Sentences with phrase «throws champions of»

As is only to be expected in a competition that, for many years, threw the champions of more modest footballing nations up against the continent's elite, a fair few players have plundered five goals in the same game.

Not exact matches

Now matter how risky bitcoin may be, it could still be the investment champion of the world if it throws off enough return to justify the risk.

That night, as he threw dice and later tried his hand at blackjack at Las Vegas's Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino — home base for Tiger Jam V, the Tiger Woods Foundation benefit that was to begin the next morning — the scene on the casino floor was chaotic as word spread of the Masters champion's presence.

Just as the Gunners are getting over our own injury crisis and are looking to build a decent run of results together, following on from a 2 - 0 win over Hull City in the FA cup and a 3 - 0 defeat of Stoke City yesterday, our next Premier League game throws up an away game with the reigning EPL champions.

Brissett went throw - for - throw with Jameis Winston two years ago, finishing 32 of 48 for 359 yards and three touchdowns in a 56 — 41 loss to Florida State in 2014 that required a furious second - half comeback on the part of the defending national champions.

It might be a push for Arsene Wenger to throw the new Arsenal signing straight into action against Sunderland on Saturday, but with The Mirror reporting that the Gunners are ready to announce the transfer of Mohamed Elneny from the Swiss champions Basel, it is certainly a possibility.

Dallas, a senior at Saint Mary's Catholic High, led the Knights to a 6 — 0 record at the MaxPreps Tournament of Champions, throwing a 12 - inning perfect game with 21 strikeouts in a 4 — 0 championship win.

The board has a setup that will ensure the longevity of Arsenal and hence money is not thrown at problems instead, there is always financial accountability so we don't end up like Leeds United, who famously got to champions league semi finals, but are now a permanent fixture in the Championship.

Since beating Court he has kept busy throwing out bright and trite new lines reminding the public he is «the heavyweight women's tennis champion of the world» and that there are all kinds of deserving challengers around.

Throw in Syracuse's passing game and UConn's defense (led by the best player you should probably have heard of by now, sophomore linebacker Yawin Smallwood), and you've got quite a few things to like about Big East football, especially considering it just lost its conference champion (West Virginia) and a seemingly elite prospective member (TCU) to the Big 12.

We must at least be challenging for the Top Four after throwing away our tickets for the Champions League Final, but of course we have booked at least one trip to Wembley in the FA Cup semi-final.

I never believed there would be a nine year wait for the first trophy since the move but the fact the club managed to qualify for the Champions League every season while the likes of Liverpool, Spurs, City and Chelsea were throwing huge sums of money at it — and in the case or Tottenham failing 99 percent of the time to break the top four.

We look stronger, but recent results against the likes of Southampton and Olympiacos in the Champions League show we're not there yet and are still as likely to throw in a terrible display as we are a good one.

If Arsenal manage to throw Barcelona out of the champions league, but don't win either the EPL or UCL, what would you think?

He's prone to throwing the odd tantrum when he wants to and I think the argument that he wants to play in the Champions League is a is a load of s ** t!

Even Wenger can not believe this decision will be welcomed by every Arsenal fan though, or even by the majority of us unless wee some king of turnaround in form from the timid and turgid e3fforst that have seen us slip from third place to sixth in recent weeks, with a record breaking Champions League exit at the hands of Bayern Munich thrown in.

might have been brainwashed by his lies... after the emirates project that there were financial constraints... if Wenger realized that stans target For the club each year was a champions league spot... he as a true arsenal fan wud have either tld Stan to invest more in the club to enable him compete or come out open ND let d fans know what's up... i bet you there wud be a revolution by the fans to throw Stan out of the club by selling his shares... stan is not bigger than the club and there is no club without the fans.....

Stoke City at home before our first European game is not bad at all but travelling to Chelsea that weekend is about as bad as we could have wished, so obviously we could do with the Champions League throwing up one of our easier opponents for that matchday.

