Sentence examples for opening group from inspiring English sources

True, the ambitious standards of entertainment set by the opening group stage have only partly been maintained.

Carbonero, voted the world's sexiest journalist, sparked Spanish supporters' fury after Switzerland slipped an easy goal past Casillas in the team's opening group match.

The Pole was axed by Tunisia in 1998 after losing the two opening group games against England and Colombia, making him the World Cup's shortest-serving manager.

He scored the winning goal in Wales's opening group tie against Slovakia and who knows where a couple more against Portugal might leave him?

In fact, the opening group scene is uncharacteristic, although chapter two describes a different meeting and introduces another seven tertiary characters.

Now only three teams have never exited in a World Cup opening group stage: Germany, Holland and the Republic of Ireland.

He is currently preparing for Belgium's opening Group H game against Algeria on Tuesday.

England completed part one of their World Twenty20 title defence by negotiating the opening group stage.

Guinea had to play their opening group game against Togo in Morocco earlier this month.

On 11 June 2010, Gourcuff made his FIFA World Cup debut in the team's opening group stage match against Uruguay.

The Gold Cup returned in 2013 with Panama beating Martinique and Mexico defeating Canada in opening group play matches.