Sentences with phrase «holding off defenders»

While Olivier is holding off defenders, Alexis is poachin and puttin em in the back of the net.

Holding off defenders with ease, winning headers and bringing others in to play.

And big players have no special natural advantage in shielding a ball and holding off a defender etc — YaYa Toure is good at this but because he has ability not because he is physically intimidating.

A lot of strength to hold off the defender which none of our other forwards would have been able to do.

At around 81 minutes the ball gets played back to Schez who looks for OG way down the pitch and OG holds off a defender while having the ball hit his chest and the ball falls to his feet.

He neither possess the physical ability to hold off defenders challenges (One on One with Kompany, Theo not only gets taken to the cleaners there is a genuine possibility he ends up in hospital), or the technical skills to be able to out manoeuvre defenders (I can count on my fingers the amount of times he has used skill and successfully beaten a defender).

Put a guy on each side who just essentially holds off their defender looking for a bounce pass.

He held off the defenders who were attempting to recover and hit a powerful shot by Manuel Neuer, doubling Germany's lead.

Dzeko moves like that and uses his body excellently to hold off defenders.

When you try those triangles without someone to hold off a defender with his back to goal your success rate goes way down.

Saul's excellent cross found Griezmann, but while Guilherme did well to get down to his right to push the shot away, Costa was on hand to hold off the defender and convert the rebound.

Showing strength to hold off the defender he rose to head near post and give Barça a comfortable two goal cushion.

To be at that angle, trying to hold off his defender and still be able to put something on target just shows what kind of talent he is.

The American uses his body well to hold off defenders, swivel and fire.

17 - Lacazette stays strong inside the box to hold off a defender and spin to get an instant shot away.

He uses his long limbs to hold off defenders and retain possession, but prefers the ball at his feet to providing knock - downs for teammates.

Real Madrid's Kaka will deliver crisp, creative passes, Barcelona's Andres Iniesta will utilize tighter turns and close control to dribble through defenses, Manchester United's Wayne Rooney will hold off defenders and strike shots from distance with pace, and top - flight defenders like Giorgio Chiellini of Juventus will anticipate, predict and react to offensive players to win back possession.

Another notable mention is Didier Drogba who will use his strength to hold off defenders whilst turning to smash a 30 yard stunner into the back of the net.

Not exact matches

His strength, his ability to hold up the ball and lay it off, his one touch passes in the box, his ability to tie up a couple of defenders, his ability in the air, and, when he is on form he scores.

That's why Walcott is asked to play as a hold up striker, Ox is supposed to play off the shoulder of defenders, Podolski had to cover for Gibbs and rarely get in the box, Arteta had to cover the counter attack and pass sideways, and Gabriel has to be a slow, awkward white guy with great positioning.

He can score a lot of goals, he's very good technically and can hold defenders off, he scores a lot of headers and his link up play as well is very good.

When Wenger came he introduced plyometrics and isometrics which allow you to get stronger without bulking up and explosive power in muscles which is why Walcott can hold off huge defenders.

Tonight, 442 would do, with Sanogo doing the hold up play n fighting off the defenders n Podolski doing the finishing

There was a lot to process in the immediate aftermath of Game 2 in Washington — the Blue Jackets» run at franchise history, the Capitals» crisis of confidence and the offside review that held up the full celebration — but both the national and local announcers caught the skill that it took Matt Calvert to make his one - handed game - winner possible, walling off a defender with his free hand and using his plant leg for stick leverage to lift the puck into the top corner.

He was usually fine as a blocker and effective running routes underneath to hold defenders, but flexing him out and working off the matchup problems he could create was not the thrust of the strategy.

Like seriously Giroud pissed me off most times I see him in Arsenal Jersey, I don't know what kind of a striker that is afraid to hold the ball and face defenders.

Hull's second was the result of a long ball over the top, which Oumar Niasse raced onto before holding off two defenders and sliding cooly under Mignolet.

How is getting held with an obvious shirt pull (almost twisted his shirt off) and then when getting up to retrieve the ball tripped by the defender a soft call?

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

On deadline he sells like him like he's going to buy a solid defender us fans are craving for... But no he goes on spends 16mil on a striker who isn't even clinical would've been better off spending that on a defender or holding mid.

When Arsene Wenger signed the young English defender Rob Holding for Arsenal in the summer it was not exactly met with joyous acclaim from the Arsenal fan base around the world, partly because not many of us had heard of him and partly because he was coming to north London off the back of a dreadful campaign which saw Bolton Wanderers relegated from the second tier of English football.

