Having started four players in the two
attacking midfield spots, he now has to decide who has earned a place.
Another world class number ten, United star Juan Mata gets the final
attacking midfield spot after scoring three times against Liverpool last season.
While this group of players is typical, they could play any of three players in
the attacking midfield spot.
The France international certainly fits the bill in terms of his attributes to replace Sanchez in
that attacking midfield spot, with his pace, creativity and eye for goal making him one of the stars of the season last year.
Not exact matches
With the likes of Coquelin, Xhaka, Elneny and hopefully Cazorla competing for those
midfield spots you could say that the always
attack minded Welshman is a bit of a luxury player whose impact off the bench could be more than from the start, don't you think?
yes, that is his
spot... wing back takes advantage of (some of) his defending skills, forward winger takes advantage of his
attacking skills, but
midfield takes advantage of both, plus allows him to create from the
midfield, pressing, winning balls and creatively picking out passes and executing them to supply the
attack.
The
attacking midfielder will turn 35 in the Autumn and is likely to be very disappointed with this setback as it denies him the chance to impress Wenger and stake a claim for a regular first - team
spot ahead of the new campaign.
The
attacking midfielder has been impressing when given the chance, but with the superstars in the current squad, it is tough for him to hold down a regular starting
spot.
The report says that the
attacking midfielder, who was offered a
spot at Barcelona's and AC Milan's academies before joining Watford, has been excellent for the club's under 16's where he is both top scorer and assister.
Chelsea
attacking midfielder Eden Hazard says he wanted to take responsibility from the
spot on Monday to...
Bob Paisley had
spotted something in Ray and, unable to fit him into an
attack that already featured Toshack and Keegan, he converted him into a left - sided
midfielder with responsibility to create as well as score goals.
The depth chart, as it stands today, only makes that clear, especially in
midfield and
attack where there is very little depth of the kind Liverpool will surely need if they are to make a deep run in Europe and hold on to a top four
spot in the league.
The young
attacking midfielder has also been a part of the squad since the 2011 season (Man, Marotta and Paratici wasted no time in completely revamping our senior AND youth squad setups), and as such, he should already count as a club trained player should he ever earn a first team
spot.
Since Santi Cazorla has taken - up a regular starting
spot alongside Francis Coquelin at the base of
midfield Wenger has been deploying a natural centre -
midfielder in form of Aaron Ramsey on the right - hand side of his
attack.
Cesc Fabregas could fight it out for a
spot in the
attacking midfield places, which may add some much needed competition in there.
And it was against the Blues that Tottenham's own tricky pairing of
attacking midfielders directly combined for Dele to rise above his markers to head home from an Eriksen cross after the Dane found himself a gap to work in, and just enough time to look up and
spot his teammate.