Sentences with phrase «long ball game»

He just needs to keep plugging away and try keep up that fantastic long ball game we seen.

He played the deepest midfielder and was pinging long balls all game to Rooney with good success.

However xhaka gave us a better long ball game and ramsey offers the better runs from deep combined with the best finishing of the 4.

Other than that height isn't really a factor unless both teams play some hooving long ball game.

Playing a turgid long ball game, with no width to speak of, watched by a crowd who almost resent being there to watch.

Also, they have played the long ball game and expect too much of Torres who has been woefully out of form.

Like Louis Van Gaal and his long ball game, Mourinho who behaves like an obnoxious little brat and trains his players to behave the same or Rogers who gives his team one good season then struggles to keep them in the top 6?

Watching United tonight reminded me of playing Fifa — long balls all game, cheap tactic.

I doubt we'll play a long ball game other than GK's and clearances.

A DM is utilised to keep the ball in front of the defence so they always have time to shape up but this is completely nullified by a long ball game where the ball is played into space behind or to the side of the defence.

After he had pitched a long ball game and plunked that elbow of his into the ice water, that arm must have hurt plenty.

Even a nonarthritic has pain in his arm after throwing 130 or 150 pitches in a long ball game.

His passing improved, he added a long ball game, his judgement improved, he looked stronger more mature.

This long ball game was bypassing this area and as a result, we failed to create many decent chances before the introduction of Moussa Dembele.

Despite trying to play decent football, instead of a long ball game, they've scored just a mere 25 goals this season, and only 9 on the road.

Dr Paul Bradley, led the research and is a senior lecturer in Sport and Exercise Science at the University of Sunderland, said: «This research highlights that the long ball game does make you work harder, and that the context of the game dictates how each individual or team works.