Sentence examples for transformed a team from inspiring English sources

For the last eight days, a series of circumstances transformed a team with the best record in the Eastern Conference into an underdog against second-seeded Milwaukee.

The losing was bad enough, but Valentine's comments over the last week transformed a team on a long losing streak into one in turmoil.

They transformed a team performance which had been best served by the strength and mobility of Abou Diaby, who at times suggested that he would personally compensate for Fabregas's subdued authority and the total failure of Theo Walcott to remind us of the kind of aura he made for himself in England colours on a distant night in Zagreb.

This was the triumph of a three-year effort that had transformed a team which, when handed over to Strauss and Zimbabwean coach Andy Flower for a tour of the West Indies, had resembled just another failing branch of the celebrity sports culture.

Given their start - a victory gained at the death in Georgia, a hammering of Gibraltar and, most impressive of all, a draw clinched in the final moments at world champions Germany - it looks as though O'Neill has transformed a team that had slumped to a record low of 70th in the Fifa rankings into one that can mix it with the best in Europe.

They have conceded only 30 goals in 45 games and lost five times as manager Neil Warnock transformed a team that was 20th in the Championship in March 2010 to promotion in 13 months, in the process sealing the seventh promotion of his managerial career.

An injury to a star player subtly transforms a team.

The complaints were familiar: Ronaldo's individual skill, however impressive, could not transform a team.

I know he's the kind of guy who can transform a team, and he's done that at AZ".

One man can certainly transform a team, but that man is usually a manager, not a neat, industrious little playmaker.

But it is certainly true a win can transform a team, particularly a team full of good and, in some cases, very good players like Leicestershire's.