Sentences with phrase «bits of the game which»

Not exact matches

It's been a while since I've been to a game, and I confess that the vast sea of people, the music and singing and food, the giant elephant statue making it's way down the boulevard in the back of a pickup truck, and general religious fervor of the whole enterprise reminded me a bit of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in India, which honors the Elephant deity.

On Jack I know we are still having to cover his wages if he's stays until January but I believe he may be valuable has a bit of that fighting spirit which certainly we could do with and if he gets any sort of game time and performs well his value can only go up from the 7.5 m bid we recently received.

goodness i can't believe it people will still defend him.You know something when Giroud misses many chances like at Monaco i did not criticize him even based on that you know why?its because he has always not been clinical.The only way a team can improve is by indentifying its problems and solving them.Arsenal has Giroud as the main cf and Welbeck as backup to him.Giroud has done well scoring some goals some too important but collectively he does more harm than good.Do not use moments to judge a player judge him based on content.Giroud does not excel in many games than he excels in games.As a main cf you need to be consistent.I see people here saying Giroud can not dribble he cant do this he cant do that but its a bit crazy to criticize him for that because every player has his own style.Giroud limitations as a player costs arsenal and will cost us a lot.Most importantly his poor finishing which has cost us several times.Not good enough.His style of play is ok for us but a striker who can take on players and run behind defences very well would make us very strong and also should be clinical.For Welbeck he needs to works on his finishing and composure by doing the basic things right.He rushes infront of goal too much.For now he is just above average.However he can excel if he works on improving.Giroud and Welbeck will always be a pain in arsenal's neck for most part.Some will call me stupid but hey at least i want to analyze the problem.People may support Giroud or Welbeck to lead the line next season but as the saying goes if you fool me once shame on you but if you fool me twice shame on me.Will you let Giroud and Welbeck fool you again?

For example, since 2005, home teams have covered just 49 % of games, which means that there's quite a bit of value on road refs.

The final game ended up being a bit of a lopsided affair, which is unfortunate considering the rarity of the records for both teams entering the game.

I haven't been able to really watch the past 2 games (was able to see bits and pieces of the loss) but it seems like Huerter is panicking a bit — almost like he is freezing under pressure (which is not what I would have expected prior to this season).

O'Reilly sat down with President Donald Trump to tape an interview which was broadcast during the Fox Super Bowl Pregame show, a 4.5 - hour affair set to cover every aspect of the game and, evidently, a little bit of politics as well.

It helps that he knows he's there in service of the game, not the other way around, which means there are times when it's better to shut up and let the crowd call the game for a little bit.

We saw Lynch's agent tweet for Wilson to take his head out of his ass earlier this season during Seattle's loss to the Cardinals (which was the last game Marshawn played in this year), and there has always been a little bit of awkwardness there to whose offense this really is.

Giroud reminds me a bit of Dimitar Berbatov, as a matter of fact I am wholeheartedly convinced Giroud is Berbatov in disguise, because he is the only striker I have witnessed who can go more than two months without a goal and finish amongst the top 3 strikers in the Premier League, completely similar in style, both very classy finishers, brilliant hold up play they are also both lazy as hell and occasionally turn up in random clusters of games which 80 percent of the time are worthless in the hopes of winning any silverware, but do just about enough to convince you that they are better than they are.

It could also curtail the attacking side of Jack's game, which Wenger clearly feels is his best talent, so perhaps he is right to be a bit reluctant.

«At times, it was a little bit of a strange game,» Avalanche coach Jared Bednar said of an outing in which the teams combined for three short - handed and two power - play goals.

... and we got just that little bit of luck that we lacked last game, though we did most of it ourselves, which is more than i can say for Barcelona

«We have conceded a number of penalties in games where the penalty was the only goal [we conceded], so sometimes you have these runs which are a bit unlucky against you but you would like to do something extra and find one extra save.

Couldn't agree more with you regards the negative postings however I think it's more a reflection on how divided our fans are, bad results and wenger out posts get thumbs up, a win of any kind and wenger out posts get thumbs down.me personally a wins a win and I actually thought we did ol but I'm very much in the wenger out brigade, the wins really do cloud the reality in my opinion which is wenger has built a squad so unbalanced its scary, miss managed it and not focused at all on the defensive side of the game, I do however feel that some though not all on both sides are guilty of stepping over the edge as regards personal abuse and it's all getting a bit ott

It might seem a bit mean to aim some harsh criticism in the direction of the Arsenal and Wales midfield star Aaron Ramsey, because a string of injury problems which began on the first game of the season has stopped him from building up a head of steam.

STANFORD»S BAND The musical kings of sophomoric humor have been banned from performing on the field at the next three Stanford - Notre Dame games after their Oct. 4 exhibition, in which, amid other bits of very low comedy, they parodied the Irish potato famine.

As a result of Laurent not having played competitive football in two months, he might very will be a bit rusty and Dortmund's free - flowing, high - intensity football will demand a lot of work rate from him, which may lead to complications as the game goes on.

Yes, on another side of the coin, one could argue that he might be a bit rusty and not yet hit his strides, which is true, but I just can't see him being successful as a winger, or affecting the game positively for Arsenal.

In all fairness this was the bit of luck that Olympiacos had against us and Zagreb in all of the games, which this time was paid back in full, and that goal made it as the only one through the interval.

TCU can play the sort of man coverage that can disrupt Baylor's offense a bit, and I can't imagine Baylor, which just lost one of the biggest games in program history, will be up for this one like it was for last week.

