Sentences with phrase «almost at midfield»

Such were the stakes in the middle of the fourth quarter when the Broncos found themselves down 23 - 13 but clinging to a glimmer of hope with the ball almost at midfield.

Not exact matches

The big Toffees midfielder revealed in a recent interview that he saw his future away from the Merseyside club, comments that he has tried hard to make a U-Turn on, and the 24 year old would almost certainly jump at the chance of a move to Man United.

Then we have the midfield and the decision to stick with the struggling Granit Xhaka despite the Swiss international costing us the game at Stoke and almost doing the same at home to Leicester.

The move to bring the midfielder into the starting line - up is probably being forced on to the manager, but with Arsene Wenger still having to cope without almost every first choice central midfielder in the Gunners squad, the Frenchman is probably delighted that Rosicky has at least made himself available.

With Cristiano Ronaldo scoring goals almost at will and their midfield and defense finding a form that they've lacked all season during their current run of 10 wins in 11 matches, Real Madrid are a team to be reckoned with right now.

At crucial times, almost anyone playing Football Manager 2016 will need an extra attacking midfielder.

The national team coach has named the Arsenal midfielder as part of a 40 - man shortlist of Three Lions players who will attend an England get - together at the St George's Park HQ in the Midlands this week, with the tabloid noting that the 24 - year - old will almost certainly be in attendance.

His positional responsibilities are appalling at times, his long passing is almost nonexistent and he's definitely not going to impose himself against any midfield.

Still, the eleven that started in Portugal is still enough to rival anyone in the world, with Manuel Neuer, Rafinha, Jerome Boateng, Dante and Juan Bernat at the back, Philipp Lahm, Xabi Alonso and Thiago Alcantara in midfield, and Mario Gotze, Thomas Muller and Robert Lewandowski in attack — world class quality in almost every position, and yet, no sign of being able to work a way around their tactically smart opponents.

Whilst Pogba is one of the finest young players in world football and almost perfectly suited to the needs of Arsenal in central midfield, there has to be a feeling that tracking the highly rated Juventus man over Khedira could prove to be a suicidally optimistic move, with Khedira likely to be available on a bargain deal due to the fact that his contract expires at the end of the season.

Bellerin and Monreal is always almost on the corner line crossing ball's, we are always leaving defense bankrupt and vulnerable for a take over, by the time Monreal and Bellerin return to their station they have just sprinted the whole of the pitch to make a defensive tackle sometimes coming in from behind the player in our box without giving a penalty or just outside for a free kick which we can not defend set peaces, if we are to use them some midfield players have to drop back which is not happening at the moment

Arsenal Target Should Be Playing At «Top Six Club», Argues Robbie Savage Arsenal Agree Terms to Sign # 25m Midfield General, Deal Almost Complete

The midfielder joined the Red Devils at the ripe age of 11, but his career at Old Trafford is seemingly over almost fifteen years later, with his contract set to expire at the end of the current campaign, and no new deal forthcoming.

Prevent the midfield from giving the ball away and allowing Stoke an almost free run at goal?

This injury curse scares me, no matter how much depth we have, this injuries just seem to attack one area of specialty at a time, for instance, some time last season we had a period where almost all of our midfielders were injured (santi, coq, arteta, wilshere, ramsey, rosicky) all at the same time.

At times this season, and pretty crucial times as well, Arsene Wenger has been left with almost no options for the centre of the Arsenal midfield, Cazorla is out for the season after playing a big role in our good early form and there have also been injury problems for Coquelin, Ramsey and Elneny, while the summer signing Granit Xhaka has missed a fair few games himself for disciplinary reasons.

Dude Besic was okay at the Hungarian league (which is one of the worst leagues around) and almost always played as a defender not in midfield.

Joe, didn't «the whole myriad of attacking midfielders at the club» get injured (almost all of them) at some point???

Great distribution with one peach of a pass to Giroud, great at mopping up the pressure, winning headers in midfield... Almost Artetaesque (in his golden years 2012 - 2013)

this window has just finished i am already thinking about who we will get for the january window we might try for khedira on a really low offer as he is free agent almost would help boost numbers in midfield in the new year as we will no doubt need to filling the numbers about then also i will hold my hands up and say i was wrong this morning for giving wenger stick and saying welbeck is rubbish i have been out in the cold light of day and had a chance to reevaluate the situation and realized that this could be a canny shrew transfer on wenger behalf actually if wenger can turn the clock back and work his magic on welbeck and get him scoring goals and improve his game then we could have a great underrated signing on our hands its wengers absolute trust in him that might be what makes him a great player as this is something that he never had at old mordor if anybody can make him a world beater wenger can he loves this little pet projects improving players against the odds welbeck has the skillset to be high class player upfornt he just needs to work very hard on his finishing i think once he gets a few goals under his belt he will settle in fine and he is a team player you could put him on the left against man city to shore up that side and he will put in a great shift without a complaint that could be his biggest asset to us or on the right whenever we need him there ithinkwenger might start himon the left against city to protect the left back against navas and i bet you if he does a great job we will take a shine to him quickly i am hopeing he will be one of those wenger gems that he finds and polishes up to a high finish i must admit i was annoyed as some other gunners were at not signing d / m and c / h but if wenger does win the league with this lot it will be his greatest win yet and what might play in to our hands is the unpredictable nature of the league in the last few seasons if we get on a good run at the right time we might be hard to stop look at city they should have never lost to stoke but the result is there in black and white for all to see and i think chelsea will hit the skids after a while to just because cesc and costa are doing well now thats there main threat but teams will work out how to stop them as the season goes on and chelsea will become predictable i think we might just do well this season after all

