Sentences with phrase «sides in league history»

Marshalled on the field by Vieira, Arsenal's undefeated 2003 — 04 team, «The Invincibles,» went undefeated in league play, and is still considered among the best sides in league history.

Not exact matches

Sutton are used to facing fellow Non league and national league sides week in week out, not a club with the history of Arsenal FC.

While Rochdale's goalscorers will go down in the club's history today it was the left - back Matt Done that lead the League One side's heroic efforts.

Helen Lovejoy - handwringing aside, the more important reason that the 2014/15 Chelsea side are unlikely to go down in history as one of the great championships is because the 2014/15 Premier League is unlikely to go down in history as one of the great top division seasons.

Indeed, Guardiola can overtake two of his old sides in the history books if City win their next five league matches, with his Barcelona side of 2010/11 winning 16 in a row in La Liga, and his Bayern Munich side of 2013/14 winning 19 consecutive Bundesliga games.

The side that reached its height at Highbury was one of the most terrifying sides in the history of the Premier League, and whatever came before that, although we don't really know what that is because there were no Diaries back then.

Similarly, while Rakitic praises Arsenal as being one of the «best teams in history», but is this really an accurate description of a side who have never won the Champions League and who have won only two FA Cups since 2005.

What do u expect when we have the most patheticc fans in d history of football, all they know is to insult every player that wears d shirt, no English winger presently has scored more goals than Walcott yet he's always an idiot, their latest target now is xhaka, soon will stop being adventurous to avoid mistakes and start playing side ways and back passes bcos of fans abuse, giroud donkey, ozil has more assists, hss created more Chances, has made completed more passes in d final 3rd, has made more successful crosses than any other player in d league since he came to arsenal, yet they will always call him lazy, its ridiculous we v decended to this sorry state, no player will flourish in a hostile environment like ours,

Only three points separate the two sides in the Premier League standings though, and history weighs heavy on one of the biggest derby fixtures in the world.

Opposing teams (providing they have league status) can score against us like it is 5 a side game, and we must be the first major club / team team in history, which have a failing manager being allowed to decide our destiny.

defense should be ok just the attacking side needs changing more pace and direct running in behind gets us a BIG NAME C / F that can do it all up front on his own we are at least 2 more big attacking names away from a least making c / l semis, but once again well done for winning on the night just shame we could get the third and make c / l history on wars and upwards in the league and f.a cup coyg

While there have definitely been poorer sides in Premier League history, there may not have been many quite as disappointing as QPR of this season.

Real Madrid are aiming to become the first side in history to retain the Champions League since its inception in 1992 but have been inconsistent domestically since scraping past Schalke in the last 16.

The negative side of the Premier League's policy is evident when viewing the recent history in the Champions League.

The home side overcome Liverpool this week to make it to only their second League Cup final in their history, and will be full of confidence following their impressive win.

Leicester City are officially the best team in England after being crowned Premier League champions this week, but they face a fight to keep their history - making side together.

As a boy I can remember Wednesday in the top league, the old Division One, they have history with us over the years in big games where the sides were evenly matched.

Burnley have only ever won one Premier League game in the month of March (P10 W1 D1 L8) and have a worse points per game ratio in this month than any other side in the history of the competition (0.40).

Tigres are the most recent champions, and probably the most expensive side in Liga MX. Club América have a ton of history behind them, with seven continental championships and 12 domestic league titles to speak of.

Schweinsteiger has one year left on his current contract at Munich and has said he wants to help Bayern become the first side to win four straight German league titles in the history of the Bundesliga next season.

Bastian Schweinsteiger has been offered a very lucrative contract by Major League Soccer side Chicago Fire, which would make him the highest paid player in the history of US Soccer.

Only once before in the history of the Premier League has a side collected fewer points from their first eleven away games in a season than Burnley have and that was QPR back in the 2014/15 season.

The Welshman was a part of six notable young players to break into the United first team at the same time, and those individuals would form part of one of the best sides in Premier League history.

295 — Liverpool have scored 295 goals from outside the penalty area in the history of the Premier League — 33 more than any other side.

After three years together in the senior side, where highlights included helping the club reached the semi-finals of the Champions League for the first time in its history, Pied followed his manager to Nice.