The season before last 14 15 we did better with the points than last season even though we came second from last season we know we conceded many goals from set pieces and were very short on goal scoring the logic of this season was to fix the defensive department and the offensive department by introducing a defender to reduce the amount of goals conceded unless holding is to be the man we havent us of yet fixed the problem on the offensive department we all know the only offensive player is chuba apkom well else we have not addressed the problem so in reality I do not except Arsenal to finish the season with more than 70 points and personally think minimum point required to win the premier league is 85 points have we got that in our squad it will remain to be seen if chuba and holding are enough for a key to unlock the season we will soon find out but I think MR wenger is gambling with the introduction of new manageress which lives us with Liverpool and Leicester and who will take the points off united chelsea and city the next 6 games should give us the indication to what may happen to the long run for the new year

What may hold Carter back long - term is a lack of elite explosiveness, as he occasionally struggles to gather off two feet and score against longer defenders around the basket.

Personally I was impressed that we held them off with the defenders we had available and the fact that Iwobi and Akpom got on the score sheet and beat an experienced goal keeper was a positive.

If we get Kolasinac, then with the resurgent Monreal plus back - up Gibbs, Holding - Kos - Mustafi (Back - up Monreal, Gabriel, Chambers), Ox / Bellerin, and still Debuchy + Jenks + Mertesacker in the background, another defender only seems likely if we off - load Debuchy / Jenks / Merts.

Arsenal have shaken off the clutches of Barcelona for Hector Bellerin and Juventus for Alexis Sanchez in recent weeks, but now we face the challenge of keeping hold of star defender Laurent Koscielny for next season, with the Gunners star being linked with a move to Bayern Munich!

That, in turn, holds the key to Williams's outside game: As a result of his quicker cornering ability, defenders must now play a step off him, so he has improved his three - point shooting percentage from 35.4 % a year ago to 44.6 %.

Portsmouth up their bid for Gareth Barry to  # 4.25 m â $ cents Djibril Cisse to spend this season on loan to Marseille â $ cents Blackburn in for Villa defender Mark Delaney on a free â $ cents West Brom to hold talks with Swiss national keeper Pascal Zuberbuehler â $ cents Boro want Bret Emerton off Blackburn, for around  # 1.5 m â $ cents Gary Megson will pip Paul Ince to be new Wolves boss

With the rain lashing down at Estadio Ramon Sanchez Pizjuan, Atletico were in front after just six minutes thanks to Costa, who held off the challenges of two defenders before drilling home from 10 yards out.

Bellerin does brilliantly to hold off Kaboul, before turning past the former Sunderland defender.

United had defender Eric Bailly sent off for two bookable offences but held their lead on the night comfortably.

Taken off with 16 minutes left to play at Carrow Road, Cole was holding his ribs as he left the pitch however manager Jose Mourinho told the official Chelsea site that he took the defender off for tactical reasons, unaware that he had a problem.

He is a big hold - up man who can shrug defenders off in the Victor Anichebe mould — a player who gave us trouble in Spurs 2 Everton 2 at the Lane last season.

The club also had defender Ramos sent off for a second yellow card in injury time, but they held on for this narrow victory.

The defender came off worse and after lengthy treatment he left the pitch holding his collarbone and was replaced by Myles Kenlock.

Holding midfielder Amartey has filled in at No. 2 in the first half of the season and was introduced when the former United defender was forced off in the 57th minute.

That is because Juventus pulled a victory out of nowhere, beating Lazio 1 - 0 despite not mustering a single shot on target until Paulo Dybala took matters into his own hands in the 93rd minute — slipping between two defenders and holding off the desperate attentions of Marco Parolo before sending the ball into the roof of the net.

However, Lukaku's effectiveness may be slightly lost if it wasn't for Irishman Shane Long running his socks off up front, holding up the ball and drawing defenders impressively, giving his all for the team.

Ahmed Musa burst through, held off a Kenyan defender and lobbed Duncan Ochieng brilliantly, to give Nigeria all three points, in their crucial World Cup qualifying...

Other laws are designed to affect those who interpret them, such as the provision that takes effect Feb. 26 that creates a rotating schedule of courts to hold off - hours arraignments in counties outside of New York City to ensure that stakeholders — including judges, prosecutors and public defenders — are not strained by nighttime arrests and the poor, particularly in sparsely populated counties, have access to adequate representation.