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

The 26 - year - old doubled Chile's lead in the 37th minute as he swapped passes with Jorge Valdivia before finding the back of the net with a brilliant diving header.

Nevertheless, Messi scored two great goals, particularly the second as he waltzed past the Chelsea defence before finding the back of the net with a clinical finish, and so it comes as no surprise to see the Argentine wizard dominate the headlines and front - pages on Thursday, as seen below.

Nelson Valdez was terrible at striker in 2016, scoring zero goals through 22 games and 800 + minutes in the regular season before finding the back of the net twice in the playoffs.

Kane scored a first - half penalty against Burnley before finding the back of the net twice after the break.

And the same Matri who had what looked to be the go - ahead goal called offside — rightly or wrongly — just a short time before he found the back of the net in extra time.

The finish for his goal was an exemplification of the composure and coolness he possesses as he danced past an exasperating Jose Sa before finding the back of the net.

The 35 - year - old has struggled in games this season but nobody can deny his pedigree and as he proved against Swansea, if the chances keep coming, it is only a matter of time before he finds the back of the net.

Not exact matches

We said before the game that we needed to put our chances away, but as has happened a lot lately we simply can't find the back of the net.

Chelsea star Eden Hazard has explained how he encouraged Willian to alter his shooting style after hitting the post twice against Barcelona before finally finding the back of the net.

There is plenty of power and technical ability to his game as well and if he can keep finding the back of the net, how long will it be before Wenger thinks about promoting him on a regular basis?

The Belgium international made a fine start at Old Trafford before a recent goal drought, which has seen him fail to find the back of the net in his last five games for the club.

Following some excellent build - up play from Wayne Rooney, the Spaniard made up ground to support his teammate before keeping his cool and finding the back of the net.

Jack Cork then found the back of his own net in the 82nd minute to level the scores, before Christian Benteke scored in the 84th minute to complete an unbelievable 11 minute turnaround.

Jurgen Klopp would have been eager to get his troops in at half - time to boost their confidence and plot a second - half comeback, but Andreas Weimann made it doubly difficult for him as he found the back of the net just before the interval.

Just before the hour - mark, Mesut Ozil caps off some sublime build up play which started from the back, with Alexis finding the German inside the penalty box to fire into the roof of the net to reclaim our two - goal advantage.

Manchester City wouldn't be able to find the back of the net before the final whistle blew despite several furious attacking attempts in the closing minutes, with Liverpool managing to frustrate their constant pressure in the final third.

Arsenal v West Brom «It seems almost inconceivable that Arsenal would go three home games without finding the back of the opposition net, but they looked jaded and out of sorts against the Black Cats midweek and will be hoping for a confidence booster before Wembley next weekend.»

The Eagles, who tied the Wolf Pack 1 - 1 in the first meeting between the two teams, attacked on offense for much of the final 15 minutes of play before Gonzalez found the back of the net with five minutes left in 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.

The first leg was played at Balaídos in Spain with United earning the slimmest of 1 - 0 victories with Rashford finding the back of the net through a free - kick in the 67th minute of the match, shortly before limping off with an injury himself.

The striker shrugged off two recovering Terriers defenders before seeing his effort find the back of the net via a cruel deflection which sealed a win on his managerial debut for Sam Allardyce.

Today, nothing of the sort would happen as the player wasn't able to find the back of the net before he was subbed off by Richmond Boakye.

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.

Arsenal had to dig deep and with less than 20 minutes to the end of regular time pulled one back through a Matersacker header which found the back of the net bringing the game back on level terms before dragging the game into penalties and then Goalkeeper Fabianski brought the magic out of him with two outsatanding saves to see the gunner through to the final.

Sterling's cross found Jesus inside the area, and the Brazilian produced a superb controlled volley that was heading for the back of the net before Rudiger's intervention on the line denied City a second.

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.

Ugbo found space in front of the Reds central defenders and advanced to the edge of the box before dispatching a neat finish into the back of the net.

Mario Mandzukic is yet to find the back of the net and he will be keen to open his account before the knockout stages.

However, after watching Bungie's live stream of The Trials of Osiris, I've found myself back on that Destiny grind once again, trying to rank up my weapons and (hopefully) net some better gear before the House of Wolves expansion drops on May 19th.