Sentences with phrase «run of fixtures ahead»

The Gunners were still nine points behind leaders Chelsea but, with an inviting run of fixtures ahead, there was still a belief that Arsene Wenger's side could have a meaningful say in the Premier League title race.

And Arsenal have a really good looking run of fixtures ahead of us to get our Premier League and Champions League campaigns firmly back on track.

Not exact matches

Although the game is a dead rubber, Wenger has made it clear that he will still be playing his experienced reserves to give them a little more match fitness ahead of our congested fixture list in the rest of this month, so it is certain that our front line will consist of Wilshere, Walcott and Giroud again, although I expect Welbeck to be given a run out as well at some point.

Big difference this time is it puts them a mere one point ahead of us & we have a better run in of fixtures than them to the end of the season!

Paris Saint - Germain are running critically low on available defenders ahead of their Ligue 1 fixture against FC Lorient on Friday evening with David Luiz, Marquinhos and Serge Aurier all absent.

So here's hoping that our star man finds some form ahead of a crucial run of fixtures that will determine the Gunners» title credentials.

To be fair we have a run of reasonable fixtures ahead and we can give game time to the likes of Campbell Podolski Rosicky Coquelin and Hayden.

Arsenal are now unbeaten in three games and will be looking ahead to a kinder run of fixtures where they can hopefully generate some good form.

Now a settled fixture in the Juventus squad, Miralem Pjanic looks ahead to a do - or - die run of fixtures between now and May

After their success in reaching the UEFA Champions League knock out stages for the 13th time in a row this midweek, confidence is running high at Arsenal camp ahead of their weekend Premier League fixture.

Ahead of the run up to the league fixtures each weekend, news outlets, websites and tabloids alike are flooded with a flurry of pre-match reports and analyses.

Any manager worth his salt can rally a group of players ahead of a crucial run of fixtures, yet we, and so it would seem the West Ham board, have little faith in Grant achieving this.

Fair play to West Brom, they got their 40 points on the board early doors ahead of an atrocious final run of fixtures.

Fraizer Campbell, a player who has only featured in a handful of games for Sunderland this season, scored a brace against Barrow whilst playing the role of assistant in Sunderland's third, so perhaps his classy display will put him into Steve Bruce's starting equation ahead of their home fixture with Bolton in a game Sunderland have to win to banish their poor run of league form.

Roberto Mancini rubbished reports just last month that the club had set ambitious targets of landing the Premier League crown at the end of the season, but City have hardly displayed the form of a team baring top - four credentials, drawing three of their last four league fixtures, and with those directly behind beginning to get ahead of steam, theirs genuine concern for an exposed City team who can't seem to string a run of results together in the Premier League right now.