Sentences with phrase «as a midfield partnership»

However, I will explain why it's almost impossible for them two to work together as a midfield partnership.

As a midfield partnership their characters are yin and yang.

O'Kane and Phillips as a midfield partnership has been awful today... completely outfought and dreadful distribution.

Not exact matches

With the likes of Mikel Arteta, Mathieu Flamini and Jack Wilshere far from good enough this season, Arsenal could unveil an entirely new midfield partnership this winter as they reportedly target both Morgan Schneiderlin of Southampton and Cruzeiro starlet Lucas Silva.

With the right balance in midfield, say a Schniederlin and Ramsey / Wilshere partnership, they could possibly be able to keep possession better while maintaining the defensive side as well.

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Theo + Ozil is a more natural partnership as Ozil will benefit more from the pocket of space between defence and midfield amongst the opposition plus offers better through balls.

Bring in Ospina for Cech; Gabriel for Koscielny (Kos is 31 and its time we start testing Gabriel and Holding beside Mustafi to see what our long term first choice defensive partnership will look like); Gibbs for Monreal (Wenger needs to start rotating these 2 more frequently as we need to ascertain if Gibbs can adequately produce the quality to hold that position from next season for a few years as I'm thinking this might be Nacho's last or penultimate season with Arsenal, it will also give a hint as to the type of Left - back to target in the summer — first teamer or backup and age as well); I'll like to see an Elneny — Xhaka partnership in this fixture as we might just never know, this might be our replica of the Kos Mustafa partnership in the centre of the park, Two disciplined (positionally, i mean) central midfielders who can play box to box; Chamberlain for Iwobi, and Perez for Alexis should do the work.

He could be joined at United by Southampton star Morgan Schneiderlin in the near future as van Gaal is reportedly keen on a brand new central midfield partnership and is hopeful of tying up a deal for the 25 - year - old in time for the club's pre-season tour of the United States [via talkSPORT].

Abou Diaby also lacks the positional discipline to play the defensive midfield role as well as Vieira did — or even in a box to box partnership.

Vidal along with his midfield partner Paul Pogba have been brilliant for the Old Lady as the Italian giants have won yet another Serie A title and are preparing to face Barcelona in the Champions League Final, but it seems that partnership is set to end as the Juve sports department chief Giuseppe Marotta revealed Sami Khedira is very close to joining the club on a free transfer.

It was interesting to read that David Moyes had intended to play Rice in midfield if James Collins had been fit as the much criticised (particularly by me) partnership of Mark Noble and Cheikhou Kouyate exceeded all expectations in securing central midfield.

Ryan Mason and Nabil Bentaleb were often picked as Spurs» central midfield partnership in...

Allen has described himself as a destructive player and formed an usually, for West Ham, tough tackling midfield partnership with Peter Butler.

I would stick with Havard Nordtveit and Kouyate in central midfield as the Kouyate / Noble partnership has proved not to work on countless occasions and Nordtveit / Noble would be criminally slow.

Vako, more offensively oriented — he leads the team with two goals and two assists — and Salinas, a converted midfielder playing as a full back, haven't developed a partnership as quickly as is needed, and the majority of the goals conceded this year have started from this side of the field.

Declan Rice deserves to keep his place but the dilemma is whether to play him at the back or as emergency central midfielder to cover for the continuing flaws in the Noble — Cheikhou Kouyate partnership.

His partnership with Nabil Bentaleb in the center of midfield has been one of the highlights of the season, as well as giving the fans a partnership that has developed from our youth system.

Any realistic solution to the fragility and ineffectiveness of the Noble — Kouyate central midfield partnership seems as unlikely as finding a simple answer to the frictionless Irish border conundrum.

Towards the end of the season, the partnership built between Eric Dier and Mousa Dembele proved to be an effective and successful one as the pair bossed the midfield.

Jay Spearing has brought some much - needed steel into the Reds» midfield, Dirk Kuyt has been as industrious as ever, while this Andy Carroll - Luis Suarez striking partnership has flourished in such a short space of time.

Spearheaded by a striker who has seven goals in just four games for club and country in Wayne Rooney, who netted a classy hat - trick against the Gunners a fortnight ago and has formed a formidable partnership with Ashley Young, whom scored twice in that aforementioned match, it would take a brave punter to oppose Sir Alex's flourishing devils − especially as Rio Ferdinand is fit to return, as is Scotland midfielder Darren Fletcher and Ecuador speedster Antonio Valencia.

The partnership of Kouyate and Fernandes gave our defensive midfield pace, but neither has tackling as their forte, and we badly miss Obiang, who is, of course, out for the rest of the season.

We could still see the Italian flooding the midfield, while all his talk about Alvaro Morata and Eden Hazard forming a partnership could hint that those two will be starting up top together as the champions» only forwards.