Sentences with phrase «minutes against the bench»

Not exact matches

And while Ilyasova and Bellineli are, on the margin, improvements on what we WERE bringing off the bench, they should not be counted on to carry the mail for extended minutes against good teams.

In what could have cost Michigan an away win against Minnesota on Sunday, the Wolverines» bench was issued a technical foul in a tight ballgame with a few minutes remaining.

The Belgian Number One striker Romelu Lukaku sat on the bench and watched his star studded team - mates fail to score for 75 minutes of last night's game against Finland, but he had to wait for the manager to put him on the pitch before he could score the equaliser himself!

It would have only served to add further calls for Sterling to be benched against Slovakia though, as he followed his disappointing display against Russia with another against the Welsh and was replaced after the opening 45 minutes.

Against Southampton, with Vincent Kompany benched, Lampard captained the home side, and scored something of a vintage Lampard effort with a precise finish on 31 minutes.

then was inexplicably benched for our first big game against Liverpool and has been subbed around the 70 minute for most games and benched for the majority of the big games.

They once again had to play with 5 guys and just couldn't endure the grueling 44 - minutes against the deep bench of Team James - Hagari.

Dele Alli would have been a shoe - in to be in the squad, however, he may be thinking twice about his place in the England squad — given that he played just 22 minutes against the Netherlands on Friday, was again left on the substitutes bench for the game against Italy.

Coming off the bench in the first quarter against the Mavericks, Smith jacked up five three - pointers in less than six minutes, draining three:

He still makes strange decisions, playing Ramsey out wide where he struggles, appearing to set us up to draw against Man U, not wanted to fix a struggling team before the 70th minute despite a talented bench etc..

So, unless Arsenal get very lucky with a rapid recovery from Alexis (extremely unlikely) it would seem that our only recognised centre - forward is Olivier Giroud, who has hardly kicked a ball all season, but came of the bench to score twice against Sunderland, but is he ready to play a full 90 minutes now or next week?

Injuries are of major concern but more importantly when the game is not going how you expect you don't leave it till the final ten minutes to change the dynamic, and you don't field your best 11 against the lesser teams (unless you don't trust the players on the bench, in which case you should sell them) sometimes I wish he was as brave as mourinho who is not afraid to take a player off at half time if he thinks it provides him with a better chance of winning.

A new threat has emerged as well from the spuds, highlighted by a strong performance from the bench and a stunning long range strike in the closing minutes to win their game against Anderlecht.

But Wenger never let the French international play a full 90 minutes and he was actually started from the bench against Man United and scored a consolation goal for us while we lost 3 - 1 at the Emirates, but since then he has gone 8 games without another goal.

Even more surprisingly, Ramsey wasn't even on the bench for the game against Palace, and Wenger instead had Maitland - Niles and Reiss Nelson as reserves, and they were both given game time with Nelson replacing Ozil after 72 minutes.

On 19 October 2013, Silva made his debut for Benfica at the age of 19, in a Taça de Portugal 1 — 0 victory against lower league Cinfães, coming out of the bench in the 80th minute.

Perez only got about 14 minutes against Hull, and didn't even make the bench for the Chelsea horror show.

The Chilean came off the bench for a 15 minute cameo against Bournemouth today, making his first appearance since overseeing his move to desired Manchester City move break down on deadline day.

Wall remained on the bench against Chicago after playing 33 minutes in his first game in over two months on Saturday.

Arsenal's Jack Wilshere was consigned to the bench for England's opening Euro2016 game against Russia last night, but Roy Hodgson finally sent him on in place of Wayne Rooney with 15 minutes of the match remaining.

Ozil created more in 8 minutes off the bench against West Brom than Ramsey managed to do in 80 +.

His last appearance came from the bench against Liverpool in the Champions League quarter - final, second - leg last week when the striker claimed he «couldn't run» after 24 minutes on the pitch.

It's possible Marsch won't want to play Kaku 90 minutes in anticipation of his Tuesday's game (especially with Davis already out for the midweek match), but it's at least equally possible that Marsch plans to trot out Kaku for a full appearance against the Timbers and to have him on the bench against Tijuana.

The minutes racking up meant Dzeko sat out the first hour against Bologna, coming off the bench when his team needed to come up with a goal and avoid defeat.

Having played the full 90 minutes at Bayern Munich a fortnight ago, Gotze was on the bench against Stuttgart and again against Schalke.

He then came off the bench against Germany and again scored the only goal of the game, securing all three points in the final four minutes.

Juan Mata was given a partial rest yesterday evening against Steaua with the Spaniard coming off the bench after sixty - four minutes of play and it is widely expected that he will return to the Chelsea team on Sunday.

Mata, meanwhile played 45 minutes against Italy and came off the bench in the 67th minute to no effect in a disappointing, drab goalless game with Romania.

He came back to training only this month, and came off the bench in the loss against Arsenal, playing just 26 minutes.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan had a good international break, sitting out the Middlesbrough match, albeit on the bench, and playing 90 minutes for Armenia against Kazakhstan, winning 2 - 0, scoring one of the goals himself.

Timothy Fosu - Mensah made his senior Manchester United debut against Arsenal, playing 35 minutes after coming off the bench to replace Marcos Rojo at left - back.

I still think he should be a guy that comes off the bench against bigger sides to give us a lift with 20 or 30 minutes remaining in the match.

The redshirt junior missed nine matches this season before popping off the bench against Xavier for 30 or so minutes of action.

In a tight game against Stoke, van Persie came off the bench in the 66th minute, and scored 6 minutes later, to turn in Gervinho's cross from the narrowest of angles.

It may be a bad omen for his contribution to a United side that badly needed his injection of pace and direct running off the bench in order to scrap a last - minute win against Hull City, never mind the challenge which lays ahead of them in seven days» time.

Kenedy played 90 minutes as Newcastle beat Arsenal to move into the top half of the table, whilst Tammy Abraham came off the bench to make a positive impact in helping Swansea to a 1 - 1 draw against Everton.

Lasmar said there was a chance that, against Japan, Coutinho «could be on the bench and play a few minutes.»

Hard, wooden benches with no wall behind them were the only choice in the locker room, so I opted for the benches in the busy and noisy hallway where I could at least lean against a wall while nursing before placing my child in the nursery for a few minutes while I attended a yoga class.

Mr Lansley confidently defended his proposals against attacks from the Labour benches, but a speech minutes earlier by Mr Cameron effectively pulled the rug from under him by offering major concessions on his bill.

Chikatara came off the bench in the 58th minute to replace the hugely ineffective Tunde Adeniji and he showed his class with three well - taken goals and could even have scored more against Mena.