Sentences with phrase «cagey first»

The Hornets had 10 shots in a cagey first half, which was a massive change from the intensity shown by the Chelsea team at MK Dons over the weekend.

After a cagey first period, Kieran Gibbs turned Antonio Valencia's sharply struck cross into his own net just after half time to give United something to hang onto.

After two cagey first - leg affairs last month, the decisive Coppa Italia semifinals take place Wednesday, with Juventus hosting Atalanta in Turin at 11:30 a.m ET followed by AC

After two cagey first - leg affairs last month, the decisive Coppa Italia semifinals take place Wednesday, with Juventus hosting Atalanta in Turin at 11:30 a.m ET followed by AC Milan at Lazio at 2:45 p.m.

After a cagey first - half, Radamel Falcao...

Neither side had created much in a cagey first quarter before Petit picked out Overmars» darting run on the blind side of Alessandro Pistone.

Kwak: I just don't think it's that ridiculous to sit Pogba in what will always have been a cagey first leg of a Champions League tie in a difficult stadium to get a result.

After a cagey first half the home side took the lead early in the second period when Philippe Coutinho brilliantly found Raheem Sterling in the box before the England man confidently fired home.

After a cagey first half van Gaal elected to bring on Marouane Fellaini for Juan Mata and the move paid off on 58 minutes when the Belgian calmly controlled and fired home when fee in the QPR box.

It was a pretty cagey first half, although right from the start it was Arsenal who dominated the ball and passed it around with accuracy.

The visitors had the better of a cagey first half, with Raheem Sterling the brightest player on the pitch.

Not exact matches

Despite not having Joel Embiid, despite playing its first playoff game, despite going against a cagey Miami Heat team, they won Game 1 easily, 130 - 103.

The first half was pretty cagey for a while with a real battle in midfield and you could say that Hull should have been ahead after a great cross from the left found Aluko but the striker got his free header all wrong and Mertesacker cleared.

The game was there in the first half, they were a bit cagey and we defended well.

Instead, it was a cagey affair, and Barcelona needed a late goal from Julio Moreno to secure a first leg lead at home.

The first half at the Morumbi was a cagey affair but in the second half the game loosened up.

Eric Bailly had given the visitors a first - half lead in a cagey contest, but United turned on the style in the final quarter of the game with three quick goals with no reply.

The first half was a very cagey affair, with Arsenal not trying to concede and Southampton trying to score!

With both teams not looking confident enough going into the game, expect a cagey affair in the first 30 minutes.

Manchester United edge past Celta Vigo in a cagey Europa League semi-final at Old Trafford to reach their first final in the competition.

The two sides were pretty closed up in the first half, which led to a cagey affair.

It was a cagey start to the contest with both teams guilty of losing possession during the opening exchanges, but the first real piece of quality saw the Blues take the lead after only nine minutes.

«I thought we were cagey in the first quarter but then came into it more in the second quarter and had some good chances.

First, defensive, cagey, highly concentrated 4 -5-1 formation.

Cagey in the first few minutes, with Liverpool having perhaps a slight advantage.

The first half was pleasing on the eye as both teams looked to keep the ball on the floor and build nice attacking moves, but it was quite cagey as Arsenal looked to still be getting the League Cup humiliation out of their system.

And it didn't seem fair to share details of our relationship, particularly because he had been so cagey about the idea of the blog in the first place.

That really means cagey indirect light, the kind that's turned heaps of clothes into imagined monsters since kids were first tucked into beds.

John Turturro is a cagey hostage negotiator who first investigates and then coaches Ryder to keep his cool and James Gandolfini the exasperated mayor finishing out his term under a cloud of scandal, authority figures that Ryder takes great pleasure in humbling.

Nissan execs I spoke with were cagey about what is shared between the 2018 model and the first - generation Leaf, but they did admit that the battery pack is the same size, and much of the chassis packaging carries over, too.

Exxon was cagey, at first, about giving an estimate of how much spilled, initially telling reporters it was «a few thousand» barrels or declining to give an estimate.