Sentences with phrase «of defensive moves»

Agility, meanwhile, determines a lot of defensive moves but also makes your strikes more accurate.

Not exact matches

Rebranding could also be a defensive move to protect your business against the rise of a new competitor.

«While the strategic rationale for launching the (low - cost carrier) unit as a defensive move against further penetration by other low - cost leisure carriers such as Sunwing Vacations, Transat and WestJet make sense, we remain skeptical of the magnitude of earnings impact until additional scale is obtained later this decade with additions to the mainline fleet.»

Many analysts view the combination of CVS and Aetna as a defensive move by the companies.

An anti-commodities stance was also evident with moves out of energy and material stocks while defensive weightings were increased, the bank said.

Some Canadians might be unwilling to accept this reality; if they do, they may become more defensive economically, and politically sensitive to moves by others that remind us of our lessened influence.

Despite operating at a loss, Google has retained the majority of Motorola's patents and gained a defensive move to fight patent litigation by its primary competitors.

InterVarsity's announcement is not a calculated move in the culture war; it's a defensive posture, taken only after the ministry conducted a four - year evaluation of its doctrine and its future.

Under the influence of a rapidly moving revival atmosphere, punctuated by the singing of the simple, primitive music of the gospel chorus, the defensive shell of the alcoholic is gradually softened.

In most cases, it takes some time to give up the defensive games of courtship and engagement, and to move toward intimacy - enhancing openness.

This consideration might lead us to ask whether Gaine could have added a little more constructive (and less defensive) discussion of how — after the doctrine of Christ having the visio was dropped — our contemporary reengagement with it might be more than a mere retrograde move but an important locus for ongoing theological discovery.

This interesting defensive move on the part of the Hartford signers is tantamount to distinguishing false and true transcendence.

Danone's purchase of WhiteWave can be viewed as a «defensive» move as it looks to be less «heavily» dependant on traditional dairy sourced products such as infant formula and yogurts but experts believe it will open up opportunities to expand into new categories, such as plant based ingredients and products.

Reserve defensive back Kaleb Chalmers, who transferred to South Carolina by way of junior college after originally attending Clemson, will be moving on from the Gamecocks.

Walcott is on 19 goals, but because of defensive frailties he has to move Oxlade back out there, he even knew this seasons ago as he done the same with Ramsey.

One of the Pelinis» first moves upon arriving in Lincoln was to move the 6» 6», 285 - pound Crick inside, from defensive end to tackle, where he played beside future first - round pick Ndamukong Suh.

Vander Esch's ability to move rapidly from spot to spot is a big part of what earned him a scholarship at Boise State in 2015, made him the Mountain West Defensive Player of the Year in 2017, and will make him an NFL player in 2018.

On the third to last play of the game for New York's offense, Bosa lined up at left defensive end and beat Hart clean with a swiper move and stuck his helmet right in Manning's side as he was releasing a pass that would ultimately be caught by Shane Vereen for a short gain.

Present day Ozil is often blamed for the Arsenal loses and in truth at most times should be, his moods dictates the way arsenal plays, he dictates the tempo of how arsenal plays and once he begins to lose balls and things not going his way he tends to shrink away from the ball, he is not a player who is going to call for the ball, get in the game by doing some defensive work or get the ball to get some fouls and move the team upwards.

Monreal in at CB provides an adept and semi creative ball playing presence in the defensive third which I think is important to keep us moving the ball fluidly and intelligently and also means opposition need to compensate for the possibility of Monreal clipping the ball over the top to Lacazette and cutting the midfield out.

I talk about how we need to move towards attacking football, i cant help but sometimes fall in love with Juventus defensive tradition of sacrifice by everybody & defending as a team.

Two of the people I spoke with named J.J. Watt, Von Miller and Khalil Mack as the only defensive players who can move the spread while another representative specifically singled out Watt, arguing he could be worth as much as 1.5 points.

It reveals an agile seven - footer whose turnaround jumper is accurate up to 20 feet; a heady player who discourages double - teaming with canny passes; an outstanding athlete who has somehow figured out the exotic fast - break passing strategies of point guards Mark Jackson and Rod Strickland, both of whom never make a simple move when 13 complicated ones will do; and a defensive intimidator whose 3.7 blocks per game at week's end were second only to Olajuwon's league - leading 4.2.

Tough tackling defensive midfielder was strongly linked with a move to Arsenal but the switch broke down over wage demands, among other factors, but we can see Arsene Wenger revisiting this in January as he looks to add much needed steel to a midfield that is perhaps too heavy on creativity and not enough in the way of grit.

The defensive midfielder has been linked with a move to the Emirates for a number of years, but following Francis Coquelin's emergence in the first - team, I'm not sure if there is a need for someone so similar.

Podolski's stock at the Emirates has continually fallen since his move on a Bosman from FC Koln in 2012 — with the German harbouring a reputation as deadly in - front of goal but lazy in his defensive duties.

