Sentences with phrase «much plays second»

Fortunately the story very much plays second fiddle to the objective of restoring order, which surprisingly is more than enough of a driving force to keep you engaged.

Not exact matches

Second, there's just way too much competition on the global playing field!

yes its much more fun to watch people play for 6 seconds and then take a 20 second brake and then play for five again and then another 20 second brake, etc etc...

But second, as the deeper motivation of Christian faith comes into play, it can contribute much more.

The RAF played a key role in the Second World War, including fighting the German Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain which prompted the tribute by Winston Churchill that «never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few».

But, having kept an away clean sheet, and with the luxury of playing the second leg at the Emirates, Arsenal are very much in control of their destiny, as far as this playoff tie is concerned.

«He played very well in the first half but we didn't give him enough service in the second half because we dropped off too much and we played too many balls in our own half.

A pedestrian first half gave way to big plays in the second, where Joe Flacco and Anquan Boldin proved to be too much for a young Indianapolis Colts» team in the playoffs for the first time.

Arsene Wenger has already admitted that he would be playing a second - string side, but Moyes admitted that there will be a few changes to the West Ham side but not as much as he would have wanted!

Not trying to be nit picky, but I think when we are playing much better than our opponent, we should score in second half as well.

JustArsenal were not around then and I wish they were, because Walcott played pretty much every game as a second striker with Adebayor or Bendtner... that was A LOT of games to prove himself a striker.

Dropped their second straight to start the season, but this group will be much happier with their play in Week 2.

After allowing 32 ppg in their first four games, the Patriots have benefited from playing much more man coverage with CBs Stephon Gilmore and Malcolm Butler on the outside and breakout second - year player Jonathan Jones in the slot.

We played Cambridge 2s in a BUCS league match in the second week of term and lost 6 - 0, we then drew them in the second round of the BUCS cup and lost 3 - 1, holding them at 1 - 1 for much of the game before conceding two late goals — I think the contrast between these two results (and the performances) is a testament to our hard work on and off the pitch and gives us a lot to be optimistic about looking forward to next term.

Much like the highly anticipated Mickelson - Woods showdown, however, Friday's second day of a potential three - day shootout fizzled like a defective Roman candle as the 47 - year - old Mickelson blew by his 28 - year - old playing partner by nine strokes.

The UC Booth squad is back for their second season (last year played as Team Levitan) with a much deeper Roster in Year 2.

For a team like Denver that's played so much better at home this year, getting that four seed is likely important for their chances of reaching the second round of the playoffs.

Trouble was, before they had much of a chance to try out their theory, Minnesota got a brilliant 62 - yard run out of Chuck Foreman — his longest of the season — on the second play of the third period.

And while the Prof has pointed out in an Arsenal.com report a few key reasons for what happened, he has also played it down and suggested that it could actually help the team in the long term as it can serve as a lesson and should not end up changing too much as Arsenal looked set to come second in the group anyway.

Stunned by this event and inspired by the courageous fight for life of former teammate Lou Gehrig (he died in midseason at age 37), the Yankees played with much of their old fervor, winning 101 games and finishing 17 ahead of the second - place Red Sox.

Also, letting him play as much as he did was just stupid; second misstep.

Some fans seem to view «hold - up» play as a dirty word, but buying an extra few seconds for supporting runners (which in Sanchez, it's hard to ask for much more) and dragging a CB out of position Giroud does very, very well.

Why persist with Elneny and Coquelin the whole game should have at least taken off one of them for a more attack minded or creative player in the second half.No guile at all today and too much reliance on individual play to try and create something.

After securing automatic qualification for next season's Champions League but falling off the pace to pip Manchester City to second place, Arsenal welcome West Brom to the Emirates with nothing much to play for.

And aside from Tim Hardaway, rookie Frank Ntilikina — who didn't play in Summer League — second - rounder Damyean Dotson, and second - year guard Ron Baker, the Knicks» roster leaves much to be desired.

He is playing with much more confidence this year and was the glue of our second half.

Second half he improved allot and finally realized that Holding got into trouble without much help from himself, Rob was playing two positions and he was struggling with both of them.

Why were we OUTPLAYED OUTHOUGHT and pretty much 2nd best against a side who will probably only just realise their ambition of staying in thePremier league?Simple.They have a manager who COACHES and MOTIVATES his players to achieve to their abilities.When was the last time we could say this?Wenger somehow achieved this in last seasons cup final by getting a fantastic performance on the day with a second rate / string goalkeeper a back three which included a novice, a left back and BFG playing after 37 minutes of football the whole season.Thats not forgetting OX playing LWB.Why can't Wenger Coach and Motivate Players for a season any more?Start the clear out with Wenger and get someone in who can

Lukaku is much more direct and can do a bit on the ball (though not in any sort of traffic) while Giroud is second to none in hold up play and involves teammates well.

