Sentences with phrase «better possession football»

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

Arsenal were unable to break down a resolute Aston Villa side at Villa Park as Martin O'Neill's men played good possession football and the north London side struggled to impose themselves on the home side.

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OMG we played some of the best football Arsenal has ever seen, it was just orgasmic watching these 3 guys interchange 1 - 2 passes with so much precision, Rosicky could quicken the passing and it was just so amazing the way we cut through defenses, kept possession and scored amazing goals.

When Arsenal scores an early goal in a match for some reason it seems to destroy them mentally, their overall football in terms of ability in maintaining possession and holding good shape whilst defending tend to disintegrate until the opposition score on them.

We know how important the first goal if football is, especially if a creative, possession oriented team like Arsenal are playing a well organised, hard working and defensive team like Hull.

Style of play: we need to play possession to beat most clubs, but we need better players with a football brain to beat Liverpool the way Bayern beat Dortmund.

We play a different type brand of football now days, give up possession and hope for the best.

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.

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.

He loves free flowing possession football and these two are the best for that.

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.

We seemed to play the better football and dominate possession, but they won, because they had the better tactics.

I would rather we played attractive football because it looks like the boring style has not got us any better, but instead we are making all the small teams have 60 % possession and when we play the big ones we still can't do sh» t..

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.

now regular starters is why we are failing to dominate teams even when we dominate possession... Lateral football silly flicks hopeful shooting... Need a quality replacement for carzola for second half of season to get best from ozil and Sanchez...

If Dortmund tries to «move away from possession based football» as hinted I think he'd perform even better.

Chelsea do nt know how to play possession, attacking football against good clubs.

The Germany vs France game is proof again that possession is the most useless stat in football, I hope Wenger will ditch his awful tiki taka style football and come up with a more adaptable formation as well instead of sticking to the stale 4 -2-3-1 formation!

Not only that, the prof also praised his rival manager Claudio Ranieri and revealed that the Gunners would be trying to employ the same sort of possession based football that has been our trademark under Wenger4 for years, even though he was well aware of the threat that the Foxes possess with their pace and ability to hit teams with their counter attacking style.

He is highly rated by Guardiola, Bayern wanted him, and he plays great attacking football that is mostly possession - based, so it's not far off from what Arsenal are used to, but this guy is much more of a tactician as well.

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.

«It will take a couple of days to recover and to think about Manchester United and play in a different competition, which will be a good opportunity to come back to the Emirates and play our football with possession and dynamism.»

The point is our b team has good players but it is easily influenced by the first team, the b team should have a. Style that suits them and can develop them but in the BARCA WAY,, (possession based football, attacking pressing etc).

I don't care that we do not have 70 % possession anymore, we are still playing good football, in fact I find out more counter attacking game more enjoyable to watch and most importantly we are getting the 3 points!

Just as many had suggested when the transfer news broke it was the difference in styles of football between the Gunners and what brings the best out of Vardy for the Foxes that was the problem, and his fears were probably not helped by England's Euro 2016 in which Hodgson did not start him and then played him out wide as England dominated possession but struggled to score.

We look good on the counter attack yet Wenger stil makes us play this slow possession football

Like when a team which cant play attractive possession based football uses their physical and height advantage over us, that's fair enough, but then when we give a physical display out ourselves it is like the refs are thinking, no we should know better, and we shouldn't have to rely on these tactics.

The new Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is well aware that Arsenal play the possession football that he wants his own team to play, but realises that it is too early to try and match them at their own game and instead is working out a plan to stop the Gunners taking control of the game tomorrow night.

unfortunately we are boring (pass pass possession pass) and don't play better attacking football

I think best formation against smaller teams would be: 4 -1-3-2: ospina Bellerin — Mustafi — kos — Monreal Sead Reis Nelson — Ozil — Xhaka Sanchez — Lacazette We must be aggressive first 30 mins and try to score as many goals as possible and pay possession football for last 15 mins of 1st half.

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.

Our defensive strengths last season were bolstered by the fact that we play possession football so well and in the prem bar a few teams none really have the attacking power to test it, however for those that did you could see the results.

Well, that is the foundation of possession football.

we're going to have to absorb a fair amount of pressure and imo giroud offers an outlet as he keeps possession better in the middle and attacking third of the pitch, unless we're looking to play counter attacking football I think he'll start

We all know that stats can be misleading in football, such as all the possession and extra chances and shots on target that the Gunners were having earlier in the season, while the fans watching the game could see that we were not playing well enough to win.

Mr Roberto Martinez possesses all these credentials in abundance and is very good at producing good attractive football even on a low budget, could you remember Swansea a few years back, their possession style football originated form him, he also moulded Wigan as one of the most scariest team to face in the Premier league a few year back all this operating on a low budget.

He has a combination of possession based football, effective attacking and he is good at tactics.

You can not have a manager who still believes that having most of the possession should win you the game... That is not part of the logic in football anymore (well in modern football).

In a game where patience and possession football works better Napoli tear up the rulebook and do things their own way.

Against Bayern we had only Ox, Carzola and Kos capable of meeting those criteria, not good enough at this level if we choose to play possession football.

When they are in possession, they play good football.

The possession football is all very well and good if it produces goals and wins, but this slow build up play is not getting us anywhere, and we have become frighteningly predictable.

To get the best out of lukaku we need to put so many crosses into the box, to get the best out of Sanchez, rashford, mata, lingard, martial we need a high pressing possession base football.

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.

Yes he gets a nose bleed every time the goal opens up in front him, but football is 90 % about possession and for that, there's noone better.

Pep Guardiola made it clear when he arrived the best way to win major trophies is to play possession - based, high - pressing, attacking football.

In regards to their performances at the weekend, Blackburn certainly didn't over roar Wigan, with the Latics not only playing the better football as well as having most of the possession, they created numerous opportunities, one of which found the net only to be wrongly ruled out.

Considering an average football team has over 100 possessions per match, the effect each player's defence has on their teams» possession is minute, so the best thing to do with the defensive category is consider it a wash.

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.»

Betis had a fantastic transfer window and their preseason was very solid, and they'll come to Camp Nou to try and dominate possession and beat Barça playing good football.