Sentence examples for a lone role from inspiring English sources

"In the France [group] game here I was asked to play a lone role up front and I don't think many forwards, if they'd stayed in that role throughout the 90 minutes, would have had many scoring opportunities.

In the first six rounds Wellington experimented with a variety of forward combinations – sometimes playing one up front (Huysegems or Brockie in a lone role), sometimes playing Hernandez as a 'false nine'.

When Ms. Futral first tackled the role at the Spoleto Festival USA in 2011, James R. Oestreich of The New York Times described the work's lone role as "a tour de force for soprano, some 75 minutes of almost continuous vocalization: speech, elevated speech and soaring melodic arcs, some with electronic voice processing to produce ghostly duets".

Rating: 4.5 Eddie Johnson He is a forward more designed for a lone striker role.

Told he was unsuited to a lone striker role, Defoe kicked his heels on the bench.

He feels equally at home in a lone striking role or alongside either Emile Heskey, Peter Crouch or Jermain Defoe.

If the manager wanted to stick to his usual system he could deploy the 18-year-old Jose Ángel Pozo in a lone forward role, but it seems more likely that he will try for a fluid 4-6-0 scheme.

Strachan had previously suggested that the forward was unsuited to a lone striker role.

Jewell opted to hand Michael Chopra his first start in five games, replacing Jason Scotland in a lone forward role.

Strachan had previously suggested that the 23-year-old Blackburn forward was unsuited to a lone striker role.

His scoring exploits had previously come from his accustomed position as an attacking midfielder, but a switch to a lone striker role also paid dividends against Wigan.