Sentences with phrase «team than the surprise»

They were a better team than the surprise contender because you got to take the new data (Jeff Kent is good?)

Not exact matches

«Even though Del Ponte gave his team members the freedom to be slightly less productive than usual in terms of hitting up their to - do lists, he was surprised to find that they actually reported increases in their productivity.

- Find the «right» partners for an early - stage company - Formulate deals with little to no previous experience - Focus on mutual benefits, rather than just your own goals - Prioritize among various business development opportunities - Focus your sales effort — targeted or big net - Generate pipeline - Manage your sales team and not get surprised - Target / interview salespeople - Measure and pace your investment in sales

With more than 35 years in the hotel industry, it's no surprise that she is highly regarded as a leader on her team.

That the Tigers — last year's biggest surprise with a 12 — 2 record and a No. 4 finish in the AP poll — were anything less than elated after a win over a Top 25 team that played in a BCS bowl last January shows how expectations have dramatically changed at a school that hasn't won a conference title since 1969.

Lastly, maybe one of the more surprising scores of the night, Team Watts (Whiskey Bar) defeated Team Kornblatt (Greater Than) 57 - 38.

Don't be surprised if he decides to pull Rosicsky back into the team to play Ozil's role rather than using Cazorla.

I can honestly say, more than any other Men's team this Summer, they have been a pleasant surprise.

You would be surprised to learn that even teams in the relegation battle have way more stronger players than us.

And it is for that reason that the north London club's vastly experienced manager Arsene Wenger is more than likely to try to keep a close eye on Barkely at all times of this clash, so much so that do not be surprised to see the home team's former France international close to the attacking starlet every time he picks up possession of the ball.

This team should have more than enough needed to win this match - up comfortably, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Wenger actually rest a player or two with Thursday in mind.

If the Arsenal transfer rumours are true then it is hardly surprising that the Arsenal and Chile international star Alexis Sanchez has seemed less than pleased of late, because even though Mesut Ozil is a great player, I do not think you would get many Arsenal fans arguing that it is the Chilean who is more important to our team than the Germany international.

Let's get real here.It is very unlikely that ANY professional player will ever say anything derogatory about a teammate that has just left the club.If Jack had said about Coq - «Grew up playing with him in the Youth Team and have fond memories of a player they though he had very limited ability he always gave his all.Very surprised and disappointed the club never invested in a World Class defensive midfielder that we have quite obviously been lacking for a number of seasons and would no doubt have improved the defensive weakness we have shown over a number of seasons» we would have echoed his thoughts entirely.If he had said about Theo - «A player who should have been so much better than he ended up being.He had everything needed to be a prolific player for our club but I can understand the fans frustrations with his continued lack - lustre performances and total lack of a football brain.I think this is best explained by the managers preference to play a player of such limited ability as Alex Iwobi in front of Theo pretty much says it all» we again would have all nodded our agreement.Although Jack never mentioned Alexis Sanchez I would imagine something along the lines of «If the Manager had not persisted with players with such limited ability such as Francis and Theo and instead bought the world class players needed into the club then Sanchez would still most likely be here.The fans must wonder what the hell goes on at the club as they pay fortunes for the privalage of following our club but it seems the millions generated ends up purchasing a new Texas Ranch for the Owner or in a yearly renumeration of # 9million pounds to our manager».

I must admit that I was more than surprised to see that the Arsenal team sheet for the Premier League home game against Hull City on Saturday did not include the name of Lukas Podolski, not even as a substitute.

Rarely have I been so surprised and impressed by the style of an opponent team than I was when we played PSG at home and away.

Our record is so bad against top teams, especially away from home, that I wouldn't be surprised if teams at the bottom of the table have a better record than we do.

Yes thats probably reason, but if you do nt attack you wont win, so there you go, our manager accepted defeat before the game, and he hoped that maybe Alexis or Ozil perform something crazy and win, thats not how team should be set up, Chelski defence is slow why not use that to our beneffit, no one said we need to have 70 % poss to win, if he was scared from counters than why did nt he surprised Mou and played his style, beat him on his own game, they did nt have strikers they couldnt hurt us, he shold have started with pace and counter their slow defence, simple logic, but it seams our manager freezed

No one foresaw such a quick improvement from last year's 5 - 6 team — Saturday's win was the Irish's second this season over a ranked opponent — but even more surprising than the instant success is the manner in which it has come: not with a revamped offense but with a hard - hitting, opportunistic defense.

I don't think Melo will come back, and I think Stone is gone too, but I think that Cowan will be a pleasant surprise, and I think the team will be better than most of us expect them to be.

«We're going to be able to help people rebuild houses and get their homes back, and that's more important than any win,» a drained, but smiling, Lewis said after finishing with a 3 - under 69, a 20 - under for the week, and hugging her husband Gerrod Chadwell, who had flown in from Houston, where he coaches the University of Houston's women's golf team, to surprise her after Sunday's tension - filled finale.

The 23 - year - old Egypt international has been the Tigers» stand - out performer of the first half of the campaign, having created two goals for team - mates as Steve Bruce's men have surprised many with their confident and attacking approach that they have taken to life back in the Premier League, and none more so than their right wing back.

Fourth - year Petrino teams tend to undergo massive breakthroughs; it would be a surprise if the Cardinals were too much better than last year, but they're still going to be very good.

