Sentences with phrase «n't raise its game»

On the other hand, this is a team that has gone 14 games without being beaten (prior to the defeat) and that tells a great deal about their quality and character more than the one defeat where they just could not raise their game when required.

Even Sanchez can not raise his game at the moment, he's hardly looking world class these last few months.

The problem seems to be that we go 1 up and then instead of going all out for the 2nd goal we stop playing and think that the game is won and start playing casually thereby losing momentum and when the other team score can't raise our game again.

And while the offense remained sound, it couldn't raise its game enough to keep up.

Let's hope he has a quiet night at Stamford Bridge and does not raise his game to prove a point once again.

Nick Clegg performed obviously better than the other two leaders in the first debate, but didn't raise his game to the same extent as either of his rivals for the later ones.

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Not exact matches

They are not team players, but narcissists» lust for success and glory can raise your entire staff's game.

If you still can't raise the money you need to fund your business, it's time to decide if you should stay in the game or throw in the towel.

Bestselling author and CNBC contributor Suzy Welch says that with the right game plan in place, asking for a raise doesn't have to be cause for a stomachache.

«My father would come home in a foul mood after losing at blackjack and other card games,» Lee wrote, «and demand some of my mother's jewelry to pawn...» His mother not only saved her jewelry from her feckless husband but also ably raised her four sons and one daughter, selling cakes baked from tapioca when flour and money grew scarce.

Democrats are corrupt because they could win this game with public pressure by saying if the Fed raises rates, your credit card payments go up, your car payments go up, the value of your house declines, bankers profits increase (not that they aren't too high already).

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Alzheimer's doesn't seem like the most thrilling subject for a video game, but Tarvet wants to use his game to raise awareness for the disease.

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

I'm learning to keep my eye on the long - game: I'm not managing children, I'm raising children into capable and compassionate adults.

It's still very difficult for me to raise my voice, since I'm not always sure of what to say in protest of someone who is playing this game, and more often anything I do say merely perpetuates the drama cycle.

I'm sure this isn't going to be something that is raised again, given that Alexis is too busy repaying the boss by scoring his third goal in the last two Premier League games, however it's right that he should know not to go against Arsene Wenger's instructions.

It is not an easy fixture, though, even though Arsenal are coming off a shaky start to the new Premier League season after losing away to Stoke, so every Arsenal fan will be delighted to see that Arsene Wenger's team for the game at Anfield includes the Chile international star Alexis Sanchez, although Lacazette starting on the bench with Welbeck in the XI will certainly raise a few eyebrows.

He doest deserve a raise, he hasn't even played upto 30 games since his last renewal and am sure he had a raise then, if I were him, I ll be more concerned with ao to break back into the team

Adding fresh quality players to a team does not only bring their qualities but make existing players in the team raise their game.

From Texas they returned home but after 10 games in 10 days and all the travel involved going to Texas, the team was beat, and Jayla couldn't raise her arm.

Yes he is right, but comcerning the weekend game i do nt just knw why am so confident for the game.firstly liverpool can never cope with our attack, and secondly if we defend from the front like we did from the last two games the defence will be under less pressure.Evne flamini weakness was well covered bcos we defended as a team and attacked as a team.Lastly, we have chambers back for the game and hopefully the Ox and Walcott so no need to raise any fears.Infact liverpool, s attack depends too much on sterling imho, and i think we can keep him quiet, he is not even a good finisher anyway.I strongly believe we will come out on top with hard work and commitment minus complascency

Vick doesn't have great size for a wing at 6» 5, 175 pounds, but he's becoming a knockdown shooter (46 percent from three) and has raised his assists from 0.9 to 3.3 per game since last season.

«It never felt like we would beat ourselves in this game, that feeling you get sometimes of,» he raised his hands to mock - act yelling at a player, ««Would you pay attention??!» We didn't have any of that.

Costa was fortunate not to be sent - off himself as he raised his hands in the face of Laurent Koscielny twice in the penalty area and also kicked out at Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain later on in the game.

If we win, (somehow), can't this raise our confidence to go out and perform in other BPL games as well?

Choices, choices, choices, that's what happened to our once free - flowing, beautiful on the eyes brand of football... the move from Highbury was a friggin hoax played on all Gunner fans... North London football is now for the fat cats and wannabes, not for those of us who rather watch from home because we love the game and we would rather not pay a weeks wage to get a seat a 1/4 mile from the field of play... much like a high - end business that once cared deeply for the artisans who toiled to create something quite brilliant, they have become an assembly - line factory trying to get the most for the least while still raising the prices of their product..

