Sentence examples for preparation games from inspiring English sources

"He was very good before in the preparation games and he was injured just before the start of the season.

The Italian team features Danilo Gallinari and Andrea Barngani and has looked strong in its preparation games.

As the Porto midfielder Joao Moutinho put it at the first press conference in Poland: "They were just preparation games.

Those two teams are currently ranked fourth and third in the world, respectively, by FIFA, so needless to say these are good preparation games for us.

"England then need to meet up as a team and travel to Qatar at least four weeks in advance to acclimatise to the temperature and play some preparation games".

You raise your eyebrows more that he's been suspended for the preparation games than you do for the fine, because he has hardly scored a run - two ducks in the Champions Trophy warm-up game and nine in Australia's first match against England, a defeat by 48 runs.

In their final preparation game for the Premier League campaign, Arsenal and Chelsea were still ironing out flaws in their approach – and while Arsène Wenger's side emerged victorious, the two teams faced similar issues.

In a preparation game, he suffered a foot injury after a collision with French player Florent Pietrus; as a result, Nowitzki played inconsistently and was also often target of hard fouls.

Arsène Wenger wanted to use the match as "the final preparation game for the championship" and noted that Liverpool, amongst four other teams (Manchester United, Newcastle United, Chelsea and Leeds United) would challenge Arsenal in the league.

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We'll play Romania, Tonga and Fiji in Europe, and they will be big games for our World Cup preparations, games we can target for wins.