Look at how they are adding quality while we are telling ourselves that flamini can do a job.what a joke we are becoming... I'm just so frustrated and sad about schweini to manure, the only part that makes me a little calm is the fact that he's 30 and almost passed his best years but still a valuable and world class midfielder

For a player with some of his best years ahead of him, the price appears generous, and with Spurs almost certainly set to be competing in the Champions League next summer, the midfielder possesses the kind of quality to make a difference at the elite continental level of competition.

The Englishman has also seemingly played almost every position on the pitch, having been utilised on the wing, as an attacking midfielder, central midfielder and even a right back at times.

Meanwhile, Leicester City boss Nigel Pearson almost lost his job for a bizarre «throttle» incident on Crystal Palace midfielder James McArthur, while the pressure on him wasn't eased by Tuesday's loss at Arsenal.

Maybe Arsene Wenger will not be looking at the summer transfer of Yohan Cabaye to Arsenal as a cut - price deal, but I am fairly sure that his current club Paris Saint - Germain will after they paid almost # 20 million for the France international midfielder a little over a year ago.

Rosicky has been at Arsenal now for almost a decade and is one of those attacking midfielders that best epitomizes the Arsenal way of playing.

The midfield was a bit of a mess at that point and certain players just weren't retaining possession so it was almost impossible to get Santi into the game.

He was always driving at Southampton's midfield and was almost always able to find others.

He may well be the cause of Arsenal's downfall on Wednesday night, but he is surely the man that the Gunners should be looking at adding to their squad in the coming transfer windows to hand the keys to their midfield to a playmaker who is almost made for their team.

I'm not big a big lover of either Wilshere or Ramsey but at this point I would resign them whatever the cost; if they leave the club will be distracted and go looking for a midfielder that will suck up almost all of our transfer budget.

Defenders are in fact becoming more like their colleagues further forward in their abilities to start moves out from the back and push - on, high up the field, not just breaking through the different lines in possession, from defence into midfield and even attack, but almost playing multiple positions at once.

After two years on loan at Empoli, parent club Udinese will almost certainly cash in on the 21 - year - old midfielder this season, and Liverpool is looking more and more likely to be the Polish star's next destination.

I was bit sceptical with him coming on at the expense of Coquelin as we had no recognized defensive midfielder but the his forward thinking play was what got Arsenal's dream almost becoming a reality.

The same midfield played, and failed, away at Tottenham the next month, but in fairness to all three, Arsenal's problems with pressing are deep - rooted, structural and almost independent of personnel, and point to a deeper coaching issue.

Having created 50 chances at almost 2 chances per 90 minutes, the Spanish midfielder remains a threat for Manchester City.

Aaron Lennon also began proceedings on the bench but looks almost a certainty to start at Eastlands, what with Bale now out injured and Rafael van der Vaart putting in a disappointing shift out on the right - hand side of midfield.

As with almost every position on the pitch at present, the Spanish are hardly lacking for high - end options to replace the former midfielder, who won 18 caps as a player, representing Real Madrid over 445 times to win five La Liga titles and four Copa Del Rey medals between 1968 and 1984.

Despite almost a decade of good service to the Gunners, the midfielder has not looked at his best shape recently and the Daily Mail suggest the side have already begun looking at possible replacements for the player in the midfield.

Chambers I'm at right back was done almost every two minutes, Wilshere and Xhaka were being out - ran in midfield.

Ings had a good game against Man Utd (albeit at left midfield), and Sturridge is almost ready to return.

Regardless of the standard of his general play, he usually finds a way, and against City at Old Trafford he almost looked like his old self again; from back when Sir Alex Ferguson used to rely on him to be everywhere, covering for United's lack of a midfield, driving the team on from deep and generally making up for the lack of investment in the squad after the sale of Cristiano Ronaldo in 2009.

The inch - perfect out - swinging cross from the left flank by Ben Davies was spookily similar to the one supplied by our former midfielder Nabil Bentaleb almost three years ago to the day, when Harry nodded home in the closing minutes to register a 2 - 1 win at White Hart Lane.

Wenger is said to be a long time admirer of the former Tottenham midfielder, who spent almost a decade at Old Trafford, winning the UEFA Champions League in his second season with Manchester United.

In midfield, Mikel Arteta donned the famous red and white for the first time — an experienced Premier League player with almost the perfect characteristics to play at Wengers Arsenal.

Elsewhere Andy Robertson would have got in at left - back if he'd been involved in the first half of the season, so Marcos Alonso gets in just ahead of Ashley Young, and the midfield almost picks itself if we're asking it to function like a real one.

Lucas Leiva — 5.5 Is almost required to be in two places at once at times, as Liverpool's midfield can be over-run when the opposition are attacking.

Mandroiu almost bagged his brace on the stroke of half - time, when Sanders picked out the Irishman inside the area, but Stoke goalkeeper Mitch Allen made a fantastic save at full stretch from the midfielder's header.