Sentences with phrase «struggled against a defense»

Indiana, the East region's No. 1 seed and regular - season Big Ten champions, struggled against a defense it had never seen.

Not exact matches

The Pope calmly continues, «It has matured rather in the process of self - defense and the struggle against Marxist totalitarianism.

Alabama boasts the top rushing defense in the country, and Gallman struggled against the FBS» No. 2 unit when Boston College reduced him to a season - low 48 yards.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Edinson Cavani were finding plenty of space against Manchester City's defense, but PSG's midfield struggled mightily to actually get the ball to them.

Much like the majority of the season, a season in which we saw a ridiculous amount of elite QB's, WVU was struggling mightily against our defense despite having Grier.

The 2017 UT defense struggled pretty dramatically against a decent run game (107th in Rushing S&P +) but completely dictated the terms against opposing passing games.

Vikings -LRB--2.5) over PANTHERS — Cam Newton has struggled against the NFL's better defenses — 7 TD / 8 INT against top 10 defenses — and the Vikings defense is one of the best.

Here's the good news if you're a Lions fan: Detroit has a fairly soft schedule during the next four weeks, getting matchups against the defensively challenged Bears twice, the mid-level defense of the Vikings once, and the struggling Tampa Bay Buccaneers to round things out before facing off against the Packers to end the regular season.

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The Badgers swarmed to the ball against the run and only struggled in pass defense a couple of times.

The reason why We struggle against teams that presses is because mertesacker cant do a Pique, koscieny sometimes do got caught out because of the risk in doing that, he is good at bringing the ball out from defense and lauching attacks from his position, having Gabriel beside him will neutralise the threat coming from teams that presses because Gabriel too is comfortable on the ball unlike the immobile Rhino per.

It's one thing to struggle, especially against a strong Minnesota pass defense, but it's another to struggle in a way that induces flashbacks.

The Vikings are likely going to struggle running the ball against a terrific Eagles run defense.

The Michigan offense had been struggling to find the end zone all game against the Maryland defense until Drake Johnson finally got loose.

What the metrics say: The Bucs are the NFL's worst defense at getting after the QB (18 sacks this season), and as a result, they really struggle against the pass, ranking 29th in pass DVOA.

Just as it has all season, Auburn's run defense really struggled against Wisconsin.

Team Evans Scholar SO struggled to stop anything on defense however in this game, giving up more points than their average of 51.5 points against per game this year.

Against Southampton away, he knew Mertesscker was struggling with Long, he should have quickly changed to a 3man defence by dropping Monreal in the Centre defense formation, and let Kos man mark Long.

Florida is really struggling in the half court tonight, against a bigger, stronger Tennessee team that is daring it to drive into the teeth of its defense rather than shoot over it.

The Broncos defense looked phenomenal against the Patriots» one - dimensional offense, but they struggled to close out their victory.

The play calling in those situations will come under scrutiny, as it should, but the offensive line also struggled to create any holes against a defense that is better in the front than it has been in recent years.

The American International made his third appearance since procuring a loan move to London from the Seattle Sounders, but struggled to make an impact against a Gunners» defense which has only conceded a league - best 6 goals at home.

The $ 50 or less cap for each contribution to his legal defense fund means de Blasio will struggle to pay off those $ 500 - an - hour lawyers hired to defend him against two criminal probes that had been looking into his sketchy fund - raising efforts.

Against this backdrop, it's tough for Republican governors to insist, «Well, sure, our party's leaders in Washington can find huge dollars for tax cuts and defense, but we can't afford a pay raise for struggling, hard - working teachers.»

The Federation has rallied a defense against the invaders, as both sides struggle for dominance.

Sol Survivor — United States: «Sol Survivor» is a turret defense style game, putting players into the role of a Sol Paragon commander in a desperate struggle against the evil Ascendency.