"To defend a lead" means to protect or safeguard the advantage or winning position that a team or individual has in a competition or game. It involves putting efforts to prevent the opposing team or player from catching up or overturning the lead.
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Spurs usually do
n't defend a lead well when we sit back, but here we were able to hang on.
The Gunners forgot the nouns of
defending a lead in the game when they had that advantage in the PSG game.
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All that pressure, all the effort
of defending the lead only to lose it on the last corner, and he still applauds the winner on the slow down lap?
They broke out as fast as they went into their defensive shell, grabbing 43 percent of the possession and 12 shots despite the fact that they were
defending a lead against a «superior» team for 82 minutes.
Ozil top of assist, arsenal top of the league, Coincidence????? I want see us build some gap from now to January, in next 9 games,
then defend the lead in the second of the season.
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But it's better he makes those mistakes in the allotted time, when everyone is concentrated
on defending a lead.
Now although Arsenal weren't very successful in trying to sit back and
defend the lead last night, I have to say that in my opinion, the team was right in trying to do so.
Without taking anything away from our boys they performed like they should like a top team but we have to also acknowledge that AC Milan did not hustle our players and looked very nervous first half and second half we was
defending our lead so it was normal for them to have a few goes, our passing, wining lose ball's and 50/50's was great but we always do well when other teams don't hustle us and give us time on the ball, it wont be the same with the likes of Athletico Madrid
I envisage a situation where they might come to
defend their lead which will require us to attack and hammer them relentlessly until they crack under our pressure and concede.
City are one of the most attacking teams in the league, and while it looks as though Chelsea may look to tighten up and
defend their lead at the top, Guardiola's men will go on the front foot.
The Atlético formula was to score early on, then
defend their lead once they had it, more like Jose Mourinho's Chelsea than Rafa Benítez's Liverpool.
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That goal from Costa gave Chelsea the perfect platform to
defend their lead rather than pushing forward and keeping the open game that would have suited Walcott's counter attacking threat much more.
If we had brought on Walcott, and West Ham scored the equalizer, people would be screaming and asking why Wenger did
not defend his lead?
Recently, we have been
defending leads in games which means he isn't needed to come on and help the attack but we haven't been leading games by enough to warrant giving him playing time just because he needs it.
«We know we are capable of scoring goals, we know as a team we can defend pretty well, but the main thing is we definitely need to keep the mindset of winning the game instead
of defending a lead.»
Arsenal should learn how to be properly organized in
defending a lead they have in any game successfully next time without given it up.
This tells Chelski we are happy to try to
defend our lead and will off no counter threat to them.
Winning mentality, match day tactics, ability to
defend a lead and confidence are our main issues.
Once we had the goal, more emphasis should've been on having people back to
defend the lead, like we did against Citeh.
The time wasting,
the defending a lead against Roma etc are small club mentality and that's due to years of managing small clubs.
Bring back George Graham, at least he knew how to
defend a lead and won 2 trophies Arsene hasn't in his 18 years — League cup and a European cup albeit the Cup Winners!