Sentences with phrase «city midfielder plays»

Not exact matches

Played in midfield against Besiktas, but should be moved back into the defensive three to help cope with City's attacking threat.

However, with Coquelin, Ramsey, Wilshere, Arteta, Cazorla and all fighting for the central midfield roles, would Milner have played any more for us than he did for City?

The player is the England international midfielder James Milner and the reason that Arsene Wenger and his backroom staff are looking at the 28 - year old is the news that the contract talks between him and the Premier League champions have stalled, possibly over a lack of playing options when City have all their players fit.

Moving back to the 4 -3-3 after Motta's injury should have helped, but pulling Marquinhos into a rarely played position in midfield and putting Serge Aurier into an unfamiliar spot as a central defender in a back four threw PSG for a loop when City were on the ball.

Antonio Conte signed N'Golo Kante from Leicester City this past summer, but with Cesc Fabregas struggling for playing time and John Obi Mikel seemingly leaving Stamford Bridge when his contract expires at the end of the season, the Chelsea midfield will need strengthening.

hello... am not a manager, tactician or anything... but to stop city you need to crowd the midfield... there is no way we will beat city with lacazette isolated upfront, sanchez chasing shadows trying to press city backline instead of playing deep to nullyfy them getting the ball into dangerous areas... city fullbacks or wingbacks (delph and walker) unlike other fullbacks they tend to carry the ball infield hence outnumbering opposition in midfield thereby giving de bryne and silva ample time to pick runners in sane and sterling..

According to Catalan newspaper Sport, Leicester City manager Claudio Ranieri sees Sissoko as a potential replacement for central midfielder N'Golo Kante — who also happens to play for the French national team.

City doesn't do it, Chelsea doesn't do it, Bayern is probably the only top team that does it and thats because they can afford to when playing in a weaker league, and has 10 other top class midfielders to fill in.

Coquelin did all the dirty work in midfield, tracking back, being the first defender and covering at the back to give time for the more forward players to come help and for the defence to organise (Mertesacker never found himself outrun... against City) breaking up plays and cleanly passing the ball forward!!

Formerly of Cardiff City, Chilean defensive midfielder Gary Medel has proven a smart signing by Inter Milan, playing the ball well for the Italign giants since his move.

Despite man city spending over 200m pounds in d summer, just two injuries, they r playing a midfielder as a lwb and mangala is their defensive cover u guys should just stop moaning,, i think arsenal still have cover this season, a striking trio of welbeck, giroud and walcot can hold their own, a midfield duo of Wilshire and elneny can hold their own, we might be light in defence buh not as terrible as u guys r exaggerating it, trsnsfer window is over let's support d guys

Former Chelsea midfielder Frank Lampard, 36, will play for Manchester City's A-League side Melbourne City in Australia next season, ahead of his move to Major League Soccer franchise club New York City — Daily Mirror

As I said after that game, the only reason City were toothless was that they played 2 holding midfielders that are exactly the same, Fernandinho and Fernando are technically poor and can't create for toffee, but if City had Yaya Toure in that midfield to absolutely bully the likes of Cazorla, Ramsey and The Coq it would have been a completely different game, City lost that Box to Box energy Yaya gives them and that played right into our hand as they were static in midfield..

Wilshere has been able to regain his form and fitness with Bournemouth and although he suffered a slight issue a few weeks back against Manchester City, the midfielder is back in contention to play his part with the Cherries for the rest of the campaign.

The former midfielder is currently plying his trade in the MLS, and as manager led his side New York City team to finish second last term to secure a place in the play - offs.

I wouldn't want to talk of Silva and Dzeko's goals, which saw City win that game 2 - 0; but there was this under - fire midfielder in Javi Garcia, who filled in for his skipper at the heart of Man City's defence, and played a significant part in his team securing all 3 points, in addition to keeping a clean sheet.