«If we wanted to buy our way to the Champions League title, we would have to throw a lot of money at it.

The Europa league was a very viable (and of late the only) route into the champions league until the late inclusion of Napoli, Atletico Madrid and BvB threw a spanner into the works.

Every summer in a Pennsylvania community that is still small enough to have just one high school, tens of thousands gather at Howard J. Lamade Stadium outside Williamsport to watch 12 - year - old boys (with a few 11 - year - olds thrown in) compete for the crown of Little League World Series champions.

The 2 - time Super Bowl champion is tied for the 8th best odds to lead the league in passing yards (+2,000), has played in all 16 games in every season dating back to his rookie year, and has thrown for at least 3,800 yards in each of his past five seasons.

However, their spending habits may have landed them in hot water, with the club in danger of being thrown out of the Champions League due to a breach in Financial Fair Play regulations, according to Spanish outlet El Pais.

The prospect of throwing away a ten - point lead and allowing Tottenham to be crowned champions for the first time in the Premier League era, and the first time since 1961, should be frightening enough for the Chelsea players.

If it is not a referee like Mike Dean denying Arsenal two good penalty shouts and forcing us into an FA cup replay that we could really do without, it is a Champions League draw throwing us up against one of the big favourites Bayern Munich in the group stage and then the only team worse than the Germans in the knockout stage.

After he missed the last half hour of Arsenal's last Champions League game against Anderlecht and then the away defeat by Swansea City in the Premier League, Mikel Arteta can be absolved from blame for the way the Gunners have thrown away two winning positions in a row.

So for me, not making 80 points, in how many years now, including the 7 years failing to make it past the round of 16 in the Champions league, plus completely missing the champions league this year, plus the 10 - 2 humiliation at Bayern, plus the way we sleepwalked through 5 away defeats, throwing away games that were in our complete control like Everton away for example, and so and so on, is nothing short ofChampions league, plus completely missing the champions league this year, plus the 10 - 2 humiliation at Bayern, plus the way we sleepwalked through 5 away defeats, throwing away games that were in our complete control like Everton away for example, and so and so on, is nothing short ofchampions league this year, plus the 10 - 2 humiliation at Bayern, plus the way we sleepwalked through 5 away defeats, throwing away games that were in our complete control like Everton away for example, and so and so on, is nothing short of failure.

It would be not ideal however to throw either of them into a Champions League match against Dortmund straight away.

And just earlier this year the England captain was again accused of throwing himself to the ground to get Bastian Schweinsteiger a second yellow card in Manchester United's Champions League tie with Bayern.

So it looks like we have now come to a crossroads in the Alexis Sanchez saga, and the Chilean appears to have decided that he wants to throw his toys out of the pram and play Champions League football next season.

Although arguably the most outstanding individual event performance went to Cambridge's BUCS hammer champion Michael Painter with a match record throw of 61.13 m, few could fault McBraida's sterling effort, not only in terms of his own 100, 200, 200H and relay victories, but also for generating an inspired team performance.

The latest name thrown into the hat of the forward's suitors is that of English champions, Chelsea.

While the likes of Spurs and Liverpool have thrown millions at transfers over the years just to have the occasional flirt with the Champions League, Wenger guarantees qualification with a modest nett spend.

And most of us have been trying to pick the performance apart to see just how the Gunners managed to throw away a three goal lead against one of the minnows of the Champions League.

But time - trial specialist Hayley Simmonds of Team Velosport pulled off a massive coup, the 2014 10 - mile and 50 - mile time - trial champion posting 51:39.89, throwing the gauntlet down in resounding fashion with Katie Archibald and Dame Sarah Storey still out on course.

