Sentence examples for play neat from inspiring English sources

The desire to play neat, controlled football was admirable, and was perhaps to be expected.

Rather than holding the ball for long periods they attacked with directness, and although Walcott did not receive any passes in behind the defence, he forced Chelsea's backline to defend even deeper than usual, opening up spaces between the lines for Cazorla and Mesut Özil to play neat one-twos and increase the pressure on Chelsea.

Both sides looked to play neat and tidy football where possible and most of the goals were end products of intelligent play.

Both sides at St Mary's looked intent on bringing the ball down to play neat football - and, despite being in relegation trouble, the Clarets often troubled the Southampton backline.

Against Bolton on Sunday his touch was good, his link-up play neat and efficient, his movement clever and he made his goal – which turned out to be the winner – look simpler than it was.

8.46pm BST 60 min: Better again from England, Alex Scott, Aluko and Duggan playing neat little passes down the right.

Really though, this is – like Max Payne – an interactive action flick which plays neat tricks with the dynamics of the shooting genre.

Georgios Samaras was superb, thriving in his lone centre-forward role rather than out on the left, playing neat passes to encourage onrushing midfielders forward.

Benfica were extremely proactive in their defensive play, pushing high up when Petr Cech had the ball, preventing Chelsea from playing neat passes out of defence, and instead forcing them to thump aimless balls downfield.

The story was almost always the same: Carlisle played neat, attractive football - and lost (Bob Paisley later remarked that they were one of the best footballing sides he ever saw).

"We were playing neat and tidy but without an end product and Charlton had that.