Sentences with phrase «main strikers hold»

Main strikers hold up play and link up play.

Not exact matches

Italy held Spain to a 1 - 1 draw but the main talking point after the game was former Southampton striker Graziano Pelle who refused to shake head coach Gianpeiero Ventura's hand.

The truth is most top clubs don't rely on this «hold up» play rubbish as a strikers main trait.

It would have been a big help to Arsenal and our chances of winning the Premier League this season if Leicester City had managed to beat Chelsea or at least stop the league leaders from adding another three points to their total, especially after the setback of a defeat last week and the loss of their main striker Diego Costa this weekend, but the fragile Foxes could not even hold out for seven minutes.

Olivier Giroud is another point in fact, he misses far more than he scores and while I am impressed with his hold up play he is NOT fast enough or sharp enough to deliver the good that a sole striker or main tip of the spear should do.

Wenger lost the plot when he brought in Giroud... what about the beautiful game involves having a lumbering striker who's main attribute is holding up play... our success with Wenger, and even before, came with pace and clinical striking up front, having a boss in the midfield and having physically imposing CBs... what about Wright, Bergkamp, Anelka, Henry or RVP remind anyone of Giroud (minus the left foot of course)... the formula was broken, which didn't have to be the end of our success, but when you adopt half - measures you can't expect things just to work themselves out on their own... at the very least Wenger should have brought in some wingers that can consistently cross the ball and then spend significantly more time addressing our lack of success with set pieces... ultimately this is why we continued to struggle with consistency and continued to constantly play people in the wrong positions

Everton are also claimed to hold a keen interest in signing the forward, with current main striker Romelu Lukaku believed to be pushing for a move back to Chelsea this summer, and have had their bank balance bolstered by the # 47 Million sale of John Stones to Man City.

Schinierderlin thrives at the saints because they play two holding midfielders hence he may struggle at Arsenal where we play one holding, one box to box, a number 10, two wingers, and a main striker.

We need a robust bulldozing striker, not one who has speed and does very little to fight for the ball, or one whose main job as instructed is to hold - up the ball for others to pass around aimlessly.

The Liverpool number 9 has been a shadow of his former self this season with just one goal in seven appearances and Hodgson has doubts at the player's ability to hold - up play up top which he prefers his main striker to do.

I am not a hold up play junkie and last match I didn't see him do any thing to make me jump out of the seat and he is three years into the season as arsenal main striker, that is joke of the century.

Yesterday he told himself that he is a striker whose main job is to score goals and and not primarily holding up plays.

Now there are a few reasons Inter had such control over the match including the energy and tenacity of Kondogbia and Gagliardini, the willingness of Candreva and Perisic to come back and help mark Milan's wingers (mainly Deelofeu - his speed was their main threat considering that Nagatomo had Suso in his back pocket), the high press on Milan's backline forcing them to go long to a striker that couldn't hold up the ball, and the fact that Medel and Miranda had Bacca under lock and key.

Played as a number 10 even when he was the main striker but held it up perfectly.

The striker takes his place on the shortlist of 12 for the main award at the prestigious annual sporting event held this year at the Echo Arena in Liverpool.