Sentences with phrase «teams get lucky»

Sometimes teams get lucky.

cant believe a few days ago I had to explain why we wouldn't win UCL... yes, some teams get lucky, but they EARN their luck.

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.

You might hear this story and wonder if Cho and his team got lucky.

In fact, this is the second time that this has happened — it just so happened that the last time, his team got lucky and ended up with a favorable second - round matchup.

I don't think arsenal are going there with any interest to manchester and after the luck they received from a mistake a united player made where the team got lucky to be honest.

It could be a deflection device as well, because almost every pundit has said that penalty decision was harsh, so while Deeney may have loved his role as straight talker, was he really being completely honest or just having an easy pop at Wenger and Arsenal after his team got lucky?

Okay one team got lucky with cheap buys and a cheap manager, but can you honestly say Wenger was wrong to keep to his philosophy?

Not exact matches

I'm a veteran of the Buck Showalter Is Just Cagier Than Other Managers War of 2012, in which the Orioles (29 - 9 in one - run games) were lucky, and their fans got angry with anyone who suggested the team was lucky.

We are very lucky we're up against such a poor team, because we should be behind, and got lucky with our goal.

I'm sure you noticed that the Pac - 12 wasn't any great shakes in 2018, and yet Kent produced a team that could win only four games — and he got lucky that Cal was in the conference this year.

Teams or players can get lucky for a season in terms of scoring goals or winning championships but, for a player to have great skills and abilities to dribble and be create is not luck.

that crap team in west london have gotten lucky in their one and only cl win.

He was lucky to not get collected by anyone else, and was fuming afterwards, calling it «amateur» and saying over team radio:

The team's main goal is to win CCS, but Oakland admits a team has to be lucky to get through the single - elimination format unscathed.

Lucky for them, Captain Apuli has led many of Teams in the past and knows how to get his Team out of a funk.

Win in the playoffs until you get beaten while you are playing at or near your best by a team that is just better, or better on that day, or a bad match up, or got lucky, luck happens.

They got lucky with some players that shouldn't have been available but they also got a bona fide # 1 goalie who was deemed to be mostly washed up that I'm sure other teams could have traded pucks for.

This isn't the case of a middling ACC (Florida State, Syracuse) or Big 12 (Kansas State) team getting hot at the right time and lucky with matchups.

If the Colts are lucky, they will get three to four starters from the draft that will help the team win now, not five or three years from now.

It would, inevitably, topple over against strategically minded teams or those who get lucky with an early goal.

Or do you think that one year Arsenal will suddenly become the luckiest team in the world and get every decision in our favour?

Washington got lucky in the NBA lottery, rising to the No. 3 overall pick despite seven teams finishing with worse records in 2012 - 13.

The Greeks have shown how a very average team can get massively lucky among other things, Porto too compared with giants.

It does however, pose some tough questions for the team as to whether they just started off slowly or if they were lucky to get the points.

Same situation but lucky deflection resulting in a loss and team will be described a playing poorly and getting the result they deserved.

He put forward a very strong team, we just didn't get the job done against a team that set up a bus and hit us on the counter attack (almost successfully) so in the end we were lucky to get away with a point.

Wenger needs to buy world class in January I don't mean Andre santos or Kim kallstrom a 20mill + cdm and cb would do fit the bill and some new fitness staff because ours have been on holiday for the past couple years every other team seems to have there full starting 11 on the pitch at least once in a season we are lucky if we get 7 of our starting 11 if we're lucky

Coquelin is such a lucky guy, with just months left on his contract, on the verge of becoming free has now become an integral part of this team and has even been applauded by everyone within and outside the club, that's amazing.If he continues like this and he gets more chances like Ramsey gets he will no doubt be the best in the league.someone said Matic is good offensively, I disagree with that, watch him more closely I will even go as far as saying le coq is a more mobile and a better passer than him.let's appreciate our players too.he is jus got his chance remember.while the likes of Kondogbia, Matic has been doing it for long, give him more chance and he will be the best

Like Michigan State, that team won six close games and got the «more lucky than good» tag.

