Sentences with phrase «against quality opponents»

Was named to the Pistol Pete Showdown's All - Tournament team as she averaged 4.88 points per game against quality opponents Wyoming, Kansas and Northern Colorado.
Our top - four teams all did particularly well against quality opponents.
Now that is highly unlikely to happen under Wenger, because of our record away from home, our record against quality opponents, and Wenger's record in Europe.
Arsenal rarely turn up in the first half of games, which results in us just about getting away with it against the lesser teams, but getting found out pretty much any time we come up against quality opponents.
Why is everyone so surprised that Arsenal struggle to consistently score goals against quality opponents with OG leading the line?
They have won three in a row and all against quality opponents.
They have Won 3 in a row and against quality opponents..
-- The suspension to Winston also greatly affected his Heisman hopes, as he moved from +650 to +1500 without playing a down as he missed a crucial game against a quality opponent and today is down to +2000.
We have to show how the last games were against a quality opponent

Not exact matches

As Thirdman implies, Ozil might have a purple patch when playing teams of lesser quality teams or if he happens to come against opponents with even less zest than he has.
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.
Note: Quality win data (the ratio in parentheses, see Jan. 26 post for more info) and RPI information are courtesy WarrenNolan.com and accurate as of the morning of Feb. 16, 2018 and only reflect games against Division I opponents.
When the Gunners are up against lower league oppositio0n on a cup, for instance, we often hear the old adage that we have to match the work rate of our opponents first and earn the right to play and exert that superior quality.
And while Fromm has been an efficient drive - extender against a litany of quality opponents this fall, he's never seen anything like the Crimson Tide.
why did we play Welbeck in the striker's role... no one can question his heart but to have a player with such limited first - touch and finishing skills against such a game opponent with Lacazette on the bench is almost unforgivable... maybe it's because Welbeck tows the party line or maybe it's because Welbeck doesn't know anything but 100 % on the pitch, unfortunately neither of these qualities makes him a capable starting striker on a team with any real aspirations... I can only hope that he was being showcased for a move elsewhere, as there was some talk last week about some interest from Everton... if he moved on that would be the only silver lining of this coach's decision, but once again it wouldn't excuse this club for putting business decisions ahead of fielding the best possible team to secure 3 points at Anfield
UAB deserves a trip to the Bahamas to cap its first season back after the miraculous resurrection of its football program, and although Ohio played its way out of a shot at the MAC title with a puzzling late - season loss to Akron, the Blazers get a quality opponent to measure themselves against.
When we had teams like 1997 - 98 and 2001 - 02 double or THE INVINCIBLES, the opponent felt intimidated even in the tunnel itself due to the shear quality and the character of the personnel involved, let alone fear playing against us on the pitch.
At that point, against that type of opponent, Argentina has to take on reptilian qualities.
They have won two great games against two quality opponents..
This is what Wenger feels about these coming games: «What I expect from China is that we play against opponents who are certainly as well in preparation, it will be less robust physically but as well of course you play against teams who have top quality going forward as well.
It's a real slog with lots of tough games against high quality opponents.
The quality that allows you to grind out a victory against an elite opponent in your most vulnerable state makes a champion.
If we chose to go this route, the players we buy will be right backs who have experience playing in that position against high quality opponents.
The difficulty with taking the bare statistical facts from his latest game as proof of a true upturn in form is the quality of his overall performance against Liverpool and those of his opponents and teammates.
Players like Rooney and Sigurdsson have the quality that means Everton will often win closely fought games against weaker or equal opponents, but just keeping it tight and organised will probably end up in a lot of draws too.
«But looking at the bigger picture in terms of confidence and building as a team, we can take a lot of confidence from putting in a performance like that against an opponent with the quality that Chelsea have.
MU showed in their last preseason game that they can defend a one - goal lead against high quality opponents.
In particular, the midfield was getting overwhelmed, putting Juve on the back foot against higher - quality opponents.
For me it'll still come down to Dortmund away, that will be a titanic battle against top quality opponents.
He isn't scared to play in the big games and he isn't scared to show his qualities against any opponent.
Selecting Oscar over Mata was a bit of surprise considering the importance of the game and the quality of opponents but if there were any doubts that the Brazilian will not settle well in the blues squad then he absolutely blown it all away with a brace against Old Lady.
