Sentence examples similar to evenly matched contests from inspiring English sources

It is easy to forget now that, at the time, the two men were seen to be taking part in an evenly matched contest.

What for the most part was an open, evenly matched contest descended into farce in the last half hour as any semblance of efficient defending disappeared.

In an evenly matched contest like this there is always a danger the managers will compromise their regular game plan by attempting to negate the other side's strength.

Tuesday's most evenly matched contest, at least on paper, is between Poland and Senegal.

Inverness Caledonian Thistle and St Mirren were left frustrated by their failure to convert chances in an evenly matched contest in the Highlands.

It's a really close call, because it's the most evenly matched contest that we've seen for a long time but I'm backing England to win by one and retain their status as the world's number one Test nation.

The nightcap featured what appeared to be an evenly matched contest between No. 8 seed St . Josephs and No. 9 seed Cincinnati.

St-Pierre and Penn had fought once before in a welterweight number one contenders match at UFC 58 on March 4, 2006, where St-Pierre won in a very evenly matched contest by split decision.

An evenly matched contest continued in a third game that saw 14 tie scores and seven lead changes — the last going to the Rebels, who did not relinquish it again.

The scene on this example depicts two pairs of evenly matched contestants.

Really, she and Anna are evenly matched, locked in a contest of radically different psychologies.