Sentence examples for defender off from inspiring English sources

"Don't you have to be sure that the attacking player was going to score to send the defender off?

No one, it seems, is as skilled at jumping into and out of turmoil, and the only downside for Wenger was the facial injury to Laurent Koscielny that forced the defender off on 33 minutes.

Spurs boss Tim Sherwood took the defender off as Stoke seized the initiative, despite being a man down.

"We took a defender off, we put Marco [Cassetti] in the middle and Ikechi [Anya] has given something extra going forward, he was very good, and when [Almen] Abdi came on he's given us something very good in the middle.

Brown then made his presence felt, blasting an overhand crank shot from the right side off a restart then losing his defender off a switch and delivering a left-handed laser that made it 5-2 with 11 03 to go in the second period.

It could throw your defender off, and you might need a different play style to win.

If done correctly, this will fool the opposition and put the defender off-balance.

Raymond Felton made perfect reads and sliced through the Spurs defenders off pick-and-rolls.

Creating an instant of indecision on the other side will throw the defenders off from simply charging straight ahead into your backfield.

On two occasions during the first half, Dutch referee Bjorn Kuipers decided against sending Spain defenders off after first Neymar and then Oscar were tripped when through on goal.

With the PVA 91st Regiment of the 31st Division, 12th Corps, arriving as reinforcement on November 1, the Chinese forces chased the remaining South Korean defenders off Jane Russell Hill and beat off the subsequent counterattack.