Sentences with phrase «points against title»

Two goals from Sadio Mane in the first half ensured Liverpool got all three points against title challengers Tottenham Hotspurs.

That's not to say that Henderson thinks that Liverpool can afford to drop points against their title rivals.

Today I watched a Chelsea side, whom were focused, motivated and intent on proving a point against their title rivals, not play to their best and still win a high - tension game comfortably.

Not exact matches

In the AFC title game, against the Jaguars» league - best passing defense, Brady took control of the game, carving up Jacksonville to erase a 10 - point fourth - quarter deficit in minutes.

Two titles, however, point to the central concern underlying the volume - «The Pursuit of the Ideal» and «The Apotheosis of the Romantic Will: The Revolt against the Myth of an Ideal World.»

Also, as over against typical recent books with similar titles, it makes the fundamental and crucial point that politics and Christianity must never be seen as coterminous.

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..

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.

Juventus finally confirmed the inevitable as an Arturo Vidal goal gave them a narrow victory against Sampdoria, and more importantly the point they required to clinch their fourth consecutive Serie A title.

iwobi and ozil are not expected to play against big teams, why bench a 50m striker, Wenger is our problem, we still can fix it, this is just November, twelve points is just four games we still can win the title

It not only gave us three valuable points, it shattered the confidence and title belief of a watching Napoli, which affected them against Roma.

England are desperate to snatch a win against Wales today, in order to get their title bid back on target, but the points wont come easy.

To say the least, this result became a point of contention when a one - loss FSU team reached the BCS title game against Oklahoma instead of one - loss Miami.

And at no point did that Ohio State team, or any Ohio State team coached by Jim Tressel, stand a chance in any universe's 2007 title game, against any team.

United currently sit 16 points behind rivals Man City at the top of the Premier League after the Citizens» 5 - 1 win against Leicester, so a win here would be absolutely vital in keeping their slim title hopes alive for this season.

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.

Now that Leicester need to collect 6 additional points to the 72 they've gotten already to be certain of beating Arsenal to the title, the Boss starts against Palace and WBA must be such a starts that will out matched whatever these 2 clubs starts have on offer against the Boss» starts for the 2 matches.

Last March, in a game against archrival Brigham Young that would clinch the regular - season conference title, the lanky forward scored 38 points, including 16 of 16 from the free throw line, to lead Utah to a 96 - 85 win.

They remembered last year's U.S. Open title match against Austin, in which Martina had won the first set 6 - 1 and then, at 4 - 4 in the second, at break point, dumped a shoulder - high forehand volley into the net and eventually lost 1 - 6, 7 - 6, 7 - 6.

Real are now eight points behind La Liga leaders Barcelona in the Spanish title race, and will have expected to do better than take one point from two games against Spurs in their bid to retain the European Cup.

Weinke's FSU team put up zero offensive points in the Orange Bowl against Oklahoma that decided the 2000 season's title.

As you can see, Rob, Lawro and Merson all fancy Leicester City to begin the defence of their Premier League title with three points and a clean sheet against Hull City, who barely have enough players to put a team out.

Based on his game - winning efforts on Sunday against Alaves, it arguably doesn't make much difference to Messi anyway as he continues to lead Barcelona's charge for major honours this season as they remain the La Liga title favourites with a healthy 11 - point lead.

The Blues have made an awful start to the defence of their Premier League title this season as back - to - back defeats against Crystal Palace and Everton has left them 11 points behind current leaders Manchester City and could fall even further behind if they fail to take all three points against the Gunners.

But we haven't challenged for the PL title for many years, and these are the problems, that we seem to have constantly: 1) We are letting in too many goals 2) «Physical teams» often seem to be able to beat us 3) We always loose too many points in the internal games against top opponents 4) We always have too many injuries 5) We have many matches, where the team seem unmotivated for at least one half In a single match or even a few matches, you can blame individual players or even the whole team for problems like the above.

We might not have gotten the points we needed in our pursuit of the Premier league title but with the exception of our cowardly performance against a second string Man United side, we have not played badly at all.

Unlike many on this site, I don't seek to set one AFC fan against another... unlike the divisive tossers who actually seem to revel in our losses to try to make their points (not fans, just self obsessed idiots) but rather be honest about what we need to do to improve and compete for the title.

