Sentences with phrase «winning at home despite»

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Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho believes his side are still heavy favourites to win the Premier League title, despite dropping two points with a 1 - 1 draw at home to Southampton on Sunday.

Arsene Wenger, Arsenal fans and anyone connected with the club would have been hoping for Everton to take something from the Merseyside derby yesterday and for Burnley to keep Turf Moor as the home fortress it has been all season, but unfortunately for us and our chances of finishing in the top four, Liverpool won at a canter and Tottenham did the same despite missing their top scorer Harry Kane.

Nissan had thrown the kitchen sink at trying to win Le Mans in 1990 by entering five R90Cs and a couple of older R89s, but despite the cars being competitive on pace reliability issues prevented them from being serious challengers, and Jaguar romped home to a 1 - 2 finish; the highest - placed Nissan was only fifth.

Spurs also fared better despite his presence, winning at home and away this season in The Champions League.

Despite unranked Mississippi State owning the 17th best scoring defense in the country, nine out of ten spread bets are confident in # 6 Arkansas winning by at least 14 points in Little Rock in front of their home crowd, especially after coming off a 49 - 7 blowout of Tennessee last week.

Despite FIU losing three of their last four games, the public remains heavy on the 4 - 3 Golden Panthers, with slightly more than 8 out of 10 bets confident that FIU can win by at least 7 points at home against a 2 - 4 Troy team with one of the worst statistical defenses in the nation.

Despite the win and cover, public bettors still don't have faith in LSU this weekend as they're getting just 13 % of spread bets at home against Auburn.

The Demon Deacons had their four - game winning streak snapped last week by then - # 19 Virginia Tech despite leading by 10 early, while the Blue Devils got torched at home by EJ Manuel and FSU.

Despite winning three fewer games than their opponent, Houston gets to play at home after winning their division.

Despite Arsenal's brilliant recent record at the Emirates, there were still elements of the home crowd booing the players off the pitch at half - time yesterday, and it looks like they will never be satisfied unless Arsenal win every game 5 or 6 - 0!

And despite the sportsbooks adjusting their lines in a dramatic way to give home dog USF an additional 2.5 points, more than eight out of ten spread bets remain committed to the 23rd ranked Mountaineers winning by at least two points on the road.

CSKA dropped out of the Champions League despite winning three of their six group games and they were competitive away from home, beating Basel and Benfica 2 - 1 and taking the lead in a 2 - 1 defeat against Manchester United at Old Trafford.

Right now, it remains murky just where the committee will place No. 9 Wisconsin despite Ohio State and Penn State losing, with No. 10 Miami winning big at home over Virginia Tech and other teams above the Badgers also scoring victories.

Hartlepool have had a very chaotic season these past two years, as Pools ended their 96 year run in the Football League last season, being relegated on the final day of the season, despite winning at home over Doncaster Rovers.

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Despite home advantage though the bookmakers do not fancy their chances one bit with bet365 listing them at a whopping 20/1 chance to win the first leg.

There was a big setback for Everton last weekend who were beaten at home by league leaders Leicester, leaving the Toffees with just the one win in their last six league matches, despite their heavy scoring.

However, Stoke have not enjoyed the best form in recent weeks despite picking up a win against Southampton and drawing against Sunderland at home.

After that win, they beaten Athletic Bilbao at home while on tour in Valencia, against Levante they played a 2 - 2 draw, despite having a 2 - 1 lead, only three minutes before the end.

Despite having home advantage United are 15/8 second favourites to win the game, with City priced at 6/4 and the draw on offer at 23/10.

Despite the current displeasure among Arsenal's supporters, Arsenal have only lost two and drawn two matches at home this season and are facing a Blackburn side who have only won ones away from Ewood Park this season at the same time as they have failed to keep a single clean sheet; and the Arsenal faithful may well leave the stadium with smiles galore when the full - time whistle blows on Saturday.

Despite winning just six measly games all season, all six came via a buoyant Turf Moor which just highlights how different, how much better a side Burnley are when they're at home.

