Sentences with phrase «ball was off the mark»

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In fact, Erhart's former boss (Johnathan Ball, who left the company) came out and said Erhart's reasons for Ball's departure are totally off the mark.

Some of us find the ball and chain to be a «mark of belonging» and are proud to polish the ball and show it off.

This is a team that gets off the mark fast, hits hard and goes all the way once it gets its hands on the ball.

«There was Alvis Whitted dropping a catchable bomb that quarterback Mark Brunell had put within his grasp, only to see the ball bounce off his outstretched hands.»

But Lewis found himself grappling with three Steelers, and it was Keith Cash, a third - year backup tight end who had spent his first NFL season with the Steelers, who batted the ball as it came off the foot of punter Mark Royals.

In Bouldys day we never had this zonal marking tactic, he wasn't coached zonal marking, it was get close to your man and not let them get a clear run up on the ball, we also used this tactic called the off side trap, where all our defenders were in tune we each other and moved forward in tandem, something that we was famous for.

CAM Ozil Merit - creativity, can drag matic, zouma / mikel from the middle with his movement off the ball especially when he is man - marked bcos he ll be.

However more often than not he makes passes that don't meet their mark and is easily brushed off the ball.

That 19 year old kid then had the cheek to almost effortlessly dominate not just one of them, but both of them, for 90 minutes, his passing was superb, he battled, every time the spanish geniuses came forward, he was there with a crunching challenge to get the ball, he had the confidence to demand the ball off more experienced teammates, no matter his situation, facing his own goal, tightly marked, it made no difference, he received the ball and as a result of either his immense skill or his animalistic desire, he broke free of two of the best midfielders ever to grace a football pitch and effortlessly glided forward.

they never are good with long balls... the back three was definitely trying to mark two men off..

We did a great job closing them down in the first leg and whoever replaces Lodeiro may help replace the offense but will be a marked drop - off on the defensive side of the ball.

Question marks could be raised about his celebrations, but as for his impact on the game, it's a fair argument to suggest that he deserves a place in the team of the week as he was crucial on and off the ball for Jose Mourinho's men at the weekend with his energy, determination, movement and clinical finishing.

I feel walcot can triv as our cf. I love his off ball movement e.g against man u; 1st goal - i was jst rewatching his movement and how it caused problem for man u's defence without touching d ball - manu were rearrenging to cope wid his movement dat let sanchez off d mark.

But the hosts took the lead in controversial fashion just after the half - hour mark as Kieran Gibbs saw his shot blocked on the line by Andrew Robertson before a Sanchez effort was saved by Eldin Jakupovic and the ball bounced off the hand of the Chilean and in.

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McLoughlin tried to curl an effort inside the post but his mark was off just off as he sent the ball wide.

Mark Hughes: «Diouf has nicked the ball and the keeper has wiped him out and should have been sent off clearly.

Great teams are often marked by their style of play on and / or off the ball.

We found it was quite hard to tell by eye alone which ball had bounced the highest as they tended to shoot off in different directions, so for our second attempt we marked a certain hight on the wall, and dropped the balls one at a time from the same height trying to make another mark at the height reached on first bounce.

«Anything over the three - inch mark changes the biomechanics of how you walk — your strides are shortened, you can't walk as fast, your body weight shifts to the ball of the foot, which throws off your center of gravity and stresses the knees and lower back.»

The film marks Six Feet Under creator and American Beauty writer Alan Ball's directorial debut, and there's little doubt that it possesses many of the expected off - kilter touches that have come to define his work.

, wherein ex-MLB players Mark Gubicza and Dave Winfield remembering their days as kids participating in the national pastime now dominated by Asians and Dominicans precisely because these guys» nostalgic reminiscences of endless summers hitting the cover off little Timmy's ball are relics of a different time, before sexier sports began capturing the imagination of America's youth.