Sentences with phrase «up the pitch while»

If we had that then the space is there as the other team has committed players up the pitch while Ozil can see nothing but green ahead of him.

Both teams tried to play quickly up the pitch while preventing the other team doing the same.

Not exact matches

Rotem's sales pitch is that while owners may lose a small margin on sales, the new customers that come in should more than make up for it.

OTTAWA — Companies vying to build Canada's new fighter jets are cranking up their sales pitches, but they'll be waiting a while longer to learn whether the Harper government intends to hold a full competition — or stick with the troubled F - 35 program.

«I feel like these worlds are so merged over the past few years,» she said of Hollywood and Silicon Valley while making her pitch for tech investors to hit up her business associates with ideas.

While Cesc was considered one of the world's best in his position of center midfielder, he had a tendency to roam high up the pitch (away from his assigned terrain), leaving gaps in the midfield and the defense exposed.

You feel very unique when you pitch your business, yet three weeks later, when you follow up on your VC pitches, each partner has probably seen 15 to 20 more companies in that time, and while she remembers you, she can't quite, exactly remember what was unique about you.

While employees and all levels of management — even the board — have home zones throughout the six buildings on campus, where colleagues carrying out similar functions may reside, no - one has a dedicated desk and everyone is so mobile that they can pitch up wherever they are needed.

Audience members will find value in hearing how other startups pitch, what types of feedback (both positive and negative) they receive, and of course seeing some of Charlotte's up - and - coming startups while networking with other entrepreneurs and startup community leaders over breakfast.

While the pastor has it good in heaven for sticking with his religion, the muslims will find that their dozens of virgins they were expecting will be cross dressing demons with pitch forks to stick up their nasty brown butts.

While defending, after we win the ball deep, there is no one to pass the ball to other than the striker, who is high up the pitch and also isolated.

Their BP is solid, starting pitching while overall is not great, is probably good enough to get to the playoffs (esp when Musgrove returns and hoping on Keller being up at some point)

It is games like this in which the talents of Giroud can be most useful, as we can use the width of the pitch and get balls in the box to exploit his size and power in the air, while his strength and ability as a target man to hold the ball up and bring other players around him into the game is a huge weapon.

obviously I would prefer to have a much more suitable alternative in the defensive midfielder positions but if they focused more on defensive end and the occasional long - ball, this would allow Bellerin and Sead ample opportunities to bomb forward on their respective wings while still having enough cover to maintain their defensive shape... it would likewise allow for overlapping runs on both wings, thereby letting both Sanchez and Perez to cut inside and get shots away in and around the top of the box with their most dominant feet... if goals were needed I would sub Bellerin for OX and bring Ramsey in for Elneny then switch to a 3 -2-4-1 (more of a 3 -1-5-1 with Ramsey playing higher up the pitch) and I would only use Giroud as a sub when the game dictated it for tactical reasons... this would allow us to be a high energy team with incredible link - up play and a much more direct approach in the offensive end

Meanwhile, the Red Sox's lineup and the Astros» pitching just aren't consistent enough, and while you could argue that the Indians» overall 2017 picture matches them up with those two, that's not entirely accurate.

Granted, he is a good signing, but he is not our most vital one and with our budget, I'd prefer Chelsea to take him than us end up benching good players while having a crisis elsewhere on the pitch.

don't even go there cus its like a jinx on us, every match that we won with our mouth, we lost on the pitch, West Ham, Zagreb, Olympiacos while every match we shut the F up and expected it to be tough came with winnings, Crystal palace, Leicester, Stoke, and any other you can figure out.

One day, while the band marched up and down the pitch at half time as they always did, the bandmaster, who always threw his baton up in the air and caught it, twice dropped it, to huge cheers.

Houston's left - handed ace racked up 86 pitches while surrendering five hits, four runs (three earned) and two walks.

United spent heavily on attacking players over the summer, and while this list is not made up entirely of defenders, it is clear that van Gaal now feels he needs to switch his focus to that part of the pitch.

also very pleased that the club are heavily investing in the hale end academy they are halfway through the project, gazidis has said a little while back that it should be completed by feb next year (that's all the 4 new pitches reconfigured and relayed with state of the art turf) i have seen the plans online it looks like it will be state of the art what a great place to rear up our young gunners in, and it means that we can attract the worlds top young talent there.

However, I can see it being a tough night for the Gunners for all sorts of reasons, including the pitch and the fact that the home side will be totally fired up while Arsenal are not in a good place right now.

Most of us were on Wenger's case until very recently seeing that we didn't understand what his overall game plan [on and off the pitch] was and we had good reason to doubt him but at least the criticisms were meant to be of a constructive nature but I fail to understand folks who come on here to spew bile even when things are finally looking up for once in a very long while.

