Sentences with phrase «up against their title rivals»

Not exact matches

Aside from crashing out of the Champions League against Liverpool, City saw their title celebrations postponed last weekend as rivals Man Utd picked up a 3 - 2 win.

Arsenal still have to make sure that it counts by winning our away game against AFC Bournemouth tonight, but the Gunners were probably not expecting any of the main rivals for the Premier League title to slip up in this latest run of games.

Guardiola may have given up (and it will certainly be interesting to watch them next week against Tottenham) but our goalkeeper Petr Cech thinks quite the opposite, and points out that we still have games to face against all our title rivals, and if we win them all we can close the gap at the top.

Sterling's goal also fired City 15 points clear of nearest rivals Manchester United, who seem to be doing their bit to help City wrap up the title as quickly as possible after dropping four points in their last two games against Leicester City and Burnley.

Arsenal have already played one six - pointer «title decider» against Leicester last week, but our traditional rivals Tottenham Hotspur have also been winning consistently and quietly moved up to equal on points with us in second place in the Premiership.

The Belgium international is likely to play for City as they look to wrap up the Premier League title against their bitter rivals on Saturday, but it seems he also has a personal score to settle with Mourinho before then.

Arsenal come up against fellow Premier League title rivals Manchester City in Sweden this Sunday and it'll be interesting to see how the Gunners fair against not only a strong Premier League team but under Pep Guardiola's new managerial regime.

Arsenal came up against fellow Premier League title rivals Manchester City in Sweden, in what was both club's final fixture of their respective pre-season campaigns.

Manuel Pellegrini takes his Manchester City side to Upton Park after a hugely disappointing midweek Champions League draw against CSKA Moscow, hoping to notch up another win in the Premier League and keep the pressure on title rivals Chelsea before their Sunday game against Manchester United.

Hold onto a lead with 9 men, go 1 up against nearest title contenders then concede 2 injury time penalties and have them both missed and win the game, score the goal of the season, have your promotion rivals concede an equaliser 3 mins and 59 seconds into 4 minutes of injury time to clinch promotion with 4 games spare (and that's just the last 2 weeks).

It could have been a special week for Manchester City — up, 2 - 0, with a chance to clinch the EPL title, at home, against bitter rivals Manchester United — yet they conceded three times in the second half to lose, 3 - 2.

It could have been a special week for Manchester City — up, 2 - 0, with a chance to clinch the EPL title, at home, against bitter rivals Manchester United — yet

Spurs collapsed defensively at the end of last season, shipping nine goals in the final three games against Chelsea, Southampton and Newcastle in the midst of title pain, and ended up finishing third behind bitter rivals Arsenal.

PSG's chances of beating Monaco again and wrapping up the Ligue 1 title against their closest rivals in satisfying fashion have been boosted by the news that Kylian Mbappe has been passed fit to face his formative club.

Despite their beautiful new jerseys, the DTM Dynamos came up a bit short on Friday against their cross-campus rivals, our very own GL Pistons, who defended their title of the coveted MudCup!