Jose Mourinho's men extended their lead at the top of the table to seven points following Arsenal's win against Burnley on Saturday and now only need three more victories to clinch their first Premier League title since 2010.

Bailey, who was so brilliant in last year's title game against Arkansas, has had to move to the point, where he has been adequate while playing out of position.

There are like 7 teams, that can take points off of each other and the consistency against the smaller teams will be so significant to any title aspirations.

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....

Alot of questions for a «BIG» club that spent virtually no money in the last 2 windows and stubbornly trots out the same players that choked against Monaco in the CL and finished 12 points behind title winners Chelsea last season

Despite a somewhat misleading flying start (a string of four - goal victories against relegation fodder), the Red Devils» form has taken a hit since then, leaving them eight points off the pace in the title race.

In contrast, Arsenal, exhausted after their victory against Leicester had to compete on 3 fronts — and immediately lost 3 consecutive games beginning with the crushing defeat to Barcelona, and in so doing went out of both the FA and European Cups and collected only 9 league points to effectively drop out of, then lose, the title race!

The 1 - 0 win at Turf Moor moved the side to within four points of league leaders Chelsea and while there has been talk of a potential title race, Wenger has insisted that his defenders deserve credit for their performance in the battling win against the relegation - threatened Clarets:

The 24 - year - old was sent off in their game against City last season, meaning he missed crucial end - of - season fixtures against the likes of Chelsea and Crystal Palace, when Liverpool dropped crucial points before eventually conceding the title to this weekend's opponents.

Things go against all teams at some point but real genuine challengers for the title can overcome this sort of bad luck.

the wilshere goal against norwich and that rosicky goal against «do nt know against whom anymore» but i think where our decisions differ is that i think that till the season 11/12, maybe 12/13 overachieved / had success, cause some year ago in the 12/13 season you wrote that he underachieved in this period, haha i still remember that xD but after that he should have won atleast one title and its a disappointment that we never had more than 80 points in the last few years..

Arsenal may not have played at our top level against Sunderland, well let's be honest and say we were nowhere near it, but we did get the three points that we needed to keep the Premier League title challenge going strong.

Somehow Wenger can snatch 4 points from each of these clubs two games against AFC, then BPL title looks a distinct possibility.

Wilson took over as sole coordinator in 2006 after Long became head coach at San Diego State; in 2007, with a redshirt freshman quarterback named Sam Bradford, the Sooners averaged 42.3 points per game and were in line for a national title shot before Bradford suffered a concussion against Texas Tech and Mike Leach's Red Raiders scored an upset.

Guardiola may have given up (and it will certainly be interesting to watch them next week against Tottenham) but our goalkeeper Petr Cech thinks quite the opposite, and points out that we still have games to face against all our title rivals, and if we win them all we can close the gap at the top.

Yes we could have picked up extra points and won the title in games against Stoke away, Swansea and Aston Villa at home, but every team can cherry pick games against the smaller teams where they should've won.

So if the battling draw against the spuds really has given Arsenal their belief back, will it prove to be a vital point in the EPL title race?

Chelsea are preparing to face QPR this afteroon knowing that Arsenal have risen to just four points behind them in the title race after grinding out the three points against lowly Burnley yesterday.

We are now on a 5 - game unbeaten run again, and if we can get all 3 points against Watford in 8 days time, then we will be in good heart to face the League leaders on the following weekend in which could be our big throw of the dice in the title race....

The Foxes next game is against the team we beat on Monday, possibly favourites for the title because of the depth and quality their squad, and 3rd placed and 3 points off the top — Manchester City.

In the AFC title game against the Baltimore Colts, Blanda again relieved an injured Lamonica, completing 17 of 32 passes for 217 yards and 2 touchdowns while also kicking a 48 - yard field goal and two extra points, keeping the Raiders in the game until the final quarter, when he was intercepted twice.

If he does not and losses badly against title rivals there is no point in watching this season.

Sterling's goal also fired City 15 points clear of nearest rivals Manchester United, who seem to be doing their bit to help City wrap up the title as quickly as possible after dropping four points in their last two games against Leicester City and Burnley.