Sentences with phrase «over rivals man»

The one of 2012 was a fluke won on goal difference over rivals Man U.

Sergio Aguero hit a hat - trick agains the Magpies in a match that saw Pep Guardiola's side re-establish their lead over rivals Man United to 12 points.

Jesus» ability to link up with teammates Sergio Aguero and Kevin De Bruyne has been one of the contributing factors to Guardiola's side amass a 13 point lead over rivals Man United at the top of the table.

Not exact matches

While many Arsenal fans still don't want to lose him, they'll certainly hope he doesn't move to Man Utd having lost so many key players to direct rivals over the years including the likes of Robin van Persie and a string of stars to Man City, and based on these latest suggestions, perhaps it's highly unlikely.

City secured the title with five games to spare this season, collecting 28 wins in 33 games to open up a commanding lead over nearest rivals Man Utd.

On Wednesday, our men's rugby league 1st team proved that the city was ours as they stormed ahead to their first win of the season in the Northern 1A — a 24 — 6 victory over our local rivals, UoM.

Premier League rivals Arsenal and Crystal Palace have come to an agreement over the loan signing of young French striker Yaya Sanogo, report the Daily Star, with the former Auxerre man set to move to Selhurst Park until the end of the season and join Alan Pardew and the Eagles» fight for Premier League survival, that was given a huge boost with the weekend win over Tottenham Hotspur.

It's a bizarre case of two points dropped and one point gained following our 2 - 2 draw with Tottenham, as while we really should have got the win over our north London rivals, we were forced to come from behind having been reduced to ten men in order to salvage a point.

Man United concede a 94th minute goal against Leicester at the King Power Stadium this evening, as rivals Man City stretched the gap over the Red Devils to 13 points.

The result, combined with Man City's 4 - 0 win over Bournemouth earlier in the day, now means that the Red Devils are now 13 points behind their rivals, a gap that to most seems unassailable.

Both men picked up their fifth bookings of the season and in turn will sit out a game through suspension, but with a nine - point buffer over their rivals, Conte will be delighted that his side have piled the pressure on them to respond with Arsenal and Manchester City facing each other on Sunday.

Arsenal won their second consecutive competitive match in three months against 10 - man rivals Chelsea today as the Gunners secured their third Community Shield victory since 2014 with a 4 - 1 penalty shoot - out victory over the Blues following a 1 - 1 draw in normal time.

The result left them two points behind their city rivals, and with Man City's unpredictable form, Smalling is aiming to climb up the table over the next few weeks.

everyone seems to be in a rush to do interviews especially after the Man u game... its a big big win for us seeing as we have not had one over them in 4 years but in the name of all that is good this is AFC we are talking about and no matter how crucial a win is against one of our biggest rival we should just move on and focus on the next game and stop behaving and acting like a newly promoted side that caused a big upset by beating one of the favorites for the title... at the end of the day its a very important win but its still 3 points....

The Premier League title holders are keen to beat local rivals Man City to the signing of the 21 year old playmaker, mindful of the fact that the starlet's current boss, Manuel Pellegrini, is set to take over at the Etihad Stadium.

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You could even hope that our rivals for the Top Four could slip up as well over this period, but as Man United, Chelsea and Liverpool are all playing two home games before we play our away games then you can see why I am very worried about us dropping away from the race for fourth place.

Man United head to Stamford Bridge to take on Chelsea on Sunday, but their record against their rivals over the last 14 years makes for terrible reading.

Arsenal can not go to the top of the Premier League with a home win over Man City this evening, because of that pesky Leicester City side of Claudio Ranieri, but we can open up a four point lead over the club that is likely to be our main rivals for the EPL title.

This win for Arsenal over Premier League rivals Manchester United saw a great all round performance from the Gunners, both in attack and defence and there were lots of candidates for the Man of the Match, such as Petr Cech who made three crucial saves, Alexis Sanchez for his two great goals and Theo Walcott for his best game at centre forward, but for me it was Mesut Ozil who stood out with his sublime passing, movement, vision and work rate.

Despite the fact that there have been Arsenal transfer rumours linking us with the all round midfielder for over a year now, our Premier League rivals Man United and Tottenham are also rumoured to be very keen on signing him this summer.

Now I think there is still reasons to be cheerful, I agree Man C & Chelski have spent & bought some good players, we all understand that 5 of those teams might be in the CL proper which is a huge distraction for those 4 - 5 teams.Chelsea will not be able to field the same 13 - 14 players all season, as for Man C they were very frail at the back last season, add to that 2 flying wing backs and I'm not sure they will be any better this coming season.LFC will most probably have CL as well if they qualify and haven't exactly bought great players apart from Salah who could be a good aquasistion for them.Spuds have sold a good player & strengthened a rival & still not bought a single player yet, Man U have bought 2 good players & in Lukaku have a proven goal scorer in the PL but if they play the same dour way they did last season & with the added games the CL brings will they perform week in week out in the league??? As for Everton yes they have released a lot of players and also brought in a lot too to give better quality in the squad as they have Europa league the same as US the big difference is I think we will play squad players & youngsters maybe with a few senior players all the way up to the QF This tells me most of our rivals will pave the way for us to field pretty much the same side every weekend in the PL thus giving us an advantage over all the other 5 teams playing in the CL & Europa, just remember the League has been won in the last 2 seasons by teams NOT in Europe YES we are this season but I think Wenger will put all his eggs in the League basket and field an under strength side in all comps hence focusing on the League until we are no longer in the race.

