Sentences with phrase «of fewer games decided»

Lots of folks were excited by the prospect of fewer blown calls, of fewer games decided by impossibly difficult calls.

Not exact matches

After I jogged a few miles and I could no longer feel the tip of my nose or the sides of my face, I decided it was game over.

Then we get to the front three and he decides to drop Lacazette in favour of Welbeck and Ozil, neither of whom are as likely to win you a game, so I think Wenger got a few things wrong in his team selection and I feel he got the subs wrong as well.

They were on the wrong side of some Tiebreakers or they would have come in a few spots higher... The Game will really be decided in the paint.

The Arsenal defender Calum Chambers was watched by Roy Hodgson in a few games recently, including at right - back against Chelsea, and it seems that the England boss has decided to pull the 19 year - old out of the U21 squad for the important European Championship play - off against Croatia to give him his first taste of senior football at Wembley, after coming on as a sub in the last friendly in Norway.

Come the other year when Arsenal went the whole season without a defeat in the Premier League, Barcelona were attracted by Marc Overmas and Emmanue Petti, the two joined Barcelona, they played few games, and sometime on the bench, as a result Emmanue Petti decided to go back to England and joined New - Castle and always regret leaving Arsenal, then the other year it was Alexander Hleb, he was the best dribller in Arsenal team, he went again to Barcelona, he was never given some games, I think he only played few games as a sub, and his carrier was destroyed by Barcelona, then come Henry, he again went to Barcelona, he played some games but not like he used to do at Arsenal, he was not looking like a star player anymore, he decided to go to America, then there was Fabrigas, he joined Barcelona again, since he was one of their juniors, I think he played for two seasons, and supporter used to booing him, he decided to come back to Arsenal, by then Arsenal had already resplaced him with Ozil, and he joined Chelsea, then come Alexander Song, he pushed to go to Barcelona, he was always on the banch, and never been on first eleven, then he ended up regreting joing Barcelona, and wanted to go back to Arsenal, but normally Wenger do not take players who pushed themselves to be out of Arsenal, lastly there was Vermuleen, he went to Barcelona and ended up not playing at all but when playing for Arsenal they used to be star players.

Arsene Wenger has some big choices to make in the next few days about which Arsenal players will be in the starting line up on Tuesday night, when the German Bundesliga champions come to town for the first of two back to back games that will probably decide our fate in the Champions League this season.

At that time no one, much less the Babe (who decided to retire a few games later), knew that the ball would be the last he would ever hit out of a ballpark.

Eight games in the Round of 32 were played on Sunday, none of them were decided by fewer than six points, and more than half of them were won by double digits.

Hey, Barkley is bad, and Grant Fuhr is fantastic, but you mean to tell me that you could muster only eight pages to cover 18 college bowl games, 14 of which were decided by six points or fewer?

The idea is that the wide open style of play will lead to more scoring and fewer games will need to be decided via shootout.

Only five of those 135 games had been decided by five points or fewer, and only 16 had been settled by single digits.

He preaches that 40 percent of NFL games are decided by six or fewer points and that 30 percent are by three or fewer points.

That's seven of eight games decided by seven or fewer points.

(1) this squad has way too many moving parts and very few of our players are good enough at their preferred position let alone relying on them in whatever position Wenger and his magic eight ball decide in the tunnel prior to the game... when teams do this it generally signals issues within the club, much like Jose last year and Van Gael before him... no one gets settled, the chemistry is almost non-existent and if provides a built - in excuse when the team comes up short... these issues fall squarely on Wenger, both for his decisions regarding players coming in and for his inability to rid the team of those players who aren't cutting it... in actually fact we have only 6 real starters on this current squad and that's being generous (Sanchez, Ozil, Lacazette, Sead, Kos & Cazorla)... which is discouraging because Cazorla is injured and might never play again, Sanchez is wanting out and the club is lying to us about his injury status, Lacazette receives no service, Ozil is relatively disinterested out there, Kos is getting up there and Sead is just trying to settle in... there isn't a single other player that would start regularly on any of the other top 3 teams, which should be the standard... imagine this team moving forward if Wenger only sells before the window closes

With a massive FA cup game at OLd Trafford coming up and the likes of Cazorla, Ozil and Alexis having played a lot of games and minutes, I thought the manager might make a few changes but he has decided not to.

When that happens, you end up with a few more idiots than normal and some of those idiots decided to run on the field and interrupt the game.

