Sentences with phrase «top of league before»

Yes November is our worst month statistically, but it seemed we were favoured with the fixtures to break the jinx this season... with WBA, Norwich, Sunderland, and villa consecutive fixtures, Judging by their current form, we (fans) and outsiders tipped arsenal to sit comfortably at the top of the league before the «big game» Vs City.

Not exact matches

Arsene Wenger has brought plenty of glory to the Gunners, from winning the Premier League whilst going unbeaten, before helping the club through an important phase in their history, guiding them through tough financial issues whilst building the new top of the range stadium, and still kept us in the top four throughout.

A week before the city game arsenal went top of the league and everyone was crowing.

I can't decide on whether I want to commit to cementing our place in the top four before hoping to push on to win the title, but I also can't think of anything worse than hoping that United keep their six - point lead over our side, which leaves me stuck in the middle, but I feel like we should actually be concentrating on returning to the Champions League.

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.

that is in terms of being a challenger for the top prizes like the Premiership and the Champions League...... why waste another year (year 11) before passing judgement on Wenger's ability to compete at the top level.

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Sanchez, who scored 24 goals in 38 league games for the north London side last season as the Gunners narrowly missed out on the top four, is reportedly top of Unai Emery's side's transfer targets, with the club wanting at least one marquee signing before the window shuts on August 31st, according to Sky Sports.

Fair enough, I just wonder if he'd still be playing top flight football if he had been at United from the start with such a horrendous injury record, Fergie would have shipped him off ages before his eventual recovery, dare I say he was destined to win the Premier league the season he won it with United anyways, he was the hottest striker in the league for those two seasons, the only thing we lacked in his final season at Arsenal was enough creativity behind him and a lack of suitable replacement to take ocassionally take the load off him, but then Cazorla, Poldi and Giroud had been brought in for re-inforcements, he played with a patently inferior team to Arsenal's that season at United, with the exception of Rooney of course, he single handedly carried them to the title, what away to show loyalty.

In fact, our entire season this year is one big «moment of truth», considering this is such an open season (it's almost new year and Leicester are top of league!!!!) and the condition for us to win the league are more in our favor than before.

A bit of housekeeping in the Scheduling / Bracket Department is in order before we get into the actual Preview for the Top 2 Seeds in League.

They still have Softball and Flag Football to try and climb into the top half of the League before the Regular Season comes to a close.

«We've done it before when we were top of the league, it doesn't slip.

9/10 of Arsenals remaining league games are easy so with the international break and catch up games it will be late April at the earliest before top 4 from the league is no longer possible.

Although Arsenal fans are 99 % certain that the Gunners can not qualify for the Champions League by finishing in the Top Four of the Premier League and our only remaining hope is to win the Europa League and sneak in the back door, like Man United did next season, it would appear that the Boss thinks his team need to win against some «big teams» before we can consider winning the minor European trophy.

United are in the perfect position to chop and change as they sit 12 points clear at the top of the Premier League, allowing Ferguson to rest several key players against Norwich before their decisive Champions League last 16 second leg encounter with Real Madrid on Tuesday.

Results will need to improve before the January transfer window for Montella to save his job, but reinforcements may well be needed if Milan intend on making a serious run of making the top four and therefore qualifying for the Champions League next season.

The 17 - year - old was on top of his game as the Norwegian side went 3 - 0 up inside 30 minutes during the recent Europa League tie, before the Bundesliga side came back and won 3 - 4.

My team were never challenging for the Premier League title when I began to follow them, and the joy I would experience when they would reach an unlikely cup final was immense, so I'm sorry if I don't feel any remorse for a fan who only followed a team when they were one of only two top sides challenging year on year, before enjoying an unbeatable Invincibles campaign in only his third term of supporting the side.

Before then, they had a carefully - processed salary structure that allowed them to stay under the luxury tax as they pushed to the top of the league.

Meanwhile, Everything is looking Rosy, because we are sitting joint top of the league, I am no Nostradamus but I predict that the moaning and shouts for Wenger Out will be ringing in the air long before the month of May!

50 - 70 mil striker might win you crucial games in EPL and CL... If we got that one we won't be knocked out every time from 16 - round of the CL, we might have taken the chances that we had against Utd and Chelsea... With this type of thinking we lost our title the season before when we were top of the league and I genuinely believe we lost that to City because we did not add striker as a main reason...

Arsenal were the favourites to win this season's Premier League before Sunday's 1 - 0 home defeat to Chelsea, which left Manchester City as the bookies» top tip, despite Leicester City leading the way with 15 rounds of fixtures left to play.

after we beat bayern away we went on a great run in the league when we were seemingly out of the top four, I think winning something like 9 and drawing one or two before the seasons end.

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.

i was very impressed with coquelin but we could all see the way newcastle was fowling him im worried it only a matter of time before his injured so we need suffcient cover arteta is ok but if something happens to coquelin (i pray it doesn't) where his out for a couple of games arteta can not play a bunch of games for 90 mins all the time so im hoping arsene is looking at a DM has we speak also on theo, to be fair to him he actually did ok great movement but it brings me to think that giroud and walcott can play together in a 442 formation because giroud can provided the hold up play for walcott to make runs and walcott can make the runs to allow space for giroud if walcott has gioroud finishing and giroud walcott pace we properly would be with man city at the top of the league

Before the last round of EPL games a Sky Sports report showed how the top had performed against each other in a mini league.