Morten Gamst Pedersen and Jason Roberts ensured Rovers» stay in the bottom three was only temporary as Blackburn registered only their third win of the season last Saturday, with Wigan Athletic the victims at Ewood Park as Sam Allardyce seen his side come out victorious in a contest Blackburn didn't exactly have all their own way despite boasting home advantage.

On their last outing in the league, Pardew masterminded a 2 - 0 win away from home over Birmingham City, which was no easy feat, and with a fresher set of legs, with Bolton having recently contested two FA Cup ties within the space of four days, the Magpies may well prove a popular betting selection at the weekend despite the fact they've won only four times at home in the league all season (W4 D5 L4).

Defeats on the road to Sunderland (2 - 1), Everton (3 - 0) & Arsenal (6 - 2) mean Rovers are without a single away point this season but their most recent performance, despite suffering a heavy defeat, might be a sign of things to come from a Rovers side that do boast a recent win at home to bitter rivals Burnley.

Despite winning 2 - 0 against Bayern Munich at home, the cash rich Manchester City found themselves going out of Champiosn league as Napoli won at Villareal.

Prediction: Playing at home carried by their fans, and playing with first team Bavarian giant despite 2 - 0 advantage from the first match is still big favourite for this match.Marseille have enoguht troubles and possible win here would save them a season, but its not going to be easy.Bayern want lose this match, and it will score goal or more.

Despite that, most would have had their money on a home win at half time.

In 2000 Chelsea made the quarter finals of the Champions League with a 5 - 0 win at Galatasaray and a 3 - 1 home win over Barcelona the highlights, although the campaign perhaps took its toll as the team dropped to fifth domestically, despite a 5 - 0 home win over runaway champions Man United.

Despite playing the second half with 10 men, Shakhtar Donetsk stayed perfect through two games in Group H with a 2 - 0 win at home against Braga.

Despite their 2 - 0 defeat to Everton at the weekend, Hughton has led his side to three wins in their last five top flight games, which included a landmark home victory over Arsenal.

Secondly, Birmingham played in a 4 - 42 formation in the Carling Cup against Aston Villa, at home, and were outplayed despite winning 2 - 1.

Bolton, on the other hand, have only dropped two points at home from a winning position; drawing 2 - 2 with Manchester United despite taking the lead on two separate occasions.

That despite Sir Alex Ferguson insisting changes are imminent, something he attempted in last season's competition only to end up with egg on his face on two separate occasions, both, incidentally, at Old Trafford: A much - changed United failed miserably to break down a mediocre Rangers defence in their first home game in the group, drawing 0 - 0 with the SPL side, while Valencia almost came away with a famous win on Match Day 6, albeit with the Reds already through to the latter stages, only to be denied by a second - half strike from Anderson.

Despite the win proving elusive at home, Blackpool's performances on the whole at Bloomfield Road have been very pleasing, especially their latest valiant effort against Man City, who the pushed all the way and never gave up until the final whistle in typical Holloway / Blackpool fashion.

Key players are however missing for the visitors, who managed to ground out a 1 - 0 win at home to hapless QPR last time out despite being without African stars Chieck Tiote and Demba Ba.

I'm sure despite winning at the weekend at home to doomed Aston Villa that Stoke will want to put in a better showing.

Despite the tension, Clemons and Gira both said if their own communities don't win the money, they at least want to see their fellow southwest suburb bring it home.

Despite not being there in person, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi won big at Sunday night's Oscars, taking home Best Foreign Language Film for his movie The Salesman.

If that's not enough to drill home the point, Audi has doubled down on its motorsports footprint, despite its withdrawal from the FIA World Endurance Championship at the end of 2016, bringing an end to the program that claimed 13 overall wins in the 24 Hours of Le Mans during a 16 - year span.

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This means that Google has a decent shot at winning new consumers despite Amazon's early mover advantages and could even be viable to drive switching from Echo to Home over time.