Sentences with phrase «after taking the lead»

I am guessing that the reason we defended deep after taking the lead was to hit them on the counter and put the game to bed.

Then after taking the lead and are once again on the front foot, what do we do?

We had to survive a bit of an onslaught after taking the lead but were just managing to hold on.

«People said, «This is the person that I want to defend us in the face of international impositions»,» he told a Costa Rican radio station after he took the lead in opinion polls.

Mauricio Pochettino said the players gave «an unbelievable effort» in the draw at Brighton - his main disappointment that we conceded so soon after taking the lead at the Amex Stadium.

Anderlecht will c ertainly feel as though they can get something from the game after taking the lead after 70 minutes of our last clash.

Arsenal failed to keep up the intensity in the second half after taking the lead against Reading with a well worked goal from Alexis Sanchez in the first half.

Against Monaco, in Ligue 1 action on Sunday evening, the Black Star inspired his soon - to - be-former teammates to victory against opponents who had never lost after taking the lead this season.

We lost to Everton and City on the spin even after taking the lead, we lost 3 - 0 to Palace even Watford at home but the defence became stronger after the switch to a defensive formation... we will win many games if we can sort that defence out....

The visitors that day could not breach Kasper Schmeichel for the second time, and dropped two vital points after taking the lead.

Soon after we took the lead with a sensational goal that probably won't be worth a mention on Match of the Day's October Goal of the Month vote but it was superb.

After taking the lead with an own goal by Galvez on 11 minutes, Wolfsburg added one more goal before half time break through Max Kruse.

CHANCE: ALMOST AN OWN GOAL FROM ROSE — 24 mins It was so nearly 1 - 1 moments after we took the lead.

The center referee Mike Jones was typical harsh against Arsenal and just like the second time in few weeks the host conceded a penalty after taking the lead in a league context as regards to the recent happening against Tottenham.

The Blues got off to a flying start after taking the lead in the fourth minute thanks to a goal from Oscar after Demba Ba laid off the chance from Frank Lampard's through ball.

Everton lost for the third time after taking the lead last weekend.

Jack Wilshere has been wound up a couple times and is not doing himself any favours by retaliating and Norwich are gaining in confidence after taking the lead and nearly make it 2 - 0 with a curling shot but Macey is equal to it.

Le prof was then asked if his team let thimselves be bullied after taking the lead, and he replied: «No, I think we have to look at ourselves.

AM does it all the time and Simeone has been getting crucified for playing one way before taking a lead and another way after taking the lead.

We were also fortunate that Man United got beat by Swansea after taking the lead and we have now regained our rightful place in the Top Four, whatever happens today between Southampton and Liverpool, but I can see many many more of these heart - stopping finishes before the end of the season finally comes.

Possession football, leaving it late ti find goals, an utterly confused defence after taking a lead, fighting to salvage draws agains weaker teams, reliance on one or two special players to bale us out, poor timing of substitutions, the frequent long term injury list, quality players played out of position, referees gunning us and yet our players commit the kind of fouls leading to cards and penalties.

The cliche joke was «Tiger broke the internet» when the app started crashing Friday morning just after he took the lead in Tampa.

Things just refuse to get better for Arsenal and the rub of the green stays determined to go against us as the Gunners failed to win yet again after taking the lead and dominating the game against the visitors Crystal Palace.

The two sides have met twice already this season in the league with City winning at Etihad Stadium 2 - 1 and forced to 2 - 2 draw at the Emirates Stadium after taking the lead twice.

Derby won at Elland Road after some questionable decisions by the referee, but the match was still lost by Leeds after taking a lead into half - time.

Barca were unleashed after taking the lead and Pedro nearly got another goal immediately, racing on to a pass from Xavi, but could not quite fit his shot under Irureta, who was able to gather.

Gomes, seemingly ending his frustration, has shown glimpses of good play as United still look to recover from being two goals down after taking the lead early in the match.

JUST SAYING When offered advice he felt he didn't need after taking the lead in the 2012 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, Raikkonen famously admonished his race engineer over the Lotus team radio: «Just leave me alone, I know what I'm doing.»

Chievo altered their defensive system after taking the lead, dropping into 4 -3-2-1 mid / low - block.

It has to be said though, that this team has tended to revert to ceding possession to the opposing team after taking a lead.

Luis Enrique lamented that his side were unable to cling on after taking the lead and noted that Lazio never threw in the towel.

While they couldn't find a second before half time, it was good to see that they had learnt from their mistakes against Liverpool, when they sat back almost straight after taking the lead, and they were punished for it.

In the second fixture Manchester City faced off against a newly rejuvenated Everton side as Ronald Koeman's side did good in first half denying any breakthrough for Guardiola's men after taking the lead but the Citizens despite being a man down fought back and found the back of the net in dying moment's of the match and managed to hold of the Toffees for a points each.

The AI of the computer did not appear to be too challenging to race against, nor was there a sense of «rubber band» like difficulty after taking the lead in a race.

Rudiger after the game seemed to question the Italian's tactics when he said they drop deep after taking the lead against their London rivals.

I think alexis will do what's best for the club unless somebody takes the heat off his shoulder remember the 2010 - 11 season when we were clear favourites to win the league as usual signing third class players and end up losing after taking lead.

Oh Arsenal had anumber of top guys injured.Even then after taking the lead, they lose as usual.

Even after taking the lead and playing with 11 against 10, Arsenal were unable to finish the game off, instead QPR could have equalized for worst with two great chances wasted in added time.

Arsenal had appeared on course for all three points after taking the lead six minutes before the interval when Per Mertesacker, making his first start for 18 months in place of the injured Shkodran Mustafi, headed in Granit Xhaka's corner.

After taking the lead through Erik Lamela in the first half, this was a Europa League game that Spurs should have won.

Moments after taking the lead, Liverpool should have doubled it as Firmino freed captain Jordan Henderson, whose poor touch preceded a shot that flew well off - target.

While the list changes slightly over the years, the baby name Sophia has held strong, cinching the top girl name since 2010, while Jackson is still # 1 after taking the lead in 2013.

After taking the lead, they ended up losing 2 - 1 to Jorge Wilstermann in Bolivia thanks to two late goals.

There were quite a few candidates among the Arsenal players for the Man of the Match award, for me, with Ospina, Bellerin, Giroud, Rosicky, Cazorla and Alexis all having big games but I have gone for Francis Coquelin because he held the team together as we needed to stay firm before and after taking the lead.

After taking the lead, they didn't bunker which was a good sign.

No ideas in the team, and after we took the lead no one looked ready to fight for the lead except maybe one or two.

Last season at goodison park, Everton were on a similar poor run of form and we were flying only to lose to them after taking the lead and we then lost the next match to city and then crystal palace and a few poor results later, wenger decided to change formation.