Sentences with phrase «chance after chance against»

With Philippe Coutinho, Lionel Messi and Ousmane Dembélé wreaking havoc in the Girona defense with their pace, skill and passing, the Blaugrana created chance after chance against a desperate defense that kept scrambling to block shots and stop the ball from hitting the back of the net.

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Anyway, what the article takes an awful long time getting around to — after twice saying the question they pose isn't so outlandish or premature and that the recent volatility shows how jittery people are AND pointing out that the tax plan and increased spending «boxed» the economy into a corner against the chance for stimulus in case we have a recession — is this: It's going to be hard on people.

The BFG said, ««You have to give us credit because we kept going against Watford and created chance after chance.

The reason I think that Diaby is more likely to play against Burnley on Saturday, although not from the start, is that he is the player that most needs the chance to show what he can do after so few games in recent seasons.

Anyway, it was not Ozil who spoke about misfiring Gunners strikers after a host of chances came and went against Watford in the FA cup, it was Per Mertesacker.

I can remember our 1 - 0 lost to Chelsea where Sanchez missed a very easy chance after mistake from their defender, West Brom Game Cazorla missed a penalty, home game against spurs Giroud missed many to win the game for us.

But after scoring a superb hat - trick against West Brom on Saturday, the England international already had a very good chance of keeping his place against Aston Villa.

Recent history may not favor us but after watching the first 30 minutes of a latest match against them, I knew we were to pay for those missed chances, and we surely did pay.

With two assists and the equalising goal against the Cherries Olivier Giroud was named as the Man of the Match by the Sky Sports pundits and after his previous late goal heroics this season and that amazing wonder goal against Crystal Palace you would have to think he has a great chance of starting again.

After Southampton inflicted our fourth league defeat of the season, Cech seems worried that Arsenal are in danger of letting this great chance at the title slip and so he has warned the Gunners that nothing less than maximum effort and application against Bournemouth will do.

Even after his strong showing against the Vikings, I just don't know if Foles will take care of the ball well enough or make enough big throws down the field to give the Eagles a legit chance to win.

There was no doubting that Jack Wilshere was very disappointed that Arsenal didn't take their chances against Tottenham in the first half, but he tried to concentrate on the «positives» after the game.

After most pundits gave the Warriors little - to - no chance of beating the Nuggets after David Lee went down with a torn hip flexor, Stephen Curry has absolutely exploded to lead the Warriors to two - straight wins and control of the first - round series against the NugAfter most pundits gave the Warriors little - to - no chance of beating the Nuggets after David Lee went down with a torn hip flexor, Stephen Curry has absolutely exploded to lead the Warriors to two - straight wins and control of the first - round series against the Nugafter David Lee went down with a torn hip flexor, Stephen Curry has absolutely exploded to lead the Warriors to two - straight wins and control of the first - round series against the Nuggets.

The Gunners are away as well so you can see why we could do with Norwich City winning and as the Saints are involved in two midweek games against Liverpool for a chance to reach the EFL cup final at Wembley and after their Europa League involvement then we can hope for an FA cup upset.

Our chances of triumphing at Wembley have been severely damaged after not only Laurent Koscielny got himself stupidly sent off for a reckless tackle against Everton, but Gabriel Paulista was also stretchered off in the same game.

I wish players have the same hopes but to be honest after we lost against Swansea our chances are just as good as City.

when we played against Monaco in the 2nd leg, the team played with what you call players better than Walcolt in more than 70 minutes and created only four goal scoring chances but after his introduction he created a chance in just 1 minutes and another chance followed after just six minutes which resulted to Ramsey's goal.

This was the vital game though for Real who trail leaders Barcelona by 16 points in La Liga after a poor campaign and it is their best chance of picking up some silverware outside of the Champions League, in which they are evenly poised against Manchester United after a 1 - 1 first leg draw at the Bernabeu.

Spot on bro... the problem with most of us Arsenal fans is that we've been made to accept average as our only option after been promised by Gazidis and other members of the board that we will compete with top European clubs... i feel some players need to be allowed to go in order for better ones who are ambitious and hungry for titles to come in... and someone made mention of Giroud saving Arsenal in a few games like the countless chances he's missed that could have put the club in better positions could be equated right... he should have done that against Watford, west brom and the rest... truth be told..

After a mixed display against Tottenham, Memphis Depay should get another chance in attack as he looks to settle into this side.

After back - to - back defeats against Manchester United and Arsenal, it appeared Liverpool's chances of playing in Europe's elite competition next term were slim but a win against the Magpies at Anfield would open the door once again.

Antonio Conte, the Chelsea manager, has vowed to give Michy Batshuayi more chances in the first team after his midweek hat - trick against Nottingham Forest.

As we thought would happen after his goal scoring Premier League starting debut against Swnasea at the weekend, Joel Campbell gets the chance on the right side of our front three once more, with Olivier Giroud leading the line and Alexis Sanchez on the left.

The winner will join the Oklahoma - Oklahoma State Bedlam winner (OU's the big winner of the week, vaulting all the way from No. 7 after beating TCU and maybe even putting itself in the top group) and possibly Baylor in the holding pen; the Bears and Cardinal would also have games during conference championship weekend (and Stanford would have a real chance to impress against USC or UCLA), but the others in this group would be sitting and waiting.

