Sentences with phrase «against bigger opponent»

But the fact that we have snatched wins and draws against bigger opponents is a statement in itself.

Questioner: «People will say that you and Aaron Murray specifically come up short on the biggest stage against the biggest opponents.»

But when they are against big opponents, usually they will make errors, that Wenger and his staffs should address many years ago.

Pinkney and Deters turned in their standard consistent performances with 11 kills each in a 3 - 1 season - opening victory over St. Francis to prove that the Grizzlies are capable of putting the ball down against bigger opponents.

Mertesacker is the tallest player in our team but he seems to always hide when it comes to standing up against big opponents..

Just missed a pass breakup against Texas and missed a few tackles against bigger opponents.

Against bigger opponents, and in the CL it would be good to have someone who is clinical in this type of football.

And as a 215 - pound sophomore, Anunoby was able to hold his ground against bigger opponents in the post.

Many would agree hand - on - heart that Mesut Ozil is a flawed genius, in that despite his gifted ability he has gained notoriety for taking up a silent role and failing to show up against bigger opponents.

Embed from Getty Images Many would agree hand - on - heart that Mesut Ozil is a flawed genius, in that despite his gifted ability he has gained notoriety for taking up a silent role and failing to show up against bigger opponents.

Force India team boss Bob Fernley is hoping the Spanish Grand Prix can establish a base for the team to test themselves against bigger opponents.

Not exact matches

«Some of the large retailers who are big importers have been some of the most vocal opponents,» Rosenberg said, noting they haven't been the only ones who have come out against the proposal, but also pointing to support the plan has from companies such as Boeing, General Electric, and Johnson and Johnson.

Arsenal always plays well if there is no heavy pressure from their opponent, unlike the previous matches against the other big teams.

Chase Litton: Speaking of big performances against bad opponents, the Marshall freshman quarterback has filled in quite nicely for Rakeem Cato this season.

Can't afford to lose points against «weaker» opponents because we have the big boys coming up in November.

Although Arsenal fans often complain when I highlight Ozil's shortcomings, my response is that I generally see him in the bigger games against the top opponents and he has not delivered.

Baylor at Oklahoma, 12:00 PM Eastern: After a 1 - 2 start 11th - ranked Oklahoma (7 - 2) rattled off six straight wins, all of which have come against Big 12 opponents.

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.

He is an okay backup for FA / CoC games, and maybe a few league games against lowly opponents, but he's totally out of depth when playing the big boys.

Since getting only 15 carries in an early - season rout of Appalachian State, he's brought his lunch pail to Clemson's biggest showdowns and gained triple - digit yardage in every matchup against bowl - eligible opponents since.

ince getting only 15 carries in an early - season rout of Appalachian State, he's brought his lunch pail to Clemson's biggest showdowns and gained triple - digit yardage in every matchup against bowl - eligible opponents since.

In their last five games against Big Ten opponents, the Trojans are 0 - 5 ATS.

Leading scorer Chris Douglas - Roberts (above), who's averaging 18.3 points per game, has already fared well against Big East opponents this season.

Yeah, Guardiola has his troops marching but look around, no one has performed sch in a steady way with big 6 opponents and laim so called teams we get beat up by, won't name, useless... Man U is building slower because coming from way behind pas season transition from Fergie, Chelsea slipped before to be Champions as CL nor any European football... Leicester Champions before that... To win this league, you have to win with against all teams bellow BIG 6 now, then face those 5 teams for titbig 6 opponents and laim so called teams we get beat up by, won't name, useless... Man U is building slower because coming from way behind pas season transition from Fergie, Chelsea slipped before to be Champions as CL nor any European football... Leicester Champions before that... To win this league, you have to win with against all teams bellow BIG 6 now, then face those 5 teams for titBIG 6 now, then face those 5 teams for title.

For me, today's opponents have played the worst against any of the big sides so far this season, and I am thoroughly expecting our boys to run riot against Paul Lambert's side.

Although Frazier is a bit bigger than Quarry, he did not appear nearly as strong against his opponent, nor as effective a puncher.

They'll play TCU this week to determine the ultimate front - runner in the Big 12, but if the Sooners can take care of business, they look ready to compete against any opponent.

Against a Washington team that had an even bigger Playoff what - if case, the Nittany Lions pulled a Penn State, jumping out early and forcing an opponent to exhaust itself trying to catch up.

More importantly for the Thunder, however, is that they've won big games against playoff - caliber opponents, and they'll face another one Sunday night in their Northwest Division rival, the Denver Nuggets.

However, as last season painfully taught the Frenchman, possession is not nine tenths of football as it is the law and those heavy and damaging away drubbings at the hands of Liverpool, Man City, Everton and our opponents this weekend Chelsea have forced the manager to re-evaluate his tactics against the bigger sides and boy has it paid off, as Wenger explained in a report on the Arsenal website.

in a long season, make it tremendously hard for your opponents to score against you, and you would always have a chance to win any game, even against the bigger teams.

Great player to have on the bench, throw him in the last 10 mins to kill the game off, can rotate and start him in Cup or against opponent that has big but slow strikers.

I employed stories and analogies to help Tod understand why it is that when he was too nervous going up against a bigger, tougher opponent, he could not get his body to calm down.

while he offers himself as a «deadly» shooter of sorts, there is simply no way he can consistently defend at that position against presumably bigger, strong and likely quicker opponents.

Agree to an extent but our big match opponents will have similar issues — our games against Man City, Chelsea and Spurs before Xmas will be on the back off or prior to European games for them as well.

i watched some of our matches against the big teams again nd having Arteta as DM was like having a free space for fast opponents.

Oregon was sketchy against the run and had the tendency of letting opponents off the hook on passing downs but did well in preventing big plays and rose to 29th in Def.

It's not that Bale has performed badly for Real, not most of the time, but aside from his stunning solo goal to win the Copa del Rey final against these opponents last season, and his extra-time goal in the Champions League final, he is lacking the big game - changing moments that write you into the history books.

Against our other two group stage opponents, we SHOULD be able to succeed with some heavy rotation if the tactics and motivation are right (seems a big IF from reason matches).

That said, big moneyline «dogs have been slightly less atrocious against conference opponents.

«We want to test ourselves against big teams and if we play against strong opponents where we can show what we can do, it does the team good,» Ozil said on Arsenal.com.

our players have to get really exhausted as though its a war to win big games, we as fans are always under too much pressure coz we always think of that goal the opponents gonna score against us

Walcott, Sanchez, and Carzola can do it against the big five opponents.

They had a big win against Team Castriano scoring 7 goals and holding their opponent to 1 in this weeks soccer match.

Another big factor is that essentially all of these games are against non-conference opponents.

There's a plethora of historical data and trends that say big underdogs HAVE performed well late in the season, especially against SEC opponents.

He does have a solid matchup against the Wizards, resulting in an Opponent Plus / Minus of +2.91, and Irving has shown what he can do in big, primetime spots (#NarrativeStreet).

England travel to Turin for their next international game, coming up against a big - name opponent in Italy after a fairly comfortable 4 - 0 win over minnows Lithuania at Wembley.

Somehow Rose thinks flowing well against mediocre opponents is going to translate into her being a big problem for JJ.

Bama tends to play up to their opponents while failing to cover bigger spreads against lesser schools, so if you can get Bama below -14 this weekend that's probably the sharper side.