Sentences with phrase «keep it a tight game»

Last week Swansea allowed a three goal lead to be pegged back at home to Wolves and that would concern me greatly if I was relying on Swansea to keep it a tight game.

Not exact matches

Come on boys, keep it up, little tighter on the finish and bury this game already!
This can be a little worrying as against che we would be fearing the counter attack and keeping the game tight, but should we not be doing that against all top sides.
Once again yesterday, in the very tough and tight match against Newcastle United, Petr Cech kept Arsenal in the game at key moments and that gave us the platform to nick all three points.
It's very important that we go to anfield, and treat this game as a final, let's be focus and keep it tight at the back!
Bucks coach George Karl likes to keep even his own players guessing as to who'll take the last shot in the final seconds of a tight game.
«We had a game plan to keep tight because we know how good they are and their players,» Rodriguez said.
Jermichael Finley was in Ohio preparing for the Green Bay Packers» upcoming preseason game against the Cincinnati Bengals, but the birth of the standout tight end's new baby will keep him from playing this week.
Personally, I would change our formation for this game, Maybe a 5 -4-1 to start with, keeping it very tight and deep at the back and then changing it to our more accustomed attacking formation late on in the second half.
There are some player who seem average with inferior players but play very good football with top level players as they keep the game simple and tight and link up with them beautifully.
Beat a top team and we are lucky, beat a lower team and we should be beating them anyway, lose when playing a too risky brand of football and we are inept, win a tight game playing ugly it is not acceptable nor the Arsenal way, win by 3 goals and it should have been 5, keep playing the same predictable way every game and we should vary it more, vary our pattern of play and we should go back to doing what we used to, win 2 - 0 and keep a clean sheet and we should have been more adventurous to improve goal difference, win 2 - 1 and concede in the last minute and we were naive not to shut up shop, win 12 out of the last 15 games and it should have been 15 wins......... blah, blah.
As reported by Metro, the football pundit is expecting a game full of goals as both sides push forward, but he believes that Arsenal can come out on top as long as we keep things tight to begin with.
Jack and Elneny came on to keep us tight and kill the game.
With the German World Cup winning trio of Ozil, Podolski and Mertesacker still unavailable and with Gibbs and Sanogo staying in London because of injury problems, the boss has a depleted squad to work with, especially at the back, so I would not be surprised to see Wenger take the game to our Turkish opponents, rather than trying to keep it tight.
It promises to be an open and exciting game between these two sides given the attacking quality that they both possess, and it could be even more exciting now that Kompany is not in the equation to keep things tight at the back for the hosts.
I think Wenger is hoping for a tight game, so he will be concentrating on trying to keep Milan's potent strike force quiet.
The keeper has been terrible and the strikers haven't adapted well.based on performances they should be 13 but they keep loosing tight games
I'm going for a 2 - 0 Arsenal win in a tight game to keep us in contention at the top.
Arsenal's defence have been back to their miserly self recently, but the Foxes have also been keeping tighter at the back in recent games, but I still think there will be lots of goals in this, but Arsenal score more?
have welbeck and sanchez on the bench... this game can be won in the last 20 - 30 minutes... use the fresher guys to run them around like crazy... don't concede / keep it tight... bring in the 3 big quick guns at 60 minutes or so if need be — Ox, Welbeck, Sanchez... game over.
Instead, the club drifted away from keeping the Devils contained through tight checking and began escalating the physical side of their game.
Tactics for today keep it tight then ramsey / walcott to come on and win the game for us?
It was obvious Leicester would come to us and keep it tight, these are the games we should be happy to win 1 - 0 or 2 - 1 especially after the last shaky / poor performance.
If he wants to play like Barcelona, then he will need to go and buy players who can keep possession, dribble in tight spaces, control a pass and control a game.
They say great attacks win you games and great defences win you titles, and that's certainly true of United at their peak, who were able to grind out narrow wins even when not at their best due to having the likes of Jaap Stam, Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic keeping things tight at the back for all those years.
Spuds rely on hard work & keeping tight at the back to draw or win the game.
We need to be scoring more than 1 goal per game and keep our defense as tight as possible not to concede silly goals.
If we can keep a tight defensive unit and defend as a team, we should win this game comfortably.
I believe they would want to keep a tight defensive formation to frustrate our game and hit us on the counter.
Yet, LSU delivered clutch play after clutch play to keep the game tight, often relying on reserve punter Danny Neumann to flip the field.
West Ham have only conceded four goals at home to bottom half sides this season so I like the under 2.5 goals as Sunderland should be more competitive this week (hard not be) and keep the game tight.
If we can keep it tight at the back, hopefully the forwards will get one or two chances in a game and take them, so the clean sheet is always important.
Start the game defensive, get to half time and then 60 keeping it tight, bring on the attackers for whomever is tired or poor.
Middlesbrough will look to keep the game tight, stay well organised, and play on the nervousness of the home crowd.
Players like Rooney and Sigurdsson have the quality that means Everton will often win closely fought games against weaker or equal opponents, but just keeping it tight and organised will probably end up in a lot of draws too.
In tight matches, the defence can now be trusted to keep the opposition out, knowing it just needs one attack to work to win the game.
The centre - halves were not tight enough for the majority of the game but Bony was kept largely at bay.
The key to this game remaining a contest would be Chievo's ability to keep the first half as tight as possible and try to hit Inter on the counter.
You have to hold your nose and side with the home team for Remi Garde's first game at home to at least keep it tight.
Also submitted for your consideration: the instant - reaction block to Monaco starlet Kylian Mbappe's tight - angled volley early in the first leg of the semifinal, a stop that kept the game goalless and opened the door for the team's eventual 2 - 0 win in Monte Carlo.
Huddersfield have been tight at the back so far, keeping four clean sheets from their six league games so far, but sooner or later they are going to have to come out and score goals.
However, Palace have a more than capable enough side to be able to snatch a point from the game and if the Eagles can keep things tight at the back, they should be able to earn a draw at the very least.
Mourinho will, therefore, be hoping to keep the game tight and allow the individual brilliance of Ronaldo, Benzema, Higuain, Di Maria or Ozil to grab a winner.
Pellegrini's game plan was working and City had fared better in keeping the midfield tight than against other tougher opposition.
It may have been Gattuso's game plan to keep it tight until the second half but there was little evidence to back up that claim.
To keep toys tidy, instead of a large toy box, it is better to have a variety of small containers, preferable transparent plastic boxes with tight - fitting lids to keep bits and pieces of games that are in sets together e.g sets of farm animals, army soldiers, wooden blocks, cookie cutters, marbles, lego blocks, toy cars etc..
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