Sentences with phrase «ball against the post»

It just seems to go from bad to worse for misfiring forward Roberto Soldado, who smashed the ball against the post tonight, as he attempted to turn it back into the net.

Carl Valeri cracked the ball against the post, much to the home side's relief, but the second wasn't far away.

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I think if LACAZETTE can keep this up, he's going to claim a place in the french world cup squad next year, his goal scoring instinct is sharp, he knows he won't get too much chances and makes use of the few ones he gets and he was unluncky not to have scored against chelsea and his header wasn't a fluke, he knew where the post were and he directed the ball, he will be handful for defender when our complete squad starts and luckily for us he's not an injury prone player, having him, Sanchez (if he stays), Giroud and Ozil fit will be vital for us this season and i see plenty of goals..

Howard is skilled enough that you can throw the ball into him in the low post, but at 6» 9» he'll be overmatched defensively against the bigger post-up centers....

we really cant play Chelsea with giroud... he cant score against them even if hes facing an empty post... giroud is just giroud... lacks vital knowledge of what to do with the ball than pass it on to the other player....

Welbz, however, possesses more attributes of a winger than Ramsey — played there (against his wishes) for multiple years with united, will stay wide and provide balance, will run at his his defender, will be another person in the box at the far post should Giroud miss the first ball — versus where Ramsey is on the complete other side of the field or at the first post or central channel in front of Giroud; has the pace and will look to run onto the end of balls from Mesut or Alexis.

After repeatedly chastising himself in public for not demanding the ball in the post, he followed his strong inside play against Los Angeles with a versatile 18 points on 11 shots in a 118 — 85 win over the visiting Grizzlies last Saturday.

everyone is tensed and the heat is so high, out last chance to get an equaliser against ten men Leicester... Ozil sets up the ball, looked up to the skies, then to the post, with eyes of an eagle took the cross, a sublime one straight to the head of Welbeck who nods it in, everywhere exploded with jubilation.....

In the last minute of their first game against the Netherlands, Daryl Janmaat headed the ball into his own post, wrongfooting goalkeeper Jasper Cillessen and setting up a last minute winner for Vaclav Pilar.

Johnson give the ball right back on a skinny post thrown to Higgins against man coverage, Wilkins broke free and tipped the ball upon release and it limped to Terrell who was trailing the route.

Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain gave the home side some hope with a late goal, but in a final wag of the tail Yannick Ferreira - Carrasco ran unchecked into the area and David Ospina's hand could only push the ball against the far post and in.

Aberdeen came close to scoring in the 67th minute when Hayes lashed the ball across goal and substitute Rooney slid in to knock an effort against a post.

With the score 1 - 1 in the 90th minute, Jaroslav Plašil slung a free - kick into the Nancy box and although Wendel used his hand to divert the ball towards goal and succeeded only in pushing it against the post, the linesman flagged for a goal and referee Bartolomeu Varela — to the horror of the Nancy players — agreed with him.

Aaron Ramsey touches the ball into his path and the England man smacks a wonderful curler against the post from the edge of the area!

Unless you're counting the fact that Juventus will be playing Real Madrid, who are playing some pretty damn good football at the moment, and who have some player named Cristiano Ronaldo who puts the ball across the goal line in between the posts and makes goals happen, and who also have Marcelo, and also Dani Carvajal — he was injured against Atletico in the first round, but may be back — two fullbacks who are the envy of every team in Europe except, well, Juventus.

van Persie struck his effort against the post, in a narrow 1 - 0 win over Swansea, but scored a fine goal against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League, from a Walcott through - ball.

Olivier Giroud had Arsenal's best chance to equalise when he received the ball with his back to goal and turned well before striking his shot against the outside of the post, as the visitors threatened to punish United's profligacy.

Marcus Rashford put United 1 - 0 up in the replay against West Ham United when he beat Tompkins with superb bit of footwork before slotting the ball home at the far post.

The ball evaded him but broke for Sterling, who smashed it against Begovic's near post.

The latter could be associated with Mignolet against Manchester City at the Etihad last season when he's trying to have a higher starting position and this in turn means he manages to get his angles completely wrong and Sergio Aguero is able to literally pass the ball past Mignolet due to the fact he's left a gaping gap at his near post.

With 34 minutes on the clock a right - footed shot by Torje sent the ball crashing against the post and Yacine Brahimi then shot over the bar.

The newel post and handrail were painted in Pigeon estate eggshell by Farrow & Ball to contrast against the spindles of the staircase.