Sentences with phrase «times than their opponent»

You see, ordinary tennis players win matches by returning the ball more times than their opponent.

Each team must fight to steal more vehicles in the allotted time than their opponents.

Not exact matches

Not because the BC Liberals won — political opponents have to accept that some times the other team had a superior campaign than your own, more ideas, a more effective leader or just did a better job.

Romney has taken the time to inform himself about the issues to the point that he can argue both sides of any issue better than most of his Republican opponents can argue any side of anything.

Alongside the Christian believers there stand today, more ominously than at any time since the first centuries, the opponents of Christianity.

Remember that Kershaw has more chances for these events, however, going head - to - head with an opponent over 100 times more than Judge this year, and that gap will eventually increase.

In this sense, history dictates that Real will have more than a tough time taking the three points against their stubborn opponents and no doubt Simeone will have a plan up his sleeve.

Sanchez was at his best every time Giroud comes off the bench as Alexis loves being part of an attacking build up and team work in transition to the opponent's goal rather than ball watching and waiting for ball in the central position.

HIS TEAM had just lit up the scoreboard with more than 50 points, beaten a ranked opponent in a season opener for the first time in 28 years, and delighted the giddy faithful who had made the sojourn from Columbia, Mo., to St. Louis and packed the Edward Jones Dome.

If the attack is blunt (like the Lions teeth), than your opponents hold strong in defence better and attack when the time is right.

They beat up the other opponent on the defensive side and asked Isiah to assert himself fully when they needed him most rather than all the time.

It is easy to blame the opponents who hack him down, but as I said after the Man United game, Jack does his utmost to to wind up his opponents and has been known to do his fair share of crunching and mis - timed tackles himself, mostly ending up with Jack being more in pain than his victims!

«the odds of us scoring fewer than 17 points 3 times in a row against the same opponent in the ’16 and ’17 seasons is less than 1/1000.»

Later in your comment, you seem to understand how smack - talk / playful ribbing of a rival / long - time opponent works: Both sides cherry - pick facts to either make fun of the other team, pump up our own team or make our team look better than the other guy's team.

Also disappointing is how horrendous Buatsi's opponent is, seeing as Josh was announced as being on the undercard months ago and they had more than enough time to get a worthwhile guy.

If only this were to happen, Ive respected wenger for many years but that respect has been worn down over time and now I just want to see him go we're never going to move forward with the team we have and Wenger wont be selling the likes of Theo (who has had his opportunity and should be offloaded immediately) and possibly Giroud (for virtually the same reason) Its all going to be the same sh!t different season but worse than usual as all our opponents man up thier teams.

Only Cardinals punter Dave Zastudil pinned opponents inside the 20 more times than Colquitt (46).

A knee injury in December saw Sergio Agüero miss the busy Christmas period appearing in 4 games fewer than Sánchez and in terms of actual playing time the Arsenal man has completed 600 minutes more than his opponent.

At the same time our upcoming opponents have to cope with a more congested schedule than us, especially Southampton who we are likely to face next in the FA cup.

I think any premiership defence would have stopped ALL FIVE of our goals — none more than that of Alexis where two opponents threw themselves on the floor without touching the ball (or Alexis) allowing him to take his time and pick his spot for his goal.

This is a distinctly American sport, emphasizing the time an opponent is controlled on the mat, rather than the lifts and throws favored more on the international stage.

The Tigers allowed quarterbacks to complete more than 59 percent of their passes just four times in 13 games and held seven opponents to 53 percent or lower.

If Wenger and the owner want him to stay than man up and tell the fans he is staying, don't expect to be able to sneak this fact past us in a few weeks or months time after a rare win against a top 6 opponent or so.

We have won trophies since ozil has been a member, but i am one who believes we would have won without ozil being a part of our team, a lovely passer of the ball, but thats it, he is just a lovely passer, but still Cazorla has more assists than him, ramsay has more goals and sanchez provides more threat to a defense, ozil at most times is closer to the opponents goal than all three mention, but does not offer as much as any.

The Rs never looked second best by much but Nigel Pearson's side were far more clinical than their opponents, and Albrighton doubled the lead just before half time with this great strike.

On Raw he's got a nice bit of room in the upper mid-card as a babyface, more time and room than he would have had on Smackdown certainly, and he's quite a few opponents to potentially feud with in Mahal, Ziggler, Roode, McIntyre, Corbin, and more.

We were known for our amazing one touch football and our brilliant team goals that leaves the opponent dazed like Wilshere and co vs Norwich but so many times have I watched Sanchez hold ball just a bit longer than necessary because somehow, the teammate closest to him «can not be trusted with the ball».

Chelsea have clashed with Arsenal competitively more times than any other opponent: tonight is our 193rd meeting.

