Sentence examples for preparatory match from inspiring English sources

"You have always got to support the England senior manager in the pressure that he is under of wanting his strongest squad, particularly a World Cup preparatory match in a different country where we had not played for 30 years".

Despite a mediocre performance against Colombia in its last preparatory match before playing Mexico in a World Cup qualifier later this month, the United States men say they have made progress.

In preparatory matches, they lost a lot but have started to win here.

There is a friendly against the Netherlands in London on Feb. 29 and two preparatory matches, one in late May and another in early June.

On Friday, Domenech juggled his lineup, leaving midfielder Florent Malouda on the bench and abandoning the attack-minded 4-3-3 formation thet hadhad used in preparatory matches.

26, and England's two preparatory matches before the European championships are in late May and early June; they are not both in May.

Each player will receive an appearance fee of $2,000 for each of the 27 preparatory matches leading up to the Summer Games, plus a $1,000 bonus for defeating teams that have qualified for the Olympics.

Each women's player will also receive a $2,000 appearance fee for each of the 27 preparatory matches leading to the Olympics, and a $1,000 bonus for each victory.

But to win Wednesday, the Algerians will have to do something they have yet to do in their first two matches, something they struggled mightily to do in their preparatory matches.

Gourcuff made his debut for the under-21 team on 18 May 2006 in a preparatory friendly match for the 2006 UEFA European Under-21 Football Championship against Croatia.

The fact that the elderly subjects were impaired in their ability to solve this task, but were able (see the preparatory session) to physically match the different stimuli, could thus be due to an alteration in the internal models (forward, inverse, or both) with age, probably compensated by feedback mechanisms during actual execution.