Sentences with phrase «than their title rival»

Not exact matches

Analysts have said Nintendo «s family - oriented game titles compete with smartphone games more directly than titles from rival console makers Sony (sne) and Microsoft (msft), which focus on high - end graphics targeting core gamers.

Arsenal fans will be hoping from a look at this weekend's fixture list in the Premier League that it could be a good few days for the Gunners in our pursuit of the title, as many of our big rivals for the EPL trophy have matches that look harder on paper than our trip to Swansea and two of them are playing each other.

The result moves Arsenal nine points ahead of their rivals and are now closer to first place — moving into second place today — than they are to fourth and many will be wondering if they can sustain a late title challenge.

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 Red Devils have struggled to impress offensively so far this season, and have scored fewer than their would - be title rivals.

Benzema, however, would surely be a more realistic target than raiding two of City's major title rivals.

Arsenal have been plagued by injury problems a lot more than our Premier League rivals in recent years and there is a strong argument that our bad luck on this front has cost the Gunners at least one title win, so we are always concerned about one or more of our stars picking up a knock, especially when they head off on international duty.

So even though Arsenal finish the calendar year of 2015 on top of the Premier League table, and having won more points over that 12 month period than any of our rivals, and are favourites for the title, the likes of Jamie Carragher can not help themselves in watering down any praise.

With defence clearly a weakness for the Red Devils last season as they conceded more than nearby rivals Chelsea, Arsenal and even Southampton, the addition of a world class performer like the Spanish World Cup winner could make all the difference as they look to mount a more serious title challenge.

Spurs knew that anything less than a victory over the Gunners would all - but hand the title to rivals Chelsea.

After all, if you're a title contender, it's far more valuable to have a teammate who can pick up wins and take points off of rivals than one who struggles to even get on the podium.

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.

But the same thing can be said of all our major rivals for the Premier League title and that leaves the Gunners yet again with more of our players out of action than the others.

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.

In truth, Barca also look a better bet than United right now in terms of challenging for league titles and the Champions League, so there seems plenty of reason for Gooners to be optimistic he won't end up at their rivals.

If that does not do it for you Gooners, maybe the statistical report by Metro comparing the shooting and scoring stats of the Premier League title chasers will do the trick, as the report shows that Arsenal are doing better than all of our our rivals in the two key areas of goals per attempt and goals scored per shots on target.

Nothing would please me more than to see a Wilshere - inspired Bournemouth take points off of our title rivals, especially after all the stick he's recieved from their fans.

The other real issue is that United are casting green eyed looks at out Champions League record and they now see us once again as a serious rival, even if it is for a Champions League spot rather than the title.

Chelsea will roll over for Claudio Ranieri's boys rather than risk handing the title to one of their London rivals.

Spurs would surely rather lose Kane to a foreign side than to one of their main Premier League title rivals, but Diario Gol's report suggests such a move could be possible.

Even if we do eventually miss the title... we would have proven a few points... it wont be for selling our most important players, it won't be because we strengthened a rival club; it wont be because a player became bigger than our club; forced his way out; we would have proven that it is not all about money / gains all the time; we would have had a coach who truly proved he is in charge and will not bulge to a player's pressure etc..

But that is only one more than two of our main title rivals Man City and Chelsea and three fewer than another one Liverpool.

That's the standard we're at, we're the underdog 2/3 times a year when we visit title rivals and other than that we're the better team vs all others.

I fervourently believe Arsenal will win the title except if Leicester win or Man City or Spurs Arsenal will beat Bournemouth tomorrow of that I am certain unless of course Bournemouth win then Arsenal will not win Looking ahead I am sure we can overcome City United Everton Spurs W / ham away and every one at home unless we lose to some of these teams which means we won't win unless our rivals lose to other teams more than we do.

Most Arsenal fans will be the first to tell you that the Gunners are not quite firing on all cylinders so far this season, and after the summer transfer window saw the club actually make a profit rather than spending big to catch up with our Premier League rivals despite breaking the club's transfer record to sign Alexandre Lacazette, you won't find too many Gooners who are confident that the EPL title is on it's way back to north London next May.

