Sentences with phrase «won less points»

Only Fulham, Charlton, Bolton and Brentford have won less points.

Not exact matches

Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi staged his stunning political comeback, and came within less than a percentage point of winning the last week's election, on an anti-austerity, anti-German platform, mixed with promises of rescinding a widely resented and highly regressive real estate tax.

The Monmouth poll found that in counties that Trump or Hillary Clinton, his Democratic challenger, won by less than 10 percentage points in the 2016 presidential election, 30 % of people say they approve of the bill and 38 % say they disapprove.

Watching the New England Patriots — trailing 21 - zip in the second quarter, down 25 points in the third, 19 points in the hole with less than 600 seconds to go in regulation — rally to win the Super Bowl in overtime, I couldn't help but wonder if there was some mysterious science behind «the miraculous comeback»: something measurable, or at least point - to - able, that captures the transformation of human spirit that drives an individual — or, more inexplicably, a team of separate beings — to see «victory» when «loss» is flashing all around them.

It's simple as this, Rick Santorum appeals to the less educated, extremely conservative and more bigot minded segment of rural America, which is largely dominated by Born again evangelicals, who as the article points out have a misguided view that that Mormons aren't Christian, and in their misguided bigotry seem to be voting against Romney based upon their religion rather than for a good candidate who can win the general election.

The tipping point in this winning noodle salad is a DIY chili oil that takes less than 5 minutes to make.

Arsenal must go for maximum points from the next two games to get that winning momentum back for the villa game.Besides the fans will not be happy with anything less than 3 points tonight.

They showed a stat last night of the difference with Joel and without during the win streak — it's minimal — offense 3 more points per game defense just a shade less effective - so to think the Sixers won't maintain the pace is not accurate.

Should we fail to win this weekend, we will likely fall five points behind Manchester United, as well as nine points behind Liverpool whilst having played two times less, leaving our Champions League qualification hopes in tatters.

Effective play action or more dropback passing could perhaps elicit more conservative coverages from Auburn, with safeties playing a bit less aggressively in run support, but the bigger issue for Georgia was an inability to win at the point of attack.

I couldnt care less if we won the league with 50 points.

A win this weekend against Manchester United, who are claimed to be rotating players for our crunch tie at the Emirates on Sunday, will move us within two points of the Red Devils, whilst having played once less, and would give us the advantage over them in the race.

Unless you're just saying points relative to first place in a given season in isolation is all that matters and performances are meaningless and nothing can be extrapolated or projected, in which case our 14/15 side was closer to winning the league and subsequently required less improvement than our 17/18 one, a notion I'd call preposterous.

This year's NHL Betting Against the Public article details the profitable points for contrarian betting between 2005 and 2011, and teams receiving less than 40 % of moneyline bets had won 75.8 units, or a 1.6 % return on investment.

Van Gaal even though one point less than us still talk about catching Chelsea and winning the trophy.

Cory Davis led the team in scoring with 18 in this one but any time you score less than 50 points, your chances of winning are very slim.

Last night Linsanity broke out into a full blown frenzy when the Knicks new point guard drained a game winning three - pointer with less than a second remaining in New York's 90 - 87 win over Toronto.

If people think Chelsea just settle for a point all the time they should check and see how many matches Chelsea and the previous Milan team win with far less chances and possession than the opposition

The last four games have been decided by three points or less, including the Jets» 30 - 27 overtime win in 2013.

Still, the points tally that year was considerably less (90 is the lowest winning points total in the last 5 seasons) and displays that Barca and Madrid had poor seasons as much as Atletico had a good one.

Last time someone won the league with less than 80 points was in 98/99, with 79 points.

If just scoring points was the goal, then there ya go they kick that one to appease you, but the goal was to win the game and those 3 points at the 3 yard line were worth much less than the attempt at getting 7 (or 6 or 8).

Last year they plowed through the controversy and didn't win any game by less than 14 points.

Unless we get a proven and talented grad transfer point guard who can help steady the ship for this season while Pikkiel gets his future long term point guard next season will be another rough season culminating in perhaps less wins.

We win huge upside we lose respectable say less than 7 - 9 points make it a game we gain cred.

