Sentences with phrase «defending than attacking»

Throughout the game I felt Arsenal were better at defending than attacking, even having more chances, because the defence were brilliant at keeping City outside our area.

More useful defending than attacking.

With Monreal, you might see more defending than attacking.

Not exact matches

He also knows that in politics it's easier to attack than defend.

Thanks Gary and Carol, your responses satisfy me that we're very close to being on the same page, maybe standing at nearly the same spot, back to back, defending it from attacks in opposing directions; that is to say we differ more in emphasis than in content.

But to place a higher priority on challenging students» faith than on teaching them how to defend their faith against attack is simply imprudent.

If I had an argument with a friend, I'd assume she was defending what she considered a sensible opinion, rather than that she was attacking me.

And even if it were the case that in the past we spent less time defending and discussing specific dogmas, there seems to me to be a much more plausible explanation than «no one really used to care about dogma», which is this: it's not that we didn't care about dogma, but rather that the truths of faith have come under unprecedented scrutiny and attack in the modern period, not least fromdissenters within the Church, so it has become essential that we do talk about what we actually believe.

Our structure focuses more on attacking than defending.»

The guy plays more further than most of these guys but how come he is the most active player when it comes to attacking and defending?

Obviously if we do score the first goal then that will make them more edgier and maybe they will try to attack more rather than just defend, Which would make it easier for us to counter attack them.

There is no way we are selling Lacazette.He scores goals in France and he will score goals here.What he had at Lyon was a team that played fast flowing attacking football with pace and with a system that was designed o get the best from the players strengths.He has come into a team that had a toxic dressing room (Sanchez) a defence that did everything but defend a system that strictly forbade any player from playing anything other than the Wenger Qiuckstep - Sideways Sideways Backwards Lets all start again.

College football's spread offense era has made it harder than ever to defend against straightforward rushing attacks.

Liverpool flailed at the goal for the final two minutes of regulation and five minutes of stoppage time, but Palace's frantic defending was better than Liverpool's frantic attacking.

But, if anything, our defending has got steadily worse as Wenger much prefers to get his teams to attack in numbers than worry about stopping the other side scoring, and it would seem that Bouldy does little more than Wenger in the dug - out, chewing gum and nodding occasionally at the Boss.

As I've being saying and will keep saying that a wing back can be viewed as a defensive winger.It involves two parts; being a defender and a winger at the same time.Ox is more of a winger than Bellerin but Bellerin is more of a defender than Ox.The problem withplaying Ox there is defensively 1v1 he's terrible.However, on the attacking side which is the winger part he's fantastic.Bellerin to me is a much better defender but since he's not a winger he can't give what Ox gives in attack.I hope Ox improves his defending though it'll probably come back to haunt us as usual before we realize.

Even the massive defending team (ATM) has a better attacking combination than Arsenal... That's true, we have only Sanchez upfront and count no one else (Ozil is not counted as an attacker)

Gibbs attacks more than he defends.

While both those players are frustrating, I find Ramsey to be the worse as I feel his best moments of his playing career was in those few months alongside Arteta and he was looking like a contender for POTY already then got injured, that period of time seen Ramsey put in more tackles per game than Arteta (on average I think it was 4.4), he was doing the defending and then taking the ball forward in attacks.

Much easier to defend than to attack José...

His job is to attack more than defend and he does both excellently.

Hes not playing as deep as he used to, he does nt defend like he used to, he tries to hard to make the final pass rather than start attacks like he used to and hes started getting in the box alot more.

I can't stand welbeck for one reason he's not better than what we have but if you played a front two of welbeck and Sanchez then Cambpell left and Walcott or chaimbo right that would give us a huge counter attacking style with lots of skill and pace, but here is the problem to do this you need big strong DM to win the ball back when we defend and we do t have them, flaming is reckless and getting old, Arteta is good on the Bala but not quick or strong enough, please don't say Diaby as we all know he will be inj soon again, then also what to do with Ozil and Corzola?

At some - point giroud will start scoring and teams will want to be desperate and will attack rather than defend which surely has to play into the hands of club but Sanchez is still in the tired moment and will want his teammates to motivate him further to start scoring just Diego Costa.

We play to attack, they play to defend, and apparently they're still not that much better than us at it...

