Sentences with phrase «played against ball»

Several of those top - 10 teams played against ball - control teams in Week 1, including Arkansas and Navy (and Florida didn't play anybody), while the Trojans played against a fellow up - tempo team, meaning the game had more total snaps available.

The Zips averaged 6.2 yards per play against Ball State, then 3.9 against Western Michigan.

Not exact matches

Sherman played his college ball in the Bay Area at Stanford under former coach Jim Harbaugh, who then went up against Sherman during his four seasons in charge of the 49ers.

Whether European leaders are ready to play ball with Trump against China is uncertain, however.

To give them a fighting chance against more talented teams, they emphasized fundamentals — tough defense, team play, ball control, hustle.

Mertesacker is the type that will win headers that go towards him, but if he has to move for it then he's in trouble, but he's very good at positioning himself so it's not that big a deal, though when he does get caught out it seems to stick in my head for a while, like against Anderlecht... Players like Koscielny and Gabriel are a lot more mobile, they move and attack the ball when it's played into their area.

Last game he played against Parma he battled like mad in winning the ball, running with it half of the pitch and in the end scoring a goal by beating the keeper in a cool way.

Coming up against Arsenal, it would be a no brainer to see the visitors have large spells of possession and nullify whatever little threat the home side may pose; but Johnson, playing as the Right - Winger, could initiate counterattacks with his deceptive pace and has the ability to deliver that final ball for the likes of Steven Fletcher and Conor Wickham — who could start upfront for the Black Cats against Arsenal, to finish off a goal scoring chance.

Euthanasia (even when the recipient is in untold pain) is still a hotly debated subject... Kevin Peiterson plays cricket, cricket balls are made of cow hide, not synthetic leather yet he wants to lead a protest against animal cruelty, ironic indeed.

Yes it has played a part but, for example, there is nothing unlucky about allowing both Wayne Rooney and Angel Di Maria easy one on one chances against your keeper or having a keeper who allows himself to get taken out by his own player because he didn't claim the ball.

Their goal while against run of play and an own goal was good goal because the midfielder did well to see a better opportunity and passed the ball.

But it was over all good performance... But being Arsenal, they are very unpredictable... We can not assume that we would win comfortably against West Brom next Monday night... They are very hard to break down and it's Tony Pulis side who only play with air balls... Corners and Free kicks... So we have should not feel any euphoric feeling by this point... This should be happening week in week out....

The Englishman can make runs down the flanks, catch on to quick through balls and would be better suited to play on the counter attack, which we may have to do against a team like Manchester City.

A very intersting choice but how far will he go to win especially after his ban for throwing a second ball on the pitch to stop an opponents counter attack; recall that replay with sheffield because Kanu scored by going against the fair play rules.

When Arsenal plays against smaller teams, we somehow manage to win the ball back, but playing against biger teams we play like basketball, leting the enemy attack and hope that they do nt succeed in scoring, rather then us winning the ball back.

i have been saying this for along time arsenal would be better surve with a defrent stile of play maker one who can shoot head the ball take on defender dribble into space.we all see it over on over again you don't need one killers pass to win game alot of team don't have ozil on create lots of chance against us.

Against the Orange, however, the Irish played their most inspired ball of the season.

Against Stoke, I remember we got a corner, but instead of putting a cross in the box, we played the ball all the way back to Ospina.

Ozil is only very good if you have a better team than all the teams you are playing against, he needs to be in a team that has top players in every position and they all basically have to be very comfortable on the ball.

Consider: Deadeye guard John Jenkins (from Hendersonville, Tenn.), an SEC player of the year favorite, often overhears the French Skype conversations of his roommate, backup center Steve Tchiengang (Douala, Cameroon), who loves playing FIFA on his Xbox against quadrilingual swingman and NBA prospect Jeff Taylor (Norrk √ ∂ ping, Sweden), who rooms near forward and erstwhile U.S. Open ball boy Lance Goulbourne (Brooklyn), who was raised 2,440 miles away from another suitemate, point guard Brad Tinsley (Oregon City, Ore.).

Teams beat us bec we have trouble - ties to win the ball of the team which we are playing against.

I thought we sat back like it was defense against attack, didn't press the ball or try to stop them playing and generally ball watched.

he's 19 years old with zero playoff experience going against a future HOF» er who gets every call............ and you want Fultz to play hero ball?

They both love arsenal, they up the tempo when we are losing and they have the nerves to score against any team unlike ozil Since we lost fabregas, no one plays the ball over the top for us frequently, then we lost rosicky that drives through the middle, then we lost super Wilshere that drives through the middle and plays the ball over the top to injury and ref mismanagement, since then we've been playing the safe pass to the wing to cross like other EPL teams.

If u see d way we played in d 2nd half against Hull, we lost possession of the ball too often.

Now he snaps — and he has to read the defense while he's figuring where to go with the ball against guys trying to make sure he has no idea what they're playing.»

he may have played below par in his previous games in terms of losing ball and trying to do the spectacular but you cant fault him for the match against chelsea.

