Sentences with phrase «come against playoff»

Only four of the road games and four of the home games come against playoff - possible teams.

New Orleans is currently No. 4 in the standings, with 11 of its 16 remaining games coming against playoff teams.

Not exact matches

With this fixture against Leeds coming at home, the blues will be hoping to snatch a few more points and maybe even a win from the playoff contenders.

like who really expects not just a rookie, but a 19 year old rookie with only a dozen professional games under his belt, to just come into the playoffs against a veteran and physical team like the Heat and play really well?

Team Mazurek was coming into this Elite8 Matchup coming off back to back Playoff Ws and then managed to win the first game in this one... For the first time all Season Team Kirshner was pushed up against the wall..

Team Harris came into the Playoffs rolling and their latest W came this past Sunday against a foe they should get pretty familiar with — 6.

A spot in the Elite8 against # 2 Team Apuli was at stake and earning an All Sports Series Playoff Win, which are very hard to come by..

They came up a bit short against defending Champs Team Bartlett, but I think the experience is going to be extremely valuable come Playoff time.

They end the season against Team Lalez with a potential Division title on the line and more importantly a higher seed come Playoff Time.

They have 5 Games remaining, with a couple double headers, and if they can manage to get a sweet against Chicago Trolley and Double Decker Co. this coming weekend then they will likely lock up the # 1 seed for the Playoffs!

With their Champions League playoff qualifier second leg against Hoffenheim to come next week, Liverpool will be hoping to secure another important result as Klopp's men start to build some early momentum.

The No. 2 seed gets a seven - game tilt against a Grizzlies team no one wants to meet in the playoffs, a Clippers team that's long had a chip on its shoulder from untimely post-season injuries, an up - and - coming, defensive - minded Jazz team with nothing to lose, or an emotionally charged Thunder squad featuring Russell Westbrook.

This is all working, and if it works against Notre Dame in Miami this coming week, everyone will have to come around to America's Most Relaxed Team being a Playoff contender, single - digit wins and all.

September also looks like a challenging month for the Tykes, as they come up against more sides who will be aiming for the playoff places in Nottingham Forest, Watford, and Leicester City.

Norwich City will be satisfied to come out of the first leg of their playoff tie against rivals Ipswich Town with a draw, but there's everything left to play for after their 1 - 1 deadlock, especially now that away goals are no longer a tiebreaker in the promotion playoffs.

Prior to that away draw at Goodison Park, the Gunners had got off to an optimistic start to the season, which saw them win the FA Community Shield against Manchester City and get off to winning start in the Premier League against Crystal Palace, and come away with a clean sheet in the first leg of their Champions League playoff tie against Besiktas.

They were in this game to the end They had enough good chances, they could have won this game By any measure, they are playing against a team with more talent When you rarely make the playoffs for several years, you get better draft picks, and those draft picks have come through for the Jets We are not finished, but our chances of winning this series are slim, but not none We give it our best Friday in the Peg, I hope it is enough

Meanwhile 3 of our 5 wins over that stretch have come against teams on track to make the playoffs.

Alabama won Monday night's College Football Playoff National Championship game against Georgia, but it wouldn't come without some controversy from the Big Ten's officiating crew.

If Irving can come close to reproducing those kinds of results at defensive end against other teams, the Cowboys will be tough to beat in the playoffs.

As you can see, the Cubs have won 20 of Arrieta's last 21 starts dating back to last season with the lone loss coming in the playoffs against Noah Syndergaard and the Mets.

The Houston Cougars finished the regular season 9 - 3 and two of those wins came against Louisville and Oklahoma, both of which are among the top - 25 in the College Football Playoff Rankings.

Two things to keep in mind with regard to the Jets: 1) This game comes after their bye; 2) They open the season playing five of six against 2015 playoff teams, just two at home.

Firmani moved Pelè out of Chinaglia's way, and the goals began to come, nine of them in the playoffs, including a header against the Seattle Sounders, which won Soccer Bowl» 77.

Team Rubin got to the Playoffs off a recent three week surge that brought them wins in Football, Hoops and Softball, most impressively, with the Hoops Win coming against top ranked Team Maione.

Based on this data, the optimal range for betting against the public during the NHL Playoffs comes at the 40 % threshold where favorites have gone 35 - 14 (71.4 %) with +14.96 units won.

Their Win against what will be a good Team Deutsch squad is one we may look back upon come Playoff time as one of Team Unger's most important of the Regular Season.

The Game against Team Wellek could decide who lands in the # 3 seed come Playoff time.

With their Playoff lives firmly pushed back against the wall, the Team Cy Fredrics bats came alive..

Additionally, the wins haven't come against the strongest competition, as the Rockies are the only playoff team the Marlins have played through this stretch.

But the sophomore forward and daughter of long time Arena League quarterback Aaron Garcia and former Sacramento State women's basketball standout Shelby Boudreaux, the season culmination will come with what they do the second time around against Sacramento, and how they perform in the playoffs.

Baylor at Oklahoma State: Oklahoma State comes into this game undefeated with a great chance of getting into the playoff, but only opened -1 against a Baylor team who lost at home last week to Oklahoma.

Ramsey also came up big at the most important moments, picking Ben Roethlisberger off the first time the two sides played and then sealing the win against Buffalo in the playoffs with a key interception and allowing a passer rating of just 18.8 in that game.

With the all - important World Cup playoffs coming up, Italy will be looking to field their best unit against Sweden.

Leeds might only be five points out of the playoffs, but they are in 9th place and have a difficult stretch of games coming up, with matches in February against Cardiff City, Sheffield United, Bristol City and Derby County, all teams that are above Leeds in the table.

The move should help come playoff time, but we look to fade them against teams with quality big men and in unrested situations.

Injury saw the striker miss the Confederations Cup in Brazil and as if to underline his importance to the Super Eagles, he returned to score four goals in three consecutive matches, against Mali, Burkina Faso, and then a double in Nigeria's come - from - behind 2 - 1 victory against Ethiopia in the first leg of the World Cup playoff.

Martin O'Neill was rightly criticised for his tactical mistakes when it came to the second leg of the playoff against Denmark and looking to Aiden McGeady to save the day smacked of desperation — opting for a player who has consistently underperformed on the international stage.