Sentences with phrase «worse than their opponent»

we cant beat good United teams or bad ones because we always find a way to do worse than the opponent.

Our research found that since 2005, there have only been eight occurrences of a team that is at least seven seeds worse than their opponent getting at least 68 % of spread bets.

Not exact matches

Fraser Surrey Docks aims to boost US coal exports; opponents warn climate impacts worse than Northern Gateway.

Land said he worried that when President Barack Obama's re-election campaign looks at the polling numbers, they will realize that Obama «has got no choice if he wants to get re-elected but to take the focus off of issues and start saying, «Well, my opponent's worse than I would be.»»

I always think were 10 against 11 when Ramsey plays and if he's worse than usual it makes it 10 against 12 with AR giving assists to the opponents

This is not a case of just staying in the Chiefs normal tendencies against an opponent instead of optimizing a gameplan for that opponent, no, this was actively putting his players in a much worse position to be able to do their jobs than normal.

They were competitive in the AL East, in possession of a wild card at their worst, and even their stretch of poor play had them outscoring opponents and losing mostly due to the bullpen rather than any teamwide - issues.

If only this were to happen, Ive respected wenger for many years but that respect has been worn down over time and now I just want to see him go we're never going to move forward with the team we have and Wenger wont be selling the likes of Theo (who has had his opportunity and should be offloaded immediately) and possibly Giroud (for virtually the same reason) Its all going to be the same sh!t different season but worse than usual as all our opponents man up thier teams.

I can understand that to some extent as we do seem to be getting hit with the same old bad luck on the injury front, but I think we have a lot of reasons to look forward to our next match, especially as our opponents Man United are in a much worse situation than we are.

Nothing worse than a lucky team going through then the manager still acting heart sore he didn't get a handshake from the opponent.

CM might get mauled worse, for less money, than he did against the retired, undersized, pillow fisted opponent who finished him.

West Ham are one of very few Premier League sides who actually have worse form than us coming into this game, having lost their last four consecutively, and could pose the ideal opponents as we look to build a little momentum in hope of snatching our usually consistent place inside the top four, although most of my fellow fans think we have more chance of getting a jackpot in one of the UK casino free spins

-- The loss to Chelsea where were supposed to be title challengers — The 3 — 3 draw to Anderlecht where we were up 3 — 3 at half time — The loss to Swansea following the Anderlecht result where we were under pressure to get a good result — The 3 — 2 loss at Stoke where we were under pressure to pick up points to remain in the title challenge and were 3 — 0 down at half time — The 1 — 0 loss to United where we were expected to beat United with a worse injury crisis than ourselves — The 3 — 1 loss to Monaco after we were fully expected to beat the weakest opponent we could draw and finally kick on to the R16 The 2 — 1 loss to Spurs where our resurgence was on and we had an outside chance at the title with both City and Chelsea slowing up The 0 — 1 loss to Swansea when 2nd was still in our hands as well as the 0 — 0 draw to Sunderland both at home

Your decision - making can end up based on surprises or on keeping your opponent off your scent, on what is worst for the opponent rather than what is best for you.

Alabama does still have to win two road games versus opponents who have at least occasionally been salty this year (Mississippi State, Auburn), and an Auburn team not much worse than this one almost took out «Bama's national title winner in 2009.

Thankfully for Arsenal, our Champions League opponents on Wednesday are doing even worse than the Gunners are in their domestic league.

Vikings Benson's disappointing year gets worse; Minnesota has surrenderedmore than 96 rushing yards to only one of its last 18 opponents.

The Japanese were reedier, weaker and — if you'll trust the opinion of a guy who doesn't so much brush his hair as recharge it — worse dressed than their opponents.

A team may be better than its opponent over the course of a season, but one strong outing from a good pitcher «'' or an abnormally bad outing by one «'' can tilt the scale on any given day.

The young Designated Player manages to find pockets of space in crowded midfields, and seems to turn up on the end of opponents» bad passes more often than mere chance would predict.

Burnley have allowed their opponents 56 shots on target more than they have attempted themselves; the worst record in the league (46 attempted, 102 allowed).

Well, of all sides to have that attitude against, you can't pick many worse opponents than Stoke.

Three defeats in their last four league matches and not a victory in sight, and to make matters worse they weren't even against notable opponent's, team of similar stature who were very much beatable, more so than the sides they actually were beating in the first few weeks of the season.

