Sentence examples similar to evenly contested game between from inspiring English sources

For the most part though, it was an evenly contested game played at times with the feel of the pre-season encounter that it was.

"The six games has taken its toll - it was an evenly contested game but I felt we ran out of steam," McKinnon said.

There were upsets galore, stellar individual performances and hotly contested games between teams stocked with NBA-caliber talent.

It was a highly entertaining and evenly-contested game for the most part, with St Mirren snapping into tackles to avoid United's talented young players settling into the game.

A keenly contested game had been anticipated - between two sides who are strong, assured and capable of devilish intent in attack - but the opening half was mostly restrained.

McIlroy eventually did likewise in what was a more evenly contested match, against Boo Weekley.

Giovanni Trapattoni, the Ireland coach, said he believed the game had been evenly contested until the own-goal.

The game had been evenly contested until City took advantage of the 41st-minute sending off, with Danny Haynes shown a straight red card for a high tackle on Jordan Clarke.

The first half was even but ill-disciplined, was evenly contested but tries from Wade and Cooper-Woolley soon after the restart took the game away from Worcester, who are stranded at the foot of the table.

The first half followed the pattern everyone was expecting, with Brazil doing most of the attacking and Germany playing a cagey game with Miroslav Klose on his own up front most of the time, though it was more superiority evenly contested than might be imagined because German superiority in midfield prevented the favourites from having everything their own way.

City were subdued and the match was evenly contested until Negredo headed the opener on the stroke of half-time.