"Defensive ability" refers to a person's or team's capacity to protect or prevent an opponent from scoring or succeeding in a game or contest. It involves skills, strategies, and tactics used to resist or stop the opposing side from advancing or gaining an advantage.
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For his over adventurous ventures going forward and lack
of defensive ability thereof I think this can be trained, but I can also vision another scenario that could work.
After 3 clean sheets in a row, and the entire league taking notice of our much
improved defensive abilities, we have now shipped goals in every game since.
The skill trees for each character is individualized giving you access to new
unique defensive abilities and attack moves as you progress through the story.
You also have to factor in his
stellar defensive ability and the way he creates runs and hits by pushing out 100 % every play and challenging defenders.
These aerial battles expand in scope as the game progresses, with offensive and
defensive abilities triggered by the face buttons on the controller.
I want to see tackles flying in, quick passing and rapid buildup play, intricate and delicate runs and class in tight spaces and at least a bit
of defensive ability.
I think they weren't playing him because they (incorrectly, in my opinion), underrated the importance of that gap relative to what they perceived was a deficit
in defensive ability relative to those same players.
Their abilities offer barricades and shields and have high amounts of health and
defensive abilities which allows them to sponge enemy shots.
Not only does increasing your Power Level make your attack and
defensive abilities better, but it also opens the door to new activities.
He's one of the world's top goalkeepers, and his sweeper - like
defensive abilities make him a key part of the German back line.
But as always The Ox with his laziness and lack of
defensive ability just kept walking and ball watching instead of getting stuck in to help chambers out... The Ox has had enough time at the club now, he had a good attacking game yesterday but football now days is more than just doing one thing..
Injuries have held the international back at Liverpool in recent years, but he had previously been one of the team's most important players, combining
strong defensive ability with high work rate and quality on the ball.
All we were tired of was the same old weak and
poor defensive ability of our team... We have changed our pretty style for a clueless, no structure, no control, slow and rubbish type of football... We have gotten worse.
The youngest name on the list, Jairo Riedewald has played 31 games in all competitions for Ajax this season and is blessed with
natural defensive ability.
But anyway, Los Colchoneros have demonstrated their
great defensive abilities as they kept 24 clean sheets on the whole season.
These spells range
from defensive abilities like a wall around your player (to protect them from attacks), to a fireball which can be shot across the pitch (knocking down any players unlucky enough to be caught in its path).
The
added defensive ability in midfield will give Gabriel and Coq a lot more freedoms to focus on Hazard and Oscar, if you can keep them quiet Chelsea will have a very, very hard time.
Walcott takes a little stick for similar reasons to poldi
concerning defensive ability but Walcott does not go missing for 70 odd minutes and on the defensive side, he pins back defences or defenders due to his threat and pace.
Part of the reason we are much better defensively with Ramsey on the pitch on the right wing is because of Cazorla's
limited defensive abilities and Ramsey helps out with those defensive duties much more than Ox or Walcott — although Walcott doesn't seem to be diploid on the right wing any more.
I actually think the lack of communication from what looks like Gortat and probably Morris is almost more damaging than their lack of
defensive ability because our wings and John can defend much better than they do running into screens.
Now, Kemp isn't the worst given how little time is left on his contract, but he's still owed over $ 50 million through 2019, the offense isn't returning to the levels that got him paid in the first place, the
little defensive ability that used to be there is gone, and the only thing keeping him from having a deal as bad as Sandoval's is the fact that he could at least slot in as a DH somewhere and work out the remaining days of his contract.
Vidal is a proven high quality CM with high energy and
defensive ability who can play with either Carzola / Ramsey or Coquelin in our midfield.
And I'm sure that Mertesacker will see him as a very similar type of player to have alongside as his usual partner in crime, as Gabriel has the pace and aggression needed to complement his
own defensive abilities.
And for those who will sarcastically
deride defensive abilities in a forward then I say you don't really understand the modern game.
Having said that Sanchez has far
superior defensive ability to Podolski or Carzorla and would be able to cover a lot of ground up and down the left.
Since his arrival on Merseyside from Schalke, the player has managed to impress the Anfield faithful with his
fantastic defensive ability.
they do nt try to force EvEry1 on at d sametime, and iniesta / rakitic are not kknown for
there defensive ability so how come they work so well.like I read somewhEre here, its collective defending / attacking and discipline.thats what Gunners nid.
The way they defended... I'm sure Adams n co would be ashamed to look at what happened to our once
proud defensive ability.
but that's not where the upgrade will be and it will be more obvious when a player of the
same defensive ability comes in but with way more in the locker as far as balling is concerned.
Given their
respective defensive abilities, there shouldn't be many goals in an opening leg where Atletico will be doing everything possible to avoid conceding an away goal to Chelsea.
Nevertheless, in certain situations, the ball playing abilities of Arteta will be required over the
extra defensive abilities of Flamini.
Kieran Trippier is athletic, durable and an excellent crosser of the ball, whilst possessing
sound defensive ability.
Players such as Hazard and Costa would have taken the glory for their Premier League success but Chelsea's
defensive ability led to them only losing three Premier League games last season.
Combat here is largely in real - time with your group of up to four heroes having a maximum of three special skills mapped to their little sections of the screen at any given time, but you can also access these by holding a key while hovering over an enemy or friendly to bring up a contextual radial menu that will
display defensive abilities or offensive ones based on what the cursor is above.
Increased the speed of the Helicopter AA missiles lock on to reduce the tedious nature of Helicopter dogfights and improve the Helicopter's
defensive abilities vs Jets.
The devs aim to cap defense (effectively
nerfing defensive ability stacking), buff Tributes, reduce trash spawns, tweak crowd control, reduce inbound damage, and buff celestial blessings.
His abilities include: Rapid Fire (lets you fire his blaster as fast as you can pull the trigger); Lucky Shot (this «build up and release» power does major damage to enemies and vehicles; it can also break Vader's block); and Shoulder Charge (inspired by A New Hope, this offensive and
defensive ability lets you get into and out of battle quickly).
The roles consist of Commando, a warrior - type role; Ravager, a black mage - type role which uses damage - dealing magic; Medic, a White Mage - type role which can heal and remove negative status ailments; Saboteur, which uses magic to weaken enemies by inflicting negative statuses; Synergist, which uses magic to strengthen allies by giving positive statuses; and Sentinel, which has protective and
defensive abilities similar to a paladin.