I'd Like to be proven wrong, but Lacazette, Auba — it doesn't matter who your striker is when all you can do is send long balls forward... that is unless you're playing against Mustafi.

However, against the run of play, All Saints went on a great counter attack and shot at the goal, which the Eton Messi goalkeeper managed to save but failed to keep hold of the ball which All Saints player, Luca Raimo managed to tap into the back of the net.

Jabrill Peppers was making plays on all sides of the ball against Colorado.

You are spot on on Perez being better than ozil if he's given the chance, but neither of them are at wilshere's level when fit Wilshere is aggressive, you can't get the ball off him unless you foul him which gives us enough set pieces, he's a big game player, watch our games against Bayern, barca, Chelsea, man city, man utd e.t.c when he plays, he creates more chances You just need to watch his games even at Bournemouth against Chelsea, which brings me back to the point that, no coach will ever play ozil while Wilshere is fit except wenger............ Plus, ozil is a pu ** y or a weakling rather

Against the Detroit Tigers he hit a sure double - play ball to the shortstop.

They came up against Team Apuli who shed themselves of a bad losing skid a couple weeks ago and are now playing their best ball of the year..

I saw him play against spu I could have sworn, he was outstanding I remember him bullying a player off the ball letting it go out for a goal kick even though he is slim and not tallest.

Even when we win the ball against the run of play, we sideways pass and let the get numbers behind the ball.

CLOVIS WEST KEYS TO VICTORY: Against top teams the Golden Eagles have been near or above their 74.1 points per game scoring average, and if they can score at least 70 points and play solid team ball with the kind of defense they have shown — except in the second game against Centennial - Las Vegas when they lost 70 - 46 at the MLK in Stockton — coach Craig Campbell and his girls should win again just like they did in a 70 - 67 overtime victory over Poly at the NiAgainst top teams the Golden Eagles have been near or above their 74.1 points per game scoring average, and if they can score at least 70 points and play solid team ball with the kind of defense they have shown — except in the second game against Centennial - Las Vegas when they lost 70 - 46 at the MLK in Stockton — coach Craig Campbell and his girls should win again just like they did in a 70 - 67 overtime victory over Poly at the Niagainst Centennial - Las Vegas when they lost 70 - 46 at the MLK in Stockton — coach Craig Campbell and his girls should win again just like they did in a 70 - 67 overtime victory over Poly at the Nike TOC.

His athleticism allowed him to play above the rim in high school; in the SEC, it may help him hold his own against the conference's top defenders until he adjusts to the speed of college ball.

St. Louis is still enjoying the win against the Nationals, but when it comes time to play ball again, they will ride the momentum of a four - run ninth inning on Friday night that saw the team's offense produce nine runs.

Miami doesn't want to play junk ball, but it has had to do so; junk ball isn't going to work against the Florida State team we've seen so far this year.

When you are playing football and you got a high ball to control the slightest touch will push you off it for sure eguaro pushed mustafi but mustafi should have stock his leg out to bring him down or elbowed him in the face well i would have done that Arsenal were not hungry enough for the cup if they were we would have seen some blood running down of some Manchester players Arsenal need to defend in packs of wolves The first half was not to bad we should have scored though but yes no back bone no hunger and no fight What is going to happen on Thursday how are we going to line up against them??? I need to see Arsenal fight like man stand up like man and use their skill and agility to turn Manchester to a loosing side Well if we do nt we need to separate the real man from the phony ones period

The coaching staff has decided to give personnel looks to the opposing offense to encourage running the ball against them and is willing to play the percentages of them being able to stop enough multiple play march down the field drives and be stingy enough about stopping touchdowns to allow this team to hold others to a low enough score to allow an average offensive showing by our offense to score enough points to win.

Even on a breakaway with 3 (Arsenal) against 2 (opposition) we will stop the play and pass the ball back to our «keeper (maybe a bit of an exaggeration) to allow the opposition to reorganise the defence.

Then there is Meyer's updated version of the triple option, such as the Fiesta Bowl touchdown play, in which the QB can keep the ball, pitch it or toss a shovel pass ahead to a back or slot receiver (Warren, against Pitt).

Arsenal are better off not having too much possession in order to win more, against Man United we must let them have the ball and play on the counter attack!

Outside of one play against LSU, once he tucked the ball, he was running.

On our first drive against Florida, we go to their six in 12 plays and Johnny hasn't seen the ball yet.»

From playing a physical game against Duncan to moving fluently and intelligently off - ball, Bosh was locked in.

He'll need to play the game of his life in that regard against Alabama because MSU probably won't be able to run the ball.

And the key to challenging for the CL is to learn how to play against different opponents, passing the ball and keeping possession won't work when Flamini barely held his own against Norwich and West Brom.

Richie Ashburn of the Phillies, who plays center field as it was meant to be played, needlessly threw a ball away one day against the Braves, into the dugout behind third base to let a run score.