I was raised a Steelers fan from birth, and my family would try to watch every Steelers game we could given that we weren't living in Pennsylvania.

Ramsey should be made to find it hard to get in the team as should all the players so they will all have to raise their game whcih could be good for Arsenal so long as we do not incur more injuries

Fine, you might not want to protest or raise banners, or even boycott games, but at the very least, stop buying Arsenal jerseys and merchandises!

Now I know it's not all the time that straightforward and players may raise their game on any given night, and it's an away game blah blah but the probability is we should smash this side 9 out of 10 times Here's more or less their predicted line up Mignolet Clyne Toure Lucas Moreno Milner Allen Can Lallana Benteke Firmino Their bench is rubbish so don't even inconvenience yourself with a Google search.

I only go to the games a few times during the season since I don't live in England, for those who do, we need to defy those damn stewards and raise the temperature at the games, that's the only practical solution I can come up with, we are not the ones who buy the players and all the noise we have made on social media and elsewhere keeps falling on deaf ears, they will not listen to our calls for players, let's go to the games and turn the library upside down as much as we can, we can not give those players a moments rest, we, the fans pay them [gate takings and TV subscriptions], you can't take my money and not give 100 %, Wenger can pamper them, we would not, they don't read much that is being said on social media but they can't ignore our chants at the stadium.

A loan move for the 20 - year - old would not have raised many eyebrows in the summer; however, given the Blues» defence has looked worryingly vulnerable since the start of the new season — having conceded 10 goals in just four games — Zouma could be a key player in their battle to retain the Premier League title.

All those of you who thought we will not win this game please raise you hands.....

Whether he will have games like this on a regular basis or he will miss chances like Dortmund and Spurs is yet to be found out, but i do enjoy the way the Man United boy raised with so much love is now scoring goals for Arsenal and mocking United at not giving him the chance to shine as a forward.

Now, it would be too easy to raise my pitchfork and stab Ozil for being «invisible» but then again, what he brought was something we didn't have in the first two games: WIDTH.

Personally I am not convinced about Mhkitaryan and feel he won't even raise our game to seriously challenge for top four!

Granite Xhaka saved us last night, i'm not a great fan of Xhaka but i thought the game changed as soon as he come on, on Wilshere i have been his biggest supporter but last night he let me down badly, he made no space for himself he was just out for the fresh air, i thought Sead had a lousy game to even do he scored, it was a sad night for Arsenal supporters and football to watch that, there were plenty of alarms raised when we played Ostersunds FK in the first leg in the second half, AW should of known better to prepare his team and should get off his ass and shout a bit from the side line like all passionate managers do when they send a message to their players

not to you Uzi Ozil but to the point u raised about monreal, that he improved his game massively because of the patch where he played as a cb, i know many here had a reason to criticize wenger for not buying a cb then but many here also bashed the prof that he wouldn't know whom to play where... look u haters before teaching wenger on tactics just think a bit more about it..

If anything, UConn's dominance has raised the level of the game in ways most don't recognize.

The Frenchman said, «I think these kind of players they can raise a little bit above the financial aspect of the game because they are not poor and they have to look really on the football side.

Not to do with the game as such, but Diego Costa raised a few eyebrows with this bizarre behaviour before the match.

The English fan is there for the game, and the fact that he can not sit, can not move six inches to either side, can not adjourn to the bathroom and must raise his hands above his head even to find room to applaud, does not even enter into his thinking.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

The enduring image of this game was then - commissioner Bud Selig, the former owner of the Brewers, with his hands raised in exasperated fashion once he realized there might not be a winner.

Maybe not in the United States, where people are familiar with the game, but there a lot of players that can become better known in their home countries and thus raise the interest level in golf.

Sunderland played to avoid anoda 8 0, that is why d game was difficult, Anyway, let our players raise ther game, let's reduce our passes, is too much, especially in d opponent box, we should learn to shoot, I miss Theo n Giroud (hard work), kudos to sanches, carzola!

The 25 - year - old has experienced a difficult campaign this year, as he hasn't been able to consistently deliver his best form while also being dropped and taken off in games to raise question marks over his relationship with boss Jose Mourinho.

I really thought that the other players would raise there game after seeing Sanchez play, but it doesn't look like that effect is rubbing off a yet...