Cleveland is a double - digit underdog for the fourth time this season and in their three previous games in the spot, the Browns have played closer to their opponents than their 1 - 2 ATS record suggests.

-- The loss to Chelsea where were supposed to be title challengers — The 3 — 3 draw to Anderlecht where we were up 3 — 3 at half time — The loss to Swansea following the Anderlecht result where we were under pressure to get a good result — The 3 — 2 loss at Stoke where we were under pressure to pick up points to remain in the title challenge and were 3 — 0 down at half time — The 1 — 0 loss to United where we were expected to beat United with a worse injury crisis than ourselves — The 3 — 1 loss to Monaco after we were fully expected to beat the weakest opponent we could draw and finally kick on to the R16 The 2 — 1 loss to Spurs where our resurgence was on and we had an outside chance at the title with both City and Chelsea slowing up The 0 — 1 loss to Swansea when 2nd was still in our hands as well as the 0 — 0 draw to Sunderland both at home

Arsenal are guaranteed to play a second string side, but so are our opponents and this season we seem to have much more strength in depth than usual so there is no reason why we can not go all the way this time around.

(I've included the poll rankings of each team's opponents at kickoff rather than final poll rankings, to contrast the full - season S&P + ratings with the experience of watching these teams play through their schedules in real time.)

If you saw McNeeley against guys he's fought in the gym you'd pay 10 times more for one of his opponents than you would for him.»

But I shall bet that Pep will always need 3 — 5 times more money than his opponents to achieve the Prof's legacy.

This is the second time in Clippers history they've lost a game by at least 20 points, with the opponent recording exactly 11 steals, 5 blocks and shooting greater than 90 % from the FT line.

That's the lesson the Bruins learned last season when new coach Pat Burns, who was brought in to oversee a rebuilding project, coaxed 39 wins and a playoff appearance from a group of players who looked as if they should have spent their time watching Teletubbies rather than video of their opponents.

They controlled the ball 17 more minutes than the Bears, who had led 43 of their last 44 regular - season opponents in possession time.

Pretty far cry from one guy hitting the same finish 6 times to win a match after taking something like 7 finishers from his opponent (more than once in pairs!)

Whereas Bayley's story was discovering over time that she had the ability to overcome the obstacles set before her and that she was the equal — or better — of the wrestlers she looked up to, Nia's story has been figuring out that simply being bigger than her opponents wasn't enough.

Bellerin has a potential to be world class faster than jenks.i feel like wenger should have given hector more game time, because all the games he has played are harder opponents, which has shown little flaws, he need lite one too

Yesterday's match Flamini played 76minutes without making any tackle or interception but Immediately Coquelin came in he won a few tackles and made good interceptions, that shows you the difference between the two DMs.Flamini hardly goes for any challenge unless the opposition is in our penalty box.Whereas, Coquelin is never afraid to stand in opponent faces and make tackles and he does it with good timing no wonder he receives less yellow cards than Flamini who is reckless.

Opponents almost never carved out more than four yards at a time on BYU, and if they couldn't pass, they couldn't move the ball.

But I agree DJ will likely be able to see TJ openings in real time faster than any of TJ's previous opponents, and has the speed and technique to capitalize and frustrate TJ, get him out of his rhythm, which is crucial to TJ's open and varied striking game.

once again we manage to concede when wev hav the lionshare of possesion and limited our opponents to 3 shots on target, am hugely dissapointed in nasri, ros, ramsey and edu who were fresher than most and just did nt put in the necessary work to get a result there, i hate to admit it but it looked like we thought the goal and the result wud look after itself because we are arsenal... maybe im wrong but at times i feel we are border line arrogant and then cant raise our game when we get sucker punched

This time substitute Serge Aurier broke away from Jordan Ayew and into the box before falling to the ground, but the full - back seemed to trip more over his own feet than any contact from his opponent.

26 — Newcastle United have now lost to Manchester United 26 times in the Premier League era — more than they have against any other opponent in the competition.

It was in the friendly against Manchester United that marked the refurbishment of the team's stadium in planning for Euro 2004, that Ronaldo initial impressed the supervisor of Sporting's opponents that day, Sir Alex Ferguson — who then went on to indication the participant for more than # 12 million when he was just 18 a long time previous.

An admirer of Guardiola's methods, a former assistant to Carlo Ancelotti and a natural opponent to the caustic, spartan pragmatism of Jose Mourinho during his time in Madrid, he wants to win, and win better — just like Zidane the player, Zidane the manager wants to achieve victory through technical excellence more than anything else.

The English midfielder was among the goals in midweek as Sunderland saw off a stern challenge from lower league opponents Exeter City and the focus will now be on getting that first win on board as quick as possible and what better time to do it than before the international break.

Every team, for one reason or another, has a favourite opponent, someone they invariably get the better of more times than not, and for Liverpool's it's West Brom.