Sentences with phrase «against the defenders with»

Lucas on the other hand can be used against the defenders with more pace, as he is far more mobile than Giroud both on and off the ball.

Not exact matches

Hence the Modernists are not good defenders of the church against Humanism; secularism is at their very door and they are not strong enough to battle with it.

Against Palace when teams sit in their own half, he can play the short passes and flicks to help create a chance for a shot, or can compete physically with defenders to try and get on the end of crosses.

Two of his surprise selections include Burnley and Crystal Palace defenders Kieran Tripper and Scott Dann, with Merson pointing to the attacking mentality and the physical battle against Diego Costa as reasons why they make his team:

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I'm with what Rio said against the sides in the bottom half of the table it works he can get a couple of goals, but against the intelligent defenders like terry's kompany's cahill's he would simply get put on his arse.

Although the side shipped four goals against Liverpool, he looked impressive for a young defender with little experience who had just come from relegated side Bolton Wanderers.

Despite promising to have the squad ready early this summer, the opposite would appear to be true, with many makeshift defenders and hardly inspiring results against Leicester and Stoke.

Per Mertesacker had missed the FA cup win over Burnley due to his red card against Chelsea but he was available to face the Saints and Arsene Wenger has always kept faith with the German defender before, despite the odd mistake.

It's too easy to defend against when we're talking about top teams with solid defenders.

i have been saying this for along time arsenal would be better surve with a defrent stile of play maker one who can shoot head the ball take on defender dribble into space.we all see it over on over again you don't need one killers pass to win game alot of team don't have ozil on create lots of chance against us.

With an # 8m deal in the works to bring Olympiacos defender Kostas Manolas to Arsenal before the transfer window slams shut, the impressive young Greek international could be set for a start against the Premier League champions at the Emirates.

Now Arsenal have Giroud, who can play against the stronger, taller defenders, although Lucas also proved with his solo goal that he has plenty of strength and fight in his determination to score.

But with teams who are defending deep against us we need a big man upfront who can draw the defenders and make more space for others.

Concern was rife as the Belgian international had to be stretchered off against Southampton with an oxygen mask after a head clash with defender Wesley Hoedt.

Now with Iwobi with same attributes as Alexis bar his selfishness defenders are confused against our front three.

Ox offers both short passing and defender take - ons so he's the natural choice but agreed that Welbeck or Theo would be wasted against a team with no space to get in behind.

Their play - action schemes became indefensible with TE Kyle Efaw and these speedy wideouts running on conflicted defenders, like on the winning play against Virginia Tech in the season opener:

Giroud actually looked like he bumped heads with Bournemouth defender at the end of the game as he kept on rubbing his hand against the back of the head to see if there was any blood there, so I'm hoping it's nothing more than that.

Manager Mark Wilmots will have a near full strength squad to pick from, with Steven Defour having completed his one game suspension for the red card he received against South Korea, while defender Thomas Vermaelen has sufficiently recovered from a hamstring problem.

It is no secret that Arsene Wenger hasn't been happy with our Arsenal defenders this season as he has complained so many times about their errors after defeats this season, and it only takes a quick glance at the «goals against» columns in the EPL table to see that we have a real problem on our hands.

We have already heard that Olivier Giroud has been sent back to Arsenal from the France squad and is out of the friendly match against Germany this week, but now we have even more worrying news from L'Equipe who have told us that our top defender Laurent Koscielny missed yesterday's training session with Les Bleus.

Manchester City defender Micah Richards, currently on loan at Fiorentina, says the lowest moment of his time with City was being taken off at half - time against Watford by Manuel Pellegrini.

We will have to wait and see whether the Arsenal and England defender Kieran Gibbs is selected by his national manager Roy Hodgson for the friendly game against France at Wembley tonight, which is bound to be an odd and emotionally charged encounter after the terrible terrorist attacks in Paris, but with England wracked by injury problems and having to play a very young team, as well as the limp performance put in by Ryan Bertrand at left back against Spain, I will be surprised if Gibbs does not start.

Their central defender Gary Cahill picked up a possible broken nose in their pre-season game against Barcelona last night, while their Spanish international striker Diego Costa was left with a possible hamstring problem.

But in any case we need a new winger if want to play with four defenders again against the weaker teams.

And with the youngster also having wasted little time getting back in the goals again with his late winner against West Ham United in the Premier League last Saturday at Goodison Park, then the Gunners centre back knows only too well just what an uncomfortable afternoon that both he and his fellow defenders are in store for this weekend.

I also feel that a lot of people have gone a bit overboard in their slating of the defender, with some suggesting that his pairing with Koscielny just does not work, because he and the French international played very well together when Wenger gave them a run after Mertesacker's red card against Chelsea and he would have kept the pairing for the Leicester and Barcelona matches if Gabriel had not been unlucky enough to pick up a knock.

