Sentences with phrase «tight title race»

Chelsea need to know they are beatable, otherwise they will romp away with the league, which is not as good as a tight title race.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

So with both clubs embroiled with Leicester and Man City in a very real and tight race for the Premier League title, this is being billed as one of the biggest clashes with the spuds ever.

In a title race as tight as this one, the destination of the trophy is likely to be decided by small details.

In 1971, when former Chicago Cubs outfielder George Altman was locked in a tight race for the Pacific League batting title with Lotte Orions teammate Shinichi Eto, opponents blatantly pitched around Altman while throwing strikes to Eto.

I think it was Brian Clough that once said that in a tight race, the team with the best keeper wins and led Nottingham Forest to the title with Peter Shilton in goal.

Arsenal were chasing a goal against Fulham to keep them in the title race, and having already scored a wonderful solo effort, he managed to beat it with this brilliant skill and improvisation to finish from a tight angle.

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The football season is screwing itself tighter and tighter, or at least it would be, were it not for the lack of excitement in most of Europe's title races.

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..

Maya Gilardi: The Davis senior outside hitter posted 24 kills in a 3 - 2 win over Delta League rival St. Francis vaulted Davis into a tight race for the league volleyball title.

So it is still looking like this season will be the tightest and most hotly contested title race for many years and that means that every single point is precious.

It was all about «digging deep» and getting that all important 3 crucial points, making sure we keep it tight with man city in the title race!

If the players can not sort this problem out quickly among themselves then Ancelotti or Zidane need to step in, because we need a focused and united team for this tightest of all title races.

At the midpoint of the season just 7 points separate 10th from the relegation zone and the title race looks set to be one of the tightest battles in years after a week in which top spot changed hands three times, so many teams could be looking to spend big to achieve their goals.

If Tottenham were still in the title race you could argue this would be a tight cagey affair with the two sides feeling each other out early rather than going on the offensive.

It promises an interesting, neck - and - neck year with Michael Shannon being the actor that keeps the race for the title tight until the very end.

It has been engineered using data from Cyan Racing's exploits in the World Touring Car Championship (WTCC), where the team is currently embroiled in a tight title fight.

Features • Sci - Fi action / adventure combines aerial and on - foot combat for a totally unique third - person shooter experience • Will's jetpack delives total freedom of movement allowing players to race against UFOs in high - speed chases and rain death from above onto unsuspecting otherworldly foes • Speed and scale unmatched by any other action title: send Will zipping through tight corridors and then out into immense canyons and futuristic geoscapes • Gravity - defying vertical combat system, where moving up is the only way to bring your enemies down • Seemless transition between jetpack flight, ship - to - ship dog fighting and third - person shoot - «em - up action all exists within the same level — not broken up into different «areas» • Unique grip system that allows the players to scale walls by jumping from surface to surface and hijack UFO's while in mid-air • Huge bosses that require fast reflexes and aerial barnstorming manoeuvres to defeat • Developed by Airtight Studios, a new group featuring team members from the Crimson Skies series of video games