Sentences with phrase «as a second striker off»

Gervinho played as a second striker off Giroud (to great effect), while Rosicky and Cazorla buzzed around on either wing.

Not exact matches

Then a whole seasons experience with 30 + year old pros and a manager with over 40 years experience and off the back of a cup performance in which he dueled with the toughest striker around and didn't come off second best, he comes off all that yet he lacks confidence, plus he's second guessing his choices and doesn't look as fit as when we first signed him.

His second was disrupted by a five - man pass rush and good coverage; on third - and - 7, linebacker Eric Striker blitzed untouched from Rees» blindside, and with his only option (T.J. Jones dragging underneath) only semi-open and on the wrong side of the first - down marker, Rees held the ball too long, got hit as he was throwing, and got picked off.

Off course we can not just change everyone on the pitch (as Hafiz would have liked), but the fair point is that we need a goal machine sort of striker and we need him as soon as possible, bringing on Alexis Sanchez (who just came back from his extended leave) in the second half after Walcott, is itself a proof that Giroud can not score in such games where if expect our striker to score.

ramsey is no winger arteta no defensive midfielder and walcott no striker... we do nt have shape... bellerin working his socks off to make up for mertesaker and ramseys lack of pace... stops him going forward when he does we create problems for them as with second goal... ozil i am sorry to say is clueless at the moment... monreal and kos doing ok....

It was striker Divock Origi who Jurgen Klopp turned to off the bench in an attempt to make the Reds more of an attacking force as they aim to turn around their two - goal deficit in the second half.

At the moment I still few his better off playing on the wing or as second striker.

Ospina can wait and has ideal reaction time, if it was second half or if it's three massive points I would first waste some time and then Id waste more time by bringing on Ospina, strikers hate having too much time to think, and also someone coming off the bench esp for them might throw them off, they might think they must do something different as this guy has studied me.

The former Arsenal attacker had only managed one training session with his new colleagues before kick off but laid on the equaliser for Oumar Niasse just 57 seconds after the Senegal striker entered the action as a substitute.

The hosts took the lead on the hour mark through Gaetan Bong's own goal before Cenk Tosun smashed in a shot off the bar in the 76th minute, the striker's second goal in as many games.

Eto'o suddenly started being put out as a second striker by Martinez in place of players like Barkley or Naismith in what seemed to most fans like a degree of desperation by our Spanish manager — almost as if he was trying to put a team of players out in the hope that it would come off for him.