United's striking struggles are clean when one considers that their title rivals Manchester City, Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, and even 15th - placed Chelsea, have all scored more goals than the Red Devils, who have managed only 15 goals in 11 outings.

Another piece of silverware is inching closer for the capital club, and there is no better source of late - season motivation than the prospect of securing the title against their closest rivals.

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?

Paris Saint - Germain have added to their record as the most successful club in the Coupe de la Ligue after beating Monaco at Matmut Atlantique in Bordeaux for their fifth consecutive title and eighth overall — five better than their three closest rivals.

Liverpool showed the value of playing fewer games than your rivals in 2013/2014 when the Scousers were only a Steven Gerrard slip and Demba Ba finish away from winning their first Premier League title.

This season he has returned to his former brilliant best as Chelsea look to romp home with the title by double points more than their nearest rivals.

There have also been recent whispers of a shock move for Alexis Sanchez — but it's hard to imagine Arsenal selling to a top four rival, which Liverpool are to them now far more than runaway title aspirants Manchester City.

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:

It's not quite last chance saloon yet for Arsenal, but it does feel like anything other than a win at Bournemouth on Sunday could almost be terminal if other title rivals continue their worryingly decent form.

When, surely rather than if, Ranieri's tream are crowned champions, that will only compound the misery at Midlands rivals Villa whose stadium is one of the most iconic in Europe, who have won the league title and FA Cup seven times in their history and who, of course, clinched the old European Cup back in 1982.

With its title tongue - in - cheekily evoking «I, Claudius,» another epic tale of madness and debauchery, the dramatic comedy «I, Tonya» revisits — with verve, intelligence, scathing humor and more than a touch of sadness — the bizarre 1994 attack on figure skater Nancy Kerrigan by goons associated with the camp of Kerrigan's athletic rival, Tonya Harding.

The Passat has moved further upmarket than ever before, has a great build quality and rivals the Mondeo for the title of the best - handling non-premium sedan in the D - segment.

Potential banana skins abound From simple things like Amazon's patent for reselling ebook licences (bound to have an impact on ebook sales especially of lead titles if it were ever to be put into practice) or like discovering that despite having a great product your brand just doesn't resonate with consumers beyond your core audience and hence you lose a bundle of cash trying to sell them tablets or realizing that your main competitor is not the rival publisher of literary novels or commercial non-fiction but a game in which trajectory considerations are a more important aspect of gameplay than would normally be considered cool and various music video fads from Gangnam Style to Harlem Shake.

Perhaps most remarkable of all is just how many more copies than the rest Fifty Shades is selling, even Fifty Shades Freed, the weakest title of the trilogy, is selling 2.5 times the closest rival, Suzanne Collins» Hunger Games.

While it might not satisfy those looking for an epic storyline the gameplay more than makes up for it, turning this essentially indie title into something that rivals the commercial behemoth that is Diablo 3.

I've been using the Rival 700 for about three weeks solid across a variety of titles from the slow to the fast and it was never anything less than perfectly accurate, even when I was deliberately trying to trip it up with sharp, aggressive movements.

Claims that weak third party Wii U support was because of poor sales or weak hardware always seem unpersuasive; the Game Cube was as powerful as its competitors and the Wii sold in vast quantities, yet both saw less third party titles than their rivals.

When you are not doing the same normal matches over and over with the same character you get a random person trying to get you to become their rival so that you miss out on the main title of your choosing, and other than that there really isn't much more to the career mode.

The basics are there, like hunting for a specific title or actor, but the fuzzier searches — «new French language movies» for instance — proved less successful than rivals manage.

Still, the stringent requirements around things like security and ease of setup has meant partner devices have been slower to trickle down to the market than for rival platforms: this D - Link Omna 180 Cam HD has the title of first HomeKit - compatible security camera available.

Amazon simply has far fewer titles, it seems, than its rivals do.

The platform is still a long way from rivaling Android Wear or watchOS in terms of official app support, though you have more than a dozen new titles available now or coming soon to the Fitbit Ionic.