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The context is a coach's comment after losing a soccer game. (Full article
here - <http://www.giravanz.jp/game/report/2015/match39.html>)

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> 苦しい時間帯に何とか凌ぎながらゼロ失点でいくと勝ちゲームの流れを作れるのですが、ただ今日のゲームで言うと、あそこで耐えきれない、失点してしまうというのがまだまだ自分たちでゲームを作れないというゲームだったのではないかなと思います。

My translation: We can tide over hard times, not concede and win games, but
for today's game I think we couldn't hold them out and couldn't play how we
wanted.

I'm pretty sure I understand the meaning, but I'm struggling to get it
sounding natural in English. Any feedback would be appreciated. Thank you.
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Need help translating a sentence
I think the first half of the translation will be more clear if you phrase it
as an if–then statement:

> 苦しい時間帯に 何とか凌ぎながらゼロ失点でいくと 勝ちゲームの流れを作れる  
>  _If we can somehow manage to get through the difficult times of a game
> without losing points, we can set up the flow of a winning game_

The second half of your translation is fine. Since they couldn't hold them
out, it was a game that showed they still were incapable of taking charge of a
game.

(If it makes you feel any better, that Japanese sentence is rambling and
poorly edited. It's a run-on, and doesn't even sound natural in Japanese. To
make it sound natural in English, you might want to break it up into two
sentences.)
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