Sentences with phrase «by dominating possession»

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Minds dominated by the fantastic visions of the Revelation of John might easily lose the sense that all had been made new by the coming of Christ, and that in the communion of His people the life of the Age to Come was a present possession, through the Spirit which He had given.

We really miss Santi there and the backup option of Coquelin again doesn't fit the idea of dominating teams with possession by putting a player who's success in the squad came from breaking the play of the opposing team.

As expected Bayern dominated the possession and despite playing an attacking 3 -3-4 formation could not manage a single decent effort on goal all match and their task was made all the worse by Alonso's red card.

The Bills outgained the Eagles 412 yards to 348 and also dominated the time of possession by more than 10 minutes.

The FA Cup tie between the two London rivals was dominated by Spurs during the opening 45 minutes, with the Lilywhites enjoying 60 percent of the possession and going close with a series of chances.

Having dominated possession in the early stages with some impressive build - up play, the visitors saw Angel Di Maria denied by a clearance off the line before Zlatan Ibrahimovic saw an effort ruled out for offside.

Wales were dominating possession by the simple expedient of passing the ball around the back four, but had never threatened to construct anything progressive; Ramsey and Ledley were disappointing in midfield, the Arsenal man in particular lacking sharpness.

The Gunners dominated possession but were undone by a farcical own goal.

We can't keep possession, we get dominated by any half decent team (Swansea, Southampton, Everton, Spuds, etc..)

We were dominating possession as you'd expect, and began by probing and pressing slowly.

They went into Foxborough and commanded respect by carving up the Patriot defense and dominating the time of possession.

Just as many had suggested when the transfer news broke it was the difference in styles of football between the Gunners and what brings the best out of Vardy for the Foxes that was the problem, and his fears were probably not helped by England's Euro 2016 in which Hodgson did not start him and then played him out wide as England dominated possession but struggled to score.

France dominated possession and outshot England by about a margin of four to one, but England rarely looked threatened aside from a 10 - minute period just before half time.

Man City dominated possession 431 - 136 in that time but only managed 8 shots, 4 of which were blocked, 4 open shots in the 18 yard box, but 2 of those were headers by Otamendi, which left two shots in the box by the forwards (Jesus and Sane) and zero big chances created.

Utterly dominated by the 12th placed side in La Liga both in terms of possession and clear - cut chances created, Manchester United limped to the finish line after a decent early start.

To their credit, Villa chased and harried whenever the Reds had the ball but, with Balotelli being well - marshalled by Senderos, the home side barely threatened despite dominating possession.

Utterly dominated by the 12th placed side in La Liga both in terms of possession and clear - cut chances...

While their were a few moments of good attacking play by Leeds, most of the first half seemed to be dominated by Reading, who seemed to hold possession without much attacking threat.

By the midway point of the first half, TFC were dominating possession and controlling the ball for long stretches at a time.

The first half replicated the senior team fixture just gone as Southampton dominated the possession, unchallenged much by United until they got closer to goal, and they had some good chances to take the lead which wasn't taken although they eventually got the goals they searched for.

That enabled Brentford to dominate possession in the opening exchanges and they could have taken the lead when a ball chipped over the top by Ryan Woods got Neal Maupay in on goal but he failed to control and Johnstone was able to gather.

After going behind, the Saints dominated possession in the first half and responded well by putting pressure on Liverpool's back line.

Liverpool continued to dominate possession after the break but Burnley had chances of their own with Ben Mee denied by both Joel Matip and Simon Mignolet.

But the point is that if a team «deserves» to win by utterly dominating your team (not just in e.g. possession, but in good chances created, etc), then you should be bothered about that even if the end score is 1 - 1 or only 1 - 0.

Although Skrtel doesn't have many distinguishing features (he isn't particularly quick, strong or dominant in the air) he is a well - rounded centre - back who is adept in most situations, but operates better in a side that dominates possession and allows him to hold a high line, but as implied before, could see himself as fourth choice by the end of the season, and as far as fourth choice centre - backs go, they don't get much better.

I'm not talking about possession football, one can have an attacking mindset without dominating the ball as clearly expressed by his early FC Porto and Chelsea sides.