Sentences with phrase «about possession football»

I'm not talking about possession football, one can have an attacking mindset without dominating the ball as clearly expressed by his early FC Porto and Chelsea sides.

Not exact matches

Being prescriptive about it, and as a general principle, at any given point while the ball is in their team's possession, a footballer should do whatever is most likely to lead to a goal for their team.

This is where Pochettino's high - intensity brand of football — all about possession and pressing — emerged.

«It will take a couple of days to recover and to think about Manchester United and play in a different competition, which will be a good opportunity to come back to the Emirates and play our football with possession and dynamism.»

Just goes to show that a more rigorous and confident defence allows us to play proper football and it is not all about possession.

Roughly the same number of goals but OG beats CB on just about every other metric known to man when it comes to playing football — passing, possession, creating, defending.

But the possession based football that has been the Arsenal way for many years now could be coming under threat from the new tactics that were widely used at this summer's Euro 2016 tournament, so I wonder whether the prof is starting to think seriously about a rethink.

Here, you are talking about two Footballing sides that play with different philosophies; Arsenal play possession football, embellished by intricate passing moves.

For me, forget all the yap about MO, be it a big flop, panic buy, quiet genius, maverick, goes missing etc etc he is one of the few players in world football where I will lean forward a few inches and take special note when he has the ball — in possession he is a one - off no doubt about it, not so much for any fireworks or spectacular end product, it is just the coolness and ease that dazzles.

The possession - based philosophical approach to football thinks about football in terms of space; how can a team control the game both with or without the ball?

«Sometimes you have got to go somewhere with it», Jones said about Swansea's possession football.

We are dominating possession and chances, playing exciting football, and Ander Herrera has talked about how this is us going back to our roots.

Yes he gets a nose bleed every time the goal opens up in front him, but football is 90 % about possession and for that, there's noone better.

If there was any fear about Inter's rejigged backline it was being allayed by possession football.

Their football at times was wonderful to watch, retaining possession in a flawless manner, but perhaps some of the rust from their pre-season hasn't yet washed off but the decision making of some of their creative stars, Samir Nasri in particular, was poor and like Arsenal teams down the years, the Gunners tried to take the long route in order to score that wonder goal instead of cutting corners and actually giving the Liverpool defence something to think about.