Sentences with phrase «round real ball»

Not exact matches

And then there is that extended British family of children's games from which baseball drew its basic morphology (stoolball, tut - ball, and, of course, rounders); but these are only charming finger - paint renderings of the ideal, vague, and glittering dreams that the infant soul brings with it in its descent from the world above before the oblivion of adulthood purges them from memory; they are as inchoately remote from the real thing as a child's first steps are from ballet.

My reasoning is that the Vikings need some real difference makers in the trenches on both sides of the ball (OG / C / DT / OT), and most mocks I've seen show most of the «starter quality» are gone by the third round, certainly by the fourth.

Nothing like one underachiever blowing smoke up the ass of another... we know that Ozil has some incredible technical gifts, but to be considered the best you have to bring more than just assists to the table... for me, a top player has to possess a more well - rounded game, which doesn't mean they need to be a beast on both ends of the pitch, but they must have the ability to take their game to another level when it matters most... although he amassed some record - like stats early on, it set the bar too high, so when people expected him to duplicate those numbers each year the pressure seemed to get the best of our soft - spoken star... obviously that's not an excuse for what has happened in the meantime, but it's important to make note of a few things: (1) his best year was a transition year for many of the traditionally dominant teams in the EPL, so that clearly made the numbers appear better than they actually were and (2) Wenger's system, or lack thereof, didn't do him any favours; by playing him out of position and by not acquiring world - class striker and / or right - side forward that would best fit an Ozil - centered offensive scheme certainly hurt his chances to repeat his earlier peformances, (3) the loss of Cazorla, who took a lot of pressure off Ozil in the midfield and was highly efficient when it came to getting him the ball in space, negatively impacted his effectiveness and (4) he likewise missed a good chunk of games and frankly never looked himself when he eventually returned to the field... overall the Ozil experiment has had mixed reviews and rightfully so, but I do have some empathy for the man because he has always carried himself the same way, whether for Real or the German National team, yet he has only suffered any lengthy down periods with Arsenal... to me that goes directly to this club's inability to surround him with the necessary players to succeed, especially for someone who is a pass first type of player; as such, this simply highlights our club's ineffective and antiquated transfer policies... frankly I'm disappointed in both Ozil and our management team for not stepping up when it counted because they had a chance to do something special, but they didn't have it in them... there is no one that better exemplifies our recent history than Ozil, brief moments of greatness undercut by long periods of disappointing play, only made worse by his mopey posturing like a younger slightly less awkward Wenger... what a terribly waste

For the first, the Welshman was played in over the top before rounding the goalkeeper and slotting the ball into the back of the net on his 100th domestic appearance for Real.

benzema would be fine cz his track record speaks for itself at exactly a goal per two games for real madrid and he would also be an upgrade to giroud but i don't know why but am still not convinced by him... i think we should challenge man utd for muller who has a better all round game and a very good opportunist in the penalty box and rarely gets injured... the ball actually finds him most of the time if you notice and he never lets you down on one on ones... i dare wenger to sign the younger and more efficient muller and end this boring chorus of striker, striker, striker in like the next seven yrs

Defo pen, Booking for Mikel, non of this matters when we played dump, chelski crowded the mid so we had to play down wings and we and beat a man or cross or both or cutback for late runner (Rambo) and we just did not get round the back, we did not have a plan B (NO SUBS), we did not play a left and right mid (or Theo was absent), really poor tactics against a largely toothless chelski, game was there to be won with a little balls and some real wisdom, I could have told you Jose will try to kill the game off and rely on stealing it on the break or a set piece, fook sake that's all he ever does in away big games BORING mug.

Unless you're counting the fact that Juventus will be playing Real Madrid, who are playing some pretty damn good football at the moment, and who have some player named Cristiano Ronaldo who puts the ball across the goal line in between the posts and makes goals happen, and who also have Marcelo, and also Dani Carvajal — he was injured against Atletico in the first round, but may be back — two fullbacks who are the envy of every team in Europe except, well, Juventus.