Sentences with phrase «close second goal»

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For the second goal of moving us closer to a consumption - tax and away from the taxation of capital income, I have more mixed views.

It then pulled out a much tougher win in overtime against Creighton as Jeff Hickman scored a field goal, made a steal and scored another basket in the closing seconds of the extra period to give Houston its 78 - 77 victory.

His Chelsea miss in the Semis (hitting the post twice from his close shot and PK) Went to WC final... and Higuain missed the easiest chance you can ever get in a final) Went to Copa America final... Higuain missed a last second goal.

Sanchez was never in the top three scorers in La liga the closest he came was his last season being fourth but 11 goals behind Messi the second one to Ronaldo with 31.

Although there were no more goals in the second half we were definitely trying to get one more, with Lacazette and especially Ramsey getting very close to notching a hat - trick, but it simply wasn't to be.

As we turned the screw more and more, Giroud added a second from close range in the 53rd minute and then an own goal from an Alexis cross put the game to bed.

BYU outgained the Cyclones 511 yards to 318 but in the closing seconds had a touchdown nullified by a penalty and missed a 30 - yard field - goal attempt.

The second goal was some of the worst defense I've seen in some time, absolutely no one even moved to close down Zarate.

They had the stronger start, they pushed us on our back foot from the start when they scored the first goal and I must say I was concerned after that as I thought they were close to scoring a second one and it would have made it difficult.

The Blues poured forward in search of an equaliser, but it was Bournemouth who came closest to scoring a second goal.

The unlucky Black Cats were undone by a wonder goal from Sofiane Boufal in the second half of a very close game and that will surely leave Moyes and his players feeling as sick as the proverbial parrot.

«It was similar with the second goal — you can't just blame the keeper because he couldn't see the ball and his defenders didn't do enough to close down Zarate and stop him.»

The second was a fantastic team goal finished at close range by Walcott and as halftime approached Ozil sealed the win and the points with a scuffed finish from an Alexis cross.

Ings opened the scoring for the Reds on 71 minutes, controlling a Lazar Markovic cross with a perfect first touch, before firing home from close range for his second preseason goal of the summer.

He certainly seems happy, even though Arsenal did concede a penalty and were under serious pressure for the last quarter of an hour, claiming that he did not feel that QPR got close to getting that damaging second goal.

With 10 minutes left substitute Gervinho came perilously close to adding Arsenal's second, but the ball harmlessly rolled out of play for a goal - kick.

Tottenham were really pushing for a second goal right to the end, and they came close a couple of times, so I was glad to hear the half - time whistle....

Second goal was Debuchy's fault, he was rusty unfortunately, but you just clear those, you don't try and take a touch that close to goal.

I have to be honest and say Ozil and the rest of the team played well second half considering the full contact game West Ham throw at us, usually when we play teams that aggressive or close contact we fall apart specially Ozil but not last night, i actually gave Ozil the man of the match and Elnely lol i love his enthusiasm trying to score a goal you have to give it to him for trying but someone should give him a map where the goal posts are

I sometimes wonder after listening to Arsene Wegner if he was at the same game, because for him to believe that before the second goal the game was close is clearly ridiculous, he then went on to say, he doesn't understand why people are acting like we lost to a team at the bottom of the league, someone should have reminded him of the team losing to Nottingham Forest in the FA cup, really sad that the embarrassment under this delusional old man continues without anyone responsible enough to stop him.

The second half started with a bit more urgency from Arsenal after Wenger's half - time talk, but Forest soaked it up, and on the hour mark Forest came back into it and came very close to their third goal, but it didn't matter as two minutes later Holding brought down Bereton down in the box and Forest had a penalty, and Wenger couldn't even complain to the referee from the stand.

The New Jersey Devils, a minute and a half left in the second period, were this close to taking a 3 - 2 lead in Game 6 of their first - round playoff series against the Florida Panthers, and it appears that Panthers right - winger Scottie Upshall didn't take too kindly to Ilya Kovalchuk Steve Bernier almost scoring his second goal of the game.

That chambers recked my head far to many mistakes today and to be fair he wasn't at fault for all the goals because the goals came from the runners running into the box you have to have people picking these runners When I am on the pitch playing I get annoyed because defenders are very close to me so i seat back and wait for that moment to run into the space with a goal no one would even see me but that is on the local field and not on professional level come on seriously I can except cotinou free kick but elanas goal and cotinou second even mane the way he ran in for goal as if he was a hot knife cutting through butter unacceptable these mistakes are school errors 3 errors on the same match to much to digest

However, Philippe Coutinho scored with a sensational effort just before half time, chipping over David De Gea from close range, to leave United needing three second - half goals to take them through.

Facing something like fourth - and - 26, Jordan Jefferson throws the ball close to the goal line in a situation where they end up with no time outs and needing a field goal with the clock showing 1 second.

In fact, Albany took the lead at halftime on a goal scored by Romario Pena in the closing seconds.

