Sentences with phrase «last stage of the game»

One rational means for GOP voters to do so is to elect politicians who would be crazy enough to take the irrational action in the last stage of the game of not increasing the debt ceiling.

Because everyone knows that, rationally, Congress will vote to increase the debt ceiling in the last stage of the game, that affects how the earlier stages of the game are played: Congress votes for new programs, anticipating that funds for the new programs will be paid for by borrowing.

They just didn't have enough in the tank to make a final surge and ended up falling away in the last stage of the Game..

Heading in to the last stages of the game, Glenn Murray popped up with a goal for the south coast side, which gave them a famous victory.

Not exact matches

Increasing the debt ceiling is the rational last stage in this sequential game, and it is part of what the academic literature of game theory calls a subgame - perfect strategy.

Anyway, one thing was glared last Saturday as Walcott appeared exhausted in the closing stages of the Stoke game at the Emirates Stadium.

Alexis has a real passion to be playing at the top of his game all the time and so with Arsenal failing to really challenge on the highest stage last year, there were supposedly growing concerns that the 27 year old was not entirely happy in North London.

As some of his other teammate were injured at this stage last term he took the game to the visitors, scored one and notched an assist from a corner - kick for Gabriel Paulista to fire home the second in the encounter last year.

According to this plan, the target is 4th, and ECL only to advanc to the next round and if they loose no problem, they already played 6 games in group stage and 2 in last of 16, that is 8 game at Europe level with big TV audience, and huge revenue.

The problem with us is that we can win against any of them just as much as we are capable of losing against them, we can be a real Jekyll and Hyde team, if we go out playing like we think we already won tonites match, we could easily get stunned by AC, when was the last time we won a home game in the knock out stages of a European tie, 6 or 7 years ago.

Messi, who started the game on the bench and came on around the hour mark, only to end up scoring a last minute equaliser, helped preserve the Blaugrana's now 37 - game unbeaten streak in La Liga with a fine strike in the later stages of the game.

Bayern have drawn just one of their last 31 CL games (1 - 1 against Napoli in the group stage earlier this season).

Several of those ideas — last month, in an empty Giants Stadium, he staged a mock football game using celebrity rappers as players and relying on the Giants» O.J. Anderson and Leonard Marshall to call plays from the sideline — have found their way into this season's episodes.

The game was a rematch of a World Cup group stage match from last year, which the United States won by the same score.

the truth is we didn't play to our potenials we had a bad night monaco didn't play us at our best i certainly believe that we can rescue this tie after seeing schalke vs real mardid it only god that save them from not going out and monaco are certainly no mardid and we where guilty of under estaimating monaco last time because of having bayern and barca n previous knckout stages we thought it would be easier which i though as well but the difference is we are hitting form at the right time i think a key in this game will be stopping kondogbia if we can shut him out monaco will struggle to play.

The guy kept our season afloat for the first 4 months with his goals, scored the goal to secure UCL group stages, scored both semi-final goals to take us to FA cup final, is the club's top scorer, has been involved in more goals + assists than anyone in the PL, scored more goals than the media's fave Costa from a deeper, wider position, plays every second of every game as if it was his last, is always smiling, helped instill a hungrier work ethic in the team — all in a first season.

And remember we have already won against Best team of the moment in the group stage, then we know what to expect in the next round, bring ATM on in the R16, not because its an easy game but because we always need pressure to succeed, Zenit might shock us as we will take them the same way we took Zegreb, Olympiacos and Monaco last year.

United didn't collapse in the opening stages of the game last night, but they didn't really do anything constructive.

With a key game against Spartak Moscow next week to seal qualification for the knockout stage of the Champions League, followed by a busy lead - up to the festive period which includes the Merseyside derby next weekend, the last thing Klopp wants is to see Matip out for an extended period of time.

Arsenal was given one of the weakest team in this CL competition.Everybody expected a win, like by big margin but the whole match there was no fight and desire.The game was so poor at all front last night.City and Man Utd played their hearts out even though they were defeated.Man Utd players witnessed a horrific injury to their team mate, that will affect their focus and rhythm but they fought with desire to win the game till the end.City were the better team than Juventus, they played really good.I have even read an article on Sky that states even though Man utd and City is defeated they still can qualify the group stage, thats how their performance were reassuring.But Arsenal were really poor from starting the game till end.Zagreb got their first win in CL since 1999, that says it all.

Now that Arsenal have given themselves a good chance of qualifying into the last 16 of the UCL, after a disastrous start by losing our first 2 games in the competition, I think some of us are still nervously assuming that we have been here before (whatever stage) and don't want to get our hopes up, understandably so!

Last season, Leicester won the title but had hardly any distractions in the form of cup games, having been knocked out of the League Cup and the FA Cup at an early stage.

We should pick up 3points but considering the way we are playing, injuries and thinking we should be clear at the top of the league, i wont get my hopes up because as of last weeks defeat and our last few games i do nt see us as contenders this season... its a fight for 3rd again for automatic spot i group stage of CL.

