Sentence examples for squandered against from inspiring English sources

That home edge was squandered against the Jets, and now a promising season has ended prematurely and, to some, unimaginably.

Twice in that sequence Mourinho's side were pegged back by late equalisers, which is always a deflating experience, but to take them in order, the point squandered against Stoke was due to a goalkeeping error by David de Gea.

And as infuriated as England's players were with the number of opportunities they squandered against Scotland, they were right to be pleased by the fact that they created the chances in the first place.

Paraphrasing that observation and applying it to the Mets, it wasn't the two ninth-inning leads that Armando Benitez squandered against Atlanta six days apart that killed the Mets' season; it was the ugliness of their play in the first four and a half months that killed them.

They had gone meekly through seven innings against Wells, squandered an opportunity against Akinori Otsuka in the eighth and shown little hint of what was to come against Trevor Hoffman in the ninth.

A more convincing scoreline should have been delivered by Walcott, but he squandered a one against one against Jaaskelainen before hobbling off with a sore knee.

Last month England's Ashes stocks were high as Australia twice squandered winning positions against South Africa.

It was interesting to note how many referred to the squandered playoff opportunity against Minnesota.

Aubameyang had been carrying the disappointment of a squandered late penalty against Tottenham with him for a week.

Nadal has not lost a set on red clay all year, his only stumble coming in quick, slippery conditions on blue clay in Madrid, where he squandered a lead against Fernando Verdasco.

As a result both sides were disjointed as passes went astray and possession was squandered too cheaply against a backdrop of groans from a less than half full stadium.