Sentences with phrase «come against teams»

Everton's final five games in the Premier League come against teams below them in the table, with scant consolation left to chase.
Everton's last two away defeats have come against teams that have played the system.
They have won seven of their 27 league games, four of which have come against teams in the top half of the table, West Brom, Everton, Liverpool, and Stoke.
West Ham are unbeaten on the road in 2017 and have not previously lost away to Bournemouth in any competition; 26 of the Hammer's 33 league goals and 8 of their 9 wins have come against teams in the bottom half of the table.
Joe Flacco has led the Ravens to seven wins this season, none of which have come against teams with a winning record.
These three defeats have all come against teams above them, so it is imperative that the Toffees win their next few fixtures in an attempt to claw back some points.
And Hughes is lucky that the fixture list gets a little calmer from this point on: Eight of their next nine games come against teams outside the top eight, and the odd one out there is Manchester United, who are having their own crisis.
The Eagles» six wins have come against teams with a combined 19 - 31 record.
Home games against United and Arsenal lurk towards the end of the season — just in time for a heroic return from Kane, perhaps — but all of their remaining away games come against teams in the bottom half.
Of Alabama's 12 losses in the last seven - plus years, nine have come against teams with offenses we might define as spread - like.
Meanwhile 3 of our 5 wins over that stretch have come against teams on track to make the playoffs.
Ten of those wins have come against teams with winning records and more than half of them have come on the road.
They have 3 losses and all of them come against Teams ranked in the Top 5 currently..
Two of our wins have come against teams really struggling in Stoke and Newcastle, while our goal return compared to the amount of possession and chances created is less than impressive.
Not with 24 of their 28 wins coming against teams from outside of the RPI Top 100.
Their latest Win came against Team Dean..
The regular - season debut of Kirk Cousins in purple comes against a team that went from pushover to intriguing on Oct. 30, 2017 when the 49ers acquired Jimmy Garoppolo in a trade with the Patriots.
Consider that while 20 of Middle's 24 wins came against teams from outside top 100 (including a Division II one the Committee doesn't consider), a whopping 24 of Saint Mary's 28 victories came from that same group.
They look to get back on a winning streak, with their next Game coming against Team Rudy, who will be fresh off their first W of the Season.
It has to come against a team that has used at least 90 percent of the FCS maximum scholarship total (63 per team) «during a rolling two - year period.»
I used to observe this whenever we came against teams in the big 4..
Yes, Tim Miles» squad won 22 games, but only four of those victories came against teams from the top 100, and that total included 10 of Nebraska's 13 Big Ten victories.
Saint Mary's single win at Gonzaga wasn't enough for them, especially since 24 of their 28 victories came against teams from outside of the RPI top 100.
Now, sure, those three wins came against teams that are a combined 74 - 157, but whatever.
Nobody wants to see Juve blow another 1 - 0 lead again — especially when it comes against a team that has just one win in its last six Serie A games.
Albeit two of those games came against a team that has been relegated and one that is sitting mid-table without much to play for these days.
They both make for riveting reading, although, more poignant is actually their record during the group phase, mustering only one win from their three Group C encounters at Old Trafford, that coming against the team which finished rock - bottom, Bursaspor.
It is true that the four latest results came against teams of the highest calibre and included a 3 - 3 with Spain after a 1 - 0 defeat to Argentina in November.

Not exact matches

Taking one for the team; bidding up and against your own best offer; sucking it up, and accepting a deal that you're not sure the company can afford — these are bad choices and consistent signals that there're bigger issues and problems coming.
On the road, however, the team came up against a major flaw: At 40 kilograms, the «portable» prototype was far too clunky, leaving one team member in need of slipped disk surgery after carrying the pack.
This comes as Kasich's campaign announced that he and Ted Cruz will be teaming up against Trump.
They are most often ambitious type - A personalities that move fast and get things done but these beneficial traits can also work against them when it come to the seemingly slow and inefficient tasks of management, responsibility delegation and building a desirable team culture.
It was the third time in four years that a Fisher team has lost by 30 - plus points, but whereas the other two came against Heisman winners and good teams — Oregon in 2014, Louisville in 2016 — this one came against... Boston College.
We need a keeper that is dominant in our box... he needs to come out and collect crosses on a regular with real authority because lots of teams target set pieces or crosses from wide to score against us
A professional football team, capable of beating any team they come up against.
So this Alabama team has one November loss, and it came against an 11 - 1 arch rival on the road.
Here in South Africa the team that i support the fans did a pitch invasion they were chasing the players and the technical staff after a team play against scored 6th goal in the 80th min, fans were angry at the chairman who promised them the coach in January, the coach only came after the pitch invasion in middle of Feb, maybe Arsenal needs that to enforced the change.
We do nt mix it up when it comes to the tactical side of the game, a good example is we hardly if ever take shots from outside the box, so the opposition know that we like to «pass it in the net» teams do nt find it as difficult to defend against us anymore.
Of course we might not be exactly buzzing with self - belief ourselves but at least we are coming up against a team that is also yet to win this season, with a draw against Southampton and a loss to Chelsea before this league cup exit.
As Blogging the Boys points out, the Packers are 0 - 5 against teams ranked in the league's top half when it comes to points per game.
iwobi on Wolcott as winger will not work for a whole season team on there manager will figure how to defend against us very easily because they both come into the middle not on the outside so there no space for the other midfield to work players like.
Obviously there is a vast difference in quality because we are seeing a major Premier League team coming up against a side that was only promoted to the National League last season.
The Frenchman bagged an important brace against Sunderland, after coming off the bench with the scores tied at 1 - 1, and he is now knocking on the door for a first - team place.
We can't seem to penetrate any team at the moment and coming up against a defensively and a relegation battling team will not do us any favours.
Last season Arsenal came close to becoming the best defense in the entire league with good defensive stats, but this good news was smashed by the conceding 22 horrible goals against the teams in the top five, 20 of those on away games to those same top teams (Chelsea, City, Liverpool, and Everton).
Mr.stubborn, wenger, please learn that «the wilshere kinda goals» last season against norwich comes once in 100 years, please fu * king stop setting up our team to play meaningless passing game to score such goals.
Although our PL game at the Emirates on Sunday against Burnley should be our focus for now before we start to think of our fourth round FA Cup match against either the Saints team or the Lions team.When the time to play the Cup game comes, I am sure Arsenal will squarely deal with it to win the game.
When they come up against a dysfunctional team like Arsenal who play as individuals, no tactics and don't have a team effort then they might mash us again..
Arsenal is a very difficult team to defend against because of the options that we have, starting or coming of the bench, it keeps other teams guessing... as per the Theo or Welbeck discussion, having them both is a good thing for us.
I know I'm going to get red arrows, but against Southampton, we played better before he came on, more like a team.
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