Sentences with phrase «central midfield for»

James Milner, who captains the side in the absence of Jordan Henderson due to illness, moves to central midfield for the meeting with the La Liga side.

Jordon Mutch had a good game in attacking central midfield for Cardiff.

THE TEAM HAS BEEN COMPOSED FOR THE ARSENAL WAY, WHICH DEPENDS ON HAVING A VERY MOBILE, HIGHLY SKILLED, AND INTELIGENT CENTRAL MIDFIELD FOR WHICH SONG IS NOT THERE YET.

So invariably United will once again rely on a two - man central midfield for the large majority of their campaign.

Rooney was also more involved in the second half, as he dropped back to make it a three man central midfield for United.

Therefore, we can expect the likes of Herrera and Carrick to line up in the central midfield for the Red Devils.

Tiemoue Bakayoko, N'Golo Kante and Cesc Fabregas were playing in the central midfield for Chelsea while Alvaro Morata and Eden Hazard were leading them from the upfront.

Paul Pogba and Nemanja Matic have been the regulars in central midfield for United, but Mourinho could opt to rest the latter to bring in Marouane Fellaini for his first start of 2018.

In the absence of Pogba and Herrera, we can expect Michael Carrick and Marouane Fellainio to start in the central midfield for the Old Trafford club.

He wants to play central midfield for his country, too, and is also thought to have discussed his options with England coach Gareth Southgate as he weighed up the merits of moves to Liverpool and Chelsea.

The youngster is expected to star in central midfield for Turkey in France.

First up at 2 pm British time we have the chance to see our first transfer signing of the summer Granit Xhaka, who will be hopefully in fine form and running things from central midfield for the Switzerland national side.

The former CFC star is his club's all - time top goalscorer, despite playing in central midfield for his entire career, and has revealed how intense cup finals were for him as a player.

Having lost Wilshere to a long term ankle injury and Arteta for a number of weeks in recent days, bodies are certainly required in central midfield for Arsenal, so a loan move for Ledesma could represent a canny piece of business as long as it is backed up by quality additions.

With Cesc Fabregas, Nemanja Matic, John Obi Mikel, and others already able to play in central midfield for Jose Mourinho, this could well be yet another youngster who fans will never see actually play for the club.

But he showed good control, skills, movements, vision and work rate when he played as a central midfielder for France in the World Cup qualifying matches.

Wenger insists that despite the Swiss midfielder generally having played as a central midfielder for the majority of his career, he has never properly trained on his tackling ability.

Give him some rest for PSG But I think most of the players playing Southampton will play PSG I think we should make good use of our Central Midfielders for both matches because we have plenty of quality players: Ozil, Cazorla, Xhaka, Coquelin and Eleney We have only 3 CBs available at the moment Koscielny, Mustafi and Holding

Only four recognised central midfielders for the entire season, and one of them (Ramsey) likely to miss a chunk of this season through injury.

But how Xhaka constantly plays ahead of him, or any other central midfielder for that matter (even youth teams players) is beyond me!

Deschamps — who called up the central midfielder for friendlies against Colombia and Russia had this to vocalise: «This is a situation that he must not appreciate because of everything he would have been able to offer»

Joseph Christopher «Joe» Ledley plays as a central midfielder for Premier League club Crystal Palace after signing in January 2014.

Having lacked enough central midfielders for that system in Rome, Kante's return changes things for the champions.

Xhaka has played as a holding midfielder and also as a creative central midfielder for the Bundesliga side.

It is understood, Wenger priority will be remain with a central midfielder for major additions to strengthen his squad during the summer transfer window.

It was largely expected that the England international would play as winger or central midfielder for Liverpool when he joined the club on a free transfer from Manchester City.

I certainly think that at his best, Wilshere has the quality to be a starting central midfielder for Arsenal.

Not exact matches

And for more prowess at Arsenal's central attacking midfielder option and cover, Arsenal should explore the opportunity at signing Moussa Sissoko to the fullest and sign him if he agrees to come to us and his argent and Newcastle FC will reasonably lower their asking price for him to enable Arsenal to sign him.

At least Liverpool have lost their main midfield man Jordan Henderson to injury as well and so have gone for three combative central midfielders in Lucas, Milner and Emre Can.

Brahimi has been a constant presence for the country in central midfield and Everton are understood to be interested in the African.

Walcott should not start as a first teamer he is a bench player I'd rather have the ox there with sanchez on the other wing.As for the central midfielders I'd like to see xhaka with cazorla with ozil just behind giroud.I won't be able to see the match but i hope we win or else its curtains for another title challenge: -LRB-

However, with Coquelin, Ramsey, Wilshere, Arteta, Cazorla and all fighting for the central midfield roles, would Milner have played any more for us than he did for City?

After Xhaka we have no one of any real quality in central midfield, and even Xhaka himself isn't on the same level as a Santi, or Modric for example.

You might not think that Cazorla's abilities were the best suited to an away game against Chelsea but with Coquelin alongside him they have been a formidable central midfield pairing for us.

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.

Of course it does not help Arsenal that Coquelin picked up the problem at the same time that another central midfielder Mohamed Elneny has headed off to Gabon to play for his national side Egypt in the African Cup of Nations and that he might not return until the February if they go all the way, but in a report on the Arsenal website the manager has set the estimated return date of Coquelin at just a few weeks.

Although most Arsenal fans would still like to see Arsene Wenger spend good money in the transfer market on an experienced and top class central midfielder like Morgan Schneiderlin, we do not seem too concerned about the boss waiting until the summer and giving young Coquelin the chance to keep strutting his stuff for the rest of the season.

Carzola has certainly shown great capacity to deputize for Ramsey in Central midfield until he returns, first from injury and then to full sharpness.

The French midfielder has been part of Arsene Wenger's favoured central pairing, alongside Santi Cazorla so far this year, with Mohamed Elneny and Xhaka forced to wait for their chances.

Even if we get Cavani, I would still expect Wenger to sign another defender and maybe a central midfielder, but having a centre forward of Cavani's ability to finish off the moves created by the likes of Ramsey, Ozil, Alexis and all would surely make us real contenders for the title.

The diminutive midfield magician has played in a number of roles for Arsenal and I am sure that Arsene Wenger will ask him to do so again at times, but the boss does seem to have settled on the central midfield role as the best one for the Spaniard.

In fact, the boss is so determined to field chambers regularly that he has got his name penciled down for three positions in right back, central defense and defensive midfield.

«They needed a holding central midfielder and they've paid around # 30m for him, which is the type of money the Arsenal fans want to see being spent on the best players.

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.

The biggest battle for selection will be in central midfield where we have very good technical players in Ramsey, Wilshere, Cazorla, Coquelin, El Neny and Xhaka (one midfielder too many?)

The German World Cup winner is a dynamic central midfielder, and could be an ideal replacement for veteran Yaya Toure, who has been tipped for the exit door.

For the first half hour or so of that match the combative Frenchman was looking great and back to his best in central midfield.

The answer is quite obviously yes, for one he can play in any of the 3 central midfield roles and I have seen him play both wings.

The Spaniard's versatility can see him play in various positions, including left - back, central defence and in midfield, but given his natural position is on the left, Conte could yet decide to continue his search for a centre - half too.

Although I think it will be a good idea for tough matches where we need another strong central midfielder to crowd the center or to rest certain players.