Sentences with phrase «of title rivals»

Blackburn may well have been the platform upon which United now start to win matches more comfortably, with an air of confidence and in a manner which will strike fear into the eyes of their title rivals, as up till now they've been lacking in so many qualities needs to really stamp your make on any title battle.

However, Xhaka's reliability and the fact that he addresses a long - term problem area for Arsenal means that it will be Arsenal's Arsene Wenger who will have the bigger smile in North London, having taken an early step ahead of their title rivals.

Diego Simeone's team took advantage of Valencia's 2 - 1 loss at Eibar as Atletico moved two points ahead of their title rivals.

The league leaders look to have the friendliest run - in of their title rivals over the next few weeks, with fixtures against clubs that would normally be labelled «six - pointers» were it not for the maddening reality that the Foxes are playing it so safely in avoiding relegation that they're in danger of actually winning the league.

Iniesta was forced off during Barca's 1 - 0 La Liga defeat of title rivals Atletico Madrid on March 4 and has not played since, missing the weekend win over Malaga.

It was a deserved victory for the champions elect and means that they are now 18 points ahead of their title rivals Manchester City in the race to win the Premier League.

In the context of this season I would have loved Chelsea to sign Messi, because that will mean a number of teams dropping points to Chelsea, including three of our title rivals.

Nothing would please me more than to see a Wilshere - inspired Bournemouth take points off of our title rivals, especially after all the stick he's recieved from their fans.

The player needs to have it at the back of there minds that we are going there for a clean sheet first because it's a very BIG away match with one of the title rivals (yes title rivals) and anything after a clean sheet is a very big boost to our title race

Always in big clashes of our title rivals I wish for a draw.

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.

But as they graduate to Super AMOLED level during the winter campaign when Jack Wilshere and Danny Welbeck would have been back and 1 or 2 top quality additions are added to the team by the Boss, the Gunners will totally become unstoppable by any of their title rivals as they cruise home with the Premier League title in May next year.

And who knows, some of their title rivals may yet drop points again in the next weekends for Arsenal to seize the initiatives to move further up in the table.

As Calciomercato report, Spurs spent just # 70million in the transfer window, which was dwarfed by the spending of their title rivals.

Two of his title rivals are Ralph Hasenhuttl, 49, and the man being linked with taking Ancelotti's job, Julian Nagelsman, only 29.

Well we played bad, but at the end of the day we took a vital point against one of the title rivals at their home..

He grabbed the drivers» crown at 2009's final WRC round piloting his Ctroen C4 in Wales, but for once it was by the narrowest of margins, his 93 point total being just one ahead of title rival Mikko Hirvonen's.

Not exact matches

Amazon has spent billions in India and now is running neck - and - neck with another local rival, Flipkart, for the title of market leader.

So what: Quarterly adjusted revenue rose 78 % year over year to $ 76.2 million, led by the «ongoing traction» of its Kim Kardashian: Hollywood, Racing Rivals, and Deer Hunter 2014 titles.

The numbers exclude the finances of rival titles including the Daily Express and the Daily Star that Trinity Mirror bought from media tycoon Richard Desmond in a # 127m deal earlier this year.

Despite seeing gold output decline by 2 %, Newmont claimed the title of world's biggest bullion producer as it surpassed rival Barrick by 16,000 ounces in the first three months of the year.

The board of directors of Tribune Publishing, a newspaper company whose titles include The Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune, has rejected an unsolicited, $ 815 million acquisition offer from rival publisher Gannett.

They were knocked out of the Champions League quarter - finals to Liverpool on Tuesday night and failed to win the Premier League title against rivals Manchester Utd last weekend — after surrendering a two goal lead.

Laurent Koscielny is refusing to give up hope of helping Arsenal to overcome Chelsea and their rivals in the Premier League title race.

On top of that, if bringing the former Barcelona man to Old Trafford also meant two of their biggest rivals could lose their best players, it would surely boost their title hopes for next season.

Mancini, by contrast, has guided Inter Milan to the top of the Serie A, following victory over title rivals AS Roma this weekend.

The Gunners are at the moment in deficits of 3 points behind their 3 main title rivals of Man City, Man Utd and their visitors Liverpool.

Now all the talk is about which team will triumph this time Mourinho has had another swipe at Wenger and the other rival managers by claiming that playing down talk of the title is really just down to being scared to admit their ambition, The Mirror reports, with the suggestion being that everyone is worried that United will be too strong.

We are risking to fall behind to much bec nowdays we are no rivals for epl title but rather rivals to the likes of Spurs and other weaker teams for the well known Wenger trophy.

He hates the idea of strengthening a rival for the title, but can he really afford to keep the Ox on the books and then let him leave for free next summer?

Even if they do we are still going to see at least one more of our other title rivals drop points, with Chelsea and Manchester United playing each other.

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.

Further, with the struggles of their rivals around them, there was certainly an opportunity to compete for the Premier League title or at least a top - three finish instead of a frantic scramble to qualify for the Champions League, which arguably looks unlikely at this stage.

Some of the major Premier League rivals to Arsenal and our hopes and expectations of ending the long wait to regain the title of champions of England have been spending money right from the start of the summer transfer window.

Arsenal fans will be hoping from a look at this weekend's fixture list in the Premier League that it could be a good few days for the Gunners in our pursuit of the title, as many of our big rivals for the EPL trophy have matches that look harder on paper than our trip to Swansea and two of them are playing each other.

Refusal to acknowledge any problems After losing a game to Title rival all you hear from Wenger is «We can take a lot of positives from this game» but there's never a negative.

A lot of people are questioning the title credentials of Arsenal, but we are perhaps the most stable club and squad of players and there was plenty of reason for optimism from the performances of our other Premier League rivals yesterday.

Clearly a move from Everton to their local rivals would be a contentious one to consider but if Fellaini felt that the Anfield side had a team in place; a combination of solid financial investment from the club's American owners coupled with a forward thinking young well respected manager like Brendan Rodgers, to help Liverpool to regain their place as a genuine title chasing outfit then it may be a move the 6ft 4in midfielder would be ready to consider.

Virgil Van Dijk is expected to be available this summer also, although a number of rivals will be chasing him, but he has to be a priority when looking to build a title - winning defence.

Redeeming the wettest Wimbledon since the Flood, Venus Williams sailed to her fourth singles title, and Roger Federer tied Bjorn Borg's record of five straight with an epic win over rival Rafael Nadal

We only took two Premier League points and people were saying that our title challenge was faltering but then we stormed back with three wins in a row and five of the next six, including the big game against title rivals Man City.

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:

We have all but ruled ourselves out of the title race following our dismal display at Stamford Bridge this weekend which allowed our rivals to move to 12 points clear of us, and we (for now) have to concentrate on building our own form to assure ourselves of Champions League football, and should the Blues begin to drop points, we must be within touching distance of them when push comes to shove.

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!!!

The result moves Arsenal nine points ahead of their rivals and are now closer to first place — moving into second place today — than they are to fourth and many will be wondering if they can sustain a late title challenge.

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

Wenger and the players should be looking foward to these games with relish as it gives us an opportunity to get one over on our rivals and take control of the title race.

Last season, Spurs famously came third in a two - horse race for the Premier League title, when capitulating under the pressure of being Leicester's last remaining rivals, and it was our care - free winning form which led us to leapfrog our noisy neighbours.

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..