Sentences with phrase «headed a chance wide»

With nearly half an hour gone, another Monaco memory was triggered as Giroud put a great headed chance wide but the striker had done brilliantly to fashion the chance in the first place.

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Tom Wilson missed everything with a wide - open one - timer that spoiled an overtime odd - man rush and proved to be the Capitals» last best chance to split the series heading back to Columbus, as Matt Calvert muscled his way to a putback game - winner 52 seconds later.

Alexis had just headed one of many chances wide when Wenger brought Walcott on for Wilshere with 25 minutes left.

After a slow start from Gordon Strachan's Scotland that saw Jonathan Walters and James McClean miss early half chances for the visitors, the hosts began to take control and should've taken the lead when Charlie Mulgrew headed a Maloney cross wide from six yards.

The chances kept coming; an unmarked Sergio Ramos headed a corner wide of the post, Bale did the same thing a few minutes later, and Casemiro fizzed a long - range effort the wrong side of the post.

As it stands, this squad is fairly well positioned to compete for the Wenger Cup and make a deep run in the Europa, if and only if we play first stringers in Europe and use the bench for the League and FA Cups... that being said, and based on the fragility of the manager and the team in recent campaigns, it's more likely that Wenger will focus on a top 4 finish and the FA Cup... while the reasons for such an approach may appear logical, it would confirm a rather disturbing trend and appear counter intuitive for any team which claims to have higher aspirations... I feel that Wenger simply can't afford to put all his eggs in the Europa basket because if he fails the potential backlash could cripple any top 4 chances due to the aforementioned fragile psyche that tends to rear it's ugly head like our own personal groundhog day each and every February... furthermore, can you even imagine Wenger bringing in the necessary recruits to adequately supply top quality lineups in a Thursday / Sunday dominated schedule; based on everything I've seen in recent years, I can't see that happening... in fact, mark my words, it's more likely that we see Lacazette playing out wide in Alexis's position with Giroud at striker, than we see Wenger make the necessary moves to right this ship... god, I hope I'm wrong but is it really that far - fetched considering what we've witnessed for past several years

We had chances to score the early goal to settle us down, with Iwobi shooting just wide and Mertesacker heading straight at Mannone with a free header from a corner.

The one big chance in the first half saw Sam Vokes head wide from a Matt Lowton cross while there was not much between the sides after the break with half chances falling to both.

It took Sevilla 20 minutes to create their first meaningful chance, with Navas looping a ball to the far post where Medel headed narrowly wide.

Instead of stemming the tide of HTAFC chances, the home side couldn't get to grips with the set - piece scenarios; Mathias Zanka the next man to beat his marker and head towards goal, but this time the central defender had to watch his effort whistle agonisingly wide of the target.

Andreas Bjelland bravely blocked a shot from Matěj Vydra and Curtis Davies headed a corner wide for the hosts but the best chances fell to The Bees.

When Niasse headed Everton's first chance of the second half wide of Pope's goal in the 63rd minute, Koeman responded immediately by introducing Rooney for Schneiderlin, before Tom Davies came on to replace the ineffective Nikola Vlasic six minutes later.

Paul Jaeckel then struck the bar for the hosts, while Origi headed a good chance wide before Uduokhai's second booking evened up the numbers.

Theo Walcott headed wide before fluffing his lines when played in by Mohamed Elneny, with reported Chelsea target Boakye missing another glorious chance to win it for Red Star.

The game then settled into its original pattern with Barca probing and Spartak leaving all 11 men behind the ball, and their defensive solidity restricted the hosts to mere half - chances before the break as Sergio Busquets headed wide from a Xavi corner before Cesc Fabregas» looping header was comfortably tipped over the bar by Andrey Dikan.

James Milner, restored to the line - up on the left of midfield, tested Wayne Hennessey early on before Matip spurned a glorious chance to break the deadlock, somehow heading the ball wide of the right - hand post after the Palace goalkeeper had missed Robertson's cross.

Terry then headed a cross wide as the final chance came and went.

Both teams had chances to win it, with Vargas heading wide from six yards out and Ryan McGowan missing from similar range at the other end - but in the end a draw seemed a fair result and it secured second spot for Chile, who will play Portugal in the semi-finals on Wednesday.

And that chance seemed to kick Arsenal into gear as Alex Iwobi's deflected effort fizzed wide and Laurent Koscielny headed straight at Heaton from the resulting corner, although Burnley still posed a threat, Barnes» rasping drive calling Cech into a sprawling save on 16 minutes.

Bendtner had already missed two great headed chances in the second - half, but he saved the worst for last, shinning the ball horribly wide of the goal.

FW Cenk Tosun, 6 — Excellent work rate in the face of another 90 minutes spent isolated and starved of service, but the Turkish striker is likely to have nightmares about the headed chance he skewed wide.

Franck Ribery dragged a good chance wide as Bayern sought an immediate response while Muller headed off target from a corner just after the break.

Both teams had chances in the second half and perhaps the best fell to Polter, who headed wide from close range.

Redan, Brown and Gilmour were all guilty of wasting good opportunities to add to the scoresheet, with Redan and Brown particularly guilty of turning down good headed chances and, when Brown glanced wide of an open goal, Morris had seen enough.

After seeing an earlier headed chance unluckily drop wide, he latched onto a through ball from Danny Welbeck only to be denied by the onrushing goalkeeper.

Matthew Hirst, Head of Art and Collections at Chatsworth said: ««Frank and Cherryl Cohen at Chatsworth» is the first in a new programme of loan exhibitions being brought into Chatsworth to give our visitors the chance to enjoy a wide ranging artistic offer alongside our permanent collections.