The phrase "anticipated a challenge" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing expectations regarding difficulties or obstacles that one expects to face in a situation.
Example: "As the project deadline approached, the team anticipated a challenge in meeting the client's demands."
Alternatives: "expected a challenge" or "foreseen a challenge".
From what Vettel has seen so far, he is certainly anticipating a challenge, adding: "I have been in the simulator learning the Austin track, how it flows and getting a general feel for it.
Perhaps anticipating a challenge, Leicester's mayor unveiled plans this week for the excavated corner of the parking lot to become part of a larger visitors' site, including the new burial plot in the cathedral precincts and an exhibition on Richard's life, already opened temporarily, in an old school building the city has acquired for the purpose.
However, he added that the judge in this case took particular pains to anticipate a challenge from Apple - something that chief executive Tim Cook hinted at earlier this year, when he dismissed the idea of a settlement.
Congress anticipated a constitutional challenge to the individual mandate.
In addition to the usual creative challenges, Mr. Lamas is anticipating a personal challenge just because the play is in New Jersey.
Councils will have doubtless anticipated a number of challenges when they volunteered to care for several hundred unaccompanied child refugees from the Calais refugee camp – but not that they'd face rising charges from some independent fostering agencies on the cost of placements.
Anticipating a court challenge, the measure seeks to speed a final decision on whether the new seat for the district is legal.
Mr. Bryant, anticipating a legal challenge, said, "We would be honored to spend it in defending religious freedoms for the people of the state of Mississippi".
A judge also dismissed a second case, Westlands Water District v. Natural Resources Defense Council, in which a California water authority pre-emptively sued an environmental group, anticipating a legal challenge to a water allocation decision.
