Sentences with phrase «central midfield problem»

How often have Arsenal fans and football pundits talked about the central midfield problem?

Arsenal can rectify their central midfield problem by getting a versatile and skillful player like him, but I don't think he is worth 100 millions.

But apparently the Brazilian defensive midfield star Romulo is the player that Arsene Wenger is set to bring to the Emirates to solve the central midfield problems that have been going on for so long.

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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.

And that is just the central midfield area of the squad, while Wenger has had to cope with injury problems in all the others as well.

I didn't think the day would come that Spuds would be so much better than us but they are Cech = Lloris Alderweild and Vertonghen > Mustafi and Koscielny Aurier & Rose = Bellerin & Kolsanic Wanyama / Sissoko / Dembele > Coquelin / Xhaka / Ramsey Ericksen > Ozil Alli / Son > Welbeck / Walcott / Iwobi Lamela Lacazette Our biggest problem that Wenger did not rectify this summer is central midfield.

editor comments «central midfield needs a Cazorla replacement and at CB is the other area where most of our problems will come».

Even with all of our injury problems in every area of the pitch but especially in defence and central midfield, Arsenal are finding a way to dominate games and more importantly, to win them.

The dynamic 25 - year old has been fantastic for Alan Pardew's side this season and he does play in that central midfield area that has given the Gunners so many problems ever since the aforementioned Vieira left us in 2005.

As reported by the Daily Mail, the United boss has revealed that there is a virus going around their dressing room and that is a big problem on top of their injury problems, with the England central midfielder Michael Carrick ruled out for the rest of the season this week.

Our proBlem is just in central midfield, one only thinks about scoring goals, one likes holding on to the ball for long, cant pass before he runs and bumps into other players, the others just weak and slow.

Louis van Gaal changed his tactics to try to surprise Arsenal and counter his team's defensive problems, with three central defenders and with Luke Shaw and Valencia playing as wing backs in a midfield five, with Rooney and van Persie up front.

I think after his injuries, his second biggest problem is where he is played, he doesn't seem to have a fixed position in the midfield, is he an attacking or central midfielder?

It seems cleat that even though injuries to the likes of Wilshere, Rosicky and Ramsey have left our central midfield weakened, the biggest problem facing the prof is the front three and that is where I think our little magician Santi Cazorla could wave his magic wand and come to the rescue.

But he has had a few injury problems and has now lost his place in central midfield to Santi Cazorla and although Wenger has stuck with him and kept him in the starting line up, it has been out on the right.

We've had problems in central midfield this season, but if these two stay fit, they should become an automatic choice.

Central midfield has been a problem area for van Gaal at times this season and signing Delph would bring the energy to the side that has been missing for large spells of the campaign.

They would have a real problem in central midfield now without him.

Central midfield remains something of a problem position for the Red Devils following the retirement of the legendary Paul Scholes, and van Gaal is still keen to bring in another new player in that part of the pitch despite already spending around # 30m on bringing in Ander Herrera from Athletic Bilbao.

Central midfield is the major problem, we have so many poor midfielders at arsenal, only Wilshere and Cazorla can match and battle with the midfield of the Manchester clubs and even Liverpool.....

Our problems in recent times have been in central midfield and Sanchez loss of form.

If Cazorla does have to miss the game against Middlesborough then Arsenal have a small problem in central midfield, with Coquelin and Elneny the only proper central midfielders he can call on and both of those are more defensively minded.

Central midfield, or the defensive side of it at least, has been a problem position for Arsenal for as long as some younger Gooners will remember.

Flamini has joined Crystal Palace after his contract with Arsenal ran down in the summer and because of the injury problems that Sam Allardyce is having to cope with it is very likely that the former Gunner will start against us in a central midfield pairing with Yohan Cabaye, who just happens to be another player whose game is very familiar to the boss as we nearly signed him a few years ago.

According to the Daily Star the Welshman is not ready yet but with plenty of other options available to Arsene Wenger in central midfield, this should not be much of a problem for the Gunners this weekend.

