Bellamy has urged his side to avoid falling into the same trap as Ireland by allowing the game to be played at a slow tempo.

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In the third movement, for example, the setting is rather odd, with the two top parts playing repeated notes in a slow tempo, whereas the bass line and the chord progression are slow with very little motion.

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The goal did little to improve the rather slow tempo of the game but it did at least provide Malbranque and Dimitar Berbatov the opportunity to show some fine touches of the ball with the visiting defence reduced to some desperate defence at times.

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Slow-tempo TV is hardly new, of course.

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"It was really unusual to see a couple of our players playing so slow, without tempo and making mistakes, " added Queiroz.

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Ranging from 1919 to 1994, the set is divided into sections on the blues, church roots, party songs, standard tunes (slow and up-tempo), jazz originals, scat-singing and novelties, though the compiler acknowledges that many of his pieces overlap their pigeonholes.

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When we had the ball we struggled to get any tempo as they managed to slow our ball down consistently.

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