Sentences with phrase «wins back ball deep»
14: Wins back ball deep in Leicester territory.
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Liverpool took the game to us, we sat too deep and didn't press the Liverpool players hard enough to win the ball back in the first half.
If we can keep up this hunger for the ball and this drive we can play one of 3 ways and vastly increase our chances of winning any game: we defend from the front, we defend deep or we play with a dynamic switch mentality (you pressure when you first lose the ball, then drop off if you don't win it back quickly enough).
The way in which he wins the ball back with truly elite numbers, the changes in our team's overall, stronger defensive mentality, our record with him in the team and without, the defensive cover he added to allow Santi to flourish in the deeper role.
He needs to be played in an attacking role where he doesn't need to go to ground trying to win the ball back from deep midfield.
Theo isn't 1st choice CF, Giroud fights to win the ball back and I believe Theo needs to learn that but he does offer a great «Plan B» during a game, if Giroud can't do the job or we want to hold a lead then play deeper with faster strikers for counter attacking football instead of so much possession bassed.
Long term problems are that our team doesn't know how to win the ball back except when it's deep in our midfield in which case it's defenders or DMF winning the ball, or Sanchez.
For those first 20 minutes Le Coq spent his time deep in Man United's half, battling to win the ball back instantly as they tried to get some sort of respite.
He has been playing deeper than usual and has been given more defensive responsibilities and is pressing more in the second line than the back line to win the ball back and start attacks.
Vieira was a top B2B player but he played with the ball ahead of him which meant he could soak up any attack instantly and win the ball back in dangerous areas, with Gilberto sitting deep and we had a solid CM that played with the ball ahead of them.
Teams dat drop deep are unable to attack when they win the ball back, even if they attack their transition has to be very quick so as not to loose the ball immediately, doing so energy is expended, that means in the second half they r ineffective cos they will be tired eg Watford.
He loses possession too often in deep positions, but Leipzig's counter-pressing system, where the team's directive is to win the ball back as soon as they lose it, can account for those mistakes.
The rest of the team tailor their positioning to where the opposition are — they can press forward to be proactive and win back the ball or they can shadow their opponent, following them deep to ensure they aren't caught out.
In games against Liverpool and Leicester, there were instances when Walcott dropped deep into his own half and constantly harried opponents to win the ball back.
We had the ball, Southampton had shape and compacted three at the back into a five with two very deep - lying ball winning midfielders, then looked to press their forward men higher up the pitch and force us to go long.