Sentences with phrase «ball possession football»

The players u see today erforming extraordinarily for their teams today may turn out to be shadows cuz of Wenger's playing tactics and methods (slow ball possession football with no killer instinct and no excellent wing play)

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Possession football is still obviously our main goal, but we've been looking deadly on the counter, playing much more direct, and seem a lot more willing to cross and loft balls into space than recent seasons.

Recently he have excelled playing for teams which does not dominate the ball or less possession who plays counter attacking style football.

On it's own, of course, possession does not win you a football match, but when you see that we also have the highest number of successful through balls per game as well as the most successful dribbles.

The ball playing from the back and total possession football they can play in any area of the park is what lets them win.

Playing out from the back with possession based football will give our strikers more opportunities, esp as we are getting the ball back so nicely now.

If Wenger see's that we are struggling to play our usual possession football, instead of allowing the team to get frustrated and concede a stupid goal (West Ham), why just he doesn't tell the players to give the opposition the ball and try and play counter.

I think this performance has something interesting, players losing the ball recklessly, in essence no ball players on the pitch, dembele, denis, gomes, paulinho and coutinho were all part of the midfield, imagine their ball losing skills put together (coutinho and dembele are good players, paulinho did well in this match) but one only wonders how you play possession and positional football with so many positionally poor players and no ball holders.

With a player blessed with his speed and goal scoring abilities it is vital we play to his strengths.We need to inject more pace and directness into our attacking play otherwise Auba will struggle just as Lacazette.This stems from our «pass the ball to one another at all costs» possession football that has overtaken system we played when we were challenging most seasons for the Premiere League Title 1998 - 2004.

Being prescriptive about it, and as a general principle, at any given point while the ball is in their team's possession, a footballer should do whatever is most likely to lead to a goal for their team.

We a football academy with players breaking gradually, but EPL winning takes players at a certain level as well... Anyhow, we did and can beat Man city with our play, if we do so to score an not just keep possession, pass ball around up and down the field.

He's stated on multiple occasions that while the philosophy and technically sound possession oriented football remains the foundation, the play as a whole is intended to get the ball from back to front as quickly as possible, giving the MSN more time with the ball with less defenders to break down, and not spend as much time as they used to stringing passes in midfield.

He's a professional footballer of course he's got a 40 yard pass in the locker, the crucial element is the continued and consistent ability to be a factor with the ball when the team has possession....

Deny it all you want but since Fabregas left Arsenal our frre flowing football has really declined.It feels like am the only one who thinks we lack real penetration and ideas in the final third of opponents.Also in 14/15 sesson I lost count of our misplaced passes and poor gameplay overall.We've been very very poor in our passing game for some seasons now.For a game like this to work you need players whonhold the ball very well and are possession efficient.Look at the Arsenal starting lineup and compare it to that of years back and you'll know what I mean.We have very few possession efficient players which is causing this problem.We don't have many players who can actually hold the ball and play the ball.That's what differentiates us from the top passing teams.

For the exquisite brand of football that Arsenal play, and retain possession of the ball for long periods in the game, Wenger's wizards don't score the number of goals you expect of them.

Early last season, I was critical of Thorns playing too much negative possession football - where the ball goes sideways / backwards with no risk, but little reward.

Theo isn't 1st choice CF, Giroud fights to win the ball back and I believe Theo needs to learn that but he does offer a great «Plan B» during a game, if Giroud can't do the job or we want to hold a lead then play deeper with faster strikers for counter attacking football instead of so much possession bassed.

Because Wenger is obsessed with possession football and square passes, it slows our attacks down, which gives the opposition time to get men behind the ball and get defensively organised.

If we gonna play possession football then he is a better option as he is able to protect n keep the ball well as opposed to the Ox who is better suited to counter attacking football.

I am proud of ev, I want him to stay because he can at least hand us doubles while we rebuild our squad and resurrect our style many are mad and sad but honestly with this squad we deserve to be 4th and struggling for cl qualification next year without CD - R dreams let us not forget that while RM Roma Bayern, even PSG built we slept, laporta will never sign paulinho denis, gomes, vidal signed, (he would not even sign coutinho and dembele because we play possession based football where you act fast and hold onto the ball though they are not suited for that.

Most top teams play a form of counter attacking football — but most of them play better possession football when they have the ball.

