Sentences with phrase «backline before»

Chasing a loose ball from an advanced position, the right - back danced across the Liverpool backline before firing a left - footed effort in via a deflection.

Not exact matches

Now the obsession has spread over to the backline, with Monreal and Debuchy deployed at centreback even though they have never played there before in their entire career.

Not only was it just a friendly, we played with a backline that never played together before and a bunch of youth.

Even before we lost Met and Gabriel our backline was screaming for a quality partner for Koscielny but Wenger refused to admit the obvious.

Rashford frightened the Boro backline with his pace, firing a low cross across the face of goal with no reward, before having a decent penalty shout turned down when hitting the deck under a challenge from Bernardo Espinosa.

«It was like watching a great white shark tossing its prey about before devouring the poor soul,» added Crooks in a rather bizarre assessment of how Rashford continued to terrorise the Palace backline.

Picking the ball up 40 yards from goal, Simeone drove at the hosts» backline and barged between two defenders before firing past the goalkeeper to seal an impressive 2 - 0 victory.

Sterling, Kevin de Bruyne and Gundogan all had shots on goal before Vincent Kompany's simple pass exploited Spurs» high backline, releasing Jesus who clinically finished past the on - rushing Hugo Lloris on 22 minutes.

The stumble just before the finish line prompted Rodgers to delve into the transfer market at the end of that season in order to reinforce his backline, while adding some more attacking impetus in the wake of Suárez's departure.