You could say that the attacking side of Bellerin's game is better than the defending side but that is something that improves with time and the best defenders do not hit their prime until later in their careers and he is still just 20 - years old.

That goal from Costa gave Chelsea the perfect platform to defend their lead rather than pushing forward and keeping the open game that would have suited Walcott's counter attacking threat much more.

I see Xhaka has better attacking skills than defending.

He is the worst when it comes to transfers, He talks about quality and availability and need to our squad... let me moved some names who have moved... Pedro who can play as a false 9, Schneiderlin a DM and a better distributor than Coq although I love Coq but we need depth and we are away from 1 injury from the defensive crisis now, Vidal who can attack and defend and can change the tempo of the game when we need to (do we have anyone like that) would have been a great upgrade on Wilshere and Ramsey, Shaqiri, Sterling who can play any role amongst the forwards and as a CAM also, Angel Di Maria we all know him, Kondogbia as one of the best DMs on the pitch, and many more.

At Arsenal we have him playing on the wings and with our horrible defence thanks to Wengers tactics we spend more time in our own half defending than going forward to attack.

«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.

Pranay Sanklecha, writing for Surreal Football, points out that attacking or defending Berbatov on the grounds of effectiveness is to promulgate the fallacy that only effectiveness matters, whereas one of the great things about being a football fan (as opposed to a manager) is that you are able to look for and take more from the game than simple, brute efficacy.

In the likes of Ozil, Alexis and Ramsey we do have a team that can create and likes to attack more than defend, but will that see us inflict a first defeat of the season on Guardiola's league leaders, or will it just play into City hands?

Chelsea don't rip opponents apart too often some may argue, but Chelsea's forte isn't in attacking, it's in defending, but either way they've still scored more than us this season.

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...

We have an abundance of attacking midfielders, who are more concern with going forward than defending, Cazorla has been the exception, however we are going to need the steel for the upcoming season, when we are going to have to use two traditional DMs especially in the away Champions league matches and some big league games away.

Gabriel is far better suited to defend against that kind of attack than Mertesacker.

Xhaka must not start.The guy can't defend to save his own life.I don't get why we still fancy him.He's so poor and it's Wenver sho's doinv him a favouf.I rate Coquelin above him though he's one dimdnsion.If Xhaka can't defend and us not that good in attack then what does he offer the team.I'd rather have Wilshere playing next to Flamini than Xhaka.At leat both will know their actual roles in the team.

Rather have him defend all match than attacking like Messi and just watch when we concede.

I was merely suggesting that on every 90 minute measurable metric Ozil is not significantly worse than all other other attacking midfielders when it comes to defending.

I'm not confident with Debuchy, he's more of a right winger that can defend rather than a right back that can attack.

Ramsey could do this role if he remembers to defend with as much urgency as he has for attacking, he did for a short period alongside Arteta and he was putting in more tackles than Arteta, we was dominating for that short period.

Knowing how tough defending can be, Capital Christian employed a diverse attack that brought waves of capable attackers rather than one primary scorer for opponents to mark.

I would hazard a guess we could have gained more points from better attack than better defending this season.

Our plan is to defend well, but to attack better than in the first leg and get into the final stages with the possibility of going through.

By virtue of their fluid passing and strong attacking mentality football, this is a position that is vital for the Reds as more than often it is the defending midfielder who is in way of a strong counter attack.

He's a bit more Johan Djourou than Nemanja Vidic in the way that he attacks the ball, but has excellent European experience and consistently stands out in a Werder Bremen side that focuses on defending about as much as Arsenal do.

As for the claim that «defending is much easier than attacking,» I'm sure that could be the basis of a painfully forced and ultimately tedious debate on Match of the Day some time soon.

I disagree with samuel, we have a better defense than arsenal, liverpool and chelsea, we have a better midfield than liverpool, tottenham and chelsea (maybe in chelsea minus kante), we have a better attacker than liverpool and tottenham... So I do get what you (samuel) is trying to say, what we do not have is a coach to bring the best out of them... Our defense is good for a high line... our midfield can defend, attack, out run and disorganize most team.

For at this moment in time Traore finds it difficult to defend deep in his own half because he tries to come away with the ball rather than just put the attacking player into the stand and because of that loses the tackle.