Sentences with phrase «runaway league leader»

Our opponent is runaway league leader Man City.

This is a hammer blow to United and Mourinho after a difficult season that has seen them barely mount any kind of title challenge to runaway league leaders Manchester City, and also drop out of the Champions League early on.

The runaway League leaders Chelsea are 8 points ahead of us, and 5 ahead of Liverpool in second place, but a win tonight will mean that it is virtually impossible for Arsenal to catch up against an 11 point lead.

It is far from good enough from United as they now find themselves 16 points behind runaway league leaders Manchester City, and Paul Pogba is among those who has not looked at his best — far from it.

These two victories in Europe followed a 4 - 3 win over Guardiola's side at Anfield in the Premier League, meaning Liverpool have actually beaten the runaway league leaders three times this season.

The 5th of November gives us the hardest test of all with a visit to the Etihad to take on the runaway League leaders Man City.

Lewandowski could surely be an upgrade in attack and give Jose Mourinho the necessary firepower to close the gap on runaway league leaders Manchester City next season.

Liverpool's display at Brighton moved beaten manager Chris Hughton to dub Klopp's side «the best team we have played this season», despite his men having also lost 2 - 0 to Pep Guardiola's runaway league leaders Manchester City.

The centre half is expected to arrive on Merseyside on January 1st in a # 75M deal after Jürgen Klopp's Reds beat out Pep Guardiola and the runaway league leaders for the Southampton star's signature.

Although Chelsea were unlucky not to pick up all three points in Saturday's 0 - 0 draw with Everton, the result leaves the Blues 16 points shy of runaway league leaders Manchester City, with hopes of retaining their Premier League title already all but extinguished.

To achieve a hat - trick of wins over Bayern, Nagelsmann, Germany's coach of the year in 2016, must now beat the runaway league leaders at their own Allianz Arena.

Manchester City, the runaway league leaders were tipped by many online sports betting punters to win both home and away.

When they combine as slickly as this, the Dortmunder can even give runaway league leaders, Bayern, a run for their money in the creativity department and now eight points ahead of Hertha Berlin in third, already seem to have a lock on a direct Champions League qualifying spot.

Not exact matches

The year before that we did win our opener against Crystal Palace after beating Man City to the Shield quite comfortably but then our title challenge faltered and Arsenal did not win another league game for over a month and by mid-October Chelsea were runaway leaders.

That rumour came before United signed Alexis Sanchez from Arsenal in January, but it seems Jose Mourinho is still keen to recruit similar attacking players in a bid to catch up with runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City for next season.

They would of course need to overcome Premier League runaway leaders Chelsea tomorrow at Stamford Bridge, where they have won 15 of their 16 matches in all competitions this term...

Some people might try to say that a club with a squad as big as Arsenal have should be able to cope or that every side has it's own problems to deal with but I would point to the relatively injury free seasons that last season's Premier League champions Leicester City were blessed with and the fact that the runaway leaders this time have also had almost no injury issues to cope with.

The Manchester United boss recently insisted that his side had not spent enough money to challenge runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City following his side's failure to beat Burnley on Boxing Day.

This weekend my local Australian League team, the Newcastle Jets (currently second) beat the runaway premiership leaders Sydney City 2:1 playiing with 10 men for 80 minutes.

Stan Collymore has now called for them to push on and create a four - way dogfight for the Premier League title, alongside Chelsea, Manchester United and current runaway leaders Man City.

Manchester United will spend Christmas an eye - watering 13 points behind runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City after Harry Maguire secured Leicester a draw with a last - gasp goal.

Burnley battled their way to an impressive 1 - 1 draw against Man City at the weekend, with defender Ben Mee taking a very literal approach to stopping the runaway Premier League leaders in the tracks.

Basel coach Raphael Wicky is confident his side can spring a surprise against runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City.

Why he's here: City's creator in chief once again, supplying a pair of assists as the runaway Premier League leaders utterly dominated Everton en route to a 3 - 1 victory at Goodison Park on Saturday.

Liverpool reached the semifinals for the first time in 10 years with a 5 - 1 aggregate victory over runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City — including a 3 - 0 win at home in the first leg.

