Sentences with phrase «against a better striker»

To give the team more defensive capability against the best strikers on the planet he need a central defensive midfielder to break down the counter attacks, he was not naïve here, he was ignorant.

I just don't get it, play Nacho and Per against any good strikers and we will be caught out, I can see it, you can see it, even Stevie f*ckin Wonder can see it; so why not Wenger?

Against a better striker, it would have been goal number five.

Ramsey - Well I do nt know much about his position and attitude.But he seems to have modelled his game against good strikers.

I stayed here at Atalanta to grow, to start testing myself against the best strikers in Europe.

Not exact matches

Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud claimed the Puskas award for the best goal scored in 2017 — his «scorpion kick» against Crystal Palace in January came out on top.

Mert can't make it against fast strikers and sometimes he goes off completely... Joachim Löw doesn't have a favorite... so please Wenger, bench Mert It is not slating him or anything... this is a forum to express opinions... and as anybody else I want the best for my team...

With his doubles against Sunderland and Burnley, the 25 - year old has bagged eight goals in those six games and for a player that does not even play as the main central striker, it just shows you how good Alexis is and the fantastic form he has found since swapping La Liga for the English Premier League.

I hope this season it changes a striker + cdm we have another chance else I think it's time for arsenal to bring in klopp / simmeone etc (please don't bring how bvb finished 7th) he has done well against Bayern & even in europe

I expect Giroud to get a rest and Welbeck to replace him at centre forward, as the Frenchman could do with a rest and the England striker could do with the game time, especially after doing so well against his former club in the last round.

In a way I hope the young striker does get another chance to play against West Brom because we have seen signs of some real talent and the more he plays the more comfortable he will feel in the side and the better he should perform.

my only hope is wenger to buy kanté of leicester.this guy is a beast at dm position with a good technical and physical quality.with him and coq in midfield against barca we can hope for anything special to happen.with finally olivier giroud slowly becoming WC striker, walcott most efficient and campbell who is a revelation this season, the return of alexis we can be dangerous against any defence.our only weak position is a dm position and wenger won't have any excuz this mercato bcoz there are players available that we can buy if we want.plz wenger go for at least one of this: kanté, wanyama, w.carvalho, l.bender, krychowiak, biglia, neves, l.gustavo, rabiot... if we try to sign s.roberto he will be a good addition with great quality.gunner for life!!!

Aaron Ramsey certainly hopes and thinks so, and the Welshman also reckons that the return of our big French striker to the squad will play a big part in making sure that the three good performances against Man United, Borussia Dortmund and West Brom is not another false start, as an Arsenal.com report explains.

nah giroud is as good mandzukic acc to some fans here both score against city by that logic bendtner who scored against Bayern is indeed the greatest striker in the world

Yes, that's my take as well, we need to add another striker type so that we can change the tactics and style according with the team we play against.

Because too many times I have seen Arsenal get stuck in the opposition box against tight abdurate defence for long spells where the striker is so tightly mark that his role is reduce to holding the ball up and operating in tight spaces with good close control.

I get what you're saying I really do and maybe just maybe with a little luck we could have got a positive result but firstly my argument is why would you pay # 50m for a striker and not play him and why would you play someone in defence that's never played there before against the best team in England, secondly we have had referee decisions go our way many times but that's just how it goes.

Giroud has proven to be a better striker against the taller and tougher defenders, whilst Alexis» uses his pace and fight to be an effective striker.

That's right, De Gea's save was so good that it made this established Premier League striker stop in his tracks as he thought he'd headed in a certain goal against United.

@chaitanya, exactly walcott sure knows how to time his runs.even against chelsea he was doing that well.reason ppl say walcott ai nt a good striker is bcos of wenger.wenger makes him play as striker once in a bluemoon, and in such scenario u cant learn the trade.only when hes played consistently he grows as a striker.