The Brazilian's second was a thing of beauty, but his first actually impressed us just as much — that's the kind of goal he needs to score more when playing as a false - 9.

We came second to Leicester mainly because of the much greater demands on the squad from our competing intensely on 3 fronts, playing 2 tough games every week without any respite — whilst Leicester had only the League to focus on, with only one game a week and crucially were given 2 weeks off to rest and recover their energy levels — over a period in which we were handicapped by many injuries, loss of form and confidence to key players whilst Leicester had no such handicaps.

Xhaka has had a good start as well, not played as much as Mustafi and he has had the quieter moments but 1st season in EPL... Cech has shown fight, even getting forward for lass second crosses etc..

No he never meant that, he meant that we should play Watford with that team, rest Sanchez cause he'll be back in UK late and he's tired I second that thought but play Ox, no need to rest much but resting 1 or 2 ain't a bad idea.

It appears that Alexis Sanchez is pretty much doing whatever the hell he likes at the moment, as after he insisted on coming out for Arsenal in the second half at West Brom against the wishes od Arsene Wenger and the advice of the Arsenal medical team, he has now taken his injured ankle off around the world to play for Chile in what will be a fiercely contested World Cup qualifier against Argentina.

The elements of our play that were so apparent in our much improved second half of last season were a lot more influential.

Portland needed all of Lillard and Nurkic's efforts to fend off Oklahoma City, which played short - handed for much of the second half after Carmelo Anthony was ejected for a flagrant 2 foul.

Is it me or do we always play much better in the second half of most games, we always come out a different team which presses and looks top.

The solution is for Wenger to stop being so damn sentimental, sit Ramsey if hes not going to play as a CM, and play Rosicky there instead who is MUCH MUCH better on flanks and does nt need to come inside every second of the game.

do you really think you're helping the club by slurping up Wenger following 16 minutes of good play... think logically just for a second, never has Monreal contributed so much in the final third (then he went out injured again), we scored two goals based on set pieces, which certainly hasn't happened in quite some time and the other two goal scorers have scored a handful of goals in the past 3 seasons... this is why this club is in the predicament they're in because you lack any sense of perspective or foresight, much like the manager you cuddle up to regardless of whatever inane things he does that negatively impact our club... it's like finding an unopened chocolate bar in the garbage can

The second reason is that the player himself has revealed that he is very much aware how the Gunners play and he knows a lot about all of his new team mates.

Having bemoaned the lack of depth in his squad already this summer, it doesn't seem to make too much sense to sell more squad players, but there still seem to be question marks hanging over Batshuayi as he looks set to play second fiddle again this season.

In the second half we played much better than the first, we were lucky because we could score and draw the game.

You won't find much better than Gibbs Ox Debuchy Theo Welbeck Rosicky to sit second third or sometimes fourth choice, the high quality players won't play second fiddle its as simple as that.

On the second half Barca played much better but I feel the Arsenal team became frustrated because we hadn't scored yet.

Finally, and to reiterate an earlier point, the way forward for this club is to stop paying below average bench players so much money and to focus the bulk of the weekly wages on establishing a dominant starting 11... this will require the club to eat some wages in order to ship some players out, get rid of any deadwood over the age of 21, develop a cutting edge scouting service and put your money where your mouth is for once... I would much rather have a starting 11 that was world - class and give some reasonably paid young blue - chippers playing time when injuries occur than have 2 or 3 world class players surrounded by a plethora of overpaid and underwhelming players... management would no longer be able to sell their half - baked plans to the fans under the guise of «winning now», which any intelligent fan knows is a crap - shoot at best, and instead create a a squad that provides hope for the present and the future... this is exactly the model that has been used by Barcelona, Real & Bayern, so it should be good enough for us... by the way, until Messi & Ronaldo re-signed just recently all 3 clubs weekly wages were on par with ours... think about that for a second or two

Despite his displays often seeming to be languid and slow - paced, Dzeko has a fine goalscoring record for Manchester City, having bagged 46 league goals for the club, an impressive record considering he has spent much of that time playing second fiddle to Sergio Aguero and Mario Balotelli.

Arsenal are guaranteed to play a second string side, but so are our opponents and this season we seem to have much more strength in depth than usual so there is no reason why we can not go all the way this time around.

Of course, with much golf left to play, he'll have to settle for being the projected No. 1 — up from second place, where he began the week.

«We did that well but at 2 - 0 at half - time we came out in the second half much more to protect our advantage than to continue to play and put them under pressure.

«Overall we played too deep, too far from each other, but we were much more compact in the second half and after that we are even frustrated in the end because we were 3 - 2 up and could have won the game.»