Sentences with phrase «creative midfield play»

4 Mikel Arteta (Everton) Rangers and Everton fans alike will tell you that Arteta is a huge talent, but the modest Spaniard still doesn't get the credit his creative midfield play deserves.

Wilshere has been injury prone but has been injury free for a good while now... Missing a friendly against holland is hardly a sign of medical catastrophe so this is a massive overreaction... Wilshere is by a very long way the best of the British stable at arsenal and on his day he is a top flight creative midfield play maker... Don't take my word for it ask xavi arguably the best ever in that role... Since his return he has shown signs of his best but not over 90 mins... But wenger has played him all over the place does not no how to combine him with ozil and miki and surrounded him with utterly hapless players like Ramsey and xhaka... He needs a new manager to bring best out of him I hope at arsenal but if the fossil stays he should go...

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The duo will boost their midfield defensively, allowing their more creative teammates to play with freedom.

Monreal in at CB provides an adept and semi creative ball playing presence in the defensive third which I think is important to keep us moving the ball fluidly and intelligently and also means opposition need to compensate for the possibility of Monreal clipping the ball over the top to Lacazette and cutting the midfield out.

On the other hand, playing 4 4 2 requires a very strong and skilled Defensive midfielder (Gilberto type) and very creative and fast wingers.

The same squad that unnecessarily plays three, creative and central midfielders that sacrifice the width of the pitch and provide minimal defensive steel when possession is lost

The creative midfielder is his country's all - time top goalscorer despite playing from midfield, but has had a tough time with the Red Devils, and can now look forward to a new start in North London.

The way they played last time was still not flowing and brave enough, but I blame our supposedly creative midfielders (Ozil and Wilshere) for that for not being able to control the tempo and the flow

we have great fire power with probably the 2nd best creative attacking midfield in the EPL now the problem is that if we get congested in every game just outside the oppositions box there is no way we can score goals with 15 to 18 players in and around you, we need to change the way we play we can not play the million passing the ball game outside the box, we have to draw out the opposition to half way to be able to get behind their deference

He is dangerous because he is creative and a team player like Sanchez, due to the fact that he played in midfield area when he was younger.

a creative mid to replace our aging cazorla and a hardtackling midfield to break up play like gueye would be ideal, now with Saed and one or two young talent signings we got a team that can challenge on all fronts next season minus the deadweight (Walcott, elneny, Wilshire, Gibbs, Perez, debuchy, Gabriel, Campbell, Ramsey if if we sign two midfield players) COYG

Though Mata finished the last two campaigns as Chelsea's Player of the Year Mourinho initially preferred to use Eden Hazard and Oscar as his creative midfield talents and when the former Valencia man has been used he has failed to hit the heights that saw him play a pivotal role in the West London club's Champions League and Europa League successes.

We need attacking midfielder, someone who plays in the middle, attacking (not Xhaka — because he is not) not on the wing like Sanchez, Ozil but a creative goddamn midfielder!

Elneny will be a fallback for the adventurous and risky plays of Arsenal's creative midfielders.

Shevchenko was the best striker in Europe for two consecutive years at Milan, with creative midfielders like Seadof, Pirlo, Kaka playing behind him, before he moved to Chelsea and played behind a goal scoring Lampard.

Ozil is surprisingly very committed, he is playing as a hybrid creative midfielder doing both santi role of getting the ball deep to organise play and his usual creative self.

In my opinion, Arsenal should play with 3 -5-2, to make creative midfielders like Ozil, Ramsey and Xhaka free to create chances.

There is a possibility that the Frenchman could do his usual trick of playing one of our creative midfielders out on the left and that would put Wilshere, Chamberlain, Ramsey and Cazorla in the frame.

You forget that Lukaku and Benteke have achieved admirable feats playing in clubs like Aston Villa, West Brom, Everton who I find it very hard to remember names of players in their midfield rather than Barkley, Barry and Fabian Delph while Giroud has had the luxury of players such as Cazorla, Ozil, Sanchez, Walcott, Ramsey for 3 seasons now who are an indisputable stronger creative force compared to those other teams mentioned.

At Dortmund he plays with an extremely dynamic and creative midfield.

The Gunners have suffered without the creative spark of Santi Cazorla dictating play from the midfield following his absence through injury, and the club have been on the lookout for a future replacement.

our problem is not the defense we cant just score goals with so many attempts we shoudl have scored 4 - 5 goals and win it by 5 - 2 without a creative midfielder like Cazorla or Ramsey (when he plays well) our attacking play is very predictable maybe playing Iwobi instead of Elneny or Coq is at least better But Wenger's biggest mistake was to play Chambers instead of Bellerin Bellerin with his pace opens up the opponents.

Morata clearly rates his former colleague highly, however, and there certainly seems to be room for a creative midfielder like Isco at Chelsea, particularly as Cesc Fabregas is ageing and has played more this season due to the unconvincing form of Tiemoue Bakayoko and Danny Drinkwater in midfield.

