Sentences with phrase «winning goal of the game»

There was a spell in late 2015 where he was racking up the assists, most crucially, a gorgeous exchange with Paul Pogba, and delightful cross into the box that Paulo Dybala converted brilliantly, which ended up being the winning goal of the game against Milan at home.

Poor performances such as those in the 2 - 1 loss to Napoli at the San Paolo, where he gifted possession to Gonzalo Higuain, enabling him to score the winning goal of the game, and a red card that killed our chances to chase a victory away to Borussia Monchengladbach in the Champions League group stage, seem to best summarize his first six months at the club.

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If you move the goal posts that far down the field your chances of winning the game are greatly reduced.

If successful, the Niners could send the game into overtime — or the Rams to a last - second field - goal win — either of which could have led to the Rams beating the spread again.

In particular, he says, CEOs should be more like quarterbacks in the way quarterbacks stay focused on the real goal of the game — winning — rather than on meeting the expectations of those who speculate on the outcome of the game from the outside.

What if my goal wasn't to win the game, but to leave people better than I found them — better loved, better experiencing their identity as a child of God, better equipped to love others?

Ok, so maybe they didn't win any of them and let's not even talk about the game they could have won if the winning field goal didn't go wide right.

Last game he played against Parma he battled like mad in winning the ball, running with it half of the pitch and in the end scoring a goal by beating the keeper in a cool way.

That said I will never forget Welbeck's game winning goal at Old Trafford to knock United out of FA Cup.

RVP had that complex and he was scoring goals for fun, imagine having a talented striker with that mentality playing alongside Ozil, you wouldn't see Alexis trying too hard to score because the responsibility of winning a game is shared.

«To play the first game (of the) Champions League, then to win with a good result, to score many goals, to finish the game with a clean sheet.

At this stage of the season Man City have won more games, conceded fewer goals, and scored nearly twice as many goals as Arsenal did during our best ever season under Wenger.

We are 2 - 0 up with 10 men and every comment is about negative things like Kos being sent off and predictions about Liverpool scoring and winning their game but no congratulatory cheers for either of the 2 goals we have made.

With two wins in two games to start the La Liga campaign and four goals scored with none conceded, things are going to plan on the pitch even if there have been plenty of distractions off it.

Nikita Kucherov found the back of the net for the fourth game in a row with the opening goal in Saturday's win at Colorado.

We were not scoring lots of goals but we managed to control and won game.

Should put forward players, including Ozil can score a combined goal of 60 + between them, we will win most of our games if we work on getting clean sheets.

«It is, but if you look well at the game today, I think with a bit more killer instinct in front of goal, we should have won the game.

Arsenal do have a good team except for few mistakes after being in control they lost their cohesion and created school errors and just after they score they loose it again but honestly they tried and tried hard but the olympiakos goal keeper kept his team afloat with the help of the referee and from the match statistics we had 62 % position with 8 on target and 8 corners while olympiakos had 38 % with 5 on targets with 4 corners from the statistics we can say we won the game so in a sense two mistakes and we lost the game Still looking forward for Sunday come on Arsenal

The worry has to be that our next game however is a trip to Stamford Bridge, where we have conceded 10 goals without reply in recent years, and we now have to go there and target all three points, otherwise any hopes of winning that illustrious fourth Premier League title will be gone for another season.

OT I Remember the last time when we were Hoping for West Ham to do us a favour against Liverpool, that was back in the George Graham days and it was the second from last game of the season, yup, Liverpool ended up winning 5 - 0... And we were left with the mission of having to beat the Scouser's by two clear goals to win the league, at Anfield.

A 50th minute goal by Henrique proved to be the difference, as his thirteenth strike of the season won the game for the visitors.

Did you know that the Flyers expected winning percentage declines in inverse correlation with the number of goals they trail, and that that relationship becomes more pronounced as the remaining time in each game decreases?

Im all for bringing Mahrez in if we had a full contingent of outfield players who can fit the bill thats required, do nt get me wrong I rate Mahrez but all this talk of coversions to strikers ect is a thing that takes time and theres little garuntee that it will work and while we are finding out if it works or not we are again loosing games we should win through a deficit of goals and real goal scorers.

Since Mathieu Flamini took over from Arteta as our cover for Coquelin, the Gunners have not lost a game, winning three of the four and only conceding two goals, which is even better when you remebre that three of them were away from home and Arsenal were under serious pressure.

In fact he was a key player for his national team back then, starting four of the five games as they won the under 19 Euros in 2010, where he provided the assist for the winning goal in the semi-final to cap a great tournament.

Aw has lost the plot with his tactics as well.Teams read him and play us out of games.We only tend to play well when opponents give us room to play in the midfield — like Everton did.When opponents park the bus and cramp out Ozil and Sanchez, Wenger doesn't have a plan.All the possession and no goals wont win you games.

