Sentences with phrase «point against the champions»

Crystal Palace fought back from two - goals down to rescue a point against champions Leicester City.

Although the draw against Chelsea was disappointing, Jurgen Klopp will be happy to gain a point against the Champions at the start of a hectic schedule, which will see Liverpool play 9 more games before the turn of the year.

Not exact matches

Vidal continues to say that Munich is the best team in the world, and he can certainly point to Arsenal's humiliation against Bayern in the Champions League to emphasise the gap in quality between the two sides, but he believes that Alexis will make the Germans into an even better side.

Beating the champions twice is meaningless if you end up 10 points behind them at the end of the season like we did last season to Leicester, I would rather we win the matches that really count like last nights game against Watford, Liverpool did us a favour and we did not prepare properly for the game

I still am not sure why Mick McCarthy opted to play such a weakened side, I know some would point out that the club went on to win their next fixture but its worth remembering that Wolves had also won their previous two matches prior to the Old Trafford clash so they would have buoyed up for the game and who knows perhaps they could have gotten a surprise result against the Premier League champions.

The Premier League champions will be looking to close the gap on Jose Mourinho's Chelsea, and with the Hammers taking just one point from their last six league games against City Manuel Pellegrini will be feeling confident.

Unfortunately the only people that can remove him is the ones that put him in charge of arsenal and the only way the board will move against wenger is when he does not meet their expectations, have you heard any one of the board members come out and say fourth is not acceptable, for several years he has guarantee the board money from the champions league, they also have several agreements or contract signed with major companies, all that points to money coming back to the board.

Until May when we are crowned champions every team we face is our biggest rival, we have a poor record against Stoke City and Swansea we need these points so this must be rectified by beating such teams

This is exactly what we should be doing, drawing out the positives yes its only a draw at home but it was last years champions and any point against them is a good result!

He closed the year by scoring 30 or more in nine of his final 10 games, including a 44 - point performance against reigning league champion Georgia Stars.

With no line movement thus far, spread bettors are giving the slight edge to Houston either securing a huge upset victory or losing by seven points or less against the AFC North champion Ravens.

The Titans are currently two point favorites against the lowly Bears, while the Raiders are four point favorites against the reigning NFC champion Panthers team.

After all, a point away from home against the champions would not be a bad result by any means, whereas yet another defeat, even if it is a narrow one, would inflict further damage on the confidence and self - belief of the Arsenal players.

The Gunners need to win both of their remaining Premier League matches to have any hope of reaching the Champions League places, and first they will have to take all three points from their home tie against the already - relegated Sunderland.

Barcelona top La Liga and will extend their lead to four points with a win against Real Madrid, going some way to sealing another league title at the Nou Camp, and will be high on confidence after comfortably knocking Manchester City out of the Champions League.

United are in the perfect position to chop and change as they sit 12 points clear at the top of the Premier League, allowing Ferguson to rest several key players against Norwich before their decisive Champions League last 16 second leg encounter with Real Madrid on Tuesday.

Put against all actual evidence, we more often than not find ourselves more than 10 points behind the champions in the final league table.

This was the vital game though for Real who trail leaders Barcelona by 16 points in La Liga after a poor campaign and it is their best chance of picking up some silverware outside of the Champions League, in which they are evenly poised against Manchester United after a 1 - 1 first leg draw at the Bernabeu.

- scored the final seven points, as the Chicago Bulls went up 1 - 0 despite being short multiple starters against the defending NBA champions.

A failure to get any points from their clash against the champions will continue to leave them in the relegation zone, although this player reckons they are just keeping 18th spot warm for someone else at the moment.

Costa has scored less Champions League goals than Rickie Lambert this season, while he failed to find the net at any point during the Blues» triumphant Capital One Cup run — although he did strike via a deflection during the final against Tottenham Hotspur.

Okay Arsenal fans, it may not be time to hit the big Pink Panic Button just yet, especially as the point the Gunners gained against Sunderland last night ensured that we will go straight into the Champions League group stage next season.

«If we did pick up a few points away from home against the top four teams last season then I think we may have been champions, but that wasn't to be.

And yes: gained a single point against WBA and Norwich and that's why arsenal won't be champions till a good few more years

As reported by the Evening Standard our manager was quick to point out the brilliant recent run of results that the Swiss champions have enjoyed against clubs from the English Premier League, which includes victories over Liverpool, Chelsea and Man United.

