Sentences with phrase «turning against the league»

Shame on me, I suppose, for not turning against the league until it affected me personally.

Not exact matches

The young Italian turned in a magnificent performance in the second leg against Chelsea as Paris Saint Germain knocked out the Premier League leaders on away goals.

As we enter the final week of the Season they will have their Hoops make - up against # 1 Team ZBT on SUNDAY in a Game that could really turn the League upside down should DKE SO2 pull the upset.

Look the Bayern the barca and co are top top teams with huge history We need to concentrate to build up wins we need to win cups then league than we go and win the champion league the result today show that we are Lincoln in front of Bayern and a bit better as we scored against Bayern and Lincoln did nt score against us >> > I had a busy Tuesday as I was coming home I guessed we were 1 2 down I turned on the match to be 1 2 to see it go down hill I wished I never turned it on

However, the Premier League giants turned this round against Watford, and this Chelsea man now reckons there will no stopping his team.

Although the Scot has not yet publicly commented on this turn of events, Old Trafford legend Paddy Crerand has probably said what Fergie is thinking, blasting the Premier League and the bods that work there for having the audacity not to allow the Red Devils to have home matches against West Brom, Stoke and Hull after a tough trip having to beat some Danish minnows.

The player involved, German international winger Karim Bellarabi, must be feeling quite good about himself after scouts from Arsenal, Man City, Liverpool, Man United, Tottenham and Newcastle all turned up to watch him play for Bayer Leverkusen against the Russian club Zenit St. Petersburg in the Champions League this week.

The Colombian had a big impact on Juventus winning the league, also picking up the vital winner against Torino which turned around the Old Lady's season.

Chelsea drew 1 - 1 against Paris Saint - Germain in the first - leg of the Champions League last 16, as they grabbed that crucial away goal through defender turned striker Branislav Ivanovic.

Their manager was infuriated at his side's «no show», as he put it, against Shrewsbury in the League Cup, and definitely would want to turn things around, with the home crowd behind them.

In fact he's only managed 109 minutes of Premier League football this season, but has already turned a few games around for the Gunners against the likes of Sunderland and United.

and if we somehow grab 4th or secure a champions league spot at the season's end, many (mostly AKBs) will be like «Wenger have done his best despite the fact that he had lil at his disposal» and will remain satisfied with his mediocre effort...... then they will all fail to look back at this day and recall how Wenger's complacency turned the tides against our favour!

After two League defeats in a row, Arsenal had a fight on their hands against an improved Hull City to turn their fortunes around.

But once the dust has settled and Arsenal are hopefully celebrating a vital three points against the current league leaders Leicester City, all eyes will turn north to the Etihad Stadium where another key match will be played.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

We were massive underdogs in the FA Cup final against Chelski and what happened?We turned up.Weakened team against runaway league Champions and we played them off the park.Who says we are not capable of repeating this?We are a better team than last season (on paper anyway if not by results) and AM are not of the quality of those SW London Chavs so of course we can win this cup and it's ridiculous to suggest we can't.

You've spoken the truth and gotten dislikes, the game that mattered was the home leg against Monaco and we lost that 3 - 1 we were never gonna turn that around history of the champions league has shown this, the 2nd leg was a no pressure game because we were never going to make it anyways like against Bayern and AC Milan the previous years!

In turn, their hopes of finishing in the top four and securing qualification for the Champions League are at real risk and coupled with Wenger's future still being uncertain, it has led to criticism from supporters and protests against him staying on beyond this season.

In turn, it has led to praise from all quarters as he scored the winner against Roma on Sunday night to lift his side back to within two points of league leaders Napoli.

The only two away games the Gunners have lost since the turn of the year were at Man United in the Premier League, where we seem to have something of a curse or mental blockage and against a brilliant Barcelona in the Champions League.

If that turns out to be the case, then he will have been pleased with the reaction from his players against the Premier League champions, as United showed determination and attacking intent that had been lacking from their performances for some time.

Laurent Koscielny was sent off in the first - half against Everton on Sunday in the final Premier League game of the season, and in turn he'll miss next weekend's clash through suspension.

The 30 - year - old would no doubt be expensive and has little re-sale value as he is set to turn 31 next season, but he made himself a real hit in the Premier League earlier in his career as he helped guide Ferguson's side to three consecutive title wins, as well as a victory in the Champions League final against Chelsea in 2008.

look if another team wins against another you can always turn and flip it around to compare it negatively to our situation, criticise wenger for the mistakes he does make but do nt turn each and every action in the league to ridicule our team and wenger that isnt intelligent even if you think it is

First up is the Champions League opener, away to Dinamo Zagreb on Wednesday night and then what could turn out to be a crucial away game against last season's Premier League champions Chelsea.

After Arsenal played so much better in the second half of the first Europa League group game this week, there will be Arsenal fans hoping that Arsene Wenger sticks with the system of playing a flat back four that he turned to after the sloppy first half showing against FC Cologne, but I think it would be a mistake.