It is hard to win elections by constantly repeating that the opponents are bad rather than offering voters a credible alternative.

Worse than no substance... trying to inaccurately spread misinformation on an opponent... classic Goebbels.

One plugged - in New York City Democratic insider admitted that Rangel was older, in worse health, facing more negative press coverage and battling a more serious opponent than the octogenarian did in 2010.

In Australia too, Tony Abbott has just won the election despite being seen as a worse potential prime minister than his Labor opponent.

Cuomo's opponent in the Democratic primary, Fordham law school professor Zephyr Teachout, says the governor should resign immediately, and says Cuomo's public indiscretions are far worse than the private indiscretions that led one of his predecessors Eliot Spitzer to resign.

And Cuomo's opponent in the Democratic primary, Fordham law school professor Zephyr Teachout, says the governor should resign immediately, and says Cuomo's public indiscretions are far worse than the private indiscretions that led one of his predecessors Eliot Spitzer to resign.

It would take more than an energetic candidate and a bad Times editorial to unseat Cuomo, who has a $ 32.5 million warchest and is likely to win re-election despite his opponents» best efforts.

The Daily News dismisses the «spooky stories» constitutional convention opponents are using in their campaign to block a «yes» vote, saying their arguments are «no more believable than a bad zombie movie.»

«From the beginning, our opponents have tried to spread much worse falsehoods than this to stop us,» Aborn's spokeswoman, Alexis Grenell, told Page Six.

I think McNerney is in better shape than you give him credit for whereas Hayes was 300 votes away from losing to a badly underfunded opponent.

Subjects» real gender didn't affect their scores, but those who were arbitrarily assigned to a female avatar and who competed against two male avatars performed worse and gave up on difficult problems more quickly than did those who were assigned a male avatar and whose opponents were female.

As they dispatch one opponent after another, they quickly become an underground sensation in the robot boxing world, eventually finding themselves squaring off against none other than the biggest and baddest robot in the sport, Zeus, whose owner (Olga Fonda) and creator (Karl Yune) they are determined to defeat them at all costs.

But without Metro Man, Megamind has no purpose in life, so he creates a new opponent, who quickly decides that it's more fun to be a bad guy than a hero.

Opponents say it can interfere with learning the basics and holding part - time jobs, puts an unfair burden on students, that it's the responsibility of parents to guide their children's moral and ethical development, and that, at worst, mandatory service is no better than slave - labor.

While opponents said that vouchers had no track record of improving student performance, supporters countered that no alternative could be worse than Washington's public schools, which in any case were in line to receive more federal aid.

While more than 1 million students have signed the petition, opponents believe that forgiving debt that has voluntarily accumulated is a bad precedent that may lead to forgiving other types of loans.

Nothing feels worse than watching an opponent roll badly, and then suddenly get a chain reaction of twos that leave your battlegroup crippled.

With Red7, you might just get dealt a hand that is worse in every respect than that of your opponents and in that scenario it doesn't matter how you play — you're going to lose.

I can sort of see the logic: the pressure it applies to the back of the neck could go badly wrong, as could the slamming of someone's face into the mat, but I'm not convinced that's any more dangerous than something like the Brogue Kick or Finn Balor's Coup De Grace which involves leaping from the top rope and bringing both feet down on the opponent's chest.

I like the fact that the game has supplied this with the game as sometimes I just want to jump in and kill some bots — I know I won't get trophies for it, but it makes me feel bad - ass when I'm a lot better than my opponents!

Having the camera shake or vision go a little red would have sufficed and been less aggravating than doing the same thing the AI opponents would do, especially since it'll make you a worse driver while it's in effect.

Why is it that opponents of action like to emphasize the scientific uncertainty, but never seem to notice that some of those uncertainties involve really really bad consequences that may be unlikely, but an actual risk - benefit calculation would indicate are even more worth responding to than the mean that is often called «alarmist».

Lying about yourself is worse than lying about your opponent Lying about personal matters is worse than lying about policy

While the confidentiality clauses are far more limited than many wind power opponents claim, any enforced confidentiality gives the whole wind power industry an unnecessary bad name.

He, and those around him, don't have to be better than their opponents because they're willing to be so much worse.

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