Sentences with phrase «to challenge at the top»

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One thing that's vital is to get a holding mid asap and challenge at the top next season.

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For a team with ambitions of challenging at the top of the division, this is a concerning period and public enemy number one is centre - back Dejan Lovren.

Astute transfer dealings and a progressive manager have enabled them to play above themselves but like West Ham it will take more than a larger stadium to mount a sustained challenge at the top table.

Croatian midfielder Mario Pašalić also went from strength to strength this year, building on a fine 2013 - 14 at Elche by going to Monaco and scoring seven goals for a Europa League side challenging at the top of Ligue 1.

Arsenal CAN win the League and we have been challenging at the top against the richest clubs in the world for the last 15 years.

It's been quite the progression for Pochettino too in recent years, from his spells with Espanyol and Southampton, to building a superb squad at Tottenham and ensuring that they consistently challenge at the top of the Premier League table, guiding them to third and second place finishes respectively in the last two years.

I remind you that ten years ago he scored a hat trick in an England away game but he settled, through weak character and weak body and huge undeserved wages, for a squad place and to stay at a well known club which has no real ambition to challenge at the top strata of PL and CL.

For the past few seasons, Arsenal could reasonably blame injuries as part of the reasons why they are yet to win a League title since 2004 or challenge at top gear all through the season.

Owner Yevgeni Giner simply doesn't have funds to purchase new players, and it is quite remarkable that the team keeps challenging at the top each season nevertheless.

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Even in 2014, the first year of Porsche's renewed challenge at the top tier of Le Mans Prototype racing, walking the Audi garages and speaking with race - team leaders like Brad Kettler and Leena Gade, there was a sense of implacability in the face of the trials of a 24 - hour race.

I knew that putting something extra challenging at the top of her book publicity to - do list would stall her completely — because it would stall anyone, including me.

Some people view that Wenger stubborn traits have been the reason behind Arsenal's lack of challenging at the top level and this is linked to the lack of addressing squad issues in the transfer windows.

As a result, rising star Brendan Rodgers replaced Dalglish as the Merseysiders looked to build a team capable of challenging at the top end of the table.

On joining Liverpool, Coutinho was a player who seemed to thrive against the teams in the bottom two thirds of the table, but could struggle against the sides challenging at the top.

That result may have brought us back to challenge at the top of table, but it also means that Tottenham are still unbeaten after the first 7 League games and are setting themselves up to go for gold themselves this season.

The Reds have also been tracking Odegaard's recent domestic progress, with the 15 year - old now having made 15 senior league appearances for Stromsgodset as they challenge at the top of the Norwegian, scoring three goals.

And that «NO» stops us challenging at top level, which is every Gooner's tragedy.

Maybe if his fitness was better he'd be challenging at the top?

In the last decade we have witnessed many seasons where we have been challenging at the top, only to weaken and drop away and ended up fighting for the minor placing.

The fact is that last season Arsenal were fighting for the title in January, but once we lost Cazorla for a few months our challenge at the top seemed to drop away as we surrendered points left right and centre.

So he is a guy who is a great addition for us, and someone who will help us challenge at the top level this season.»

Our British crew that always speak after a decent result / decent individual performance — Ramsey, Theo, etc. — always talk about how a result (usually a draw, a W that we fight back to achieve after a slow start) gives us confidence and the belief that we can kick on and challenge at the top, but nothing ever comes from those words.

The last two years have been the beginning of our challenge at the top, signified by the arrival of Ozil.

«We want to win the title and we want to challenge at the top of the Premier League.

In a league with clubs like Manchester City, Manchester United and Chelsea — teams with so much star power it is almost ridiculous — the only way we challenge at the top is by ensuring the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

We know for a FACT that Giroud, Walcott and Welbeck are all incapable of providing 25 - 30 goals a season, which is the sort of quality required from a forward to challenge at the top of the PL / CL tree.

His importance to the club was finally drummed home when having challenged at the top of the First Division, Preston were relegated the season after Finney's retirement, and didn't return to the top flight for 39 years.

This is a huge concern for Louis van Gaal, especially as the supporters are expecting the club to be challenging at the top...

Pogba's been challenging at the top a whole lot longer than Kante.

The corresponding fixture last season saw us fall to a 1 - 0 defeat, and Hazard hopes to put that right this evening, securing an advantage over a team expected to challenge at the top of the Barclays Premier League table.

Having been tipped to challenge at the top end of the table, Ronald Koeman's side have been a major disappointment and odds of 33/1 to be relegated could look generous if they fail to improve.

Although the temporary move to Wembley hasn't helped, they have the talent to overcome it and this weekend should be viewed as a must - win fixture if they are to challenge at the top of the division.

However, the reason why they can not sustain a challenge at the top of the league is their Champions League campaign.

The games within Christmas / New Year period will give us a better indication as to whether Liverpool can sustain a challenge at the top and with key away fixtures coming up against Man City and Chelsea, if positive results are produced, the future is looking bright heading into 2014.

«We want to be challenging at the top and we won't give up.

It would be easy to point to a lack of activity in the January transfer window to explain this poor form, especially with Sadio Mane away at the African Cup of Nations representing Senegal, realistically though the current squad should have been more than good enough to continue the challenge at the top of the table.

It was not necessarily that the defenders Liverpool possessed that lacked the requisite quality to mount a challenge at the top of the table, but rather Rodgers» swashbuckling style that was guilty of leaving the back line exposed too many times.