Sentence examples for tight at the back from inspiring English sources

Tight at the back and direct up front.

"Other teams know how we play and so they keep things very tight at the back.

"We stayed tight at the back, we stopped them doing what they've done to everybody else.

He also wore an adult's baseball cap, pulled tight at the back to fit his tiny head.

Braga's whole game plan was based on keeping it tight at the back... which makes that goal inexcusable.

That said, this was a perfect away performance from a Birmingham side at the other end of the spending scale, tight at the back, and clinical in attack.

We'll open Alberto's question out to non-World Cup winning pros turning out for pub/church sides, so drop us an email on [email protected] WATER-TIGHT AT THE BACK, BUT SINKING LIKE A STONE "Leicester City have the best defence at present in the Championship but sit one place above the bottom three," notes Matt Hudson.

63 min: This is much more even than the first half now, Holland much tighter at the back.

Turner adopted a continental sweeper system at Loftus Road, and although Villa were tighter at the back, a defensive mix-up involving new signing Keown led to the only goal of the match, and Villa's third loss of the season.

The 46 with which they and Barnet survived last season may not suffice this time but statistics show that, while they still lack a cutting edge (seven goals in eight), they are tighter at the back (only six conceded).

But before the neutral gets too excited about this gallic götterdämmerung, we should remember that their failure to overturn the first leg deficit will mean the presence in the World Cup of a side who built their qualifying campaign on being tighter at the back than a spandex cummerbund and scored only 11 of their 28 goals in Group H in the eight games against sides not called San Marino.