Sentence examples for exploit behind from inspiring English sources

Manchester City and Chelsea are the only title contenders to escape a pummelling so far, though on Boxing Day at the Etihad the visitors found plenty of space to exploit behind the home back-line and might have ended up with a point or more but for a poor offside decision that cost them a legitimate goal.

On several occasions, facing his marker with the ball at his feet and space waiting to be exploited behind the defence, he was comfortably dispossessed at the first time of asking by Said Moawad or Hossam Ghaly.

When the opposition wingers are held back in the usual way, Nowell is a significant threat with his running game, but once the opposition adjust for this and bring their wingers up, Steenson's kicking game comes in to play as he looks to exploit the space in behind that this leaves.

Due to Sydney's compactness, with only 20-25 metres between their first and last line of defence, City looked to exploit the spaces in behind and made good use of off-the-ball movement to pull a disciplined Sydney side momentarily out of shape.

But once possession was lost, Williams would burst in behind Muscat to exploit the spaces in behind the Wellington fullback.

Silva's absence may restrict their ability to exploit the gaps behind United's defence on the flanks.

It would be easy to exploit her ambition: behind the colourful front she seems to be a rather fragile character.

Victory's stark improvement meant a similar defensive approach this time around would have played into their hands, as their major attacking threat comes when they look to exploit space in behind their opponents.

With two tricky wingers in the side in Yannick Bolasie and Gerard Deulofeu they might have been expected to at least try to exploit the space behind City's extremely notional wing-backs, though in fact they barely crossed the halfway line and never managed to send players forward in the sort of numbers to cause their opponents problems.

In his second competitive game for his new side – the first was also against Sydney FC in the FFA Cup – Duff benefited from clever player rotation from his team-mates, which allowed him to exploit space in behind left-back Matthew Jurman.

"We had a strategy for Adel Taarabt to exploit the space behind their midfield and he did well.