Sentences with phrase «mertesackers lack of pace»

Mertesackers lack of pace still worries me though, but ultimately we should have a comfortable win this weekend.

This results in us being relatively easy to defend against and exposes us to counter attacks since we over commit in naivety as Wenger calls it, and then get beaten by Mertesackers lack of pace.

Mertesacker lack of pace is holding kolcieny back.

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By letting Ganriel keep his place in the centre of defence on Tuesday, however, it could be that Wenger has finally decided that Mertesacker's lack of pace is just too much of a threat to Arsenal.

On kolcieny moving forward, this is because he does not have to babysit mertesacker and compensate for his lack of pace.

we cnt start missing Mertesacker's height and awareness immediately we feel his lack of pace has been solved.

Kolcieny is easily a 5 goals a season defender but he is too busy babysitting mertesacker and we defend too deep because of his lack of pace

Mertesacker was responsible for a few of them because of his lack of pace.

And the media muppets are wilfully ignorant on this — someone tell me the last televised match where one of the numpties doesn't reach for the stock, lazy, glib comment about «Mertesacker's lack of pace will be a problem and x and y and z will be licking their lips....

He had a good Cup Final and showed how good he is in the air anticipating crosses and in doing so took a lot of pressure off our central defenders.I believe that our young keeper had previously tired of Mertesackers frailties i.e. lack of pace, poor defensive heading and constantly ducking away from the ball at last moments.Hence his rather rash and angry attempt to tackle outfield against Southampton to make a pretty futile point Must be a nightmare to play behind that guy.

He makes up for Mertesacker's lack of pace and Mertesacker adds height to the defence, Koscielny isn't the biggest CB around.

Mertesacker's lack of pace is becoming a real concern as forwards get quicker and quicker, while Koscielny does not seem able to play every game of a season.

Now that Arsenal are having to do without Francis Coquelin to protect that back four it seems to me that Mertesacker's lack of pace is even more of a problem, especially against counter attacking teams.

For example, Mertesacker was always a huge liability at the back because his lack of pace, and mobility.

The reason terry seemed so good is that Chelsea rarely play a high line like we have in the recent past so that terry isn't abused for his lack of pace like mertesacker has happen once in a while.

Your spot on with many of your points, particularly about Artetas excessive lateral passing being a major reason why we are so slow out of defence, the other major reason being the fact Mertesacker can't bring the ball out of defence beause of his lack of pace.

Mertesacker used to use his ability to read the game to make up for his lack of pace, however now that it seems his legs may be tiring with the physical demands of the Premier League, perhaps Mertesacker's time at Arsenal is also coming to an end.

I'm a little worried about Mertesacker though, last season Sagna and Kosc compensated for his lack of pace.

Please tell me the last goal that Mertesacker, or Mertesacker's lack of pace was responsible for us conceding?

When Mertesacker was exposed for his lack of pace and agility in the World Cup and was dropped after that, I thought Wenger would have noticed it too because he was at the World Cup for a French TV... But as always he just ignores everything...

Mertesacker's lack of pace will not do well.

If you forget about the FA cup final then I reckon most Arsenal fans would not be too fussed about whether or not the big World Cup winning Germany international would ever play for Arsenal again, as Per Mertesacker had been missing all season through injury and with his lack of pace there were not too many calls for him to be rushed back in.

That means Mertesacker shouldn't stray too high up the pitch, as the fleet - footed Barcelona forwards will try to exploit his lack of pace.

Mertesacker 6 — Decent game but will always be a risk because of his lack of pace (could probably only out run Giroud).

Keown pointed to the great pace that Gabriel has and obviously that compares favourably with Mertesacker's lack of the same that has seen him caught out regularly in one - on - one situations.

But returning to a back four and going to a 4 -3-3 shape could have exposed Per Mertesacker's lack of pace, so it gave Wenger a decision to make.

Mertesacker's lack of pace is really starting to show this season and the German's immobility was once again highlighted in the match with Spurs, but the captain used his strength in his battles with Harry Kane.

They would have to play Mertesacker in the middle because of his lack of pace and then Chelsea would play diagonal balls to Costa who will sit on Monreal and he will win every header and they will go from there.

Mertesacker's lack of pace was nearly exploited twice by Austin — 5/10