But the intimidating capacity home crowd made this clash feel like a Grand Final.
"African qualifiers are always difficult, so for us, every game is like a cup final, " said the Nigeria captain.
Wenger predicted that the final few months of the season would be like playing a cup final every three or four days.
But travelling abroad, like a good cup final, very rarely follows the script - and wouldn't it be boring if it did so?
"Sometimes you get very frustrated on court and it's tough to control that and sometimes I do a mistake, so it's very tough to end a final like that, " he said.
The final round played out somewhat like a U.S. Open with the elements, the dried-out fast greens and the fescue-lined fairways working like a demolition derby on the 74 players who qualified for the final round.
John Salley says he'll feel like a proud host when the Final Four returns to Atlanta.
Last night's 100-meter final looked like a dual meet between the Jamaicans and the Americans with three guests thrown into the mix for the sake of diversity.
Burning 3, 785 liters of fuel an hour, they turn left and right and speed up and slow down as air traffic controllers on the ground try to arrange them like a conga line for their final approach to the runway.
It looks like the 2012 Final will be a rematch from 2008 but someone forgets to tell Italy.
The U.S. Supreme Court decision to take the case looked like a huge Bush win: no matter what the final hand counts revealed, there was now a chance they'd be tossed out.
The situation, as always, has been pushed to its limit, like a procrastinating college student deciding to pull an all-nighter before a final.
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With just a few seconds left in the final round it looked like referee Kenny Bayless might stop the fight but it went to the final bell for a decision.
On the other hand, emerging market economies carry low levels of debt and operate like a cash business, making them the final frontier for strong economic growth.
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Roddick is the 31st-ranked player in the world now, and it feels like a million years ago when he and Federer met in the 2009 Wimbledon final, a five-set epic strangely forgotten amid all the gargantuan five-setters in recent seasons.
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Among four all-Pemiership One ties, holders Wasps will meet Newcastle in a repeat of last year's final, while reigning league champions Leicester, who like Wasps received a bye into the fifth round, take on London Irish at The Stoop.
Banks are livid that that recommendation now looks like a foregone conclusion when the ICB publishes its final report on 12 September.
Part of the problem is that the latest paper tends to get highlighted in the public sphere in a way that makes it seem like the final word, as if it supercedes all prior knowledge and delivers revealed truth.
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And it's become part of the culture of what is fun about campaigning now is that, during that final weekend, we have a lot of folks who now like to do it every year, when they come out for those final 72 hours.
The final months of the season felt like a lost walk through a corn maze.
Ganguly can at least console himself with the thought that he, like Sir Don Bradman, scored a duck in his final Test, and after 188 innings his final average was an impressive 42, although Bradman's, of course, was a remarkable 99.4.
The Veep handled his scene like a pro, even ad-libbing a response to a crazy Leslie retort that wound up in the final cut of the episode.
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The Hayachine Kagura is a series of masked dances accompanied by drum, cymbals and flute: six ritual dances begin the performance, five dances recount stories of the deities and medieval Japanese history, and a final dance features a performer dressed as a "shishi, " an imaginary lion-like creature representing the Hayachine deity himself.
The story of their trysting is ominously slim, and the final switch of location to Cuba feels like a slightly desperate, if strongly flavored, shot of the exotic.
Motorola will first have its right to address the statement before the EC makes a final decision, but it's looking like a fine is headed the company's way.
The final months of the season felt like lost walk through a corn maze.
Lastly, I would like to touch on my final thought that labor advocates must make a choice between statutory bargaining power and worker voice.
What is more interesting is this final fifth wave is showing a pattern that looks like a wedge-like formation, commonly known in Elliott Wave circles as a diagonal triangle.
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