assuming their other costs have remained roughly equal).

Then there was the «hash crash» of 2013, when the Dow dropped 145 points in two minutes after someone hacked the Associated Press's Twitter account and posted, falsely, that explosions in the White House had injured President Obama.

The numerical index upon which the survey is based fell 28 points into negative territory — the largest drop since the fourth quarter of 2010.

After checking in Wednesday night and asking the front desk to point me in the direction of ice cream, I dropped my bags in my room and took a moment to admire the view.

The campaign launch involves a complete refurbishment of all the stores, with point - of - sale posters, local press exposure, coupon drops to the local areas and television commercials in the metro and country areas.

More significantly, small business owner outlook for the next 12 months, an index component, tumbled 19 points, the largest drop since the fourth quarter of 2008, at the height of the financial collapse.

You may be tempted to move your investments to cash in light of the more than 1,100 point - drop the Dow Jones industrial average suffered in one day that put the index in correction territory.

At its core, the market sell - off, which shoved the Dow Jones industrial average nearly 1,600 points lower Monday in the biggest intraday point drop in history, showed traders adjusting to signs of firmer economic growth and, potentially, a resurgence of long - dormant inflation.

The optimism survey found that fewer than 1 in 2 — or just 45 % — of small business owners are optimistic, a sharp 15 - point drop from 60 % in August.

That's a percentage point drop from the previous year and a steeper drop since 2011 when 26.7 % of U.S. population growth was focused in urban areas.

After studying the decline in U.S. crime rates that occurred in the 1990s, it concluded that a drop of two percentage points in unemployment was responsible for a 9 % decline in burglary, 14 % drop in rape and robbery and 30 % plunge in assault.

Now, when you drop in a photo, a new facial recognition system can identify that there's a person in the photo and adjust the cropping and position automatically, making the person the focus point of every shot.

They see a two - point drop in their stock, which translates into a $ 40,000 loss of wealth.

In Canada, hybrid sales represented only 1 % of the market in 2010, which is actually a drop of half a percentage point from the previous year, according to Geoff Helby, a director at the market research firm J.D. Power and Associates.

For most contractors, success relies on the strength of the construction industry, and observers point to recent drops in housing - starts and building permits to suggest that Canada's house - building spree may be cooling off.