Sentences with phrase «despite dominating possession»

Despite dominating possession, the team could only muster three shots on target compared to two of Ivory Coast.

Despite dominating possession and generating a number of chances, a breakthrough proved elusive for the Reds, denying Brendan Rodgers» side a third straight Barclays Premier League win.

Despite dominating possession CSKA struggled in offence, and the game turned out much closer than... [Read more...]

To their credit, Villa chased and harried whenever the Reds had the ball but, with Balotelli being well - marshalled by Senderos, the home side barely threatened despite dominating possession.

Agbonlahor struck from a corner after nine minutes and, despite dominating possession, Liverpool were unable to break down the visitors» well - organised defence.

River Valley goalkeeper Triston Montoya made just three saves for the shutout as the Hawks (24 -3-2) could not finish despite dominating possession for most of the match.

Antoine Griezmann bagged the all - important goal to stun the hosts, as despite dominating possession as expected, the Bundesliga giants couldn't secure the result that they needed to seal their place in the final in Milan later this month.

There is a lot for the boss to work on for sure, because Arsenal were poor all over the pitch, but one of the main aims must surely to be our failure to create many chances despite dominating possession.

Despite dominating possession and generally looking in control, they weren't able to turn their dominance into a lead.

Again though, we weren't creating a huge amount of chances, and despite us dominating possession, Stoke were arguably looking the more threatening.

Not exact matches

As expected Bayern dominated the possession and despite playing an attacking 3 -3-4 formation could not manage a single decent effort on goal all match and their task was made all the worse by Alonso's red card.

That left Germany with no real focal point up front and so despite completely dominating possession they were unable to make much headway in front of goal.

despite their lack of fitness they still dominated possession and chunks of midfield... think with a couple of additions the game on the 13th can be ours for the taking though

Brooks has the unwavering support of star player Kevin Durant, despite taking frequent criticism in the past two seasons for allowing second - team All - NBA point guard Russell Westbrook to dominate the offense for long stretches and going several possessions without passing once.

Despite totally dominating the game from start to finish, enjoying 76 per cent possession, the goal looked like it was never going to come until our England striker popped up at the far post to nod in Christian Eriksen's corner for his 35th goal of the season and the 150th of his club career.

-- Last season's St James» Park encounter finished goalless despite Man Utd dominating possession and creating more scoring opportunities, while their first league meeting of this season, at Old Trafford, also finished as a draw, 1 - 1, with Demba Ba converting a dubious penalty to cancel out Javier Hernandez's opener for Man Utd.

Chelsea lost the majority of their games last season despite dominating the play and possession.