Virginia pulled off one of the wildest comebacks you will ever see, erasing a four - point deficit in less than one second to rip Louisville's heart out and absolutely steal a 67 - 66 road win.

Memphis has won 10 of its last 11 games at home while holding opponents to less than 90 points.

Which would you rather be doing, I'd much rather celebrate Arsenal winning the league instead of coming up with overused excuses, and pointing at lesser clubs and saying «it could be worse».

The point I am making here is that having less or no injuries to the first 11 is a major factor in winning the league.

Southampton with a rookie manager and considerably less resources managed to be only be 15 points behind us (5 wins).

Normally I would go contrarian here and say that I would have expected this spread to be 10 points, but I can't see Seattle winning this game by less than a touchdown.

When traded to the Celtics less than a year later, he somehow won some of the taint that Goran Dragic ought to have carried as the real disgruntled point guard of Phoenix.

If winning back - to - back FA cups IS a sign of improvement, then how on earth did get less points in the league than the season before, and with a stronger squad!

Considering our away form has been absolutely useless this season, the three points are far from guaranteed in Wales on Wednesday, but we should have less trouble when we face Everton, who are without a win in their last 7 games, at the Emirates next Saturday.

At least the current league leaders did not win their own midweek game against Liverpool, but they did get a point and all Arsenal fans know that nothing less than a win will do for us at Stamford Bridge on Saturday.

we have owner who are content filling their pocket and care less about winning titles so they keep a manager who is well past his sell by date and who is more interested in proving a point and leaving a legacy of doing things a certain way rather than doing the right things to win....

When filtering the data down to strictly home teams receiving less than 20 % of spread bets, I was wondering what the winning percentage was for home dogs getting 7 or more points that are receiving less than 20 % of spread bets?

Forgot for just one nanosecond the various reasons why we have spent less, as some point in time you will have to accept that the simplest way to win the league is to spend more — just explain why not winning the PL in such adverse circumstances has been «criminal».

I think the pressures to get points and win trophies in an immensely competitive environment where winning trophies is increasingly shaped by the massive investment in squads in Manchester, Chelsea and even Liverpool - left Wenger and his philosophy in its wake — he tried but with less than half the investment of United and City and hundreds of millions less than Chelsea and Liverpool, it became increasingly difficult for him to play Wengerball.

For example 4 -3-3 concentrate less on playing in the centre and attempting to dominate it as it's contest Arsenal will win and take advantage of the fact that the full backs haven't got pace, which normally means the defensive midfielders or center backs often end up doubling up on the wingers... thus clearing a space in the middle and allowing people like Ozil and Giroud to play to the strong points of their game.

The example above demonstrates that, although Indianapolis won the contest, Tennessee covered the spread by losing by less than nine points.

A Blues win could leave us only four points behind the Citizens with our side having played a game less.

With the sportsbooks adjusting their lines to give the road dog Bills an additional half - point, the betting public is pounding Buffalo to bounce back and either win straight up or lose by two or less in the AFC East showdown.

However, despite the sportsbooks adjusting their lines to take a valuable half - point away from the road dog Seahawks, the betting public is sticking with Seattle (who looked impressive in a 22 - 17 win over the Ravens last week) to either win straight up or lose by two or less at Edward Jones Dome.

However, six out of ten spread bets are going with St. Louis to either win straight up or lose by less than two, especially after the listless Browns have failed to score more than 12 points in each of their last three games.

The Bulldogs have never received less than 21 % of spread tickets, which happened when they closed as 31 - point favorites against Loyola Marymount back on February 11, 2008 (they won 83 - 50).

Scoring 5 more goals a season will win us fewer points than conceding 10 less.

Anything less than a win over Crystal Palace at the Emirates will be a disaster and even at the halfway point of the season it would leave our Premier League title hopes in tatters.

Starting at their 21 - yard line, less than two minutes to go with two timeouts left, down three points, the Baltimore Ravens» season came down to Joe Flacco's ability to lead them in a winning drive.

But, LeBron didn't want any part of blowing a 21 point lead, and hit a stepback three with less than a second left to win the game for Miami, 111 - 110.