Following a dramatic and exciting last day of group games at Euro 2016, we all have a few days without football before the serious business of the knockout stage begins, so I thought it might be worth a look back over the tournament so far, with a firm eye on how the various Arsenal players have done so far.

After conceding the fewest goals in the group stages of the World Cup finals last summer, the 26 - year has conceded no goals in his three Premier League games, no goals from his one FA cup game, one penalty given away by Szczesny in the Champions League and the two in his debut against Southampton in the League cup.

Because as relevant as that friendly seems like it should be to Wednesday's game, Spain haven't conceded in the knockout stages of the last two major finals.

The World Cup is approaching the last group stage games and there have been plenty of surprises including England, Italy, and Spain being eliminated, and Costa Rica dominating a tough Group D.

Schalke face a similarly unenviable task again with Real having won 18 of their last 20 Champions League games and are the only side to have won all their games in the group stage.

In fact the two sides have almost identical records over the last six games with only three points garnered and a poor FA Cup exit at the same stage of the competition apiece.

When you hear that Arsenal are one of the clubs linked with a striker that scored more goals in the group stages of the Champions League last season than any other player, with a stunning nine goals from just six games, most Arsenal fans would start rubbing their hands together with anticipation.

Whilst it can be a useful exercise to use pre-season to experiment with formations and tactics this should be reserved for the latter stages of a game once substitutions are made.Crucially Arsenal failed to use game time to acclimatise the players who are likely to start the Season to one another and to continue to develop a team philosophy which had proven so successful in a crucial game at the end of last Season.Reverting to type will only have one end product and it won't go down well with the Arsenal faithful.

I think the pressure may have gotten to Iwobi a little last season because even though he had a great first couple of games for the club, in the latter stages of last season, his form did dip a little and he wasn't having the same impact in the team as he did beforehand.

The Gunners used up all their bad luck in last weeks game against West Brom, but now with injuries easing and the extra confidence gained from being on the brink of reaching the knockout stages of the Champions League, I can see a landslide win for Arsenal.

We should never have been in the position of scrapping at game 6 to qualify for last 16 but it made no difference as we were shown up once again by Barcelona and put out again for 5th year in a row at the 1st hurdle of KO stages!

And we should remember that none of these clubs are exactly doing badly: United's total of 29 points from 31 games is only two behind Chelsea at the same stage last season, and they went on to win the league comfortably.

It is strange that Wenger always seems to find his perfect line up in the closing stages of the season, and we all remember that the Gunners won 8 of their last 9 games last season to leaprog Tottenham into Third Place, and obviously Wenger feels that the side is perfectly capable of having another run like that now, but the difference is that we are actually within striking distance of the title in this campaign.

TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin (+1000) has tallied over 2,000 total yards and 21 touchdowns, and will be on center stage during the last two weeks of the season with games against Oklahoma and Baylor.

«In the Pireo (Karaiskakis Stadium) it is very difficult to get points but it is the last game of the group stage and we will give our best.

I expected us to lose one of our last 4 games because this cynic can slip off his tongue a catelogue of occasions we shoot ourselves in the foot in the last last stage.

Having created one and scored one in the last three fixtures in all competitions, the 22 - year old goes into their biggest game of the season — in the right frame of mind and will be gunning to prove it at the big stage against one of the biggest clubs in the world.

Arsenal have failed to win from their four previous trips to Russia (D1 L3) but then CSKA Moscow have lost eight of their last five games against English sides, including their games against Manchester United in the Champions League group stage this season.

Ian Holloway's bad run of FA Cup matches continued after his QPR side lost 1 - 0 at home to MK Dons, that now seven losses in his last eight games at this stage of the cup for Holloway.

Arsenal took 15 points from their opening six games and topped the league for 128 days last term before falling away in the final stages of the campaign.

We've also effectively ceded top spot on goal difference because of last night's draw, because there's no way PSG aren't battering Ludogorets on the final group stage game, so that's another slight disappointment.

Lokomotiv Moscow are under pressure before the last game of the Europa League group stage.

At one stage they went on an unbeaten run of 18 games and were top for most of December and January last.

There's been a humiliating European exit, a defeat at Anfield, reports of training ground disputes, a lack of clarity from anyone over what is happening next season and a few fans have staged protests before the last couple of games.

It would not have been the end of the world for Arsenal given that there are still two more games left in the group stages, but it would have put them in a panicking mode going into the last two games.

The former Manchester United striker has score eight goals in the last three games, despite it being the knockout stage of the tournament.

The Light Blues may have won the first Women's Varsity Match to be staged at Twickenham last year by a massive 52 - 0, with the marvellous Middleton picking up the Player of the Match award after scoring a hat - trick of tries and 27 points, but Oxford recovered to win the BUCS return game in April 3 - 0 at Grange Road.