Sentences with phrase «as a holding midfielder»

Let's be sincere, how many of us have actually seen him playing as a holding midfielder, and how many times.

This helps him play well as a holding midfielder and get the ball out of the opponent's defense.

He comes own as a substitute to get games as a holding midfielder.

Just wondering Arsenal playing Bellerin as a holding midfielder?

Is there no one else in the team who can play as a holding midfielder to allow us get more creativity forward?

Arsenal fans, if they are anything like me, will still be wondering why Arsene Wenger chose to start with Mathieu Flamini as the holding midfielder against AFC Bournemouth instead of the fit again Francis Coquelin.

Also for me Onamah was a revelation as a holding midfielder as well.

Guardiola once again continued with his experiment of using Keita as a holding midfield player, a role in which Keita has been found wanting in recent matches.

The formation switches earlier in the season did not help but neither did Wayne Rooney playing as a holding midfielder at times.

Presently out on loan to Alanyaspor from Chelsea, he has also grown in leaps and bounds with strong showing for the team not just from his primary role as a central defender as he has performed admirably well as a holding midfielder in some games.

The Brazil international has been used as a holding midfielder by manager Sir Alex Ferguson, who looks to have finally lost patience with Michael Carrick.

Well I don't think we would be where we are with Arteta as our holding midfielder.

Marouane Fellaini has been enjoying a decent run in the side as a holding midfielder, but Van Gaal may revert to Schneiderlin and his greater defensive awareness for the trip to Stamford Bridge.

If we go with pure speed upfront with martial rashford and miki with mata pulling the strings and blind as holding midfielder with pogba providing the flare we shall win the game.

During his time with Schalke, Sead was deployed as a left back, centre back and also as a holding midfielder.

Allan operates predominantly as a holding midfielder, and would provide a useful foil for the flair players in Chelsea's ranks.

Slot in Chambers as the holding midfielder along side Jackie Boy!

Laurent Blanc responded to the loss of his most defensive midfielder in somewhat surprising fashion, throwing on a much more attacking player in Lucas Moura and abandoning the 3 -5-2 that PSG had struggled with in favor of a 4 -3-3, bringing Marquinhos off the back line to serve as his holding midfielder.

Honestly, if coquelin and diaby prove their fitness along with chambers those 3 could easily over take arteta and flamini as our holding midfield choices.

He did play rugby at a younger age so he may have the steel we need as a holding midfielder.

seeing Arteta / Flamini as our holding midfielders makes me worried... Hope we get a strong and young holding mid by January.

I had been worried that having Granit Xhaka as the holding midfielder would be very risky as the Swiss international does not seem to be defensively disciplined or focused enough at times.

Reading manager Brian McDermott has tipped Michael Hector to make the grade as a holding midfielder at Chelsea after his man - of - the - match display in the FA Cup.

Coquelin is nailed - on to start as the holding midfielder as his brilliant season continues, and with Ozil, Cazorla, Giroud and the mighty Sanchez impossible to drop, that leaves the only possible change being a replacement for Ramsey, who has been declared a 50/50 chance by the boss.

The 22 - year - old has been outstanding in his first season as a holding midfielder and plays a pivotal role protecting Tottenham's defence and allowing the full - backs the freedom to push up the pitch.

Having been made to adapt to new roles which see them take up positions as holding midfielders off the ball, time will tell as to whether or not they satisfy Guardiola's criteria to secure their long - term futures.

I still think they could play with a 4 -2-3-1 with XA6 and Di Maria as holding midfielder and B2B — and still have room for Özil, but hey — that formation gave them la decima.

Most people like his passing and vision, but what I like the most about him is how he has adapted to his role as a holding midfielder — he has brilliantly added tackling and reading of the game to his game.

It is true that Arsenal got extremely lucky when our injury problems last season forced Arsene Wenger to bring Francis Coquelin back to the squad last Christmas, and it is no coincidence that the Gunners improved drastically once he was introduced as our holding midfielder.

Frankly, rather than the total dud Xhaka, I would even play my granny as holding midfielder.

Kane on the bench, Trippier at LWB, Alli as a winger, Eriksen as a holding midfielder.

Unfortunately, Arsene Wenger remains reluctant to acquiesce to the idea of the 23 - year - old as a holding midfielder.

We say Arteta is doing fine as the holding midfielder, for me this is not efficient enough because he can do a better job further forward (where he has played all his life).....

Wenger has reportedly looked into playing Wilshere as a holding midfielder, but there are doubts especially in his strength.

Andre Villas - Boas decided to revert to a 4231 formation, to incorporate Christian Eriksen into the side, playing Mousa Dembele and Paulinho as the holding midfielders, with Gylfi Sigurdsson and Andros Townsend as the inverted wingers, the width came from full backs Danny Rose and Kyle Walker.

Coquelin does have an energetic style as a holding midfielder, and the nature of the position means yellow cards are likely, but hopefully the game was a reminder to Coquelin that he has to be smart in the centre and has to choose the right moments to dive in or attempt an interception.

Emre Can — 6.5 (Lallana 63 ′) Changed the game when he came on as a holding midfielder, as this allowed Henderson and Milner to go forward.

Keita played as the holding midfielder just ahead of defense flanked with Thiago and Iniesta on two flanks.

It is becoming very clear that Guardiola is going to continue with this experiment of Keita as holding midfielder throughout this season.

Perhaps he could be a decent substitution for Strootman in a more advanced position, or maybe slot in for DDR as a holding midfielder, but there has to be other candidates with more vision, more creativity, someone like him, or him, or him.

Artur impressed sliding in as a holding midfielder next to Wil Trapp for Columbus.

Last season when Arteta was injured, his absence was greatly felt but Aaron Ramsey's discovery as the holding midfielder instead of an attacking one has left Arsenal with ample cover in that region.