Sentences with phrase «into walls of defenders»

If a good midfielder means running into walls of defenders and falling over holding your ankle or being dispossessed like primary school kid having his lunch money taken then OK he is the best.

Not exact matches

There was a lot to process in the immediate aftermath of Game 2 in Washington — the Blue Jackets» run at franchise history, the Capitals» crisis of confidence and the offside review that held up the full celebration — but both the national and local announcers caught the skill that it took Matt Calvert to make his one - handed game - winner possible, walling off a defender with his free hand and using his plant leg for stick leverage to lift the puck into the top corner.

Whatever Big 8 pride I had came out in droves during the Fiesta Bowl, which saw stoic Tom Osborne defeat cocky Steve Spurrier and saw Tommie Frazier rip off one of the most famous plays in college football history; he ran into a wall of Florida defenders, then ran right through the wall for a 75 - yard touchdown.

When the opposition defense is deep and building the Great Wall of Wales behind a parked fleet of buses IMO you do not put on a player whose main benefit is running on to through balls put behind defenders into space for him to run on to.

A goalkeepers job is to make the defense his wall at all times, when there is a free kick, he makes a static wall of his defense, when the ball is in play, he makes his defenders into a moving wall, he only gets to make saves when that wall is breached, as for Shezza, he thinks more about the saves and his reflexes, but there's only so many saves a goalkeeper can make without organizing his wall competently.