I get what you are saying but I just do nt see any coach who has actually watched Giroud note I said who's actually watched Giroud to pay above 20mill for him.Trust me when the time comes for him to go we ai nt gonna get a lot of cash.i also expect him to be going to a lesser team and not a top team.Trust me he's really lucky to be an Arsenal player as some of our playrrs here are.I don't want to mention names because my blood boils up when I even think of them in the team.There are so many players in this team I don't rate but hey I guess I got ta keep em to myself.Sadly Giroud is one of them.It's not like I hate or I refuse to see the light but it's just that my eyes are telling me he's average when I watch him.So if anything please blame my eyes.

images we want amangyang and Evans for me ud get two players for 90 # million with a lot change I mean a lot but my point is we want two them and yet can't get but we were offering 90 for lemer hahahaha think about it there's smell off afc for years and years oh just mention we sold walcott, coq and Sanchez and ox and Gabriel haha only replacement is miki haha question is will always is wenger or board who is playing chess with fans cheque mate all of us oh just pop in ozil doesn't no how sign he's name and jack went gluten - free and hasn't strength sign with lack gluten my god welcome to our promise with having better team than Bayern Munich dream on we be lucky get 5 this year sad state affairs

We will be extremely lucky to get 4th n I repeat EXTREMELY LUCKY But we will win the champions league and spurs will win the europa cup talk of SIX english teams in the champions league But talks of Southampton or man u falling of are just wishful and desperate thinlucky to get 4th n I repeat EXTREMELY LUCKY But we will win the champions league and spurs will win the europa cup talk of SIX english teams in the champions league But talks of Southampton or man u falling of are just wishful and desperate thinLUCKY But we will win the champions league and spurs will win the europa cup talk of SIX english teams in the champions league But talks of Southampton or man u falling of are just wishful and desperate thinking.

Basically — unless we decide to up the ante, get a new and hungry manager with new ideas, give him funds to build a team that he needs then we will be lucky to finish fourth this year or the years to come.

Always noticed when playing Madden that the team trailing in the 4th quarter would get a noticeable shift in game momentum and lucky breaks.

Apart from the keeper who had a bit of a shocker with two big errors which he was lucky to get away with, this FA cup win for Arsenal over Sutton United came through a good team performance against an impressive and committed home team.

The Qpr game is one good example of a team that gets lucky to cross the finishing line with all points.

Nothing worse than a lucky team going through then the manager still acting heart sore he didn't get a handshake from the opponent.

urgh; I can't stand that with Mourinho's arrival suddenly a team squeezing a result by sitting back and defending for 90 minutes and getting lucky with their one attack is suddenly considered «superior tactics» (especially by negative gooners) when they only survived because we shot our multiple chances straight at Fabianski.

They are a good team and have had the run of the green of late but they were lucky to get that penalty as I see it it was not one.

Using this information we can determine a line of best fit and easily see which teams are getting «lucky» or «unlucky» on balls put in play.

However, if we were less bothered about the handball, you would have seen that a first time cross from oxlade chamberlain towards giroud would have made a clear cut chance for him We weren't lucky, both teams got decisions, but the ref was shocking.

They say that a striker on a scoring drought or a team in a slump sometimes just needs a lucky goal or a lucky result to get them out of the rut and I think that is true of Arsenal and the likes of Alexis and Giroud.

They think they were better and we got lucky, just like all the teams that beat them this year.

I just think those mid-to-late aught Suns teams were extremely talented, so much so that they could have won a chip had they gotten a lucky break or two.

Sometimes you need lucky breaks and that Suns team never seemed to get them.

The luckier teams like Washington and Tennessee get to play the Bears and Jaguars, respectively, but they are both on the road.

, we don't deserve a top four finish... and we won't get it under wenger... we r a shapeless team with at least 5 players who are lucky to be in the epl let alone a club with the riches of arsenal... whatever it takes to get rid of wenger is fine with me the guy is a delusional fraud and an albatross round our proverbial neck...

A handful of teams are going to get lucky Thursday night and beyond, and it won't necessarily be the teams picking in the top five.

I can live with a lucky deflection, but to get shat on by a team that scored 4 goals in 6 games in their qualifiers (on counter attacks) is abysmal.