Sentences with phrase «team control the game»

if a team controls a game they win that game.

The possession - based philosophical approach to football thinks about football in terms of space; how can a team control the game both with or without the ball?

Not exact matches

Outliers, like a player on the opposite team getting lucky and having the game of his life, were out of our control but we never succumbed or ceded control of the game.

The Tudor Games Football Game lets you call plays and control your team on the gridiron.

With sports games, you can take control of your favorite team and lead them to the tournament victory they deserve.

Coquelin, Flamini and Ramsey are not of that same mould, Victor Wanyama and Villiam Carvaho are good defensive midfielders but do not control the flow of a game, they are more likely to a rest or stays static when their team is in possession of the ball.

I think what is really lacking in the team currently are players that are able to control the game, dictate the tempo and have good vision.

Arsenal do have a good team except for few mistakes after being in control they lost their cohesion and created school errors and just after they score they loose it again but honestly they tried and tried hard but the olympiakos goal keeper kept his team afloat with the help of the referee and from the match statistics we had 62 % position with 8 on target and 8 corners while olympiakos had 38 % with 5 on targets with 4 corners from the statistics we can say we won the game so in a sense two mistakes and we lost the game Still looking forward for Sunday come on Arsenal

Arsenal controlled the ball for large stretches of the game and were the team pushing to win.

When it clicks and you have the likes of Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez in full flow but also functioning as parts of a well oiled machine, the Gunners have the ability to breach any defence and with a strong defensive line and midfield players who can control a game, there are the ingredients in north London to make a title winning team.

were we look vulnerable and unsettled when teams break us down quickly in the midfield (like Spuds and Palace) did not giving midfielders time on ball and us a chance to control game...... (I wish AW has a back plan for that)...

Chelsea were the strongest, they held off everyone and won the league at a canter, what's strong about an Arsenal team that had 2nd place in their control with 4 games to go only to bottle it and finish 3rd?

Anyways, very good game from the team, Cazorla controlled midfield, Sanchez a bull dog as always.

For the derby game, Arsenal's players have to increase their ball control and passing skill levels, and work as a team.

Unfortunately for them, Team Salomone brought their A game on Monday evening and really controlled the game from the onset.

Team Saltzman, the Runners - Up a year ago, tapped into their past Playoff experience and began to take control of the Game.

They controlled much of the Game despite a heroic effort from Todd Neuhausen who had 26 for Team Golman.

Whoever they play will be coming off an emotional Game and the first 10 minutes or so will certainly be an opportunity for Team Levitan to take control of the Game.

For a brief moment, Team Dean seemed to have control of the game.

This is nothing against Final 4 participant Team Apuli, it's just that Team Watts has been a front - runner all season... Team Watts controlled most of this game leading by as much as 15 in the second half..

These guys would go back and forth but Team McNichols would end up getting control of the Game for most of the second - half.

However, Team Harmelech really controlled the tempo and on crucial possessions of the game they got their desired outcome.

Elneny was everywhere he was the boss of the midfield he ran after the ball he closed down players very well I do nt know what match you were watching but I suggest you watch it again and keep an eye on elneny and what he is doing debuchy was commanding and even took a yelow for the team have a look at the stats and how many balls we intercepted and how many fowls the game was pure tactics west ham had no chance this is the level of football for me it is top level because you go out there you control the game you boss it you win it for me the team effort was 100 % the work rate was 100 % and if you want to learn football this match is a text book match to observe learn and execute

Even taking into account injuries to running backs Ryan Mathews, Danny Woodhead and Donald Brown, who missed a combined 26 games, these are troubling statistics for a team that prided itself for the better part of the previous 15 years on its ability to control the clock.

There is more than one reason for any specific ranking, but Long is asked to stand in front of a camera and say «eye test» (sorry, «complete team») or «résumé» or «top 25 wins» or «strength of schedule» or «game control *.»

This year despite droping points Chelsea has been the most dominant team in terms of controlling game.