Qarabag — In what will surely be a three - way race to make the knockout stage, a maximum return will be expected against the side from Azerbaijan — but they have a history of good results in Baku, drawing with Monaco and beating Anderlecht in the Europa League two years agIn what will surely be a three - way race to make the knockout stage, a maximum return will be expected against the side from Azerbaijan — but they have a history of good results in Baku, drawing with Monaco and beating Anderlecht in the Europa League two years agin Baku, drawing with Monaco and beating Anderlecht in the Europa League two years agin the Europa League two years ago.

The Mariners created history with this win, as they became the first Indian side to win in an AFC Champions League match.

For the first time meeting on Champions league and all over in the history, Croat Prva HNL side Dinamo Zagreb will host Greece Super league title winner last time Olympiakos FC on Stadion Maksimir.

We've charted the highs and lows across a record breaking campaign, covering all the twists and turns in one of the most one sided title races in Premier League history.

Meanwhile, in the FA Cup, Stags were disgraced losing 5 - 1 to North Eastern League side Tow Law Town in one of the most humiliating defeats in Stags» history.

Furthermore, eight sides have already won more points on the road this season than the Gunners (Man City, Chelsea, Man Utd, Liverpool, Burnley, Watford, Leicester and Spurs), while only once in Premier League history have they won few than nine points from their first nine away games (eight, 2005 - 06).

World class players don't stay around in teams like this, they don't stay for being knocked out in the Champions League in March or languishing fifteen points behind their closest rivals in the most one - sided title «race» in Premier League history.

Only once in 38 match Premier League history has a team with 36 points or more at this stage of the season been relegated (Birmingham in 2010/11) but nevertheless it is better to err on the side of caution here.

MARTIN SAYS: United's 3 - 2 win at City on Saturday was the ninth time in Premier League history they have won having trailed by at least two goals away from home, four more than any other side.

He repeated the feat once again in the 2001/02 season before making history in 2003/04, as his side went unbeaten throughout the entire league campaign on the way to sealing a third Premier League league campaign on the way to sealing a third Premier League League crown.

Netting a fabulous hat - trick, Wilson is only the fifth player in Premier League history to score three times away from home for a newly promoted side (after Phillips, Stewart, Earnshaw and Tchoyi).

Both sides aiming to make history in Milan as Real Madrid chase a record - breaking 11th Champions League title with their neighbours, Atletico Madrid in pursuit of their first ever Champions League trophy.

The current Aston Villa side have been one of the poorest in Premier League history and have barely been able to string a set of results together and are doomed for relegation

A third Club World Cup in four years brings Madrid level with rivals Barcelona as the most successful side in the competition's history and adds to the La Liga, Champions League, UEFA Super Cup and Spanish Super Cup titles already won by Zinedine Zidane's men this year.

As for all that talk about this United side being a poor shadow, well you don't have to be the best team in the history of the Premier league to win the league title every season.

Since the competition was rebranded back in 1992, no team has ever gone on to retain the Champions League title and while many may scoff at such a weak reason for this wonderful Barcelona side not to claim the crown, history does have a big say in Europe.

League two side Newport have previously only faced Tottenham Hotspur four times in the clubs history, with Spurs winning all 4.

Atletico have never won a Champions League / European Cup in their history, so Diego Simeone's side and their fans will no doubt be desperate to change that statistic, and such a win will be all the sweeter for having beaten their local rivals.

60 — Tottenham's goal difference of +60 is the highest for a non-title winning side in Premier League history.

As the home side walked off to loud jeers, the statisticians revealed this was the first time in Premier League history the Gunners had conceded three first - half goals.

Despite his side's impressive start to the season, coach Guardiola has sought to temper expectations of a strong run in the Champions League by claiming history is against his new club.

A Manchester United 2 - 0 correct score has to have some appeal and they have won more Premier League games on a Wednesday than any other side has done in the history of the competition.

Everton are the hosts and should be well aware that they've never be beaten by Birmingham City at Goodison in the Premier League, so Alex McLeish's side are out to make history on Boxing day, by bucking the trend.

PC on the club's history with the FA Cup «I know the club were a Premier League side at the time of the fixture in 2013 so it was probably a little bit more of an even playing field back then, but it was a game nobody gave Wigan Athletic a chance in.

Yes Ade scored 20 some goals last season, but you must remember, a lot of those came against sides like Derby (the worst team in Premier League history).