Sentences with phrase «actually won his side»

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Just off to the side, and only briefly acknowledged, was Brian Binnie, the shy - looking fellow who actually piloted SpaceShipOne in its prize - winning flight.

No one may actually make a holiday out of going to Wingham, Ontario to see the birthplace of author Nobel - prize winning author Alice Munro, but the town has hopes they may persuade some to make a side trip from Toronto to visit.

It just kind of struck me as a bit odd, especially if you actually would like to win them over to your side.

On the flip side, I guess we might actually be able to win the Europa League.

I can't decide on whether I want to commit to cementing our place in the top four before hoping to push on to win the title, but I also can't think of anything worse than hoping that United keep their six - point lead over our side, which leaves me stuck in the middle, but I feel like we should actually be concentrating on returning to the Champions League.

But on the bright side, we might actually win a European competition finally, if we play Europa League.

Van Gaal has opted to use the 3 -5-2 system that was so effectively employed by his Netherlands side at the World Cup since he took over at Old Trafford, with Red Devils stars Daley Blind and Robin Van Persie thriving particularly in the 5 - 1 victory over Spain, but it has not been quite as effective in the Premier League and United's best winning run this season actually came in the midst of a brief switch to a 4 -4-2 diamond system.

«I'm actually going a step further and backing Arsenal to win by three or more goals against this bog - standard Milan side.»

The time to hesitate is through, sang Jim Morrison of The Doors, and if Arsenal are to break on through to the other side and actually win a Premier League title rather than the Wenger trophy of finishing in the top four Champions League places, I think the same is true for the Gunners.

Couldn't agree more with you regards the negative postings however I think it's more a reflection on how divided our fans are, bad results and wenger out posts get thumbs up, a win of any kind and wenger out posts get thumbs down.me personally a wins a win and I actually thought we did ol but I'm very much in the wenger out brigade, the wins really do cloud the reality in my opinion which is wenger has built a squad so unbalanced its scary, miss managed it and not focused at all on the defensive side of the game, I do however feel that some though not all on both sides are guilty of stepping over the edge as regards personal abuse and it's all getting a bit ott

Reading have actually done really well to get this far, having been drawn away in every single round so far, with wins against fellow Championship sides Huddersfield, Cardiff and Derby before getting Bradford in the Quarters.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

On a brighter side this is actually the team that finished fine and with a trophy plus one WC goalie... and this is the team that had a super be pretty season and beat Mou to win a trophy.

On the flip side, if you view the Sanders comeback as a progressive fantasy that has no shot of actually taking place, you shouldn't place your bet on Hillary right now, as her odds are sky - high (she is currently -240 to win the White House at BetOnline).

It's also interesting to note that although the ROI increases as we look at games with increasingly one - sided public betting, the win rate actually drops.

The Gunners were held to a 1 - 1 draw against Tottenham at the Emirates on Sunday but the experienced centre - back — who did not actually play — thought that his side should have won all three points.

Not all Chelsea's wins have been strolls, but only two sides have really threatened to actually beat them.

Despite the fact that United are currently 4 points ahead of Arsenal in second place, the current form of both sides indicates that it is actually Arsenal that should be hot favourites to win this match.

These two victories in Europe followed a 4 - 3 win over Guardiola's side at Anfield in the Premier League, meaning Liverpool have actually beaten the runaway league leaders three times this season.

Arsenal did actually win 10 of their last 11 games in the last campaign but there were still «no new contract» banners at just about every one of them, so Le Prof knows that he if he is to keep the fans on side for even a short while, the Gunners will have to get off to a flying start to the season, and he is adamant that he wants to win everything!

Tired of the unappreciative arsenal fans being negative about wenger here we have a club legend one that your luckily alive to witness in your lifetime and man who actually loves the club with heart on sleeve remember the growth the consistency the beauty in our football style and being awed at by clubs around the about the joy of watching an arsenal wenger side play yea soon enough he will be gone hes 68 and uh oh there gos the guy who constantly over the years beat spurs made champions league the invincibles put your belief in the team and him relish what we have and in his tenure we get to be one of the few who get to worry oh maybe we wont finish this year but wait will be top five and probably win a cup or make to or near the final for 21 22 years straight phew wow that could be of been worse had me there for a moment thats all i had to worry about as a fan glad im witnessing a club legend real cub passion not a paid fake smile who will go to another club maybe a rival jose mourinho so stop being a silly nanny negative easy to be worse and it will be after he leaves will go up and down for a bit

it would not be a surprise if Wenger picks Iwobi over Jack.Nobody in their right minds would do this but Wenger continues to ignore Iwobi's many failings for the sake of work rate and supposed balance over what he actually brings to the side.Jack knows what a NLD is all about and is more than talented enough to bring his talent and tactical nous to this game.This is a MUST WIN GAME so let's put a side out to actually go at this mob and show them how they are not as good as the media build them up to be.

