Sentences with phrase «top league competition»

They are one of the oldest clubs and used to compete in Spanish top league competition La Liga since the beginning.Real have the strongest attacking division just like Barcelona.

Not exact matches

Rely on reputation and gut instinct and you'd probably name a familiar list of Ivy league and top - notch technical schools, but new numbers offer some suggestions that may surprise you (and offer campuses with less cutthroat competition from bigger companies).

In May he became the all - time top - scorer in the top five European leagues, and his 42 goals in competition helped to lead Real Madrid to their first La Liga title since 2012 and become the first team to win back - to - back titles in Champions League history.

The 26 - year - old has been one of the top performers in Ligue 1 in recent seasons, scoring 20 + league goals over the last three years with last season his most prolific yet with 37 goals in 45 appearances in all competitions.

Had to vote Top 6 + Europa League but it's missing a couple of other options of success: — A GREAT season (given the competition and crappy Sanchez / Ozil situation, etc.) would be Top 4 + Domestic Cup (s?)

I am not one of the Arsenal fans that are so desperate for the club to get rid of Arsene Wenger and get a new manager in that I want the team to lose and fail to make the Champions League spots, although I know it is an issue and we know that the club is very focused on money and would hate to lose the financial benefits of Europe's top club competition.

With 19 goals in 42 appearances in all competitions, 16 of which have come in the Premier League, the England international is starting to enjoy high praise and comparisons to top midfielders before him.

Yet now, at this time, sitting a very lowly and pathetic and embarrassing SIXTH place in the Premiership, after getting knocked out of the FA Cup by a team struggling in the Championship, and competing in the Europa League, (Which is basically the Championship) you feel you need to remind us of your loyalty and commitment to Arsenal Football Club.This same Club that despite you failing to achieve a Top 4 finish to give us our Champions League fare for this season, Increased your Salary to # 9m per year.I would remind you that you yourself have continually stated that a Top 4 finish was a greater achievement than winning a Domestic Cup Competition, so I will not allow the FA cup win of last season to enter into this letter.

The bigger tests are coming soon in the EL and we will see how Wenger will prioritise this competition after we have played Citeh at Wembley and the Emirates 4 days later.win at Wembley and he has a Trophy.Lose and the Europa League is the only one left as well as CL qualification.Beat Citeh at the Emirates and he may feel we could still get Top 4.

Sky Sports in fact claim that all six of the top Premier League sides are or have been interested in Mendy at some point, although the uncertainty at Arsenal and the competition between Danny Rose and Ben Davies at Tottenham rules the two north London outfits out of the equation.

Wenger has overseen 15 consecutive years in Europe's elite club competition, but Arsenal's place in the Premier League's top four has appeared more under threat than ever this season.

Anyway position is not what people are moaning about, you say we can't compete with City financially but we're not trying, we we're the only team in the top five leagues in Europe last year to make a profit in the transfer window, he's tactical decision can not be understood by anyone, some of the teams and systems he picks are laughable, square pegs in round holes no success in 12 years apart from FA cups, a competition that carries no weight anymore.

Before (and after) the Europa League game against Ostersund, Arsene Wenger emphasised that Arsenal's main objective remains to finish in the Top Four to achieve Champions League status next season, as he doesn't agree with the rule that you can enter the elite competition by the «back door» if you win the lesser Europa League.

Perhaps a trophy to0 celebrate would help, especially if it was the Europa League because that would get us back into the elite European competition, but there is not too much confidence that this Arsenal team will have any silverware at the end of this campaign and in a Beinsport interview Wenger sounds to me as though he could finally be starting to see that the club needs a change at the top.

I know, I know, Wenger trophy and all, but if we want to keep Ozil and Sanchez, especially, we definitely need champions league football next season, and the way that the top 5 (maybe 6) teams have been playing, there will be more competition than we have faced previously.

The point made previously about how expensive it will be to get the players in that will bring champions league back th the Emirates: It was the current first team squad that failed to qualify last season after 20 years in the competition and it loooks as if we are going to need a positive second half of this season to finish in the top four.

pre-season practice games are notoriously poor predictors of form in top league actual competitions.

The talented Germany winger sadly won't be playing in the Champions League next season after BVB failed to qualify for the competition, and one of the Premier League's top four must surely be looking to tempt the 26 - year - old towards a Westfalenstadion exit.

The goal from Hummels was the 70th home goal for the Bundesliga giants in all competitions this season — tacking on to their mark as the highest - scoring team in any top - five European league.

The playmaker has been at the heart of Malaga's outstanding form this season, helping the club to qualify top of their Champions League group (in their debut season in the competition) and to fourth place in La Liga with over a quarter of the season gone.

Top players nowadays want Champions League football, and it looks as though the only way Dortmund will be able to provide that next season is by winning the competition this year.

As already noted, with City so far clear at the top of the Premier League and with almost all their rivals in disarray, it could mean Guardiola can really focus on this competition like few other managers of English clubs have had the luxury of being able to do in recent times.

