Sentences with phrase «stage of the game when»

In chess, the endgame refers to the stage of the game when there are few pieces left on the board.

He was used in the later stages of games when Barcelona was winning but not controlling the game.

Why to go on the offensive with full force at that stage of the game when it wasn't necessary at all????

This may not seem like the most important bonus during the early stages of the game when you have a reliable squad of characters to cut down under - leveled enemies, but is a massive help when considering the endgame and Player vs Player content available.

Not exact matches

When CTO Mike Schroepfer showed off the Oculus game «EVE: Valkyrie» on stage, he didn't even mention the name of the game, much less the developer.

However, it can be a guessing game at the grocery store when confronted with a mountain of bananas at varying stages of ripeness; how quickly will the green bananas ripen, will I want a banana tomorrow, or in two days or tonight?

Must say when I hear we are sending scouts to check on a player at this late stage of a game it really worries me.

The problem with us is that we can win against any of them just as much as we are capable of losing against them, we can be a real Jekyll and Hyde team, if we go out playing like we think we already won tonites match, we could easily get stunned by AC, when was the last time we won a home game in the knock out stages of a European tie, 6 or 7 years ago.

When the Bracket came out, this one jumped off the page as the best potential match - up of Night 1 and with Team Apuli winning 13 - 6 in their first Game, the stage was set.

Only once during this campaign of over 50 games so far have Arsenal lost two games in a row and that was back in the early stages when we were not playing as well as now.

The Canaries» tally of 22 point from 16 Premier League games is their best since 1993 - 94 when they had 27 at the same stage.

I would also drop Ozil after that performance and when he does play Wenger needs to start taking him off around 70minutes, Ozil always goes missing in the later stages of the game!

What amazed me is that after Özil goal our team collectively relaxed on the defensive end and was happy to sat so deep as if we were in the late stage of the game... we should have better mixed up our game plan sitting deep to defend in a more compact way is good but when you have the ball you must take good care of it and find teammates in good positions quickly... both Cazorla and Ramsey were poor and I do feel that they both should've been subbed of early for Rosicky and Walcott!

A good number of Liverpool fans carried out their threat to stage a mass walkout during Saturday's game with strugglers Sunderland, and when they left in the 77th minute, two goals to the good, they likely thought they'd made their point and bagged three points in the process.

The Gunners were handed a major boost when the club revealed that the quartet were all set to feature in the game against the young Potters, in the latest stage of their rehabilitations.

Yes David Bentley has improved greatly of late, and perhaps we could just offload Jamie O'Hara and Alan Hutton, but that being said when everyone is fit and well Bentley won't get a game and therefore it would in some ways be unfair to keep him just to warm the bench as that would not serve his career too well at this stage.

Giroud hadn't had too many opportunities come his way during the match, but he made it count when fellow sub, Alex Oxlade Chamberlain got the ball in the box from a cross in the late stages of the game.

Wenger has a habit of showing unrealistic loyalty to players that have progressed through the group stages and refuses to make the necessary changes when the stakes are higher i.e. by playing the appropriate strength team in each game.

Because of the skill of Campbell to scheme & wriggle past defenders, I am starting him on the bench to come on at a stage in the game and I'm giving Welbeck a complete rest from the match till the Palace game when he could be in my match day squad.

A lot will still depend on what happens with Arsenal when the final draw is made for the Champions League group stages on August 29th, but looking at how the Premier League games fall for the Gunners around and about the dates of our UCL group games, we could have a problem on our hands, Houston.

When you hear that Arsenal are one of the clubs linked with a striker that scored more goals in the group stages of the Champions League last season than any other player, with a stunning nine goals from just six games, most Arsenal fans would start rubbing their hands together with anticipation.

So for now I think Welbeck is going to have to play the waiting game and just try to make his mark when Arsene Wenger does turn to the bench in the latter stages of a game.

He is confident that we can do that however, especially if our current form allows us to go straight into the Champions League group stage draw without having the stress and strain of two extra games when the fitness levels are lower and the risk of injury is higher.

Arsenal fans found out all we needed to know about the France international star Geoffrey Kondogbia this season, as the central midfielder was easily the Man of the Match when his French Ligue 1 club Monaco came to the Emirates for the Champions League first - leg game of the knockout stages.

He even found his shooting boots when scoring three goals in three games in the latter stages of the campaign.

As the rotating system goes,»86 was to be the turn of the Western Hemisphere, so that the U.S. now found itself with a golden opportunity, enhanced when Brazil dropped out of the bidding, to stage the Cup and thus powerfully imprint the game on the consciousness of the nation.