1) On the pitch: - we always start 3 -4-3 but always switch back to a back 4... it isn't tactical as we look bad in both - Bellerin playibg LWB when you have the best in the bundesliga last season on the bench - Welbeck playing the striker role when he can do everything but score when you have Lacazette a record signing on the - Monreal in back 3 when you have Kostafi who can flank Per in the middle protecting him against pace as well as having a commending figure and - Telling Xhaka to not play as a 3rd offensive player when Ramsey dashes - Playing a guy in Ox so out of position and persisting with him over preseason as if he would be there for years when it is clear he doesn't want to play for us (his case is a weird one)

«There were two strikers playing together (Romelu Lukaku and Martial) against three top central defenders — the best we have in Europe — and their work was amazing.»

West Ham's good form will continue against their rival clarets Burnley, so pick up the striker while he's still owned by only 2.5 %.

He will score goals from time to time and be proficient against certain oppositions, but can Arsenal truy afford to watch him cut his teeth against the likes of Chelsea, Oil City, Manure and Europes best when a Benzema type striker might be able if the price is right.

Giroud is our best striker inspite of his last inept performance against Monaco.

lst season at stamford bridge, was the first time i saw that 4 -1-4-1 formation being used, and for some weird reason i feel a very strange negative vibe and well all know the outcome.the manager has come back with this formation and its not yielding result, but he still sticks with it.i do nt know much about formations dear friends, but if you are playing a slow dm in arteta and a very very slow cb, then you are toast against quality teams with sound tactics.wen playing wellbeck as a lone striker, i think 4 -2-3-1, will work better, but if we have a big player like oliver (boooos), thn we can try the 4 -1-4-1, thingy cos he can hold the ball for our midfielders to run in.but on the overall, shame on wenger for not giving our defence a good cover DM.NO BODY PLAYS A SLOW DM / CB AND EXPECT TO B REGARDED AS CHAMPIONSHIP MATERIAL.IT HURTS GUYS, REALLY HURTS.

He could hardly have got the latest phase of his career with Arsenal off to a better start, with a well taken hat - trick against the Singapore Select XI side to cap off an impressive performance, but is the young England international striker Chuba Akpom really the answer to our striker problem?

i think if we by any chance got griezmann that would be awesome, against bus parking teams like norwich we could play with a top 2 with griezmann and giroud they can play very well with eachother and griezmann could get on to girouds flicks and knockdowns and griezmann does play in a top2 at atletico and against the most teams griezmann could play as a lone striker, but anyway i do nt think he will leave atletico

They will only if they win against them next week & Man U (would make up for the 2 chelski games)... doesn't matter how just need the 3 points... Sanchez got to do better, Ramsey lost the ball a lot trying a few stuff needs to play it more simple special against better who can counter... What is happening to our strikers??

And I am not saying Mertesacker is not good enough, but try pairing Kos and Gabriel and let's see how it works, those two have pace, tenacity, can tackle and will be great against pacy strikers and not let Kos be the one making the run for two people with that, you risk your best defender being injured.

Best possible result for arsenal today # unconvincing performance from Walcott against quality opposition # no thrashing of Chelsea to make them strengthen in the window # mourinho hoodoo over against arsenal # wenger clearly wants a striker because giroud hasn't played much in preseason and didn't start.

what are u helping a so - called striker that with the creativity of Ozil, Czorla, alexis etc manages to score 13goals and 3 against an already relegated Aston Villa and calls that «one of his best seasons»..

I prefer ox to be honest, let's not forget tho walcotts not the first man not to have a sniff against Chelsea, against weaker opposition Walcott will be very good with the balls in behind but I think most agree we need a striker who is strong and fast not just one of the attributes our current strikers possess, if ox stays fit and we sign and striker Walcott will be a top super sub

I am very baffled as to why we haven't signed a striker yet.I liked diego Costa as he was that finisher in arsenals mould and he went to chelsea for not an astronomical figure.The quality and quantity of strikers have dropped drastically.I saw Harry Kane's performance against us and i think he is that striker with vision as well as finish like costa.But he is at Tottenham so i think he wouldn't come as well.Benzema maybe better than giroud but is he the finisher we want (i don't watch la liga).