Arsenal fans will finally get the chance to see the summer signing that we all hope will make the difference in our challenge to regain the Premier League title next season, after Petr Cech watched from the bench as the Gunners won the first match of pre-season to qualify for the final of the Asia Trophy against Everton today.

The latter was arguably our greatest shot at success as our title chances fell by the wayside after consecutive defeats against Manchester United and Swansea, but another below - key performance blew any chance of Arsenal equalling the cup record.

The young Gunner came off the bench to settle the tie against Zambia with the only goal of the game after the likes of Victor Moses and Ighalo had squandered chances.

There was pressure on Chelsea after their Champions League disaster in midweek and on Liverpool because of their defending and their recent results and there was a chance that Spurs would be jaded after their own European exploits against Real Madrid.

Although I can understand why Wenger would want to grant the players an extended holiday after such a long domestic season with Arsenal and then a busy summer at the Euro's, it is the missing presence of those players, that have largely limited our chances of grabbing all three points against Liverpool.

Sadly we missed a great chance to go top after City fluffed 2 points against a battling Villa side.

Spurs have found the net 24 times in 14 Premier League outings so far this term, and while they have often impressed in offensive areas, they have dropped points against the likes of Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United after missing big chances.

His confidence must be rock bottom having been dropped instantly, especially after missing the type of chances he did against west ham!

Penn State QB Matt McGloin was fuming after the game against Nebraska, where a fumble call blew their chances of upsetting...

After his unsportsmanlike conduct on the Washington Redskins final drive cost them a chance to tie the game against the St....

They continue to struggle against the top teams, so here is a chance for them to produce a convincing performance, keep within touching distance of the top four and give the supporters a reason to be cheerful after a month or so of indifferent displays.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

Minutes after squandering a good headed chance at the back post, Zlatan smashed a free - kick against Mikel in the Chelsea wall and beyond Courtois to make it 1 - 0.

This is possible but it may be worth noting that after the 1 - 1 draw against Barcelona at Stamford Bridge in the first leg of their current Champions league tie, they now have to go to the Camp Nou and get a minimum of another 1 - 1 draw to have a chance to progress.

Though the United States is in arguably the toughest group (Germany, Portugal, and Ghana) of the tournament, the Americans have a great chance of advancing after their quality result against their nemesis Ghana in the opening match.

The Gunners were brilliant from start to finish against Villa, putting together all their typically slick passing moves and creating one chance after another.

i think this could officially be the start of the end for wenger his blind arrogance has cause him to buy welbeck in the sheer belief that AGAINST THE ODDS HE CAN BEAT THE REST OF THE BIG 4 WITH ONE ARM BEHIND HIS BACK we should be buying top top top european c / l standard players not sunderland spuds everton standard players thats about welbecks standard of club in all truthful reality he is an honest hard working player but wenger thinks he can coach the mediocrity out of him he is truely insane its a guaranteed source of goals we need not more fancy hold up play and «pace» and missing chance after chance so the postman is to be joined by the manchester metro tram absolute disgrace he has kidded on ozil and sanchez they must be wondering what is going on atm they are seeing the true wenger now just panicking and not panicking very well to that effect and for some reason wenger has gone all kinky for english players for some strange reason at least chambers has great potential welbeck has past that stage and is a seasoned pro now and he is no where near what we need wenger is trying to show how great he is by whiping the back out of the same players week after week in the vain hope that he can win the league without rotating ever and they will get injured and he wont have learned his lesson and we will pay for it in the end best last day transfer would have been a 4 year contract for klopp

The chances of the Arsenal and England international star Theo Walcott starting against Estonia at Wembley on Friday have just taken a massive turn for the better, after the England captain and regular centre forward Wayne Rooney was forced to miss the latest training session after picking up an ankle injury.

If we are winning after 60 - 65 mins then bring Nelson off for Willock and go more of a 433 formation, if we have a couple / few goal lead then I would sub Lacazette ready for the Chelsea game and give young Eddie a chance to grab a goal against a team which isn't performing, would do the kid good for confidence.

This theory seemed to be proven tonight as Giroud was given a starting role for France in a friendly against Serbia, but after missing two clear cut chances to put the ball in the back of the net, he was getting jeered and booed by his own French supporters.

In an attempt to avoid the usual hype that comes after a few England wins — often against terribly mediocre opposition — this is not a piece suggesting that Rooney, Kane and co. have a real chance of winning at Euro 2016 next summer... let's put that idea to bed swiftly.

«After, in the second half, we had many chances to score another goal and make the game safe against a good team.

Walcott is also desperate to get more chances on the pitch after his recent injury hell and although he admitted that he could have done better with his chances against Newcastle, he is confident in his ability to find the net.

The Cleveland Cavaliers stormed back from a 16 - point fourth - quarter deficit against the Indiana Pacers on Sunday, and after Roy Hibbert split a pair of free throws with seven seconds left, the Cavs were down three with a chance to tie.

Florida HC Will Muschamp «mutually» agreed to leave the University after the season but he has a chance to go out with a bang against rival FSU.

Iwobi and Ozil could have really scored when they had their chance Alexis is dropping too deep we need to learn to kill games off or retain possession immediately we score to at least put the pressure on the opponent, it happened after we scored 2 against Swansea, against Sunderland after one, etc