Sentences with phrase «reach the ball before»

However, he can appear uncomfortable with the ball at his feet, and his decision making can be questionable — he's often been seen haring out of his box to reach the ball before a striker, and hasn't always proved successful.

Back in the ascendancy, Chelsea almost added a fourth when Marcos Alonso showed his athleticism to reach the ball before it went out for a goal kick, pulling back for Pedro, just booked for simulation, who lashed his shot just wide.

Not exact matches

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While Zlatan Ibrahimovic was fortunate to see the offside flag go up after missing from a yard out, it didn't take anything away from the delivery which should have been converted before the ball reached the back post.

Disappointment in the pre-season transfer window, followed by rationalizations of why we should give the team and Wenger a chance and not write them off before a ball is kicked in anger, followed by analyzing each set back as «too early to panic» followed by excuses about injuries and referees, followed by anger and disappointment after the inevitable reality sets in and Arsenal are effectively eliminated from the PL race before the year is even finished and the PL has reached its half way point.

Penn State's quarterback Matt McGloin connected with Matt Lehman, who reached over the plane of the goal line with control of the ball before fumbling it.

It was ridiculous to be standing in front of Aguero and his reaction to stand there appealing for a foul was pathetic but in my opinion it was technically a foul on him because the replay showed that Aguero looked at Mustafi before the ball reached them, and gave him a firm and sneaky shove from behind which Mustafi could not see coming.

On the long par - 3 17th hole, Montgomerie dumped his tee ball into the water between the tee and green, and Calcavecchia, knowing he only had to reach the green to end the match, responded by top - skating a two - iron that barely reached the halfway point of the pond before plunging out of sight.

There was next to nothing to work with, but to be in the right place, know how to strike a ball through, and how to play on the last shoulder, he learned all that to a decent standard when all he knew how to do was kick a ball straight forward and try to reach it before your opponent does.

However, the scoreline remained 0 - 0 at the interval, after it was wrongly deemed that the ball had gone out of play before it reached Aguero.

Before 1898, a player earned a steal not only in the traditional way but also by taking an extra base on a hit — i.e., reaching third from first on a single — or on an out, a fly ball for instance.

For a fleeting instant it seemed that Lewis would reach the quarterback before he could release the ball, causing either a sack or a fumble.

Although the referee would rule that Darren Sharper scored a touchdown — even after looking at the replay — the Saints» free safety seemed to lose control of the ball before reaching the end zone in the third quarter of New Orleans's 46 — 34 win over the Dolphins in Miami on Sunday (page 44).

However, Oxford quickly responded with further pressure, keeping the ball just out of Harvard's reach as blues back Louis Maddison made excellent plays in holding the ball before shooting it up field to his team mates.

I've said it before — getting through the All Sports Series Playoffs requires a certain amount of luck — a ball rimming out of the hoop, or a foul ball that just barely missed the line, or even having all of your guys in town — that being said, to reach the Final4 in THREE straight Summers in a League that is this deep year in and year out is a testament to Sternberg and co..

Koscielny's game relied allot on pace, he was never the best at sensing danger but his reaction times were expert level, allot of last ditch type stuff and when he attacked the ball before it reaching it's target he'd go up to it pretty hard.

Neither side seemed able to string more than a couple of passes together before a bad touch, some poor decision - making or an aimless ball sent out of reach of a teammate or into no man's land, gifted possession to the other side.

In truth, their football at Wembley never quite reached their usual heights, and Arsenal must be particularly wary of De Bruyne collecting the ball in deeper positions, before arrowing diagonal passes in behind the defence for Leroy Sane, charging infield from the left.»

Firmino tested Joe Hart from the edge of the box, before Jesus Navas» flashed delivery across goal almost found Sergio Aguero, but the Argentina international was unable to reach the ball at the far post.

Lydia Thompson collected the ball from Emily Scarratt on her own 10m line before starting a mazy run that saw her reach the New Zealand 22 largely unchallenged, From there the ball was quickly moved to the left where Pocock saw the gap and went over for the first try.

De Bruyne lost the ball in transition and Iniesta quickly fed it to Messi who made a couple of steps before dispatching the ball inside of the post and out of Caballero's reach.

When Yaya Toure slide the ball across goal in the second half he took his chance to claim his hat - trick, before adding a wonderful effort from long range just as the game reached its conclusion.

Alba reached the byline before cutting the ball back to Alcacer, who was left with a simple side - foot finish past Athletic goalkeeper Kepa.

Koscielny did not have the physique to allow an attacker to back into him and expect to come out with the ball so he would largely base his game upon coming around his opponent from the back and stealing the ball just before it reached the player.

Ramsey's injury seems to have resulted from combination of timing (Ramsey reached the ball a fraction of a second before Shawcross), positioning (the way Ramsey's foot was planted in the ground, and also seemed to be slightly twisted, meant that it couldn't bend to absorb any of the impact) and the size and weight difference between the two players (Shawcross is 6» 5 ″, and solidly built).

Being able to follow one and two step directions (i.e. «bring me your cup», and «pick your ball up and put it in the box») is an important milestone for babies to reach before potty training.

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If a ball hits the net before reaching you, you're all but guaranteed to lose the point, since your player will refuse to take more than one attempt at hitting a ball.

Achieving gold in this exercise may sound like a cake walk, but there's a timer counting down and the red balls, worth three times the point as the yellow ones, are harder to reach, don't always sit still, and last only a few seconds each before disappearing.

Other game examples are a Flappy Bird type title, one where you blast balls to match colors before they reach an end and a tile memorizing one.

We are reaching out to some of our international offices, so I send out emails to colleagues in Hong Kong, Australia and Dubai to get the ball rolling and try to catch them before they finish work!