In the seasons before this Atletico has also been in the very top of La Primera, and they have consistently performed better in the Champions League, than the English clubs.

Say what you like admin.Even Diaby upon doing nothing for several seasons was able to secure a move to Marseille which to me is a top team.Was it not last season that before he went to Bournemouth teams like Juventus and AS Roma were interested in him?He just needs a league which is not physical for the mean time.I mean any time he gets a run of games he begins to hit top forn and just when things are looking up things go down again.This injury thing is a menace in our club.Look at the number of games Gnabry has played.But I will urge him to leave Arsenal because all he needs to do is to remain injury free.It's not rocket science.If Wilshere remains injury free for just one season he'll be great.It's just like the Van Persie case.A lot of people were frustrated with him and cllled him man of glass but I knew he just needed to be injury free for one season.To me he's a better player than Ramsey though Ramsey is on form.He also has the ability to surpass Cazorla and be Arsenal's number one.He's also Arsenall thrugh and through.Arsenal has to solve his injury problems because he's shown that when he gets a run of games he can do it.

It is pretty well settled that before two years are up there will be two more teams in each league, whether the vested interests of Dan Topping or Walter O'Malley like it or not.

Chelsea managed to hold on to their slim lead to extend their advantage at the top of the Premier League to 10 points with only six games to play before the end of the season.

That new fitness trainer did say it would take him a year before the full extend of his benefit would be noticed because of how backward Arsenal's view is towards fitness was when he arrived; this is actually the first season in 3 - 4 where we aren't top of the injury league by a mile (we are 3rd with Everton and Man United ahead).

We have a little run of games that should see us into the top four and in touch with the top, and also perhaps into the next round of the Europa League and the Carabao Cup before the trip to Man City at the start of next month.

De Gea recently won United's Player of the Year award for three seasons running and despite Jose Mourinho's claims that this was a sign of something wrong at the club under his predecessors David Moyes and Louis van Gaal, De Gea's amazing stats this season come as he's made even more saves than ever before, yet still sits top of the league for clean sheets, with 15 in total.

We may have dropped down to 5th in the table, we are actually closer to Chelsea at the top of the League than we were before those two games.

Bolstering the squad with quality players is key during this window, if I was Arsene I would take advantage of our league position and financial stability to persuade top players to join us before crazy money is thrown at them in the summer by other teams.

ARSENAL football club are in top 3 in history to win the most titles in the english league we was successful before wenger im sorry but 2 titles in 18 years is simply not good enough and in his 2nd part of his reign we as fans have had to endure some of the most embarrassing moments both on and off the pitch.

i don, t know where you got that 57millions figures and that all arsenal money in the bank was» tied up», as recently as 3 weeks ago it was reported (as per the swiss ramble) that arsenal had the biggest cash reserves in world football of 159millions and this was without taking into account the tv, s rights money which this year is being paid earlyer before the transfer window opens with arsenal topping the list ahead of leicester (93mils) with 101millions (figures confirmed by the premier league).

And if it doesn't happen soon, maybe because the owners still believe, we will get back into the Champions League, it may drag out a month or two, before we are so far behind top 4 and are out of the Europa League, Champions League qualification is as good as out of the equation.

Should we see Pogba return to the vein of form we saw him achieve before he suffered his injury, it'll be interesting to see how much United can close the gap on their rivals Man City at the top of the Premier League.

Ranked as a second - division team in the American League before the season started, the upstart Los Angeles Angels have surprised everyone by clinging close to the top of the standings

As I have said before not only will beating the scum put us 8 points in front of them but we could go top of the league!

to be totally honest and without being bias Man United is the true financial top club in the world and before anyone says Barca or Real its not the same those both teams get majority of the TV revenues from the Spanish league for many many years and its because of that they sit on top of the tower poaching worlds top players that is until PSG and god knows who ells soon

We are expected to see at least one more top class arrival before the window shuts, and it looks like Arsene Wenger is keeping his promise of retaining Alexis and Ozil, so we should have a very good chance of challenging for the League title.

Spurs eased past the Canaries 3 - 0 before the New Year and have won five of their last seven league games to stay in touch at the top.

This was before the window was even open and before the start of the Copa America and Euro 2016 tournaments and so there was plenty of time for the Gunners to add some more top quality players to give us the tools for a proper and sustained challenge for the Premier League title.

The Gunners are destined to be, once again, out of the Champions League at the same stage as usual and mired in a battle for a Top Four place, just as we were last season, the season before, and so on and son.....

Cameron Oliver, a former three - star prospect from Sacramento who initially signed with Oregon State, earned Mountain West freshman of the year honors in Musselman's first season at Nevada and rated out as one of the league's top defenders last season before turning pro.

Nine years before that, while with Varese of Italy's top league, Serie A, he fathered a boy, Andrea, by a local woman, Graziella Battaini, before drifting out of the lives of both.

The Sky Blues sit eleven points clear at the top of the table and undefeated in domestic football this season, and while City still have 20 league games to go before being crowned «Invincibles II», the study shows City top the head - to - head stats table with Arsene Wenger's side after the same amount of games played.