Sentences with phrase «off top of league»

Embed from Getty Images Arsenal have started the season fairly well, they are two points off the top of the league and have already qualified for...

The result left Arsenal without a goal in three league matches and five points off the top of the league.

It paid off, though, and Chelsea are now five points off the top of the league with thirteen points on the scoreboard.

The Liverpool Ladies went into the game in 3rd position, 3 points off the top of the league table, needing to score 3 goals and for Chelsea and Birmingham to slip up in their games to retain the Women's Super League title.

3points off top of league ones will say but we all know we fall away, challenge for top 4 and stay that way while wenger is there.

Arsenal get back to Premier League action this weekend, but as our game against AFC Bournemouth is due to be played on Sunday and the way that the other weekend fixtures are set then we could be six points off the top of the league table when we kick off at the Emirates Stadium.

REAL Arsenal fans on the other hand actually enjoy winning a game and being two points off the top of the League.

Miles off the top of the league, and we're not even at the halfway point.

Not exact matches

With life treating him well on and off the pitch, there seems to be no limit to what Alli can achieve as the 20 - year - old has bagged himself 17 goals so far this season and continues to establish himself as one of the top players in the Premier League.

Wengers method of bluffing the board & fans to keep him for a further season... > We loose enough games to take us completely off winning the league, then say it wasn't in our control, we then fight till the end and win last few games so we look good and like we worked hard to earn the 4th place trophy.He then links us with awesome transfers (which we all know wont happen), and finally while Man U / City and Chelsea organise pre-season friendlies against top clubs, we play the weak ones, win and look all good to go next season without any additions... AND THEN REALITY STRIKES..

According to another former Arsenal player Paul Merson: «When the pressure is off and you can't win the league, football is a completely different game, When you have to go into a game when you're top of the league or chasing teams down, the pressure is different.

And those goals all came in four of the games, as we failed to score against Stoke City, Chelsea, Southampton, Hull City and Barcelona, so it is not too hard to see why we have slipped off the top of the Premier League and are looking at another Champions League exit at the first knockout stage.

Saturday kicks off with a clash of the top two at the Etihad Stadium, which is where we begin our Premier League predictions...

Fair enough, I just wonder if he'd still be playing top flight football if he had been at United from the start with such a horrendous injury record, Fergie would have shipped him off ages before his eventual recovery, dare I say he was destined to win the Premier league the season he won it with United anyways, he was the hottest striker in the league for those two seasons, the only thing we lacked in his final season at Arsenal was enough creativity behind him and a lack of suitable replacement to take ocassionally take the load off him, but then Cazorla, Poldi and Giroud had been brought in for re-inforcements, he played with a patently inferior team to Arsenal's that season at United, with the exception of Rooney of course, he single handedly carried them to the title, what away to show loyalty.

Despite the disappointment of eventually finishing in third place in the Premier League last season, Spurs are evidently keen to keep the same nucleus of the squad in place and build on their success last year as they currently sit with eight points from their first four games of the season leaving them just four points off top spot.

We are far off from competing for the champions league, in fact I'll say this about all the top english clubs Man City, Chelsea, Arsenal, Man United, Liverpool they are no where near the level of top teams in Europe

With an exciting mixture of promising young talent combined with the experience of six returning Blues, led by a captain who leads by example both on and off the pitch, and inspired, motivated and guided by the ever-wise words of OUAFC stalwart coach Mickey Lewis, the Blues started off their BUCS campaign with 4 straight victories, in a run that saw them storm to the top of the league.

We currently sit 5th in the league and have shown we can take points off any team in our league, with a draw against top of the league Surbiton (0 - 0), and a win against second in the league Teddington (2 - 1).

The Occasionals, having been promoted last year, are now sitting 2 points off the top of their new league with 2 games in hand, and are 1 point off the top of their BUCS league!

Team Apuli started the season off strong and was routinely in the Top 5 of the Power Rankings during the League's first couple of months.

It's still so early in the Summer so the Standings may not be a true indication of things to come however I think the experience this team possesses from its many battles in the Men's League gives them a real chance at being a top contender to knocking Team Bartlett off the top of the mountain.

Nevertheless, it won't be enough for many to move on from demanding change at the club, as ultimately the Gunners are still set to fall way short of expectations in the Premier League as they battle for a top - four finish, while there is still a long way to go in the Europa League even if they do see off Milan.

The fact that Zouma did not come off any worse will be good news for fans of the Stamford Bridge outfit, who will want all hands on deck to make sure they stay top of the league going in to the festive period.

Lacazette's current contract isn't set to expire until 2018 [via the Express], but after firing Hubert Fournier's side to Champions League qualification while finishing top scorer of Ligue 1, it's little surprise that Les Gones are keen to frighten off potential suitors.

Boston Red Sox, not yet missing absent Ted Williams, ripped off four wins over Baltimore, split pair of games with New York Yankees, took over top spot in American League.

