Sentences with phrase «win tight games»

In the first two weeks of the season players in both leagues were scampering around the base paths like crazy, using steals, the hit - and - run and the bunt to win tight games

Despite a young roster, the Cardinals are perennial visitors to the postseason and typically show the discipline / fortitude to win tight games.

Such strikers win you tight games.

Beat a top team and we are lucky, beat a lower team and we should be beating them anyway, lose when playing a too risky brand of football and we are inept, win a tight game playing ugly it is not acceptable nor the Arsenal way, win by 3 goals and it should have been 5, keep playing the same predictable way every game and we should vary it more, vary our pattern of play and we should go back to doing what we used to, win 2 - 0 and keep a clean sheet and we should have been more adventurous to improve goal difference, win 2 - 1 and concede in the last minute and we were naive not to shut up shop, win 12 out of the last 15 games and it should have been 15 wins......... blah, blah.

We had such players once in Thierry Henry and Patrick Viera and they won us tight games too against very good opposition.

If we had a Messi or Robben in our team, we will be winning these tight games too.

England as a side were never going to get far no matter who they picked, there are no world class english players in the whole league and there's no game changer who will win them a tight game!

He can win a tight game by conjuring up a moment of magic from deep, and that is a quality that few players in the world possess.

Not exact matches

However, our biggest issue seems to be the same old one we've had over the past years... Defending slender leads in tight games or winning with small margins when we are not at our best or when we need points the most!

«A single, hit late in a tight game, is worth a lot more than a grand - slam homer when the game is already won,» says Mullen.

I'd invest in a striker capable of moments of magic in tight spaces — someone capable of turning draws into wins and defeats into draws who could potentially bag us an extra 6 - 9 points over the course of a 38 game season.

In the round robin the experienced team won all their games, although it was very tight between the best three teams as all the games between them were won by only a single goal.

Tight end Greg Olsen snagged the game - winning touchdown pass with 32 seconds left in the game.

The Celtics had won all seven games since Rajon Rondo's injury, while the Bobcats were coming in on a seven - game losing streak, so of course Byron Mullens had 28 points and 17 rebounds in a tight Charlotte win.

Korver was key in starting the five - game winning streak, scoring 26 points in a tight win over one of his former teams, the Utah Jazz.

A world class player who can always influence a tight game, German playmaker Mesut Ozil will be among Arsenal's most important players this season in their quest for silverware, and if he can truly replicate the form he showed at Real Madrid he'll give the Gunners a good chance of winning silverware.

In Pittsburgh, it looked like Steelers tight end Jesse James caught a game winning touchdown, only to have it reversed upon review.

After all, another defeat and an Arsenal win would make it game - on for the tightest stretch of the season.

His main job is to score in tight matches like this and crucial ones like against Spurs (and countless other games I have been subjected to watch in pure disgust for the past three seasons with him up there) to turn draws into wins.

Not coincidentally, Eifert had three key drops in last week's game and I'm guessing Dalton's line would've looked a lot better if the normally sure - handed tight end would've come down with those passes, and the Bengals might've even won (you never know how it changed things).

It happened in the second half of the Patriots» win over the Dolphins last Sunday, when all of a sudden a tight game mushroomed quickly into an embarrassing blow out.

For Joe Paterno, the defining moment of the 1982 championship season came not in the last seven seconds of the pivotal Nebraska game, when quarterback Todd Blackledge completed a winning touchdown pass to second - string tight end Kirk Bowman, who happened to be a former offensive guard nicknamed Stonehands.

That game was tight and what won it was the exceptional quality possessed by Diego Costa (the league's best striker), Eden Hazard (the league's best attacking midfielder) and Cesc Fabregas (premier league's best number ten).

In the net singles final, against Verdy, Shults sprinted and lunged and rainbow - kicked all over the playing area (which is the size of a badminton court), but he was eventually done in by the vicious serve of his opponent, who won a tight contest, two games to one.

We are NOT the mighty Arsenal who deserve to win every game, we are in a tight league.

With the German World Cup winning trio of Ozil, Podolski and Mertesacker still unavailable and with Gibbs and Sanogo staying in London because of injury problems, the boss has a depleted squad to work with, especially at the back, so I would not be surprised to see Wenger take the game to our Turkish opponents, rather than trying to keep it tight.

