Sentences with phrase «between winning teams»

And for much of the season, a matchup between winning teams was a rare occurrence on the weekly schedule.

Not exact matches

QPR owner Tony Fernandes celebrates after his team won the Sky Bet Championship Playoff Final match between Derby County and Queens Park Rangers at Wembley Stadium on May 24, 2014 in London, England.

Motivation soars when athletes know their actions can make the difference between a team win or a loss.

I found myself way too invested in an early regular season game between two middling teams, though it was an entertaining show: New York's 7» 3 ″ phenom / freak - of - nature Kristaps Porzingis dropped 31 points in a 107 - 103 New York win.

(For what it's worth, those two teams have only one win between them this season.)

It was the first Fall Classic since 1970 between two teams with at least 100 wins during the regular season, as Los Angeles won 104 games and Houston won 101.

After all, sales teams thrive on wins and opportunities, so if those are few and far between, they'll start to get bored and frustrated.

Award - winning chef Jim Bologna, former corporate and executive chef at Opus One, The Townsend Hotel, Morels / Shiraz and Capital Grille, is part of the Great Lakes Culinary Center team whose role it is to develop the connection between chefs and food service professionals.

Yeah but when you take the Cup - winning teams that you listed and realize that those stretches account for 18 of the 39 Stanley Cups between 1976 and 2015, there are going to be a lot of teams that can claim they kept running into those buzzsaws in the playoffs.

Billed prior to the game as a battle between two of Brazil's fallen giants, both teams knew a win was essential to ease the looming threat of relegation.

In three regular season matchups between these two teams this season, the home team won every game with Anaheim holding a 2 - 1 edge per the OddsShark NHL Database.

While Green Bay have won the last three meetings between these two teams, there is one significant problem ahead of Sunday's encounter.

The last meeting between these two teams was the one in Ann Arbor, which Michigan won 56 - 51.

Fans have been asked to be patient for a long time, and if the team isn't winning or at least entertaining, they choose other ways to spend hard - earned dollars, which inevitably leads to photos of empty seats on the internet, and flight - tracking private planes between Raleigh and Quebec City, and expert opinions that hockey doesn't work in the South.

Apparently, the team that won the league 5 seasons before was a foundation for Wenger despite the 10th and 12th place finishes in between.

So based on all of this, if the rumour that we have an agreement to buy Jackson Martinez is true, then between Martinez, Giroud and Walcott, we have a trio of players that can collectively push this team to win major honours.

Three years after Ohio State jumped Baylor and TCU to make the Playoff and one year after Ohio State made it in despite not winning the Big Ten, some folks at Ohio State's 247Sports message board wonder whether ESPN, a company that wants lots of games between big - name teams, exerted influence against the Buckeyes» enormously popular brand.

The home team has won the last four meetings between these two teams, although the Blackhawks have come away with points in nine of the last 10 (7 -1-2).

Remember if you aren't at the head of the class when it comes to the development of young talent, which means eyes on the ground everywhere, a vast array of connections with soccer associations throughout Europe and beyond and a manager willing to properly train and play said blue chippers, (like the 90s Arsenal or clubs like the modern day Monaco and Dortmund) you need to spend to win... anything in between is highly problematic... failure to make the necessary changes leaves you in the proverbial «no man's land» and that is currently where we reside... it's difficult to get out of this rut... just ask either of the Milan teams... next step after that is being known as a «seller», which could be us already if and when Sanchez leaves... there are only two teams that have worn this moniker in recent times and had some decent success and that is Athletico Madrid and Dortmond, which only occurred when they both brought in new, charismatic leaders in Simmone & Klopp... the odds that Wenger could conjure up the magic to repeat the performances of a bygone era are incredibly low, so why prolong the agony... he's not willing to create the hierarchy necessary to go the youth route and he's unwilling to put his team's potential success ahead of his job security by laying it on the line with Moustache, so it's time to place all your chips in the middle or go gently into that good night

If we can regroup after the international break with Mustafi, Welbeck and Ospina back in contention for first team places and our winning streak at the Emirates we'll close the gap between top to what it was before this farce of a match ever happened.

Road teams receiving between 0 and 30 % of spread bets have gone just 216 - 583 which equates to a winning percentage of just 27 %.

And between the Texas and Florida losses, Oklahoma put together maybe the most dominant run of offense since Army's in 1945: Despite facing five teams that finished with at least eight wins (including 11 - 2 Texas Tech and 10 - 4 Missouri), OU averaged 60 points per game over a seven - game span.

It is the passion, urgency and sometimes desperation that picks up the win rates between top teams.

This year's NHL Betting Against the Public article details the profitable points for contrarian betting between 2005 and 2011, and teams receiving less than 40 % of moneyline bets had won 75.8 units, or a 1.6 % return on investment.

Although these moneyline dogs win less frequently, the fact that you're getting them between -105 and +250 would compensate for the rare occasion that a team covers the spread but loses straight up.