The France winger was on target with his second a minute before half - time as he tapped in from close range for his 12th goal of the season.

This gave Everton a lift and made the game closer than it needed to be for the second half, Arsenal continued to play their football, as did Everton which made for a really enjoyable game of football, in truth either team could have scored the next goal, and both had opportunities to do so, Grioud denied by the bar, Ozil by the post and Lukaku by the post, Delofeu was was also denied by a good block by Cech with Kozzer and Nacho in close attendance.

Dominique Janssen nodded home from close range before Reading's Fara Williams volleyed home the goal of the match early in the second half.

The second goal was the killer coming so soon after half - time and some blame must go first to Kouyate for a series of powder puff challenges and then to Aaron Cresswell for not getting close enough to Salah.

Unfortunately as is often the Arsenal way we managed to conspire to make the game difficult for ourselves, with a few minutes of the first half remaining Ox found himself with the ball on the edge of Everton's area, Hector available to his right and players closing, if he had managed to get a shot off first time then we would not have been chasing back towards our own goal five seconds later, instead Ox chose to shoot after a couple of touches in to a mass of Everton bodies when there were better options on, the ball broke to Delofeu who managed remarkably to stay on his feet for twenty or so yards before releasing Barkley, Koscielny had been dragged wide by Lukaku and Ox and Hector were in hot pursuit, they both probably had a chance to take the booking but allowed Barkley to continue, he took a speculative shot which would not have troubled Cech until it took a big deflection off of Gabriel and drifted into the gaping net.

With only ten seconds of the game remaining and with the scores level at 1 - 1, Glass netted from close range after his opposite number in the Plymouth Argyle goal had parried a header from a United corner.

KEY FACT: This will be the first league meeting between these two sides since 2001 when both were in the second tier MATCH ODDS: Huddersfield 8/5 Draw 21/10 WBA 9/5 bet365 Pick: Over 2.5 goals 17/10 ANDY SAYS: I think this will be close but I will go with the home side to sneak it... 1 - 0 GRAEME SAYS: West Brom are due a good display and I think they might land it here... 1 - 2 SILKY SAYS: This will not be a classic, and I don't see many goals — in fact, none... 0 - 0

Minnesota used a four - goal second period to pull away from the Jets and closed the door in the third period defensively en route to the win.

Long went even closer in the second half with a swivelling effort which was blocked at point - blank range by Ben Hamer, who was standing in for the injured Kasper Schmeichel in goal.

Thanks to Radja Nainggolan's last gasp goal on Monday, Roma closed the gap on second place Napoli to a mere two points.

The Seagulls came so close to automatic promotion last season missing a place by the cruellest of margins as Middlesbrough took out the second automatic promotion spot on goal difference.

Goals from Salah, El Shaarawy and even Emerson closed out a tremendous second half of the season.

Netherlands kept an iron hold on the match; Robben was close to scoring his second goal of the game in a one on one with Muslera, but his weak poke was comfortably saved.

It was one - way traffic during the closing stages as we went in search of a killer second goal, and it eventually arrived right at the death when the impressive Eden Hazard's strike deflected off the leg of Calum Chambers and flew past Cech.

Tottenham continued to dominate pressure with Jermaine Jenas coming close inside the second period for his side but it was Blackpool who were able to find the net for a third time when Brett Omerod played a precise shot past the reach of Heurelho Gomes to mark his first Premier League goal in seven years.

Both of those goals had been scored by Salomon Kalou, one a close - range header from Didier Drogba's astute cross, the second a tap - in after Frank Lampard's shot was parried.

Schalke missed chances to retake the lead before the break, Klaas - Jan Huntelaar and Nabil Bentaleb both firing wide, and there were no further goals in a low - key second half despite Choupo - Moting again coming close for Schalke and PAOK's Djalma Campos denied by some good defending.

The goal gave Watford the belief they had lacked and Femenia came close to a second, but with a half - time lead looking assured Holebas handled to palm Stanislas» cross away from Jordon Ibe, and was perhaps lucky to stay on the pitch.

Lewandowski burried Real Madrid in the semifinals first leg match of the Champions league in Dortmund with four goals, while a few minutes after the second match which Real Madrid won 2 - 0, President of «Royal Club» Florentino Perez approached Lewandowski and took him to one of the offices at the Santiago Bernabeu, relatively close to the locker room.

The second goal came in the 84th minute when Wayne Rooney scored his second by latching on to a rebound off the keeper with his head from close range after one of those shots by Januzaj.

In the second half, he stayed closer to goal and he got his reward.

The same combination should have brought a second goal two minutes later, Austin shooting too close to Petr Cech this time.

He was slightly involved in Sp * rs second goal, when Bale dived, off a Szczesny challenge, with Gibbs for close attention.

His first came via the spot while his second was a tap in from close range with his third goal coming ten minutes from full time courtesy of a well hit right footed shot.