City could even play a midfield of Toure, Fernando AND Fernandinho to thwart our numerical advantage there.

Man City have plenty of injury concerns going into the game, which, however, could see them play a 5 - man midfield and thwart Arsenal from enjoying large spells of possession.

In my opinion, Özil, should be dropped from the No 10 role for cazorla who had been playing like a God prior to ozils return and we should have our two holding midfield players, similar to the way we played against City (it was Ramsey and Le Coq that day).

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

Who plays 5 midfielder against city.

Hull City, who won last season's Championship play - offs, are being linked with a move for Tottenham Hotspur midfielder Ryan Mason.

Further, the report also adds that Redknapp would ask Lampard to join them too with the midfielder out of contract after leaving New York City FC, and he could be interested in continuing to play until the end of the season.

Of course, the threats of Aguero and Silva will be difficult to handle but beyond them city don't have that many threats unless they play two strikers, meaning we can boss the midfield.

Playing in defensive midfield this season, Eric Dier has looked solid so far for Tottenham and seems likely to resume this role against City.

We need a discipline midfieder to partner either Xhaka or le Coq, or play them both and either Ozil or Ramsey in bench coz Ozil is lazy and Ramsey isn't reliable, doesn't even know his roles, review that stoke city goal and you could see where Xhaka midfield partner * ramsey * is coming from.

i know silva plays wide too, but look at city's team, they have solid midfielders to cover up and silva's work rate is a lot higher than ozil's.

And, with Manchester City playing two strikers up top, Arsenal having that extra body in the midfield had a telling impact on the game from the word go.

Now if we actually go back to last season, Arsenal played that pair in midfield against Man City and won 2 - 0, against Man United won 2 - 1 and tied 1 - 1, against Liverpool won 4 - 1, against Chelsea tied 0 - 0 and won 1 - 0.

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For instance, facing Manchester City (at Home) on the September of 13th, I would play the following ------------------ Welbeck (CF)---------- Sanchez (LCAM), ---- Ozil (RCAM)---------------------- Ramsey (CM)---------------- Flamini (DMF) Monreal (LWB)---------------------- OX (RWB)------ Mertesacker, Konsielny, Chambers (CBs)----------------- Szczesny (GK) Key: CF — Centre Forward, LCAM — Left Center Attacking Midfield, RCAM - Right Center Attacking Midfield, CM — Central Midfield, DMF — Defensive Midfield, LWB — Left Wing Back, RWB — Right Wing Back, CB — Center Backs, GK — Goal Keeper

After playing a huge role in getting Leicester City to the top of the Premier League mountain, central midfielder N'Golo Kante has become a hot target for top clubs.

I'd play him in midfield with jack he reminds me Micheal Thomas we have bring sead kolosinic back in or even put him right back cause bellerin has being nothing short of disastrous in every way I like him as a man but my god he has not pushed on and I must say Cech looks so old and sluggish like last nite when Hernandez hit cross bar Cech looked so slow reactions gone we need keeper and I think Forster be great for us da guy at Southampton I think ozil will stay he's trying a lot more so would I to get 280 thousand weekly and Sanchez won't go cause not that he wants stay but he's form is very worrying hard take 3 weeks ago I looked at table and said we'll finish above spuds by ten points and in top 4 easily now we're behind them we have no consistency and manager that's just too old I love wenger always will but it's time and I think artery would be great choice for manager he meant be great coach maybe he's the one get Man City so great after all he loves arsenal maybe it's wenger plan go learn from pep and come bk when I leave take over and mersaker as he's no2 arteta and bfg take us forward and hand picked by wenger conspiracy theory begins

these players are not good enough to compete with the likes of Spurs / City Welbeck is another Walcott and if he scores is by accidental contact with the ball rather than skill Play the Sanchez / Ozil / lacazette trio and skip the Ramsey / Xhaka fiasco in the middle as they will not be able to deal with the Spurs midfield.

