Sentences with phrase «central defensive pairing in»

Jose Giminez at Athletico Madrid, one half of this season's best central defensive pairing in Europe - hardly conceded any goals in La Liga or the Champions League this season.

Not exact matches

We do have some good news with the return of our summer signing Shkodran Mustafi who comes staright back in to renew his central defensive pairing with Koscielny.

Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger will allow Thomas Vermaelen to leave in the summer but only once he has brought in a central defensive addition to offer back - up to first choice pair Laurent Koscielny and Per Mertesacker.

The club's first choice central defensive pairing of Laurent Koscielny and Per Mertesacker proved very capable last term and Manolas may be an intelligent option to bring in as back - up.

When Pires scrapped home a goal in an FA Cup final in 2003 when our central defensive pairing of Martin Keown — who required injections in every bit of him to play — and Oleg Luzhny played a blinder.

And he reckons that the whole defensive side of the Arsenal team are in great form, as he told Arsenal Player after the Bournemouth match made it three clean sheets from four games and his central defensive pairing with Gabriel showed more signs of improvement.

But he has found first - team opportunities harder to come by in the Premier League this season, appearing only 10 times in the league as Adrian Mariappa and Alex Pearce have been the central defensive pairing preferred by manager Brian McDermott.

Phil Jones and Chris Smalling have both featured in the position in their early Manchester United careers; however, Louis van Gaal is eager to develop the pair's experience and partnership in central defence, and they were both deployed only in the central defensive role in the Dutchman's debut Old Trafford campaign.

Arsenal have had some very strong central defensive pairings over the years, perhaps more notably back in the days when that was seen as the strongest part of our game, which gave rise to the famous chant of «1 - 0 to the Arsenal».

In a slow and boring first half, two of the best chances went to Sunderland as Defoe tore apart the central defensive pairing of Vertonghen and Alderweireld only to hit the post.

Apart from the scoring situations, Lukaku was very good in running the channels, holding up play and giving the Liverpool central defensive pair lots to do in the game.

Before I move onto today's Arsenal news I want to clarify a couple of things from yesterday's post, where I spoke about the central - defensive options in our squad and who I would like to see begin next season as the starting pair.

The pair have worked well for England and with Phil Jones injured and Chris Smalling not favoured by the manager for the central defensive pairing, the duo of Cahill and Jagielka have little to worry about in terms of job security.

Koscielny will have to pair up with Mertesacker in the central of the defensive area until Vermaelen will be fit again.

In 2015 - 16, he was reunited with central defensive partner Toby, with the pair having previously played together at Ajax.

Most alarming for Rovers fans will be the fact that defensive deficiencies haven't been addressed, even though these — and the ill - judged January sales of central defensive pairing Christopher Samba and Ryan Nelsen, compounding the loss of Phil Jones — were instrumental in the club's relegation.