March 19 — Runaway English Championship leaders Wolverhampton Wanderers look certain to be headed back to the Premier League but they will need to head off growing concerns about their ownership and the influence of super agent Jorge Mendes in the club's signings, an influence that will concern Premier League club owners, many of whom rely on Mendes for key foreign players.

The runaway Premier League leaders will secure their place in the last eight of the Champions League for just the second time in their history barring a remarkable last 16, second leg collapse when they host Basel on Wednesday, boasting a 4 - 0 first leg lead.

Real, meanwhile, sit fourth in La Liga, 15 points behind runaway leaders Barcelona, with their ongoing progression in the Champions League crucial in keeping coach Zinedine Zidane in a job.

The runaway leaders know they're three points away from regaining the league title against their dearest rivals and what better way to claim the title than in front of their home support?

But Klopp, after seeing Salah score for the seventh straight game, said his man deserved to be competing for English football's top individual honours alongside the Belgian, who has played such a key role in the progress of runaway Premier League leaders City this season.

With the FA Cup kicking off and then returning at the end of January, we should have a much clearer idea of where this season is going for the Blues once the month draws to a close, especially with Man City already runaway leaders in the Premier League, ruling out any chance of Conte's men retaining their title.

Liverpool got there for the first time in 10 years with a 5 - 1 aggregate victory over runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City but will not under - estimate Roma who on paper are the weakest side left but made the last four for the first time since 1984 — the season they ironically lost to Liverpool in the final — by knocking out Barcelona this week with a stunning comeback.

The runaway French league leaders flexed their muscles once again, extending their unbeaten start to the campaign to 12 matches.

MANCHESTER: Zlatan Ibrahimovic believes Manchester United can catch runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City after he and Paul Pogba made a triumphant return from long - term injuries.

Runaway leaders, an unlikely European challenger and six sackings - read Phil McNulty's verdict on all 20 Premier League clubs» seasons so far.

West Ham with the worst goal difference and joint worse goals conceded in the division take on rampant, runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium.

Spurs have fallen 13 points behind runaway leaders Manchester City after one win in their last four league games, but Pochettino said it was important not to lose sight of how far his team have come.

Antonio Conte is optimistic about Chelsea's prospects in the new year, despite admitting that it is «not realistic» to expect his side to catch up with the runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City.

Sam Allardyce says Everton are ready for their «biggest challenge» against runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City on Saturday, with Idrissa Gana Gueye to be given «every chance» of recovering from a hamstring injury to be fit for the clash.

Hull have made a very strong defence of their title thus far, beating Catalans and runaway Super League leaders Castleford on their way back to the last four.

End up on the wrong side of the result, and Liverpool risk losing momentum in their chase for the Premier League table as they currently lie nine points adrift of runaway leaders Chelsea.

The fact that the runaway Premier League leaders will leave spaces for Liverpool's electrifying front three to exploit should play into the Reds» hands.

With Antonio's red card making him unavailable for the next game at home to Chelsea it is even more crucial that Andy Carroll is fit if we have any hope of giving the league leaders a decent game — or did Antonio get himself banned on purpose to make sure his next employers maintain their runaway lead at the top?

Can we reverse the disappointing result of the first Premier League game of the season, and perhaps repeat the EFL Cup win against the Premier League runaway leaders?

MADRID: Barcelona equalled the record longest unbeaten run in La Liga history as a Lionel Messi hat - trick inspired the runaway leaders to a 3 - 1 win over Leganes on Saturday to make it 38 league games unbeaten.

Man Utd are second in the Premier League but with no realistic chance of catching runaway leaders and crosstown neighbours Manchester City.

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Bristol City boss Lee Johnson is ready for the «amazing» prospect of tackling runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City in the Carabao Cup semi-f -LRB-...)

Mahrez, 26, has missed two Premier League matches and had not trained with the team since the move he desperately wanted to runaway leaders City fell through due to Leicester's demands on January 31, transfer deadline day.

Runaway English Premier League leaders Manchester City have signed England under - 21 international winger Jack Harrison from sister Major League Soccer franchise New York City FC.