The phrase
"inferior opponents" means the other person or team is not as skilled, capable, or strong as someone else.
Full definition
If Italy slip up against Costa Rica tomorrow, they will not be the first team in this World Cup to suffer from over-complacency in the face
of inferior opponents, and probably not the last either.
Title contenders Arsenal and Liverpool both grinded out 2 - 1 wins
over inferior opponents at home, and Aston Villa and Hull both earned valuable 1 - 0 road wins.
The club had won just two of nine games in all competitions before travelling to Brussels, and they were outfought by Besnik Hasi's
supposedly inferior opponents.
Beating up
on inferior opponents is easy, but the Spartans are going to have to go through teams like Kansas, West Virginia, and Virginia to win a title.
On paper, Bolton have what it takes to keep the mighty Red Devils at bay after four successive clean sheets at The Reebok, but all three of those shut outs came against
far inferior opponents than that of United, so Bolton will probably need to score a fair few, you would feel, in order to stand any chance of claiming at least some of the spoils in this daunting contest for them.
[Kurokishi is a humble servant of the Drake forces and his interests include
crushing inferior opponents, combing his mane of long silvery hair and dicking around with cheap voice synthesisers.
i rationalized spending $ 5 everyday towards mastery of SF2, as the future payoff of playing for hours against a stready stream
of inferior opponents was worth it.
It's the usual story; Arsenal play well and create lots of chances, but our strikers fail to put them away, then
our inferior opponents nick a couple of goals and take the points.
The Cincinnati Bengals shined in a primetime matchup last week against
an inferior opponent.
EPL — Last weekend Manchester City, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool all took care of business as favorites last week but Manchester United and Everton faultered against
inferior opponents.
While Brady was worth six points against one of the best teams in the league, he was only worth about four points against
inferior opponents.
In many cases, the team with the big lead at halftime is playing
an inferior opponent and isn't looking to completely embarrass them.
Stop us if you've heard this one before: Florida State beat the living daylights out of
an inferior opponent.
This is a great opportunity to fade the public, especially when they're backing
an inferior opponent, and take Bournemouth -117 at home to win outright.
Many of the top teams like Alabama, Auburn and Oklahoma are all huge favorites against
inferior opponents but obviously can't slip up in those.
Southampton should have won at Arsenal and will be motivated to get back in the win column, especially at home against
an inferior opponent who will definitely concede.
Talking Points Sometimes,
your inferior opponents can cause you the biggest of headaches, as they are the «underdog» and, almost always, a win for the superior team is rubber - stamped, even before the referee blows his whistle for kick off.
Conversely, Juventus have lost six times in eight appearances and often times in those six losses, against
inferior opponents.
He seemed to be a man easily able to rip apart the more frail or
inferior opponent, but not a big game player necessarily.