Sentences with phrase «as the football evolved»

However as the football evolved in last couple of decades so did the importance of quality full backs who are good while defending and support attack as well.

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Instead of being remembered as the forward thinking man who transformed the club and English football, AW will be remembered as the man who turned Arsenal into an also - ran club, a manager who was left - behind and ultimately refused to evolve with the times... #sad

We also have to consider that football has greatly evolved and I am not sure the medical staff as well the physio have been following and keeping up to date to new practises and current strategies.

Anyone can cast if off as a «freakshow», a «a one - off event», but the fact that they're where they are AT ALL, is about the worst indictment of Wenger's failures and apparent incompetence to evolve with modern football, which is clearly hurting us badly.

Setting the right formation - As football has evolved teams have to change their formations according the opposition they face.

Football has, as ever, evolved, we need to evolve and move with the times or risk being left behind.

which is certainly not a slight on the young french national player; like him or not, Sanchez has provided some real world - class performances for club and country in recent years... if you do this move, you need to really clean house or face some serious consequences for the foreseeable future... half measures are rarely rewarded, that's how we got here... tear down the wall... we need to get rid of Giroud, not because he isn't a talented player, his skill - set simply doesn't make sense if we hope to maximize the offensive potential of a quick passing, one - touch scheme... we need to evolve, like Barcelona, who realized you needed to have clinical finishers or face a mind - numbing future of horizontal passes and largely ineffective crosses... Barca went and got Suarez, even though they had Messi and Neymar on the roster (just imagine the possibilities — another in the litany of Wenger «what ifs»)... we need to be as clinical in the boardroom as on the pitch... accept nothing less or move on... personally I would move on from Welbeck, Giroud and Walcott, even Ox if he isn't all in... I think the most intriguing player might be Perez, which runs counter to the thoughts in my head when he arrived late last summer... we need a deep lying DM with quick feet and long ball potential, midfielders who can counter quickly even when they are spread out and 4 or 5 players who know how to attack the lanes (kind of a cross between Barca, Dortmund and Monaco)... this is seriously an achievable goal, one that logically should have been achieved quite a few years ago... did no one in the Arsenal organization see the financial restructuring of the football universe... think of the players we could have had but we weren't willing to cough up the dough only for those individuals to have their value double or triple within a 12 to 24 month period... even if just from an investment perspective these «no deals» represent a failure of monumental proportions... only if you cared, of course

(4) Football is evolving into a formula - 1 style and the last thing we need is a slow centre back (as a starter).

The Italian international may be older than Liverpool's number 23 and only scored half as many goals this season, but while Can remains inconsistent, Jorginho has evolved into one of the most reliable midfielders in world football.

It's in gaps between the orthodox positions and departments of defence, midfield and attack where managers and players are evolving the game to find new ways to gain advantages, to surprise opponents and drag them into areas they don't want to go, uncertain of how to react to a footballer seemingly playing as a law unto themselves.

He's got the time to dare to aspire for half of a similar career, as well as his dedication to the game of football's increasing defensive approach, which will only get more demanding as the game of football keeps evolving.

However, with Arsenal's style of football evolving to bring as many midfielders into play as possible, Vela's slight physique wouldn't make him a perfect fit up front, and his hold up play is practically non-existent.

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«Before there was a basis and a group of players that was built and we were adding to it and looking for the long term plan of how to evolve as a football club.

The recent preventable deaths of two young football players (as well as several others in the recent past) should serve as a tragic reminder that medical personnel, professional societies and industry must strive harder to connect in order to translate evolving scientific recommendations and guidelines down to the ground level: the athletes.

In the end, it all comes back to education: In the ideal world, a parent's decision about whether to allow a child to start playing or continue playing collision sports before high school under current rules of play (which are evolving in the direction of safety, fortunately, as seen, for instance, in USA Hockey's ban on body checking at the Pee Wee hockey level and below, and limits on full - contact practices instituted at every level of football, from Pop Warner, to high school, college, and the NFL), will be a conscious one; a decision in which the risks of participating in a particular sport - provided it is based on the most up - to - date information about those risks and a consideration of other risk factors that might come into play for their child, such as pre-existing learning disabilities (e.g. ADHD), chronic health conditions (e.g., a history of history of multiple concussions or seizures, history of migraines), or a reckless and overly aggressive style of play - are balanced against the benefits to the child of participating.

«Based on current and available data, we have taken appropriate steps to help ensure the safety of our football players, but as this remains an evolving area of study, future research must be monitored, and our recommendations could then be revisited and revised.»

By Max McLean, Press Association Football has been evolving as a sport ever since its inception more than 100 years ago, so in which areas do the fans want to see the game change next?

These mimetic works blend mysticism with popular imagery — from a Hindu statue to an American football player, diverse cultural references appear to evolve within the series, almost as in a stream of consciousness.

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