Sentences with phrase «than the title race»

It felt that we were all over the place first the UCL, than the title race than we lost our ability to compete for FA cup because we wanted to play it all.

In fact it is likely to be much closer than the title race unless Jose Mourinho and Chelsea suffer a major collapse.

It has become a yearly occurrence for the bottom of Spain's premier division to take us until the final day to find out who has the privilege of hosting Real Madrid and Barcelona again in the next campaign, usually providing much greater excitement than the title race.

Not exact matches

When American Pharoah crossed the finish line at the Kentucky Derby, he earned more than the most coveted title in horse racing, he earned another couple million to his name.

referring decisions also go in our favour, for instance that dortmund goal sanogo scored was clearly offside, these things are apart of football, GREAT teams overcome these obstacles, GREAT teams do not crumble with 3 or 4 goal leads, GREAT teams do not concede 3 + goals in 40 mins REGULARLY, GREAT teams average more than one tackle every 90 mins, GREAT teams don't need more 7 clear cut chances to score, united have academy players in defence, in fact our defensive players are 15x better but VAN GAAL will get a result, united have had an injury list just as long if not longer than ours but VAN GAAL will get a result, united have just gone through a managerial shift but VAN GAAL will get a result, so why on earth are united in the title race and not arsenal?

We will more than likely be humiliated by Chelsea this weekend and there will be anger but then we will beat a west brom or Burnley and then there will be article like get behind the team still in the title race.

The title race is now slightly more open than it was and we have to be grateful to Spurs for keeping us with an outside chance of winning the title, had Chelsea won we would have been looking at next season.

5 Matt The most consistent man in NASCAR will need to win more KENSETH than one race — his total last year — to defend his Cup title.

we all know Sanchez to be passionate about football which means he'll prefer here than going back cus of the challenges from even lower teams unlike la liga 3 man title race..

This will be Arsenal's last chance of silverware this season, having fizzled out of the Premier League title race, and will likely be under more pressure than our rivals, but form generally goes out the window in these sorts of matches.

The Gunners have always got through those play - off games even though it was sometimes a close call, but for the first time in two decades the Gunners will not be involved with the elite of Europe and Arsene Wenger has admitted that this is not good, in a report by The Mirror, but he also played it down a little bit by claiming that the English Premier League and the title race is now more important and more of interest to fans than the UCL and maybe the fact that Arsenal have not looked remotely like winning it since we lost to Barcelona in the final makes that true.

The title race is tighter than a gnat's chuff and with Leicester City and Tottenham already above us, even though the spuds are only in second place due to their better goal difference, we really can not afford to give any ground in the next round of games.

Tottenham have only won one of their last seven August fixtures — a statistic which explains why they have been the chasing side in the last two title races, rather than the frontrunners.

Real are now eight points behind La Liga leaders Barcelona in the Spanish title race, and will have expected to do better than take one point from two games against Spurs in their bid to retain the European Cup.

I don't remember the rest but i can quite remember ramsey saying almost the same words last year and i believed him only for the club to be kicked out of the title race by November... love the spirit boys but a plastik fan like me needs more than just words to be convinced... you need to get on that field and show live....

Arsenal, going into the new season, will have very high ambitions of being in the title race longer than they managed to last season.

I expect the title race to be decided in April, so that's the key month to our Premier League hopes rather than mid-season.

Tottenham were in the title race much longer than us and only collapsed when they could not win the PL and coming second or third made no difference to them.

Arsenal may have shot themselves in the foot once again where the title race is concerned, going down to ten men against Chelsea after less than 20 minutes, and consequently losing the game 1 - 0 and dropping to third place in the Premier League.

If we're out of the title race not to say we'll win it, how are the other teams better off than us looking at the table?

Miller was fast when he won the overall World Cup title in 2005 and then again in 2008, and fast when he won more career World Cup races (32) than any U.S. skier of either gender.

I know that Arsene Wenger has a well deserved reputation for backing his players and that certainly goes down well in the Arsenal dressing room, but with the Gunners all but mathematically out of the race for the Premier League title, our Champions League exploits are more important than ever and with Mesut Ozil in poor form and suffering a crisis of confidence, an away match against Bayern Munich is not the right time for the manager to stick with him.

before you bash me, I wish everyone of our players the very but I love the club more than any one individual, and ramsey injury is a big shot in the arm for our title race.

Good news??? You talked about Manchester clubs certainly being better than us, then said how we'll likely be out of title race before January, all whilst talking about who grabs our best player.