Most visiting teams at the Emirates nowadays tend to have lots of possession, play most of their football deep in Arsenal half and force Petr Cech to kick all balls long to them.

yes, in modern football you adapt your tactics with the team you face.i think wenger et players have finally understand it and when we play a team which win possession we let them the ball and kill them in counter attack!!!

Herbert Chapman played a WM formation, in numbers it is a 3 -2-2-3 formation, it allowed for narrow play while pressing as soon as the team lost the ball, the formation lends itself to possession based football as well.

Football does not entail in just marking your opponents alone and then all of a sudden become clueless of what to do when in possession of ball.

Yeah that was a great team (Vieira, Henry, Pires, Campbell, Ljungberg and Bergkamp) and will most probably never be matched... But i still think that AW is stuck in the past in the PL — Times have changed — Clubs are spending like crazy and even the football has changed... You can no longer sit with most of the ball possession and easily win games..

Football is based around the idea that the two teams trade possessions, but in the fourth quarter of a tied title game, Alabama decided it didn't want to give Clemson the ball back.

TUCHEL for manager — change of style but even with some of our current players can adapt to — Fast attacking football based on possession (winning back the ball quickly)-- Younger and hungrier manager who can also attract some players from BVB or from Germany

The problem we had all season was to control games, we struggle to control the ball, Arsenal possession statistics plummet in many games both home and away, Especially after scoring an early goal their overall football seems to disintegrate completely.

Wilshere kept on giving the ball away so Wenger had to think outside of the box and stop playing possession football.

I would say play possession football, pass and pass and pass, let them chase the ball.

Possession stats are the most useless in football, when we beat Bayern we only had like 30 % of the ball and look at Leicester in almost all their games they always have low possession stats, possession doesn't win games butPossession stats are the most useless in football, when we beat Bayern we only had like 30 % of the ball and look at Leicester in almost all their games they always have low possession stats, possession doesn't win games butpossession stats, possession doesn't win games butpossession doesn't win games but goals do!

For me, forget all the yap about MO, be it a big flop, panic buy, quiet genius, maverick, goes missing etc etc he is one of the few players in world football where I will lean forward a few inches and take special note when he has the ball — in possession he is a one - off no doubt about it, not so much for any fireworks or spectacular end product, it is just the coolness and ease that dazzles.

«He'd have us pressing high, keeping a high line, receiving the ball in difficult situations, keeping possession and basically having the confidence to play football rather than being afraid,» said Clyne.

The possession - based philosophical approach to football thinks about football in terms of space; how can a team control the game both with or without the ball?

The midfield which last season scorned to play possession football, and only knew to pass the ball forward, last week seemed to be playing hot potato; no one wanted it, and if they got it, they quickly got rid of it, usually by giving it to a Barcelona player.

I fell in love with this football, slow in possession at times but pulling the opposition from side to side and then, with a flaming cut and thrust, the ball someone sped up and ended up nestled in the bottom corner.

They were just fantastic, the one and two touch and effort when out of possession to get the ball back, that was a [Pep] Guardiola side on Saturday as some of their football was just splendid.

Noble's supporters will say he keeps possession well but the way I see it in modern Premier League football you have to use the ball quickly when gaining possession.

any half assed footballer can take the ball to feet unopposed... thats where the opposition want you to be, Wenger thinks this is possession, its not... we are very rarely facing our opponents goal, in fact if you were watching an Arsenal game as your first football game you could be forgiven for asking what the purpose of the posts and netting were.

I'm not talking about possession football, one can have an attacking mindset without dominating the ball as clearly expressed by his early FC Porto and Chelsea sides.

Also when we have the ball we need to be brave in possession and play the attacking football, we know we can and create those problems as well.»

Likening democracy to football, which is a team sport, the former President said: «When the ball is in your possession, you do your best to move it forward, but then you must inevitably pass that ball to the next player and wish him or her the best in making progress because the victory that comes is not claimed by you or any of the other players.»

A football or soccer team, for example, needs to be able to capitalize on scoring opportunities when it has possession of the ball, but it is just as important that it fields a good defense in order to protect against attacks by the opposing team.

Soccer plays more like table football, with your opposing outfield players remaining on the rails throughout your attack, but controlled by your opponent when they are in possession of the ball.