Sentences with phrase «early games of this season»

It is pretty safe to say that if we are to see a change to the system, it will not be in practice in the early games of the season, due to Dembele's ban that keeps him out for the early part of the season.

2 out of 2 clean sheets show that we have been working hard defensively and whilst we're not flawless, I'm going to be positive and put that down to getting the cohesiveness that comes with the early games of the season.

Based on the early games of this season for both sides, then this would seem to be a good result for us, and certainly one that is not anticipated by the pundits.

Not exact matches

Network spokesman Jeff Cusson responded in an email that it is «too early to speculate» on when the seventh season of Game of Thrones will premiere.

It's not the first time a late, broken play has changed the outcome of bets and fantasy matchups across the country — earlier in the season the Chiefs had a similar play on «Monday Night Football» against the Redskins, leaving bettors elated or furious depending on which side of the game they were on.

To find this conclusion, SeatGeek looked at the number of NHL tickets that changed hands on secondary markets for all games in the 2011 - 12 season, then isolated which tickets were purchased on Sept. 12, 2011 or earlier.

I found myself way too invested in an early regular season game between two middling teams, though it was an entertaining show: New York's 7» 3 ″ phenom / freak - of - nature Kristaps Porzingis dropped 31 points in a 107 - 103 New York win.

One thing the first Sunday of the season lacked in the early games was a truly remarkable catch.

The Packers star quarterback, Aaron Rodgers, suffered a broken collarbone early in Sunday's game, and will most likely miss the rest of this season.

Maybe it is the grindingly long, 162 - game season, which allows for so many promising and disheartening plotlines to take shape, only to dissolve again along the way, and which sustains even the most improbable hope past any rational span; or maybe it is simply the course of the year's seasons, from early spring into mid-autumn — nature's perennial allegory of human life, eloquent of innocent confidence slowly transformed into wise resignation.

As you may remember, I collaborated earlier in the football season with 63 other bloggers to bring you a slew of game day recipes.

A record of 26 goals in 28 games this season is not enough to get Jonas a call - up in favour of 35 - year - old Ricardo Oliveira, three of whose four international goals came in 2005 or earlier!

De gea 6.89 season has been over hyped when considering United faced the least amount of shots on average per game, he is the type of keeper that can make world class saves but he was very poor early season (eg szezney) Ospina 7.14 has been the best since he has gone in net if he sustained that over a season he would have been an contender.

With Cazorla taking over as creator, Ozil has been shipped out to the wing and whilst he struggled earlier in the season in this position, on his return to the first XI after long term injury the German seems to have bulked up, reassessed his game and figured out the kind of role Wenger wants him to have in the team.

The really free flowing and incisive Gunners that we saw earlier in the season in games like the demolition of Chelsea have been missing too often, but with an easing of the fixture list and an improvement in the club's injury situation there are signs that Arsenal are getting back to our best.

I'm going to repeat what I said earlier... this team actively pursued a policy to undermine the relationship between the fans and the best player on this team... for all intent and purposes this is a traitorous act... so instead of spending money, which all pundits and fans agreed was necessary in order to compete at the highest levels, this club was wasting time and money trying to turn fans against Sanchez long before the end of the season (the real concerted effort started around the time that Wenger benched him for the start of the Liverpool game)... for a team that pertains to be different, like a FAMILY, and constantly questions the tactics of it's opponents, to engage in such a treasonous act is deplorable

Don't know whether this will comfort Muhammad Ali or not, but early in the season Coach Ron Farris of Spencerian, a Louisville business college, decided to test a computer by having it analyze the possible outcome of Spencerian's basketball games.

I think one of the reasons they did well late in the game last season is because Musgrave was running plays to set up other plays later in the game, like running a play 3 - 4 times early, then showing the same look later while changing it enough to surprise the defense.

there is still time, but the idea should be to get players in early so they are settled for the next season, tis waiting game whilst most of our rivals improve their squads is frustrating, because this happens ever year.We've needed a Dm and a St for at least the last 3 seasons at least

i mean 2 - 3 rotation and wrapping the game up early and subbing extra 3 players would have been enough rest at this stage of the season after all, all our star players like koscienly, sanchez, ozil and cazorla completed and got more exhausted as we played with 10 men.

The Indiana Pacers and San Antonio Spurs have a combined five losses this year — less than half of any team in the Atlantic Division — and they play Saturday night in San Antonio in what should be one of the best games of the early season.

Can't see it but a few games in early part of the season.

He burst back to form in the last few games of last season and came back early from the summer break to make sure he was in top shape for the beginning of the new campaign, only to be cruelly struck with a relapse just before the Community Shield against Chelsea.

