Sentences with phrase «against top teams from»

Two losses were to league rival Terra Linda (a team the Giants also beat) while two notable wins were against top teams from Oregon and Washington.

While the road to the state final started off well, the Grizzlies will be tested by matches against other recent section champions, including Bear River and Vista del Lago, as well as tournaments against top teams from the Bay Area.

Arsenal can not win against top teams from an open play, if the players can not even possess the ball longer than two touches.

Not exact matches

Those are the games we should be expected to lose points.15 points to play for against the top 6 teams, at least get 9 points from 15 and beat all the other «small» teams.

With three at the back, that's now 11 wins from 12 games, 4 wins out of 5 against top teams, and 2 trophies out of a possible 2.

The team shot nearly 50 percent from the field and over 45 percent from the three - point line, which is good enough to win games against anyone, even the Top 10 Gators.

Not with 24 of their 28 wins coming against teams from outside of the RPI Top 100.

Let's chalk up a short - handed, come from behind, OT Win in the c0 - Accelerated Game of the Week against top - flight squad Team Harris to the unbelievable Regular Season Resume # 1 Team Maione has put together.

I see us hammering most teams from now on but the lack of a commanding DM and predatory striker shows up against the top teams.

My focus is on Silent Stan 1st, work from the top down, after Silent Stan then it would be a dream to see the fans unite against issues in a order that would benefit the team.

1) That being said Wenger should share half of the blame from the continuous collapse mid season and the inability to compete against top teams.

The game will be broadcast on NBA TV and will pit the top teams in the Southeast and Southwest divisions from last season against one another.

Most important, top striker Eric Wynalda, who had undergone knee surgery in April, proved that he had recovered his speed in a 4 - 0 practice - game victory held behind closed doors on June 9 against a French second - division team from Gueugnon.

Santos would face the winner of Cruzeiro, the top seeded team from the Group Stages, against Once Caldas of Colombia.

here's my big hope, is that hopefully with the return of walcott and that win against anderlecht maybe something might (like bad form) break in the season for us now and we hopefully go on a bit of a winning run til Jan, we have not got a really bad fixture til then mostly mid to lower league team (apart from the pool and united) not to be underestimated but winnable, we might just save our season till the next window very important period for us if we want to do anything in the league this season, if in top 2 or 3 buy jan i for one will be chuffed to bits then with all players back push on from there for massive optimism is my middle name COYG

Problem is the quality - they are not schneiderlin and wanyama but yes that is the way to play against the top teams away from home.

Arsenal will line up the same as always in a 4 -2-3-1 formation against every side because Wenger is still the same, all the top managers have Wenger's number because he doesn't adapt the teams playing style according to our opponents from week to week, he thinks the so - called Arsenal way is the best way for every game even though we'll face different teams with different managers!

Still people bang on about klopp... yet Arsene who competes in the worlds toughest league, against several hugely bankrolled teams, with the same injury problems, with our players bought off like nothing Klopp has ever faced from Bayern — still finishes top four year in year out and has never languished at the bottom of the league.

In a roundabout way yes, but we started last season with no 4th CB, no DM and still no top class ST.. Our much celebrated fortitude vs the top teams was basically overstated because we beat City away, we were bang average away from home against the top half of the table.

«If we did pick up a few points away from home against the top four teams last season then I think we may have been champions, but that wasn't to be.

Despite a somewhat disjointed performance from the Arsenal team we did at least manage to earn a point from the Premier League match against top four rivals Man City yesterday and the fans will be hoping that this can be the start of our usual strong finish to an EPL campaign.

We saw what this team looks like without Alexis in the first half against Liverpool removing him from the team would be dumb if we want to have the smallest chance to finish in the top 4.

Apart from the games against the top six teams, I'd like Wenger to go back to 4 -4-2 with Giroud and Laca up top.Now I'm not a big fan of Giroud, I'd rather have Pierre Emerick Aubameyang, but he's all we've got.

At home and against lesser teams on paper, we should be on top of them from the get go and not let up until we have put them away.

Consider that while 20 of Middle's 24 wins came against teams from outside top 100 (including a Division II one the Committee doesn't consider), a whopping 24 of Saint Mary's 28 victories came from that same group.

We can not win against top teams if we can not dictate the game from the ball possession and if we can not create chances from open play.

Arsenal may be a big club on paper, but we are far from it on the pitch, and that can be reflected on our league position & our record against top teams.