Alternate would be to use Ramsey at number 10 who suits better up the pitch since he is weaklink while defending in the middle (example Toure Goal in Emirates this season, he looked bored while defending allowing Toure to shoot for the goal).

Friends say that Moore was haunted by memories of the two - strike, two - out, ninth - inning home run he gave up to Dave Henderson of the Boston Red Sox while pitching for the Angels in Game 5 of the 1986 American League Championship Series.

Anyone who has followed Danny Welbeck's Manchester United career will be aware of the fact that Danny is lethal playing down the left - hand side and can also provide more work - rate in that area of the pitch, while Olivier can effectively hold the ball up upfront.

He drifts to the middle while Bellerin is higher up the pitch trying to provide crosses.

Why should the likes of Sanchez, The Ox, Walcott, Ramsey, Rosicky, Wilshere, Campbell etc all run their balls off up and down the pitch from minute 1 to 90 while other players are excused?

But while that action takes place on the mats, some of the world's best footballers will take to the pitch to set up the finals match to determine an Olympic champion.

While you are free to believe what you want if you look back at the goals, you will notice that a third of the goals were down to attacking players not putting pressure high up the pitch leading to long balls from as far as half way line into our defensive third.

I didn't think he was the worst Gunner on the pitch in Germany by any means, but the German paper BILD stuck the knife in and gave him the lowest possible rating, while all his critics are lining up to take shots.

The blueprint to follow, ever since the Royals decided shortening the game to make up for their league - average (or worse) starting pitchers was the way to go, was to get as many nigh - unhittable strikeout machines as you could, and then deploy them all one inning at a time until your opponents were weeping while whiffing on pitches they had no chance against.

There is still no reliable back - up for Kane, while Ben Davies — although a tidy left - back — is not a patch on Rose at either end of the pitch.

Manager Louis van Gaal confirmed on Friday that Rooney is suffering from illness and is in no fit state to take to the pitch, while Martial picked up a foot injury during Tuesday night's friendly with England at Wembley.

All the other players had their back to goal headed back down pitch to set up defending, while Alexis saw the back pass to the keeper and pounced.

We need a new striker, a new holding midfielder and a replacement for Alexis who has that special talent, and we also need more leaders brought into the side who can fire us up on the pitch, while also replacing any of the dead wood.

Agreed he looked out of sorts and Insufficiently interested still has those world class touches and lay offs inc a perfect tee up for Ramsey who like a donkey skied it over the bar... Wasn't helped by having wilshere playing a weird forward position and while wilshere played well it seemed to destabilize ozil... Stupid to play ozil miki wilshere and Ramsey... Latter is a bench player but wenger's darling so he's willing to disrupt team to get him on the pitch... And it seems xhaka has entered the chosen circle as it is clear that elneny right now is a better alternative

Nevertheless, time will eventually catch up with him and it's worth savouring his brilliance on the pitch while it lasts as Roma will hope to have new heroes emerge in the coming years to step up and try to replace the irreplaceable.

As he pointed out, two of their goals came late and the scoreline flattered the Germans, while we sinply have to up our game in every part of the pitch.

While we were playing a hard fought game for 120 minutes on an energy sapping Wembley pitch at the weekend, Leicester were able to put their feet up as they had no league match to cope with.

Wilshere has showed signs that he could be very good playing further up the pitch and for England he has started to shine in a deep lying role, while Ramsey has slightly different skills including exploding as a goal scorer last season.

And while the boss spoke about the good options that he now has all over the pitch, he has called on today's starting line - up to embrace the competitive nature of playing for Arsenal and put in a fully focused performance as the club heads into a really vital stage of the season.

Time for him to head up stairs if he likes and let someone else take charge of the team on the pitch while the fans still respect and adore him.

While a large majority of, if not all, Man Utd fans love Lingard having seen him come up through the youth ranks and establish himself as a senior star now, it's fair to say that he does have a habit of winding up opposition supporters with his social media antics and celebrations on the pitch.

And while our centre forward is determined to make up for his off key performance in the home leg, Giroud is not letting it affect him as he thrives on confidence and has a strong mentality, something he believes is essential to his success on the pitch.

While coaches from the likes of Kentucky, Duke and North Carolina are pitching their offers, Florida State's coeds came up with their own interesting and quite viewable idea.

The Cubs will counter with this year's ERA leader, Kyle Hendricks, after avoiding elimination twice, and while they might have to worry about Chapman's knee maybe stiffening up once the adrenaline wears off, you have to imagine that their ace, Jon Lester, is available to pitch in relief on short rest with an entire offseason ahead of him to recover.

Meanwhile, Profar is up with the Rangers and gives the Rangers depth in the infield, while also showing he's more than capable of handling major league pitching.

While Chelsea's medical team jammed cotton up Cahill's nose on the sidelines, Costa's wound was treated on the pitch by City's medical staff.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!