Because we're playing too many creative players at the same time, two or three every game instead of two wingers, one creative player, one box to box and one defensive midfielder as we should have.

Why not look for a creative midfielder who can both play the ball out from our own 3rd (like Santi once Ozil arrived) but also has the ability to play further up the pitch.

Have 2 specialist wingers (Walcott and Sanchez, Sanchez can play on both sides so you can play Campbell or Ox on the other side), a creative midfielder in the center (Ozil or Cazorla) and striker up front

Arsenal would have a defensive midfielder in a 4 -1-3-2 or 4 -1-2-1-2 formation, allowing the creative midfielders like Ozil, Sanchez and Wilshere to play with higher risk.

Like the usual 3 -4-2-1, Sanchez and Iwobi acted as central attacking midfielders behind Giroud, but Xhaka played as a defensive midifielder, supported the creative central midfielders in front of him (Wilshere and Ozil).

I think having Coquelin could help Jack also the takes the majority of the defensive responsibility in midfield allowing the more creative players to just play and that will benefit Jack.

A santi replacement is not just about creative play but (1) having the discipline to play in defensive midfield and (2) ability to dribble out of tight spaces.

Even though he is not a defensive midfielder, he is younger than N'Zonzi, has high work rate, is used to play with Barcelona football level, can play as a right wingback as well, more skillful, more creative and has learned a lot from Messi.

i am thinking the same thing, i just do nt think hold up play center striker style works as well as speed with a creative midfield and ozil in the middle

Wenger doesn't seem to realize that he can't play 7 creative midfielders at once.

IF Wenger played to Ozils strengths with a PROPER DEFENCE AND HOLDING MIDFIELD so that he that freedom to be creative in the midfield then we will see the best MIDFIELD so that he that freedom to be creative in the midfield then we will see the best midfield then we will see the best of Ozil.

The Spanish international is a defensive midfielder capable of both breaking up play and distributing the ball to aid the side's creative players.

It looks like Arsenal is not looking for a creative midfielder, a play maker in the market.

Giroud might be OK but he doesn't allow us to play to the strengths of our creative midfielders IMO since he lacks the pace to go after brilliant passes played in behind defenders.

We need a young keeper to eventually replace cech (donnuramma, lafont fom toulouse or butland if we can't get those two) we also must have a creative midfield player to replace cazorla (naby Keita, rabiot) a hard tackler to break up the play (idriss gueye, nzonzi) and a striker lacazette / aubameyang / belotti... keep him at all costs but if Sanchez leaves costa, dembele from Dortmund, or mpabbe but I don't think that he's feasible, not mahrez too lazy for me if Alexis is leaving I want a world class player to replace our superstar who runs everywhere and never stops fighting for the ball not a one season wonder who's gonna leave every two years for the African cup and never tracks back.

Calhanoglu is a creative midfielder well capable of playing inch - perfect through - balls and beautiful diagonals whilst also having great expertise over free - kicks.

How can he play in front of arguably the most creative midfield in the world and his best attribute (his hold - up play) is helping them score?

If he does, Arsenal must get someone like him, not a simple goalpoacher, but a creative attacking midfielder that can dictate the play, assist and score a lot of goals, which I think pretty rare these days.

Playing in the creative midfield role, ahead of Mikel Arteta or Mathieu Flamini, Cazorla needs to be doing a lot more than what he, going by the stats, has done so far.

Gustavo's role is to break up play and feed the more creative sources in the team, something which has made the midfielder a favourite of manager Luis Felipe Scolari.

As well as the attacking and creative play, the performances of the central midfielders in snuffing out any danger and controlling the game was very good but because of the nature of the match I had to pick one of the forward players for Man of the Match and Alexis Sanchez just got my nod ahead of the brilliant Alex Iwobi.

Considering the fact that Forsberg is a versatile player capable of playing in midfield, behind the striker and even on the flanks as he tends to do for Leipzig, he would be a great signing for Arsenal and add to the creative threat of the Gunners» attack.

When he plays most times we don't win cus of his style which has refused to change to suit other players, and stop using injuries as an excuse for his poor performances.Ramsey has been having injuries as well and each time even when he is out of form he tries to make clever passes and with him the midfield is stable and creative coupled with his contribution with goals but Wilshere?

In addition,, we need to stick with the four back so that we have that extra midfielder instead of that extra defender.The 3 back makes us less creative and does not suit our style of play from what I've observed.

The 25 - year - old star can effectively play as a defensive midfielder and also as a creative central midfielder.

With Mesut Ozil occupying the central position in Arsenal's attack, Mkhitaryan is more likely to play out wide, which he has frequently done in the past, while still helping Ozil in shouldering the creative duties for the midfield.

Carroll or whoever plays lone striker is isolated, there is no width or penetration in attacking positions, there is little creative influence with Lanzini wasted stranded out on the wing, midfield players do not do enough to support the defence and passing decisions and execution are poor.