Sentences with phrase «golden opportunities against»

The England international, who joined Manchester City for a fee believed to be in the region of # 49million earlier in the summer, has scored just once since his move and spurned a number of golden opportunities against Serie A giants Juventus in their Champions League opener on Tuesday night.

Nevada is praying they all come back after blowing a golden opportunity against Loyola - Chicago in the Sweet 16 this March.

Even a golden opportunity against 17th - place Norwich City was not enough for Rafa Benitez to get his first win as manager of Newcastle United.

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Messi, conversely, had a golden opportunity to score his side's most crucial goal of last season — but fluffed his lines, missing a penalty against Chelsea in the Champions League semi-final.

The 28 - year - old started for the Reds against Newcastle United on Sunday, but wasn't able to help them avoid another draw while he missed a golden opportunity in the second half to make it 2 - 1.

Below is the Warriors» remaining schedule where a bettor would have the opportunity to bet against Golden State in this situation (to say seeing Phoenix three times in this situation to end the year was a surprise would be a complete understatement).

I was a little bit worried against West Bromwich when he couldn't simply tap in a golden opportunity.

With around five of them likely to start against Pep Guardiola's Manchester City, it is golden opportunity to make a statement in the FA Cup semi-final at Wembley stadium.

After failing to secure all three points on Tuesday against Sunderland at the Stadium of Light, Spurs missed a golden opportunity to close the gap on league leaders Chelsea.

Former Man City striker John Guidetti, who had claimed ahead of Celta's Europa League semifinal against United that he would help Manchester turn blue, missed a golden opportunity deep into stoppage time to give his side a win.

I'm of the opinion that Juventus need to be almost flawlessly clinical against Real in the final, and that certainly wasn't the case on Tuesday night: Gonzalo Higuain missed a golden opportunity in the first half, and then completely flubbed a volley attempt in the second half; right before the Dani Alves goal, Paulo Dybala had a chance to put the icing on the cake and failed; Mario Mandžukić, before he stuffed in his own rebound — which I don't want to take away from, because the window of space with which he had to work was not very big, and he tapped it home with a fair bit of dexterity — missed a golden opportunity, with credit to the keeper.

We suppose it's a golden opportunity for Blackburn to notch up a rare away win in the league but they've found life hard on the road this season and could very well come unstuck once more against a Burnley side who do like to attack when at Turf Moor.

Liverpool cost us our bet on Sunday as they failed to score against Newcastle, despite two golden opportunities with Tim Krul out of the way.

Slovenia had a golden opportunity on 10 minutes to take the lead when Eric Dier's poor backpass allowed Roman Bezjak through and, although Hart came out to make a positive intervention, England failed to clear and Jasmin Kurtic curled a shot against the post.

James Milner scored from the spot against his former club to hand Liverpool the lead before Sergio Aguero pegged them back, but both sides missed golden opportunities to win the game, with Aguero and De Bruyne squandering chances before Adam Lallana produced a miss of the season contender in injury time, somehow scuffing Roberto Firmino's ball into the box when it looked easier to score.

On Saturday, though, Bolton have a golden opportunity to end their drought with a home against an average Wolverhampton Wanderers side.

Alan Pardew's side have already put a four - point gap between themselves and their closest pursuer, Stoke, but will eye this fixture against out of form QPR as a golden opportunity to bolster their already impressive points tally.

The colorful leafs against the blue skies, the golden light from the evening sun, the grapes and the apples, all that makes me long for deeper, richer colors, so I took the opportunity to sort out my stash and pick a few shades that I will enjoy wearing for the time to come.

Far too many firms view the goal of compensation - setting as simply «making as many people as happy as possible», which a) often leads to poorer performers being overly - compensated at the expense of the generous, strong performers who «leave money on the table» for the good of the firm, and b) ignores a golden opportunity to set performance goals and expectations for the firm and for each lawyer and staff member (one of which can be a defined role on a team) and then make the performance against such pie - growing efforts a factor in compensation.