Sentences with phrase «better opponent»

Described by many as «Chess meets Counter Strike», Frozen Synapse takes real skill and understanding to better your opponent, as you attempt to guess where they are going to move on their next go, and counter their plans accordingly.

With Michu's main strength being running onto a through pass played by one of Swansea's more gifted ball players such as Britton or de Guzman there may be no better opponent to play against than Arsenal with their main problem in defence as seen at White Hart Lane last week is keeping a stable and aware defensive line once they have pushed up further out of their own half.

Aljo definitely deserved a better opponent to begin with, and hopefully this works out better for him.

Then we he came back because he was inactive he could not get a better opponent, he was given Kevin Lee was on 4 W streak at the time (but against no one in the top 10).

Texas Tech transfer Baker Mayfield overtook Trevor Knight for the starting job and has done exactly what Sooner fans were hoping: look spectacular against outmanned opponents (against Akron and Tulsa: 77 percent completion rate, 15.9 yards per completions, seven TDs, no picks, and a passer rating greater than 200) and make the key plays against a better opponent.

Boston College also lands at No. 5 by spanking UMass, which is a better opponent than most faced in Week 1.

Our rationale was that any mature commitment that intelligent young people might make to a religious faith should be critically tested by the very best opponents.

Also, they got their fifth Win against a really good opponent in Team Schwartz, who came into the Week at 3 - 1 and # 3 in the Rankings.

«I thought the team played really well but we came up against some very good opponents.

Getting Wins (and over good opponents) are key to a Team's long - term success.

It was an extra time loss in a very winnable game against a very good opponent.

Lots of primetime games with good opponents.

So with that in mind, the C - USA champ is the best opponent they can hope for, short of sending a team to the Hawaii Bowl against a Mountain West team.

Thrown in by Slaven Bilic for a tough debut against very good opponents.

This year I see one of our failings being that our midfield has been over ran by better opponents of whom there seem to be more and more as the season progressed.

Browne is certainly no Ortiz, but he's at least proven he can come from behind and flatten a good opponent in Chagaev — I like him a little more as the Wilder in this one.

Against better opponents and in higher level competitions both have shown obvious weaknesses when really undere pressure.

Alvarez shouldn't sniff a title shot until he has a convincing win over a couple more good opponents after the way he was pummeled as a champion.

Better opponents will chip away at Xhaka's weaknesses along with Aarons sometimes frivolous behavior.

Today was another measure of ourselves against a good opponent, and rival.

And don't move him out wide minutes after he comes on to make room for Giroud against better opponents.

But in comparison to other fighters from 126 - 135, he is the very best opponent Loma could face by quite a distance.

When teams are ranked high and play good opponents their job is to not only beat them but also look in control when it counts.

Landing Muschamp was a coup for the Tigers, who have the talent but gave up big yardage totals to their best opponents.

«Sometimes when you don't have the best opponent coming up, you catch yourself slacking off.

Today's result was lucky enough to provide a another excuse for our dismal display against a very good opponent in Everton at Goodison Park.

As for the Varsities, OURC fielded a very strong Humphry (match rifle) team, who, despite not being able to best their opponents, held their own and continued the trend of closing the gap between us and the other place.

One big reason for this is their league - best opponent three point field goal percentage of 30.8 %.

For me that's important because I had the best opponents.

We will see some better opponents drop into it in the next round, so we will have some good quality to face at some stage, but it will be the sort of quality that we were used to knocking down into this competition.

I think what we will see with the stretch of game against good opponents is that we may loose because the other team has better skilled athletes but not because our system is inferior.

While starting a season against such a good opponent might not be the ideal way to jump back into action, scheduling the Trojans for a week zero game did carry with it one important advantage: scouting.

Pena might be good opponent, ranked, not a great striker, and has name recognition.

Against better opponents, their defense got burned more, and opponents were able to play keep - away enough to derive an advantage.

Still, this is a good opponent, both because it can afford some potential rest to big players to try to make some sort of a push in Madrid and to give the team some confidence.

I am not advocating that Arsenal start playing negative football but as our results from Germany show, when you are playing at the home of a good opponent, show them respect and keep things tight at your end.

Coming off two HUGE home wins against West Virginia and UConn the Pirates now travel to the Dunkin Donuts Center to take on the Friars who always challenge good opponents at home.

The last three matches before this one were all against good opponents and we led in two of them.

They are a good opponent with confidence and we have to play a strong game.»

Samba was decent on Saturday but will come up against better opponents than thirty - two - year - old journeyman Jamie Mackie.

Lucky that none of these errors led to goals, which they might have done against better opponents, and lucky not to concede a penalty after fouling Ayoze Perez in the box.

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«It was a good game and a good workout against a good opponent,» he told Liverpoolfc.com.

«Tottenham was his first game and it wasn't easy for him, because it was the first game away to a good opponent, and he did very well.

The challenge for Wenger, then, is to ensure that Arsenal have the crucial attacking movement from Ramsey without sacrificing defensive solidity against better opponents, such as Chelsea.

Miner said she endorsed Deacon because she is most familiar with the needs of the people of Syracuse and will be the best opponent against Rep. John Katko (R - Camillus), according to a press release from Deacon's campaign manager.

Lhota, a former aide to Mayor Rudy Giuliani and onetime head of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, bested his opponents — billionaire businessman John Catsimatidis and Doe Fund founder George McDonald — and secured 52.4 percent of the vote, with 94 percent of precincts reporting.

Mr. Espada has run a sleazy campaign, even threatening voters who signed petitions for his strongest and best opponent, Gustavo Rivera.

After a largely lackluster mayoral race matched by low turnout, and the power of incumbency on his side, de Blasio easily bested his opponents, who struggled to garner name recognition throughout the campaign and overcome the mayor's significant fundraising advantage.

That's what deep - sea ocean explorer David Gallo hopes for — not a game to best an opponent, but one to explore the world's most famous shipwreck in ways never done before.