Sentence examples for touch to himself from inspiring English sources

Harry Kane, last year's prolific striker, played a perfect through ball over the heads of Darmian and Smalling, which Christian Eriksen controlled with a header touch to himself, followed by a chip attempt which beat a charging Romero, but also beat the crossbar, going out of bounds harmlessly for a goal kick.

No touch to steady himself.

Dembélé took a touch to steady himself and his shot was still rising as it flew into the top corner.

Sánchez took a touch to steady himself and the Barcelona player is too talented to pass up that kind of gift.

The Tottenham centre-forward took a touch to steady himself and turned the ball past Hogg with a low right-foot drive.

Aware of Lauren backtracking, he pulls the ball away from goal and uses his second touch to spin himself almost 360 degrees back towards Arsenal's retreating defence.

He executed a perfect drag-back and turn to fool the former Inverness captain Shinnie, before playing in Storey, who took a touch to compose himself and unleashed a curling shot that flew beyond Danny Ward.

With everybody else charging around like men going over the top, Platini managed to stay blissfully still, taking a touch to compose himself before smacking it past two defenders and the goalkeeper Manuel Bento.

The Australian had his back to goal and was pressed by a defender but he spun away in trademark fashion, took one more touch to compose himself and drove an unstoppable shot from 20 yards into the top corner.

Ashley Young released the overlapping Blind and he pulled the ball back to the unmarked Spanish midfielder, who took a touch to set himself and drilled the ball past Guzan from 12 yards out.

The ball rebounded in the direction of Pirès, who needed one touch to set himself and another to fire at the near post, despite Niemi getting a hand.