Sentence examples for Direct opponent from inspiring English sources

You feel somewhat relieved when you defeat a direct opponent like Barcelona".

One of them lines up as Wade's direct opponent at Adams Park tomorrow.

By coincidence, it is Moody's direct opponent, the scavenging Cardiff Blues groundhog Sam Warburton, who shoulders the burden this afternoon.

The most important thing is concentrating on our direct opponent and not focusing on what's going on elsewhere".

By moving into a deep, right position, Emerton allowed Bojic to push further up the park and beyond David Williams, his direct opponent.

In order to create these spaces around Kantarovski, Newcastle's No6, Sydney FC had identified the simple messages delivered to Newcastle's midfielders – i.e. "mark your direct opponent in midfield".

Ferguson said as much last week, admitting that City had overtaken Liverpool — his longtime championship foil — as United's most "direct opponents" year to year.

There was also some satisfaction to be had in the knowledge City and Arsenal, "direct opponents in the Premier League", will also have the distraction of continental competition in the new year.

With two wingers, in Saleh and Mohsin Al Khaldi, now acting as direct opponents for Australia's full-backs, Oman looked more solid defensively but Australia were still able to drag players out of shape.

Midfielders Terry Antonis and Milos Dimitrijevic sat deep when Sydney looked to play out from the back, drawing their direct opponents Caravella and Cooper forward and stretching the space in between Newcastle's lines of defence and midfield.

Just a few short weeks ago, England had a clear upper hand in the spin department: now Lyon has 19 wickets at 30 against his direct opponents' 14 wickets at (avert your eyes now if you're English) 64.