Sentences with phrase «coquelin in the defensive midfield»

The north London outfit improved towards the end of this season with some displays from players like Francis Coquelin in defensive midfield and David Ospina in goal.

Not exact matches

The Gunners defence has been fortified by the return of Laurent Koscielny, and against the Hammers Arsenal played with two defensive midfielders in Flamini and Coquelin and Wenger has been very pleased with the recent performances.

In the 2015 - 16 campaign, Coquelin missed several months with a knee injury and now according to Arsene Wenger, the defensive midfielder has sustained a knock in the same placIn the 2015 - 16 campaign, Coquelin missed several months with a knee injury and now according to Arsene Wenger, the defensive midfielder has sustained a knock in the same placin the same place.

Cazorla and Mkhitaryan explore the wings and Coquelin and Xhaka are in the defensive midfield role jointly.

But the Arsenal star has the best percentages of all three, so there is more proof that Coquelin has been the best defensive midfielder in England since his return to the Emirates.

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

When we see Coquelin put in a shift in defensive midfield, it is really evident to see what Arsenal had been lacking when Arteta was deployed there.

If cl qualification is secured for next year I'm hoping wenger continues to spend and ready us for next year, (starting cb to replace per, genuine left winger that doesn't cut in on their right foot and a defensive midfield player to rotate with coquelin).

Coquelin, Flamini and Ramsey are not of that same mould, Victor Wanyama and Villiam Carvaho are good defensive midfielders but do not control the flow of a game, they are more likely to a rest or stays static when their team is in possession of the ball.

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.

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.

That is what I think anyway especially if you consider that in defensive midfield, we now have Xhaka, Elneny and Coquelin.

If this transfer comes to fruition it will immediately ignite speculation that Wenger is in the process of lining up a new defensive midfielder to challenge Francis Coquelin for starting spot, which have all be calling for since the end of the season.

Coutinho is the real problem for me in that Liverpool team.He can destroy midfield strategies.That's why I worry when I see us with no DMF.Years back (14/15) I remember Coquelin back pocketing Coutinho yet it's likely Wenger will bench him for no reason.That guy has so much potential if only he's used wisely.He has the abilityto mark players out of a game and intercept many passes.I know many of you will call me stupid and say he's average but imagine if Coquelin was used in a very defensive sense.Being brilliant tactically is all about producing the best system with the players you have and clearly that's not what's happening.I already lose hope when I see Kolasinac and Bellerin at WB whsn clearly it doesn't suit them.WB's are so important in a 3 back but clearly we've ignored that.

Also Coquelin is a pure defensive midfielder who plays best just in front of the back four.

The Gunners may have sorted out most of their problems at the back and eventually started playing with a defensive midfielder in Francis Coquelin, but Olivier Giroud and Theo Walcott aren't really good enough up front to lead you to the title

Francis Coquelin is probably the first real Defensive Midfielder that Arsenal have had since Gilberto Silva left the club in 2008.

Arsenal have had a longstanding problem without a strong intelligent defensive midfielder for many many years, but a few years ago Wenger got lucky when Francis Coquelin was recalled from a loan at Charlton and immediately became our beast in that position.

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

The defensive midfielder has been linked with a move to the Emirates for a number of years, but following Francis Coquelin's emergence in the first - team, I'm not sure if there is a need for someone so similar.

Arsene Wenger will have been impressed by the efforts of Francis Coquelin last term, the Frenchman being ushered back from a loan spell at Charlton Athletic ahead of a good run of form in the second half of the campaign, but the Gunners boss is sensibly looking to bring in another defensive midfielder solution in the form of 26 year old German international Bender.

that means no more defensive midfielder, rely on Coquelin, he gets injured (inevitably), throw in Arteta, get caught in the counter, concede a goal, throw men forward in search for an equaliser, concede another on the counter and loose the game.

Coquelin is a superior defensive midfielder than Xhaka in all aspect of the game for the exception a a few penetrating long passes.

Coquelin is better at closing the opposition down denying them space, intercepting passes, and tackling which is essential in a defensive midfielder game.

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.

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.

While Flamini is happy with the «healthy competition» with Coquelin, I'd rather see «Le Coq» compete with players like Morgan Schneiderlin or Arturo Vidal for the defensive midfield slot in the team.