If that is going to be the case, though, it would be a lot better for Arsenal if the striker was not playing against the Gunners and that may well happen if he signs for an English Premier League rival, with both Chelsea and Man City having been strongly linked through various Arsenal transfer rumours in the media.

We might as well decide to sign no striker after all.I just wonder what is wrong with arsenal fans.I remember how people were against signing Auby last season and now look at him.What is wrong with you.People are against signing Morata and many more.Then when they become stars they start praying we sign them like how a guys prays a girls he likes also likes him back.

We need another CB and a new striker, but Rob Holding and Takuma Asano are well... I have nothing against them, but I feel like their talent will be wasted.

... he played there against crystal palace, Everton 2 season ago and it was a disaster... our build up is majorly done closer to d centre circle than d oppositions box... that's y girouds hold up play is vital... either we go with dat path or we look for a striker who is lightning quick (so when we make d final pass, it doesn't get wasted), uses both legs to shoot on sight, with good accuracy... playing Sanchez, who is not very good with his back to goal as a 9 is useless and though fast, holds on to d ball a lot tryn to get d best angle to shoot... we need a striker who is very intelligent with d timing of his runs... too bad Walcott is as intelligent as a sheep, cld have been d perfect cf...

Truth is we should've been 4 — 0 against a terrible QPR BUT ONLY IF WE HAD GOOD STRIKERS with the DONKEY and WIDEBECK no way... ROSICKY and CAZORLA that is the winning key.

Look gentlemen this WAS an extremely well written and well researched article and has to rank as one of the best Ive read in many a long year, Howvever when all of the «in depth analysis» has been done it really boils down to two points and two points only, 1) Our strikers (namely Walcott, Giroud, Welbeck and Cambel) just did nt score enough goals when it really mattered, 2) our defence made too many mistakes that allowed too many goals to be scored against us when it mattered.

I for one would go and get him straight away as Ben Yedder is an all round striker a bag of tricks he plays in a lower team and scored a bag full of goals which means he fought hard against better defenders to get his goals Ben Yedder can come at you from any direction with either foot and score and he is good at set pieces two I would be ecstatically delighted if we sign him up as we would have our own Mahrez

So I can understand why the pundit and former Arsenal striker Charlie Nicholas is looking at the way the Gunners got that point against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge and suggesting in a Sky Sports report that Arsene Wenger drops the club's two big name stars Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil, because they were absent from that game as well and it seemed to work out pretty well for us.

While I will not be against the signing of Griezman by Arsenal in the Summer if they believe he's the right striker for them, I think it will be better if they look for a younger striker who has a great potential of regular goalscoring to the older Griezman to sign and develop him in the Arsenal way of playing.

The Manchester United striker was hardly at his devastating best against Ukraine but still managed his first international tournament goal since 2004.

What a complete waste of money Emerson seems even though he's better than alonso if you can't play against palace gd luck playing at all and giroud over morata that's how you kill your main strikers confidence like he did with bats

Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal players will already have been well aware that one of the biggest threats that we will have to cope with against Tottenham in the latest north London derby will be their England international striker Harry Kane.

For sure, he is no Suarez, but he is a decent striker, who tried his best against a team who were giving little space for strikers to work in.

If you have 20m to spend add another 12 and get Mustafi that should be your only concern... Also Lacazette just scored a hat trick today albeit against Nancy not really the best defence out there but worth mentioning that the movements were really those of a poacher, a striker always looking to go forward with an eye towards the goal at all time!!

Two good games against midtable teams do nt make him a striker.

They say goals will be distributed from midfielders to strikers, lets say: Alexis scores 20, Walcott 20, OG 20, mid scores around 20, thats 80 goals, and we all know OG wont score 20 plus, Chelsea won with 74 goals, but their defence was so solid that they did nt need more goals, while our style demands goals, if we do nt score in first half, our players are starting to panic, something like against Swansea last year, we were better but they won, to win those type games you need someone to produce something special, OG simply cant do it