Sentences with phrase «koscielny vermaelen»

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Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger will allow Thomas Vermaelen to leave in the summer but only once he has brought in a central defensive addition to offer back - up to first choice pair Laurent Koscielny and Per Mertesacker.

Mertesacker and Koscielny had such a good partnership we sold our captain — Vermaelen.

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We had a similar issue with the Verminator - Vermaelen & Koscielny were too similar in style.

Injury problems and poor form from the Belgian probably helped to make the manager's decision easier though, as did the very good looking partnership between Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny, and when Vermaelen then spent almost the whole of his debut season in the Barca treatment room it looked like Wenger had played a blinder.

Both Mertesacker and Koscielny do this, as does Chambers and as did Vermaelen.

He has made errors this season but will develop into a quality defender with experience and when Vermaelen returns, Koscielny will benefit from his presence.

Arsenal's defence is struggling to keep a clean sheet, but that is more down to the absence of Laurent Koscielny and Thomas Vermaelen than the goalkeeper.

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Thomas Vermaelen is frustrated at his lack of first team starts and after 18 months acting as back - up to Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny the Belgian will demand guarantees of regular action that Wenger will be unable to provide and as such Arsenal will seek to cash - in on the former Ajax man and will look to bank as much as # 10m from his sale.

But a lot of that was down to the excellent partnership of Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny and the departures of Thomas Vermaelen and Bacary Sagna have left that the Gunners seriously short of cover.

While his cater - cousin Vermaelen tends to attract more plaudits, simply because he's scary - looking and scores the occasional goal, it's Koscielny that knits Arsenal's defence together (when it's knitted together, anyway).

One national newspaper even ran a picture of Gibbs, Vermaelen, Koscielny and Jenkinson — if I remember correctly; Gunnersaurus might have been in there — beneath the looming spectral faces of their illustrious predecessors, semi-legendary offside - trap merchants Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

Mertsacker, Koscielny, chambers play too much and we rely on Bellerin because Wenger didn't sign enough quality defenders after we lost Sagna, Vermaelen, Jenkinson on loan.

With Arsenal's penchant for injuries, an already injury - ravaged back - line, three - quarter of our defence (Koscielny, Sagna and Clichy) involved with another «meaningless» friendly which claimed RvP and Vermaelen last season... I'm not very excited about it and I wont celebrate it until I know TV5 is back to ensure that Arsenal's season doesn't go up in flames due to some «meaningless» friendlies!

01 Szczesny 03 Sagna 17 Monreal 20 Flamini (Gnabry — 72 ′) 04 Mertesacker 06 Koscielny (Vermaelen — 42 ′) 14 Walcott 16 Ramsey 12 Giroud (Bendtner — 76») 11 Ozil 10 Wilshere You can say that this is Arsenal's best team and we still got mauled so I think its too easy to say if this was fit and so fort,, those losses had a whole lot to do with preparation and tactics An you know who is responsible for this aspect of the team.

With Koscielny and Squillaci joining Vermaelen at the back this summer, the Arsenal defensive line - up has undoubtedly been firmed up with three robust players that will improve with every game they play together.

Vermaelen is no longer first choice at Arsenal, with Arsene Wenger preferring the centre - back pairing of Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny last season.

288 Comments Uncategorized Tagged: Arsène Wenger, Arsenal, English Premier League, Football, Laurent Koscielny, Robin van Persie, Theo Walcott, Thomas Vermaelen, Tomas Rosicky Permalink Posted by peachesgÖÖner

Arsenal have no - one of that ilk, Koscielny has had a couple of great weeks since his inspiring role in the 2 - 1 triumph over Barcelona, Squillaci is injury prone as is Vermaelen while Djourou has undoubted potential.

i do nt think signing new players is the only issue to be solved here, other things that are more important in my opinion are injuries and the teams defensive collective consciousness, too many times we've seen arsenal make things harder with some sloppy defending and i do nt think there is anything wrong with the personnel sagna, koscielny, vermaelen, mertasaker are all good defenders

Williams is in the same age bracket as current trio Thomas Vermaelen, Laurent Koscielny and Per Mertesacker.