OT: I can see fans turning back to Wenger side just after two wins... That's the reason I want us to have a bad season end... This season I can take lots of league defeats and no FA cup trophy, actually I wish if it could happen, just to see Wenger out, yes it reached that far... This sickness must end, don't stop the protest, win, draw or loose, just Wenger out...

It is strange that Wenger always seems to find his perfect line up in the closing stages of the season, and we all remember that the Gunners won 8 of their last 9 games last season to leaprog Tottenham into Third Place, and obviously Wenger feels that the side is perfectly capable of having another run like that now, but the difference is that we are actually within striking distance of the title in this campaign.

With the current Barca side winning the Spanish Supercopa against a formidable Real Madrid side over two legs, beating Europa League winners FC Porto in the Uefa Super Cup and Al Sadd and Copa Libertadores winners Santos comprehensively in the Club World Cup, who many points does the catalans actually have now.

Burnley have been a decent home side this season and they actually won their last Premier League home game against the Citizens back in March 2015.

Sunderland have actually only won one of their last 10 away games against newly promoted sides as well in a D4 L5 record and the last time that they ended a calendar year with a win was way back in 2007.

In the days of the leveller playing field they actually managed to win the First Division title on two occasions; initially in 1921 and then again, under manager Harry Potts, when they become the first of 8 different sides to be crowned champions during the 1960's.

It should say everything you need to know that even bookmakers are none the wiser as to who will triumph in this contest: QPR, who have won only one of their six matches under Mark Hughes, are 17/10 to record a win on their own patch against a homesick Fulham side who are 7/4 and won't actually have to do very much in the way of travelling.

Tottenham Hotspur actually narrowly lead the head to head battle between the sides winning 60 of their meetings with Manchester City who have won 58.

These two sides actually met last season at this stage, with Chelsea winning both games 3 - 0 en route to winning the group, finishing ahead of second placed Schalke.

But can this Arsenal side actually go on to win the Champions League this season?

United have actually won more Premier League Boxing Day matches than any other side has.

The Lions have actually only won one of ten games this season against sides currently above them in the table, but they are clicking so well at the moment.

As she described how the winning teams would have an opportunity to prepare their recipes along side White House chefs, I fell into a daydream of how wonderful it would be if we could actually scratch cook meals right here in San Francisco, instead of having to rely on meals cooked far away and shipped in frozen.

In 2016, I wouldn't be surprised if Trump got a sum total of zero (or negative votes) from the ~ 50 % of voters who voted for him; with 25 % of voters from his downvoting Hillary; and 25 % of Hillary's voters downvoting Trump; with the same happening on D side - which would actually let Gary Johnson win as he would get almost no downvotes.

The Democrats would have to win two special elections, the governor would need to call to fill two vacant seats and a ninth splintered Dem, Brooklyn Sen. Simcha Felder, who actually caucuses with the Republicans, would have to agree to switch sides.

Miller's both incredibly winning at the more upbeat side of the character (it's a version of the gay best friend archetype we actually recognize from real life, rather than from other movies), but sells the broken - heartedness, the step - sibling bond with Watson, and the general sense of being on the wrong side of the cool kids beautifully.

The perverse trivia - mad side of me is actually hoping that Argo ONLY wins Best Picture because it would be such a fun statistic to obsess over and reference in future years, don't you think?

Credit goes to director Sam Mendes as well, who harkens back to his classic of family dysfunction, American Beauty, without actually making this a redux (also, as a side note, this movie looks spectacular and should win some sort of Art Direction award).

Actually none of us remember if he said 10 or 12 homeruns, but it was a big, unrealistic number and he thought he was safe about winning his side of the bet.

Nintendo are still proving to be viable enough, and they're changing things around (I don't agree with HOW they're changing but... meh), Xbox is fighting harder than ever and early rumors of November numbers actually shows Xbox One ahead (although I wouldn't be surprised if Sony wins again), and Sony is now changing its business around a bit to focus much more on the gaming side of things.

Although I was the only one on the NR side who's actually won a free - speech battle (and so decisively that the law was eventually repealed), I was prevailed upon through the course of last year to leave it to the experts.

With his friend and colleague, Erika, sitting by his side translating, I was able to tell him that I was not, in fact, an environmental journalist, and was actually calling to let him know that he had won the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize.

Volokh Conspirator David Post writes that, yes, the Supremes have handed the entertainment industry a big win — «but actually not quite as one - sided as all that.»

If you didn't like Android Wear before, Tag Heuer isn't going to win you over on the software side of things, and if you wanted to get started with smartwatches, there's much cheaper options that actually do a little more (there's no HR sensor on this guy for instance).

I hate to admit it, but sometimes the practical side of me actually wins out.