Sentence examples for lacks a goal from inspiring English sources

Although M'Vila possesses energy, aggression and intensity, he lacks a goal threat that perhaps his rivals in the same role have in their armoury, most notably the newly reinvigorated David Luiz of Chelsea.

Indeed, it is doubtful whether, in a figurative sense, she has ever looked at a map in her life; she lacks a goal, a plan, an inner compass, anything resembling a sense of direction.

Propensities may, therefore, motivate action, but in a way that lacks a goal, or a real intention, as Hutcheson explains in the case of anger (Essay 52).

At half-time this was the one Champions League fixture of the night to lack a goal.

"I'd played some very good games, at Manchester United, at Tottenham Hotspur, but they'd lacked a goal.

It also lacked a goal until Suárez bundled his way up the line and, with the help of Neymar, eventually found Messi whose clipped shot was tipped away by Keylor Navas for the first of three corners in a row.

Bosnia a better team technically but lack a goal scorer.

Once again we lacked a goal to get a win, but I was really satisfied with the football we produced.

To say this was not a classic would be a bit of an understatement as both sides lacked a goal threat and cancelled each other out.

Professor Jim Gates, the eminent string theorist and former adviser to Barack Obama, told journalists that the march appeared to lack an end goal – a prerequisite for political action – and would simply be perceived as "science against Trump".

Commons, who is the club's leading scorer this season with 12 goals, said the side lacked a consistent goal threat.