Sentence examples for top tier team from inspiring English sources

But for one quarter, at least, the Jets looked like a top tier team.

"In addition there have been four finals between a lower half top tier team and a second tier team.

With Ben Gibson and company comfortable in defence, Randoph was barely bothered in goal as the Teessiders duly looked the top tier team.

Losing to a top tier team 1-0 is not bad but the effort seemed to lack the urgency that was needed.

Sporting loanee Dom Dwyer scored four in their wild 7-4 win — his performances this season have been almost a one-man case for the success of the young MLS-USL Pro partnership that is pairing top tier teams with affiliates for loans and reserve league play.

His thinking is sound: he has a young side, the least experienced of the top tier teams, and win or lose at the 2015 tournament, he doesn't want them to fall off the metaphorical cliff at the end of the tournament.

The Mets are still a long way from being a top-tier team, though.

Although the Buccaneers have yet to topple a top-tier team, they have beaten their easier opponents.

His favorite player, though, is Loro Boriçi, who captained Albania to their 1946 Balkan Cup victory and spent two years at the Roman top-tier team Lazio.

The trip to Ohio State should give a good indication of whether Michigan State is a top-tier team or not.

Denver's maddening style of play has been effective under Karl's supervision (rehashing his best years of coaching the Seattle SuperSonics with Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp), yet the Nuggets are not usually considered a top-tier team.