Sentences with phrase «balls around our box»

Jack is notorious for doing this and once or twice he was close but when then rest of the team is content just to pass the ball around the box there was no hope.

The overal performance of the team were gud but the notably problem of this team is when wilshere play together with ozil our flowing game got stacked and we only tip tap the ball around the box and we lack directiness

We cut out plenty of balls around our box, you see this happen in every game you watch.

They defended well as well, they intercepted many dangerous balls around the box.

Get a midfield that actually want to play attacking football and not «lets keep the ball around the box.

The stats are also a reflection of our style of play — we do not counter attack effectively enough and are still playing that game where we pass pass pass the ball around their box and try and roll the ball into the net.

We play too many slow balls around the box and just try to pass through solid defences (again).

Not exact matches

The 1980's and 1990's will bring plenty of tumult in terms of ownership, as Arabian princes, Primerica, Shearson and others will bat the company around like kittens in a box with a ball of string.

I don't care if he just stands around the edge of the box scratching his balls if when he gits his chance he fcuking scores.

Possession is a misleading indicator of dominance, especially when all we do is pass the ball around the middle of the pitch and the perimeter of the box.

It is games like this in which the talents of Giroud can be most useful, as we can use the width of the pitch and get balls in the box to exploit his size and power in the air, while his strength and ability as a target man to hold the ball up and bring other players around him into the game is a huge weapon.

We play less in the midfield now, most of our possession in at the back with Mert and Kos pacing around the ball, some quick passes in midfield and we sometimes slow down again and pass it around near the opponents box.

We could have had Cesc delivering those beautiful long balls from deep, same as he used to do for Henry and now does for Costa, to Welbeck who does much better up front as last man with space to run, not scuffing around in the box or Sanchez.

obviously I would prefer to have a much more suitable alternative in the defensive midfielder positions but if they focused more on defensive end and the occasional long - ball, this would allow Bellerin and Sead ample opportunities to bomb forward on their respective wings while still having enough cover to maintain their defensive shape... it would likewise allow for overlapping runs on both wings, thereby letting both Sanchez and Perez to cut inside and get shots away in and around the top of the box with their most dominant feet... if goals were needed I would sub Bellerin for OX and bring Ramsey in for Elneny then switch to a 3 -2-4-1 (more of a 3 -1-5-1 with Ramsey playing higher up the pitch) and I would only use Giroud as a sub when the game dictated it for tactical reasons... this would allow us to be a high energy team with incredible link - up play and a much more direct approach in the offensive end

Where before a player with the ball had two or three players running into forward positions now we pass around the box waiting and waiting.

We played chelsea and for more period of the game than us, they had us pinned in around the 18 yard box, and had more time on the ball in those dangerous areas than us.

It's just a bunch of expensively assembled and defensively well drilled athletes lumping balls hopefully in and around the box and hoping for a lucky break.

we have great fire power with probably the 2nd best creative attacking midfield in the EPL now the problem is that if we get congested in every game just outside the oppositions box there is no way we can score goals with 15 to 18 players in and around you, we need to change the way we play we can not play the million passing the ball game outside the box, we have to draw out the opposition to half way to be able to get behind their deference

regarding Lacazette his going to make a huge difference in our goal tally, we always needed a player with his ability in and around the box, Laca is a better version of Lukas Podolski, for years now we are always passing the ball around the opposition box for ages with no end result but with Laca with his accurate aim and powerful shots we should do well, that is if he gets enough time on the pitch,

When he's playing for Arsenal, he'd never be able to put in a ball to the Ox» head like he did against Scotland the other day because Wenger just wouldn't allow it, because it's not a load of tippy - tappy b * llocks around the box.

It was during the final event, where players wore belted boxes around their butts and had to shake out balls in said boxes.

Wenger didn't sub Podolski on (the one man that could have sealed that game as the ball was in or around UTD'd box for most of the game?

Kolarov made some great forays into and around the Barca box, DeRossi was able to spend more time pressing the 4 - man Barca defense, winning balls and commanding play by bombing passes, short and long, all over the place, and Florenzi was able to make great runs creating space, winning balls, and collecting passes from the back and finding creative places to pass them.

THIS IS NOHING LIKE HULL OR ANDERLECHT; we are actually pressing, injecting pace when we can, passing around with our usual high possession but this time we are doing it around their penalty box meaning the second they make a mistake, we get a little space to shoot, or we get a through ball in it'll be a goal.

