Sentences with phrase «ball at the defenders»

A draw, had it been wenger knew DK were gonna perform like they did, he wouldn't have hoped for a draw but rather a win for us.Our boys lost the killer instinct needed in the champions league.On the positive side, i'm seeing a new Ade, the Ade i knew of couldn «t do the things he was doing yesterday, put aside the fact that he missed some chances, the guy's now having some good footwork, and he pushes the ball at the defenders with confidence.Good job Ade.

Not exact matches

And big players have no special natural advantage in shielding a ball and holding off a defender etc — YaYa Toure is good at this but because he has ability not because he is physically intimidating.

Running at walls of defenders, while greedily keeping the ball from team mates to appear flashy and then falling over dispossessed is not how to play football.

Jack simply can't keep the ball, he gets it, runs at defenders, the more the better for Jack and gets dispossessed.

if sanchez continues lyk ths, at the end of tha force to reckon with, he looks consisted and comfortable with the ball, even the defender did nt expect what he did b4 he shot, am so hapy 4 arsenal

I'll go a step further if Van Djik hasn't signed for Liverpool I would try to make a move and here is why: 1) Prem experience 2) Southampton plays a similar style of football than Arsenal 3) He can play in both a 3 and 4 man defense with his ability on the ball 4) Mustafi has been up and down and I don't know which one we're getting ahead of next season and will it be for 38 weeks 5) Mertesacker will go into a non playing role 6) Chambers has played well at Boro but well enough to play a big role into this team... not really and could be used in any deal for Van Djik 7) Koscielny is our best defenders but is dealing with a chronic injury not only that he hasn't made the best decisions at times Everything mentioned above will free wages but also increase Wenger money to spend!

A striker with the ball at his feet is looking to dribble past defenders and take them on.

At around 81 minutes the ball gets played back to Schez who looks for OG way down the pitch and OG holds off a defender while having the ball hit his chest and the ball falls to his feet.

«Cazorla is important at the start of the game when the ball comes from our defenders, because he can pass from deep midfield to high midfield better than everybody and get out of pressure,» Wenger told the media after the game (via Arsenal Player).

Take for example Sanchez, his strength is his close control, dribbling skills and pace that enable him to attack fullbacks and defenders by charging them with the ball at this feet, plus finishing.

Ox is very quick on the ball and great at running at people, but he doesn't seem to like making runs in behind defenders, that's what Theo's great at.

As we stated at the open, Michael Pisanelli would hurl the ball to the right block, flying just over the outstretched arms of the Defender and Oren Schwartz would catch it and lay it in (while in mid-air) as the buzzer sounded.

True true MOBELLA Even under pressure at the back they are passing the ball from one defender to another lol and against a pressing team like city mistakes happen quick

Steven your correct mustafi was back pedaling eyes on ball aguero had feet planted with no attempt or even looking at the ball he intentionally interfered with that space and it gets called all year its a clear foul if he trys for a header or makes an attempt for the ball then it is legal bit that was illegal you cant plant your feet make no attempt to play or battle fpr ball and just put your shoulder into back of a backpedaling defender but honestly the officiating across the whole league this year has been an embarrassment to professional officials of all sports its been bad game after game they need a real looking after and more training in off season

Calmly treading water near the center of the pool, Jack Fellner held the ball at an arm's length away from his defender and waited.

He launches an attack for Arsenal, he sees Welbeck making a run, he kicks the ball, the ball lands at Welbeck's feet, he notices Sanchez making a run, he passes the ball to Sanchez, Sanchez does his dribbling drills, two defenders are out, he had an option to either go for goal or pass the ball to an on - rushing Xhaka, he chose to lay the ball for Xhaka, who then fires an unstoppable shot into the net for our third goal!.

Monreal comes out with the ball and shows us why Arsene put him at CB, he's a smooth passer for a defender, not many CBs that can use a ball like Monreal can even in tight space.

At other times, Sutton displayed an ability to use his height well, going up to get the ball in the air over smaller defenders.

Walcott now wants to play the right wing, Sanchez best attributes is charging defenders and fullbacks with the ball at his feet commencing from deep and wide areas his weakness is holding a position high up the pitch alongside defenders and allowing midfielders to feed him balls.

I felt like one of the Houston games was like this, where there were plenty of hard hit balls, but hit right at defenders.

Everyone loves a tenacious, tigerish striker, hunting every ball, chasing defenders, snapping at their heels, gnashing at goalkeepers.

The Lallana goal should have been prevented as he was at a narrow angle and the ball eluded 3 defenders and the keeper.

Last I checked, football is still a team sport, and he would be 10 times player that he already is if he just learned how to pass the ball once in a while as opposed to trying to take on 3 defenders at once.

The England international broke the deadlock at the Emirates Stadium just after the half hour mark after latching on to a sublime pass from Mesut Ozil to shrug off the challenge from Potters defender Marc Muniesa before slotting the ball past Jack Butland and into the back of the net.

