Sentence examples for sustained possession from inspiring English sources

They've enjoyed sustained possession and pressure over the last few minutes.

After another period of sustained possession Eriksen retrieved the ball in midfield and assessed his options.

If you make a line break, don't feel you have to pull the trigger and score on this particular play, because sustained possession would have resulted in opportunities.

While the visitors showed an enormous amount of courage in defence, they were not able to get enough sustained possession and field position and, like Wales, failed to score a point in the second half.

Despite Arsenal being the better side in the first 45 minutes and having sustained possession in the opposing half throughout the entire game, they never really got to any member of the Blues' back four.

It took 15 minutes for the visitors to have any sort of sustained possession in Arsenal's half and Danny Graham's header was their first effort on target after half an hour, the only surprise at the break was that it was only 1-0.

It capped a second-quarter drive of seven plays and 66 yards, one of the game's few sustained offensive possessions.

Three plays later, this dread was validated when Brandon Jacobs plunged into the line and even with his 264 pounds could not muster a single yard necessary to sustain the possession.

They had none of those sustained periods of possession around the opposition box that can build up momentum and pressure.

Chances were few with neither side controlling possession for sustained periods during the match.

That they whistled often implied that while the possession was sustained, the pass count heading beyond into the 40s, it was not a threat, but the feeling was false.