Arsene Wenger spoke in the week about the big gap between Arsenal and the current Premier League leaders might just allow the Gunners to play with some of the old fluency and verve that saw us topping the table at the turn of the year and even though the Gunners were knocked out of the Champions League in midweek, there were enough positives from our performance against Barcelona to give us some belief back.

Sorry to take you away from the main subject but well done to Burnley as they played very well they defended very well and i will push them all the way to win the premier league as a footballer Burnley turns me on really hard especially when you compare our Arsenal can we do a Burnley against Chelsea????

That spells trouble in a hostile environment in January, especially against a Chiefs team that turns it over less than any other team in the league at 0.7 times per game (only 0.5 at home).

The 29 - year - old limped out of the first leg of his side's Europa League quarter - final tie against CSKA Moscow last week with a knee injury, and was in turn absent for the return fixture on Thursday night as the Gunners secured their place in the last four.

While some may turn their noses up at a striker firing in the goals in League One, it is worth remembering that Afobe also has six goals in just four League Cup games this season, including a superb brace against none other than Manchester United in THAT 4 - 0 win in the second round of the competition.

Steel — sometimes we crumble against strong opponents Drive — sometimes the team just does not turn up Ruthlessness — had we taken more of our chances we could at finished top of the league

How things have changed, because it wasn't that long ago that Tottenham Hotspur season would be based on how well they did home and away against arsenal, now the table's have turned, because two things for sure arsenal won't win the league and that Tottenham has a better chance than arsenal, so now the biggest game for arsenal is Tottenham home and away, so win lose or draw it makes no difference, because the parasite is still in charge.

Now we have to turn our attention to Champion League double header against arguably the strongest European side in Bayern Munich.

In turn, they'll want to avoid another slip up this weekend and given Sunderland have won just one of their last 25 Premier League games against Arsenal, with nine draws and 15 losses, history would suggest that the visitors should be confident.

Wenger turned our form back around with a formation change, opting to follow Chelsea and Tottenham in using a 3 -4-2-1 system, and we ended the season with the best form in the country, while winning the FA Cup final against the Premier League winners.

Before Arsenal made the short trip across London to face Premier League rivals Chelsea, most of the talk was about the former captain of the Gunners, Cesc Fabregas, and his first game against the man he credited with turning him into a star, Arsene Wenger.

In turn, Wenger will hope that the pair are at his disposal for their next outing, but that won't do much to fix the leaks at the back as they continue to be porous defensively which could be their downfall against a City side who have scored 79 goals in 27 Premier League games.

A lot of Arsenal fans did not expect us to get anything from today's away game against the Premier League leaders Man City, and that is how it turned out with De Bruyne, Aguero and Gabriel Jesus scoring to make it a comfortable 3 - 1 scoreline in the end, but that did not tell the whole story by any means and Arsene Wenger will surely point to a couple of key decisions that went the home side's way at crucial points of the game.

And while some were impressed with Wanyama's showing against Brighton on Tuesday (Football.London awarded him a match rating eight out of 10, while Efan Ekoku - the former Premier League striker turned BBC Sport commentator - described him as «outstanding»), many Spurs fans are struggling to agree.

Having turned out for Northern Ireland in the Euro 2016 qualifier against Romania, the 37 - year - old kept a clean sheet for Notts County against Coventry City in a League One clash the following afternoon.

I believe that playing regularly in the Premier League 2 competition with the odd ten or fifteen minutes in the first team is better for a player's development and integration than turning out for Peterboro against Rochdale in a League 1 relegation scrap.

However, the reigning Barclays Premier League champions have been unable to land either defender and now look set to turn their attentions to luring Rose away from White Hart Lane before they begin the defence of their title against Swansea City at Stamford Bridge on Saturday evening.

However, the aura around Zidane — whose first two years were soaked in success — is such that he looks set to at least be given the upcoming Champions League last - 16 tie against Paris Saint - Germain to prove he can still turn things around.

The Reds haven't lost a premier League home game against a newly - promoted side since back in the 2010/11 season when Blackpool turned up and surprised them.

Today at 11:26 am - Leicester City must now turn their attentions to next weekend's Premier League fixture against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park, says defender Aleksandar Dragovi?

Roma's shock Champions League comeback against Barcelona sent the Italian media into delirium while the Spanish press turned on Lionel Messi and co..

Manchester United legend - turned - pundit Paul Scholes believes manager Jose Mourinho should seriously considering dropping Alexis Sanchez to the bench after his lacklustre performance against Sevilla in the Champions League.

Arsenal have turned up against the elite clubs at home this term, and we are backing them to win to maintain their Champions League prospects, Arsenal 2 - 1 Chelsea.

Attention now turns to the big one at Wembley - Saturday's north London derby against Arsenal in the Premier League (12.30 pm).