Sentences with phrase «best holding midfielder»

Being hailed as «the best holding midfielder in Europe» by Rodgers, Gerrard has been praised for his ability to read the game and being a playmaker in his own kind.

When people claim Wanyama is the best holding midfielder at Spurs.

After over 400 club games and almost 100 international caps, he still deserves to be viewed among the best holding midfielder in the world.

A Metro report that compares his numbers to those of Matic, Schneiderlin and Fernandinho shows that as well as being the best in terms of tackling, winning duels and making blocks, Coquelin has the highest pass completion at 91 percent, so can we now start to believe that Arsenal really do have the best holding midfielder in the Premier League?

He isn't the best holding midfielder out there but it worked, 79 points isn't too shabby.

He's the best holding midfielder we have.

Le Coq is best holding midfielder in league end of discussion.

Busquets would be a fine addition to Guardiola's Man City team, as the defensive midfielder is regarded as one of the best holding midfielders of all time by some.

Some fans and pundits have also suggested that Chambers has what it takes to be a very good holding midfielder as well, which is the position he first played when coming up through the Saints» academy system.

N'Zonzi's defence ability, calmness on the ball and will to break up attacks have seen some label the Frenchman as one the best holding midfielders in the league.

Should both side up their pursuit of the midfielder, we could see the two battle it out for the chance to sign one of La Liga's best holding midfielders.

Van Dijk would be a good holding midfielder.

Whether draxler or not arsenal is still a weaker team, is it something bad if we have both draxler and Sanchez in the same team fighting for places, just imagine van persie, Sanchez, ozil, carzola are in the same team, with likes of inform konsieny, mustafi, and konlansinic, and good holding midfider,... our problem with this 343 information or 3421 information apart from Wenger playing players out of position we don't have a strong holdmidfider that retrieve the ball back when we lost possession... Kant's is perfect example of that, look at the job he does at Chelsea is amazing...... without a good holding midfielder our defenders are vulnerable

Why we didn't let one of them go and get in a better holding midfielder actually beggars belief for a team that consistently accumulates injuries over the course of the season.

You'll be shocked at what a good holding midfielder can do to a team, he slows down opposing attackers and turns the game against them, a game like the 4 - 4 against Newcastle will NEVER happen with a good holding midfirlder in the team, NEVER!

Do you believe that Mourinho wouldn't have wanted a more defensive unit and plenty of the worlds best holding midfielders.

Mascherano is not just one of the best holding midfielders in the game, he also plays regularly and very well in defence and with his pace and tough tackling I think he would be a great asset for the Gunners.

The Serbian midfielder has turned himself into one of the best holding midfielders in the Premier League since he returned to the club.

As mentioned before in this article, Matic has built a reputation as being one of Europe's best holding midfielders and while he deserves this reputation in the Premier League, it may not be so clear cut as some would have you think.

Matic is considered to be one of the best holding midfielders in Europe at the moment and deservedly so but out of interest, how does he compare to some other of the Premier League's top holding midfielders?

Not exact matches

When Arsenal played with Arteta as defensive midfielder that situation never occurs he tends to control the flow and pace of Arsenal game with his passing and by holding his position, he also runs into space very well and always available for a pass.

When you see the likes of West Brom bringing in decent holding midfielders on loans while we do nothing, makes you wonder if we'd be better off with Tony Pulis in charge.

«Coquelin has done really well but I would like another holding midfield player to come in, perhaps a Schneiderlin type of player.

«They needed a holding central midfielder and they've paid around # 30m for him, which is the type of money the Arsenal fans want to see being spent on the best players.

With our current squad, assuming everyone is fit, I think our best formation is a GK and back four, obviously, a holding midfielder (Arteta is the best we have at the moment), a box to box midfielder (Ramsey / Wilshere), an attacking midfielder (Özil, maybe Cazorla), two pacey wingers (Walcott and Alexis) and a striker (Giroud).

giroud plays well as a dm in his usual no9 position based on his «hold up play»... but don't mistake that gibberish with playing in midfield which requires more concentration and technique which the tall man does not possess at all... hed make a good defender though

Bottom line, if he is angered bench the players who were not good enough and play those who deserve some game time based on the Southampton game or on games where they had a positive impact: - Take Özil out and play Ox in the hole (he has to understand your the highest paid player of the club, your given freedom like nobody else and your even seeking even more money with a new contract you can't play like that ever and go AWOL)- Put Sanchez on the wing or up top but put Welbeck in (Walcott didn't track back near enough for the Alsonso goal)- Iwobi has been bright from the wing let him play there - Xhaka has to go back in the holding midfield role and I would take out Coquelin because he could've taken a foul on the hazard's goal.

