Sentences with phrase «to kill the game off»

Against better teams it's better to kill games off early.
Our pride hurt when they scored 2 goals, instead of killing the game off, we risk going for for the 4th.
We need the 3 points desperately but our inability to kill games off worries me..
Lets score one more and then kill the game off by keeping and passing the ball around.
But from an Arsenal perspective, it was incredibly frustrating that Arsene Wenger's team didn't kill the game off when the hosts were struggling.
Lem me know when yall are ready to acknowledge how average ramsey was, how often he gave the ball away, and how his selfish desire to score kept us from killing the game off in the first half.
Game just gets underway and Mert gets sent off, effectively killing the game off as far as watching, from an Arsenal point of view.
52 ′ 2 — 0 Isco made it 2 - 0 after the break and pretty much killed the game off after Madrid dominated first half.
One of those will be aimed at the goalscoring department, where an inability to kill games off when on top has been the team's undoing on far too many occasions.
Why do we have to sit deep and defend in the first half when we can just kill games off at HT?
Ten minutes later, Granit Xhaka doubled the lead, and effectively killed the game off inside the opening half - hour.
Leading 2 - 0 at half - time, Arsenal could have played quite conservatively in the second half and just let the game drift away, but they seemed buoyed by news of Ludogorets leading in Paris and seemed determined to kill the game off against Basel as soon as possible, as that would put more pressure on the Parisians if PSG got wind of the fact that Arsenal were in no danger of dropping points.
Giroud is performing really well and doing something that only he can do and that is so important to the team, Welbeck with improved finishing and composure can be special (he frustrates a lot has he misses so much great opportunities that would kill a game off so many times) & was bought for 16 mil last summer.
Aguero played a slightly prolonged one - two with Navas, before calmly dispatching the lay - off past Adrian, and practically killing the game off before half - time.
We could also kill games off, we had a tactical game plans with intliigent decision making.
The visitors looked out of it at half - time, and Raheem Sterling certainly should have killed the game off given the chances that he had in the opening 45 minutes.
Arsene Wenger couldn't hide his happiness with the Gunners masterclass against Basel last night and only regrets that we didn't finish more of our myriad chances to kill the game off with a third goal.
In the second half we looked a bit weary and a few bits of sloppy play at the back gave Villa some hope but the Gunners rode it out well and made a few chances to really kill the game off.
This would be an area of concern for Valverde as his men didn't kill the game off entirely when they had a chance.
West Ham rarely threatened, but Arsenal still went into the last 20 minutes without killing the game off.
The match got pretty scrappy near the end, with Leeds looking to kill the game off while Ipswich pressed forward attempting to get an equalizer.
Barca's failure to kill the game off came back to bite them late on when Ozil swung in a cross from the right and Varane powered a header low into the bottom corner.
On the break, Town had a fantastic chance to kill the game off once and for all.
first off i would like to point out that when you first start out the game throws extreamly hard to kill ennemies at you and they will hunt you down until you are deadwhich is not fun as well as when you finally kill them they
Our youth side did manage to kill the game off in injury time thanks to a penalty, which Stephy Mavididi slotted away.
His impressive technique and turn of pace were there for all to see in his four - goal blitz against Tottenham last week, but Pellegrini will be hoping to kill the game off early so as to rest his star man before the Capital One Cup tie midweek and the titanic Manchester derby next Sunday.
United's tactics have to be to kill the game off as soon as possible and in doing so silence the home crowd.
81 ′ 0 — 2 Romelu Lukaku continue to impress as he scored United's second to pretty much kill the game off.
When Arsenal have been in these situations this season, it's been refreshing to see them continue to attack and not just kill the game off.
He supplied Gini Wijnaldum to kill the game off against Arsenal at Anfield and fed Emre Can for his winner against Burnley the following week.
Conte choses a starting 11 that dominates the game but can't kill the game off.
We need to kill the game off.
But we were also thinking about hitting them on the break and killing the game off and we came really close twice in as many minutes but Ramsey fired just over on the first and Cazorla's control let him down on the second.
Kill the game off..
The ref was at fault, he killed the game off, he shuld have let the goal in and give Jens a jellow.
Arsenal dominate the entire game be 1 - 0 up, not kill game off and then end up dropping points because of 1 shot.
He said: «'' We killed the game off in the final 25 minutes but it's true we could have scored before, but they were always dangerous on counter attacks,»
I really thought the beginning of the season was just bad luck, that stats would soon win the day, but as we can see Arsenal play well, but lack that killer instinct, that bit of hulk rage to kill games off.
Oh how we missed Ozil, should have killed game off in first half, but for Ramsey his passing is woefull
yes we'll always have silly errors, but you want to maximise your chances of winning by putting out the best lineup & killing the game off.
In a game of few chances, it was a perfect away display from Bayer Leverkusen who scored an early goal and threatened late on to settle the game, but couldn't kill the game off.
Rosicky in for Ramsey Campbell in for The Ox Wilshere in for Arteta I hope to see Bellerin though but not likely maybe for the second leg if we kill the game off
Chelsea are much better at killing the game off.
Great player to have on the bench, throw him in the last 10 mins to kill the game off, can rotate and start him in Cup or against opponent that has big but slow strikers.
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