Sentences with phrase «central defenders at»

Johan Djourou, now firmly fourth in the pecking order of central defenders at the club, got his first start of the season against Coventry.

I really can not cast my mind back to a time, when we had 3 world class international central defenders at our disposal, and more often than not available for selection.

The three central defenders at Reading did their best to isolate and frustrate Lasogga for much of the match.

Holding & monreal — average central defenders at best.

But three central defenders at the back plus two wingbacks could be good against Atletico, because that type of formation could prevent Atletico's wingers from supplying crosses to Costa / Griezmann

However, if we do go for Hummels and are successful, it will surely mean that one of the current first choice central defenders at Arsenal would miss out.

Especially when they leave only two central defenders at the back, as seen when they faced Jese Rodriguez in Stroke City's stadium.

But with the arrival of Gabriel Paulista it looks much better now and I believe we can still do alright without any of the first choine central defenders at the moment.

Easily the best central defender at the World Cup so far, Hummels scored Germany's opening goal against Portugal in the 4 - 0 group stage win, and also bagged the winner with his head verses France in the quarter - finals.

The Arsenal and France international star Laurent Koscielny can thank his lucky stars that he turned out to be a defender, and a central defender at that, because only goal keepers have a longer shelf life as professional footballers than centre backs.

Liverpool do have an awful lot of injuries at the moment, and it's possible that the fittest central defender at the club at the moment is Jürgen Klopp himself.

Jeremy Toulalan, who has since been made into a central defender at club level, was not his best in a defensive midfield role.

While many United fans were disappointed when Van Gaal didn't bring in an experienced central defender at the start of this season, it's an exciting prospect to have so many young players in that position all blessed with pace and strength coming through the academy ranks at the same time.

Used as a right - back or central defender at Manchester City, Vedran Corluka was a main player in Sven - Goran Eriksson's 2007 - 08 side and he played 35 games during the campaign.

Other bits and pieces still hanging around from the weekend is the admission from Miguel Veloso's agent that Arsenal are looking to organise a January deal for the player and some more comments from Mikael Silvestre about the fact that he is happy to play as a central defender at his new club.

The sheer look of passion on Toby's face - captured by photographers - said a thousand words on what it meant to score but it mattered little to the outstanding central defender at the final whistle.

Sam Allardyce had wanted another central defender at the club despite having four who are fully capable of playing in the position.

I got converted to a central defender at the camp of the Nigeria U-17 team and have also played as a full back severally.

Thomas Vermaelen has obviously come in to do a job and I believe both William Gallas and Johan Djourou to be better options than the Ivorian central defender at the back.

Joe Gomez is only 20 but considered the fifth choice central defender at the club.

In my opinion, Holding may be the third best central defender at the club when they are all fit, and I think it would be better to keep him on board.

Not exact matches

Would a top quality striker and central defender be enough for Arsenal to finally have a proper go at regaining the EPL trophy next May?

Furthermore, we should have signed another top Central defender especially for 3 at the back but also due to injuries.

Yes he could be alot better at finishing, but let's see, maybe we got a new sturridge... What I am mad on Wenger about is not so much the lack of a proven striker to our ranks... No it's that we haven't bought a central defender to cover, but most important, we haven't bought a defensive midfielder, that we need so much!!? Wenger makes the same mistakes over and over, everybody else can see it, just not him... hmm: / but still lets respect him as a man and judge when we are atleast half way into the season... COYG!!!!

We should have signed at least 1 top Central defender.

With the Gunners still needing at least two more players, in my opinion, is Wenger's policy stopping us getting the striker and central defender we need to compete for major trophy success?

Having added a striker and midfielder, a central defender is arguably next at the top of his to - do list as he looks to rebuild the spine of a team that finished 10th in the Premier League last season and is short of options at the back with John Terry, Gary Cahill and Kurt Zouma arguably not enough.

With a 3 central defender you don't need to fear the pace of Per as he will be there to instruct the other 2 to keep shape at the back.

