Sentences with phrase «goalscoring opportunities»

Wolves took Chelsea apart at the back and actually found good goalscoring opportunities fairly easy to come by.

As intimidating as they are to look at, the French title - holders proved a fortnight ago that appearances can be deceiving, and that they may struggle to carve out goalscoring opportunities in the return leg at Old Trafford, incidentally where their Last - 16 rivals kept five clean sheets and conceded just the one goal during the group phase.

Manchester United struggled to create many clear cut goalscoring opportunities, as fatigue resulting from the cramped festive schedule started to set in.

The latterly - mentioned marauding Spanish full - back has been the Reds» creator - in - chief this term, with just Milner responsible for carving out more clear - cut goalscoring opportunities; a lot of the vice-captain's chances have been worked from set - piece situations, meaning Moreno is Liverpool's most creative open - play footballer in 2015/16.

Rovers don't play pretty football, nor do they carve out too many clear openings, so it's hard to imagine Blackburn keeping up with a Tottenham team who will create plenty of goalscoring opportunities but yet have the players to convert the ones they do get.

Dimitri Payet has carved out 79 goalscoring opportunities in the Premier League this term — the third-most despite missing part of the campaign through injury,

The visitors should create eve more goalscoring opportunities than usual, which can only aid their chances against a Bolton side who have lost eight of ten at The Reebok in the league.

Goalscoring opportunities have by no means come at a premium either, in fact they create several gilt - edged chances every game it would seem.

He could be required to take on more responsibility to create goalscoring opportunities against the USA, esp given the doubts over the fitness of former club teammate and captain Cristiano Ronaldo.

Unlike in the opening fixture against Ghana, Bradley will assume a more attacking role in midfield, with the aim of supporting Clint Dempsey and Alejandro Bedoya in creating goalscoring opportunities.

«The boys have put in a strong display, we've kept another clean sheet and created plenty of goalscoring opportunities while playing some very good football at times,» Allegri said.

7 — Eden Hazard created seven goalscoring opportunities for teammates in Chelsea's 1 - 0 win at Bournemouth.

His impact at both ends of the pitch was highlighted in Chelsea's 2 - 1 win at Aston Villa in February, where Matic made more passes than any other player on the pitch (74, with a 91 % completion rate), two of which led to goalscoring opportunities.

Given his ability to create opportunities for others from the flank, while still seizing goalscoring opportunities himself, a move to a more prestigious La Liga address must only be a matter of time.

I would like to think that Hernandez would have made much more of the goalscoring opportunities that fell to Kouyate (twice), Arnautavic and Lanzini, although Gomes did pull off one tremendous double save.

No player has scored more clear - cut goalscoring opportunities than Pierre - Emerick Aubameyang (12) in the Bundesliga this season.

Our set - up assured that our opponents were limited to only brief spells in or around our penalty box for much of the first half, but we also did not create enough goalscoring opportunities in the opening 40 minutes either.

Although Palace struck first, it wasn't long before the Hornets grew into the game and nearly found an equaliser as they put sustained pressure on their opponents and carved out some goalscoring opportunities.

We created 24 goalscoring opportunities but could only convert 1.

Aside from a missed Mario Balotelli penalty, the hosts created numerous goalscoring opportunities, particularly in the first half as they pushed to keep their Europa League hopes alive.

The playmaker was integral to our attacking play last season, creating an astonishing amount of goalscoring opportunities, and with only two years remaining on his contract, there is little surprise that our club would be eager to extend his deal in the near future.

And it's not like we haven't been creating the chances, we top the charts for goalscoring opportunities and Santi Cazorla is apparently the top creative midfielder in Europe so far having completed 16 «key passes» on his own!

We don't appear to have that fear factor playing with our current set - up, but were strongly dominating teams regularly with an in - form fit Theo Walcott and Alexis Sanchez combining earlier in the season, and Mesut Ozil was even finding the space to get into more regular goalscoring opportunities also.

If the star's comeback is anything to come by, Jack will be making a swift return to the Gunners first - team in no time, finding a number of creative passes which created goalscoring opportunities, and once his match - fitness is up, he will certainly be a shoo - in to make the European Championships squad.

Based on the figures above, the Frenchman will likely not be short of goalscoring opportunities in the weeks and months ahead.

