Sentences with phrase «central defensive pairing of»

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.

Otherwise they might have to look at deploying someone like Francis Coquelin as an emergency defender, or switch to a back four, but a central defensive pairing of Monreal and Holding would leave Arsenal fans very pessimistic indeed.

The good news is that we have our first choice central defensive pairing of Mertesacker and Koscielny back, which will hopefully mean a clean sheet as a platform for an Arsenal win.

Manolas, who represented Greece at this summer's World Cup finals, will offer Wenger a strong back - up to his first choice central defensive pairing of Laurent Koscielny and Per Mertesacker.

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.

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.

Carvalho could have been a beast for us and Manolas and Socratis would have been more experienced backups for the central defensive pair of Koscielny and Per.

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.

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.

Well it's done now...... but I'd hazard a guess he wanted an established central midfield partnership with strongest possible defensive qualities (Coquelin / Elneny) infront of an untried, young, emergency centre back pairing.

The frustration of seeing Sergio Ramos and Pepe nail down the central defensive pairing was compounded by Varane picking up an injury right at the end of the season.

The back four should be unchanged as the central pairing of Koscielny and Mustafi are playing well and are looking like a really solid unit, while the full backs do their defensive jobs well and also add width and threat to the attack.

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.

However, beyond first - choice central defensive pairing Samuel Umtiti and Gerard Pique, there is a lack of quality depth at Ernesto Valverde's disposal with Yerry Mina and Thomas Vermaelen available.

We should soon know what our manager has up his sleeve and barring any more calamities on the injury front he should have no problem with the left side of the central defensive pairing, with Gabriel and Laurent Koscielny.

We need to start thinking about integrating a new central defensive pairing because although monreal and debuchy try their best when per and kos are out they're both approaching 30, we need to partner chambers with another younger centre back so he can develop a better understanding of his strengths and form a partnership as fruitful as the current one.

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».

This season Arsene Wenger prefers the duo of Mustafi and Koscielny as his central defensive pairing.

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.

Badstuber's loop of lament leaves Pep Guardiola with a major central defensive conundrum: just who to pair with the ever - impressive Jerome Boateng?

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.

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.