We put on a hell of a performance at Monaco, I have faith in Wenger and the club.we need to spend in the summer.we need more than 50mil, I hope we can sign at least two quality players.we will be pushing for title next season, and we are still in the race this season.go to hell all you haters.we are by far the greatest team the fkin world has ever seen.

Despite the fact that Arsenal are not out of the Premier League title race yet, at least not mathematically anyway, you will not find many people other than Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players who are willing to even entertain the possibility that our hopes are not over for another year.

This season looks like being a tighter title race than usual with as many as six different clubs having the potential to win it, so doing well against those mai8n rivals could be vital.

As of December 23rd, Arsenal are involved in a title race of their own and many fans will be backing Wenger to focus on the domestic game rather than risk no silverware at all.

Even though he's won the title with three races still to go (which is an absolute age in F2 terms), such has been Leclerc's dominance that he could easily have wrapped things up much longer ago were it not for a few mechanical issues, of which he's had more than his fair share.

Having just been bought by Tom Walkinshaw Racing things were looking a bit more promising for Arrows than they had done in previous seasons, but it seemed fairly obvious that Hill would not successfully defend his title.

Following the announcement of Liberty's proposals for the 2021 season on Friday, Aston Martin President and CEO Andy Palmer tweeted that the proposed plans effectively tick all of the boxes Aston Martin needs to compete in the series as an engine manufacturer, rather than just a title sponsor to Red Bull Racing.

It took much longer than needed for people to realize we were out of the race for the PL title.

Johnson appeared to have a shot to steal the title late in the race because he was on a different fuel strategy that could allow him to make one less pit stop than Keselowski — but then the rear gear of Johnson's Chevy broke.

It is probably nothing more than a coincidence that Arsenal and Chelsea played in the Premier League recently almost an exact year from what many people see as the turning point in last season's race to the EPL title.

Their form in the league wasn't great either, as they followed a 5 - 0 thumping of Aston Villa with disappointing draws with Chelsea and Everton, and were then beaten in a crucial game with Manchester United, who won 3 - 2 at the Etihad Stadium with a last - minute winner from none other than Robin van Persie, who was indeed making a huge difference in the title race, as his goal put six points between league leaders United and City, giving Mancini's side a real uphill task to retain their title even before the half - way point of the season.

It already seems like next season the title race will be a lot harder fought than this one.

The title race is a 2 way affair and City and Chelsea are each easily 10 points better than our current squad.

4th place title race is still tight but the real tittle race is over LC have friendlier fixtures than spuds and we can not hold up a 2 - 0 lead so we might even miss top 5 this time round..

It's been a disappointing campaign for the Red Devils on the whole, as although they're still in the hunt for the FA Cup, they've fallen short in the Premier League title race and were dumped out of the Champions League earlier than most expected against Sevilla.

If training a horse in France for the Kentucky Derby seemed more than unorthodox — it has never been done in the 118 - year history of the race — Paulson cheerily reminded inquiring doubters that no European 2 - year - old champion had ever won the American juvenile title either, so sit down and relax.

Cech then went on to explain that rather than the race for the title that they expected to be in, they are now too busy looking over their shoulder at the chasing pack.

Henry believes that the next season title race is going to be far closer than what it was last season.

2nd palace is no better than 3rd or 4th (except for cl qualifier), it is the title that I want, it has been a decade now... Actually this season I gave up the title race early on when we failed to strengthen our team in the last summer (CB+DM+ST all were must) and I'm not convinced we will add the needed quality this window (top DM + top top ST and maybe GK+CB)...

Will not make too much about beating tottenham, they were in the title race for longer than us and only collapsed when out of title race.

Transfer talk of this nature is only expected to heat up with no title race to talk about and less than 60 days until the World Cup, so stay tuned.

You can not underestimate the role psychology plays in a title race, we regained a two point lead less than a week when City were supposed to cruise on ahead.

However if Barcelona stumble here and drop points than opens up an oppertunity for Atletico Madrid to get back in the title race as they face Barcelona on Sunday next weekend.

Finally, Costa possesses more natural skill than most of the Arsenal forwards, so would provide a different dimension to the Gunners» attack, something which would prove invaluable in a title race.

As for Real's prospects, he agrees with his coach, Italian Carlo Ancelotti, who said the other day that Real's prospects of success in the Champions League were higher than in the Spanish league title race where the Madrid club currently trail eternal rivals, Barcelona, by two points, saying:

In terms of the race for the title, however, the most important victories came at the business end of the season, none more so than London derby successes at home to both Tottenham and West Ham United.