Oxlade has been so disappointing in front of goal as he skyed his goalscoring opportunities, thereby become wasteful.

Sterling deserves praise for constantly finding himself in goalscoring opportunities but he could be scoring so many more.

Mesut Ozil was the man creating the vast majority of our goalscoring opportunities last season, but with the new system in place with Alexis playing centrally, he has this year been chipping in with his own goals.

Mesut Ozil is widely considered to be the most important player for our side, due to his immense consistency last season in creating goals and goalscoring opportunities, while some may say that Alexis is central to us this term due to his switch to centre - forward which has worked wonders for our side.

He is an intelligent player who can create good goalscoring opportunities.

Petr Cech denied Sergio Aguero from the edge of the box after he got onto a neat pass through the defence, but really there was little goalscoring opportunities to talk of in the second half that stand out, and all the «Wenger Out» crowd will be having a field day after that performance.

Aubameyang was largely disappointing, and found himself being partnered by Lacazette in the final 10 minutes of the match, and the sub earned himself some good goalscoring opportunities, but unfortunately lost his composure and failed to keep them on target.

Substitute Kevin - Prince Boateng added a second for the hosts as Fiorentina continued to struggle to carve out goalscoring opportunities.

Ozil like to move wherever the play dictates, walcott for all his fault has excellent positional awareness to create an goalscoring opportunity and both will have limited defensive obligations which is their weakness although walcott has greatly improved this season.

When it comes to converting «big chances» — labelled as a high - quality goalscoring opportunity — Lacazette has a similar scoring rate to Giroud.

The referee adjudged that the Italian had denied Steve McLaren's side a goalscoring opportunity, with the defender bringing down Johnny Russell inside the penalty area.

Colorado Rapids keeper Joe Nasco holds the record for the fastest sending off in the MLS, a distinction he achieved in February 2014 when he denied LA Galaxy's Alan Gordon with a clear goalscoring opportunity after just 34 seconds.

Referees are loathe to give penalties, while the phrase «denying a clear goalscoring opportunity» is not in their lexicon.

Javier Pastore finished well to level the scores at half - time but the game quickly changed after the break as Trapp handled outside his box - denying Harry Kane a clear goalscoring opportunity - and was sent off.

Courtois 2 (Swansea h, denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity, Man City h, denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity), Terry 2 (West Brom a, denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity, Sunderland a, two yellow cards), Diego Costa (Everton FAC a, two yellow cards), Matic (West Ham a, two yellow cards).

Bardsley (Stoke LC a, two yellow cards), Barry (Everton FAC a, two yellow cards), Ben Haim I (Maccabi Tel Aviv a, serious foul play), Cazorla (Arsenal h, two yellow cards), Gabriel (Arsenal h, violent conduct), Hutton (Aston Villa a, two yellow cards), Mertesacker (Arsenal a, denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity)

The Republic of Ireland international suffered a double leg break in Everton's 1 - 1 draw with West Brom at Goodison Park on 20 January after a brave challenge to deny Salomon Rondon a goalscoring opportunity.

Lee O'Connor stood firm with City on the attack, making a clearance to deny City another goalscoring opportunity.

Portuguese referee Manuel De Sousa pointed to the spot and dismissed Sadygov for denying a clear goalscoring opportunity.

• denying the opposing team a goal or an obvious goalscoring opportunity by deliberately handling the ball (this does not apply to a goalkeeper within his own penalty area)

Five minutes after the break Gers defender Ross McCrorie was given a straight red card by referee Bobby Madden for denying Moussa Dembele an obvious goalscoring opportunity, and from the...

Courtois was shown a straight red card for denying Fernandinho a clear goalscoring opportunity, before Sergio Aguero completed his hat - trick from the resultant penalty.

A full match consists of four turns (each player gets one per half), cutting out all the uneventful periods and only giving control when the player has a goalscoring opportunity - rather like the excellent New Star Soccer.

Not exact matches

Mkhitaryan provides that blend of goalscoring and assists, Auba brings the raw pace to counter attack with and intelligence to move into the right place at the right time, Laca will find his opportunities increase.

With an opportunity to link up with former teammate Henrikh Mkhitaryan as well as another creative playmaker in Mesut Ozil, Aubameyang will surely be relishing the thought of getting service from them to continue his prolific goalscoring rate.