After all the trepidation born of Holland's toils home and away against these opponents in qualification for Euro 2012, and the pockmarked nature of the pitch, this was exposed as a mismatch from the opening exchanges.
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Mismatch
/ˌmɪsˈmæt͡ʃ/
Synonyms for "mismatch" (76 found)
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Noun(10 words)
disagreedisconnectsdiscordancediscrepanciesdiscrepancydiscrepancy prepositiondisproportionsill fitting partincompatibilityincongruence
Related words (38)
Noun(16 words)
incongruitiesincongruityinconsistencylesson plan misalignmentlevel mismatchmeasurement discrepancymisalignmentmiscoordinationmisfitmisfitsmisfittingmismatchingmispairingpoor fitstandards misalignmentvary
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14 entriescounterpartcoupledeviationdifferdifferencedisparityerrorincompatibilitymatchmateopposite numberpairtwinvis-a-vis
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12 entriesbase pair mismatchcolor mismatchdata mismatchdata type mismatchformat mismatchhardware software mismatchmeasurement mismatchmispairingmispairing eventpattern mismatchprotocol version mismatchskill mismatch
Collocations
11 entriesalignment mismatchcolor mismatchcultural mismatchdata mismatchformat mismatchmeasurement mismatchmismatch repairmismatched colorsmismatched datapattern mismatchskill mismatch
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