He has scored on his last two games for the Reds against Queens Park Rangers and Chelsea, but unfortunately those goals don't look like being enough to secure Champions League football for his boyhood club next season as they currently trail fourth placed Manchester United by six points with two games remaining but have an inferior goal difference.

Juan Cuadrado's brilliant goal ended up winning all three points for 10 - man Juventus against French giants Lyon in the Champions League.

With forward Carmelo Anthony averaging 29.2 points, Denver (37 — 19 at week's end, the second - best record in the West) is positioning itself for a conference finals rematch against the defending champion Lakers.

It has been, somewhat gleefully, pointed out that Arsenal have lost ball three of our previous away games against Olympiacos in the Champions League and so we might as well forget qualifying for the knockout stage.

Elneny could have arrived at a perfect point in the club's history, with us at the summit of the Premier League, aiming for our third FA Cup in a row, and just a couple of games against Barcelona away from the last 16 in the Champions League.

Earlier in the week, the Seahawks opened as a three point home favorite against the reigning NFC champion Falcons.

The team would fall to eventual - champion De La Salle 57 - 27, but the 27 points was the most scored against the Spartans all season.

The Chilean was left out of the starting line - up against Chelsea last weekend, and our side earned a hard - fought 0 - 0 draw away to the champions, and were in fact unlucky not to have come away with more than one point.

While Marseille remain only five points of leaders Paris Saint - Germain, they have dropped out of the Champions League places after Monaco leapfrogged them following their convincing victory against Caen on Friday evening.

Today» match against Mauricio Pochettino's side is one that the Blues must win in order to really give their push to qualify for next season's Champions League, as if the west London side were to lose today, they would be eight points behind fourth - placed Spurs, all but ending their hopes of finishing in the top four.

As for Arsenal, defeat in the north London derby against Tottenham last time out — their fifth in six league away games — means they are six points adrift of the Champions League places with a game in hand.

This is the sad reality for Brendan Rodgers and his team, who despite a 13 - game unbeaten run stretching from mid-December until their defeat against Manchester United at the end of last month, could soon find themselves eight points adrift of a Champions League spot.

Following their goalless draw against Atletico Madrid on Saturday, the reigning La Liga champions remain in third place in the standings but dropped 10 points adrift of Barcelona.

The report points to the fact that the Chilean provided the assist for both of Walcott's goals against Basel in the Champions League, but more generally the fluency that Sanchez adds to our attack and the way his movement compared to the more static Giroud gives more space for the other forwards and helps to drag defenders out of position.

The Belgian champions are likely to be the whipping boys of the group, just as they were last season with just one point from their six games against PSG, Olympiakos and Benfica.

From this point onwards, we are literally having all of the possession, albeit without actually being able to penetrate the defence, and at this point you would fully understand how the Premier League champions failed to score against them on Saturday afternoon.

When you play against the champions and are down to 10 men for such a long time... we are only three points off the lead and have Leicester and Southampton at home coming up.

With West Ham still down in the relegation zone despite beating the Champions Chelsea at the weekend, Bennett is hopeful that David Moyes will conjure up another miracle, but given the Gunners record against his team he would be happy to come away with a point.

Campbell scored eight goals in 25 League starts as Olympiakos won the title by 17 points from PAOK and scored against Manchester United in their Champions League last - 16 tie.

It's a shame about the dropped points against «pool and the champions but there's a long season ahead.

As the dust of Arsenal's Champions league exit continues to settle and with our weekend game against Newcastle fast approaching, a lot of fingers are still being pointed in blame for our cup exit, and Wenger continues to take the customary hammering from the pundits and fans, in spite of our amazing win at Monaco and our superb League form.

A win against Spurs would take the Gunners to within a point of their neighbours, and reignite their bid to recover their seat at Europe's top table... the Champions League.

City currently occupy the fourth and final Champions League spot, and with third - place Arsenal winning against Everton on Saturday to move four points clear of Manuel Pellegrini's side, it is increasingly looking like a plethora of sides — including City, United, West Ham and Stoke City — are all battling for one UCL qualifying spot.

We played today against the champions of last season and if you play like this, I think you'll get a lot of points.

The most important match for Arsenal fans over this Premier League weekend is, of course, our own away game against West Brom and it is one that the Gunners desperately need to take all three points from in order to keep in touch with the clubs currently occupying the top four Champions League qualifying places.