It was a very tight hard - fought game against West Ham yesterday, and although Arsenal won 2 - 1, the Hammers boss Sam Allardyce believes that his team could easily have won by the same scoreline if it had been a different referee.

And this year he has pulled a low - and - inside Phil Niekro knuckleball for a homer; hit a high - and - tight fastball past Steve Carlton into centerfield to knock in a run in a 6 - 0, four - hit shutout of the Phillies; and, in another complete - game win, a five - hit shutout of the Mets, he got an RBI on a groundout after New York Pitcher Charlie Puleo had walked the Padres» No. 8 hitter intentionally.

They could win five games, but the toughest thing for this team will be learning to close out tight games.»

The way Burnley play at home it was always going to be a tight game and I thought it was a well deserved win.

Senior tight end Alonzo Mayes, a preseason All - America, hauled in the game - winning 19 - yard touchdown pass with 1:56 left.

Arsenal have lost their last two away league games, and they were games they'd be expected to win against two sides (Bournemouth and Swansea) involved in the tight battle to avoid the drop this season.

In Bama's last two games (a tight win over MSU and a laugher over Mercer), he has eight receptions for 274 yards; those were his first 100 - yard games of the season.

True indeed goals win you games but a tight defence wins you titles but we still need a 20 league goals a season striker, the stats prove that to win the league you need a striker who will score @least 20 goals in the allotted 38 games in a premier league season!

I'm going for a 2 - 0 Arsenal win in a tight game to keep us in contention at the top.

have welbeck and sanchez on the bench... this game can be won in the last 20 - 30 minutes... use the fresher guys to run them around like crazy... don't concede / keep it tight... bring in the 3 big quick guns at 60 minutes or so if need be — Ox, Welbeck, Sanchez... game over.

This team lost tight road games to 10 - win KSU and Wazzu but beat seven ranked teams, all by double digits.

Interestingly enough we scored in each of our group stage games and won all our games where we didn't concede, so if we deploy Cech on goal and make it tight at the back, we'll be up for it against any side!

Okay we still won today but in a tighter game these sort of decisions would have been costly, just like in the Swansea game recently.

In a tight AL East race, the Red Sox and Yankees both won and New York remains three games behind the former for the division.

Schneiderlin + Cech + poacher up front = a ball - winning cultured passer of the ball; a league and Champions League winning goalkeeper with big game credentials and someone to grab a cheeky goal in tight spaces when we're struggling with all other methods of creativity.

Tactics for today keep it tight then ramsey / walcott to come on and win the game for us?

The Indians lost against the Mariners but the Astros won so the race for best record in the American League remains tight, with Houston only 1.5 games back.

I doubt it too that we'll get him but I like the fact that he's a free - kick specialist, some games during the season will be tight and a good free kick could be decisive in getting a 1 - 0 win!

In the Bruins» current four - game winning streak, meanwhile, the offense has looked both devastating (66 points and 611 yards in a blowout of Arizona) and pedestrian (354 yards and a bad turnover in a tight win over Utah, 334 yards and three turnovers in an eventually tight win over Washington State).

It was obvious Leicester would come to us and keep it tight, these are the games we should be happy to win 1 - 0 or 2 - 1 especially after the last shaky / poor performance.

That's a lot of games combined with the regular season and international play (which many top players participate in), so you have to wonder if Pittsburgh will run out of gas at some point, especially given how it has walked the tight rope winning games despite losing the possession battle.

for me, if we win all our remaining games the tittle is ours bcz i blv that mancity is the only threat (but has a tight schedule in champs league) Man City v Man Utd Bournemouth v Man City Paris St G v Man City Man City v West Brom Man City v Paris St G Chelsea v Man City Newcastle v Man City Man City v Stoke Southampton v Man City Man City v Arsenal Swansea v Man City

Yes we have attacking options on the wings (sanchez) and in CAM and Giroud is doing an admirable job and Walcott could do a job down the middle but if we want to win more games and finish top, as well as having goals from the rest of the team we need a demon who will bang in 25 - 30 goals for our goal difference and to pounce when it's tight and that 1 chance falls your way.

They say great attacks win you games and great defences win you titles, and that's certainly true of United at their peak, who were able to grind out narrow wins even when not at their best due to having the likes of Jaap Stam, Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic keeping things tight at the back for all those years.