Every little bit counts for each of those teams, and with the committee referencing the concept of «controlling the game» last Tuesday, a 20 - 14 deficit against a bad Hoosiers team with 18 minutes to go will not help the Buckeyes much (TCU fell from No. 4 to 5 after a similar performance against Kansas).

On one side, you have the True Believers, the folks who think his ability to control the running game, pitcher - whispering, framing pitches, and leading the team adds up to some sort of super player.

The Blazers, whose one conspicuous weakness last season was a tendency to become heedless in their half - court game, should find Pack's ability to take the ball hard to the basket — and do so under control — to be exactly the thing to fire up a largely veteran team.

Rudy Gobert missed 26 games & did not play against Any of the Top offensive teams except Golden State & when they played the Dubs they were w / o Steph Curry & clearly on cruise control having locked up the # 2 seed in the West.

While Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder Cobi Jones may have had gaudier stats this season (19 goals and 13 assists), no player controlled games more than Etcheverry (10 goals and 19 assists), the linchpin of the league's best team.

Several of those top - 10 teams played against ball - control teams in Week 1, including Arkansas and Navy (and Florida didn't play anybody), while the Trojans played against a fellow up - tempo team, meaning the game had more total snaps available.

After a full season under the Bluejays» personable young coach, Eddie Sutton, and a tour with the Olympic development team, Baptiste is quicker, smarter, more explosive inside and ready to dominate games the way Bob Gibson, once a fine Creighton basketball player, now controls rival batters.

They could be the same top - 20 team that loses control of a few games but wins the others.

He goes into a home World Cup qualifier, lines his team up in a formation and lineup that his team didn't practice, loses that game, then loses the second game, gets fired, and when his successor can't dig out of the hole he dug them into, he has the nerve to act like everything was under control!?!?

If Newcastle United's dramatic transformation from running joke with a dead manager walking into one of the Premier League's form teams and slayers of Chelsea can be narrowed down to one thing, it would have to be Alan Pardew's decision to move French midfielder Moussa Sissoko into the centre of the park, where he has begun to control games with a potent mixture of physicality and creativity.

We proved at Everton in the hugely convincing 3 - 0 victory that we have it in the locker to control a game without taking a gung - ho approach; every Arsenal fan wants to see attacking, fluid football played at the highest level, but most teams, particularly this season with the increase in quality across the Premier League, are more than likely to have something in response if they exploit tactical weaknesses.

It makes them easier to throw and catch, perhaps as a way of enhancing the USC passing game, since the home team controls which footballs each offense uses.

I cant even call you fans, get behind the team, our performance today was far from bad or average, fact is we controlled the whole game from minute 1 to the 98th minute.

Maybe starting the first half with 4 -3-3 formation against the so called lesser teams (get the goals in early) and then switching to a more midfield controlling formation in the second half 4 -5-1 (to see the game through) Or vice versa depending on our opponents.

one game in to the season and we already have injuries pilling up, talk about must win games, wenger bitching about something beyond his control, unfilled gaps in squad that are now 3 or 4 years old, some of our best players ever in other teams shirts....

Last year's team depended on an airtight defense and the kicking game to keep opponents under control.

A team like Arsenal relies heavily on its ability to control games.

The way that we concede — an own goal, with five minutes to go — is always disappointing, but the next game, we made a mistake against a team we were controlling, and we had chances and we were doing well,» he said.

He has to control his game and not punish the team with a lack of control in his tackling.

it pains so much to say this, but it is like how we used to be against big teams in the BPL, we would control the game and have more scoring opportunities but would still lose....

Wenger's new formation seemed to grow on the team as they improved from a shaky, but defensive start, to end the game looking like the team in control.

«I thought we had two good chances and after it was just down to 1 - 1, then we showed resources and character, were leading 3 - 1 and controlled the game quite well, but at 3 - 2 we became quite nervy again and we finished in a bit of a less controlled way, but overall it was a good team performance.»

We started well and controlled the game against a side who are good, you can see it's a quality team, but once we opened the score I think we were in control.

«¦ Offense, defense, special teams «'' we absolutely controlled all phases of the game.