Sentence examples for half under pressure from inspiring English sources

Iran spent much of the first half under pressure but more than once threatened to inflict what would have been a huge upset.

Iran spent much of the first half under pressure but threatened to cause a huge upset after the break as Charlton's Reza Ghoochannejhad and Fulham winger Ashkan Dejagah both went close.

South Africa will try to do to him what England did to Jean-Baptiste Elissalde in the other semi, to suffocate the ball at source and put the fly-half under pressure.

The Kiwis were struggling to break out of their own half under suffocating pressure.

Angola are just patting it about in their own half under no pressure with both teams gambling on Malawi not scoring.

Midway through the first half, under no pressure whatsoever, as Young prepared to throw the ball out from his penalty area, he slipped, collapsed embarrassingly in a heap and released the ball to City's Uruguayan striker Bruno Fornaroli.

He could do with developing a kicking game, because increasingly full-backs are used as a secondary kicking option when defences are putting the half-backs under pressure.

Steven Thompson peeled off cleverly at the back post to head a Gary Teale cross into the path of Lee Mair, but the experienced defender could only find the upper tiers of the packed stand with his half-volley under pressure.

In the first half we were under pressure at the scrum and breakdown.

"In the first half, we were under pressure a bit and St Mirren had most of the possession.

After Thorburn and Andrew exchanged two penalties each, England inched ahead with an Andrew drop-goal just sneaking over as the Welsh put England's fly-half under great pressure.