Alexis holds onto the ball far too long to help the team, he is all over the pitch instead of spending quality time in and around the box, great enthusiasm but detrimental to the team as much as Alex Song bombing forward and leaving his primary position unattended.

Anytime we won back possession around our 18 yard box, Santi was almost always there to dribble the ball out and through the first opposition press, by which time his teammates would have moved into position.

We seem to have lost those through balls and passing around the box!

All i see is the same procedure as we've always had: Pass the ball around the opponents box, unable to find someone good enough to a) put the ball on target or b) NOT flop the ball directly to the keeper.

One of the most frustrating things about Arsenal's «score the perfect goal approach» is that we commit bodies forward, pass the ball around 50 times but inevitably give it away on the edge of the box setting up golden opportunities for the opponent to counter.

Hang around in the box, let the ball bounce off you, maybe add a penalty if one happens along.

In that first leg against bayern we lucked out as Cech made some crucial saves, they were all over us but the ball would not fall for them properly in and around the box.

«At the start it looked like it would be easy because we had a lot of the ball and good opportunities around the box.

Can't expect him to score scuffling around in the box, give him the balls he can run with and use his speed and strength.

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

I hope we don't try to play the defensive game because they are dangerous in and around our box, they were unlucky not to score one or two more goals in the first leg at Emirates and if they find their confidence with home advantage and their fans getting behind them it could be curtains for us, i don't think they will allow us the same space as they did last week so lets take the game to them early and keep the ball in their half with high possession,

I do nt think mike dean or any other referee is the one who tells the arsenal players to pass the ball aimlessly around the box or make numerous mistakes.

They are very skilled around an opposition penalty box, but the teams failed to deliver the ball to the final third quickly (The transition from defense to attack is kinda slow IMO).

The Gunners attacked Man United's goal without mercy, and at one goal down after 20 minutes, the ball was sent into the box for Lacazette to connect with, and while he stretched for the ball Marcos Rojo impeded him with his hand around the strikers throat...... Read the full article here

Replay — Gonalons is at the edge of the box, everyone rushes inside once the kick is taken, he makes a few lazy steps, the ball is bouncing around, more steps, does jack shit, ball comes to the player he could have covered had he just made one or two actual strong steps, ultimately ends up watching the man he SHOULD have marked smash in a goal from 8 yards out.

Usually, before we acquired Welbeck and Sanchez, Arsenal had no penetration, we would get to a point where the ball who just get passed around the box amd it would take a dazzling run from Ramsey or a long range shot from Cazorla to get goals.

Why is it the defence faffs about in their own area or around our 18 yard box and then gives it to Cech who just hoofs it upfield yet the defenders never put their laces through the ball to clear it?

one of the only players who's lethal around the 18 yard box and, the ONLY player in our squad at the moment who can really pass long balls and switch the play — and we desperately need some creativity.

The ball was worked around the edge of the box following a long ball over the top of the defense, eventually finding the feet of Iniesta on the left side of the area.

Wilshere's game is always to run from deep with the ball and then pass and move around the box.

But, DLT were not ones for giving up as they pressed on and managed to work the ball into the box, then dribble it around the keeper and net it making it 2 - 1.

Flamini was not in the Chelsea box when Willian won the ball but was around the centre circle; if you want to test the claim of who is second best in cases of one versus one try play football yourself rather than try to abuse Theo Walcot; there is a guy called Boateng playing for Baryen and another called Pique playing for Barcelona for comparisons with Per.

Birley FC managed to climb back after their player Matt, managed to weave around the Cambridge defence in the box with some nice feet to tuck the ball away making it 3 - 2.

Aurora equalised five minutes after half time when the ball ricocheted around the box before falling to Aquilino Villalba.

The thing is back then the pacy dribblers needed to know how to wrap their foot around the ball sending it into the box.

Of course there are several other common concerns, like Monreal playing against any top competition, since he proved last year, especially against Bayern, that he will give any class player his dominant foot in and around the box time and time again, or that we still haven't found anyone, other than the mopey Ozil, that can distribute the ball from deeper lying positions, minus the occasional gem from Xhaka, which means that we still spend way too much time trying to pass the ball into the net, but I'll save that for another time