Sentences with phrase «by any midfielder in»

This is more a team style issue than player issue per se and is dictated in some ways by the midfield in front of them (see later).

Not exact matches

Kante was the best player on the best team in England this season, the speedy box - to - box midfielder who unlocked Leicester City's devastating counterattack by defending well and distributing even better.

The Gunners defence has been fortified by the return of Laurent Koscielny, and against the Hammers Arsenal played with two defensive midfielders in Flamini and Coquelin and Wenger has been very pleased with the recent performances.

Arsenal will win in Chelsea's stadium, as long as Sanchez plays as a central forward or central attacking midfielder and accompanied by Iwobi or Perez, without Ozil.

The better tactic shall be made obvious in the kind of players selected to play in midfield by both sides.

The Arsenal midfielder Granit Xhaka has been warned by Arsene Wenger for his dismissal in yesterday's Premier League match - up with Burnley.

Regardless of what you think about MA being the weak link he was our best midfielder by some margin today and best also by a lesser margin in the CS.

The only other change made by the Frenchman is at the back, with veteran keeper Petr Cech coming back in and the midweek hero David Ospina dropping back to the bench, so Coquelin and Cazorla continue to be our first choice central midfield pairing and the summer signing Granit Xhaka will have to wait.

Our BFG is not saying that it will be easy by any means, but he reckons that as long as Francis Coquelin can do the same sort of job on the United and Belgium midfielder Marouane Fellaini that he did in March, then Arsenal will have the right recipe for success.

The need for a win is shown clearly by the boss picking a positive central midfield of Ramsey instead of him bringing Coquelin back, while the contract rebel Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain also keeps his place in the side as summer signing Kolasinac drops to the bench.

In turn, as reported by The Sun, Chelsea and Liverpool have both been linked with a move, while Juventus has become a possibility for the youngster as all three clubs in question are looking to bolster their midfield options ahead of next seasoIn turn, as reported by The Sun, Chelsea and Liverpool have both been linked with a move, while Juventus has become a possibility for the youngster as all three clubs in question are looking to bolster their midfield options ahead of next seasoin question are looking to bolster their midfield options ahead of next season.

ozil has no place in a 3421 he can perform in a 3412 where he play behind the two strikers so i will go with ozil behin both danny and lacazette sanchez and giroud can be used as a supersubs but i will tell u this, i hope we win but i am sure we will loose arsene wenger is blinded against top teams and he will play ramsey and xhaka again in the middle and we will be dominated by chelsea midfielders

Of note he has started to make space in the midfield by asking Campbell to find a new team, another player who is far better than the english core, but will not be given the time to grow, as the likes of Ramsay, Wilshere, Walcott and Chamberlain,, even to the detriment of the team position in the league, such a tragedy

Arsenal were humiliated by Munich in the Champions League knockout rounds 10 - 2 on aggregate, and the midfielder admitted his frustrations with the result.

This is being reported by the Sun, who state that the player's wages are not what's causing a delay in talks, with the midfielder's want to get more first team minutes under his belt being the main reason for there being a hold up in negotiations.

The «extra man» would force errors when we are attacking by the opposing team's confusion over who to mark, he would close down the enemy in the midfield and he would help steal the initiative off the opponent attackers by his mobility to position himself at the less served areas.

That sloppy pass by the central midfielder cost Arsenal the game and a very similar one against Leicester City in the opening EPL match almost cost us points as well.

Whilst Xhaka and Ramsey have been good towards the latter stages of the season, Santi's technical brilliance and creativity on the ball has been sorely missed and Arsenal could benefit significantly by bringing in a midfielder who has the ability to bring that kind of artistry back to the Gunners» midfield.

I see that Wenger is trying to try new things by assigning Sanchez the central forward / attacking midfielder this season, let see how that will help us in the November matches.

It is only by admitting that we have lots of midfield talent and we should make use of it and that real defense actually starts in the midfield.

We usually start slow in games but we should avoid this by all means tonight, an early away goal from our opponents tonight can really destabilize our team and change the whole complexion of the game, besides will be missing our battler in midfield who runs at the same pace the whole game to dig us out the hole in the dying minutes of the game.

This is mainly because his best position is the box to box role in central midfield, which unfortunately for him, seems to be nailed down by Santi Cazorla right now.

Thierry Henry in the TV studio seemed a touch baffled by Wenger's decision not to start with Xhaka, after the Switzerland international midfield star was the only big signing of the summer.

Wilshere for all his injuries is far better than both Ramsey and Xhaka.I just don't know the importance of Xhaka in the team if he can't defend.He's the real problem in the squad.Why do fans keep accepting mediocrity?Aren't we tired?It's painful seeing him play every match in our midfield then the same people who claim to love him would come and be making noise about how average he is after a bad match forgetting that he's actually average.I'd easily play Maitland - Niles or Coquelin over Xhaka.They would provide more steel in the midfield.Is it going to take us four seasons to realize how average Xhaka is?The painful things is that by that time many trophies would've have by passed us.

as for the league, giroud is a 13 goal per season scorer, that is one goal every 3 matches, he is a feature striker, and this wont win anything unless you generate huge output from your midfield... by comparison, henry scored 27 goals in the epl when we won the league...

we had our defense still trying to adapt to life without Bellerin the midfield was adapting gradually to the loss of Santi thanks to Xhaka in the position then u kick a midfield trying to get up by dropping Xhaka for Elneny.