The versatile 27 - year - old is of proven quality, having won 29 senior caps for Germany and netted 51 goals in 119 Bundesliga games for Dortmund.

So all you need to do to have a chance of winning this superb stocking filler is to predict the correct score of the game against QPR on Boxing day, the time of the first goal by any player from either side and the first player to score a goal for the Gunners.

In fact Smudger, who scored the opening goal against Liverpool in the final game of the season in 1989 that gave Arsenal our most dramatic title win ever and inspired the book and film Fever Pitch, thinks that the resilience the current team showed at the Britannia Stadium proves that this squad is capable of going all the way and adding another title to our history of major honours.

His experience at such a young age and us having one of the best playmakers in the game makes me think he'd be a perfect fit, although I am worried it could take a season to adjust in which case I hope we can get enough goals from other players, maybe even play sanchez up top, if we don't win something this season players will be leaving.

In case you are saying West Ham are tough defenders, then we have won 12 out of 14 games against them so and Giroud has scored 5 goals in 6 games against them.

Sakic set a postseason record, since broken by Tampa Bay's 2004 Smythe - winner Brad Richards, of six game - winning goals and dished a single - game record four assists in Game 2 of the Cup final vs. Florgame - winning goals and dished a single - game record four assists in Game 2 of the Cup final vs. Florgame record four assists in Game 2 of the Cup final vs. FlorGame 2 of the Cup final vs. Florida.

The Grizzlies had an effective field goal percentage of.389 in Game 5... and still won.

The Rangers» 54 - year Cup drought finally ended thanks to the gritty leadership of Mark Messier and stingy goaltending by Mike Richter, but it was classy blueliner Leetch who won the Smythe after scoring 11 goals and 34 points in only 23 games.

Dating to the beginning of last season, the Avs have won three straight home games in this series, limiting the Jets to exactly two goals in each victory.

If you cant win that game with a margin of over 5 goals that tells you you are an average manager.

The legendary rushing defenseman who transformed the NHL won the first of his two Smythes while bringing Boston its first Cup in 29 years in dramatic fashion: his flying goal in overtime of Game 4 vs. St. Louis.

If it has been 2 - 0 by the time, I wonder if the result will change, the Roma - Barcelona game show it, how the morale will be boost for the home team when they know another goal will win it all, or get them back into the game to go into extra time, in the case of City.

It certainly is, but as we can see it doesn't matter if you play a brilliant game, because at the end of the day football games are won by scoring goals.

«Obviously it is pleasing, first of all to be able to help the team with important goals in a Champions League knockout game [and] of course to come back to England and [win] against a team you're always motivated to play against,» Suarez told UEFA.com (via Daily Mail).

From there, the Volunteers found themselves in position to kick a game - winning field goal as time expired thanks to an amazing one - handed catch by Marquez North of a long pass from Justin Worley.

Brett Hull's controversial foot - in - the - crease OT goal won the Cup for Dallas in Game 6 of the final against Buffalo, but Nieuwendyk got the Stars there by scoring a league - leading 11 goals, and 21 points, in 23 postseason games against Oilers, Blues, Avalanche and Sabres.

The Saints have won five of their last six games and have not conceded a single goal during that run, climbing to sixth in the standings.

The Great One's voluminous records include the career postseason marks for goals (122), assists (260) and points (382), so it's only fitting that he won his first Smythe with a ridiculous record run of 47 points in only 18 games, including a five - game finals record 11 points against Philadelphia.

The first goal is always the hardest to get and at that point in the game I was starting to think it was going to be one of those days when we couldn't buy a goal then if villa could sneak a goal and win.

We need better though but I'm in full 100 % support of the purchase of Shkrodan Mustafi and Lucas Perez.Mustafi can help Koscielny now.I've been saying it here time and time again that it's not a world clsss striker we have needed but a clinical finisher which we have lacked for several seasons and counting.Hopefully this guy puts Giroud where he belongs which is on the bench.Though a world class striker is good what we have lacked is someone who puts the game to bed in clinical fashion but Arsene Wenger has listened to many people to the extent that if he can't get a world class striker then he can get anyone.If Arsenal had a clinical finisher for some five seasons or so we coulda won the EPL then.Giroud has cost us matches and will continue to cost us matches.Giroud is half decent as someone said here the last time.I expect Perez to be much better if he can take on his man and be clinical in front of goal.

Our team yesterday was more than strong enough for Benfica however, earning a 5 - 2 win to put us top of the table going into the final game, and due to earning a point per goal as well as three for a win, we are currently clear of today's opponents by four points already.

Wenger and the Gunners will be expecting a spirited showing from Swansea in their first match under new manager Bob Bradley, but they are still on a terrible run of six Premier League games without a win and in none of those games have they kept a clean sheet, conceding 12 goals while Arsenal have scored 14 in our last five.

«I think the whole team tends to react well and defend well as a unit and clean sheets are going to win games because we're going to score plenty of goals.