Sentences with phrase «win over league leaders»

With a huge game just around the corner, can Pep Guardiola get his team back to their peak performance level with a highly significant win over the league leaders?

In fact I had an uneasy feeling all day about this game and all my usual match day rituals couldn't help Jürgen Klopps team get a valuable win over the League leaders, which would have given fans and players the belief that top four is a real possibility.

This wasn't our best performance by a long shot, but the festive period is famous for throwing up shocks, such as a small club like Tottenham managing to gain only their fifth ever league win over the league leaders Chelsea.

Not exact matches

The year before that we did win our opener against Crystal Palace after beating Man City to the Shield quite comfortably but then our title challenge faltered and Arsenal did not win another league game for over a month and by mid-October Chelsea were runaway leaders.

If Wenger really placed winning and titles as a priorities over massaging his delicate ego he never would have benched the league leader in assists (Poldi) half - way through the season — just for one example No.

There was only one thing to worry about for Arsenal fans, well for me at least, as the Gunners cruised to a 4 - 1 victory over a good Newcastle United team fresh from a win over the Premier League leaders Chelsea.

Early February saw us rally with wins over Bournemouth and League leaders Leicester and we were back on track.

Chelsea's 2 - 0 win over Aston Villa, achieved thanks to a Diego Costa effort and an Alan Hutton own goal, lifted the Stamford Bridge side up to 11th place in the Premier League table, still some ten points behind leaders Man City.

These two victories in Europe followed a 4 - 3 win over Guardiola's side at Anfield in the Premier League, meaning Liverpool have actually beaten the runaway league leaders three times this sLeague, meaning Liverpool have actually beaten the runaway league leaders three times this sleague leaders three times this season.

It comes after United secured a 2 - 1 win over Liverpool at Old Trafford at the weekend, solidifying their place in second spot in the Premier League table and opening up a gap between the two sides in the battle behind leaders Manchester City.

Our club climbed up to third place in the table thanks to Liverpool's 1 - 0 win over Manchester City this week, but to win this season's Premier League table, it is the leaders Chelsea who must drop points.

However, the clash between the Gunners and Liverpool tonight is starting to take on the feeling of a must win for us, and that was only made more clear yesterday as the league leaders Man City overcome a determined Everton to make it three wins out of three, including one over Chelsea.

The problem is; over a season there are more than just the odd day and it takes a fluent, strong, creative team with strong leaders to win a league of European trophy and in Wenger and his mirror image teams I just don't see that.

A win over the Red Devils will pull us to within a point of second in the table, although would give Premier League leaders Manchester City the chance to pull 11 points clear of their nearest rivals with only 15 matches completed.

More to the point, United have only won one of their last 4 Premier League games and are now 10 points behind us in the table, whereas we are coming from wins over Bournemouth and League leaders Leicester.

A win for Chelsea over the Hammers would at least close the gap to league leaders Manchester City to 25 points, with Pep Guardiola's side having lost 3 - 2 to Manchester United on Saturday.

Liverpool reached the semifinals for the first time in 10 years with a 5 - 1 aggregate victory over runaway Premier League leaders Manchester City — including a 3 - 0 win at home in the first leg.

Crystal Palace's impressive four - match winning streak came to an end last weekend when the Eagles lost 3 - 1 at Southampton but the Eagles showed exactly what they were capable of in their impressive 2 - 1 upset over league leaders Chelsea.

Mendy has been sidelined since sustaining knee ligament damage in the Premier League leaders» win over Crystal Palace in September.

The league leaders look to have the friendliest run - in of their title rivals over the next few weeks, with fixtures against clubs that would normally be labelled «six - pointers» were it not for the maddening reality that the Foxes are playing it so safely in avoiding relegation that they're in danger of actually winning the league.

Then again, his team will now have the incentive of knowing a win over one of their fiercest rivals would see them take another significant step towards regaining their Premier League crown, as it would then take something drastic for the Red Devils not to head into the new year as league leaders considering they have a game in hand over the chasing pack — And that's a huge boost mentally as it should give them the edge over their title rivals as the second half of the season looms League crown, as it would then take something drastic for the Red Devils not to head into the new year as league leaders considering they have a game in hand over the chasing pack — And that's a huge boost mentally as it should give them the edge over their title rivals as the second half of the season looms league leaders considering they have a game in hand over the chasing pack — And that's a huge boost mentally as it should give them the edge over their title rivals as the second half of the season looms large.

Rotherham United have four games in hand over Oldham and two over Mansfield and need to win all of their remaining games and hope Stags falter to have any chance of catching the league leaders.

The Egyptian has missed the Reds» last two games, wins over Burnley and Everton, due to a groin injury, but is set to hand Jurgen Klopp a sizeable boost by returning for Sunday's clash with the Premier League leaders.

In Umuhaia, league leaders, Plateau United could extend their lead at the top of the log to eight points with a win over Abia Warriors.

Chelsea 2 Hull City 0 Barclays Premier League leaders Chelsea returned to winning ways with a 2 - 0 victory over 10 - man Hull at Stamford Bridge.

Enjoying their best run of form for well over a month, title chasing Chelsea go to Norwich bidding to secure their fourth win in a row − three in the league, one in the FA Cup − that would see them reduce their arrears on long - time leaders Manchester City, who aren't in action till the Sunday when they host title rivals Tottenham.

«PARIS — A dramatic injury - time goal from Karim Aït - Fana gave Montpellier a 1 - 0 win over Lille on Sunday that took the Ligue 1 leaders to within a point of their first ever French league title.»

To achieve a hat - trick of wins over Bayern, Nagelsmann, Germany's coach of the year in 2016, must now beat the runaway league leaders at their own Allianz Arena.

Both teams will fancy their chances of winning this; Sunderland have won three of their previous four home Premier League games − including a 1 - 0 win over leaders Man City at the beginning of the year − whilst Norwich are setting their sights on a fourth successive away win.

Arsenal's hopes of winning the Premier League title this season are essentially over, even though it's still mathematically possible, with the Gunners currently 13 points behind leaders Leicester City with 15 still to play for.

MADRID: Barcelona equalled the record longest unbeaten run in La Liga history as a Lionel Messi hat - trick inspired the runaway leaders to a 3 - 1 win over Leganes on Saturday to make it 38 league games unbeaten.

The 2 - 0 win over Arsenal means that Chelsea have now got seven points on the board and have climbed to 15th in the table, yet they sit eight points shy of league leaders Manchester City despite the fact that Manuel Pellegrini's men also lost at the weekend.

Is this the end of Wolves» fantastic FA Cup run, or are they going to claim a win over the Premier League leaders and book a place in the quarter finals?

The defeat sees the Reds eighth in the Premier League standings, five points adrift of leaders Manchester City, who secured a thumping 6 - 0 win over Watford on Saturday.