With Arsenal having made a transfer bid large enough to trigger the release clause in the Leicester contract of Jamie Vardy, it was clear that Arsene Wenger had decided it was the Premier League star who was the right man to give Arsenal the extra goal power that we lacked last season, even though quite a few football experts suggested that his game and the style of the Gunners were not really suited.

As the Alabama defensive linemen killed time watching television and playing video games on a road trip a few years ago, A'Shawn Robinson got bored and decided he should attempt what so many of his teammates had already failed to do.

In the few days before the game yesterday, the sports papers and websites had been full of Arsenal transfer rumours linking us with the Leicester City and Algeria international star Riyad Mahrez, with talk about a bid of around # 40 million being readied and with the player said to have decided to make the move away from the King Power stadium and the Premier League champions.

Schumacher's assault - hip first - left Battison unconscious on the floor, minus a few teeth, and out of the game while the German goalkeeper escaped without so much as a booking before playing a major role in the subsequent penalty shoot - out that decided the game.

If we hope that Valverde has rotated effectively, then the core of our team will be in full shape for a potentially title - deciding game, whereas Madrid's core would have been exhausted by Bayern Munich a few days prior.

The OTL gang decided it was time to add an additional podcast this holiday season, call it a bowl primer highlighting the biggest games along with a few of the second tier matchups we found intriguing.

Looking ahead to the «sack race» among Premier League managers (and mentioning Wenger in the process), one writer pointed out that it can seem that the season of a football club is decided in the first few games.

In a fit of cock - sure arrogance I had decided to wait until after the game at Stamford Bridge to write a piece on our «double victory» against the faux - Arsenal and our bitter London rivals, and also address a few thoughts I've been having about the club and its fans.

With more than a few big teams facing the prospect of playing in a lower division next season, we've decided to look around Europe's top five leagues and determine who the 10 teams are with the worst run of form over the last six games are.

Each family can decide what «babysitting» means for a school - age child: One family might want their 9 - year - old to be in charge of reading or playing games with a younger sibling while a grown - up is nearby, while another family might decide it's okay to leave 10 - year - old with a 7 - year - old sibling while the parent runs to the store for a few minutes.

But once you stop playing this particular game with her, you can go back and give Satter's book a more thorough read, and introduce other strategies (proper meal and snacktime spacing, optimizing her nutrition via the few foods she eats, chilling the eff out overall, etc.) that will make mealtimes more pleasant and less of a power struggle over... well, whatever thing your toddler has decided to turn into a power struggle this week.

I even decided to be a sports manager my sophomore year and had the opportunity to work the sidelines of a few games, attend practice and paint the helmets to match the Golden Dome.

not the greatest game ever, has its flaws and shortcomings, but i still found it pretty fun and enjoyable, unlike a lot of the reviewers who found a few flaws and decided to say it's an awful game, when it's not.

And if you're trying to decide whether to pick up the digital or physical version of the game, those who buy it in store will receive a few extra things.

Turf War is exactly the same as it was in the first Splatoon, just with a few new maps to jump into — essentially, instead of the game being decided on kills and deaths, the winner is the team that has most of the map floor covered in their colour ink — a nice fact is that you'd be doing this anyway, as swimming through your ink on the floor is faster than walking, and enemy ink slows you down and damages your health.

While there are a few twists and turns, and a handful of aggressively lengthy cutscenes, plot is decidedly not the focus of Xenoblade Chronicles X. Rather than forcing you through a set of linear plot beats, the game lets you decide when to take on any given story progression mission for the chapter you're on.

After ripping off a few poker games, Joe decides he's going to rob a bank and run away with Emma, but Albert gets wind of it and double crosses poor Joe, nearly killing him.

After a few years that have seen studios deciding to focus on trying to make movies out of board games, it looks, from the last couple of days, as though video games are cycling back around as the hot source material.

And here are some of our reviews for a few of the nominees if you need help deciding if a game is worth your Microsoft points.

We would recommend playing the games in order, however, you could skip some levels (ex: you may decide to skip a few of the beginning levels if they are too easy for your child).

The Arcade Edition has had its own patches here and there the last few years, but Capcom has now decided that it's time for a brand new version, and hence Ultra Street Fighter IV has been announced during the finals of the EVO 2013 Tournament that took place last night in Las Vegas (in case you didn't know, EVO is the biggest fighting game tournament in the world, so it would make sense to announce a new game in the greatest scene the genre has to offer).

