Sentences with phrase «games to bed»

Spot kicks are not something any England (+1790) fan ever wants to rely on, let alone Gareth Southgate, who missed a decisive one on home soil at Euro» 96, but the Three Lions can't put games to bed.

Striker: deadly and quick We are simply not putting teams and games to bed.

Players in general that are new to a team, especially inexperienced youngsters, obviously need a run of games to bed in, and learn how best to work with their team mates.

And for a while it looked as though City would put us to the sword and the game to bed but fortunately for Arsenal they did not and them seemed happy to sit back.

We need better though but I'm in full 100 % support of the purchase of Shkrodan Mustafi and Lucas Perez.Mustafi can help Koscielny now.I've been saying it here time and time again that it's not a world clsss striker we have needed but a clinical finisher which we have lacked for several seasons and counting.Hopefully this guy puts Giroud where he belongs which is on the bench.Though a world class striker is good what we have lacked is someone who puts the game to bed in clinical fashion but Arsene Wenger has listened to many people to the extent that if he can't get a world class striker then he can get anyone.If Arsenal had a clinical finisher for some five seasons or so we coulda won the EPL then.Giroud has cost us matches and will continue to cost us matches.Giroud is half decent as someone said here the last time.I expect Perez to be much better if he can take on his man and be clinical in front of goal.

If Arsenal decided to sit back and put game to bed up 3 - 2 3 points for us.

Barca had numerous chances to put the game to bed, but at times it seemed like they were toying with Valencia.

It definitely seems to make a big difference playing in front of our home crowd at the Emirates, but more important was the urgency which the team showed by trying to put the game to bed as quickly as possible, and as Laurent Koscielny said, our target was just to get the three points.

Things started as you'd expect, and we were dominating the ball, looking to get forward quickly, and get off to a fast start to put the game to bed early.

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.

England then put the game to bed in the 85th minute, after Southampton stalwart Ryan Bertrand bagged his first England goals as the left - back saw his 25 - yard strike fizzle past the Maltese shot - stopper to put the away side two goals to the good.

4) We need players this summer as simple as that and across the pitch, ready made WC caliber player: CB, DM, ST we can't continue that way and it showed (Coquelin has done fantastic but as I said a few times on other articles a few good games is not enough and this is he's 1st mediocre game - inexperience) 5) Misfiring: chances we get but we fail to convert and put ourselves in a commanding position and that has happen so many times it seems we never learn: Welbeck and Giroud should've done better can't expect Özil, Cazorla and Sanchez even thought he can score to do it (Aguero or Suarez would've put that game to bed with all the chances in the 1st half)

Well, we had the chance to put the game to bed and did not.....

Having taken the lead into the break Arsenal came back out looking to put the game to bed, but Besiktas were proving tenacious and were not going to be knocked out with such ease.

As seen in the tweets below, the Portuguese tactician looked absolutely gobsmacked with the effort, but he would have undoubtedly been delighted to see his side take their chances and put the game to bed so early on.

or even Akpom, we would have finished one of our chances we had on the counter to put the game to bed.

Then Norwich nearly put the game to bed with two top chances in quick succession but both chances were wasted over the bar, then immediately tghey had another golden chance which was stopped at the death.

To not go for a 2nd goal and put the game to bed is unacceptable.

Theo Walcott was the two - goal hero of last night's win over Basel, and just like the Chelsea game, the Gunners aimed to put the game to bed before half time.

Crystal Palace had chances to put the game to bed and defended like lions for 100 minutes.

but FFS, the guy scored 22 goals last season, did nt pick ONE INJURY, passed the ball for Ramsey to END our TROPHY drought, and put the game TO BED WITH HIS GOAL vs CITY for another silverware.

Ultimately, the hosts should have been out of sight in the first half, as aside from goals from Vincent Kompany and Ilkay Gundogan, Raheem Sterling had several opportunities to put the game to bed.

Hunt scored another touchdown against the Eagles, effectively putting the game to bed.

but you see i'm a realist this team team DO NOT DESERVE TO WIN THE LEAGUE with their performance... Don't be fooled with a win against the basement boys, a decent team would have put the game to bed in the first half against arsenal.

We had chances to score, we should av put d game to bed at d first half and because we av ozil and pussies, we couldn't.

Let's hope we can kick on after the break and put the game to bed...

This seems to galvanize Arsenal a little and Giroud misses another similar chance five minutes later, but Tottenham quickly take control again and are trying extremely hard to put the game to bed.

Georgia would put the game to bed in the second half, scoring four unanswered touchdowns before FAU would add a garbage time score.

Had Paraguay made a few better decisions in the final third, they could have put this game to bed much earlier.

I know sanchez was abit off and slightly greedy, but his determined to put the game to bed, I mean isn't that what a quality forward consists off?

We were soon punished for our failure to put the game to bed, and once again a goal for our opponents had to get our team going again.

We ended a four - game winless streak with our 2 - 0 victory at Bournemouth last Sunday — goals from Mesut Ozil and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain in the space of less than 90 seconds midway through the first half put the game to bed.

Another chance to put the game to bed goes begging.

We really needed to put the game to bed with Newcastle looking more dangerous in this half...

But with an excellent game from Sanchez playing a false - 9ish role Theo relished in the space and time he was afforded and was a big part of pretty much all the moments that put the game to bed.

His passing and shooting was a little wayward at times, and he missed a couple of great chances to put the game to bed.

«There's a difference between the performance and the result because I felt we played very well in the first half especially and should have put the game to bed.

If the defence had kept a clean sheet in the first half, CSKA would have taken more risks and left more gaps for us to explore and put the game to bed earlier!

Today's Arsenal team played like they wanted to play for each other — as a team — and they put the game to bed after just 20 minutes.

This Jordan Pickford must surely be the Man Of The Match as he is either a genius in goal or very very lucky, but after Sanchez calls for a penalty without success, he pops up again with a header and we finally put the game to bed.

Would be wonderful to see us start like we did against Utd though and put the game to bed as early as possible.

48 ′ 0 — 2 Cristiano Ronaldo was on target again just after the half time to put the game to bed and put Real Madrid in driving seat going into the last week of the season.

Two more strikes from Willian and Davide Zappacosta put the game to bed as Chelsea move up to second position in the league table, with Man United still a game in hand.

The remainder of the first half was a Grade A demonstration of how not to put a game to bed.

Already down 2 - 0, this left Italy totally deflated and allowed Torres the opportunity to put the game to bed with an 84th minute tap in followed by an 88th minute assist to Chelsea teammate Juan Mata for another easy finish.

We started quite brightly really with two excellent chances in the first five minutes both of which should have been converted and both of which should have put the game to bed but, no, we insisted on making Newcastle look better than they are by giving them opportunity after opportunity to go ahead; the most generous being at the beginning of the second half when one of their players got free and found himself one on one with Cech, fortunately the Helmeted One was on his game and saved our bacon again.

Tottenham had plenty of chances to put the game to bed, but much to the disappointment of Mauricio Pochettino they took none of them.

Poor defending from The Latics allowed Cazorla to head the ball through to Podolski, who chipped the oncoming goalkeeper to put the game to bed.

Christian Benteke — 6 (Firmino 77 ′) Missed an excellent chance to put the game to bed and get himself a goal.

64 ′ 1 — 3 Cristiano Ronaldo made it 3 - 1 and pretty much put the game to bed with his second an his 600th career goal.