Like the Premier League, UEFA competitions also stipulate that clubs competing must have eight homegrown players in their squads, but Platini may want to follow the English top division's example.

However, according to The Sun, Wanyama now says Wenger wants to bring him to the Emirates Stadium, and he has suggested he would be open to the switch as he is keen to play in the Champions League again, having also represented previous club Celtic in Europe's top club competition.

Wenger will hope to secure a top four spot and doing so force Southampton out of the race and having tasted Champions League action at Parkhead it's likely Wanyama would be even more drawn to Arsenal should they have once again secured a berth in the competition.

Albeit winning the domestic cup competition can not be as significant as winning the Premier League or the Champions League — two most coveted pieces of silverware for any top club — it would have given Wenger's wizards the relief of having finally won a trophy after so long, as well as the belief to continue in the same vein in the future.

Manchester United vs. Barcelona was very beneficial to UEFA as there were massive economic gain from the game, and a Real vs. Arsenal clash will provide another chance for UEFA to fill in the gap as to what was lost in the absence of the aforementioned top clubs this season from the UEFA Champions League Competition.

With Elliott fortifying his position as the prohibitive favorite for the league's top honor, here's how his closest competition — according to oddsmakers — gave him some extra latitude at the top.

City, meanwhile, find themselves scrapping to clinch a top - four position, rather than fighting to retain the Premier League title they earned last May, having won only four of their last 15 matches in all competitions.

While the EPL title look out of reach, Arsenal still need to finish in the top four and there are two very good cup competitions to think about, with a really good draw in the Champions League offering a great chance of an extended run in Europe.

Now it would appear that Arsenal have turned their attention to the Nice midfielder Jean - Michael Seri, who has helped the South of France club make it back into the top three of Ligue 1 and a place in Europe's elite competition, the Champions League, for the first time in over 50 years.

If I were Giroud I would keep my head cool this season, win the league and the top scorer in all competitions.

«You have to give credit to the boss as well because, at a club like Arsenal, you are looking to win things, finish top four, get Champions League, win competitions, and to play a 19 - year - old and keep your faith in him week in, week out... [Iwobi] has repaid him well.»

Absolutely yes, the champions league is not a competition to mess around with team selection especially given the fact we now have a chance to finish top of the group if we can win our other games before we play PSG.

Mata will be hoping that the Red Devils are themselves in the competition next season, with the team currently in the top four of the Premier League.

«Sides in the lower half are beating teams in the top half and that just shows the competition throughout the whole of the Premier League.

The Gunners also come into the match on the back of six straight wins in all competitions, and their confidence will also have been boosted by the fact they joined Manchester City on points at the top of the Premier League table this weekend.

Luckily there is no World Cup or Euro competition, and with our participation in the Europa League we should be playing earlier than all the other Top Six teams, who are all going to the Champions League.

Manuel Pellegrini guided Malaga to a maiden Champions League berth in his first season in charge of the club and this term helped take the Andalusian side to the quarter - finals of the competition as well as another top six finish.

Having said that I think we would rather finish in the top four again and you can ask the fans of clubs like Chelsea, Tottenham, Liverpool and Manchester United how they like it when they are not involved in the UCL competition or even the Europa League.

Its just seems now that Chelsea will go win the Premier League, maybe unbeatable, but still its a marathon, nothing else, with a tough competition, fighting for top 4 spot.

Ernesto Valverde has guided his side to top spot in La Liga with a four - point gap over their nearest rivals while they sit top of Group D in the Champions League and are on the verge of qualifying for the knockout stage as they remain unbeaten in both competitions.

The year could have been better as well, of course, with us starting it on top of the Premier League table, but we did at least get in the Champions League again and most clubs would be happy to have a place in that competition as their christmas present.

The Bells» challenging early season schedule against top NorCal competition included a road game at State Division II - AA qualifier, Del Oro - Loomis, in addition to the West Catholic Athletic League gauntlet.

With the Gunners currently relying heavily on the Chilean to get them results in both the league and cup competitions, Gooners will be hoping that he can carry on this amazing form and rival these top footballers for the rest of the season.

The Premier League is no longer a playground for the top four big clubs to battle it out, but rather it is now a competition capable of all sorts of surprises.

The 25 year - old has scored 20 goals in his 24 appearances in all competitions this season, continuing his fine goalscoring record since the 2013 - 14 season, proving to be one of the most prolific goalscorers in Europe's top leagues.

Ed Fulton, trading spokesman for Sporting Index, said: «A league finish of 73 points would not have been enough to qualify for Europe's elite competition in the recently concluded campaign and, with more teams vying for the league's top places than ever, they may continue to struggle.

A top four place now looks highly unlikely for Arsenal, while they must overcome AC Milan in the Europa League to have any chance of going on to win the competition that could seal their passage into the Champions League for next season.

Arsenal failed to win the Premier League, again, but they did at least quality for Europe's top competition, again, this season.