The phrase
"to pick up the ball" means to take responsibility for a task or situation that someone else has neglected or failed to do.
Full definition
He has shown bags of energy in midfield, throughout the course of games, often
picking up balls in the deep, and spraying them about.
We are not creating chances mainly because the midfielders who
pick up the ball from defence pass sideways or back too many times.
The goal was the second example in the match of the cutting and movement to
pick up the ball after it had been passed through the defence.
When we are really creative, we will
pick up a ball of pizza dough from the bakery section of the store and create our own pizza.
If you have a lot of flour still on the parchment like I did,
pick up the ball gently, tap the flour into a bowl and return the ball to the parchment.
The rim is larger than the standard, and the ball is smaller, so your child will have no
trouble picking up the ball and tossing it into the hoop every time.
He has been allowed to roam free, in order to
pick up the ball in between the lines of midfield and defence down the left and right channels.
Wood eventually found the back of the net at the third time of asking in the 36th minute when good work from Jack Cork resulted in Brady
picking up the ball on the left and sending a cross in which deflected into the path of the Kiwi who calmly slotted into an empty net from six yards.
Daly was banished to golf's penalty box in November for
picking up his ball at the Kapalua International and putting it in his pocket before the ball was done playing the hole.
Jesse Lingard
picked up the ball for United before threading through a wide ball to Sanchez who squared an opportunity for Lukaku.
This adjustment of the front 3 would give Alexis, Mesut, and lacazette the full freedom of the final 3rd to interchange and
pick up the ball where and how they see fit in the attacking half of the field.
Banega and Perisic continued to be the main offensive threats for Inter the rest of the half but it was the «home» side who reestablished their lead in the 40th minute when Erik Lamela
picked up the ball with enough time to pick out to top right corner and give Handanovic no chance.
The worrying bit here is, of course, the absence of Pjanic, making the play of Nainggolan and / or Strootman even more important — Perotti can only
pick up the ball so deep and still have a chance to exploit the defense.
Mead started the second half positively, this
time picking up the ball on the left wing, cutting inside and skimming the far post.
What really got me was when the defender
then picked up the ball and volleyed it into my face as I was trying to get up, getting red carded.
In a video clip that emerged online, the Egyptian could be
seen picking up the ball (for the first time as a Liverpool player) near the half way line and slaloming past a pair of white and blue shirts to invade the final third.
His fastball reaches only the low 90s, but Kohlmeier has a darting slider and a deceptive delivery that
makes picking up the ball difficult for hitters.
The
Belgian picks up the ball, marginally fouls Mertesacker but the play carries on, young Chambers goes into tackling the buccaneering Belgian, gets brushed aside, leaving Flamini to keep up with the pace of Lukaku.
Lingard picked up the ball for United before slipping the ball through to Alexis Sanchez who found Lukaku in a fantastic position picked up from the United number nine.
Our tall target man is still sick, but Lacazette can fight for air duels and the attacking midfielders behind him (Ozil and Mkhitaryan) could
pick up the ball if he loses.
I think when
Messi picks up the ball in the final third and starts jinking toward the goal every opposing supporter in the stadium and fan watching TV around world takes a deep breath, try to look away (but you can't), offer quick prayers to the gods and have «oh f**k, oh f**k, oh f *** k banging round their brains uncontrollably.
Arsenal took the lead on 64 minutes, Olivier
Giroud picking up the ball after a one - two with Santi Cazorla to sweep home from six yards.
This past week they have yet again changed their homepage imaging and seized upon a timely trend by pitching visitors to their website the benefits of TFSA — something that up until now only Questrade had
really picked up the ball on.
While Blitz fans feared the series was on a permanent delay, EA
later picked up the ball in 2012 with a rebranded NFL Blitz downloadable title for PS3 and Xbox 360, treating Blitzers to an all - star follow - up.
Saúl
picked up the ball more than 30 yards from goal, saw no available teammates and had a crack, which flew into Guilherme's net like a rocket.
This would make it virtually impossible to score a one - point safety because as soon as a
defender picked up the ball, the referee would blow the play dead.
The Arvada Center
picks up the ball next, injecting their space with a handful of some of Colorado's most advanced and thrilling new - media artists this summer in an exhibition that will extrapolate on all previous efforts exponentially.
When he
did pick up the ball in a dangerous area, Januzaj often slowed down play when United were building some sort of tempo.
Sir was dragging his
feet picking up balls so I snapped at him to hurry up (you rent the court for 1 hour increments).