Sentences with phrase «coquelin as midfield»

It was a lucky break for coquelin as the midfielders got injured and he got the opportunity to showcase his real talent.

Not exact matches

It may also be beneficial for Coquelin's playing time, to keep training as a centre back during pre-season because otherwise he may find himself dropping down the pecking order in a jam packed midfield.

With the emergence of Francis Coquelin as Arsenal's first - choice defensive midfielder and with the likes of Aaron Ramsey, Jack Wilshere and even Santi Cazorla, who has grown accustomed to playing a deeper role, fighting for a place alongside the young Frenchman, the Gunners captain will certainly find it difficult to get into the first - team.

There is plenty of pace in that Arsenal attack and I like the balance of having Xhaka and Coquelin as well as Ozil in midfield, so now our manager has done his bit, can the Arsenal players do theirs?

But yesterday Coquelin was pretty much the one bossing the midfield while Matic will be remembered as the man put to shame by Cazorla.

Our BFG is not saying that it will be easy by any means, but he reckons that as long as Francis Coquelin can do the same sort of job on the United and Belgium midfielder Marouane Fellaini that he did in March, then Arsenal will have the right recipe for success.

The need for a win is shown clearly by the boss picking a positive central midfield of Ramsey instead of him bringing Coquelin back, while the contract rebel Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain also keeps his place in the side as summer signing Kolasinac drops to the bench.

There's nothing wrong in having Coquelin, Arteta and Schneiderlin as our defensive midfielders.

With Coquelin, Xhaka and Elneny, now our midfield is not as porous as it used to be before!!!! Hence our defense wouldn't be as exposed as it was when we only had Flamini and Arteta!

Our rotated defence will have the extra protection of tweo holding midfielders in the absence of Coquelin at least, with Wenger going for Arteta and Flamini as a double pivot and it looks like Aaron Ramsey will be our number 10, with the Ox and Joel Campbell on either side of Olivier Giroud in attack.

As a result of long - term injuries to Francis Coquelin and Santi Cazorla, Arsenal have been forced to field Mathieu Flamini and Aaron Ramsey in central midfield.

Arsenal midfielder Francis Coquelin wants to have the same impact for the Gunners as Nemanja Matic has had for Chelsea, reports the Daily Star.

The midfield is a diamond arrangement with Ozil at the north of the diamond, Carzola and Xhaka on the sharing the deep lying role in the west and the east of the diamond and Coquelin on the south of the diamond as defensive midfield.

I also feel we are light in midfield with Ramsey injury prone as well as Elneny and Coquelin not versatile midfielders who have limited skills.

We might have wanted Arsene Wenger to give Francis Coquelin more of a chance in previous seasons, especially as the team's need for a defensive midfielder was often glaringly obvious and caused us to fall short of our targets.

With some surprisingly strong form this season, Francis Coquelin will surely continue as one of the two main defensive midfielders for Arsenal next season.

Most misplaced passes in the Premier League this term: Y.Kaboul (35) A.Ramsey (26) D.Janmaat (25) G.Barry (24) C.Benteke (24) R.Brady (24)-- Squawka Football (@Squawka) August 19, 2015 Unless, as the former Cardiff man was during the 13/14 campaign, he's positioned alongside a holding midfielder who can also carry the burden as our deeper playmaker similar to what Arteta did, playing Ramsey alongside a destructive midfielder like Coquelin just doesn't work.

And just to make things worse, our holding midfielder Francis Coquelin picked up a knee injury that the manager suggested would keep him out as well.

When Francis Coquelin arrived back at Arsenal after being recalled from a loan at Charlton, he was quickly installed as the automatic choice in central midfield alongside our Spanish genius Santi Cazorla and the pairing was absolutely amazing.

I think Wenger thought Xhaka would be the next Goretzka Wenger doesn't believe in spending big on defensive midfielders Eleny is not good enough and Wenger only got him because he cost # 5 mil We had Coquelin by luck really as he came from the youth group

Furthermore, if Xhaka fail to establish himself as the number one defensive midfielder ahead of Coquelin and Elneny this season, his transfer of 35 million to Arsenal will also count as a total waste of money.

It remains to be seen, as of yet, whether or not Coquelin's new deal will cancel the need for a defensive midfield acquisition come the summer.

Scenario two: The sheet is out, Ospina makes the list, the back four is the same as the first scenario, and our midfield consists of Chambers, Coquelin and Ozil.

Cazorla to go left wing to replace Sanchez, while Ramzey goes to pair Coquelin though as B2B midfielder.

We were all hoping he would come back in January, especially as we knew that Mohamed Elneny would be going off to the African Cup of Nations, but instead we are now in a precarious position in midfield as Francis Coquelin is also out again with a hamstring injury, after having already missed one month of the season previously.

Yeah, Arsene's sense of judgement is impeccable, I for one have always been a fan of his reasoning: we can win titles with guys like Theo, Giroud and Welbeck as our strikers, while we leave Coquelin as our only DM (gOod but not so sound DM); it's also ok to just flood the team with midfielders all round and never take off an underperforming player, as that could hurt his feelings.

