Sentences with phrase «to hold onto a lead»
They might not be the best at holding onto leads.
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The boys were definitely right in trying to hold onto the lead last night.
Apple still manages to hold onto its lead in holiday activations, with a dominating percentage over the competition.
Does not holding onto the lead against Crystal Palace hurt the confidence a little heading into this match?
Should Klopp manage to lure more big names to Anfield, they will undoubtedly start to hold onto their leads with much more consistency.
Espaillat is holding onto a lead over Wright and seven other candidates who were vying for the Democratic nomination to replace Rangel.
However, the Blues could not hold onto their lead as a moment of defensive vulnerability saw them gift the ball to Andres Iniesta, who played on Lionel Messi to level the scores 15 minutes from time.
How many times do we have to lose with not being ruthless and finishing a team off, before we realise that sitting back and trying to hold onto a lead does not, and never has worked for Arsenal?
Vincent Janssen pulled a goal back from the spot to set up a nervy last fifteen minutes, but Liverpool held onto their lead to dump Spurs out of the cup.
This is a sensible step to prepare Uber for public life — provided Grab can hold onto its leading position.
BUT having said that, that's why it's so important to hold onto leads like at anfield those 2 points dropped bugs me the most and getting something out of the Chelsea game.
You only win when you take your chances, defend well and hold onto a lead if you can't add more
It was a bad night for the Red Devils as they lost Shaw in the first - half following an horrific tackle from PSV Eindhoven defender Hector Moreno and then failed to hold onto the lead given to them by Memphis Depay and crashed to defeat at the Philips Stadion.
Gary Neville came up with an interesting argument as to why we were so abysmal in the last two games, he thought the team had been told to go one ahead and hold onto the lead a la Chelski, but because we are unused to playing in that way, we ran far too much and became tired.
I realized we are not going to win the league when Arteta came in for Sachez instead of Walcott... We play better as an attacking team, but Wanger is content holding onto a lead instead of pressing for more..
Arsenal's problem is not creativity or scoring goals our defence is the problem we can't hold onto a lead because of shambolic defending!
Hopefully holding onto this lead and winning finally will improve confidence and that might be the just the thing needed to start winning
And one suspects that Mark Hughes would not have been so annoyed had Southampton held onto their lead.
The 40 - year - old stressed that the Rossoneri were holding onto their lead rather than putting further pressure to increase their goal tally.
Torrejon made amends for her earlier mistake shortly after the Lionesses» second, but Mark Sampson's side held onto their lead.
Ireland's first half performance versus Serbia was almost unrecognisable compared to what they offered against Georgia at the weekend, but all that hard work could now matter little if the Serbians can hold onto their lead following an early second half goal.
Although parents still love the names Santiago, Sebastian, Sophia, and Isabella, which held onto their lead this year, we have some very interesting changes to report for this year's top 100 — for example, the huge leap in popularity made by some names.
2017 would see nineteen competition films, and from Day 3 and never giving up the lead, Robin Campillo's BPM held onto its lead to win our Cannes Critics» Panel derby with an average of 3.8.
Olly held onto the lead until the third round of pit stops when a fueling problem delayed them considerably and dropped them back to seventh in class.
At the start of Sunday's race, Beretta held onto the lead and the # 4 team maintained position for the entirety of the event.
Donald Trump, who has been complaining loudly about the tactics Cruz used on his way to victory, is holding onto his lead in the polls in New Hampshire, though rivals such as Florida Senator Marco Rubio are gaining ground.
Hold onto a lead with 9 men, go 1 up against nearest title contenders then concede 2 injury time penalties and have them both missed and win the game, score the goal of the season, have your promotion rivals concede an equaliser 3 mins and 59 seconds into 4 minutes of injury time to clinch promotion with 4 games spare (and that's just the last 2 weeks).
Sadly, he couldn't hold onto the lead and finished the eventually red - flagged race in eighth.
We do have purple patches and even then are not guaranteed to hold onto a lead.
Leic spread their goals out and held onto their leads.
We would need to hold onto a lead, or a CDM would go off, then Parlour would come in to do an excellent job.
But here's hoping that the next time the need arises to hold onto a lead, and there will be a next time, the Gunners will be able to see the job through.
The team was designed starting in 2014 to hold onto leads, and I believe did so well in 2014 and 2016, but I don't think it had a lot of leads to hold in 2015 and last year the team was in a funk (not sure precisely how that affected holding on to leads).
Wenger doesn't know how to get the guys to kill off a game and he clearly struggles to communicate to the players how to hold onto a lead.
That advantage has quickly disappeared through our inability to hold onto the lead at Liverpool, and failing to end the hoodoo Chelsea hold over us.
We did play tactically diff against DB, (yeah the early goal helped)... and we stuck in at West Brom to hold onto the lead... wonder wat we'll see toninght?..
Wenger should sacrifice an offensive player and plant Diaby next to Arteta like Mourinho would do when he brings on Obi - Mikel when Chelsea are holding onto a lead.
Some sides might have been content to bed - in and hold onto their lead, but not Bordeaux, who raced forward and retook the lead through club Player of the Month for February, Wahbi Khazri.
From then on he put in a storming drive to recover to third place, but Coulthard couldn't hold onto the lead he'd barged his way into and ended up losing the win to Eddie Irvine.
And, although Wenger's wizards did put up a rollicking display against Manchester City in the Premier League last Saturday, the failure to hold onto the lead, after going ahead in the 73rd minute of the game, could be looked at as «calamitous».
Unlike Marquette in the first set, though, Xavier was unable to hold onto that lead.
I thought we did well in the final 15 minutes to suffocate Everton and hold onto the lead.
Later that month, they held onto their lead in the league game at the Liberty Stadium with an out - of - sorts Leicester side unable to raise their game for a third time.
The current Sunderland boss could organise his side to hold onto a lead, but not necessarily to chase one back.
RED CARD: VERTONGHEN SENT OFF - 90 +2 mins The closing stages were a bit more subdued as we looked to hold onto the lead, Sissoko and Llorente coming on for Son and Kane late on.
After all, if we're holding onto a lead, what the hell were two of our (by then) back three doing gallivanting up field.
Wenger was asked about the possibility of running down the time and holding onto the lead, as the gunners failed to do both in a critical situation.