Sentence examples for successive player from inspiring English sources

A footnote, if an interesting one, can be found in Mickelson becoming the third successive player to win an Open the week after playing its Scottish equivalent.

De Gea is certainly on form at the moment, he was presented with a second successive player of the month award before kick-off at Old Trafford, bringing Liverpool's present goalkeeping problems into sharp focus, but when a goalkeeper is regularly outstanding it usually says something about the protection he is getting from the rest of the team.

He has not been picked, either, for any of the five internationals since the World Cup, despite Parker being West Ham's best performer this campaign, and heading for his third successive player-of-the-season award.

It was a theme that was returned to as successive players ran the media gauntlet afterwards.

For the second successive match a player has been sent to the sin bin, a problem that will be much more costly against tougher opponents.

Sebastien has the unlucky number 13. ("Tzameti" means 13 in Georgian.) Over successive rounds, each player is given one, then two, three and four bullets.

Yaya Touré has missed out on a fifth successive Caf African player of the year award after his reign was ended by Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

Extensive-form games can be described by a "game tree," in which each turn is a vertex of the tree, with each branch indicating the players' successive choices.

"It is a huge pleasure to see Colombia at this level, first of all coming to the World Cup after such a long period of time [since 1998], and then having two successive victories with players playing for the first time at a World Cup," the Colombia manager said.

Watford's ascent to the Premiership has been so rapid, with promotion in successive seasons, their players could be forgiven for wondering just what has hit them in the past three months during which time they have been knocked out of two cup competitions and had the stuffing knocked out of them in the league.

Simply to watch the last game of Federer's three-set annihilation by Cilic – powerless to swat a racquet at three successive aces – revealed a player in decline.