Against the top 5 teams Won 1 drawn 3 lost 5 a total of 6 points from a possible 27.

Can you expect a hatrick from Giroud against a team like Norwich City in a game to determine if we made top 4?

As for Huddersfield, David Wagner's men have taken just one point from their last five games and the 4 - 0 defeat to Tottenham at home will be a reminder of how they can't afford to play so open against the top teams.

Even with Lukaku, Utd have been parking the bus against top teams, especially away from home, so it doesn't really matter from a tactics perspective.

A good manager should look at the opponents likeliest line up and must surely pick players who can get something from the game or a least stop the opposition from scoring in games against the top teams like Chelsea.

Our record is so bad against top teams, especially away from home, that I wouldn't be surprised if teams at the bottom of the table have a better record than we do.

We're further away than we've ever been from winning the league, and we're getting battered in Europe, and we've been diabolical against top teams.

Mick you know apart from Podolski who is not world class the rest are not natural left wingers everyone can play there but its a specialized talent to play on the left there are one natural left wingers to ten right wingers in the world may be even more, all top teams have the best lefties, if you look back to our games in the past against top teams left is where we were punished the most and the last time we had a natural left winger was Samir Nasri and if you remember that was the last time Arsenal played sexy football.

Oklahoma State shot 52.1 percent from the field to improve to 6 - 2 as a top - 10 team against Colorado.

well i know the guys in england belittle the spurs the whole time (the fans outside of england do nt really feel the hate, because in switzerland for example is the hate on chelsea muuuuuch stronger ^ ^) you got ta be real and accept that spurs are a top 6 team, and drawing against them isn't such the worst result and the «pundits» and a lot of guys here always bash arsenal that they don't have the title mentality to get a point from a win and a win from a draw, so i think in the years before, we would have well lost the game, so i am happy with the point, and the fight of the guys

-- From the last ~ 45 games or so against top 4 teams, we have won..

The chances of the Arsenal and France international star Olivier Giroud finishing the summer as the top scorer from Euro 2016 look to be gone after his international team mate Antoine Griezmann scored twice against Germany in the semi-final to put him three ahead of Giroud on six goals.

Louis van Gaal knows the 29 - year - old well from their time working together with the Netherlands national team, but until the 2014 World Cup not many thought Vlaar was a top - class defender and his age also works against him.

ridiculous... whatever he is in midfield he was a complete waste of a player on the wing... lacked pace and touch and did nt go past players... if wenger does nt invest in another world class attacker this summer we will always be nearly theres... giroud has improved undoubtedly but against top class defenders he is just another journeyman from ligue un... bellerin certainly our top choice fullback now hazard did nt get a look in... coquelin carzola ozil sanchez working together... so if we invest properly in summer we can overhaul this lot who are no great team for sure..

think it is a risk relying on Giroud / Walcott with occasional stints from Welbeck to get us competing and winning against the top teams in EPL and Europe.

You are right though if Santi can't drill from the top of the 18 and Ozil and Coq can't that leaves us with vey few options with the players that see about 70 % of our possession against teams that are just sitting back and defending.

Bearing in mind the number of points that Arsenal pick up against smaller teams, if we pick at least 4 points from each of the teams in the top 6 — then definitely we win the League.

And Hughes is lucky that the fixture list gets a little calmer from this point on: Eight of their next nine games come against teams outside the top eight, and the odd one out there is Manchester United, who are having their own crisis.

Boycotts, or at least the threat of boycotts, are starting to rumble through top - flight fan bases: several thousand Newcastle United fans stayed away from their home game against Tottenham, and around half of Liverpool's away crowd stayed away from their team's visit to Hull City.

The seventh team is safe from relegation but does not make the playoffs, while the eighth, ninth and 10th teams have to play in the promotion tournament against the top two Challenger Series teams.

While the Bruins did go 8 - 4 in its final 12 games — a total that included wins at Stanford and over Utah — that span also includes six wins against teams from outside of the top 100 and losses at California and Arizona State.

The Orange pairs the top non-Playoff ACC team (Florida State or Louisville) against the next - highest from among the Big Ten, SEC, and Notre Dame (this year, that basically means another Big Ten team).

Sure, a pair of defeats to two teams from outside the top 100 hurts, but they won't matter if Kevin Keatts» squad keeps winning — the Pack's next game comes at home on Saturday against an injury - plagued Notre Dame squad that's now dropped six in a row.