Sentences with phrase «of games against big teams»

«In this kind of games against big teams you have to be lucky, in the sense you score goals and you don't concede.

Not exact matches

On this topic, I go back to a clip of one of my college games at NC State against Indiana, a Big 10 Team that we needed to beat.

It means, he hopes, that the big free - to - air networks will be enticed to take a package of NBL games along with the rights to telecast what will be the biggest basketball matches in Australia for years, between the Boomers led by international names such as Philadelphia 76ers star Ben Simmons and fellow National Basketball Association players such as Patty Mills and Joe Ingles against a US team that could include the biggest names in the sport.

So until then, why not show a bit of modesty, stop with the big predictions and declarations, start showing on the pitch we have changed, beat every team that's put in front of you and fight each game as if you play in the CL final against Bayern Munich or Barca.

Jerry Jones and the Cowboys made a big deal out of their «unity» display during a Monday night game against the Cardinals, with Jones staring right at the camera as the team kneeled BEFORE the national anthem.

Even if Auburn or a team like Missouri wins big over Alabama and Ohio State has close calls against arch rival Michigan and two weeks from now's Big Ten Championship Game against Michigan State, BCS experts like CBS» Jerry Palm and ESPN's Brad Edwards believe Ohio State's stature with the computers and standing with the humans alike, even including some of the more cynical around the country, should be more than enough for the Buckeybig over Alabama and Ohio State has close calls against arch rival Michigan and two weeks from now's Big Ten Championship Game against Michigan State, BCS experts like CBS» Jerry Palm and ESPN's Brad Edwards believe Ohio State's stature with the computers and standing with the humans alike, even including some of the more cynical around the country, should be more than enough for the BuckeyBig Ten Championship Game against Michigan State, BCS experts like CBS» Jerry Palm and ESPN's Brad Edwards believe Ohio State's stature with the computers and standing with the humans alike, even including some of the more cynical around the country, should be more than enough for the Buckeyes.

A Tuesday night game against the Canes was never a big deal, but especially now when the team is a.500 squad that spends half its season looking like one of the worst teams in the league.

If Wenger can't be motivated enough to take some revenge on Mourinho, not even for the sake of the fans, after 12 losses... If his can ship 17 goals in 3 games against top level opposition and still continue with a similar approach to games, then I don't know what will ever really drive this guy to overhaul his tactical approach to compete more fiercely against big teams...

The Orange pairs the top non-Playoff ACC team against the top Big Ten or SEC team not in any of the above games.

Three years after Ohio State jumped Baylor and TCU to make the Playoff and one year after Ohio State made it in despite not winning the Big Ten, some folks at Ohio State's 247Sports message board wonder whether ESPN, a company that wants lots of games between big - name teams, exerted influence against the Buckeyes» enormously popular braBig Ten, some folks at Ohio State's 247Sports message board wonder whether ESPN, a company that wants lots of games between big - name teams, exerted influence against the Buckeyes» enormously popular brabig - name teams, exerted influence against the Buckeyes» enormously popular brand.

A draw wount be gud enough for dis game nd any other game, we need to imbibe dat winning mentality of a big club, nt hoping for a draw or a slim defeat against other big teams, wil it be an offence if we win our remaining 15 epl matches or win all our ucl nd fa cup matches?

You hate to hang your hopes on the schedule, but that's the Browns» biggest strength: Only three of Cleveland's 16 games this year are against teams that made the playoffs last year.

We both played against bad Bengals and Browns teams (although they had the benefit of going a big chunk of that game sans AJ Green).

Plenty of time to get rolling before the Playoffs and that can all start with a big - time Game against # 7 Team Malvin in Week 14.

They started off hot and kept the momentum going over the course of the night as they recorded 4 game wins and totaled 12 big points in the Standings against Team Kirshner (Sofia Live Lovely).

More important for this group is they went up against one of the biggest Teams in the League on Sunday Night, Team UC Booth, and got the W with only 5 actives in the Game.

He got a big chunk of those points in the final moments of the Game as Team Maione tried to mount a comeback against the sharp - shooting Team Purimetla squad..

In last year's Cincinnati preview, I said, «With the bounces that went against UC in 2015, the rough - draft talent that will show up in uniform in 2016, and the massive number of tossup games that the Bearcats will play this fall, this might be the biggest wildcard team in the country.»

As the big game against the archrival looms (Election Day), students (delegates) rally in support of their teams (candidates).

Although the semi-final Carabao Cup win against Chelsea suggested a change in the team's character and game - management, there are still massive question marks about whether their defence can hold up in the big games against the likes of Manchester City and Manchester United.

He's only played in a few big games, and he's never stood out as anything special, nor has he against more mediocre PL teams; the only matches that stand out to me for Arsenal are the WBA game at the end of last season and a game against Sunderland and in both cases, the opposition really didn't look up for it.

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Several fans in the Big House took to booing the team during the second half of Saturday's game against Cincinnati.

