Sentences with phrase «aerial duels»

In terms of aerial duels won per 90, only 17 attackers in the Premier League can better his 3.88.

However with the game that Chelsea encourages their defenders to play, it is slightly tempting that Vincent Kompany leads the race in terms of aerial duels won while there is no particular area mentioned above where the Brazilian leads the race.

He wins a lower percentage of aerial duels per game (23 per cent) but it is not his style to win flick ons and battle with defenders in the air.

Moyes» man have ten players with 2.5 or more aerial duels won per 90 minutes compared to Liverpool's five.

I thought Wenger preferred him over vermaelen because of his height and the consequent aerial ability that he brings to the team, but the BSG (Big Slow German) has been so impotent in the air that he loses aerial duels at a shocking ease.

The 31 - year - old made the most clearances (445), the most blocks (52) and won the third most aerial duels of any player (152).

Bournemouth have an attacking philosophy which is reflected in their stats: they are mid table with 12 shots per game, they try to own possession against smaller teams and have 50 % on average this season, they are 8th in passing success rate with 81 %, they are second to last in aerial duels with just 12 per game... they are 19th in tackles, 16th in interceptions, they are 8th in dribbles, and 3rd in drawing fouls.

Tackles Won (per game) 1.5 to 0 Tackle Success Rate — 54 % to 0 % Clearances (per game)-- 8 to 6.6 Interceptions (per game) 5.3 to 4.7 Blocks (per game)-- 0.5 to 0.7 Aerial Duels Won (per game)-- 2.5 to 0.8

But we have the second highest success rate for aerial duels in the PL, winning 56.8 %.

He won 4 of his 9 aerial duels on Saturday.

Guardiola won the tactical battle because he put muller to roam untracked in the middle and replaced alaba with javi Martinez at cb to win more aerial duels against giroud and at the same time terrorizing our fragile right side at left back.

Won his only tackle of the game; 68 % aerial duel success rate.

Despite playing just 24 games this term, the Australian made the most interceptions of any midfielder (82) and also won the fourth most aerial duels too (106).

The former Boro man also boasts the highest amount of completed tackles (3.4) on average and successful aerial duels won (2.8) of his peers.

Despite his height Mertesacker doesn't win too many aerial duels.

Dunne's impressive figures don't stop there, Dunne has managed to make 60 tackles and winning 48 of them, won 73 % of Aerial Duels compared to that of Ground Duels where Dunne has only been able to complete 64 %.

Finishing Strong Aerial Duels Strong Holding on to the ball Strong Defensive contribution Strong

At the individual level, he showed that he can play comfortably in any position at the back due to his pace and physical structure (three clearances, two interceptions, two tackles, 3/4 duels won including aerial duels and nine recoveries).

Understandably, he won fewer aerial duels per game, but he also completed significantly more dribbles.

It would appear that only aerial duels (3 — 38 %) are a potential weakness.

Wayne do you consider fighting for position and winning aerial duels while having knees put in your back part of a strikers job?

Giroud aerial duel and his cohesion to the team (after 2 years, of course he has to) might be his only strong point.

As an interesting side comparison, Liverpool centre - backs Martin Skrtel and Mamadou Sakho boast figures of 69 % and 55.4 % respectively when it comes to aerial duels so the young German is already competing with seasoned centre - backs when it comes to aerial domination.

His partnership with Kolasinac as they know that side very well, he knows where Kolasinac will be, and he won imortant aerial duels and important interceptions, I can see why people would give it to Monreal.

Will defo be better than the likes of Cazorla and Sanchez at aerial duels though.

Don't get me wrong stats DO NOT tell the entire picture but, back in the day the only stats were goals, assists, tackles, but now they have statistics for all parts of the game so something like aerial duels can be quantified and we can see how dominate Le coq is in all aspects of the game

He has worked significantly on this already - 11th most dominant in the air in La Liga 2014/15 (% won) and 1st in La Liga (total aerial duels won).

I recall him breaking his nose twice going into aerial duels and also refused to be bullied by Fellaini....

Lost most aerial duels prior to the goal and looked lost in defence (terrible for our supposed best defender and captain) can not organise a defence, Mertersacker was the leader in the defence and barked out instructions despite his lack of pace.

STRENGTHS Dribbling = Very Strong Aerial Duels = Very Strong Ball interception = Very Strong Tackling = Strong Last season he was one of the best performing left back across Europe top 5 leagues (whoscored), the other was baba rahman who join Chelsea.

Gave Atlético Madrid a different look and his ability to win aerial duels helped keep danger away from the final third.

The defender failed to make a single tackle or win a single aerial duel all match and it Ronald Koeman will definitely be on the lookout for an improvement on the Welshman this summer.

Debuchy fares better than Sagna in the average number of tackles won per game (2.45 to 1.29), average aerial duels won per game (3.83 to 3.40), average blocks per game (0.41 to 0.20) and average interceptions per game (2.38 to 1.46).

He was solid in tackles and very comfortable on the ball during the course of the game, where he also showed his strength in aerial duels especially midway through the first half.

Moreno was fantastic, he created three chances, won 75pc aerial duels, made three interceptions, two tackles and six clearances.

David Luiz made more clearances than anyone else, eight, and the Brazilian also won all three of his defensive aerial duels.

The Inter Milan midfielder is also decent in the air, and that is an area of his game that Croatia may look to exploit in aerial duels with Juanfran.

You are obviously big on «facts» so try the one that says Mertesacker has won more aerial duels per game this season than all the CBs in the 4 teams above us bar Cahill who averages about the same (just 0.05 more headers a game).

In a defensive sense: Chambers won 62 % of his 13 attempted tackles, while also winning 6 of his 7 aerial duels on the day.

His height does give him an edge over many of his peers in the air — a tactic that Marouane Fellaini made use of for Everton, finding winning aerial duels against scurrying midfielders much easier than uncompromising centre - backs — yet the extra bulk also makes him less mobile than them and his lack of movement was a major issue as Swansea tried to get the ball forward.

Chicharito is 28... Lightweight, not good in Aerial duels, defensively weak and shy of tackles....

We have a 6» 4 snail who ducks out of aerial duels for vice-captain and a pint - sized sideways passing guy who uses ridiculous amounts of hair gel as captain.

He did his bit for the team, as shown by four successful aerial duels and two completed tackles.

Defended from the front, held the ball up really well, and won so many aerial duels, especially goal kicks (he was helped by the accuracy of OOOOOOOOOOOSPINA's kicks).

One area in which Altidore can not claim to be hard done is his hold - up play, where a 29 % aerial duel success rate is simply inexcusable for someone of his physical ability.