The junior guard is the Grizzlies» leading scorer at 16.0 ppg, but he's also a tenacious on - ball defender.

Why isn't the ball cut out by one of the two defenders at the near post?

He needs to drop back into midfield get the ball and run at defenders and make things happen so he can be effective, or he'll just be another overpriced waste.

Well yes, obviously Flamini has the potential to turn on god mode and single - handedly destroy any team on the planet... But we still should at least give those chumps Cazorla, Ozil and Sanchez a chance to have at least a little bit of the ball when Flamini gets tired and doesn't feel like dancing through a wall of Bayern defenders and chipping or back - heeling Neuer with his eyes closed!

Antony Martial and Marcus Rashford likes to charge defenders with the ball at their feet.

He needs the ball in his hands to be effective, he needs shots to justify being on the court, he needs great defenders to help cover for him, and even if he has all that, he's got ta play at his absolute best for the whole formula to be worth the trouble.

Coquelin did all the dirty work in midfield, tracking back, being the first defender and covering at the back to give time for the more forward players to come help and for the defence to organise (Mertesacker never found himself outrun... against City) breaking up plays and cleanly passing the ball forward!!

Arguably one of the best defenders in the world at the moment, Hummels would bring power to United's defence, something they lack badly at the moment with Leicester routinely bullying them off the ball.

And as he got to be ball, he either got there before the approaching 2nd Barca defender or both of them will get to the ball at the same time.

He has the physical presence to control the ball with defenders around him, therefore i feel he must also use that presence to turn the defender and take shots at goal, which i have seen he has a powerful shot on him

WE NEED A MIDFIELD CAPTAIN!!!! Someone who shouts at the ref when zouma don't get booked someone who shouts at welbeck and nearly chins him for not squaring the ball to lacazette fans r a tap in someone who will threaten the linesman when he gave stoke 4 throw ins in a row so that he's to scared to give us offside coz he knows it's onside (corrupt) we don't have a presence just pass pass with no end product and a tiny petty team who lets defenders push them over in the box it's boring arsenal bore me and Wenger is the master of boringness conte Jose are what I like coz they have a bit of an edge i wish I could be arsenal so CM captain

Not too comfortable on the ball by the look of it, but as a defender it's what you do off the ball that's most important, and he seems to be great at that.

At first, the gains will be relatively small — Giannis pushing the ball in transition with arms that look like a genetic mutation, Jabari pivoting around a defender to hit a spinning jump shot.

Though Bale was finding some space behind the defence on the left, more often than not the ball wasn't finding him, while Bellamy was spending as much time shouting at the referee as he was running at defenders.

Valverde will need to help the Colombian defender find a balance in that regard, as while he's evidently comfortable on the ball and technically good at passing as well as defending, he will need to adapt to Spanish football and know when to express himself and when not to, ultimately for the betterment of the team.

Vs. Bayern Bellerin literally came out of nowhere to steal the ball, beat 3 defenders one by one, and deliver a PERFECT cross while at a full gallop and under pressure.

Theo is an expensive failure and to keep giving him the chance when he has repaid the clubs faith with being a bottler and acting as if he's a lazy git (watched him a number of seasons ago against Blackburn away and all he did was run up and down the wing without even calling for the ball to draw defenders away from the centre) I hate to say it but in my mind Alan Hansen was right when he said that «Walcott has not got a natural footballers brain» It infuriated me at the time but its been proven to be true I feel he's been collecting his money for too long without a result to justify keeping him in our employment.

Aymeric Laporte At first glance, Laporte is the paradigm of the ball playing centre - back, «my positon's most important evolution has been in the sense of being more than a defender.

The defenders are absolutely terrified at passing the ball to him because he can't play out from midfield.

We need a tall rough strong mobile central defender some one to stand strong against the bullies that can repel long balls at set pieces we need also a striker that will turn every opportunity to goals galore right back and left back and wingers but essentially a good defender and a good striker

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

«It was just all kind of a rush at the end,» said Jones, who dropped to the floor in tears after her ball careened off a Crossroads defender.

Unlike Di Maria, Bellerabi is an out - and - out winger who loves running at defenders, putting the ball in dangerous areas early, and taking shots on goal, many of which are successful.

Good defender, elite rebounder, decent ball handling, needs to work on shooting but has a decent post moves and could fill at PF too.

Look at united all atattakers with no defenders, there defence is shite beyond beliefe they do not dare leave the box, run with the ball.

Pros: Good body control, creates a good catch radius despite an average frame and snags the ball away from his body, uses body to shield defenders from ball Understands how to find the holes and sit down against zone coverage Nuanced route runner, uses head fakes at the stem and on release where he also uses feet well to beat press Has special teams experience (though I never thought of him as a standout from the broadcast) Has experience running full route tree, from multiple alignments with multiple personnel packages