Sentences with phrase «ball out of play»

Funny thing was that whilst everyone was praising Jags for his «no - nonsense approach» on Saturday he actually played in the style of a League 2 battering ram, punting the ball out of play every few minutes.

His passing, usually the source of Germany's flowing football, also lacked accuracy as he repeatedly put the ball out of play.

Made Fabianski kick the ball out of play at least twice with his closing down work.

It did little to change the dynamic of the game, as Arshavin walked the ball out of play.

This drives me crazy: should a player be able to win a penalty if they kick the ball out of play?

Here is the video of Shane Long literally toe - poking the ball out of play, drawing the contact, and then going down:

With Oxlade - Chamberlain, you get moments of excitement and brilliance — a driving run, for example — before he does something daft, like give away a 5 - yard pass, or run the ball out of play.

The Croatian had two solid looks at the goal late in the second half — one of a cross from Joao Cancelo where Perisic headed the ball out of play.

He has great height and one wonders why he refused to punch that ball out of play.

For example, putting the ball out of play when players get injured (or pretend to be injured).

and wilshere and ramsey are not cut form the same cloth... wilshere, like u said has a much better footballing brain... wilshere doesn't require 3 - 4 touches to control a simple ball... wilshere isn't selfish... wilshere doesn't randomly pass the ball out of play honestly whenever fit wilshere is one of the best midfielders in the league

An unfit alexis looses the ball a lot but it don't matter coz xhaka will loose it way more as ozil waits for the ball and monreal backs off and let's anyone run threw on goal aswell as the weak mentality of kicking the ball out of play for no reason and not even trying to argue with the officials we might as well chuck Alexis in and out him in goal then put giroud at CB!

«I remember thinking that after he took his ball out of play, it didn't look as if he was putting it back in the same place,» says Barry Conser, the other member of the threesome.

The pair were involved in a nasty confrontation as after expecting Watford to put the ball out of play due to an injured player being down, Deeney opted to try and cross it in instead.

After another FC Bottle Job attack, a Cambridge FC defender managed to clear the ball out of the play to concede a corner.

Giroud didn't look sharp from the beginning, when he inexplicably dribbled the ball out of play.

When he earned his first high school varsity hit, Bradford took the ball out of play and gave it to Nava's father.

It had all kicked off when Tevez kicked the ball out of play rather than knock it back to Petr Cech, and culminated in Drogba slapping Vidic and getting himself sent off.

The opposition cant score if the balls out of play.

Not exact matches

News organizations may feel like they have to play ball with Facebook because that's where people are increasingly getting their news anyway, but it's the social network that's getting more value out of the whole thing.

If a professional football player fumbles the ball, he needs to get that play out of his mind so he can concentrate on the next play.

It was reported two weeks ago that Sony Pictures Entertainment will play ball with video game publisher / developer Ubisoft — appeasing what others have called unreasonable demands — in order to make a movie out of the company's massively successful, Montreal - developed franchise, Assassin's Creed.

That's partly why media companies are so willing to play ball with Facebook and its «Instant Articles» project — they are effectively running out of other options.

It is also a function of the stage of much of our careers where we aren't interested in playing small ball with incrementalism on how to squeeze out an extra 5 % of margin by optimizing the Internet slightly better.

In one spot, a trio of worn out office workers play with paper airlines and throw cramped paper balls into garbage cans to try and beat the afternoon slump.

Everything is so perfectly calibrated that almost every play is a matter of the most unforgiving precision; a ball correctly played in the infield is almost always an out, while the slightest misplay usually results in a man on base.

I have struggled for 30 years in my local Parish Church and have been tempted to leave several times but God has called me back as i eventually learnt that it's not what I get out of Church thats the main thing, it's what I can add, so if I remove myself I'm being mean spirited, I'm like a child who has a ball but if I don't get my own way in a game of football, I pick it up and take it home so no one gets to play.

In the mostly paved, partially dirt back yard of our school, we spun out of control on a merry - go - round, climbed monkey bars, and played dodge ball.

When the midfield trio of Cazorla / Wilshere / Ramsey have the ball at the edge of the opposing penalty area, you can be sure it's going to end up back at one of our CB's and be played out wide for aimless crosses with nobody there except the opposing goalkeeper.

