Sentences with phrase «as as a central striker»

Able to play on the left flank as well as as a central striker, Lookman could well be encouraged by the recent progress of a series of young talents at White Hart Lane should Spurs make a formal offer for his services.

Not exact matches

Arsenal are reported to be preparing Alexis Sanchez to play as the central striker against Liverpool next weekend.

He had problems to adapt to Wenger mediocre gameplay and little ambition... He showed his best during the first half of the season as Central Striker untill guess who changed him back to the wing... yes «Marvellous knows it all» Arsene Weneger.

With his doubles against Sunderland and Burnley, the 25 - year old has bagged eight goals in those six games and for a player that does not even play as the main central striker, it just shows you how good Alexis is and the fantastic form he has found since swapping La Liga for the English Premier League.

It would make more sense, like at Barca, for Arsenal to have a top striker in the center (Higuain or Aubamayng) and Sanchez on the right wing or to play Sanchez as a nr 10 in a 4 -4-2 type of style where he can play of a more physical central striker.

Giroud's main role as the central striker, believe it or not, is to occupy the defenders and give our fluid and ever changing formation a focal point.

We still need 3 players; 1 CB (Miquel may be the one), 1 top class DM (not going to happen as Wenger made Arteta the captain) and 1 top class central striker (again unlikely to materialize).

Alexis has not really impressed me as a central striker to be honest.

Top of the priority list for Schmeichel is to play Anthony Martial as a central striker.

Walcott just backtrack from his wish of playing as central striker Confidence is one the most important trait for a good striker.

Sanchez going to Real would not see him as the central striker around whom everything is build.

To progress, however, we need to buy 2 players, a Central Defender / Midfielder and a bigger striker to present as an alternative to Sanchez.

Play Laca as a central striker so he can get used to the PL and his team mates as soon as possible, bring Giroud in as super sub.

In order to allow both Aubameyang and Lacazette to play as central strikers Wenger would have to revert to an old fashioned 4 -4-2.

Welbeck is fantastic, he only played 13 games as central striker last season and scored 8 times.

The France international's best position is as a central striker, but he's been used out wide on both flanks at United in recent times.

I am not sold on him as a winger, and I think he has a LOT of work to do to be a central striker, but I like him and I hope he plays well for someone.

Yes he could be alot better at finishing, but let's see, maybe we got a new sturridge... What I am mad on Wenger about is not so much the lack of a proven striker to our ranks... No it's that we haven't bought a central defender to cover, but most important, we haven't bought a defensive midfielder, that we need so much!!? Wenger makes the same mistakes over and over, everybody else can see it, just not him... hmm: / but still lets respect him as a man and judge when we are atleast half way into the season... COYG!!!!

Everyone n football and most of the same fans know Sanchez is our only player of quality, Henry said he is the only player who would get into the Spurs squad, and we play him with one hand tied behind his back on the left wing with effectively no existing central striker to worry defenders (unless you count Giroud as a central striker but I refuse to believe Giroud worries any central defender).

I hope someone reminds him he plays for Arsenal as a central midfielder and not a striker

Just putting it out there but I would like to see the Ox given a go as a central striker sometime during the season.

At one point he got a run of games as central striker and did OK IMO if you include the additional dimension his speed gave Ozil and Sanchez.

Having added a striker and midfielder, a central defender is arguably next at the top of his to - do list as he looks to rebuild the spine of a team that finished 10th in the Premier League last season and is short of options at the back with John Terry, Gary Cahill and Kurt Zouma arguably not enough.

If he is, I think he should start as our central striker ahead of Alexis.

With Van Persie operating as a lone striker, Wenger wanted to add a third central midfielder and give his wide playmakers more attacking freedom.

He has shared the central role with Alvaro Morata this term, and a striker of his capabilities could be looking to leave in order to play more regularly, as well as seek one final pay - day, having turned 29 in December.

schweinsteiger has captained the german national side has won basically every domestic trophy as well as the cl and central midfielders tend to play at their peak longer than strikers as their game is not based around attributes such as pace.

Same for Laca, I love his finishing ease and love him as a central striker, I like him less out on the wing.

Then the following year he decided to use Alexis Sanchez as central striker thinking that maybe Sanchez will pull a Luis Suarez... And that actually turned out to be quite useful but then Sanchez wont renew his contract and his future remained / remains uncertain....

Giroud, on the other hand, has amassed 27 goals after 60 appearances, and that is in his natural position as central striker.

He was second fiddle to Zlatan Ibra at PSG, and was forced into playing in a foreign position on the RW all season where previously at Napoli and earlier he was bred and groomed as a central striker.

And TBH, as a central striker he ranks 3rd or 4th in my book behind Laca and Sanchez and maybe next to Giroud, so at the moment we have enough options.

I would love to see what he could accomplish as a central striker at PSG, and even more so at Arsenal.

«In most of the games we had 70 percent possession, but that makes it difficult for the strikers because there is less room and less freedom as well as most of the time people play with central defenders.

There are doubts over Olivier Giroud against the top teams [Daily Telegraph], while Theo Walcott and Danny Welbeck have never played as a central striker on a regular basis and it remains to be seen whether either player could lead the line for potential title contenders.

he scored a lot of goals playing as central striker, but the old man pushes him to the wing.

With the signing of Draxler it is believed that Wenger will be happy with the number of wide forwards at his disposal for next season which will include Welbeck, who Wenger feels needs more time before playing as the teams main central striker.

For strikers giroud and welbeck are great backups and for wingers walcott and iwobi are also good enough deputies as chamberlain wants a more central «gerrard» type role.

Even if Sanchez is aging and becomes too slow to be a striker in the future, we can still use him as a central midfielder, like Cazorla.

Wenger will be letting go of both Podolski and Campbell to make room for a «special talent», a player who is capable of playing on either wing or as a potential central striker, Wenger made Draxler his priority after Borussia Dortmund rejected any advance for their star striker, Aubameyang, who would cost Wenger over # 40 million, instead Wenger opted for the cheaper yet equally talented Draxler for # 28.7 million.

Sanchez is okay as a striker, but I think he would be better if he plays as a central attacking midfielder, behind a striker.

The problem as i see it is that we need a top striker and central defender to challenge for the league and to show players such as ozil and sanchez that we have ambition.

Here's my take on Walcott; the typical English hype got to him and he over estimated his own abilities in recent seasons, wanting to play as striker without first establishing himself as a world class winger forgatting that even Henry, Ronaldo and even Messi had to first prove their undoubted abilities on the wing befroe going central, Wenger let him suit himself, he hit rock bottom when he wasn't even selected for the Euros and has finally decided to dust himself up and work his way back up, why cant we see that and just give him the necessary support?

Or how about putting the Ox on the wing and putting Alexis as central striker after his wonderful hat - trick this weekend?

The young playmaker, who can operate in the hole or even as a central striker, has netted ten goals in 42 appearances for the Amsterdam club this season.

we need 2 - 3 defenders, 1 central midfielder, 1 striker (in this order of importance) as long as we can keep alexis & özil.

«He can play [as a central striker], we've also got Theo coming back and we've got Sanogo on the bench, who has improved so much.

In fact, the England forward has proved that he also has the ability to play as a central striker with some success and that is not something Pedro has in his locker.

Walcott never made the switch from winger to central striker, whether that was as a result of not enough playing time or injury is not so relevant.

but when he first got to Dortmund - he wasn't even viewed as good enough to play as the central striker & lead the line - shifted out on the wing - much like Walcott for us.