Sentences with phrase «winning over an opponent»

We went into more detail on this here, but it certainly feels like yesterday's match - winner Alvaro Morata earned a major win over his opponent Romelu Lukaku.

In Ellenburg, incumbent Jason Dezan secured a landslide win over his opponent, Robert Weeks, with 418 votes over Weeks» 232.

The player starts straight into action, at a circuit race driving a outstandingly styled Acura Integra Type R with a Mantis wide body kit, easily winning over his opponents... merely to be woken up by Samantha (Cindy Johnson) from his day dreaming.

Keep your cool though as it will take some real skills to win over your opponents.

Not exact matches

In the case of Trump, you can lead your opponents and the media around by their noses while winning over the masses.

To make your business better than your competition, you also need to learn the tactics and strategies your opponents use so that you can do it better to win over your customers.

At first, Chinese company Anbang was a mean opponent for Starwood's other suitor, Marriott International and even won over Starwood by mid-March of last year.

The election saw an upset win by the Republican nominee Donald Trump over his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

His success in winning over political opponents like Jesse Helms is inspired by the work of Martin Luther King.

Thou shalt not fight for Jesus Aggressive argument bent on winning and humiliating the opponent rather than bringing them over to your side is so unappealing.

North finished with three catches for 102 yards for the Vols, who recorded their first win over a ranked opponent since beating South Carolina nearly four years ago.

Since losing to Desmond Green back in April, Emmett bounced back with an impressive win over Felipe Arantes that included a round in which he knocked down his opponent four times in one round and followed that up with a first - round knockout over Ricardo Lamas.

Scott Frost's Knights won an AAC title and an exciting Peach Bowl victory over Auburn, against whom they revealed why they'd have been a terrifying opponent for most any squad.

If these rankings happen to be right, LSU's win over Auburn will be one of the 10 best wins of the year, based only on opponent.

The past two weeks they have gotten back to their original Game and have gutted out big Wins over extremely quality opponents including this past Sunday against the Defending Champs Team Gutman.

The Gunners may have won two games in a row, but they have been far from easy wins over inferior opponents, which is what the fans expected at the beginning of this week and questions are now being asked about the lack of commitment from everyone in the side except for newboy Alexis Sanchez.

On the other side of things, Portland State is probably wishing the entire year consisted of non-conference opponents as they've managed to cover in 10 straight games including straight up wins over California, Stanford and Utah State.

Getting Wins (and over good opponents) are key to a Team's long - term success.

Team Bulwa does have the much easier remaining schedule however as their opponents have a combined 3 wins over the final couple of weeks..

We collected some of the best tweets from Saturday's Michigan blowout win over Rutgers (warning — many are related to the «deceiving the opponent» penalty):

Michigan State has allowed opponents to shoot 45 % from the floor and in narrow wins last week over Georgia Tech and Arkansas — Little Rock was outrebounded by a combined 64 — 56.

Rankings Ramifications: Ohio State remains undefeated and a win over a ranked opponent could boost them higher than their No. 14 position.

Since then, the Nittany Lions have been one of the most dominant teams in the nation, rolling through opponents to a 9 - 0 SU and 8 -0-1 ATS record that was capped off with an upset win over Wisconsin in the Big Ten Championship Game.

or simply trying to prove us all wrong again by showing that he could play just about anybody anywhere and win a game on the road against a top opponent; something he hasn't done in quite some time... regardless of the reasons, there is simply no excuse for the goings - on at this club... unfortunately it's unlikely that any real change will come without a dedicated effort on the part of those that feed the beast... our absentee landlord doesn't invest his own money into this club, so in order to force out Kroenke, Wenger and whatever other vermin currently haunt our hallowed halls we need to hit him where it really hurts... continually filling «his» stadium and the constant buying of endless merchandise, like one of the 58 different jerseys available over the last few years, makes us the greatest enablers of all time... have we no self - respect?

Arsenal have flown back into the Top Three since disturbingly losing our opening game to West Ham, and in our facile win over Stoke yesterday we managed 69 % of the possession and our opponents hardly had the ball enough to create many chances.

Last year it was Donnel Pumphrey and now it's Rashaad Penny, who ran all over Arizona State to give the Aztecs their first win against a Pac - 12 opponent in 42 years.

