Arsenal are also looking at the options available to them to strengthen
the defensive area of the team, with today's stories focussed on the centre backs on Wenger's radar.
Not exact matches
The only solution for the referee's unfair and wrong decision against our lovely club is to strengthen our squad quality specially in the
defensive areas and be ruthless in front
of the goal just like the current Man city
team.
I do think the
team does a great job
of finding under - recruited players in the
area at high schools without much
of a training program or weight room and know that they can get them on a solid diet and weight lifting regimen when on campus, but I believe the teaching
of the craft
of being a
defensive lineman is and has been sorely lacking at MSU.
«It's an
area of the
team we're still looking to strengthen after a number
of defensive departures at the end
of last season, and we're leaving no stone unturned in doing so.»
I think we have in the attacking half
of the
team enough firepower to compete with any
team and somewhat have improved over past season in that department, actually looking like former years, but our
defensive area is weak and this is where we are losing points drastically, it can be corrected nd we have enough time to do so, but MR > WENGER THAT IS UP TO YOU
Competition in the United squad has also increase in
defensive and offensive
areas, with the likes
of Matteo Darmian and Memphis Depay also added to compete for first -
team places.
We all can see that we as a
team need a world class
Defensive midfielder and a central defender with intelligence and pace, as well as pure goal scoring animal that exists purely to put their boot on the end
of the ball whenever it's within the opponent's
area.
Arsenal has depth, but it isn't quality squad depth, Rosiscky, Cazorla, Ozil all play the same position and neither
of them add a great deal more than the other, our midfield is stoked but the
areas we actually need depth in are barren, we have no solid
defensive midfielder with our usual reliance on a CAM moved back, as a result players like Ramsey and Wilshere who are box to box players end up creating more imbalance in an already unbalanced
team.
A second choice goalkeeper rarely gets opportunities to play, so any good manager will manage rotation in this
area without upsetting the
defensive balance
of a
team.
You Said, «A second choice goalkeeper rarely gets opportunities to play, so any good manager will manage rotation in this
area without upsetting the
defensive balance
of a
team.»
Yes we are still short
of a Patrick Viera type
of defensive midfielder but still, we have got it right in every other
area and if we can keep making the right selections for every game and manage to get our tactics right, we will be very proud
of this
team by the time the season comes to an end.
Another frustrating element
of the game was how we couldn't capitalize on their
defensive mistakes... Sakho gave the ball away countless times in dangerous
areas, which we kept squandering... a more ruthless
team would have made them pay.
Their fighting often leaves the opponents in awe and creates high level confusion in the opposition
defensive areas causing the opposition to mistakes that their
team of they themselves exploit.
Building a
team is like building a car, You need a reliable set
of tyres [defence], you need agility and strength especially in the
defensive midfield
areas, computerized systems [intelligence / creativity] mostly in the attacking midfield
areas, precision especially in the box.
The
defensive spine
of Marc - Andre ter Stegen, Gerard Pique, Samuel Umtiti and Sergio Busquets is strong, but in wide and attacking
areas, only Luis Suarez would have a claim to making most Barcelona
teams of the last 10 years.
Both full - backs should close down balls lobbed into the
area — a problem with Milner's transition to full - back from midfield — but the root
of all the
defensive evils is the panic that sets in when Liverpool try to defend a lead, and the inevitable disaster that befalls a
team that should be winning.
Fabian Johnson was a notable omission and, with the
team crying out for extra energy in the
defensive midfield
areas, more use could have been made
of Danny Williams (recently in the Huddersfield
team that beat Manchester United).
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