Sentences with phrase «defender than a striker»

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We still miss obvious chances and i would feel much better if i depend on strikers to win muches than golazos from defenders snd midfielders..........

The 35 - year - old defender couldn't do much worse than three - goal striker Diego Costa on this evidence!

Cazorla is far better than Ozil in my opinion... We wasted 42M to replace our best player (Cazorla was Arsenal best player the season before we bought Ozil)... Don't get me wrong, Ozil is good but we should have invest that money on a much needed position, maybe a striker (Bitty that the stubborn one didnot get Higuain for less than 30M) or a defender...

The sad reality is I'd be so excited if we sign a striker and a defender that would be other than Giroud and Mertesacker.

Would a defender have strengthened our overall teoriam more than a top striker?

I know it's key for the the auba deal but giroud 15m to Chelsea?!?! Virgin van djik 75m and Laporte 60m and defenders are cheaper than strikers no?

He didn't get the 3 pieces we needed in Summer (another very good defender, Top DM and Top striker) so what makes People think we will get more than 1 in January which is a transfer window for emergencies.

Bale plays as a shadow striker, meaning he plays in the # 10 role but is more focused on driving at defenders with his pace and shooting (rather than the Ozil - way of playing the # 10 role for example).

How does getting a BACKUP defender make us a better team than buying a star striker who will improve the first 11?

Its more of a statement if we beat a fully fit chelsea than a chelsea missing their first choice defender and striker.

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«And, rather than signing more squad players, he must bring in another world - class defender, a top midfielder and a 20 plus goal striker.

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Like what @dave said, Arsenal needs an upgrade to Giroud, a striker that is good in the air, quick, willing to take on the opponent's defenders, has good dribbling and can score more than twenty league goals in a season.

There is room for a defender and more than that there is a need for a world class striker.

Leicester have striker who can trouble defenders you relied on someone who can not even run a yard with the ball and then you joked yourselves that he is better than Kane, Costa, Lukaku and list goes on and you even compared him to Ronaldo and Messi with your stupid stats.

Strikers score, defenders defend, midfield keep the ball and work hard Would rather have a striker who will gurantee goals than one who will run the whole pitch and be ineffective in the opposition box

A top central defender is maybe easier to get than a striker.

not sure, but if you that's true then it's because we have no other striker than him... soft touches, double passes, hold up play are not great at all for striker... scoring goals from half chances, passing defenders, put fears into them, these are great not yours...

But Arsenal has to get another tall striker that is more mobile, faster and more skillful than Giroud, because Wenger's tactics require a forward that can consistenly beat the opponent's defenders in the air and in one - on - one situation.

And don't get me started on listing the defenders that are better than Mertesacker or the strikers that are better than sanogo, it is actually much easier to list those that are worse coz they aren't that many to be honest

They haven't figured out their defense with no natural fullbacks stepping up (Hector is just ok, Kimmich looks promising but not there yet and may not end up being a defender anyway) and have no natural striker on the roster other than Gomez, who is now out.

Sanchez runs the ball down for 60 minutes gets the defenders tired and edgy and than giroud steps in to score a couple and miss few chances... keeps everyone happy - those who say giroud should never start, those who say giroud is a super sub, those who say giroud is the best striker in the league, those who say sanchez isnt a striker, those who say sanchez should start and ofcourse, arsenal wins too:) Its a win - win - win - win - win - win - win - win situation..

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arsenal as a big and rich club they didn't spent so much money to buy best players in the past years like the other big clubs so this time it is a must that arsenal buys best defender, midfielder and striker and as well keep Sanchez valuing the service that he will be giving next season mote than # 50 m which will also protect him not to play against arsenal at least for the coming season, and who knows after wards..

Therefore Arsenal would be maximising his abilities at what Giroud is good at, rather than expecting him to beat defenders with pace and be the energetic striker that simply does not fit in with his style of play.

A striker is more important than a defender right now.

Wenger must be ready to play players on their right positions other than stick out them all out of position in order to accommodate his favourites... i once said that Wenger is a manager who would go as far as playing a defender as a striker just to accommodate his favourites and was thumbed down.

Now, I know we can do better than better than giroud but right now I don't think we have a better option right now and the earlier we get giroud playing and in top form the better, alexis is not a striker, and while come with a lot of optimism watched many of his goals and he doesn't seem to dominate the defenders, he runs into spaces to finish I strongly believe he won't find himself in similar situations so often in arsenal but rather will find himself fighting big bullying defenders.

And this year is much better than last year, when we became the laughing stock of English football by bringing in an injured midfielder in Kim Kallstrom when we needed a striker and a defender.

