Sentences with phrase «speculative shot»

Apart from the odd moment of penetration Spurs were restricted to speculative shots from distance and their defence made to look uncertain.

after seasons of being criticised for walking the ball in, we've been taking more speculative shots this season: that had 1 negative consequence: our conversion rate fell way down.

A fortunate killer blow before the interval, Wallace's speculative shot looping into the far corner via a heavy deflection off Leicester defender Moreno, provided Laws with a platform upon which to build a victory out of nothing.

Rudiger nodded home his first Premier League goal early in the second half after N'Golo Kante's speculative shot deflected into his path off the head of Wilfried Bony.

Leeds often seemed reduced to attempting long, speculative shots from distance that were often never a real threat.

Spurs were largely restricted to speculative shots from range because Sunderland defended with two organised banks of four, and the hosts were not passing the ball quickly enough to create gaps.

Just ten minutes later Alexis Sanchez takes a speculative shot from outside the box that only hits Danny Welbeck, who carried on ta take the ball away from the keeper.

The second half would surely be more exciting than the first half and suddenly after 8 minutes Granit Xhaka took a speculative shot from outside the box that got a wicked deflection from Herrera's back and saw the ball loop over De Gea and into the net.

Donnarumma is undoubtedly one of the finest young players in the world right now and a goalkeeper who looks set for legendary status in the game, so to parry a speculative shot from Xhaka into his own net is a serious blot on what promises to be a great career.

The first ten minutes of the second half saw Ostersund continue to impress as it looked like our stars were feeling the cold and were doing the bare minimum to stay in front, but with half an hour to go Ozil took a speculative shot but the goalkeeper didn't hold on to it and it continued into the net.

But Meyler was fastest to respond after a speculative shot by Jake Livermore came back off the upright and tucked it away to put his side ahead at the Etihad.

His first save came 78 minutes in from a long, well - struck but speculative shot.

Although they fell behind early, Roma would press on, peppering Marco Sportiello with shots, speculative shots, but shots nonetheless.

Collecting the ball on the right, the Egyptian saw a speculative shot blocked by Otamendi, but reacted quickly to the rebound, and elected to cross on the second go.

David De Gea, on the other hand, will be a topic of debate in weeks to come, as he was found wanting on one or two instances with his clearances and was certainly to blame for the second City goal, where he let in a speculative shot from Dzeko from thirty yards out.

The biggest problem was that Cambridge were well marshaled in defence and limited United to speculative shots from distance as well as nullifying the threat from midfield.

I'd certainly consider this a speculative shot.