In the net singles final, against Verdy, Shults sprinted and lunged and rainbow - kicked all over the playing area (which is the size of a badminton court), but he was eventually done in by the vicious serve of his opponent, who won a tight contest, two games to one.

On the face of it, Arsenal should have no problem recording a home win over our Premier League opponents Aston Villa on Sunday.

The sending off of Dani Carvajal midway through the second half went a fair way to helping Barca see out the win, but it was Valverde's decision making and brilliance that took Barca over the line and helped them embarrass their long - time opponents on their own turf once again.

The Phoenix has 7 wins over FCS opponents this year alone, including 4 against teams ranked in the FCS Top 25 when Elon beat them.

The Tigers, projected as No. 13 by the experts going into Saturday, could jump all the way up to No. 5 thanks to another win over a ranked SEC opponent.

Kevin Lee has: One top 10 win in his entire career that came as a result of a bogus stoppage before the guy even tapped A knockout loss to a ju - jitsu guy Terrible dress sense Poirier has: Been in the top 5 - 10 of two divisions for well over half a decade Has multiple wins over top 10 opponents Has never been knocked out by a ju - jitsu guy Acceptable dress sense, rarely if ever looks like a Persian rug come to life.

I love this confident mood among the gooners after a huge sin over our arch enemies, especially with international break on, which means two weeks of party mood, hopefully we can consolidate united win by defeating Watford otherwise it will be back to square one, so the boys and the management should be as motivated as they were against united, we have seen in past they getting over confident against the so called small teams and dropping unnecessary points, 3 pts are 3 pts regardless of the opponents.

The closest any opponent got to Sweany was a 3 - 1 win over Murrieta Valley's Nick Johnson in the semifinals.

In Luis Suarez's last season in Liverpool, he also won the golden boot and was part of an attacking force that scored over a hundred goals, often winning games by putting four to five goals past their opponents and yet they ended the season empty handed.

The 28 - year - old will no doubt be delighted to play in such a big game for his club, with United looking to open up a potential ten - point lead over their opponents if they win this weekend.

Wednesday's resounding 6 - 0 win over Champions League opponents Ludogorets showcased Arsene Wenger's side at their free - flowing best, and given his tendency to set up his side up conservatively anyway, there must be a temptation for Karanka to adopt an extremely defensive approach in an attempt to prevent Arsenal running riot.

If Iowa got a boost for having wins over two top - 25 teams, it bears mentioning that Baylor has three top - 15 opponents remaining on the slate.

Over the past twelve seasons, underdogs have gone 5,735 - 7,472 (43.4 %) with +41.72 units won and a 0.3 % ROI against divisional opponents.

No one foresaw such a quick improvement from last year's 5 - 6 team — Saturday's win was the Irish's second this season over a ranked opponent — but even more surprising than the instant success is the manner in which it has come: not with a revamped offense but with a hard - hitting, opportunistic defense.

Title contenders Arsenal and Liverpool both grinded out 2 - 1 wins over inferior opponents at home, and Aston Villa and Hull both earned valuable 1 - 0 road wins.

Alvarez shouldn't sniff a title shot until he has a convincing win over a couple more good opponents after the way he was pummeled as a champion.

With Arsenal struggling to get a point against Middlesbrough at the weekend, our League Cup opponents Reading managed a hard - fought win over Rotherham to move up to 8th place in the Championship.

In fact, of the Wildcats» 28 nonconference opponents over the last eight regular seasons, only two went on to have winning records for the season in which they played Kansas State.

Arsenal are sitting pretty in third place in the Premier League with 8 games to go, and now that we have finally got over our losing streak we just need to carry on making sure that we win all of our games and not worry about our opponents, according to our new Number 9 Danny Welbeck, who opened the scoring against Everton yesterday.

While not ranked yet, both Mountain View and Whitney have wins over ranked opponents this season.

Looking at over ten years of our data, we've found that teams have gone 191 - 159 ATS (54.6 %) when their winning percentage is less than 60 % and their opponents winning percentage is at least 60 %.

The Cardinal sport five wins over ranked opponents, including a huge victory over former No. 3 Oregon last week.

Jalen Hurts threw for a season - high 248 yards and two touchdowns and added 103 rushing yards and a score as Alabama won its 67th straight game over an unranked opponent.

The Huskies» first win over a sure quality opponent of the entire year, and on the road, too.