The Grizzlies held James Harden, one of the league's top scorers, to just seven points, just one point off his season - low.

Can anyone name another highly regarded manager who would have stuck at a top club with no hope of winning anything for at least 6 - 7 years, let alone managed to keep us in the Champions League while selling their best players off to rivals The truth is we have ridden out the worst of it, but are still playing catchup to this day - and we should be very grateful to Arsene Wenger.

I still think that Arsenal have a great chance of finishing in the top four and a good chance of avoiding the Champions League play - offs next season, but we need to cut out the mistakes and start putting a run of games together.

5points off of the top spot in what should have been our league this season.

Still people bang on about klopp... yet Arsene who competes in the worlds toughest league, against several hugely bankrolled teams, with the same injury problems, with our players bought off like nothing Klopp has ever faced from Bayern — still finishes top four year in year out and has never languished at the bottom of the league.

The Toffees have conceded no more than one goal in any of their league outings thus far this term, and currently sit just four points off the top of the table.

And theres also the fact that every time we hit the top of the league the wheels seem to fall off in the next game and so on until we are snuggling back in our comfort zone (4th) You will always get moans and groans from fans, especially in games where we should have got something out of it, yet I can't stand the lemmings that moan at the moaners lol?

Yeah, securing top - 4 and champions league football while turning a profit in the transfer market to pay off a stadium debt while competing in the most competitive league in the world, as Chelsea and City spend billions at the hands of sugar daddies and United was at the peak of their powers?

Even if we win against Manure there will be a great chance we will not be top of the league Sunday so I don't see why you write them off already.

I have already written about the chances of Arsenal pulling off the incredible and finishing on top of our Champions League qualifying group.

Phillip Rivers is one of the top 5 quarterbacks in the league and has a healthy running back, Ryan Mathews, to hand it off to.

If Wolves fail to make it through the play - offs then it will be harder to keep these youngsters and Brian Howard, having now had a taste of the big - time in their fabulous cup run, may seek an even bigger pay packet in the Premier League or indeed he may just see a move to the top tier simply a more ambitious move regardless of salary and I don't think anyone could blame him.

But it now looks like Arsenal could be out of the race for Alexandre Lacazette unless we can still pull off a miracle and somehow get back into the Top Four to reach the Champions League for the 21st season in a row.

I know that a lot of Arsenal fans are currently thinking that the top four is a sad second prize for the Gunners after we blew yet another attempt to be crowned Premier League champions, but you can bet that the likes of Liverpool and Manchester United would snatch your hand off to be assured of a top four finish and a coveted place in the Champions League.

That would be stupid as the Gunners are only two points off the top and the current league leaders Man City and there is a very long way to go and plenty of time for many more twists and turns to this season.

if we do not buy one of the top strikers out there, we will finish the league as usual... as simple as that... walcott is not striker, striker must have off all stuff he possesses the first is technique, which he do nt have... He is fast but that is not the major quality striker must have, if you compare him and pippo inzaghi... pippo barely could walk, but he is by miles better striker than walcott and giroud..

The new rule was at its best in 2014 — the second year of the tampering period — when about 30 of the top free agents flew off the market within the first couple hours of the new league year.

The Champions League looks a step too far for Tottenham at the moment, and if they do fail to win it this year or fail to finish in the top four of the Premier League, Harry Kane will almost certainly be off and he'll be taking his Golden Boot with him.

Even though Arsenal piled the pressure on our Premier League rivals by taking all three points off Sunderland in the first game of the EPL weekend at the Stadium of Light, we are still locked on points with both Liverpool and Man City at the top of the table after they both managed wins of their own.

Keeping to her end of a bargain on a bet, after Deportivo came out of a group of four — which included the league's top side — she peeled off for the front cover of the magazine, as well as producing the smouldering video below.

The Blues are now 11 points clear at the top off the Premier league table after goals from Spanish trio Cesc Fabregas, Pedro and Diego Costa sealed their 20th top - flight win of the season.

For one thing it would mean that his Manchester United team would keep their place on top of the Premier League table and with the latest international break coming up after the game, it would be a very nice way for them to sign off.

There could be two very different approaches that Arsenal will face at Old Trafford tomorrow, with some fans expecting Jose Mourinho to set his Manchester United team up to stifle the space and frustrate our fluent, and creative attacking football, while some including our veteran keeper Petr Cech thinking that Mourinho will have to be more adventurous as he is already six points adrift of us and eight points off the top of the Premier League table so a draw would not be all that much use to him.

Brugge are at the top of the [Championship Play - Off] table and have a very good chance of qualifying for next season's Champions League.

As I said earlier, Wenger has been treading water for years, but the sheer amount of top quality managers has pushed Wenger so far down the league, that we're currently a whopping 21 points off the top, and only in sixth on goal difference.