Sentence examples for solid opponents from inspiring English sources

Melbourne Victory were solid opponents but Liverpool were never about to lose this one.

This is an especially important consideration early in the season, when some teams have only played weaker teams, and some have had to struggle against solid opponents.

Never at any stage did they threaten to pull away from solid opponents who made life infinitely more difficult than anyone had predicted.

While a road draw is normally an acceptable result, Houston needs to prove to themselves they can beat solid opponents and add some space between the two clubs.

It's a little odd that this team is 1-2 at home, but the losses came against solid opponents, Atlanta and Kansas City, so it's not shocking.

Mayweather called Sosa a solid opponent and insisted he was not looking ahead.

The charge of excessive negativity, whipped up by Barcelona in Catalonia, finds a solid opponent in Cech.

After three straight victories over losing teams, the Knicks needed a worthy challenge, and Coach Mike D'Antoni liked what this game presented: a solid opponent, a road game and the chance to make a move in the standings.

Tuesday's game — against a solid European opponent, Belgium, on its turf — could be a good barometer, and U.S. Soccer recently announced a new friendly, against Honduras in October, and is discussing adding another against Ecuador.

Perhaps there was a bedrock of support for it that was more solid than its opponents had guessed.

That is what the Congress leaders feel: their apprehensions are perfectly correct and they form one of the great merits of the scheme… One of our main objects is to split up and thereby weaken a solid body of opponents to our rule.