Manchester United midfielders do not play like Manchester City midfielders, thus I believe Arsenal would be able to take control of the midfield area and set the tempo in the match.

I didn't watch the match last night as I was on the field playing I ran my heels off I was in their faces I was angry I got a well - deserved yellow and could have been sent off later on I intercepted a good few balls and assisted with 2 goals and won the match From the highlights and the analysis I understand the Arsenal were weak in midfield the Arsenal needs an enforcer someone just like me a motivator and in the face of the opponents a thorn in the side I also believe MR wenger was at fault we all knew we would be weak in defence the least MR wenger should have had is a strong fresh midfield after all we had a tough encounter with city + traveling why didn't he use Rosciky, Carzola and Campbell On a different note I like chamberland stature he is tall and has pace and energy why not adapt him to the defensive midfield position with clear emphasis to be in the opponents face The arsenal and Mr wenger need to wake up fast now we have this weekend to prepare for Chelsea if we believe we are title contenders

A 4 -3-3 system is favoured by Barca, Real Madrid and Man City and Bayern, the top four teams in Europe.It suits the attacking philosophy of Arsene Wenger which is to his credit.Unfortunately we do not have the top quality defenders these teams have nor a dominant DM.Nevertheless it is the best system for our current team which is top heavy in attacking midfielders hence the need to play Ozil and Mik in wide positions.In my opinion the most balanced central midfield would consist of Elneny, Ramsay and Wilshere.Elneny was first class against Watford yet was left out against an average Milan side to accommodate the ever present Xhaka who will no doubt feature against CSK.

We sat off them and let them play around us, whilst allowing City to get through the gears extremely quickly almost taking the ball from their defence to their attack without even passing our midfield.

I never forget how he bossed the midfield area with Coquelin when playing against Manchester City at the Etihad.

And I also think the midfield would be as strong as that of Man City and Chelsea especially if we play Rosicky or Ramsey in the Number 10 role.

Charlie it's not that I'm content with Coquelin he is 23 and Matic or Sissisko are not defensive midfielders and Coquelin only got his chance through injuries and he has done great what I'm saying is give him a go at City and see then if we need the option to buy and also if they want to play for Arsenal, it's all about the money if we beat them I will be the first to raise my glass of champaign Charlie CB

for City play, 352 with xhaka, Ramsey, wilshere in midfield.

The former Aston Villa, Manchester City and England midfielder played an integral part in Everton's success last season, and while his form has been less consistent so far this term, he's still an important player.

With the pace, drive and flair of his other midfielders, Wenger played with a counter-attack philosophy, in order to expose Manchester City, as well as minimise their attacks.

offtopic against city we must pay attention to city right side of the field were zabaleta and nasri will combine, we must use a left winger that can track back and support monreal, then starting with ozil, cazorla or wilshire as left midfielders will see us get exposed down the left, i would go for chamberleine or welbeck to play that role especially that welbeck was playing that role in the world cup and with united

last time we played city in the community shield having Arteta, Ramsey, Wilshere and Cazorla and the extra number in midfield caused big problems for Pelligrini and his 4 -4-2... why would we not do it again?

Jack Wilshere, who played against Anderlecht in midweek after shaking off what looked like a serious ankle injury during Hull City's game, should start alongside Ramsey in what will be a 3 - man midfield.

Biggest difference between us and those Chavs playing Munich in the CL final is the way we break with the ball, it's not a hit and hope to someone to chase and then attempt to polish a turd, it's worked through the midfield with pace and precision, we did the same vs City last season.

The Manchester United midfielder played under West Ham United manager David Moyes at two different clubs, but it's Leicester City who lead the way to sign him - according to one bookmaker.

«He's had his injury problems for Arsenal but Manchester City have identified him as a player again that is versatile, can play throughout that midfield, he's from the right place, he's home grown and also age group wise gives them a younger player to refresh Manuel Pellegrini's squad.