Sentences with phrase «against lacklustre»

Sneaking up on enemies and knocking them out with a single button press is fun at first — and certainly preferable to alerting them and brawling against the lacklustre AI — yet after a while everything has been seen and done... over and over again.

On normal difficulty, these felt more like showcases than strategy - too hard to lose against a lacklustre enemy showing, and more an opportunity to breed a few of my favourite units and give them names.

The Old Lady pushed for that vital third goal against a lacklustre Madrid side, and it came on the hour - mark, with Blaise Matuidi making the most of a fumble from Keylor Navas to level the tie at 3 - 3.

Despite Jermain Defoe's spectacular winner against a lacklustre Newcastle side on Sunday, Sunderland are far from safe in the Premier League.

The Clarets are well drilled and their high pressing was effective against a lacklustre United midfield in the first period.

Shane Long squandered two clear chances as Southampton failed to strengthen their survival bid against a lacklustre Leicester City side.

As if it was not bad enough that Arsenal lost our first game of the Premier League season yet again, and just like in our opening day defeat to West Ham last season it was a home game, we did so after dominating the first half and taking the lead against a lacklustre Liverpool side.

However, Dusan Tadic gave the Saints the lead in the 21st minute, with the home side facing their own battle to avoid relegation this season and very much looking up for the challenge on Saturday against a lacklustre Chelsea side.

The sector's momentum continues to stand out against lacklustre growth in the broader market.

Not exact matches

Mesut Ozil's lacklustre work - rate would likely hamper us against the Citizens, who are likely to play a strong physical game as they seek a second win over us this term.

Last night, we saw a sensational team performance against a fairly lacklustre Zagreb team who beat us away.

Arsenal should be able to see off Leicester, irrespective of the resistance the home side puts up; but any lacklustre showing could cost Arsenal big time, and Wenger would warn his troops against such an aberration.

Our lacklustre performance against CP on Sat was cos we re preparing for Besiktas.

But he has never been one to keep his opinions to himself and so the journeyman midfielder was quick to lay into the Arsenal and Chile forward Alexis Sanchez for what he deemed as a lacklustre and ineffectual performance against his former club.

The last thing was Walcott — how lacklustre he was — this was the man who scored against the Spuds, and was carried off with a serious injury yet still stuck two fingers up (2 - 0 up) at their awful fans.

What is certain is that Arsenal will have to produce a better performance this time round compared to their lacklustre effort in midweek against Swansea City, a defeat that leaves them in sixth place in the Premier League table and eight points adrift of the top four.

But I'll take a lacklustre 3 - 0 win against those horrible lot stoke

Wenger is currently two games into the ban, having found himself away from the technical area for both the FA Cup win against Southampton and the lacklustre 2 - 1 defeat to Watford on Tuesday night.

Sad To Watch: Lacklustre Liverpool Disgraced Football Against Basle.

What followed was a lacklustre 0 - 0 draw at struggling West Bromwich Albion and then another blank in front of goal against another Premier League straggler, Hull City.

Marc Albrighton sent his Leicester side into half - time in a buoyant mood, after opening the scoring three minutes into stoppage time against a surprisingly lacklustre Chelsea at the King Power Stadium.

Our English contingent appear more eager to remain fit then force Roy Hodgson to pick them for the Euro 2016 tournament in France, and judging by our lacklustre display against Crystal Palace, the team could do with a wake - up call.

I wonder how arsene prepares our team for them to produce such lacklustre performances.Its very perplexing for us to lose or draw against poor teams like chelski and looserpool.I was always a wenger out due to I being a frustrated fan.When our players are on the pitch they show no desire and no hunger at all.They produce such mediocre performances in front of fans whove paid so much to watch these games.It makes you womder why on earth they have such heavy salaries only to put on a flabbougasting show in front of 55000 fans.Its very ironical that we here on this site shower praise on such performances.players like ozil recieve such unwarranted praise you might think they are from another planet.Then we have an extremely overrated english core of gibbs ox and walcott Sorry to say this but players like draxler and rodrigiez are twice these players.This is food for thought for you who support the team blindly due to wengers compulsion that makes you believe that we are playing the worlds finest brand of football and have a large array of talent that excused him for not going into the transfer market as at the moment we are currently losing the clubs most coveted round of 16 trophy and putting such dissapointing performances in the league.

Liverpool really shouldn't be getting cocky considering they were lucky to beat Stoke after a pretty lacklustre performance, and against Bournemouth there goal was 100 % offside and shouldn't have stood and Bournemouth's disallowed goal was harsh.

The former Manchester United coach will have his work cut out though after the defeat against West Ham saw another lacklustre performance.

Manchester United legend - turned - pundit Paul Scholes believes manager Jose Mourinho should seriously considering dropping Alexis Sanchez to the bench after his lacklustre performance against Sevilla in the Champions League.

Despite Pav's wonder strike against his compatriots from Rubin Kazan last week, he has had a lacklustre start to the season and could well move on this winter.

There will be no excuses for a lacklustre performance on Wednesday night and with the likes of Abou Diaby and Samir Nasri rested only a fool would bet against us beating Bolton at The Emirates.

Whether that was with Tuesday's game against Spartak Moscow in mind, or the Brazilian's lacklustre performance, is up for debate.

While Arsenal had begun to show some grit and steel in their performances in recent weeks, all was undone in an effortless, lacklustre performance against Championship Blackburn.

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New signing Fabian Delph, 19, even made the starting line - up in Villa's surprisingly lacklustre defeat against Wigan.

They were very poor on Sunday, at home to Middlesbrough in the fourth - round of the FA Cup, and a similarly lacklustre performance simply will not do against more ruthless opposition in Norwich.

The reason why is due to their lacklustre displays against Sunderland and West Brom just before the international, the Gunners drawing with both outfits and, as a result, allowed United to tip - toe five - points clear at the Premier League summit.

A combative performance similar to the one which almost saw them knick a point off Man City last weekend would put them in with a chance at Anfield, against a Liverpool side who while they are beginning to build up ahead of steam, were a little lacklustre at Anfield first time out.

Louis van Gaal's men were rarely troubled by a lacklustre Palace side, who looked to have one eye on Sunday's FA Cup semi-final against Watford and didn't register a single shot on target.

He was lacklustre against an inspired Tottenham.

Pogba was widely criticised for his lacklustre display against Albion — the latest in a long line of disappointing efforts from the former Juventus star since his move to United two seasons ago.

Spurs looked lacklustre in the centre of the park without him against West Ham this week and with a Squawka Performance Score ranking of 812, only Christian Eriksen has out - performed him at the Lane this season.

Some were saying that Bolton didn't play that bad against Arsenal at the weekend, which is true to a certain extent, but their poor start to game and their lacklustre showing in the middle of the park gave us a completely different after - viewing in that we felt Bolton massively underperformed, although there were big signs that the Owen Coyle affect is already taken place at The Reebok.

Although we, along with many others, have criticised their lacklustre defence of late, shipping five goals in their last two matches alone, neither against sides quite as good as Aston Villa.

The dollar recently retreated against a basket of currencies after it was revealed that lacklustre US inflation data is a reality in the US economy.

May 8th: Christie's Auction Falls Short Christie's New York Sale of Impressionist and Modern Art generated $ 158.5 million in a lacklustre auction, against pre-sale estimates of $ 131 - $ 190 million.