With a lack of consistency and troubles with offering the defensive discipline that the Portuguese tactician wants to see from his wide players, it looked as though he could well move on this summer.

wenger seems to be trying to clear the decks a little with a big wage earner of the roster in poldi and that might just mean we could be getting in another big earner in hopefully in the defensive aspect and not a silly big money move for cavani (i would prefer higuain) might be worth a punt in terms of more reliability in front of goal.

The Dutch coach already looks on the brink of making his first defensive signing of the season as Torino and Italy right - back Matteo Darmian nears a move to Old Trafford.

We now only have Premier League leaders Chelsea standing in our way of lifting the FA Cup trophy, and Ramsey has moved to praise his side, although in a defensive manner.

The Gunners have been in dire need of a new defensive midfielder ever since Alex Song moved on to Barcelona in 2012, and have themselves been linked with a plethora of names ahead of the upcoming season.

«I've been praying for this for sooooooo long,» 13 - year veteran defensive end Michael Strahan said on Sunday, after New York had whacked the Cowboys 17 - 10 to improve to 8 - 4 and move a game ahead of Dallas in the NFC East.

Look, nobody is going to mistake Jones for an edge rusher, and yet there he was lined up at defensive end winning with an inside move that looked better than any inside move I saw from some of this year's top edge guys.

The kind of running plays the Rams used put pressure on the Bucs» defensive ends to read their keys while having a bunch of different moving parts around them that were meant to distract.

The dikes were opened in Holland, a forlorn and wistful defensive move smacking of castle moats and breastworks.

Thing is with Allen playing all over the defensive line, he was also able to showcase his ability to win with all kinds of moves, both power and finesse, one - on - one against centers, guards, and tackles.

In turn, the Spaniard is claimed to have requested that City make a move for the defensive midfielder ahead of his arrival in Manchester in the summer.

That's not to say he will have the most sacks out of everyone, because some of these other guys will win with inside moves and pass rushing from the defensive tackle position.

it goes without saying that AW must leave and another coach to come he can stay close to the team as manager or head of board but it is clear that our team is in need for so many years of a defensive midfielder (William Carvalho) and a left back (J Rodriguez) on top of them if we buy Mbappe and this player from Celtic, Dembele i believe our team will be in very good shape as we will have players to cover all spots in good order we can get rid of players such as elneny, gabriel, debuchy, jekinson, lucas, chamberlain, mertezaker, coq and get back jack wilshere who together with ramsey, xhaka, santi they can make a quite productive midfield together with Carvalho watching their backs if we sell ozil, sanchez we can move for 3 more players such as gueye, mahrez and gibson

However Chelsea's moves in the summer transfer window were restricted to the signings of Asmir Begovic, Pedro, Baba Rahman and deadline - day captures of defensive back - up options Papy Djilobodji and Michael Hector.

Of those three players to move to a more difficult position on the defensive spectrum, Frazier and Shaw were successes.

Formerly of Cardiff City, Chilean defensive midfielder Gary Medel has proven a smart signing by Inter Milan, playing the ball well for the Italign giants since his move.

How can wenger blame the defence he has allowed it to happen, as Merson said surely there must be a young CB that could be used, when you look at the bench it shows how short of defensive players we are, why not bring on Bellerin then move chambers in front of the CBs, put theo on just in front of the RB, Wenger and Boulder should have been screaming to the players» just sit in» don't need to go forward, but they just sat there

Song was magnificent at Arsenal before moving to the Spanish giants and has regained his old touch since coming back to the Premier League with West Ham and at 27 years of age, is probably at the peak of his powers, and if Arsenal had used him as a defensive midfielder he would ave been a welcome addition to the Gunners squad.

Khabib didn't exactly look unbeatable in there.2 rounds of control and low damage, 3 rounds of struggling for take downs and letting his jab carry him while making a lot of defensive untechnical pullbacks against someone who was looking for a big one punch and refused to even parry or move from the jab.

The start of the move looks a bit worrying, as the Ipswich defenders play the ball about in their own defensive third, under pressure from Millwall's attackers.

Against chelsea the penalty was a direct result of alexis losing the ball in dwfensive third which was quickly moved to harzard who was to the far right of the defensive area of arsenal.

Arsenal has depth, but it isn't quality squad depth, Rosiscky, Cazorla, Ozil all play the same position and neither of them add a great deal more than the other, our midfield is stoked but the areas we actually need depth in are barren, we have no solid defensive midfielder with our usual reliance on a CAM moved back, as a result players like Ramsey and Wilshere who are box to box players end up creating more imbalance in an already unbalanced team.

Man United look set to say goodbye to a trio of defensive options this summer with Nemanja Vidic having already secured a move to Inter Milan and left - back Patrice Evra looking set for pastures new.

Paul Merson has now moved to claim that Arsenal's defensive personnel are simply not up to scratch, and claimed none of them would start for any of our rivals.