If we had spent ozil's 42 million on a striker and Alexis 35 on a top midfielder we'd be far better off.we have too many attacking / wide midfielders.ozil, sanchez, ox, theo, gnabry, santi, rosicky, jack, ramsey, campbell yet 2 injuries and defence and we've no 1 left and have a def mid in coquelin on the bench for defensive cover.

The emergence of Coquelin in the Arsenal's deep lying midfield in the 2nd half of last season of Arsenal games had neutralized most of the defensive flaws in the Gunners back - line.

Considering our midfield is packed already, and given the youthful ages of the likes of our defensive players (Elneny, Coquelin, and Xhaka), I doubt he'll get any game time in the near future anyway.

Much of their defensive solidity has been down to having a settled back - four, in front of David Ospina, who has displaced Wojciech Szczesny as the number one, in addition Francis Coquelin does a brilliant job in his defensive midfield position.

As a result of a long - term injury to Francis Coquelin, Mathieu Flamini is now Arsenal's only choice in defensive midfield.

If we need a more defensive midfield he can bring in the likes of arteta flamini Coquelin chambers and diaby.

I'd like a top level defensive midfielder, not because I don't have faith in Le Coq, but because anyone can get hurt and Coquelin is still growing into the player he will be.

Wenger doesn't know how to win the PL He inherited many of the players in late 90's He didn't build our legendary brick walll of a defense That's why we havent had one since they broke up We didn't even adequately replace Viera (who again Wenger inheited) Coquelin came from our academy like Bellerin (very few top players come from Academy) And Coquelin isn't good enough Wenger will NOT spend big on a Defensive Midfielder

Mohamed Elneny looked a good signing on his debut and hopefully he will continue to prove a good addition for the Gunners, but he is not the tough tackling defensive midfielder that many of us thought the boss might bring in to compete with and cover for Francis Coquelin.

yes we are a team to deploy 2 dm's in tough matches, it just hasn't worked because in recent times we've had sub par defensive midfielders like Arteta an Flamini.An tell me something what happens when / if Coquelin gets injured?

But we have Arteta, Flamini and Coquelin to play as defensive midfielder, if they all get injured there's not really that much you can do as manager — you can only name 25 players in your squad at the end of the day, it can't be an endless list of backups.

There you go with the assumption that we'll deploy 4 -1-4-1 next season... Ever consider we landed on that because our personnel dictated such in the fact our only defensive option in midfield (coquelin) can not provide the «traded support» in a deep midfield two?

Pedro and Willian would serve as better wingers as we saw in the league last year and Matic is a massive improvement on the Defensive midfield position compared to Elneny and Coquelin.

I just ran a stat comparison for Coquelin vs some of the best defensive midfielders in the league: Matic, Fernandinho, Schneiderlin & Wanyama.

With Arsenal continuing their search for a defensive midfielder to compete with Francis Coquelin, there have been quite a few names that have come up in the rumour mill.

In place of Francis Coquelin we have Mathieu Flamini, the only senior defensive midfielder who happens to be fit at this point in timIn place of Francis Coquelin we have Mathieu Flamini, the only senior defensive midfielder who happens to be fit at this point in timin time.

Arsenal look to have recalled defensive midfielder Francis Coquelin from his short - term loan deal at Charlton in an attempt to help ease their defensive crisis.

Coquelin is a defensive midfielder by trade but can play as a full back, playing at left - back in Arsenal's 1 - 0 Capital One Cup defeat to Southampton earlier this season.

Base on transfer fee, age, wages and style of play, Elneny is Mr Wenger best buy and he should play in place of Coquelin as a defensive midfielder alongside Ramsey.

This is from Aidan Gibson also on Short fuse in the opinion titled, «2016/17 Arsenal Defensive Midfielder Preview: Xhaka, Elneny and Coquelin».

In Cazorla's absence we need to find a better balance, but our options are limited, as we've only really got Coquelin and Elneny who can claim to be defensive midfielders and both have their limitations.

Elneny coquelin Ramsey xhaka will not get a football club top 4 bcoz the balance ain't ready right it was so obvious bs L City that we need another's midfielder that's holds the ball and can pass forward directly with defensive positioning even nzonzi would cost more than 20mil it's getting real boring being just short every season when ur in the hardest league on the planet