Whereas Arsenal, having to play only second or third tier European clubs, will be quite happy to send over there reserves and youth players for 90 % of the Thursday games, perhaps even until we get to the quarter - final stage at least when we may face an occasional quality team.

i agree andy but its not just the 4 years of hard work that should be taken into account, firstly the fai hav missed out on millions at a time where money is already tight, and more importantly the fact that given, kilbane, o shea, dunne, duff, whelan and keane may be too old when the next one comes around and for a professional footballer to hav a chance to represent his country on the biggest stage of all taken away in this manner is cruel, there can be no argument against technology when there is so much at stake as for henry being labelled a cheat i do not agree as it came at him so quick and although he in fact handled it twice i do not believe it was pre-meditated like maradonnas effort or that disgusting dive by anelka at 0 - 1... can any1 who watched the game live please tell me how lass diarra stayed on the pitch let alone avoided a yellow??

As expected from a young goalkeeper in his first year with a new club in a new country there have been growing pains, a good example of which would be the 3 - 2 loss to Paris Saint - Germain in the group stage when the German had a forgettable game.

The left - back, who United made the most expensive teenager in the history of the game when he was purchased from Southampton in 2014 — a record broken by the club a year later with the signing of Martial — missed the majority of his second season in Manchester due to a double fracture he suffered in his first Champions League group stage game of 2015 in September.

He will play against his boyhood club this week when Manchester United take them on in our first group stage game of the Champions League.

As part of the «We want our Charlton back» campaign, they staged a mock funeral procession, threw on a load of black and white beach balls at the start of the game (the colours chosen as the ones they wore when they beat us in the 1947 FA Cup Final).

It's rather hard to point the finger at a particular aspect of their game that has improved on last season — but they look as if they have collectively moved up a level in terms of confidence and assurance both on and off the ball that even when Everton threatened David De Gea in the early stages of the second half, the home side refused to be drawn in.

When the game Sunday held a 2 - 1 scoreline indicating it was all but a lock for Team USA to get out of the group stage, the draw price for our 3rd fixture against Germany was nearly 4 - 1.

The new black and orange kit, made by Joma, will be first worn when Valencia take on Malaga this weekend and will also be used in select Champions League (Valencia have progress to the knockout stages of the tournament from their group), Cup and domestic league games.

I don't believe that at any stage this season the number of home games played has equalled the number of games played away, and it will not be the case until the end of March when, after three consecutive home games in that month, we will have played 32 games split equally between home and away matches.

This means when push comes to shove at these important stages of the season, the club don't have enough quality or know how to score enough goals to win games.

Surprisingly he ended up with a personal best «minutes on the pitch for a league game» when replacing Michail Antonio in the closing stages of the first half.

Was comfortable until Montero came on when he really struggled to deal with his trickery in the closing stages of the game.

The collision happened in the latter stages of the game on Saturday when McNaughton came out second best after a 50/50.

Not least when he scored five goals in six games during the fledgling stages of Liverpool's revival under Dalglish, including the winner against his now new employers in February (pictured below).

Samara's Cosmos Arena will stage a game that promises to be out of this world on June 28 when Senegal take on Colombia.

Costa Rica almost certainly have the upper hand when it comes to dealing with tropical climates; an advantage that may show its worth especially in the closing stages of the game.

However in the final few stages of the game, Ibrahimovic struck in dramatic fashion, his looping header from Antonio Valencia's cross beating Mignolet in the 84th minute after a despairing clearance from Lovren, the move kept alive when substitute Marouane Fellaini had headed Rooney's cross against the post.

Tottenham were hoping to secure their place in the champions league knockout stages when the visited France to face Monaco but boy they were hit with a reality check as Monaco bossed first half where they missed penalty and couple of other chances but game came to life in second half where Djibril Sidibe and Thomas Lemar scored either side of Harry Kane's equalizer to put Monaco back in the lead.

«They can win it but Leicester and Spurs are favourites,» he added, «because Arsenal have to win all their remaining games and Leicester and Spurs have to lose three or four, so it's not looking good for Arsenal at the moment and it might take a bit of pressure off them and that's what they do at this stage, when it seems like nothing's happening this is when they find form.

Furthermore, they became the first, and only, Russian team to win all six of their Champions League group stage games, when they won Group H ahead of Rosenborg, Legia Warszawa and Blackburn in 1995/96.

Both of these sides meet last year in the group stage as well when Man City had to rely on injury time penalty to win the game in Germany while they produced absolute superb performance to beat Gladbach at Etihad stadium 4 - 1.

Though Rashford was quieter in the later stage of the game, he showed he was in waiting mode when he sprinted from the middle of the pitch, holding off Luiz before whipping his effort.

Of course, data and outreach are only as effective as the messages and the messenger behind them, so we'll see what happens when Walker plays this game on a national stage.