Yes Giroud is not a 30 goal a season striker, but he does have his place, when we are struggling to get the ball out of our own half as a target man, and in set pieces, and defence, and he does score the odd goal from free play as well.

He does look a little out of place when he needs to make a play on the ball, but I expect him to improve with more reps.

It is the forward play that was truly poor but I don't think any of our defenders really stood out as Leicester let us have the ball the entire game hoping to break similar in way to that city goal, or almost every goal they score.

I know those are big boots to fill, and there isn't many players on the planet who we believe is ready to take over from Santi, but we need someone who could potentially do it, and I see Barkley as a player who can find some amazing balls and dictate play on a good day, and maybe (just maybe) Arsene Wenger could get a consistent tune out of him.

In those days, the early»40s, stoop ball was as popular as stick ball or punch ball, but I suspect it is now dying out; there are fewer stoops — the old brownstones that bore them are being torn down — and more cars are crossing the field of play, impeding the game and endangering the players.

LF — nice game by Parra (3 hits tonight) and some nice D — well done CF — not much out of Desmond tonight RF — Only offense of note tonight provided by CarGo — HR and sac fly — nice to see him play well UTIL — Valaika PH and hit the ball hard — just right at Difo at 2B.

Them not having a striker only removes that long ball hold up play to get out of tough situations but we would be ok with that most of the time.

SP — Bettis looked good tonight — a lot of ground ball outs and double plays — recipe for success at Coors Field.

The problem is our defence and cdm Flamini: always help the other side Arteta: never was the player than we expect him, he injured most of the time, and lost the ball in dangerous situation Per: he is good just in corners but he is lazy and slow Our good defender is just kosc and chambers And also debuchy but we must play with out him aleast 1 month Gibbs and monreal are good players but they are not good defence So we are very delicate in big and important games

You only realise the importance of keeping the tempo going when you see so much good build up being run out of play or the ball being released to the wrong player at the wrong time.

If Ramsey keeps abandoning his DM post and is repeatedly out of position up field when we lose the ball, play Coq the next game.

I don't understand why he constantly plays long balls down the middle of the pitch (maybe he's been told to try to pick out Altidore?)

If Poldi does go we will go all out for Reus, he wants to join Arsenal because of his hero Rosicky, Dortmund have slowly weakened their stance on Reus and a transfer, so things are moving along behind the scenes.Reus had in principal agreed to join us before the World Cup, then he got injured so we backed off, he's back now so once we beat Beskitas we will get Reus I have no doubts.OT didn't think Alexis set the world alight yesterday playing CF jury still out on wether he can play there, he worked tirelessly throughout but kept losing the ball and misplaced passes, he will come good just needs time to adjust

Yes he was played out if position, but basics weren't there today, simple things like pass accuracy, getting muscled off of the ball.

It looks as if we could end up playing with 9 or 8 men, Our tackling and challenging for the ball is totally out of character.

Monreal in at CB provides an adept and semi creative ball playing presence in the defensive third which I think is important to keep us moving the ball fluidly and intelligently and also means opposition need to compensate for the possibility of Monreal clipping the ball over the top to Lacazette and cutting the midfield out.

He will go out and buy yet again some midfield player who's natural tendency is to want to play in the middle of the park (Ramsey, Wilshire, Santi, Ozil, Rosicky, Arteta) and try to convert him into something else just to fit him into his starting 11 resulting into a team of players capable of passing the ball but incapable of being dangerous.

One of Vander Esch's most impressive traits is that he's never out of a play, because he throws himself out of blocks and then — like he often does at the line of scrimmage — attacks the ball.

There was no problem with Holding starting.The problem was with Monreal starting.If people are saying Monreal starts over Holding this means a LB is better than a CB at LCB which is more of a disgrace to the CB.Monreal is good but he does not have the qualities of a CB to play there for long.He's not your stand out tackler, interceptor or ball winner.He doesn't have the height or even the strength.He's just a solid 1v1 player but being a great CB is not all about 1v1.

I want a back - to - basics centre back who excels at defending first - & - foremost at Arsenal, that rules out Stones - he's made his reputation by being very accomplished at dribbling the ball out of defence and playing it forward.

Yes, Nacho can lost himself sometimes... why he left that ball to go out of play and then throw it to Mustafi who is known by panicing...