Sentences with phrase «ball through the eye of a needle»

so no one else on the team can pass the ball through eye of a needle?

Gotanidea is correct when he says we need explosive wingers.We need natural width and pace before we can even think about getting the best from Lacazette and (hopefully) Auba without Wenger playing one of them out wide.We continue to allow defences to dominate us by stopping us playing wide and we are forced into the crowded area outside the box trying to thread the ball through an eye of a needle.

When Giroud came on, Wenger should have just demanded lots of crosses, and long balls, but instead the crosses were few and far between, and we kept trying to play the ball through the eye of a needle, even though Utd had so many defending.

If he wasn't forcing Jordan Pickford to scramble across his goalmouth in a desperate attempt to alleviate the danger, he was threading the ball through the eye of a needle for one of his team - mates to exploit.

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He is a very good reader of the game, he's slotting passes through the eye of needle and his long ball distribution appears very Pirlo / Gerrard esque.