Sentences with phrase «chipped ball over the top»

He also positively affected the transition and attacking phases; functioning as a release valve when his teammates came under pressure as well as making forays into the attacking third wherein he would participate in incisive passing sequences and discompose defences with splendid chipped balls over the top.

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It took less than 10 minutes for us to make the breakthrough and it was a superbly worked one, with Alexis latching onto a Cazorla ball over the top and chipping a cross for the onrushing Walcott to head home.

But Costa delivered the bigger blow when he killed off the game by scoring Chelsea's second, beating Per Mertesacker and Laurent Koscielny to a perfect ball over the top from former Gunner Cesc Fabregas and coolly chipping the ball into the net.

When the ball was chipped in towards Williams, there appeared little on for the Spain Under - 21 international, but the Bilbao midfielder flicked the ball over his head before running onto it and firing a thunderous volley into the top corner.

65: Not for the first time today Adam chips a really good ball over the top.

That enabled Brentford to dominate possession in the opening exchanges and they could have taken the lead when a ball chipped over the top by Ryan Woods got Neal Maupay in on goal but he failed to control and Johnstone was able to gather.

In the injury time Nketiah pounced on a loose ball and chipped a shot over the top of Smith, which was superbly saved.

6 - Wilshere gets the ball outside the area and chips a lovely ball over the top of the defence to Olivier Giroud, whose acrobatic volley hits the bar

AREAS TO TARGET MC: City conceded two similar goals last weekend in a 3 - 2 win at West Brom, when Gareth Barry chipped hopeful balls over the top of defence - Arsenal might be able to exploit a weakness in that respect.