On the positive side, I expect Chamakh to be our top scorer, Koscielny to be another «Vermaelen», Ramsey to return and become a great player and Cesc to give us one more quality season.

Koscielny (8)-- He seems to have struck a great partnership at the back with Vermaelen.

Yesterday, Rasp and London got all excited at the thought of the new centre - back pairing being Djourou and Koscielny and Vermaelen being pushed up to partner Song in front of the back four as our new long awaited DM.

Well, that's a hard question, but personally I would have to go with Laurent Koscielny and Thomas Vermaelen.

Laurent Koscielny, in for the beleaguered Thomas Vermaelen was particularly impressive, and so was Fabianski.

Arteta, Song, Vermaelen, Koscielny and many others played just as important a role.

Thomas Vermaelen will be available for selection, himself, and is expected to go right back into the first team, despite the bossy performance of Laurent Koscielny last week.

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Koscielny (6.5)-- Like Vermaelen, seemed to be struggling against the physicality of Taarabt, Zamora and Mackie.

With the Gunners starting the season with Thomas Vermaelen and Per Mertesacker, as first choice centre - back pairing, owing to an injury sustained to Laurent Koscielny, it took a flu to Thomas Vermaelen, for the Frenchman to make his first start of the season.

1 Almunia, Manuel 2 Arshavin, Andrey 3 Bendtner, Nicklas 4 Chamakh, Marouane 5 Clichy, Gaël 6 Denilson 7 Diaby, Abou 8 Djourou, Johan 9 Eboué, Emmanuel 10 Fabianski, Lukasz 11 Fábregas, Cesc 12 Koscielny, Laurent 13 Mannone, Vito 14 Nasri, Samir 15 Rosicky, Tomas 16 Sagna, Bacary 17 Song, Alex 18 Van Persie, Robin 19 Vermaelen, Thomas 20 Squillaci, Sébastien

Koscielny may cost us # 8.5 m which is not money being spent for him to sit on the bench so I assume he will be our new No. 6 and the first choice partner for Vermaelen.

Although Vermaelen was Arsenal's captain, he was dumped onto the bench due to the extremely competent partnership of Koscielny and Mertesacker, and so has been extremely limited in his appearances.

Tomas Rosicky replaces Jack Wilshere, while Sczceszny and Vermaelen are dropped / rested for Fabianski and Koscielny respectively.

Laurent Koscielny was declared fit and took his place along side Thomas Vermaelen in the heart of defence.

Koscielny will have to pair up with Mertesacker in the central of the defensive area until Vermaelen will be fit again.

Bobby Zamora was particularly impressive throughout the game, as he used his physical strength to torment Koscielny and Vermaelen.

Surprisingly, Vermaelen, who many fans generally consider a fantastic jumper, and hence a great header of the ball, won only 55.6 % of his aerial duels, while Koscielny, the defender with a slim frame contested 101 aerial duels at the rate 3.06 per game, winning 62.

One thing you can bet on, Sagna and Clichy will start with Squillaci and Koscielny completing the back four (I doubt Wenger will risk Vermaelen).

Koscielny, not a first choice this season for the Gunners, only started the match because Arsenal captain Thomas Vermaelen had been laid low by flu in the build - up to the match.

The most likely option would be to put Vermaelen at left back and have Koscielny and BFG play in the centre together, however, there is uncertainty over Koscielny's fitness.

The tiny midfielder proved a handful in the last game against the Germans and Wenger will be looking to the likes of the very impressive Vermaelen, Koscielny and Song to cut out the threat he provides.

These include Sagna, Jenkinson, Djourou, Koscielny, Vermaelen, Mertesacker, Squillaci, Santos, Gibbs, Miquel and Coquelin.

Koscielny (8.5)-- Like Vermaelen, Koscielny too was a rock in the centre of defence.

Milan looked toothless in attack, with Laurent Koscielny and Thomas Vermaelen thwarting all of their attacks, with dogged determination.

Thomas Vermaelen started in place of the injured Laurent Koscielny, and even though he doesn't have the same understanding with Per Mertesacker that Koscielny has, and that only comes from playing matches together, the Belgian performed well and there were moments where the old Vermaelen was evident.