Other journalists either seem to believe that a central defender is key to our campaign, or are hearing that our club is predominantly looking to bring in one, as there are plenty of links at present to get the mind thinking.

Johnny evans is better than all the central defenders we have at the moment..

There would be good central defenders available at good price, at the end of season, Lazio's De Vrij and Atletico Madrid's Gimenez.

It was an all round poor showing from the nation at the back, but this central defender wasn't the worst culprit as Neymar and Diego Tardelli bore down on them.

Guardiola then went on to add «Maybe we are thinking of looking at another central defender because of Vincent's problems, John Stones is four or five weeks out.

The Blues boss has admitted his surprise towards the playing time of the young central - defender, and has given him praise of the highest order at Stamford Bridge by describing him as a potential replacement to Terry, saying, «They (Terry and Zouma) are different players.

Real Madrid's young central defender Raphael Varane, regularly linked with Chelsea throughout the summer and one described as the best young defender in the world by Jose Mourinho, has signed a new long - term deal at the Bernabeu.

This would undoubtedly be a huge blow for United, who have little in the way of backup in this position, with central defender Marcos Rojo coming on as a substitute at the time.

The central defender has also had recent success at Euro 2016, winning the tournament with Portugal.

Middlesbrough meanwhile will also be at almost full strength with central defender Ben Gibson closing in on return to action after shaking off the hamstring problem which ruled him out of the midweek 3 - 1 home win over Brentford.

Hangeland is into his sixth season at Craven Cottage and is a player who Fulham greatly rely upon at the back but if the American born central defender feels that QPR want him more than his current employers then perhaps a short move to Loftus Road could be a distinct possibility.

The 24 year old Antwerp born defender can effectively fill both a left - back or central defensive spot and with Liverpool looking to strengthen at the back Alderweireld is perhaps something of an ideal capture.

Benitez revealed that negotiations over a new contract with Danish central defender Daniel Agger are at an advanced stage, but is concerned that there has been little progress with Kuyt.

With Eric Bailly, Victor Lindelof, Chris Smalling, Phil Jones and Marcos Rojo at his disposal, it's difficult to see Mourinho adding another central defender.

Ever since Skrtel took over the central defender role at Liverpool this season, the club have enjoyed what could only be described as a brick wall defense.

One of the best central defenders in the world, Borussia Dortmund star Mats Hummels has long been linked with a move to Old Trafford and is on their radar again as January approaches, as he would surely be the best possible signing for the club at this moment in time.

Another central defender Man United have their eye on, although at 28 - years - old Godin is an older option than Hummels.

Arsenal play very open attacking football, with both wing - backs pushed up at the same time, and the central defenders split.

So the fact that he confirmed his interest in the young English defender Tyrone Mings, as reported by The Mirror, is fairly out of character for the Prof.. The 21 - year old is currently playing in the Championship for Ipswich Town and his usual role is as a left back, but at 6ft 3in and with his power and pace, it is thought that he could easily make the switch to central defence, which is coincidentally the weakest part of the Arsenal squad right now.

Kolasinac is a versatile defender who is mostly utilised at left - back, but is more than competent as a central defender or in midfield.

something new for sure will happen at the very least we will be getting new players the question being who...... a striker with 30 goals abomyang a central defender a midfielder new maneger who diago simone will do well with atlatico or lazio he is connected to them arsenal needs some one within its ranks some one connected to them But today we seen an ugly encounter were certain players should have had the red i think technology should come in to it and players should be disciplined after The premier league is a physical strong competition to win it you got to be very strong very accurate and very demanding and if you do not have the team to do it you do not win our team didn't live to exceptions of last season so there for changes will have to happen

In the Monaco game we are going to need all the pace we can get at the back, it's going to be a risky game for us as we have to start well and we are going to go for it, this means we will be exposed at the back, that is where we need 2 quick central defenders, Kossy and Gabriel can look after themselves on the counter, but Mertesacker has no chance, so I think if we play Merte then we ain't got a chance at all, they will counter on us and due to him being slow.