- the game's shading mechanism has changed, which allows for increased gear texture quality - all graphical aspects and programming mechanisms have been built up from scratch for this sequel - maximum resolution is 1080p in TV mode - a bigger focus for Nintendo was the 60 frames per second - occasionally the resolution will be scaled down when there is too much ink displaying on the screen - Nintendo reduced the CPU load and refined the way to use CPU power effectively to maintain 60 fps in all matches - weapons were tweaked to let players be more creative by thinking about unique weapon characteristics and their best uses - weapons are designed to be effective when they are used during the right occasion - Special weapons are stronger than the original ones when used in the right situation, but weaker otherwise - the damage and effect of slowing down your movement when you step in the opponent's ink are reduced from original - you can jump up in rank if you're good enough, but only up until S - you can't jump up from C, B or A to S + - when you win battles in Ranked mode, the Ranked meter fills and your rank goes up when its fully filled - when you lose a battle, the gauge does not decrease, but the meter starts to crack - once the meter reaches its limit, it breaks - when the meter breaks, you have to start over again from the beginning or from a lower rank - highest rank is still S +, but if you fill up the Ranked meter, you get numbers after the alphabet such as «S +1», «S +2» and so on - maximum number is «S +50», but this number will not be displayed to your opponent - you are the only one to see it, and you can check it on your own status screen - Ranked Power is calculated by an algorithm to measure how strong each player is with minuteness - this will determine if a player's rank is worthy of receiving a big jump (like from «C» to «A»)- Ranked Power has no relation to your splat rate, and is more tied into to how well you lead your team to victory - you won't drop off more than one rank even if you play poorly - stage rotation time was changed to two hours - this was done because the devs expected people to play for an hour or so, but they found people play much longer - with Salmon Run, Nintendo considered how to implement a co-op oriented mode in a player - versus - player type of game - the devs will monitor how users are playing this mode to see if there's some tweaks they can throw in - more Salmon Run maps will be added in the future, but Nintendo wouldn't comment on adding more enemy types to the mode - rewards are changed each time Salmon Run is played - you can obtain rewards when playing locally, but not gear - originally Nintendo had an idea for this mode, but had no background setting, enemy designs, etc. - Inoue suggested that it should be salmon - themed - when Nintendo hosted the Splatfest that pit Callie against Marie, the development of Splatoon 2 had started - the devs had already decided to have the result reflected in the sequel - they even had an idea to announce the Splatfest with a phrase «Your choice will change the next Splatoon» - the timing to announce a sequel wasn't right, so they decided against this - they eventually released a series of short stories about the Squid Sisters to show how the Splatfest affected the sequel's story - Nintendo wouldn't say if Marina is an Octoling, and noted that Inklings are not paying attention to this too much - Inklings don't care about appearances, as long as everyone is doing something fresh - the Squid Sisters had composers who produced their songs, but Off the Hook are composing their music by themselves - Pearl is genius artist, but she couldn't find a right partner because she's a bit too edgy - she eventually found Marina as a partner though, and their chemistry is sparkling right now - Nintendo is planning a year of content updates for Splatoon 2 - when finished, the quantity of stages will be more than the original - some of the additional stages are totally new and some will be arranged stages from the first game - not all original stages will return and they are choosing stages based on the potential for them to be improved - Brella is shotgun-esque weapon, so the ink hits your opponent more if you are closer - it can shield damage when you open it, but the amount of damage has a limit and once it reaches it, it breaks - you can shoot ink, but you can't use the shield feature when it breaks - the shield won't prevent your allies ink - there are more new weapon categories which haven't been revealed yet - there are no other ranked modes outside of the three current options - the future holds any sort of possibility, but the devs didn't get specific about adding more content like that - for the modes, they adjusted the rule designs so that players will experience the more interesting aspects
Featuring a single - player campaign with four playable characters and an offline multiplayer mode against AI opponents, Killzone HD has received a thorough audiovisual overhaul: the game boasts 720p graphics at a steady 30 fps, with MSAA filtering, sharper textures and higher quality sound effects.
A mind - wrenching amount of qualities of vehicles to mess with makes it as fascinating to spend time hunkered down in the garage and on the practice tracks as it does clashing against opponents in live races.
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