We just need the finishing touch with a striker who scares defenders and perhaps one or two players who score 12 — 20 goals other than the striker (Iwobi?

Many Arsenal fans have questioned why the French international can't manage to stay on for the whole 90 minutes of games and maybe score more as our opponents get tired legs, but Arsene Wenger is adamant that he will continue his policy of taking him off in the later stages of games.Le Prof told Arsenal.com: «First of all I would like to say that in my job you sub strikers more than defenders, because they have to create, they have to provoke, they have to be incisive in every run.

We lack ambition at Arsenal we are the big club that is desperate for the title more than others but we are not showing hunger in our business, We have a scouting that is very poor as we have wasted a lot of Money on the wrong Sanchez is the only great player we have bought for decades, Ozil buy was mistake we had carzorla the we wanted a striker, we wssted money on xhaka, Elneny, chambers, welbeck, mustafi and finally in lacazette he lacks height and physicality to thrive in epl you saw yesterday he was suffocated by Chelsea defenders he did not look a threat at all, but hey let's blame Kreonke for paying the highest wage bill in Europe for Deadwoods... pooor management poor Arsenal what do you expect

«You substitute a striker more than you would a defender, because they always have to provoke, to defend, to attack, you have to create holes in the defences.

Gets your best strikers on the field solid defenders, fast midfield and Acosta is a much more accurate passer than Bradley.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

but in this new formation he simply has no place, can not play striker and does not have to technical skills to play alexis and oz role behind the striker and his game leans toward taking defenders by surprise rather than taking them on which is not possible in 3 -4-3.

Luiz does have his qualities but being a disciplined defender is not one of them and if the Gunners go with the pace and movement up front of Alexis Sanchez, Theo Walcott and our new Spanish striker Lucas Perez I can see Luiz getting in such a mess that he will look even more of a clown than his cartoon lookalike «sideshow» bob from The Simpsons.

Hahaha pepes here saying Benzema is not significantly better than Giroud.i do not even want to go to stats.Firstly lets talk about finishing, Giroud finishing is not really that good at all.He misses a lot of chances.He most at times needs many chances to score and all also misses sitters too much.his shot accuracy too ai nt that good at all.This makes him an average finisher.Secondly, lets go to his dribbling abilities.every player has his own limitations.Giroud has average dribbling.there are many times if he could beat a player he would have been through on goal but since he cant he just waits for support denying the team a chance to score in most cases.Average dribbler.In addition, hold up play, Giroud holds up the ball really well, however, this does not work in all cases against physically strong defenders and also very intelligent defenders his hold up play suffers a lot.so for hold up play he is ok.i could go on and on my word this striker is not good at all do nt you watch him or you want to use his stats.ah!

In the Premier League you need to be physical, strong and powerful in order to be one of the very best strikers, to stand your own and to beat the defender rather than the other way round.

A goal keeper with a pony tail and a big black bold defender, a soldier with his general in midfield, a striker more at home in front of goal than most goalkeepers and a winger that excited with every touch.

We should play sanchez as our main striker, his movement and relentlessness makes him a bigger problem for defenders than either giroud or benzema.

I will say it again, if Wenger were to splash on Isco or James Rodriguez right now rather than an average overpriced striker or defender, I'll think its money well spent.

I already gave up hope on new striker but still hope we can get in a top central defender I don't think he is money pinching or indecisive though as Xhaka is the most expensive DM in this transfer window, more expensive than Kante and way more expensive than Krychowiak.

- the time Pele played football the defenders were like «meh», they were really weak, they never followed the striker to tackle the ball, if you disagree than tell me a strong defender of that time?

In combating Iceland's direct football, Osorio decided to play a 3 -3-1-3 formation with Diego Reyes — best known as a centre - back — placed in front of the three defenders, plus striker Raul Jimenez and winger Jesus Gallardo given the nod at least partially because they are better than most Mexican players in the air.

Talking point: Northern Ireland showed more attacking intent than against Poland after manager Michael O'Neill made a number of changes from the opening game against Poland, including dropping striker Kyle Lafferty to the bench, Conor Washington came in and worked hard to close down Ukraine's defenders, while his team - mates closely marshalled Ukraine's wide man, Andriy Yarmolenko and Yevhen Konoplyanka.

When Vincent Kompany limped off with yet another muscle injury after 15 minutes, Guardiola decided to introduce striker Gabriel Jesus rather than a replacement defender.

it seems like wenger simply decided that he should take off a defender for an attacker with no real live context except a theory that suggests a striker would more likely score a goal than a defender.

-- Even central defender John Terry (4) has scored more Premier League goals this season than striker Fernando Torres (2), who has now gone twelve consecutive top - flight matches without netting.