Sentences with phrase «points back of the top»

They are currently in sole possession of 3rd and just 6 points back of the top 2 in the Standings.

City have yet to lose this season and Arsenal are nine points back of the top spot in the league.

Not exact matches

You'll be so fixated on the challenges that you won't step back and realize you're already there.With skateboarding, at some point I was on top of the world, but I had no idea because I was so busy and so focused on doing it.

By 2007, Jimmie Johnson had reached the top level of Nascar — including twice finishing second in the points championship — and yet, «I knew in the back of my mind I wasn't doing things right,» he says.

Dion Lewis and Bilal Powell were both top - five running backs, providing DraftKings players with 55 points between them for just $ 10,000 worth of your budget.

Ennis flips back through the legal pad on which she's been scribbling and points to the note she had written at the top of the first page.

Similarly to consumer credit cards, qualifying for a business credit card is based on your personal credit history, and many of the top issuers offer rewards, cash back or points for charging purchases.

In the present environment of ultra-low interest rates which will no doubt head back up at some point, interest rate risk is certainly top of mind.

Dip the top of the ball into the nuts, and then place the cake pop back on the parchment paper - lined baking sheet, nut - side down (so the stick points straight up).

With two late signings in the window, in the forms of Lucas Perez and Shkodran Mustafi, hopefully it'll boost Giroud and the rest of the team to stride on towards picking up all the available points to put the Gunners back on top.

I quite agree sell all the deadwoods but which player in his right mind would want to come to arsenal at the moment, remember people man u was in the same situation under moyes but we're able to attract better player's even when not playing champions league, the selling point from arsenal point of view is to tell players which they are trying to get what the plan is of getting back to top flight football by going for the Europa league over the FA cup and finishing in the top six otherwise if they go for wishy - washy arsene wenger stupid attitude of we've got quality all the squad we are competing for everything then I'm afraid We will end up with nothing

They sit in eighth place in the Serie A table after 11 games, 12 points adrift of the top four, while they've been held to back - to - back goalless draws by AEK Athens in the Europa League over the last fortnight to really ramp up the pressure on Montella.

Black Heart Gold Pants is finally coming back to the pack a bit, with its lead on second in this category dipping under.60 points of standard error, but the BHGP top five, in order, is Notre Dame, Florida, Alabama, South Carolina, and Oregon, so there's still plenty of deviance all over the place.

at this point i would say carvalho and the colombian kid and if latter is too much go for vargas... ozil will add quality but do nt have a starting XI that is top quality yet... on bright side chambers looks like quality sanchez with a bit of tweaking will trouble any defense kos is a top drawer centre back and wilshere is getting back to his best..

Our win today may have put us back on track, but the favourites for the title Chelsea also won, and maintained a nine point lead over us on the top of the table.

Plus he has a point to prove and a place in the England side for Euro 2016 to secure, so is now the time for Wenger to bring him back and give Arsenal a timely boost to help us ensure that we do not drop out of the top four altogether?

Jack Ransdell put in 19 points, landing in the top 5 scorers of the Week, while Briana Collier and Lauren Evans backed him up with scrappy defense and double - digit nights as well.

Hunt is no longer being treated like a top - three back, with his salary reaching its lowest point on DraftKings since Week 2, and his projected 9 - 12 percent ownership significantly lower than his average of 26.4 percent this season.

Like much of the Top - 6 (these 6 have separated themselves at this point), they had a nice bounce back week on Sunday.

Ohio State was a seven - point favorite, had Heisman - winning QB Troy Smith, was top - 10 on both sides of the ball, and ran back the opening kickoff.

It was honestly their Defense that has them back on top of the Power Rankings as they held team Kozin to 16 points less than their season average.

I still believe that our challenge this coming season will be to get back into the top 4 and that we should be wise and realistic enough to know that the 19 point gap to the top of the PL table is unlikely to be closed this coming season with the way we are going about our business.

The point made previously about how expensive it will be to get the players in that will bring champions league back th the Emirates: It was the current first team squad that failed to qualify last season after 20 years in the competition and it loooks as if we are going to need a positive second half of this season to finish in the top four.

Hanzal sees the «23» and «BROWN» on the back of the captain's jersey from at least the top of the faceoff circle all the way down to the point of impact.

This article I read on bleacherreport sums up what a fan who wants the club success would like to see from than onwards: - Beat Bayern and progress above our mental block - Make top four and possibly as good as last season finishing # 2 likely getting positive result in our 5 most difficult fixtures (Spurs, Man U, Man City, Everton, Liverpool) & taking back some lost points - Ensuring we finish above any team in London except Chelsea of course - Win FA Cup best chance of silverware - Win UCL long reach but beating Bayern could spur the team and maybe make them believe coupled with playing any team except Barca, Real & Atletico in the round after and could we do a Chelsea 2012.

Kentucky is athletic and deep, with eight of its top 10 scorers back and with impact transfer DeNesha Stallworth, a 6» 3» center who led Cal in scoring (13.3 points) in 2010 — 11.

Scoring won't be an issue for Penn State — the Nittany Lions have nine of their top 10 scorers back, including the high - octane backcourt of 5» 9» junior guard Maggie Lucas (19.5 ppg) and 5» 7» senior point guard Alex Bentley (14.1 ppg).

Scott Hastings of Arkansas had bothagainst Texas, tossing in 22 points, one basket coming when a seemingly errantshot bounced off the top of the backboard and then went through the net for a51 - 50 Razor - back lead.

Good point about the loss of their top players, (Torres, Aguero too), yet they have always managed to bounce back.

