Sentence examples for getting outnumbered from inspiring English sources

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"I think we're getting outnumbered by the swimmers," said Arizona right fielder Robert Refsnyder, a fifth-round pick of the Yankees.

Likewise, Rooney is very quick to drop a little deeper if the midfield two are getting outnumbered - or, if truth be told, he goes more than four minutes without getting the ball - which then makes him Livermore's problem.

But I know from experience that when you are continually getting outnumbered in midfield, you cannot do anything about it - it doesn't matter how hard you work.

I would not quite go so far as saying it is a tactic from the 19th Century but, at the Etihad on Monday, we saw City getting outnumbered in a key area of the pitch.

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But even though they're the people who are most likely to vote, they get outnumbered".

"We started with an open team and got outnumbered in the middle of the park," he explained.

Or how Troy Deeney and Odion Ighalo take it in turns to do that defensive work, to make sure their team does not get outnumbered.

When Rooney plays in that position in a 4-3-3, however, there is a tendency for England to get outnumbered in midfield (a perennial problem for the national team).

And, after a series of near misses, Leeds finally made them pay when the home side got outnumbered and Hall stole in at the left corner to complete his treble.

England are probably not going to be playing with much width because the important thing is not to get outnumbered in the middle of the pitch, which is where Italy are strongest.

"We won the ball back very quickly, our players tracked back pretty well and while we played two front players we didn't get outnumbered in midfield at all, we had the numbers in there due to the fact that Wayne Rooney and the others up there tracked back".

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