Sentences with phrase «sniff at goal»
Higuain almost hit back straight away in search of the equalizer, but a crunching Raul Albiol tackle denied the Argentine striker a sniff at goal before he could pull the trigger.
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The Uruguayan took his goal against Stoke with aplomb and if given even a sniff at goal on Sunday, well, put it this way, we'd have every confidence in him putting one away.
Since then he has not been able to hit a proverbial barn door and poor Giroud has now gone five games without a sniff at goal.
Mertesacker and Koscielny will partner each other and they should prevent Villa from having a sniff at goal.
The only sniff at goal that Soton had was because of Ospina's mistake, and that's a fact.
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HOCKEY — MONTREAL CANADIENS, sniffing Stanley Cup gold after bowing to Boston 3 - 1, turned to Maurice (Rocket) Richard (see below) in fifth game at Montreal and fiery veteran responded with overtime goal for 3 - 2 victory.
Giroud may not be in their class but the style and method of any regular goal - scorer is not to be sniffed at.
Assuming his current 0.61 - goal - per - game pace holds, he not only has a reasonable chance at eclipsing 50 goals this season for an eighth time but could conceivably sniff Gretzky's all - time record (894) before turning 40.
Might want to denigrate French national junior record but 39 goals in 61games isn't to be sniffed at and you can't do that with no ability whatsoever.
It's worth remembering as well, that he was out injured for much of the first - half of the campaign, so his tally of 11 goals is not to be sniffed at.
For a goal shy team like the current Liverpool squad, that's not to be sniffed at.
Robin's first sniff at the Danish goal came on 43 minutes with a trademark left - right - left series inside the box to shake off the defender and clear some space for a right - footed take just wide of the mark.
Scoring three goals in a game is not to be sniffed at.
The former Manchester United trainee is Wolves» top scorer this season with four goals, two of those have come away from home at Everton and Manchester United, at venues not to be sniffed at.