Sentences with phrase «ball finding the back of the net»

He smashed it goalwards, and despite Ramsey and Ospina looking to get the block in the ball found the back of the net.

Mertens came onto the field, and with his first touch of the ball found the back of the net.

If he's playing a part in the ball finding the back of the net, who cares how pretty it is or whether it counts towards his tally?

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With no bad blood with his old squad, Salah chose instead to keep things respectful, and seemed almost apologetic once the ball had found the back of the net.

It's poor defending from Yedlin as he gets square on against Campbell and that allows Ozil to slip a ball past him towards the Costa Rican, who finds the back of the net with a good finish.

He is clinical in finding the right passing and slotting those delightful through balls to Pierre - Emerick Aubameyang, but can also consistently hit the back of the net for Dortmund, and I dare say it, he could prove to be better than our current options.

Maybe if he does show this video to his grandkids they won't think he was better than pele but certainly one of the best in terms of the style with which he played, than most other CF»S as his technique and ability to find the perfect place to put the ball in the back of the net are both worth admiring....

The Blues threw everyone forward and seemingly almost found an equalizer about a dozen times, but the ball just wouldn't hit the back of the net.

A good flowing movement on the edge of the box saw Fabregas psychically finding Denilson who cracked in a beauty from the edge of the box, the Gunners then netted two goals from their centre back duo getting one a piece both from truly wonderful balls from RVP and Cesc but one has to question the marking ability of the Toffees defence who vanished into thin air.

With Lamela to assist, Mason ran into the box and found enough time to poke the ball into the back of the net after which his collision with the keeper ruled him out for the rest of the game.

Unfortunately as is often the Arsenal way we managed to conspire to make the game difficult for ourselves, with a few minutes of the first half remaining Ox found himself with the ball on the edge of Everton's area, Hector available to his right and players closing, if he had managed to get a shot off first time then we would not have been chasing back towards our own goal five seconds later, instead Ox chose to shoot after a couple of touches in to a mass of Everton bodies when there were better options on, the ball broke to Delofeu who managed remarkably to stay on his feet for twenty or so yards before releasing Barkley, Koscielny had been dragged wide by Lukaku and Ox and Hector were in hot pursuit, they both probably had a chance to take the booking but allowed Barkley to continue, he took a speculative shot which would not have troubled Cech until it took a big deflection off of Gabriel and drifted into the gaping net.

Sturridge, Millner, Clyne, Origi and Emre Can all scored goals, unfortunately the ball didn't find the back of the net last night as we had a goalless draw against FC Augsburg in the UEFA Europa League.

Although he wasn't finding the back of the net, Dzeko was receiving consistent touches and was getting the ball in dangerous areas, but as fall gave way to winter, that well dried up rather quickly.

While the team had a wonderful defense, the team was unable to find players to put the ball in the back of the net.

Royston Drenthe found himself alone in the penalty box and put the ball in the back of the net, but his goal was wrongly adjudged offside.

The top attackers in world football are reliable; they often find themselves in the right places to get high quality chances meaning you can count on them to put the ball in the back of the net with regularity.

His ability to dribble, hold onto the ball and make key passes to open up space for himself has been critical to find the back of the net 10 times this season.

But the Reds weren't to be denied for too long, as Jordan Henderson's perfect cross found the head of Sadio Mané, but Begovic saved the initial header, only for it to fall straight into the path of the Senegalese who put the ball in the back of the net, as the Reds were off and away.

John Stones rose highest as the ball came into the Wigan six - yard box and his header down to Fernandinho should have seen the Brazilian find the back of the net, but he blazed the ball high over the bar.

Chelsea repeatedly cut through the Arsenal midfield putting one ball into the back of the net but was correctly called offside before a through ball found Eden Hazard who opened the scoring.

The closer you are to the touchline when you cross the ball, the less likely that ball is going find itself in the back of the net.

Fast on the ball, good with the ball, but unlucky in his plight to find the back of the net, which was something he consistently tried to do.

The stunning statistic is the fact that the Nerazzurri had possession of the ball nearly 62 percent of the match and could not find the back of the net.

Having just recovered from injury, he looked sharp, linked up well with the team and even though he failed to find the back of the net, he made intelligent runs into space to receive the ball, signs of gradual improvement and his decent displays should've been a confidence booster.

He played some beautiful balls in to his teammates but was never fortunate enough for one of them to find the back of the net.

Youri Tielemans had a chance at the end of the first half of extra time which bounced off Sergio Romero, who then got the ball just before the onrushing player looking to find the back of the net.

Just as it looked like a tight contest was set to finish scoreless, Gylfi Sigurdsson's 90th - minute corner found Hordur Magnússon unmarked, and the ball struck the left - back's shoulder before looping into the net for the only goal of the game.

19 - year - old Akpom found the back of the net from close range in the first half, smashing home a Jack Wilshere loose ball.

They keep the ball easily, open up defences regularly and constantly find ways to put the ball in the back of the net, scoring a frankly ridiculous 130 goals in 53 outings so far this term.

08 ′ 1 — 1 Kelechi Iheanacho equalized for City minutes later after Nolito found him with a superb pass and he made no mistake in putting the ball in the back of the net.

Though Liverpool failed to take their chances in first half but after the break game opened up when Milner found Firmino inside the box with a far post cross and Brazilian put the ball in the back of the net to make it 1 - 0.