This little break of one day could also help the wild card team with the best record reshuffle their rotation around a bit in order to set themselves up well for the three - game Wild Card Series, while the other two teams would likely have to scramble up until the last day of the season just to make it, which is its own form of postseason chaos.

The silver haired gaffer referred to the second half of the game as «a bit of a damp squid» compared to the first half, in which the Eagles raced into a three goal lead.

Also, in general I don't put much stock in small segments of the season (no, I don't care what some player did in the last couple of weeks of the season, which is irrelevant garbage time), but I am a bit concerned in the falloff in Dinwiddie's game from midseason on.

The job for the Arsenal team got a little bit harder at the weekend with the Premier League leaders Leicester City riding their luck to grind out yet another 1 - 0 win to move them closer to an amazing title win, but if you look at it another way it has not changed what Arsenal have to do, which is to win all of our remaining EPL games.

We usually drop off after 2 - 0 a little bit, which I think is okay as long as we are still in control of the game overall.

Ozil has had the luxury of playing alongside lots of excellent players for Real and Germany, players that because of they're level of quality and roles in the team, can often make up for his own shortcomings in the game and he's given quite a bit of autonomy to do what he wants, if and when he wants in a game which isn't as rough and tumble as the premiership.

It is too soon to say whether that will be the case or not, because even though he was a bit below par in our last game, which saw Arsenal humbled 4 - 0 by Liverpool at Anfield, it was his first game of the season at club level and the whole Arsenal team played poorly.

The report suggests that his style of play is more suited to games in which the opposing teams will be playing a high line and this does not apply to Arsenal too often over the course of a season, which is why a lot of people thought that Arsene Wenger trying to sign Vardy from Leicester City was a bit odd.

It's a bit of a gamble, i agree — all i've seen from him except for the recent games he's had is the WC, which could have been luck for all we know.

Granted, he doesn't always have the perfect game when he plays the full 90 ′, but whenever he comes off the bench, he always gives us a bit of a lift with his energy, which tends to rub off on other players.

It might seem a bit odd to pick the Arsenal keeper as the Man of the Match in a game in which the Gunners» biggest disappointment was not making the most of the chances we created but if it had not been for the agility and ability of Petr Cech we could have come away with nothing from the game.

Then another thing they do is roll around after every bit of contact, not just to slow a game down or to earn a booking or free kick but it also keeps a game from getting physical which would be an advantage for us.

The Dodgers also acquired Nick Punto in this trade, which seemed a little odd at the time: one of the game's top first basemen on a contract the Dodgers wanted to possess, coupled with a former ace and a former star who had both fallen on hard times... and also a bench player who hadn't hit even a little bit in his first year with the Red Sox and was only owed a little over $ 300,000 for the rest of the season.

Well it has all gone a bit pear shaped for the Arsenal in recent weeks, as we followed up a fairly fantastic festive period of seven wins from eight games in all competitions with a three game winless streak in the Premier League which culminated in the pretty disastrous London derby defeat by Chelsea.

Williams showed every bit of his experience throughout November, making a high number of interceptions, which hints at great intelligence in terms of being able to read the game.

Leicester City forward Jamie Vardy has revealed which of his attributes he believes deserve to be boosted in FIFA 16, pointing out that he actually gets through a fair bit of defensive work in games.

Harry Winks had a fair game today, but it was a dull one - sided affair in which anyone could have shone with a bit of effort.

Before the game we had a bit of time so we decided to do a lap of the Old Trafford ground, which showed off the spectacular exterior of the stadium.

We hold a bit of an advantage in that we still have five home games to play, which is more than any of the others, but on the other hand we have more teams in the top six to play in our remaining fixtures.

Jamie Carragher got a bit of stick before and during the game, but for him to fly in from Thailand and even take it makes up the mistake he made for their first, which is also worth looking out for.

Speaking in the wake of the 2012/13 season - one which ended with Liverpool languishing in seventh and Suarez serving the first four matches of a 10 - game ban for biting Chelsea's Branislav Ivanovic - the Uruguayan hinted that he was off.

This is a little bit more of a direct game, maybe, which could help us at the end of games.

But the on the surface of things you are looking at a game which will probably produce goals at both ends and therefore there will be a bit of appeal for some punters in a draw / Boro half time / full time wager at bet365 which is a tempting 5/1 punt.

They are carrying a bit of form and have won their last two away games, both of which were tricky ones too.

They are going along in a bit of away form at the moment though having won seven of their last dozen European away games and they posted big away wins over Celtic and Anderlecht in the group stage before losing at Bayern 3 - 1 which also stopped PSG from winning all six of their group stage games.

Things could have been a bit different for Spurs at this point had Jan Vertonghen not suffered from an ankle injury, which he picked up during Tottenham's 4 - 0 win over West Brom in January, which kept him out for four games at the start of this year.

We have a tough game at the weekend against Arsenal and then we have a run of fixtures which are a bit more kind to us.

Been a bit under the weather myself the last few days, nothing serious, just a touch of the stomach flu, enough to keep me out of the bar last night, so I dove under the covers and tuned into the England game, which in no way, shape or form made me feel any better.

There is, however, a side to Luis Suarez that is not in keeping with his unerring ability to find the back of the net, as the Uruguay star was caught on camera biting the shoulder of Italian defender Giorgio Chiellini during their crunch game which decided who progressed to the knock - out stages.