That game was ages ago, but it's nice to know at the back of your head that we played and beat them earlier this season.

It's not inconceivable that the NFC West champion could finish below.500 for a second consecutive season, because most of the divisional games are on the back end of the schedule — after tough early matchups.

Perhaps Chicago peaked too early, as the Blackhawks have failed to win a game in the month of April, with four straight losses to end the regular season and three straight losses this postseason.

This is largely due to the fact that early in the season, there are typically only two types of games:

Early in the fourth, with the Saints facing third - and - goal from the three, Rams cornerback Kayvon Webster, who'd made a total of 17 tackles over the preceding two seasons with the Broncos, made the game's most pivotal play.

While the David vs. Goliath type games are typically avoided by bettors, these early season tournaments (Puerto Rico Tip - Off, Charleston Classic, 2K Sports Classic [North Dakota and New York], Paradise Jam [Virgin Islands], Coaches vs. Cancer Classic [New York], Maui Invitational, etc.) are almost always the most bet games of the day.

In an interesting twist, both Final Four matchups are re-matches of early season games.

It's hard to say that there's a Game with true Playoff implications this early in the Season but next week they will take place in the co-Accelerated Games of the Week when they line - up against Team Zimmerman..

Of course it was in the game against Watford earlier this season when Troy Deeney remarked afterwards that Arsenal «had no cojones» so that is a good enough motivation for the Gunners to want to get their revenge, and Wenger responded with: «We come back to criticism — there's only one way to respond to it,» Wenger said.

This game is a rematch of both the 2008 and 2010 NBA finals, although neither of these teams look to be title contenders in the early season.

After Stoudamire missed seven games because of tendinitis in his right knee early in the season, he was forced to win his starting position back from Pippen.

We have had many missed opportunites earlier this season in PL and a terrible run of 14 games with 5 losses, 5 draws and four wins with two of those wins against championship sides.

The Frenchman did accept that there was a clear problem and brought in a couple of fitness and conditioning experts to deal with it and in the early stages of the season it looked like it was working, but the Capital One Cup game this week saw Theo Walcott and the Ox added to our growing list of crocked players.

That is what he was mad about on twitter, playing so many snaps in the early weeks of the season and not much when the games mattered more.

Of the quartet, Nigerian striker Iheanacho is the most experienced, having already featured in 21 first - team games for City, scoring seven times, including a hat - trick against Aston Villa earlier in this season's FA Cup.

The D - League's premier writer, Scott Schroeder of Ridiculous Upside, wrote this in early February while campaigning for Green to be called up to play his first NBA game since the» 09 -»10 season, and Schroeder was spot on:

But I have been saying the same thing about Sanchez since last season, his first game in the Charity shield and then that game against Villa earlier last season when he played striker, I noticed that he was so poor in possession and can't link up play with his team mates, he has the worst passing for a player of his calibre..

Antoine Walker took his game into the paint and gave Boston an early edge over the 76ers The experts were sure the Celtics were going to make a quick exit in the playoffs, and the reasons were obvious: Power forward Antoine Walker would hoist too many three - pointers; he and three of his fellow starters had no postseason experience; and their first - round opponents were the Eastern Conference champion 76ers, who had gone 10 - 2 against Boston over the past three seasons.

After putting up good numbers at Class A Quad Cities — he hit.270 with 11 homers and 45 RBIs in 51 games — Ankiel returned to the site of his early season struggles.

It is far, far, far too early in the rebuild to make that determination but months of off - season articles have already made that determination for many people (with statistics to back it) before 10 games have been played on the field.

Bayern have drawn just one of their last 31 CL games (1 - 1 against Napoli in the group stage earlier this season).

... Playing one of their most complete games of the season, the Bulldogs looked like the team that earlier this month won in overtime at Florida and upset Tennessee at home, but they gave away momentum with a loss earlier this week at South Carolina.

But since most of the games I watched were early on in the year and he played the whole season, I can't just assume that the hip was the root of any of his problems that I saw on tape.

In this exchange, the Patriots got one year of a game - breaking deep threat — in a season where leading WR Julian Edelman was lost to a torn ACL, no less — AND what Jimmy Johnson's draft pick trade chart lays out as the equivalent of an extra early fourth - round, all for the burden of rostering Cooks for a season.

The B1G made a point of starting their conference tourney early this season, they snuck a few conference games in during December

Five players listed, three out with shoulder injuries, and one questionable with a rib (not including Jordy Nelson or Clay Matthews, each of whom missed games earlier in the season with fractured ribs and a shoulder injury, respectively).

at analyst Billy Packer, who had been critical of him in a game earlier that season.