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Jspark1982 Posted 12 years ago
Vocabulary

Help me to understand a article.

I don't understand the second and third sentence of the passage below.
I would like you to explain them, including the meaning of the words underlined.

With each demoralising defeat the ire and concerns of United fans focus more on Moyes and whether he is the man for the job. The manner of the defeats the 50-year-old is overseeing is the chief charge against him. All teams lose but to go down constantly by playing like a team of strangers seven months into his inaugural season offers scant hope of optimism.

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1st sentence: The British soccer team, United, a strong team, has a new coach, Moyes, and it has suffered uncharacteristic defeats recently, leading United fans to conclude that the blame is with the new coach. 2nd sentence: Of course, no team can win every game and even strong teams have bad spells, but it is the way the defeats have taken place that has led to the questioning of the 50-year-old Moyes' leadership. 3rd sentence: The team has lost because they are playing like a group of strangers, not a team, which might be excused if it happened in the first few games under the new coach, but this is happening seven months into the season, by which time the new coach should have been able to iron out any transitional problems due to taking over a new team.

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  • 1st sentence: The British soccer team, United, a strong team, has a new coach, Moyes, and it has suffered uncharacteristic defeats recently, leading United fans to conclude that the blame is with the new coach.
  • 2nd sentence: Of course, no team can win every game and even strong teams have bad spells, but it is the way the defeats have taken place that has led to the questioning of the 50-year-old Moyes' leadership.
  • 3rd sentence: The team has lost because they are playing like a group of strangers, not a team, which might be excused if it happened in the first few games under the new coach, but this is happening seven months into the season, by which time the new coach should have been able to iron out any transitional problems due to taking over a new team.
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1st sentence: The British soccer team, United, a strong team, has a new coach, Moyes, and it has suffered uncharacteristic defeats recently, leading United fans to conclude that the blame is with the new coach.

2nd sentence: Of course, no team can win every game and even strong teams have bad spells, but it is the way the defeats have taken place that has led to the questioning of the 5
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jspark1982The manner of the defeats
The way that the defeats occur
jspark1982playing like a team of strangers
playing as if they did not know each other, as if they had never before met one another

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Thank you for your reply!
I really understood well thanks to your easy-to-understand explanations.
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