The main problem for me is our tactics; central midfielders occupying wing positions with wingers on the bench, no runners ever in behind the opposition defence, passing football with no end product, nobody driving forward at pace with the ball, instead opting for a sideways or backwards pass and an overall lack of counter attacking, penetrating play.

Let me quickly remind you before you forget again and again that this very problem was outlined before the close of transfer window, instead of making reinforcements, he sold our true back up central defender, didn't buy replacement after he «promised», and played an already poor left back out of position for cover, we have not had a defensive midfielder after Gilberto left, so tell me again how these problems are fresh from this season... Its time arsenal fans stop glory hunting and realise that even if Wenger hand us the EPL (a chance fatter gunnersaurus)... HE NEEDS TO GO!!!

Because of all the injury problems which have left the boss with little option in central midfield or the back four, Wenger has at least got two first choice full backs in Kieran Gibbs and Mathieu Debuchy, with Calum Chambers set yto partner Mertesacker in the centre of our defence.

His biggest problem, however, is what to do in central midfield with Francis Coquelin ruled out long term.

While Arsenal wait for the transfer of Mohamed Elneny from the Swiss club Basel to be completed, assuming that the work permit for the Egyptian international midfielder to be able to play in the English Premier League is granted, Arsene Wenger still has the problem of how to cope without central midfielders like Santi Cazorla, Jack Wilshere, Tomas Rosicky and perhaps most importantly Francis Coquelin.

The main problem with the Arsenal team is too many central midfield players being put on the wing.

Central midfield has been a problem position for Arsenal for many years.

After what happened to Arsenal when the club captain and central midfielder Mikel Arteta picked up an injury problem in the Champions League clash with Anderlecht on Tuesday, Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal fans have been sweating on the medical reports on the Spaniard and fortunately it is good news for once.

The central midfield continues to be a problem area for West Ham and putting three bodies in it was a belt and braces solution for the respective shortcomings of the three individuals involved.

Our main problem is our team is not balanced, half of our squad is made of small central midfield players.

On reflection, you can see why LvG picked Fellaini to play with him in central midfield last night — he helped us deal with set pieces where players like Crouch and Arnautovic might otherwise have caused problems, and helped restrict Stoke's time on the ball.

That central midfield feels like the main problem behind our cohesion at the moment.

The major problem in his team which became evident today is the lack of creativity from his central midfielders.

Apart from a versatile central midfielder, Chelsea have another long term ongoing problem and that is of a striker.

The source of the problem was the away side's central midfield rotation.

Newcastle United boss Rafael Benitez has told the Shields Gazette that he is having a team selection problem at St. James» Park, due to the form of his central midfielders.

As with their center - back problems, Liverpool need a durable force in central midfield to push ahead in Europe next year.

His other main problem is that he is a central midfielder, an area in which Liverpool are already stacked.

Part of this problem could be considered to be that the most used central midfield pairing, Lucas Leiva and Charlie Adam, aren't particularly dynamic nor inclined to get on the end of crosses (of which Liverpool have had more, per game, than any other team in the league apart from Wolves — more of which, will be discussed later), so this only leaves a certain number of players who will be able to get into the box in the more rigid 4 -4-2 utilised for most of this season. Inspite of this, however, 58 % of Liverpool's goals have come from inside the 18 yard box, the highest in the league so far this season in terms of percentage of goals scored by each individual team, suggesting that this is the best avenue of attack for Liverpool, so the question has to be: why have Liverpool only managed to score 14 times, the 10th lowest amount of goals in the league?

Scott McTominay is a potential injury doubt with a calf problem, and this may urge Jose Mourinho to bring Paul Pogba back into the mix to partner Nemanja Matic in a two - man central midfield.

One imagines that at Liverpool, Milner was promised a solution to all his previous problems: he could play under a manager who respected his quality, played him in his favoured position as a central midfielder and gave him responsibility within the squad.

But with no width in front of the full - backs thanks to four midfielders, the game was concentrated on the central areas and it became easy for Sporting to block the passing lanes to Messi and Iniesta, which left the entire creative responsibility to Sergi Roberto and Ivan Rakitic, and that is a problem.

But, our main problem was our central midfield.