Sentence examples for clever ball from inspiring English sources

Again Messi gave the clever ball.

But he was a whirlwind dribbling upcourt, a superb defensive player and a clever ball handler with fine court sense.

This optimism was rewarded instantly with a flowing attacking move involving a clever ball into Lukaku's feet by Barkley.

7.20pm GMT 62 min Konoplyanka does well, coming inside and lifting a clever ball over the top for Matheus.

Xabi Alonso must rediscover his metronomic passing rhythm, while the clever ball players Luka Modric and Mesut Özil have to perform better.

Crisp passes and clever ball movement allowed forward Ante Razov to repeatedly penetrate -- and ultimately capitalize upon -- a three-man Guatemalan back line.

There was the cute dummy the Tunisia winger sold Mohamed Elneny, a couple of clever balls creating half-chances to the overlapping Billy Jones and Jermain Defoe, and a free-kick curved fractionally wide of a post.

And Defoe, who has scored six goals in his three first-team starts this season and is now Tottenham's fifth highest goalscorer in history, relished the clever balls being played in behind the defence by Lamela.

He had the passing skills and vision to play through lots of clever balls from his withdrawn striker's role and often it seemed he would get more satisfaction in creating goals for me than from scoring them himself.

That's exactly what the Spanish love because they then get time to run at you, work little one-twos and clever balls into the danger area, and they caused a great deal of trouble for that British defence".

Huddersfield pulled one back through Smith after Palmer's clever through ball found the skipper who smashed the ball past Ben Amos.