At the back, things seem to deteriorate weekly, with craven mistakes gifting opponents goal after goal.
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Dagenham's second was gifted to them by their opponents as a scuffed goal-kick from Roche found Scott 40 yards out on the left.
Having got the all-important goal in the first half, City took full advantage of their increasingly open opponents and Clarkson nodded in their second goal moments after wasting another header.
The Netherlands were lucky to hang on as the Gambian opponents laid siege to their goal late in the game.
But, as in the quarter-final with Sporting Lisbon, they will be pleased to have prevented their opponents from scoring an away goal.
Maybe compare point spreads to seedings, or study those team-by-team defensive stats until you collapse from exhaustion before determining who hold opponents to the lowest field goal percentage in games decided by fewer than ten points.
The Elephants' hopes of progressing to the second round in South Africa always appeared slim as they needed to not only emphatically beat their opponents to make up an enormous goal deficit, but also hope that Portugal lost to Brazil in the other fixture in Group G.
Rather than using it as a key to unlock opposing teams, tiki-taka was employed as a padlock to keep Spain's goal off-limits to opponents.
While I am not predicting that our furry friends will emerge victorious from the current scuffle, it is worth noting that the bears were once again able to keep their opponents from pushing the ball across the goal line yesterday.
And do your utmost to make sure your opponents don't get anywhere near your goal.
Then nine minutes from time, Abdelshafi put the game well beyond his opponents' reach, with another beautifully taken goal.
The expressed goal of Livni and her three opponents - Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz, Public Security Minister Avi Dichter and Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit - is not to ready Kadima for elections, but to select a new prime minister who will form a governing coalition that will bar the public from electing its representatives until March 2010.
Having already qualified, Iran made nine changes to their side, but they still proved far too classy for their opponents, who finished the group bottom and without a win or goal to their name.
While not quite the sum of their supremely talented parts, Diego Maradona's side were able to capitalise on the space fatally afforded them by their opponents to register a well-deserved victory, secured through a headed goal from Gabriel Heinze.
The South Americans were much more forward-thinking than during their nervous opening match with France five days ago providing a constant threat to Bafana Bafana's goal while also nullifying the meek attacking threat provided by their overwhelmed opponents.
And Adam saw his shot from 15 yards headed clear from the goal-line as Rangers began to enjoy more space to work in against tiring opponents.
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With the guile of Fabregas in midfield, Arsenal ran their opponents ragged in the first 30 minutes, but for all their slick passing and interchanges, goal-scoring chances were conspicuous only by their absence.
The thinking behind his three centre-back formation is that Brazil press opponents back, with the strikers working hard to regain possession of the ball close to the opposing goal.
But Watford, who defeated Leicester last weekend to end a run of seven games without a win, soon hinted that they had the ability to cause their opponents problems when Buckley ghosted into the QPR area before forcing a save from Kenny with a low strike across goal.
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