Sentence examples for ineffective substitute from inspiring English sources

If a draw was just about right at 90 minutes, Britain could have been beaten in extra-time when, with Ryan Giggs on as a largely ineffective substitute and the game becoming stretched, Ji missed two excellent chances with Jack Butland stranded.

We conclude that GVCs are an ineffective substitute, but an effective complement, of IVCs.

In the current state of world affairs and geopolitics, humanitarian aid is a poor and ineffective substitute for the critical, but politically difficult, focus on conflict prevention, support for peace negotiations and enforcement, and the protection of civilians.

Furthermore, short term approaches focusing on education and health promotion targeting "lifestyle diseases" are an ineffective substitute for whole of government commitment to addressing the social determinants of health [ 30, 55, 56].

NRT was perceived as an expensive and ineffective substitute for smoking that would require a large initial outlay of money "I've looked at the patches occasionally and thought I'm not paying $32 or $35 for a box.

Injuries also blighted his appearances at last summer's World Cup, where he started as first choice for Argentina but ended up a bit-part player, failing to score in any of his five appearances and coming on as an ineffective second-half substitute as his country lost to Germany in the final.

Anderson, who was so ineffective he was substituted at half-time, had not started a match for a fortnight; Park Ji-sung for two and a half weeks.

Employed as a central striker, Bale was utterly ineffective before being substituted.

The manager earned catcalls from the stands for his decision to substitute the ineffective Papiss Cissé.

Koeman sent on Ademola Lookman for the second half, at the expense of the ineffective Klaassen, and the substitute immediately set up an attack then got on the end of it to bring a save from Lopes.

In between, Torres was left out of the Chelsea starting lineup that lost 3-1 to PSG in their Champions League quarter-final first leg, with his ineffective arrival as a substitute leading to Mourinho witheringly commenting after the contest about how he lacked "real strikers".