Sentences with phrase «over a relegation team»

Not exact matches

A team that was dubbed to fight relegation won the league over a club that was dubbed to challenge for the league title.

United are having a fine season and are one of a couple of teams currently hanging to the coattails of Celtic at the top of the table, with a 3 - 2 win over relegation threatened Ross County maintaining the Tangerines» position at the weekend after the leaders beat ten man Motherwell by a goal to nil at Fir Park.

Tomorrow evening Arsenal take on a Crystal Palace side that looked nailed on for relegation a couple of months ago, but since Roy Hodgson took over they have gone on an amazing 8 game unbeaten run and have moved up to just one point of getting out of the relegation zone and the team has an abundance of confidence at the moment.

Add to that akpom will be given another chance you have 7 players there more than capable of scoring against a team looking over their shoulder at relegation.

They will have had over a week to rest and prepare after the Champions League exit at the hands of Atletico Madrid and even though their recent upturn in fortune has removed the threat of relegation, I think Arsenal have to expect a committed performance from them, which is why I feel that Wenger should be looking to rotate his team as much as possible.

Since taking over the club last year, the team just avoided relegation last season and have lost five of their seven matches this campaign.

We were eliminated from the Europa League earlier than we would have hoped, or expected, and even the world's biggest West Ham optimist would have to concede, that with just five Premier League games completed, we will not overhaul a Manchester City team who already have a 12 point lead over us in the league competition, as we sit in the relegation zone.

The Reds currently find themselves in the relegation zone, but do have a crucial game in hand over the teams at the bottom.

However I feel they are missing some experience amongst their team as a large percentage of their side had never played in the Premier League before this season and relegation rivals such as Sunderland and Aston Villa may have an advantage over them in this department.

KEY FACT: Huddersfield have faced three teams this season who started the day in the relegation zone and have lost all three matches 2 - 0 MATCH ODDS: West Brom 10/11 Draw 9/4 Huddersfield 10/3 bet365 Pick: Over 2.5 goals @ 7/5 ANDY SAYS: I don't see Huddersfield getting anything here, comfortable home win... 2 - 0 GRAEME SAYS: If West Brom are going to get a win, they will get it here and they should... 2 - 1 FOOTBALLIndex — One to follow: Aaron Mooy is still just in the top - 100 but worth a look

With his team just four points above the relegation zone, Angers coach Stephane Moulin had made no secret of prioritising Saturday's home game against Caen over the trip to the capital.

For sure many Swansea fans were getting excited about the prospect of Welsh hero Ryan Giggs taking over but alas the board have decided to go in a different direction and it will be up to them to get behind the team and the new manager and hopefully drive them away from the threat of relegation.

If anything, QPR's win over Southampton this weekend has made things even tighter down at the bottom and realistically as many as seven teams remain involved in the relegation scrap.

It is a quite remarkable record for a team fighting against relegation, papering over the wide cracks of an away run that's seen just one point collected from the past 15 games staged outside of East Yorkshire.

SAF took charge if a team that nearly relegation threatened, moyes took over a winning team with world class players.

Liverpool have doubts over both Steven Gerrard and Luis Suarez and should neither make the team - sheet, West Brom would be enormous value to do what the last relegation - threatened club beginning with W did to Dalglish's in - form Reds (27 Feb: West Ham 3 - 1 Liverpool), which was to spank them.

Whilst a great winning streak can almost guarantee a team a chance of winning a major title over the course of the season, a bad run of results could just as easily cause relegation.

Sunderland's victory over Everton cast Steve Bruce's team into the relegation zone and time is running out.

These two teams played out a thrilling match that will live long in the memory on a climatic final day of the 2010 - 2011 Premier League, a match which both sides could ill - afford to lose as the prospect of relegation lurked over them.

That result left more questions over Jose Mourinho's future, with the team languishing in 15th position in the table, just four points above the relegation zone.

With relegation threat looming large over their head, the newly appointed Technical Director of Chirag United Kerala — Biswajit Bhattacharya discusses what the team needs to do in order to stay afloat in the top division of the Indian football.

With just over a month of the season to go, the Premier League relegation battle is seeming more and more like a two - team scrap.