The Swedish defenders has once against been connected with a move to the Red Devils, with the latest baseless figure floating in the ether being a # 42m valuation of the 22 year old, as referenced by the Sun in their piece today.

Again, he would not let himself be bullied like United's defenders were against Leicester and would be able to command the respect of his team mates after several excellent years at the top with the German giants.

According to the Telegraph, Reds defender Joe Gomez suffered a significant ACL injury while competing with England's Under - 21 team against Kazakhstan this past week.

Manchester United defender Luke Shaw has been forced off in the first half their Barclays Premier League clash against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park with yet another injury and there has been a huge reaction on social media.

As a dominant 1 - on -1-winning threat, he does the maximum amount to pull defenders out of position as a WR, opening - up the run for guys built for running and more replaceable as runners, as long as you have that dominant player, outside, drawing 2 or more defenders away from everything you might want to do with your other 10 guys against their 8 or 9 guys.

its not what these guys are used to they have played with football greats like ronaldo and messi and you ask them to perform with players like ox and welback we should change the way we think just sell these midocre players that we keep on feeding sell them out and one more thing i swear if even if i had a chance to play this match on fifa i would never dare to play players out of position for fuck sake we already lost against stoke due to out of position defenders what is wrong with wenger

Arsenal defender Per Mertesacker gave Arsene Wenger a fresh injury worry after leaving Wembley in a protective boot, with the German sustaining an ankle problem against Reading in Saturday's FA Cup semi-final win.

Sanchez have to do too much we should have bought sandio mane our winger are useless ozil Wolcott go missing against quality team.look at how Easley they put our defender understand pressure with quality passing.

Easily the best central defender at the World Cup so far, Hummels scored Germany's opening goal against Portugal in the 4 - 0 group stage win, and also bagged the winner with his head verses France in the quarter - finals.

Big in your list I can agree that all these players would improve us, but let's look at our CB At the moment Kos, top player but is struggling with a inj which may or may not heal, at the moment he isn't match fit so not up to his own high standard, so needs help or a defender of his quality so he can go and recover properly So then we have Mert, too slow and no longer good enough, I'm not sure if he's even good enough for 3 rd choice CB, too slow, poor on the air for his size and not brave enough, he's lasted this long due to Kos he needs a Top class CB just to allow him to play against average teams Ok now Reid not top class we can all agree so we couldn't really play him with MERT as he isn't Kos quality so can't cover merits deficiencys He could be ok with Kos but Kos is struggling So is Reid what we need???? And finally Wenger if he has all 3 fit will still play Kos / Mert first choice Oh and God forbid we play MERT / Reid against the top teams like Chels / city / utd / Southampton Chuckle chuckle

Many fans think this could be our best two defenders so it will be interesting to see how well they perform against a Newcastle side with a lot of pace and width up front.

Against Chelsea with most of their defenders out like 5, they almost won they game.Against City with most of their defenders out with injuries and with ten men they almost equalized.And Against Arsenal, they were playing with 2 wingers, two 19 year old at the defense.which gives them the perfect reason for being dominated and with the tactics their manager use they beat Arsenal.After that with Hull, they completely dominated the game and with Stock City.

And I am not saying Mertesacker is not good enough, but try pairing Kos and Gabriel and let's see how it works, those two have pace, tenacity, can tackle and will be great against pacy strikers and not let Kos be the one making the run for two people with that, you risk your best defender being injured.

There are the two defenders who played against Southampton last night, Hayden and Bellerin, along with midfield talent like Zelalem, Olsson and Crowley.

It's funny how a lot of people want Ox gone.He'd give any defender a tough time.With proper coaching and advice the guy will destroy teams.I fear Conte can do that and won't mess around with him.It's very difficult when players like Ox play against you.I don't want to see him beating pur players for fun and putting in good crosses against our team.This move will be suicidal to us if everything goes well like it's supposed to be but if things don't go well for him we won't regret.

We come up against so many solid defenders in our league that we do need someone to fight fire with fire, thats were Coq comes in.

Manchester United defender Luke Shaw is reportedly seeking assurances over his future, with his camp accusing Jose Mourinho of holding a grudge against him.

And on top of that he loans out Jenkinson on the deadline day, when he knew exactly we have few defenders, now we're in a crisis, we played with no real defender on the bench against Aston Villa.

Ask Stoops about what he did differently this time around against the Buckeyes and he'll tell you that the Sooners played more odd fronts, with a defender lined up directly over the center, leading to either three or five down linemen.

The French defender recently returned to the Premier League with the Hammers, and made an appearance against the Reds — a team he has some history with.

Maybe a bit of coaching to our existing defenders would help.But no arguments - We have been very inconsistent defensively all season.Solid and disciplined against Chelsea then defend like Amateurs 4 days later with the same line up against modest (to say the least) opposition.Totally sums up Arsenal.

The Brazilian is not expected to feature for another month, while the French defender played the full 90 minutes against Leicester, despite having a «big back problem «suffered the day before the match, with him forced to play through the pain.