With these kind of games, Arsenal will never be able to win against big teams.

The old criticism that Arsenal don't turn up against the big teams has been blown out of the water once again as the Gunners cruised without fear for most of the game against Man City.

With Mertesacker in the side, the team will have to be very cautious to play a high defensive line because as we saw against Chelsea, one precise through ball can take the big German out of the game.

We really need to hold our nerve and deal with the expectation of winning games against so - called lesser teams and then we need to step up and cope with the pressure or the games against the big boys.

With the emergence of coquelin and with ospina's composure and assurances in goal our team seems now able to compete with the big boys which is evident in our games against Liverpool, Everton, and the Manchester clubs.

I kind of hope so, because that could end up doing us a big favour, at least for this weekend of EPL games, as both the Toffees and the Baggies are up against teams currently above us in the table.

If our team starts the game confidently instead of being nervous like they tend to be against the big teams, we can certainly trouble the Man City defence.

Apart from the games against the top six teams, I'd like Wenger to go back to 4 -4-2 with Giroud and Laca up top.Now I'm not a big fan of Giroud, I'd rather have Pierre Emerick Aubameyang, but he's all we've got.

The Merseyside team are in a dismal run of form but they are playing at Anfield and will surely be up for a big game against the leaders.

Of a truth, before the game yesterday, i felt we did nt need any CB, but now we certainly do, because if Kos is injured, we cant really trust the others against a big team and concerning Van Dijk, i prefer him because he wont need adapting, he will just slot right in our defence with ease...

Related: Matt Barkley photographed wearing sling following UCLA game Related: Johnathan Franklin gives fans throat slash gesture Related: Johnny Football is a terrible kicker Related: Stanford beats Oregon thanks to upright; Kansas State destroyed by Baylor Related: LSU administrator posts list of teams slackers for NFL scouts Related: Maryland and Rutgers in talks to join Big Ten Related: Lee Corso to 5 - year - old, «Not so fast, midget» Related: Virginia Tech sports horrible uniforms / helmet combo against BC Related: Fitzgerald Toussaint with ugly leg injury against Iowa Related: USC scores fat guy touchdown against UCLA

Related: Matt Barkley photographed wearing sling following UCLA game Related: Johnathan Franklin gives fans throat slashing gesture Related: Johnny Football is a terrible kicker Related: Stanford beats Oregon thanks to upright; Kansas State destroyed by Baylor Related: LSU administrator posts list of teams slackers for NFL scouts Related: Maryland and Rutgers in talks to join Big Ten Related: Virginia Tech sports horrible uniforms / helmet combo against BC Related: Fitzgerald Toussaint with ugly leg injury against Iowa Related: USC scores fat guy touchdown against UCLA

If we are appalling against the «bigger teams» then you would have to conclude that these «bigger teams» must be losing a lot of games they shouldn't against lower ranked teams.

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The school suspended him, and worse, his parents held him out of the season - opening flag football game against his team's biggest rival.

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

Yesterday was his first taste of the big local derby against Tottenham and he wasn't overawed by the big game atmosphere — in fact he loved the way the fans got behind the team even when we went behind.

That's when all of Bowie's preparation — the harping on details, the numbing repetition, the many games against military - base teams around El Paso — paid its biggest dividend.

The committee's plan for determining which teams play in the best games has not yet been completely disclosed, but if it leads to a common - sense determination of teams based on merit, rather than an application of cryptic and unforgiving rules made solely to prevent unscrupulous bowl executives from turning every big bowl game into Notre Dame against someone vaguely local, it's a massive improvement in the process.

i am not advocating for wenger to move on but perhaps it will take a new manager to convince the players to go out against the so called big teams with every intention of wining the game.

You're up against scrappy, die hard players who see this as the biggest game of their season, if not career, whilst playing with team members who are finding it hard to get motivated, having just been battling it out with the likes of Real Madrid and Juve days before.

Even if we win all our remaining «big» games against Chels, Spurs, Utd and Liverpool the statistics suggest we wouldn't get a big enough swing of other teams losing.

We've seen him against the better teams in this league all year, be really able to lift his level in some of the biggest games.»

Arsene Wenger managed to galvanise the team to handle the pressure yesterday against Bournemouth and he will have an even bigger job ahead of next weeks game.

I do nt know... WC is Ronaldo, Messi — yeah they have their bad days but they do nt go missing as often and esp not when you need them the most... i like Ozil — he has alot of Talent — but he really needs to put more effort into it... Ozil needs to win us some big games (Man U, Bayern etc), not just be MOTM on a game against a lower league team...

Although sissokho is more of a box to box but he has athleticism and physical presence to affect the game and often plays well against big teams when ever I watch him e.g Chelsea this season and last two seasons against Man united last season at old traffold etc he can play DM role for us and will be a good signing and very useful in champions league... COYG!!

Still, Mourinho's men are up against some big teams in the final few games of the season, Arsenal included, so is Wenger right to say there might still be a chance for his side to cause a major upset?