Ronaldinho spent five years at Barcelona between 2003 and 2008 achieving a plethora of team and personal accolades which included winning the Champions League and the Ballon D'or.

The greatest and most successful privateer F1 team of all time, Rob Walker Racing Team ran various cars between 1953 and 1970, the famous blue and white livery winning nine races - mostly in the hands of Stirling Mteam of all time, Rob Walker Racing Team ran various cars between 1953 and 1970, the famous blue and white livery winning nine races - mostly in the hands of Stirling MTeam ran various cars between 1953 and 1970, the famous blue and white livery winning nine races - mostly in the hands of Stirling Moss.

Ozil was very ineffective in that no10 role, he doesn't get in between the lines, hes a good passer but he doesn't go past players at will and hes very 1 footed, he doesn't score enough goals to be a no10 in a League or CL winning team, i think we need either Cazorla or maybe Sanchez or even Chamberlain in that role in seasons to come, Ozil will have to play wide coming in the way Messi did for Barca this season

In the round robin the experienced team won all their games, although it was very tight between the best three teams as all the games between them were won by only a single goal.

The teams split the first two games between them this season before the Sharks won the next two by a 9 - 4 combined score.

Although there is no way of definitively categorizing a game as «must - win», for the sake of this article we will be looking at all teams with a winning percentage between 50 % and 67 % entering the final two weeks of the regular season.

Sanchez — by far the most threatening player on our team, especially considering that Ozil has never been a goal scoring machine throughout his career... wished he and the team had dealt with the whole situation in a much better fashion because even if he end up staying his time here will always be tainted by the memories of this year... Wenger has always hated confrontation but this isn't like the crazy years of Bendner or even the back - and - forth that he would have experienced with leaders like Viera or Keown, this was a battle between a guy with a lust for winning versus a manager who had lied about being the same

Behold the Celtics and the Bulls, a series between a one seed and an eight in which neither team can win on their home floor, not playing any point guards is a reasonable adjustment, and Paul Zipser and Terry Rozier are difference - makers.

The chart below compares the home and road winning percentages of NFL teams in the»90s (excluding Carolina and Jacksonville); the difference between the two figures is the statistical advantage that each club gains at home — or loses on the road.

There's a subtle difference between winning something and being in the winning team.

The winning team has been somewhere between 182 and 262 homers every year.

In a showdown between IndyCar's best, Juan Pablo Montoya and Team Penske won Sunday's Indianapolis 500 Sunday.

«The difference between this team and teams in the past is that this year we believe we can win games like this,» guard Lamar Greer said after the Duke loss.

The Super Bowl champion Cowboys entered the game as healthy as they've been all season, and they had won nine of the last 10 meetings between the teams, yet Philadelphia was often the dominant team.

In all of the games between these teams this season, Atléti have taken a 1 - 0 lead, then Barca have won 2 - 1.

The lopsided wins in Games 5 and 6 over the Canucks (combined score: 12 - 3) turned the Wild from a sweet story of grit by the NHL's lowest - salaried team into a full - blown phenomenon that peaked between 11:30 and 11:45 p.m last Thursday.

A.E.N. Kifissia was seconds away from winning and tying the current playoff series between these two teams at 1 - 1, and then disaster struck.

There is a difference between those that are dedicated, prioritize RU activities and let's not forget, donate $ $ $; and those that wander in sometime after kick - off, attend when there is nothing else to do and only get on board when the team is winning.

The Avalanche won the last meeting between these teams on January 6 at home, 7 - 2, tied for their most goals scored this season (and tied for the most allowed by Minnesota).

Here's my best Gunner's team with all being fit (I'm still contemplating the choice between Arteta and Diaby): ------------ Szczes ------------ Debs ---- Merts ---- Kosc ---- Gibbs ------- Arteta / Diaby -------------- Rambo Sanchez ------ Özil ------ Walcott ----------- Welbeck IMHO this team has the potential to win the EPL!!

Bettors can also wager on which team will win the coin toss at -105 on both sides between New England and Seattle.

realistically in the time it takes to regain match fitness — between now and Santi's recovery another gem, must emerge from the team with a determined nature to assist our return to winning ways.

@ 007 good point man but this is purely based on everyone's view on what factors they judge greatness in my perspective greatness is not only about winning I agree sir Alex was the most successful manager in the history of bpl but if u see the team he left behind then u will certainly doubt his legacy this is just opposite with arsene after giving us the hint that he might be leaving at the end of next season the other statement he makes is to leave a platform for incoming manager so that he can do well.This is the difference between him and arsene.

Week 15 features just one game between teams with winning records, but has some important matchups anyway thanks to the terrible AFC South and NFC East.

SUNDAY 12/23 Dolphins at Patriots Last year's second meeting between these teams was the last regular - season game New England lost — and, until Sunday, Miami's last win.