Natural midfield players who like to play in the middle but have been moved around by Wenger in strange experiments:

1 Off the top, it does not take rocket science to know that united 4 man midfield will overrun us in a 4 -2-4 formation by playing 2 midfielders against there 4 and also considering Ramsey's poor passing ability.

The number of Arsenal transfer rumours linking us with a possible summer swoop for the Bayern Munich and Germany international midfield er Mario Gotze has been growing in recent weeks, with reports from Germany suggesting that he is being eased out of the door by the German champions.

This time it is Nice and the player in question is Jean Michael Seri, a pocket dynamo of a central midfielder who could be our own N'Golo Kante if the report by ESPN is correct.

But he is one of the best off the ball runner that we have — opponents does not want to play high defensive line or press our midfielder higher on the pitch due to the threat he pose — you may argue that the long distance scorcher by Sanchez in the FA final is due to their CBs slow in closing him down, wearying of the Walcott threat.

The Merseysiders could find better value in doing a straight cash deal for their Israel midfielder and would hope to raise as much as # 10m by exploring interest from Aston Villa, Roma, Sevilla and Dynamo Moscow — as well as Spurs.

However, I would not be at all surprised to see the talented midfielder named by Arsene Wenger in the match day squad for the home game against West Brom.

I get your point mate.But in truth Ramsey is the CM and Xhaka is the DM according to our formation anf tactic.It's even debatable if Xhaka is capable of playing DM.I think Ramsey's tactical awareness is poor but he has every right to take risks and move into the opposition box.He's a box to box player.The only problem is Ramsey overdoes it.If we had a proper CDM the team would be more balanced.Now it's like we have two CM's playing in midfield and due to their poor tactical awareness we're always left exposed.I conclude by reminding people that Wilshere is better footballer and is more intelligent than Xhaka.It'll be better playing Wilshere and pairing him with a CDM than having Xhaka play there.He just gets to play over him becausr we signed him for # 35.

As noted by BBC Sport, former Leicester City midfielder N'Golo Kante arrived in a deal reportedly worth # 30m, while Marseille striker Michy Batshuayi signed with the Blues in a # 33m deal, according to The Guardian.

Campbell has yet to score for the Spanish club so you could understand if Wenger was planning to let him leave as part of the transfer deal to bring the central midfielder William Carvalho to Arsenal, as suggested in a report by The Mirror.

Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany was dropped for Wednesday's win over Leicester after a dressing - room confrontation with midfielder Fernandinho in the defeat by Liverpool three days previously --(Daily Mirror)

This confidence was clearly on show when the Gunners dismantled Man United in the space of 20 minutes at the weekend, and our midfield general was not surprised by their performance.

Our defensive frailties in midfield and in defense are known by all managers that play us.

So judging by the fact that it was the French central midfield star Francis Coquelin sat next to the boss today ahead of the Champions League match at home to Ludogorets Razgrad, I assume that Le Coq is set for his first Arsenal start since picking up a knee injury in the Premier League win over Chelsea.

Overall, I've always been intrigued by the idea of a Wilshere — Ramsey central midfield but in reality, it will be impossible to implement at this moment as the team around them is completely fragile and they just don't have the correct mentality or skill set to become good in those roles at the highest level.

Chambers would have been playing the holding midfield / 3rd Central Defender Role (Its still beats me how and why wenger didn't even try Vermaleen in that role — his cautious attitude is one of Arsenals biggest albatros) If Arsenal had started playing Joel Campbell on the flanks since the beginning of the season, when it was obvious Carzola was misfiring, Campbell will be getting used to the league by now and will have been chipping in with the odd goals time and again - but NO Arsene will stick with Carzola and even play him in the wings thereby putting pressure on gibbs because he lack the discipline to stay there and will rather keep roaming to the certain.

The Toronto FC midfielder may not have had a great tournament by his own personal standards, but he still played a central part in the USA's escape from the «Group of Death».

At least Ramsey, as reported by The Guardian, the midfielder was sounding upbeat about the chances of the Gunners doing just that, despite the fact that out next opponents are the league leaders Leicester City who are in fine form and are coming to north London having produced a great away display to put another title rival Man City to the sword.

The idiot frog had better be on blower tomorrow to barca or nice or schalke or someone with a skillful midfielder... This is the ffing 4th best team in Spain dominating the midfield completely by out passing us

For the second goal, he was drifting in the space provided by the Spurs midfield.

If Arsenal Football club and our record on the return dates of players on the injury list being put back over and over again is to go by, then there is a huge chance that we will not be seeing the Spanish international midfield star kicking a ball in anger again for the Gunners this season.

West Ham are set to lose Algerian midfielder Sofiane Feghouli, with both Stade Rennais and Galatasaray interested in signing the 27 - year - old, as reported by the Sun.

In terms of signings though, a budget of $ 150m has been touted by reports in the Italian media and Gazzetta note that one name that continues to be linked with a move to the San Siro is Chelsea midfielder's Cesc FabregaIn terms of signings though, a budget of $ 150m has been touted by reports in the Italian media and Gazzetta note that one name that continues to be linked with a move to the San Siro is Chelsea midfielder's Cesc Fabregain the Italian media and Gazzetta note that one name that continues to be linked with a move to the San Siro is Chelsea midfielder's Cesc Fabregas.

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