Sentences with phrase «became defensive backs»

If the offense went to a spread, they became defensive backs.

Not exact matches

Naturally, they feel defensive and either fight back or become silent.

Though England are currently well equipped at centre back, and Rovers boss Sam Allardyce believes that will eventually become Jones» permanent position, there is certainly a void in defensive midfield that Jones could well fill — especially with poor Owen Hargreaves having suffered another setback.

Maguire's ability to link up with his central defensive partner Wes Morgan at the back for Leicester has seen them become one of the most defensively able sides outside the top six.

At full back both Clichy and Bacary Sagna continued to be ambitious with their attacking runs, but now lacked the defensive support previously afforded to Arsenal by a flat midfield four — as a result Arsenal became particularly vulnerable down the flanks.

If its Cavalho, then Chambers becomes Vermaleen's replacement and Hector is coming of age as our second Right Back for the season (Jenkinson is still on our books though not available to us this season) and if its Sokratis, Chambers will become our holding / defensive midfielder.

Michigan cornerback Jourdan Lewis, who has statistically been one of the best defensive backs in the country this season, dropped quote about becoming a legend.

His first Bowling Green staff featured a Notre Dame graduate assistant named Dan Mullen (the head coach at Mississippi State), former Brown offensive line coach John Hevesy (Mullen's offensive co-coordinator), former Arkansas State offensive line coach Greg Studrawa (who became LSU's offensive coordinator for two years), former Villanova running backs coach Stan Drayton (on Meyer's Ohio State staff), Gregg Brandon (who would succeed Meyer at BGSU), Tim Beckman (who went on to spend three years as Toledo's head coach and is heading toward a fourth year at Illinois), and Tim Banks (currently Beckman's defensive coordinator).

Mertesacker is very good when we are playing in a defensive formation like today, when we are playing our regular attacking, possession game and we have to push up, then he is too slow tracking speedy forwards back and becomes a liability.

Let's not get carried away and think Wenger has learned his lessons he has not overnight become a tactical genius he was forced to play that way when ozil was not fit to play had he been available he would definitely played and then would have same defensive problems as before with midfield over run and ozil not tracking back to help so probably would have been beaten!!

If Gabriel Paulista does leave Arsenal this summer due to his likely becoming surplus to requirements at Arsenal which himself might have sensed, apart of the 4 specialist defenders of: Koscielny, Monreal, Mustafi and holding who have been regularly manning the Arsenal back three line of recent, other centre backs like Mertersacker & Chambers, and defensive wingbacks of Bellerin, Kolasinac, and the defensive midfielders of Elneny & Niles, can all also play as centrebacks in a back three or back four denfese - line whenever the need arised.

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

This means he plays very close to the centre back pair that he will become the third Centre Back when need arises but will become the Defensive midfielder when that role is necessback pair that he will become the third Centre Back when need arises but will become the Defensive midfielder when that role is necessBack when need arises but will become the Defensive midfielder when that role is necessary.

It is no accident that when coquelin stepped in the breech arsenal suddenly became more balanced, even the players themselves have been quoted saying something similar, we have been asking for this type of player for years now, a true Defensive Midfielder, not the flashy type, not the box to box, but one who sits in front the back four and do the ungrateful job.

Secondly, Wenger needs to become far more flexible when it comes to his formation selections... remember this is the same individual that hadn't used a 3 - back system for 20 years and only conceded to the experiment when the proverbial shit hit the fan... you know it killed him to adopt «Conte's» system, which is probably why he resisted so long; in fact his stubbornness to adjust even earlier might have cost us the 4 hole... much like most sports that have tactical formations, every team should have a «base» offensive and defensive scheme, but they likewise need to have some inherent flexibility depending on the opposing teams tactics and / or when specific substitutions are made... how many times have you watched a Wenger - run team make a late substitution but not change their shape on the pitch... furthermore, how many times have you seen our team fail to make the necessary adjustments at halftime due to Wenger's tactical stubbronness, which often led to giving up goals in the early minutes of the second - half... the best teams in the world know how to make halftime adjustments whereas we always seem to be surprised when the opposing team throws a wrinkle into the mix following halftime... this my friend is soccer 101

Since joining the NFL in 2011 and becoming one of the NFL's best defensive backs, he has also become one of the league's more outspoken player advocates.

