Sentences with phrase «at midfielders in»

David Moyes has confirmed that West Ham are looking at midfielders in the January transfer window, but who should they go for?

«He's not so far removed from football and the casual lingua franca of playing life, and his keynote could have been delivered at midfield in a practice,» notes The Wall Street Journal.

Not exact matches

At least Liverpool have lost their main midfield man Jordan Henderson to injury as well and so have gone for three combative central midfielders in Lucas, Milner and Emre Can.

Gibbs hasn't got the confidence to pass the ball forward, he gets to pass back to often and is not good at defending Monreal is a class act so we need to add there Ramsey is not a wide player, why Wenger doesn't play his strongest first then make the 2subs in 65 min and Walcot should have started as Ramsey is better in Midfield.

It is strange really, because when the Gunners were enjoying our most successful period, which culminated in the amazing and perhaps never to be matched achievement of winning the Premier League without losing a single game, it was with the combative midfield warrior Patrick Vieira at the heart of the side.

At the moment half the six are missing so I would bring in chamberlain rosicky and cazorla against the likes of Hull, but against united if they are still missing I would have diaby in the midfield.

We did very well in the beginning of last season with our Coquelin + Cazorla at the base of our midfield.

Arteta is certainly very talented, despite getting on in years, and will be hoping to get chance to impress Arsene Wenger before the season ends, but with the dogfight Arsenal are in with Man City and Man United for second place means that he is unlikely to be risked at the moment as the club has a whole host of talent in midfield right now.

Compared to the top teams, Arsenal look soft in midfield and defense and toothless at striker.

i don't get it, he claims it's about money but game time and wanting to play in midfield, but he won't get more game time at chelsea and conte will use him as a WB just like wenger.

In the midfield: I would have a go at Naigolann or Goretzka.

If we even want to have a shot at UCL title, we need more steel in the midfield.

This football player Jorginho — the strongest midfielder that there is at this time in Serie A. Watching him play is a pleasure for the eyes, it makes me mad.»

The French giants would arguably jump at this offer though, as it gives them an opportunity to bring in a fee, replace Neymar immediately and have the added bonus of Pogba bolstering their midfield.

Glides magnificently across the midfield but in his head wheels are turning cogs at a fast pace till the ta - da light goes off.

The best player on the pitch as Southampton beat Arsenal 2 - 0 at St. Mary's was midfielder Victor Wanyama, whose physicality and dominance in the centre of the pitch was much too much for the visitors to deal with.

Apart from his preferred role of playing as a box - to - box midfielder, the Juventus star can also play as a winger, a full - back or as a wing - back, whilst also having played as a centre - back in a three - man defence during his spell at Marseille in the 2014 - 15 season, under manager Marcelo Bielsa.

I am angry that we are still short at the back and in defensive midfield, quality wise.

We need big characters on the pitch, I would love to see Flamini and Diaby at the base of our midfield with Alexis and the Ox on the wings and Ozil in the middle with Welbeck up top.

Liverpool have worries in midfield, however, with Adam Lallana missing the whole season so far due to injury, while the Daily Mirror report that little progress is being made on efforts to keep Can at the club.

Luka Modric will turn 33 in September, and while the Croatian international continues to be a joy to watch at times with his ability to run a game in midfield and set the tempo for Los Blancos, he can't do it forever as it'll surely start to catch up with him.

The only other change made by the Frenchman is at the back, with veteran keeper Petr Cech coming back in and the midweek hero David Ospina dropping back to the bench, so Coquelin and Cazorla continue to be our first choice central midfield pairing and the summer signing Granit Xhaka will have to wait.

With the midfield we have now or for the past 2 years and with Van Persie at the helm, we would have one the league in one of the past 2 seasons.

Looking at the season he's had and considering the competition in Arsenal's midfield, the Arsenal skipper Mikel Arteta looks likely to leave the club at the end of the season, despite signing a new contract not so long ago.

Arsenal could certainly do with upgrades in midfield at the moment, and Rafinha still has time to prove himself capable of being the player Barcelona thought he would be when he came through as a highly - rated youngster.

We simply have to look at strengthening our central midfield area also, and bring in a comfortable centre - back.

Picture this, if we had a quick, agile defender alongside kos, our full backs would have the freedom to bombard forward without worrying about covering for a slug at the back.Same if we had a big strong athletic dmf like gustavo, our midfield midgets would be free to move forward and create chances knowing that there is someone reliable protecting the back four.But then again this can only happen in my dreams or on FIFA manager

Arsenal should be looking at their midfield options this month, with Granit Xhaka and Francis Coquelin failing to form the partnership we had expected in the middle of the park.

