Sentences with phrase «as lacklustre»

The repetitive and overly - lengthy nature of the campaign, as well as a lacklustre versus mode, holds the title back from reaching the same heights as its predecessors, but those looking for an original universe and an uplifting tale will be hard - pressed to find a deeper and better - looking game this year.

There are two ways you can view Conan - either as a lacklustre knock - off of God of War, or else an accomplished, slick update to Golden Axe.

Labour's miserable poll ratings have now sparked internal conflict about what several cabinet ministers damn as a lacklustre campaign, which is failing even to mobilise the party's core vote — leaving the Lib Dems to make the running with a fairness agenda they regard as Labour's own.

And he rejected suggestions that his actions were designed to avoid handing the position to Mr Davis, who led opinion polls all summer, before falling back after what was widely seen as a lacklustre performance at the annual party conference in Blackpool in October.

Mr McConnell insisted he would remain as leader following Labour's defeat to Alex Salmond's SNP in May, but this became increasingly untenable as his opposition was criticised as lacklustre.

Like now, the campaign was roundly criticised at the time as lacklustre, but it ultimately proved to be brutally effective.

Minutes later though the task got tougher as some lacklustre defending and a huge deflection off Koscielny gave Herrera a goal to make it 3 - 1.

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.

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As a result, CP's already lacklustre operating ratio actually increased, to 83.3 %.

As a result wage increases are expected to below 2 % in 2016, suggesting another year of lacklustre consumption spending.

In August, the rate of average hourly earnings growth is expected to come in line with the lacklustre pace that we have been accustomed to, as of late.

It is hard to see Mr. Prentice's term - limit pledge as anything but an attempt to distract Albertans from lacklustre leadership contest and the ongoing government spending and airplane scandals (and the PC government's unwillingness to take responsibility for its actions).

As a result, the Bank of Canada's current stance to leave interest rates unchanged given its concerns about the country's lacklustre economic growth could be an important catalyst for preferred share performance going forward — especially when combined with the U.S. Federal Reserve's projections for multiple rate hikes this year.

As well as righting past mistakes, Watkins is trying to play catch - up with an evolving drinks market while battling lacklustre consumer sentiment that shows no sign of picking up thanks to the negativity coming out of CanberrAs well as righting past mistakes, Watkins is trying to play catch - up with an evolving drinks market while battling lacklustre consumer sentiment that shows no sign of picking up thanks to the negativity coming out of Canberras righting past mistakes, Watkins is trying to play catch - up with an evolving drinks market while battling lacklustre consumer sentiment that shows no sign of picking up thanks to the negativity coming out of Canberra.

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.

As for Ozil, to be honest I think we should have just done an Ozil for Cesc swap with Barca, Ozil just looks so lacklustre and frankly, shit.

France go into the final as odds - on to lift the trophy in their home country on Sunday, and with Cristiano Ronaldo and his Portugal side having been mostly lacklustre this tournament, I would be very surprised if they failed to succeed!

Barca were lacklustre as they saw off ten - men Real Betis on Saturday, while Real and Atletico both kept up with the leaders with victories over Real Sociedad and Rayo Vallecano respectively.

As a collective they have looked dour and uninspired, and are clinging onto the Champions League as a way of garnering a modicum of success to show for their lacklustre efforts in the Premier LeaguAs a collective they have looked dour and uninspired, and are clinging onto the Champions League as a way of garnering a modicum of success to show for their lacklustre efforts in the Premier Leaguas a way of garnering a modicum of success to show for their lacklustre efforts in the Premier League.

With the match likely to be hugely significant in the fortunes of the two sides as they each fight to beat the dreaded drop into the second tier it was no surprise to see neither outfit being prepared to attempt anything remotely bold as the interval brought halt to the lacklustre proceedings with neither team making the vital breakthrough.

A truly lacklustre contest between two dire teams drowning in the lower reaches of the Bundesliga was probably the final nail in the coffin of Huub Stevens short term reign as Stuttgart boss as the hosts failure to land a much required three points sees them remaining firmly rooted to the bottom of the table.

As Charlie Nicholas says, Arsenal are slightly on the backfoot already this season given we already find ourselves five points behind the league leaders after three games, but we will undoubtedly catchup and once we do, it's then important that we don't drop anymore points due to lacklustre performances.

That man Sanchez was in the right place as usual after Ozil was tackled in the box to put us in front, and Olivier Giroud followed up after he had replaced a lacklustre Theo Walcott, and at last Ramsey got his first League goal at the 30th attempt this season!

