Sentences with phrase «nowhere near the ball»

First Petr Cech made an error in running out and getting nowhere near the ball to allow Kouyate a free header from a free kick that probably should not have been.

Mcnab was nowhere near the ball.

Two wild swipes nowhere near the ball.

The amount of times you see Cech or VDS flailing arms get nowhere near the ball.

Not exact matches

The etiquette of pickup ball meant I had to say yes, but saying yes also meant the teams were nowhere near even: We had Linton and Derek and they had Charles, but we had me and they had Ralph.

Some people may think that Hazard made a meal of it, but the fact remains that the Belgian was kicked, with the ball nowhere near the defender, and it was clearly in the penalty area.

His command of his area, stature, positioning, confidence to rush out and take the ball, confidence to rush out and close the angles, make himself big was simply nowhere near the level of the elite keepers.

Xhaka's ball retention and dribbling skills are nowhere near cazorla's, only in pitch awareness is he able to match cazorla.

It could furthermore be argued that he was a much better fit for Drummond than Griffin is, as he is nowhere near so ball - dominant, is much more capable of spacing the floor, and does not take up space in the paint.

Xhaka gave the ball away, Ramsey was nowhere near to help, and the OX, who easily could have tracked back and helped out, did absolutely nothing.

Mason is nowhere near a 3,000 - yard pace at the moment, partially because the Dawgs have been running the ball like crazy, and partially because the foursome listed above hasn't reached full health yet.

That was nowhere near a 50 - 50 ball.

Mannone got nowhere near Marc Pugh's cross, and but Stanislas was unable to turn the ball into the empty net.

With the ball nowhere near within playing distance he gets taken out by the defender.

Am reading all over the net and hear as well that people are blaming the players fabianski for not getting his angles right, he had an ok game but a top class keeper would not be beaten at his near post, song who out of nowhere has become an attacking midfielder, chamaka for missing two easy headers, diaby for taking too long on the ball, Squillaci, Koscielny i know they new but they are making some mistakes that school boys would not basic mistakes rosciky for blasting a penalty over the bar when a cool head was needed, deneilson your team leading 1 nill late in a game and you shoot rather than take or pass the ball to the corner i can go on almunia whose technique is horrible and you say this team has improved.

Shortly afterwards, Rooney gave the ball away deep in his own half and Defoe pounced and tried his luck from distance thankfully it was nowhere near the target.

The Englishman whipped the ball into the opposition box, but the resulting cross came nowhere near his teammates (though he may have been attempting to catch the youngster out).

The Dutchman now takes way too long on the ball to make a decision, and his movement around defenders is nowhere near good enough.

Chamakh looks too isolated up the top on his own and he's certainly nowhere near as good as RVP in keeping the ball so I can really only see him come good in a 442 formation with a second striker to aid him, what about Park?

Darko Milanič's defence were nowhere near as effective, however, and after Salah pounced on a stray pass, burst forward and cut back from inside the penalty area, Firmino had ample time to guide the ball into a gaping net.

Simon Mignolet was shaky on a few crosses last weekend, and there was one ball in particular which he got nowhere near, almost costing his side a goal.

His next involvement was a glaring error — coming off his line and getting nowhere near a hanging ball which QPR somehow managed not to score from.

An example of this could be seen in the League Cup game against Bournemouth, when the German manager was constantly giving directions to the inexperienced Joao Teixeira, even when the ball was nowhere near him.

A judge, with nowhere near Dr. Ball's expertise (nor Mann's), has decreed that Dr. Ball's arguments are sloppy.