This puts the new studio in an awkward place, forced to decide between making the game their own or simply copying Arkham City, tossing in a few new pieces and forever standing in the shadow of what came before.

In order to preserve as much of the story behind the game as possible, Compulsion decided to strip the majority of the narrative elements from We Happy Few's early access version.

- for Sonic's 25th anniversary last year, Iizuka received a task to deliver some sort of product - the target was «dormant fans» who used to play the SEGA Genesis, but haven't really played any games since - Iizuka met Christian Whitehead, which lead to the creation of Sonic Mania - there was talk of another port, but Iizuka thought fans would desire something new from the old games - this is the first time Iizuka partnered with a team of devs spread across various countries - Iizuka said this team had a greater passion to create - this was in comparison to companies that set decisions on a pre-determined schedule (in meetings, etc)- the team had so many features they still wanted to add after the beta version was complete - since there were only a few spots with text that needed to be localized, they could bring the game to more places quicker - the game has Japanese, English, French, Italian, German, and Spanish support - the Studiopolis stage is included due to receiving the most requests from the Sonic Mania development team - Iizuka actually considered reducing the amount of stages at one point in order to meet the development schedule - Sonic Mania doesn't really have much in the way of cut content like scrapped stages - since Sonic Mania was only distributed digitally, the team was able to continue working very close leading up to launch - this let them put in practically all ideas, and there are currently no plans for DLC - Iizuka recommended Flying Battery Zone for inclusion becaues he likes the music - he also likes when the player goes inside and outside the ship - Iizuka likes Mirage Saloon because the stage structure will be different depending on the player character chosen - Puyo Puyo gameplay was added because there was a Puyo Puyo game released in the west for the SEGA Genesis - this game was originally called «Dr. Robotnik's Mean Bean Machine», and the team thought it would make a fun boss battle - Iizuka didn't have plans to feature Blue Sphere in the special stages - the Blue Sphere special stages were brought over to Mania as a test, but ended up staying for the final game - the team felt the need to continuously connect stages from various eras, which is doe with the Phantom Ruby story - for Sonic Mania, it was decided that the technological limit would be set at SEGA CD, - this is higher than the Genesis but lower than Saturn - in creating a SEGA CD - grade special stage, they would intentionally make SEGA CD - grade polygons

A few explosions later and Deadpool has his game, but he's none too happy with the script, deciding to rip it up in favor of making stuff up as he goes along, and so begins a story which, frankly, doesn't exactly make much sense.

Kemco has decided to put up a few of their games on sale for a limited time over on Google Play.

Nvidia has decided to put a few of their Shield games on sale for a limited time as part of a new Fall sale.

After a few days of constant attempts, I eventually decided to just forget about 100 % and go finish the game.

It's probably safe to say that Fallout 4 is one of the most anticipated games that is coming out this year, and with only a few weeks left till the megaton that is Fallout 4 drops, PlayStationing has decided to try and help gamers on their way with the game by listing a few of the perks you should try and avoid.

If it was just a few employees who decided to be renegades and sell the game early then I could see this business (which the name of the business hasn't been revealed) suing those individuals for the damages Nintendo is asking for.

I finished Persona 5 a few weeks ago and, unable to get my magical high school friends out of my head, decided I'd jump back in and give its New Game Plus mode a try.

The first big change I noticed was how much better the graphics looked, with this being the first Halo game brought out specifically for the Xbox One and (possibly) PC, rather than the rest which originated on the 360 etc, within the 9 hour sitting of playing through the campaign in a co-op game I did notice a few glitches, one of my team mates fell through the map, it randomly decided to teleport us forward past 2 vehicles when we were searching a map for Easter eggs but other than that the game was flawless, the 13 hour download time was worth the wait (I'm assuming this was due to the Microsoft servers, I started downloading at 18:30 on the 26th and when I checked my Xbox at 07:40 am the following morning it was at 93 percent, my connection is 152mbps so as you can imagine I was rather annoyed and surprised how long it had taken, after playing the game for all of 30 minutes I had completely forgotten about the length of time this had taken, I'll let 343 off with it as they have done such a good job with Halo 5.

If you're one of the few who decided to take a punt at Baja: Edge of Control back on Xbox 360, you're probably someone like me who wasn't all too sure what to think when the game was announced for a remastered edition on Xbox One.