Sentences with phrase «attacking areas of the pitch»

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Throughout his career so far, the midfielder has shown that he is capable of playing in central area of the pitch, with the midfielder being deployed as an attacking midfielder, central and defensive midfielder.

Bear in mind that Sanchez while no doubt making our attack better does not play in a area of the pitch which was our weakness.

While Coutinho is a key player in Klopp's attack, it could be argued that that area of the pitch is not a priority for the club at the moment, with the likes of Mohamed Salah, Roberto Firmino and Sadio Mane all shining in the Brazilian's absence earlier in the season.

Masuaku is really becoming a bit a bit of a revelation in an attacking sense, and providing he doesn't try his wonderful tricks in vulnerable areas of the pitch then he can become a major creator for us going forward.

With Gareth Bale another attacking player not at his best this season, it makes sense that Real are, according to Don Balon, looking at Alli as a long - term replacement in that area of the pitch as they look to put together another group of Galacticos for the next few years.

At Middlesbrough, he'll likely be used all across the attacking midfield band, as they've struggled to get results in that area of the pitch this season.

It will resolve the problems we have with the isolation of the DM by bringing in the second guy and in this case i choose Flamini and Chambers because the two have good utility value and can cover the wingback and full back areas in case of counter attack and still have the duty to stop attacks in the centre of the pitch.

Whether that's enough time for Tottenham to get a deal done remains to be seen, but with a lack of goals and attacking threat behind Harry Kane, Pochettino is seemingly prioritising that area of the pitch this week.

He does all the good work - runs with the ball into dangerous areas and then gives it away with a poor pass - which then starts a counter attack and leaves his side of the pitch exposed.

Indeed, 69pc of all of Liverpool's shots came from the middle of the pitch, and whilst the action areas in terms of attacking spread was 32/36/32 (left / right / middle), Liverpool will need more than Moreno and Alexander - Arnold's simple overlaps when trying to break down better teams, and should be targeting runs just inside the sides of the box, six - yards away from the touch - line in particular for cut - backs.

Why not the attacking players as would be the case in any other area of the pitch, as long as they are outside the area when the kick is actually taken?

In attacking phases of play, the Shadow Striker forms a partnership with a No. 9 but when the team is defending, they drop into a deeper area of the pitch in order to try and retain possession by hassling opposing central midfielders.

As the Possession chart with heat map on the right of the image above, Sweden attacked very centrally going from right to left, the action when Sweden were on the ball occurred in the centre of midfield with 64.78 % of the Swedish possession coming in the two most central areas of the pitch, around where Ibrahimovic spent most of the game.

Napoli's attacking plan revolved around them circulating the ball in a small area of the pitch to draw in Wolfsburg before spreading it to whoever's in space — with Hamsik given so much room, whoever got it had a big obvious target for moving the ball forward quickly so Napoli were able to break at speed.

Beyond Marcos Alonso, Antonio Conte's side do not have much depth in this area of the pitch and the 25 - year - old would provide a good attacking option at left wing - back too.

Walcott runs the length of the pitch after a Liverpool attack breaks down on the edge of our area, evading 3 or 4 challenges, burning off defenders with pace, strength and skill, before crossing superbly to lay it on a sixpence for Adebayor.

It's also worth noting that Dyer's crossing accuracy is higher than Bale's, and his passing accuracy in both, the attacking zone and the final third of the pitch are significantly higher than Bale's passing percentages in the same areas of the pitch.