But the game does a decent job at giving you plenty of options — young and old — who are free agents, if you find that your current group of defensive midfielders don't include Nemanja Matic or Paul Pogba in their ranks.

Of course it does not help Arsenal that Coquelin picked up the problem at the same time that another central midfielder Mohamed Elneny has headed off to Gabon to play for his national side Egypt in the African Cup of Nations and that he might not return until the February if they go all the way, but in a report on the Arsenal website the manager has set the estimated return date of Coquelin at just a few weeks.

Petr Cech also got a special mention for keeping us in the game — and he reckons that he will be buying «at least» one player his transfer window as the Gunners midfield is looking «a little short»...

One of the biggest names in the Premier League at the moment, Yaya Toure is one of the most high - profile transfer targets believed to be on Madrid's radar this January, with Carlo Ancelotti in urgent need of new signings in midfield.

The brilliant Czech midfielder Tomas Rosicky is now in his 8th season at Arsenal, and has always performed brilliantly when called upon to play for the first team, but due to various injuries and Arsene Wenger's choices our Little Mozart has only averaged 20 starts a season in all competitions, and another 10 per year as substitute.

With the midfield we have and without a superstar player that overshadows everyone in the squad like Ronaldo does at Madrid, Giroud should be scoring a lot more.

The former United man believes that the England international's vision and work - rate would see him in shine in midfield, and it is a sensible move with Rooney's diminishing pace and lack of goal threat at times becoming a problem for the Red Devils.

Liverpool face the departure of Steven Gerrard at the end of this season, so it is no surprise to see the club targeting new additions in midfield that can provide both energy and creativity in a number of different roles in the middle of the park.

Some people have jumped on the situation that Wenger is using Coquelin in the CB position at training, now he only has 3 CBs there and a whole bunch of midfielders, he has 2 teams a guess practicing against each other a midfielder would more than likely be used since Bellerin, Debuchy, Gibbs, Monreal, Chambers, Holding and Bielik would already be occupied.

«The 22 - year - old midfielder joined West Ham in January 2012 and made 24 appearances in his three years at the Club, scoring five goals.

He is with a great potential as a midfield player and I hope he will play a great role at Arsenal in the near future.

As a team we look very weak, Our midfield have no bite to them as we keep buying little fancy players but they are no good at tackling and getting stuck in, Santi for me this year do nt want to play maybe he is looking for a move!!!! Jack in in and out of games he is so inconsistanat, Arteta past his best and needs to be replaced, Wenger needs to look at the time and improve it, Last year we got Ozil this year we got Alexis but we are not using them to there full potental, Ransey is class but we can keep hoping for is magic to get us out of shit, Giroud for me is a waste of time we need a top top forward he battles away but he is far below the class we need,

The «extra man» would force errors when we are attacking by the opposing team's confusion over who to mark, he would close down the enemy in the midfield and he would help steal the initiative off the opponent attackers by his mobility to position himself at the less served areas.

Though England are currently well equipped at centre back, and Rovers boss Sam Allardyce believes that will eventually become Jones» permanent position, there is certainly a void in defensive midfield that Jones could well fill — especially with poor Owen Hargreaves having suffered another setback.

Our rotated defence will have the extra protection of tweo holding midfielders in the absence of Coquelin at least, with Wenger going for Arteta and Flamini as a double pivot and it looks like Aaron Ramsey will be our number 10, with the Ox and Joel Campbell on either side of Olivier Giroud in attack.

With the limited budget that the club have, (no comparable with our mains rivals) plus the attitude of Wenger in relation to bring new players I think that the team needs at least one very good and expensive midfielder and retain Perez instead of going for Lemard.If they need a wing; Nelson will do it.

The 31 - year - old has been one of the top attacking midfield players in Europe in his eight seasons at City, and would be a major loss if he were to move on, particularly to a Premier League rival.

Buying Morgan, Wanyama, or William would have meant filling in the defensive midfield vacancy for at least four years, and that Granit would not have joined us.

I am no Flamini fan but seriously, the OX just pissed off and left him to cover a massive gap in our midfield, the guy tried and was shouting at players because they were bombing forward and leaving him alone to handle Stirling and Courthino.

The midfield is a diamond arrangement with Ozil at the north of the diamond, Carzola and Xhaka on the sharing the deep lying role in the west and the east of the diamond and Coquelin on the south of the diamond as defensive midfield.

Chambers still has time I'll admit and it looks like he's at least trying in midfield.

The diminutive midfield magician has played in a number of roles for Arsenal and I am sure that Arsene Wenger will ask him to do so again at times, but the boss does seem to have settled on the central midfield role as the best one for the Spaniard.