Tag: race

9 March 2025 Off

Four spots, 10 teams – how Champions League race is gearing up

By Total Football News

Each country’s league earns a coefficient ranking based on how their teams perform in Uefa’s three men’s club competitions: the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League.

Coefficient points are earned through match results – two for a win and one for a draw.

The points earned by clubs from the same domestic league are added up and divided by the number of clubs the league has in Europe.

For

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6 March 2025 Off

Tom Cleverley: Watford boss says team have ‘blinkers on’ in play-offs race

By Total Football News

Watford suffered a downturn immediately before and after the turn of the year, winning only once in 10 games and losing seven.

Since then, however, they have taken seven points from the last three games, including a 2-0 home win the M1 derby against Luton Town.

“You want to be as consistent as you possibly can as a coach,” said Cleverley.

“We went through a period of doing what we

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26 February 2025 Off

Champions League qualification: How Premier League race stands and why England could get five spots

By Total Football News

Each country’s league earns a coefficient ranking based on how their teams perform in Uefa’s three men’s club competitions: the Champions League, Europa League and Conference League.

Coefficient points are earned through match results – two for a win and one for a draw.

The points earned by clubs from the same domestic league are added up and divided by the number of clubs the league has in Europe.

For

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25 February 2025 Off

Arsenal manager Mikel Arteta says club won’t give up on Premier League title race

By Total Football News

Arsenal will not stop fighting for the Premier League title despite slipping 11 points behind leaders Liverpool, says Gunners boss Mikel Arteta.

The Spaniard admitted that Saturday’s 1-0 defeat by West Ham was a “tough one to take” but any thoughts of giving up the chase would be “over my dead body”.

“Mathematically it is possible.” he added.

“Three days ago we could close a gap and you are

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16 February 2025 Off

Liverpool or Arsenal? What the stats say about the Premier League title race

By Total Football News

Liverpool’s performance against Wolves on Sunday was hardly one to set the pulses racing.

They were good value for their two-goal lead at half time – thanks to a Luis Diaz finish and a Mohamed Salah penalty – but after the break it was struggling Wolves who were the better side.

This was the first time on record (since 2003-04) that Liverpool failed to attempt a shot in the second

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13 February 2025 Off

Premier League title race: What has Merseyside derby draw done to Liverpool and Arsenal chances?

By Total Football News

Liverpool’s recent form: DWWWD

It is a hectic few weeks for Liverpool with the Reds having league games pretty much every three days until the end of the month.

But things ease considerably in March, when the Reds play just one league game – a home fixture against bottom club Southampton.

That’s not to say it is a quiet month, however, with Liverpool having the small matter of the EFL

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4 February 2025 Off

Sunderland: ‘Magic’ Enzo Le Fee offers spark in promotion race

By Total Football News

“Look at Le Fee. He is a quality player. What we’ve seen from him, wow. If he costs £20 million, that is money well spent,” said ex-Black Cats skipper Gary Bennett on BBC Radio Newcastle.

Clubs at this stage of the season take different approaches to the January window. Promotion contenders Sheffield United have brought in seven new faces and Burnley, five. Leaders Leeds United opted not to sign anybody.

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16 January 2025 Off

‘Alexander Isak is in red-hot form’ – but are Newcastle United in Premier League title race?

By Total Football News

Life could hardly be much better for Newcastle fans right now.

The Magpies are on a club record-equalling nine-match winning run in all competitions, they have one of the hottest strikers in world football at their disposal in Alexander Isak, and they are back in the top four of the Premier League for the first time since September.

In-form Isak became the first Newcastle player to score in eight successive

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22 December 2024 Off

Liverpool look team to beat in title race after thrashing Spurs

By Total Football News

Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou lifted the famous line from the movie Gladiator following the wild ride of victory over Manchester United when he asked: “Are you not entertained?”

It was Postecoglou’s way of answering questions about his cavalier approach, after Spurs threatened to concede a 3-0 lead in Thursday’s Carabao Cup quarter-final before winning 4-3.

The problem is that Postecoglou’s idea of entertainment works two ways – as he and

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