After a year as Brown's defensive backs coach at UMass, Shoop became defensive coordinator for Jimmye Laycock's Wiliam & Mary.

The nickel defense — a defense with an extra defensive back — has become a base defense instead of just a sub-package.

New coordinator Jon Hoke, formerly Missouri's defensive backs coach, replaces Bob Stoops, who became head coach at Oklahoma.

However, once Atleti took the lead, he became an all - action defensive midfielder, winning back possession on numerous occasions.

Florentin and Mathias later departed for the Celta Vigo academy after making their own way through the Parisian youth football scene — their respective careers seeing them parted soon after with the more defensive sibling heading back to France to play in Ligue 1 while his goal - getting twin became a modern - day journeyman.

«I think the Premier League is becoming defensive... many teams try to play with five at the back plus two or three in the middle,» he said.

Initially a defensive midfielder, Vincent shifted back into central defence with aplomb and became the figure around which successive Blues backlines have been built.

The back three drifted wide in attack, with Toure and Sakho becoming more like traditional defensive full backs, which may have been the reason for Lucas» cautious positioning deep in defensive midfield.

Like Campbell, Cole had progressed through the academy at his club before becoming a key player on the left flank and his rampaging runs from the back and outstanding defensive qualities were pivotal in Arsenal's successes at the turn of the century.

«So as long as he learns the defensive side and positioning, I think he will go on to become a really top full back.»

What a terrifying vision of the future of football we've been served up this week.AC Milan, once the pride of a powerful and thriving seria A now reduced to shadow boxing against a really not that great United.All because they deserted their natural (and rather beautiful) defensive style of football to join the circus, brought in foreign players (especially brazilians) who think jogging back to defend is beneath them and generally put two fingers up to Italy's historic football traditions.Much good as it done them, and what a boring game?I concede that a lot of football fans nowadays do nt remember anything before the cheque book league but even they must have been struck by the sheer mind numbing pointlessness of it.Even the stewards were asleep by half time.As for the porto match well all that can be said is that they made the gooners look like an half decent well balanced football team, no mean achievement when you think about it.At least we, ve had the pleasure of listening to all those gooners and Mancs waffling on about how great they are which is always hilarious.Especially the stuff about Rooney, just wait till the World Cup when some Italian or South American defender takes him under his wing for half an hour and then see how great he is.If he can survive the WC without being sent off it will be a miracle.All the recent hype has done him no favours at all.Not that the World Cup really inspires these days, its glory days are long over and it's become a competition decided by referees rather than great play.Bear that in mind if Roons has to take the walk of shame, it's not his fault, someone told him he was a truly great player like Bobby Charlton or George Best.The problem is he looks like he believes them.

Simonin could find the step up to the MLS level tough in a back four due to the aforementioned defensive concerns, but on the left side of a back three, with his ability to step out of defence with the ball and build from the back, he becomes a more interesting option.

He didn't show a similar explosive streak in his work through the centre against Palace, but if Rooney can become a dangerous presence between the lines, his defensive flaws could be worth the hassle, or at least earn him the time to work on his weaknesses as a midfielder by contributing to creating attacks from in front of the back four.

Unlike Pierre - Emerick Aubameyang, the 24 - year - old is able to retain possession deeper on the field; this is vital against Bayern, who quickly become susceptible to counter-attacks once their first defensive intervention by their centre - backs is nullified.

You know, people sometimes say that when students from China come here and study and they go back, that they are bringing back western ideas, bringing back, you know, values of human rights and democracy, but that's partly true and definitely I have seen a lot of people come back with these kinds of ideas, well others come back and they have had such a negative experience in the United States that they become defensive about the one - party system, they become fans of it in someways.

They will play with each other and aggressive play will be inhibited because the new companion will bite back or become defensive when play becomes too aggressive.

At five months your dog was a social butterfly with nothing but wiggles and wags when greeting people, but by eight months of age he has become defensive and lacking in confidence: he barks and backs off, or he snaps and lunges with hackles raised.

It can be bad news, though, if the owner becomes defensive and tries to push back against your insurance company in order to avoid having to contribute to a settlement.

When you shout at someone you become the aggressor and they naturally go on the defensive and either shut you out or yell back.

The natural human reaction is to get mad at them back or at least to become defensive.