I am not just trying to be different in picking Theo Walcott as my Man of the Match from the Arsenal win over title rivals Manchester City last night, even though the obvious choice was our king of assists Mesut Ozil, who put in another performance full of quality and class.

Clearly, Conte wasn't in the mood to mince his words, as he went on the attack directly as he responded to Mourinho's dig over match - fixing issues in his past, as he labelled his rival a «little man» having commented on a situation that he isn't entirely familiar with, as seen in the video below courtesy of BT Sport.

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In turn, they've got one less trophy to compete for and have all - but dropped out of the title race with rivals Man City extending their lead over them while Chelsea have leapfrogged them into second place.

The report also claims that Arsenal are preparing a # 30 million bid for him in order to beat Premier League rivals Man United and Chelsea to the punch as he is seen as the perfect player to take over from our club captain Mikel Arteta.

All Arsenal fans are over the moon with the capture of Alexandre Lacazette from Lyon, who is a pure goalscoring genius, but it would seem that our 50 million Pound man is simply not good enough for Arsene Wenger's biggest rival Jose Mourinho.

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Tired of the unappreciative arsenal fans being negative about wenger here we have a club legend one that your luckily alive to witness in your lifetime and man who actually loves the club with heart on sleeve remember the growth the consistency the beauty in our football style and being awed at by clubs around the about the joy of watching an arsenal wenger side play yea soon enough he will be gone hes 68 and uh oh there gos the guy who constantly over the years beat spurs made champions league the invincibles put your belief in the team and him relish what we have and in his tenure we get to be one of the few who get to worry oh maybe we wont finish this year but wait will be top five and probably win a cup or make to or near the final for 21 22 years straight phew wow that could be of been worse had me there for a moment thats all i had to worry about as a fan glad im witnessing a club legend real cub passion not a paid fake smile who will go to another club maybe a rival jose mourinho so stop being a silly nanny negative easy to be worse and it will be after he leaves will go up and down for a bit

Led by captain Adam McBraida's three individual victories, Oxford's men romped to a five point victory over their light blue Fenland rivals, with McBraida and Sam Trigg awarded the Achilles and Le Touquet trophies respectively.

Man United beat Bournemouth 2 - 0 at the Vitality Stadium this evening thanks to goals from Chris Smalling and Romelu Lukaku, a result that saw the Red Devils stretch their lead over rivals Liverpool to four points in the race for second place.

There are reports all over the football media about Wilshere being a transfer target for our Premier League rivals Man City, with this one in the Daily Star claiming that the Manchester club will open up with a big bid of around # 40 million for the 23 - year old, if they fail to land their primary target Paul Pogba from Juventus that is.

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Manchester City will be keen to leapfrog Arsenal in the Premier League table this weekend with a win over their rivals, but will have to do so without some key men.

It was not all good news for the Gunners, with our big rivals Man City bouncing back from the loss to Arsenal with a thumping 4 - 1 win over Sunderland.

Our victory over our long time rivals — Man Utd, is a miracle mend fences.

Add to that the fact that a couple of our big rivals, Man City and Bayern Munich, have lost key players in David Silva, Sergio Aguero and Mario Gotze due to injury, and you can dertainly say that luck has been on the side of Arsenal over the last week or so.

While Arsenal may not have the financial resources of our main rivals Chelsea, Man City and Man United, we do have an edge over them in other ways.

As they sit top of the Premier League table with a 12 - point lead over nearest rivals Man Utd, coupled with the fact that they've reached the League Cup final and are still in with a shout for the quadruple with the FA Cup and Champions League, it's difficult to pick too many holes in the current squad.

I could go back and remember the 6 - 3 loss against Man City, the 1 - 1 draw against Everton and 1 - 0 loss to Man Utd in the 2013/2014 season and many other matches over the past 3 seasons where Giroud has been a phenomenon and joy to our rivals.

Ten - man Bayern Munich secured their place in the Champions League knockout stage with a comfortable win over Group F rivals Olympiakos.

Manchester City extending their lead at the top of English Premier League as they are now eight points ahead of their nearest rivals following Pep Guardiola's men 3 - 1 victory over Arsenal.

Last year's Varsity Matches saw a double victory for Cambridge, with the women claiming a 0 - 24 Light Blue triumph over Oxford before the Cambridge men secured back - to - back Varsity victories with a 10 - 20 win over their Dark Blue rivals to lift The Rhino Trophy.

Sir Alex Ferguson, the former Manchester United boss with whom he feuded over several titles, said he was «proud to have been a rival, a colleague and a friend to such a great man.»

Liverpool's win over Merseyside rivals Everton on Saturday may have come at a huge cost with star man Sadio Mane now at risk of missing the remainder of the season after coming off with a knee injury in the clash.

The man - of - the - match from our famous derby day win over rivals Chesterfield on Saturday has been announced... Mal Benning!

Stags recorded a famous 1 - 0 win over rivals Chesterfield on Saturday, and it's time to vote for your man - of - the - match!

-- A 5 - 1 victory over Oldham at Anfield ensured Liverpool's passage into the fourth round, while United eliminated City rivals Man City with a 3 - 2 win at Etihad Stadium.

Chelsea won their 13th consecutive Premier League game and still maintain a six point lead over closest rivals Liverpool who defeated Man City yesterday.