Sentences with phrase «rivals slipped up»

I always feel the same as an Arsenal fan, hoping, and praying our rivals slip up, because I know Arsenal (with Wenger in charge) are not good enough to just go out there, and win it.

so many permutations, you could make a very good teacher in algebra, that aside hope we don't throw away our chances to widen up the gap like we always do when our rivals slip up.

Cech admits that his side are in with a shot at the title if they can manage to build on their recent run of results, but must simply concentrate on their own form and hope their rivals slip up.

As well as keeping our own momentum going, a win against West Ham in the first kick off of the weekend might just crank up the pressure enough to make our rivals slip up.

When do Arsenal ever take advantage when our rivals slip up?

It's just frustrating to see that arsenal can not shake their tendency to throw away games, get muscled out of matches and not take their opportunities when their big rivals slip up.

Not exact matches

So while Arsenal have been lucky that our rivals have not really punished the slow start, there is still a lot of hard work to do and if we slip up again, we probably will not get away with it again.

With only six matches to play, United will both need to improve their form and hope that City slip up in order to wrest the final UCL qualifying position away from their fierce rivals.

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.

It looked like all our rivals were going to slip up.

In my opinion, early kick offs tend to benefit our player as they have slipped occasionally when our rivals had games before us in which they dropped points and we only needed wins to move up ahead.playing manure is tough enough without the added pressure of trying to catch up or go ahead based on result of other rivals.

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.

With Man City losing we are now up to second in the table, and Arsene finally acknowledged who our main rivals are: «We have to keep winning games and collecting points and hope that (leaders) Leicester slip up.»

In turn, by the time they take to the pitch at Selhurst Park on Monday night, they could be under pressure to avoid a slip up which could give their rivals the opportunity to make ground on them.

It is up to Arsenal to make the most of any slip ups by our Premier League rivals of course, and after slipping back into third place, even though we are only behind Man City on goal difference, means that we will need to do better than them and Leicester City for the rest of the season, while the run of results from our north London rivals has brought Tottenham right up to just two points behind us and got people talking about them as genuine title contenders.

Arsenal still have to make sure that it counts by winning our away game against AFC Bournemouth tonight, but the Gunners were probably not expecting any of the main rivals for the Premier League title to slip up in this latest run of games.

If Arsenal fans were hoping for a slip up or two over the christmas period from any of the other clubs in with a chance of challenging for the Premier League title, then we were left with just one hope and that was soon snuffed out last night as our north London rivals Tottenham ran out 4 - 1 winners over Southampton.

He would have seen playing a weakened team voluntarily as the difference between being champions or not, especially if he knew that fellow rivals had slipped up (which they had).

Tottenham are aiming to re-enter the top four spots once again, looking to take advantage of any potential slip - ups by their three rivals ahead of them.

Jurgen Klopp will be wary of a West Brom side that has shown fight under caretaker boss Darren Moore, and if he can ensure Liverpool avoid slipping up as Man United did last weekend, they could yet pip their rivals to second place.

United have not always taken advantage of teams above them slipping up, so if that happens this weekend, it is something United need to do, sending a message to their rivals, as if another performance is made, United season looks set to start, maybe too late, but it could also be the right time.

Nevertheless, the Reds are enjoying a run of three successive wins and will know victory over their fierce rivals could send them top of the table for the first time this season if Chelsea slip up elsewhere, something City are also praying happens.

Their progression in the FA Cup now leaves the Blues on the verge of completing a memorable league and cup double, and with their closest rivals for the title slipping up on Sunday, Chelsea will look to seize full advantage by stretching their lead at the top of the Barclay's Premier League table.

As the road opens up, though, the Polo's DSG makes more sense, slipping between gears and shifting with an alacrity missing in most mainstream rivals.