This season's Champions League has already thrown up some interesting results, with Tottenham managing to draw away at defending champions Real Madrid before comprehensively beating them 3 - 1 at their temporary home of Wembley, while their White Hart Lane ground is... Champions League has already thrown up some interesting results, with Tottenham managing to draw away at defending champions Real Madrid before comprehensively beating them 3 - 1 at their temporary home of Wembley, while their White Hart Lane ground is... champions Real Madrid before comprehensively beating them 3 - 1 at their temporary home of Wembley, while their White Hart Lane ground is... Read more

Day five presents itself with an abundance of medal opportunities for Team GB from world champion gymnast Max Whitlock to Tour de France winner Chris Froome with a little bit of European gold medal winning divers Jack Laugher and Chris Mears thrown in.

He threw 87.37 m to beat Germany's Thomas Rohler with 86.56 m, while high jump victory went to Russia's world indoor and outdoor champion Mariya Kuchina in Brussels as she equalled her PB of 2.01 m, but Spain's Ruth Beitia cleared 1.93 m and won the Diamond Race.

Faltering champions Real Madrid are 19 points adrift of arch rivals Barca in fourth, after throwing away two points in a 2 - 2 draw at Levante on Saturday.

Also out in the field and New Zealand's shot put star Valerie Adams extended her unbeaten streak to 55 competitions, her first throw of 19.96 m her best to claim victory ahead of Germany's Christina Schwanitz, while Olympic triple jump champion Christian Taylor leapt his best in the final round of the long jump to move from fifth to first and beat Commonwealth silver medallist Zarck Visser of South Africa by just one centimetre — 8.09 m to 8.08 m. Britain's Greg Rutherford — gold medallist ahead of Visser in Glasgow — leapt a best of 8.04 m for fourth as just eight centimetres separated the top five.

There was a second Diamond League win of the year for Joe Kovacs as he threw a best of 21.14 m in the shot, beating the likes of two - time world champion David Storl with 21.08 m and 2007 world champ Reese Hoffa with 21.07 m, while Finland's 2007 world champ Tero Pitkamaki just beat Kenya's Julius Yego in the javelin — 84.18 m to 84.17 m.

Neymar does get a lot of hype, no doubt he has quality but all those flicks will get drowned out against top opposition in europe / champions league, probably suits la liga in which players go to ground quicker than a wardrobe thrown off a building, he has a lot to prove.

Despite initially sitting second behind Michelle Carter's 19.51 m thrown in the first round of the shot competition, Valerie Adams reasserted her dominance in the fourth round to eventually win with a best of 19.68 m from her fifth throw — the four - time world champion and two - time Olympic gold medallist extending her winning streak to an incredible 50.

World and Olympic champion Robert Harting threw a best of 68.24 m in the final round to secure his victory in style, with Moscow Worlds silver medallist Piotr Małachowski again runner up behind Harting with 65.45 m. Jeff Henderson called it a day after his personal best leap of 8.33 m in the fourth round of the long jump.

She beat the likes of Olympic champion Jenn Suhr in front of a home crowd and Olympic silver medallist Yarisley Silva, both with a best of 4.70 m. Joining Murer in her world - leading ways was Olympic bronze medallist Linda Stahl who threw 67.32 m in the third round to win the javelin, while Kimberly Williams won the triple jump with a best of 14.31 m (+2.1) in the second round.

Firecrackers thrown by visiting fans sounded as Zurich scored their only goal in the 71st minute of a 5 - 1 loss against the five - time defending champions on Sunday.

Indeed whoever comes fourth could launch the appeal against Man City if Man City is seen to be outside FFP and if Uefa doesn't throw them out of the Champions League.

With Manchester City running away with the Premier League, the only real interest left at the top end of the table is who gets the remaining three Champions League spots - the five teams in the fight throwing away their chances to get ahead just as often as they grab...

However, there is a crucial Champions League game at home to Juventus before that, and I would be surprised if Bale didn't get at least a late run out in that, rather than throwing him straight into the heat of a derby match in Barcelona.

Yes, I know it's optimistic to expect Higuain to be a protagonist in the Champions League when he has so many examples of complete duds being thrown out there in the past.