Sentences with phrase «cross goalwards»

We were under the cosh for most of the first half, and had David Ospina to thank when Erik Lamela looked to turn a cross goalwards.

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Gazzaniga was responsible for keeping the Saints on level terms in the early stages, firstly when a Bolasie cross which was taken goalwards by the strong wind was tipped over his own crossbar.

90 +3: Giroud almost with a late chance but the cross is just behind him and he can't direct his header goalwards.

Receiving a bouncing ball on the corner of the penalty area, with little time to think, Saúl controls the ball with his thigh before using the outside of his left boot to swerve a sumptuous cross into Griezmann's path, playing the ball into the «corridor of uncertainty», where the keeper is unable to come to collect and the defenders fear deflecting the ball goalwards.

Under pressure he would no doubt do what comes naturally to him, head the ball goalwards, but given time and space aplenty 10 yards out from goal, he hesitated and then snatched at a shot which looped hopelessly into the air, although it worked out as a decent cross which almost saw David Norris head in.