His passing is avarage at best and he is defencivly shockingly bad, yet he plays as a holding midfielder

And just to make things worse, our holding midfielder Francis Coquelin picked up a knee injury that the manager suggested would keep him out as well.

Pogba is picked on because he's our best and most expensive outfield player, but Mourinho has primarily played him as a holding midfielder, which I think we can agree isn't what he was bought to do, and is not what he's good at.

The holding midfield role isn't for Willshere — It limits his attacking ability and he is not the best defensively.

We desperatly need two top centre backs (Kosc, Mustf, Chambers, Holding are not good enough) and upgrade our central midfielders behind Ozil.

The good news is, if we can finally close the deal on Lemar and bring in a top class midfielder to take Ozil's spot (and ideally also an imposing holding midfielder and either another top class center back and / or Mustafi reaching more of his potential consistently), next year and beyond could be a lot of fun!

Ronald Koeman did well to keep hold of the strong tackling midfielder last summer, having seen a host of other talents leave St Mary's, but his side's recent wobble may be indicative of the club's likely fall from the top four picture.

Well I don't think we would be where we are with Arteta as our holding midfielder.

Peter Reid believes that Jordan Henderson is the best choice for England in the holding midfield role...

Peter Reid has expressed his belief that Liverpool star Jordan Henderson is a better choice than Arsenal's Jack Wilshere for the holding role in England's midfield.

El Neny is decent as a CM and is best suited to a 3 - man midfield where 2 CM's hold.

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.

Probably the world's best left - back right now, Alaba is equally adept at centre - half or even holding midfield.

From signing big name players to keeping hold of the best ones we have already got, from adding the firepower up front to strengthening the midfield and firming up the defence and then last season we sorted out the big away game blues.

Quick notes on arsemal team 1 - paulista is not good as i though 2 - coquelin is essential in arsenal midfield to give stability but he can't hold the ball in his feet or give the right pass in the right time so we can't dominate teams anymore especially with santi absence 3 - ramsey = horrible, just a headless chicken running everywhere 4 - ozil could have easily 30 + assists by now 5 - Olivier Giroud the handsom french guy shouldn't ever be a big team first choice striker 6 - where are the 4 world class strikers that wenger said we had i didn't se anyone of the yet

If this is true then schneiderlin would be a very good signing IMO and we will then have two excellent holding midfielders le coq and morgan to rotate and also to play both of them in tough games like chelsea at bridge next season etc so he would be welcome addition otherwise go for kondogbia or wanyama tall tough strong physical players and they will give players like matic and yaya toure run for their money..

Welbeck will probably never be in the same league as a hold up player, but it really isn't necessary if the midfield can keep the ball better.

Give him some rest for PSG But I think most of the players playing Southampton will play PSG I think we should make good use of our Central Midfielders for both matches because we have plenty of quality players: Ozil, Cazorla, Xhaka, Coquelin and Eleney We have only 3 CBs available at the moment Koscielny, Mustafi and Holding

To be honest jack slows down the midfield by over holding on to the ball and in most cases loosing it to the opponents, giving them time to rebuild there defense, being fouled and no response from the referee or some times we are awarded free kicks which we hardly any thing good from.

The north London side could well do with a strong tackling midfield presence with neither Mikel Arteta or Mathieu Flamini consistently impressing in either a holding or out and out defensive midfield roles and having taken a shine to Wanyama during his time at Celtic Wenger is now ready to re-ignite his interest in the 23 year old.

lst season at stamford bridge, was the first time i saw that 4 -1-4-1 formation being used, and for some weird reason i feel a very strange negative vibe and well all know the outcome.the manager has come back with this formation and its not yielding result, but he still sticks with it.i do nt know much about formations dear friends, but if you are playing a slow dm in arteta and a very very slow cb, then you are toast against quality teams with sound tactics.wen playing wellbeck as a lone striker, i think 4 -2-3-1, will work better, but if we have a big player like oliver (boooos), thn we can try the 4 -1-4-1, thingy cos he can hold the ball for our midfielders to run in.but on the overall, shame on wenger for not giving our defence a good cover DM.NO BODY PLAYS A SLOW DM / CB AND EXPECT TO B REGARDED AS CHAMPIONSHIP MATERIAL.IT HURTS GUYS, REALLY HURTS.

Our side currently have Aaron Ramsey and Granit Xhaka holding down our two central midfield roles, and Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez firmly set in our two attacking midfield roles, as well as having a number of others also capable of starring in those central roles, including Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain, Mohamed Elneny, Francis Coquelin, Alex Iwobi and Theo Walcott.

If there is no top name striker avail right now well then we should start proceedings about getting one early in next window, then sign a holding midfielder and mention how we couldn't get the striker in time but aim to bring him in soon.