And Francis Coquelin was as good as I can remember in the heart of midfield.

Another commonly held belief among Arsenal fans is that our central midfield could do with strengthening, as Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Flamini are not at the top level and we rely too much on Francis Coquelin.

Quick notes on arsemal team 1 - paulista is not good as i though 2 - coquelin is essential in arsenal midfield to give stability but he can't hold the ball in his feet or give the right pass in the right time so we can't dominate teams anymore especially with santi absence 3 - ramsey = horrible, just a headless chicken running everywhere 4 - ozil could have easily 30 + assists by now 5 - Olivier Giroud the handsom french guy shouldn't ever be a big team first choice striker 6 - where are the 4 world class strikers that wenger said we had i didn't se anyone of the yet

We have the new signing Granit Xhaka to consider as well as Francis Coquelin but I expect they will be fighting for the deepest lying midfield position and the same could be true of Mohamed Elneny, so will his Euro performances see Ramsey as a first choice starter for Arsenal next season?

We finally have a solid striker (even if he will take some adaptation time I think he'll be true class) in Lacazette, we have solid center backs (once they are all healthy) much better than in recent seasons, Giroud is our killer weapon off the bench rather than the key we are relying on as the main source of goals, Coquelin and Elneny are now midfield fall - back options rather than Flamini (no offense Mathieu, I appreciated your efforts, just making the obvious comparison), two high quality keepers, etc..

What I believe Mr Wenger should have done last year was to kept Coquelin as Arsenal main defensive midfielder, Wilshere replaces Cazorla and the 34 million in transfer fee and # 120,000 in weekly wages spent on Xhaka should have been spent on a better striker.

Wenger simply must buy another defensive midfielder, especially as he seems to have lost faith in Coquelin lately, and Flamini and Arteta will be gone.

Although it has not been confirmed yet ob the official Arsenal website, it appears that our young French midfield warrior Francis Coquelin has now removed any lingering doubts about his commitment to the club by signing a four year contract extension to his current deal which was due to expire at the end of this season, as revealed by a report in The Sun.

I will say this... And i'm not pretending to be psychic, but if patience had not been shown with Coquelin and Ramsey imagine our midfield now... Hindsight is brilliant but the people who work with these players on a daily basis may actually know what they're doing and when Wenger and Co. actually rate players as highly as they do they may see a few things we don't...

I will keep reminding everyone this, as long as Wilshere, Ramsey, Arteta, Flamini, Coquelin are our central midfielders, we are never going to win anything big.

Our side currently have Aaron Ramsey and Granit Xhaka holding down our two central midfield roles, and Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez firmly set in our two attacking midfield roles, as well as having a number of others also capable of starring in those central roles, including Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain, Mohamed Elneny, Francis Coquelin, Alex Iwobi and Theo Walcott.

A midfield 3 of either Xhaka - Ramsey - Coquelin or Xhaka - Elneny - Coquelin, will allow us more of a presence in the midfield and allow the team in general to move further up the pitch, seeing as in the past two games the back line and the midfield has constantly sat back inviting pressure to build up, whilst the attacking trio of Theo, Ozil and Sanchez would just remain up top.

Often it has been the timing of these problems as much as the injuries themselves that causes so much trouble, but the latest injury to our French midfield star Francis Coquelin could hardly have come at a better time and should not cause the Gunners any major problem.

MIDFIELDERS FRANCIS COQUELIN 5.5 The French midfield player was good in closing down the opposition but lost steam as City intensified pressure.

Subsequent fouls from Coquelin forced Wenger's hand as he removed the midfielder in anticipation that a red card was about to follow.

perfect analysis, I actually would like to see a midfield base of coquelin and arteta when he's fit, I think that would provide us with better protection and allow our attackers more freedom as unlike ramsey, coquelin likes to sit in front of the defence and anticipates danger quite well (really impressed with some of his tackles yesterday).

Then two - tier midfield will start with Coquelin, Cazorla and Ramsey as the defending tier.

Wenger watched on as Wanyama won the midfield battle against the aforementioned Flamini and bit - part player Frances Coquelin on New Year's Day and may deem his chances of luring the Kenyan international as superior to his ongoing pursuit of Schneiderlin.

Giroud and Sanchez as the 2 strikers with Ozil, Carzola (when fit), Coquelin and Ramsey as the diamond midfield of 4.

Even Coquelin — our most steelied player, is not physically as fast or strong or tall as other midfielders and is usually relying on his dogged attitude to get by which against top opposition isn't always enough.

But when cazorla is fit he walks into the midfield and coquelin marches in too as he works best with Santi.

With either chamberlain dropping back into the midfield in place of coquelin or flamini seeing as southamptons midfield will be missing schneirderlin or perhaps Walcott staying on the bench with a view to coming on in the 2nd half.

I am slightly more surprised to see Aaron Ramsey back again as our central midfield duo of Coquelin and Elneny have been looking good.

I can perfectly understand why Wenger has stuck with Francis Coquelin as our deep lying midfielder so far, because the young Frenchman has been fantastic.