Sentences with phrase «packing the midfield like»

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Pack the midfield with motivated players who can do a tackle (Diaby, Wilshere, Ramsey, Rosicky) and then we may look like City.

I feel like Wenger outfoxed himself, always trying to pack our attack with midfielders, always one winger too short.

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.

The midfield is packed full of experience from Ramsey, Cazorla etc, whilst Ozil and Sanchez know what it's like to be a winner.

Aside from the usual tactical / systematic naivety he displays by playing players out of position (when better options are available) and generally over packing the midfield with like minded players, This transfer window has thrown up the same baffling questions for me in relation to our manager and his actions (or is that in - action?).

It's more effective when using a high - line — and you can really pack the midfield — instead of having 1 bruising tough tackling midfielder you attack the ball when not in possession in packs — that's similar to what Arsenal did against City — they looked like a 4 -1-4-1 formation when they didn't have the ball and 4 -3-3 when they had the ball.

But much like at Arsenal, Dortmund's midfield is packed full of talent and the 19 year old may struggle with breaking into the lineup.

Looks like he wants to pack the midfield, but why no Laca??? I really hope it's an injury or once again Wenger thinks he's smarter than he really is

Why not pack the midfield with 5 players against teams that like to control possession?

Best way to play teams like Burnley who pack the bus is to get 3 of our best players Alexis, Ozil and Iwobi play the quick passing game from the wings thereby drawing 5 players from the opposition to them leaving the other end of the pitch open for a long ball towards an on - rushing player (Bellerin or Monreal) to pounce on and probably score themselves or a pass to any available midfielders to pounce and shot.

From the more action - packed statistics that all round midfielders like Ramsey are normally involved in, the 23 - year - old has won 41 % of his total duels, which is better than both Fabregas and Toure but is around 10 % less than Jordan Henderson who is the only player of those mentioned to win over half of his duels (50.82 %).

Arsenal do have Xhaka in the squad but he is unlike to start in midfield as Wenger will go with more robust players like Oxlade - Chamberlain, Coquelin and Elneny to pack the midfield while Ozil, Sanches and Welbeck to start upfront.