While the livery certainly looks a lot more «Audi» than the previous Audi Sport Abt effort, the biggest surprise is not the new colour scheme but the fact that three - time Le Mans winner Allan McNish will become the team principal of the team.

Surprise, surprise: John Calipari's Kentucky teams have produced more elite NBA talent than any other school in recent years.

The Vikings spent a little more than 72 hours with Shaun Hill as their 2016 starter before swinging a surprise trade for Sam Bradford over the weekend, but on a team with more measured expectations, Hill (career record as a starter: 16 — 18) would probably have been trusted to play out the string, as he did admirably in San Francisco -LRB-» 08), Detroit -LRB-» 10) and St. Louis -LRB-» 14).

Betting against the public has been profitable when we look at very basic filters (teams receiving less than half of all public bets), but the results as we examine increasingly lopsided bet games are quite surprising.

They're currently top of northern 2A and have a incredible goal difference of 232; 208 more than runners up Lancaster 1s, which is no surprise considering the quality of their team this year.

After arriving at Texas Tech as an unheralded recruit, Smith's emergence was quite the surprise, and averaging more than a block and a steal per game as a true freshman for a quality team was no small feat.

I'm more than a little surprised that they even bothered with the prospects and didn't just saddle the new team with Wei - Yin Chen's contract.

If wenger and Ivan sign anything more than their wage slips I'd be surprised, he might sign one or two but they'll be unneeded players, I won't be expecting anyone of any note anyway.no top 4 for me this year, too many teams improving around us

Less than three weeks after officially retiring as a member of the Pittsburgh Steelers, outside linebacker James Harrison made a surprise return to the team after a string of injuries and finished the 2014 season with 5.5 sacks.

Yes, going on the penalty kill hurts a team, but it's not surprising that some opponents decide it's worth taking those risks rather than let Crosby have free space to do his thing.

There were more than a few surprised faces when Klopp opted for Simon Mignolet against Swansea, with the Belgian making a series of blunders in the 3 - 3 draw with Arsenal that cost his team dearly.

Also I must say Roy Keane is the only footballer past or present that has had the ability to make all others around them up their game, ive never known anybody else like him past or present, for a decade he was the first name on SAF team sheet before Cantana, scholes, giggs, beckham stam and the rest, the reason why he was the first name on the team was because he was the most important player, probably in the whole of the Sir Alex era, and to say Carrick was more important than Keane and Scholes does not surprise me with you Opik (You claimed we should sell RVP and Rooney to play Bebe and Welbeck) but it once again proves you talk complete bollocks

Much as I don't like them, I have to concede that Tottenham have as good a team as they have had for some years, and their style and consistency of play makes them easily one of the best two teams in the country, and if they hold on to their best players and manager, I wouldn't be surprised to see them going one better next season than the runners - up spot that they managed last year, and look likely to repeat this time.

We are less fit, we make less sprints, we cover less ground per player than (this season) any other team in the league, we make more errors to leading to goals, we have more players booked and sent off, we have more injuries than most clubs, we are less likely (since Payet) to do as we did last night and come from a losing position to win, we lose more games from winning positions than any other club (last season and this), the facts are damning to Slav, the biggest surprise is that our Chairmen run multiple businesses yet they don't seem to link these things together and realise that the manager and or the coaching staff are the problem.

The average age of the team was less than 22 years which was the youngest ever fielded, much to Klopp's surprise, as he quipped when told after the game, «Really?

At least one nation springs a surprise and advances more deeply through the tournament than many expect — with Costa Rica perhaps providing the biggest shock last time around — and Morocco could be that team this year.

Both teams will try and win with better attacking options than defences, at least 3 goals, won't be surprised if there is four or five!

Win two of those and the team is in, any more than that they may get a surprising seed.

No team has drawn more matches than Mark Hughes» men all season, so in the knowledge that they boast the second strongest away defence in the league, but also one of the weakest away offence, it wouldn't be at all surprising to hear that the draw is a popular betting choice this weekend, particularly as the previous four encounters with Wigan at the DW have ended all - square.

«Team Corbyn won't be surprised or upset by the attacks but what's more relevant is just whether, having been a columnist rather than a reporter, Milne has enough practical experience to deal with journalists at the coalface.»

To their surprise, the team found that blackcaps that spend winter in Spain share more genes with those that live 800 kilometres away but also overwinter in Spain than they do with blackcaps that live in the same forests but overwinter in the UK.

To their surprise, the researchers found that the samples from the thermokarst sites had lower levels of colored dissolved organic matter than did reference sites, suggesting that the carbon in the deeper soils exposed by thermokarst failure is significantly different from the carbon draining from the topmost, active layer of the permafrost, the team reports in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In 2013, the team was surprised when they discovered, in the course of their survey, stars that pulsated much faster than expected.

The result of genetic analysis was a big surprise for the research team: the ancient individuals carried no trace of ancestry from people who settled Papua New Guinea more than 40,000 years ago, in contrast to all present - day Pacific islanders who derive at least one - quarter of their ancestry from Papuans.

However, the team was surprised to discover that the fauna actually revealed more colubroids than booids.

Bao's team was pleasantly surprised to discover that the molecule conducted electric charge between three and four times better than predicted.

Vidotto and her team calculated the distance from the planet's surface to the front of the apparent bow shock and were surprised that it was more than four times the planet's radius.

To the team's surprise, most of the Svalbard species hailed from multiple places — but predominantly from the farthest one, northwestern Russia, more than 1000 kilometers away.