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keep possession

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On Saturday, only 18.5% were long passes, allowing the Three Lions to keep possession.

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They keep possession for about three or four minutes and win a corner down their left.

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It also says schools could allow pupils to keep possession of their phones but "only on the strict condition that they are never used, seen, or heard" during the day.

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The visitors were struggling to keep possession but, on one rare occasion when they pinched the ball in Blackburn's half, the Dragons made the most of it as Cannon fired them ahead from 20 yards.

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It wasn't Hojlund's fault he wasn't in the game then, but where he had to do better was in the second half when the ball went up to him more but he sometimes struggled to bring it down and keep possession or win a free-kick.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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