Sentences with phrase «aerial threat of»

But Heskey is getting on and has very little pace, and so Villa have had to focus on using the aerial threat of Heskey instead of playing their quick - tempo football they normally play when Agbonlahor is fit and available for selection.»

Hopefully Holden returns as Bolton need someone to thwart opposing attacks, but they have two forward in tip - top shape in Davies and Elmander and even though Blackburn are well equipped to handle the aerial threat of Bolton, they aren't strong enough on the floor to keep up with Bolton's exciting brand of passing football.

If the club can ignore the physical aspect of the play of Millwall, and the defence can deal with the aerial threat of Millwall's forwards, Leeds have a very good chance to pick up three points at home and get back into the playoff picture.

We need to shut down their crosses into the box so as to neutralise their aerial threat of Ayew and Gomis, so our full backs and wingers will need to be on point.

How else would you explain Chambers to be 5 yards away from Skrtel then, if that's man to man marking it's horrible and zonal marking shouldn't even apply to (by far) the biggest aerial threat of the opponnt's team.

Koscielny was a bit more specific in a report on the Arsenal website, pointing out the power, stature and aerial threat of Liverpool's new front man Christian Benteke as one of the things he most needs to be in control of.

With the aerial threats of Harry Kane and Vincent Janssen to aim for, expect to see more goals from crosses this season.

Not exact matches

He said it was to increase the aerial threat by having Welbeck and Giroud on but that sort of thing would usually work only in a game where you are pressing forward against a deep sitting defence.

The first question is where he will play and I can fully understand the people that are saying that he does not suit our style as Arsenal are usually faced with a deep lying and determined defence and that is why the hold up and link up play, as well as the aerial threat and physical prowess of Olivier Giroud makes sense.

His composed displays at the back and aerial threat going forward have helped Sagnol's side go eight games unbeaten (of which Sane featured in six).

Hence his removal deprived us of aerial threat which Giroud possesses in plenty.

He has a bit of an aerial threat which probably wont matter unless a set piece.

I do not believe it as he put the two lamppost OG and Per on the bench wary of the aerial threat they got and i do think this is why he was left out but pace is the best attack against Westbrom if anyone remember the game back at the emirates when they parked the bus.

It should've been Walcott or Welbeck instead of Ramsey on the wing to provide the threat of pace, with Giroud in the middle to offer an aerial threat.

I love technical players but most of them are short and whilst sometimes aggressive, can lack any aerial presence and personally I think we still need to add to this department because out of our midfielders and forwards only really giroud and sanchez pose any threat from set pieces.

Playing a lone striker in that environment is just about the dumbest thing you could do... he would become isolated very quickly, the threat of an aerial ball against Stoke becomes almost comical, Stoke have height in spades — attempting to beat them in the air sounds just about as stupid as attempting to out pass Barcelona.

Still, by virtue of the fact they'll probably win the majority of aerial challenges — often to knock the ball down rather than going for goal — they must be considered a threat».

We don't have much choice about our own centre backs but we can at least hope that the absence of Carroll and Cole takes away a lot of their usual aerial threat and perhaps take the pressure of our full backs to cut out crosses.

Hull did it yesterday, we did it the week before, QPR did it, Stoke did at the beginning of this season, Sunderland did it the season before that and Mourinho has done it with every clash vs Pellegrini since his return, out of a maximum of 12 points over 2 seasons vs City, Chelsea have taken 8... so it isn't a surprise it worked for us, especially in Toure's absence and the fact that Aguero is diminutive in stature, he isn't an aerial threat.

This season, we've had one of the most diverse attacking setups we've had in a long time, yet for some reason we seem to not deploy these setups effectively, for example against Chelsea away, we had seen in their game against Tottenham that they were poor at defending aerial threats, yet we didn't play Giroud.

Wenger only plays one upfront, and he doesn't utilise Giroud's aerial threat enough, so we need pace, and mobility, that correctly suit Wenger's style of play.

Now imagine if you had Theo's pace and Sanchez's pace on the sides of a target man to win possessions and to provide an aerial threat on any cross or set piece that comes in.

However his value was realised when he was removed because we lost our aerial threat and a lot of balls went begging.

If the likes of gayle and puncheon are kept busy themselves, they're hardly likely to be in a position to be supplying chamakh with an aerial threat.

It should be an element of our game we're well drilled at, considering the fact that we have two players who can put the ball on a dime (Santi, Ozil), the amount of free kicks we win in dangerous positions and the aerial threats in the squad.

He does not score much outside the box and is not an aerial threat either BUT he is good at pressing defenders and has got a good understanding of the game / situations.

That stable of tight ends — led by SEC all - freshman team selection Albert Okwuegbunam and including Kendall Blanton, Logan Christopherson and Brendan Scales — can be reliable aerial threats, too.

With Gabriel coming into defense, Arsenal will not be as solid as they are with Laurent Koscielny and will have to be wary of the aerial threat posed by Christian Benteke.

The best bet here is to move him on, as there will be plenty of suitors who will happily add the aerial threat to their side.

Not much more to say than that, but he can be a great player in terms of passing and aerial threats.

Sides that put a lot of faith in set - pieces and are packed with burly aerial threats would fall into this category.

While he lacks the electric pace of Aubameyang, 24 - year - old Batshuayi is quick enough to trouble teams willing to play a high line and his upper body strength and height make him an aerial threat.

The skipper was a rock in defense, nullified most of the aerial threats.

His aerial threat was too much for defenders to handle and he shared similar qualities to that of former Chelsea striker, Didier Drogba.

The Frenchman was given the job of keeping Dejan Lovren — Liverpool's main aerial threat — quiet, but managed to make a complete hash of it.

Blackburn's biggest threat of a goal will come from set pieces but Villa should be well equipped to deal with the aerial threat posed by Rovers with the heigh of Curtis Davies and Richard Dunne at the back.

Sporting have some very good players on the wings and one of the biggest aerial threats in the world, so they'll definitely cause Barça problems.

His conversion from a midfielder to a central defender by Spanish coach Jaime Pacheco was done to help the team snuff out aerial threat from opposition, and also aid their style of play of building from the rear.

Unfortunately, Blackpool aren't a team who pose much of an aerial threat.

That's the conclusion of a new study, which finds that, by failing to incorporate new technologies like satellite and aerial imaging, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species has misclassified the threats to hundreds of animals.

Players can also join the fight from the ground with mechs and the use of anti-air artillery to fight airborne threats — or initiate ground based aerial attacks depending on the map and strategy.

Throw in a range of vehicles, aerial threats and the odd hero class or two and you've got a really promising title.

Thought leaders will explore emerging technologies, such as the Internet of Things, unmanned aerial vehicles, artificial intelligence, and digital health, and discuss how to prevent liability threats from stifling innovation.

He expressed concern at the potential scale of the threat, giving the example of the potential deployment of millions of tiny autonomous aerial systems containing explosives.