Of course, the NFL will point to a 48 percent year - over-year ratings increase as proof that pushing the draft back to May was a savvy business move, ignoring the fact that if Clowney, Watkins, and Manziel had all gone in the top 10, people would have tuned out just as quickly as they tuned in, and the NFL could be licking its wounds instead of pounding its chesOf course, the NFL will point to a 48 percent year - over-year ratings increase as proof that pushing the draft back to May was a savvy business move, ignoring the fact that if Clowney, Watkins, and Manziel had all gone in the top 10, people would have tuned out just as quickly as they tuned in, and the NFL could be licking its wounds instead of pounding its chesof pounding its chest.

Back then Arsenal had actually amassed more points and had spent a lot longer on top of the table.

Secretly, we've only included this because we quite like the idea that the tiny island of hair on the top of Steve McClaren's forehead might also be a whale, albeit a tiny one, and that at some point this season it's just going to shudder into life, then slip back into his skull, never to be seen again.)

Will this Arsenal XI be strong enough to get back to London with a win or at least a point to keep us top of the group?

A damaging defeat to a direct rival in Manchester United saw us slip back out of the top four with Liverpool winning to go back above us and the top three all picking up another three points.

Heading back after the winter break, the Rossoneri sit in fifth place in Serie A, just two points adrift of the top three as they hope to secure qualification for the Champions League.

That would give us nine, which would make us at least level on points with Chelsea who currently have six and would almost certainly catapult us back to the top part of the table and put Arsenal back in contention with the teams hoping to lift the Premier League trophy next May.

They have flirted with failing to achieve top four status several times, notably in 2012 - 13, when they pipped arch-rivals Tottenham by a point right at the death, back in the days of Mind the Gap and Lasagne-gate.

The negativity on this site is unreal, 2 points off top spot, we've dragged ourselves back to contention In ucl and 1 of the teams above us is Leicester who will fade away, why can't our fans stop whining?

The Gunners also come into the match on the back of six straight wins in all competitions, and their confidence will also have been boosted by the fact they joined Manchester City on points at the top of the Premier League table this weekend.

this season was supposed to be about the epl not fourth place.just seeing how empty the Emirates was yesterday I expect it to be even worse in the upcoming games.wenger blew it in the transfer market, I think that in itself shows how we lacked ambition and we settled for a top four from the beginning and if by a chance we managed to win epl then thats it.lossing some games, crucial points and the feedback we got back was just covering the real goals of the club top four.soton home (a team challenging has to win this game), Crystal palace, swansea, just add those points and see where we could and should hve been.everyone here is a die hard arsenal fan whether an akb or aob but fact remains we love the club, we want the club to move forward, we want the club to be a superhouse, its got nothing to do with wengers last year or his last chance of epl.this sort of thinking is running our beloved club to the ground.whether u like it or not a change is needed and a serious one.at the moment we hve so many bogey teams do u think arsene will beat them nxt season!!!

But nonetheless, they managed to crawl over the finish line with all three points and restore them back to the top of the table for a few hours at least.

Few months back I considered myself a rabid AOB sort of a Piers Morgan type, after some time I came to terms with myself that nothing was going to change, it did not matter my tirades or how many comments would post, things at ARSENAL would not change, our destiny is intertwine with AW till the day he decides is enough for him or his Contract is over, for sure not before that, SO there is no point anymore in pointing AW deficiencies nor trashing the Man, he reached the top of his abilities and is consistent with that, making the top 4 reaching the last 16 at the CL and as a BONUS last year maybe this one the FA Cup, reality is he will not reach anything more and we just have to settle and accept (as he has done) our STATUS QUO a good team but not good enough........

They have a shelf life of 8/10 years at the very top if they are lucky so who can begrudge them the opportunity to make hay whilst the sun is shining... am not saying Sanchez is not money driven but the way the guy plays i can mortgage my life he actually enjoys the game, enjoys wining first and foremost then money comes 2nd... like the author of the article rightly pointed out, he was in Messi's shadow at Barca and could not express himself fully, now he is at a club where he is the main man and given a free role and license to express himself and i very much doubt if he will want to go to a club like Madrid (as been rumoured in the dailies today) to relieve the bad experience he suffered at Barca because let us face facts, he is never going to displace CR7 as the main man, so even if Madrid sells Benzema or Bale to make room for him he will be back to the same position he was at Barca, this time he will be playing 2nd fiddle to CR7 so my guess is all the Madrid talks is been fed the press by his agents to drive a hard bargain when contract extension talks resumes.....

We dominated Sp ** s at The Emirates earlier this season and with better finishing and composure in the second half we could easily have doubled that score.The team were focused and kept a good shape all through the game.We should not need motivating for a game as big as this.The fact it's a NLD is important enough but 3 points will put us in with a chance of getting back into the mix for a top 4 finish.Anything less and we will struggle.

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If it wasn't us chasing the six points back I would think all they have to do is win each of next games til the team at top feels pressure and they slip a little, however with it being us even if that scenario played out I would not put a single cent on us taking advantage of the slip.

Our side moved to within one point of Liverpool, and three of Manchester City, and are hoping to claw their way back inside the top four at the finishing line.

Yeah, it's not that any of those spots would necessarily be a bad pick, but there certainly aren't gaping holes at those positions that preclude the Eagles from taking Guice or any other running back at 32 if he's at the top of their board at that point.

The Reds have been astonishing up front this season, with their defence and goalkeeping costing their side a number of points, and letting Oblak join them could be costly as we look to battle our way back into the top four.

As long as Arsenal get all three points, we will all be happy and back in the top four of the Premier League, but one of you could be even happier by winning this competition.