Sentences with phrase «harder than the opposition»

He said that it is not enough to be a good team, but you need to work harder than the opposition.

Not exact matches

I actually think he chose this game to start TW to get a proper handle on it — TW won't have harder opposition in the PL this season than that on offer to today.
Leeds on the other hand have proven their a hard team to beat, no matter the opposition, boasting the 3rd best defensive record in the league with just 36 goals conceded all season, just 3 more than that of Brighton and 4 more than Newcastle.
Strikers score, defenders defend, midfield keep the ball and work hard Would rather have a striker who will gurantee goals than one who will run the whole pitch and be ineffective in the opposition box
Really would have preferred to have Welbz upfront and put Campbell on the left, for me that would feel like a team who would work harder to close down the opposition straight away... rather than that lumbering fool Giroud who only puts effort in when he wants to, not when we need him to.
Laca will be more than just someone to pull CBs though, the ability to play smart passes and a deadly shot will force the oppositions to mark him hard or he will get goals.
Perez had a game to forget, I think he made better passes to the opposition than he made to any of our team mates, I want to like the guy but I am finding it hard.
Only at times, mind, given that they made such hard work of beating such modest opposition, but still it feels like progress... The fervour of the celebrations reflected the nature of England's victory, in a back - and - forth game, rather than the significance of the goal.
It could not have been much harder for Tottenham than a clash with such practiced, savvy European opposition but Mauricio Pochettino's side can consider themselves well drilled.
Bilic says that the players are working hard on the training ground but to a man they look slower and less fit than any opposition we face.
The opposition were holding their own and playing better football than in the last encounter, but the Lions defence was as watertight as swomething really, really watertight (can't think of anything that watertight), and the midfielders, Laurent and Steve F, were putting in the hard hards.
Although he is capable of playing great passes he regularly chooses the harder option and tries to force the play rather than trying to manipulate the opposition and create a platform to build from, thus conceding the territory regularly.
It is telling that the government has more public debates than an opposition thinking deep and hard about its past and future.
Similarly, their opposition to welfare reform means a continued jab in the eye for hard workers who see some earn more than them through the benefits system.
«We have an opposition that is more interested in cosying up to militant union leaders than backing hard working people.
Opposition parties have accused the Tories of pursuing a «hard Brexit» strategy, with the PM insisting no deal is better than a bad one and planning to withdraw the UK from the EU single market.
Chief policy adviser to David Cameron Oliver Letwin - once referred to as the Gandalf of the leader's circle - is known to believe that opposition parties can not change public opinion other than in one or two areas if they push very hard and in a very single - minded way.
Oliver Letwin may well believe «that opposition parties can not change public opinion other than in one or two areas if they push very hard and in a very single - minded way».
Suggestions by senior hard left figures like Len McCluskey, Diane Abbott and Ken Livingstone that there could be a reckoning for the leadership if Labour's poll ratings haven't improved within a year have given the Conservatives much more cause for concern than any fumbled policy announcement from the Opposition frontbench.
This book, more than anything else, is a tribute to the hard work of parents and communities who have always made bilingual education possible, despite struggles and opposition.
By quibbling over every motion, relevant or not, the lawyer establishes to the opposition that he's in for the long, hard haul, making settling the case look a whole lot better than it otherwise might.
Tension has been high with developers already hotly debating the merits of the hard fork (a grassroots movement has sprung up in opposition as well), even though the change is not slated for more than two months from now.
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