Sentences with phrase «nervy play»

Halfway through the campaign they seemed doomed to yet another dismal failure, but a stroke of luck helped Ricardo Gareca's side gain confidence and momentum, before making it through after two nervy play - off games against New Zealand.

We've seen some nervy play at the Olympics, Masters, and last week at Firestone when contending in big events on the weekend.

But for whatever reason — his own mismanagement, bad breaks, nervy play — he's given away multiple chances to win multiple majors.

Not exact matches

Our untimely change (which I can't say I agreed with) brought a run of pressure on our very own defence, and we ended up being saved by the goalpost with just over 20 minutes to play, and this game is getting very nervy, although I still had that feeling we would scrape through the match with all three points...

We used to be much too open when Ramsey played and our CBs looked a little too nervy.

I put no blame on our CBs, it was always going to be a nervy moment to play Pool at home with a new pairing.

First place in each group qualifies, while second has to take part in a play - off, which will be a nervy affair for the teams involved.

If your fear threshold is triggered by two all - time greats who are clearly now has - beens playing against us no wonder you are so nervy.

It is not a completely dead rubber after all as the Gunners do need to make sure that we don't have to play two nervy and unwanted games at the start of next season in order to secure a place in the Champions League group phase, and unlikely it may be there is still an outside chance of finishing above Tottenham in the Premier League table, which Arsene Wenger admits is only of value to us fans as bragging rights but still a worthwhile goal at that.

Quick play and intelligent movement was leading anxiety levels to creep up around Old Trafford, with groans audible during a nervy start - tension punctured in the 17th minute.

It hasn't been the best two games we've played, both being very nervy and tricky fixtures.

Tottenham's nervy start was punished as Mane opened the scoring when Coutinho won the ball back in midfield and Wijnaldum played a perfect through ball for Mane to chase,

The cast is terrific: Sam Rockwell and Rosemarie DeWitt play the hapless parents whose bargain dream home turns out to be a haunted death trap, with strong support from their onscreen offspring, especially Kyle Catlett as nervy middle child Griffin.

The romantic myth of the Kennedy family clearly helped Ted (played by a nervy Jason Clarke) persevere in the public eye, as did lingering sympathy following the assassinations of his brothers John and Robert.

The game plays a cruel trick on you up front, threatening the player with a save file deletion if they die too often, to try and get you into the nervy, jangled mindset the game world preys on.