Sentences with phrase «title challenge at home»

Jose Mourinho claimed Manchester United will need to spend more money after dropping another two points in their faltering title challenge at home to -LRB-...)

Not exact matches

Now that the Blues have finally faltered and suffered a shock defeat at home to relegation threatened Crystal Palace, Arsenal are in no position to take advantage but the team that could challenge them for the title is our north London rivals Tottenham.

Not only did Wenger suggest that the negative attitude of the home crowd was a factor in the failure of yet another title challenge, his view of how the team has performed this season is at odds with the general consensus and actually at odds with the facts.

-- The loss to Chelsea where were supposed to be title challengers — The 3 — 3 draw to Anderlecht where we were up 3 — 3 at half time — The loss to Swansea following the Anderlecht result where we were under pressure to get a good result — The 3 — 2 loss at Stoke where we were under pressure to pick up points to remain in the title challenge and were 3 — 0 down at half time — The 1 — 0 loss to United where we were expected to beat United with a worse injury crisis than ourselves — The 3 — 1 loss to Monaco after we were fully expected to beat the weakest opponent we could draw and finally kick on to the R16 The 2 — 1 loss to Spurs where our resurgence was on and we had an outside chance at the title with both City and Chelsea slowing up The 0 — 1 loss to Swansea when 2nd was still in our hands as well as the 0 — 0 draw to Sunderland both at home

Winning man utd at home will make a stamens for us, bcos suddenly we might be 2nd and get this title challenge kicking A loss however will be demoralising

wenger had decided some time ago that we had enough attacking options to achieve 4th place with alexis, giroud, walcott wellbeck and campbell... he might be right... what is for sure we will not be challenging for titles at home or abroad... but the colonel does nt need that to keep in power so he «s happy...

With an NCS Dual meet championship under his belt in 2014, Guidry has goals to challenge for the EBAL team title this year (last EBAL team title was won in 2003) and bring home another championship banner at the NCS duals.

Moving into their new home at Northendon next year, the club will hope to grow and challenge for the league title again!

Miami Marlins outfielder Giancarlo Stanton is the favorite to defend his title at the 2017 Home Run Derby, with seven other sluggers challenging him at his home pHome Run Derby, with seven other sluggers challenging him at his home phome park.

Wins against Southampton and at Anfield gave hope that the Gunners could yet challenge for the Premier League title and a 1 - 1 draw at Manchester City was even more encouraging, although bad results so often followed good ones, such as the 2 - 1 reverse at home to Chelsea, the 1 - 0 defeat at Norwich and the 3 - 3 home draw with Fulham.

A soul-less performance from Arsene Wenger's side resulted in a 1 - 0 loss to Stoke City at the Potters» home stadium which raised the same question again, Are Arsenal good enough to challenge for the title?

«PARIS — Paris Saint - Germain reinvigorated their Ligue 1 title challenge by winning 2 - 0 at home to Saint - Etienne on Wednesday, cutting Montpellier's lead at the top of the table to three points with three games to play.»

Elsewhere, Liverpool lost at home to Wigan, while Manchester City's title challenge looks to be stuttering after they could only muster a draw at Stoke, thanks to a fantastic goal from Peter Crouch.

However it is easy to imagine that with the project at Liverpool on the up, young exciting stars in the likes of Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah producing joyous football, serious title challenges both home and abroad in the offing and the stability of a guaranteed four more years of a man manager like Klopp at the helm would be more than tempting to the average bear.

Well done Macheda.He might play a huge role in the title race but he won't be able to even get a medal.Right now we could have been potentially level with Liverpool and with them having the much better goal difference.6 wins in 7 is all we need but to be fair, it's not too realistic at the moment.One reason is the way we are playing.An other is the fact that in May are fixtures are fucked, plain and simple.But here's where the good news come.We have 2 home games next and Liverpool host Arsenal and go to Hull.2 draws is a dream scenario.It will mean that we could potentially be 8 points clear from them with 4 games to go.That would certainly put a big dent on Liverpool's title challenge before a ball was kicked in May.

In terms of points — you want to average a bit more than 2.25 to challenge for the title whether you get them away or at home does not make much of a difference.

Henderson and Coutinho have both had one title challenge under their belt from 2013/14, but even then, it was Henderson, whose composure waned at precisely the wrong moment, making a tackle in the dying minutes of Liverpool's home fixture against fellow title challengers Manchester City, that showed how much expectation and pressure can cloud, confuddle and contort the mind and judgement of any player.