Sentences with phrase «after the formation switch»

Not exact matches

It would not be easy to switch formation after all these years and take to it as Oxlade has, I hope I'm not speaking to soon here, but we are finally getting glimpses of a player making big strides.

The Nigerian broke through into the Gunners first - team last season, but after a switch in formation, Iwobi has found himself out of Arsene Wenger's plans.

We lost to Everton and City on the spin even after taking the lead, we lost 3 - 0 to Palace even Watford at home but the defence became stronger after the switch to a defensive formation... we will win many games if we can sort that defence out....

The immediate cause for the explosion of the back - three formation might be everybody copying Chelsea's success last year: After a mediocre opening six games to the season, culminating in a 3 - 0 loss at Arsenal, Antonio Conte switched Chelsea to a back three and promptly won 13 games straight and ran away with the league.

Chelsea are doing very well defensively after switching to manager Antonio Conte's preferred 3 -4-3 formation.

Former manager Vincenzo Montella began with a 4 -3-3, but as calls grew louder for a three - at - the - back formation after a string of unconvincing performances, he switched to a 3 -5-2 (or 3 -4-2-1).

The tactical switch after the goal was to replace Carroll with Sakho, exchanging one man receiving no service with another, but with no discernible variation to shape or formation.

After a difficult set of results of the start of the new campaign, Chelsea manager Antonio Conte decided to switch to the 3 -5-2 formation.