If the three attackers are lacklustre in th 3 -4-2-1 formation, the deep central midfielders can not do much, as they are not supposed to have creative role in the formation.

Our draw at Liverpool occurred because despite a lacklustre performance, we were 2 - 1 up as Mert turned away from a Skrtel header in stoppage time.

We have far more under achievers than we do over acheivers, Walcott, the Ox and possibly Ramsey should be playing their hearts out week in week out BUT they are clearly nowhere near as good as they ppromised to be especially Theo who to my mind should be sold immediately to anyuy one stupid enough to put up with his lacklustre and half hearted performances.

Despite Marcus Rashford's equaliser, it was a lacklustre display from United, and from summer signing Romelu Lukaku in particular as his sloppy defending gifted City both of their goals.

It's worrying to see that Arsenal has become a club where it can not sell out or even if the tickets are sold, then many fans can not be bothered to turn up as a result of our lacklustre performances this season.

But apart from that terrible and lacklustre performance in the Champions League at Borussia Dortmund, the Gunners have looked better as the season has progressed and we look like we are very close to hitting our straps.

Unlike me then, you may well have enjoyed the lacklustre and uninspiring win for England o9ver a pretty poor and Ronaldo free Portugal last night, especially as the spuds involved still seem to be suffering from their end of season slump.

Cesc Fabregas has been panned by fans and pundits alike after another lacklustre performance for Chelsea this weekend, so here are five ideal targets the Blues should consider to sign as the Spaniard's replacement before the end of the transfer window...

Despite the «Wenger Out Brigade» being bigger than ever before as a result of the lacklustre campaign Arsenal are having, it looks as though the resilient Frenchman will sign a new two - year deal at the Emirates.

Whether it has been on an individual player by player level or whether the whole team as a unit has been lacklustre for some reason or another, and boy have we been punished plenty of times for it.

As yet another lacklustre Arsenal season draws slowly to a close, there seems to be no end to the speculation that surrounds the future of some of the star players and the manager himself, Arsene Wenger.

Lets hope Arsenal do better than last year as I was there and they were pretty lacklustre in their play, (even though Campbell scored and Sanogo got a hatfull!).

This will no doubt go down as a classic United victory, and Mourinho has given some indication of how he fired up his players after such a lacklustre start with so many mistakes.

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.

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.

The lacklustre feel that has loomed over Madrid's setbacks in LaLiga this season was not present as they laid siege to the Athletic goal, only to find a well - known figure in inspired form.

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

On the other hand, Delgado had a lacklustre display, as most of the Rapids threats were possible due to his inability to stop their passes between the lines, or else not marking his opponent before receiving the ball, thus leaving plenty of room to the Rapids players to run in between spaces and advance into the eighteen.

The Blues produced a rather lacklustre performance in the 0 - 0 draw versus Arsenal in the League Cup semi-final, and Antonio Conte will expect a much better performance as the club look to maintain their bid to finish in the top - four.

Going into this fixture with a lacklustre form (11 points from the last 6), United need to finish the year as strong as possible at Old Trafford as they prepare for the remainder of a long campaign in 2018.

Strong performances by Alex Song, Cesc Fabregas and William Gallas were overshadowed by the lacklustre efforts of Tomas Rosicky, Samir Nasri, Eduardo and Aaron Ramsey as the effects of the international break well and truly took their toll on the team.

Ozil has been in fine form recently, while Alexis Sanchez has looked a little lacklustre and not as sharp or committed as we have come to expect from the Chilean wizard, giving the ball away over 30 times in our last two games where we have dropped five points.

On the half hour it had been a lacklustre performance by United who had not created anything since the Rooney effort at the start of the half and honestly looked like they were just going through the motions as news had come through that Arsenal were up 3 - 0 so fourth position would be the best United could finish.

It is matchday seven in the Italian Serie A as league leaders Juventus travel to Tuscany to face a lacklustre Empoli side, while second placed Napoli will try and take the challenge to Juventus as they travel to Atalanta.

Sitting astute in 5th place is Rudi Garcia's lacklustre AS Roma side, out of form and dangerously close to missing out on a Champions League spot, if their recent fortunes venture on into the new year.

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After last Sunday's 5 - 0 hiding in the semi-final of the FA Cup at the hands of Stoke, I doubt there will be too many in that Bolton dressing room excited at the prospect of turning out in front of their home fans for the first time since last week's horror showing, especially as another may well be in the offing should they turn up in a similarly lacklustre mood when Arsenal pay them a visit on Sunday.