Sentences with phrase «winning meaningless games»

There just no excuse why in a whirlwind of teams outrightly tanking we continue to lose lottery odds by winning meaningless games.

We have made a bad habit of winning some meaningless games every season and then using them as reference points or to justify failure at the end of the season.

Not exact matches

Beating the champions twice is meaningless if you end up 10 points behind them at the end of the season like we did last season to Leicester, I would rather we win the matches that really count like last nights game against Watford, Liverpool did us a favour and we did not prepare properly for the game

And every time we get a strong (major - conference) No. 3 team (2003, 2004, 2008, 2011), we get talk of a split national title once they win their bowl game; it doesn't matter whether we think they are as good as the 1 - versus - 2 winner, it's just that «The system's broken» and «This whole thing is meaningless without a playoff.»

But the plan, at least as I understand it, was designed solely to help Eli hold onto a meaningless stat; it was NOT (as far as I can recall) a plan that was designed to address how to win a game against a specific team.

On Sunday he had yet another game where he notched several of them and it helped his team win an utterly meaningless game against the Rams.

Depends how deeply you wish to, or can be bothered to think about this subject and that willingness, itself, depends on how desperately you want the club to win top honours, not merely meaningless games, like tonight.

While no one can deny that it was a cracking strike from the England midfielder, who also won the prize last season for his team goal against Norwich City, it seems ridiculous that such a meaningless game should be a contender for the best goal of the season.

This game isn't meaningless for either team though, as a win would go a long way to helping them stay in the playoff hunt while a loss could end postseason hopes altogether.

New Orleans has convincingly won almost every game they have played this season — until some fairly meaningless games near the end of the season.

I LOVE winning football games, even during meaningless seasons!

With our eyes on the Etihad on Sunday for City's game against Arsenal, it's fairly meaningless if United can't play better and win our remaining two games.

If they can't take a result like that in a meaningless pre season game, then they don't deserve to win anything anyway.

The Indianapolis Colts had a 14 - game winning streak and an undefeated record of 14 - 0 before losing a relatively meaningless game to the NY Jets.

The Citizens were in impressive form in the group stage, winning their first five group stage games for losing a meaningless affair out at FC Shakhtar Donetsk on matchday six.

In other words, the first three quarters of the game are meaningless if you don't know how to make adjustments to win the game at the end.

But before the Florida Panthers» 4 - 3 win over the Buffalo Sabres in the home finale, the routine was disrupted, and Saturday night's game was deemed meaningless.