Sentences with phrase «dictate play from»

The expectations from Ibe were always high because of his ability to beat his man and dictate play from wide areas.

He has wonderful vision and passing abilities; and can dictate play from deep in midfield.

However the fact that Cazorla will be given the opportunity to dictate play from a more central position should solve the problem.

Alexander - Arnold was finding a lot of joy down the right flank, as the Reds» pressure enabled Henderson to dictate play from quarter - back role and spray balls across to either flank.

Rooney has revealed he's long anticipated the move and has as a result spent time studying the way some of the great modern midfielders dictate the play from that central position.

«A lot of singles players like to stay back and dictate play from the back line, but you need someone to dominate the net and put pressure on opponents with a more aggressive mindset.»

He was trying to find Cazorla which was his job (recover the ball and give to either Cazorla or Ozil) and that has really worked only for wenger in his own stupidity and sentiments to stop that by pairing Coq with Ramsey, who couldn't dictate play from deep like Cazorla.

No defensive purpose, Ramsey was acting like he was a striker and neither of them could dictate play from deep.

the problem against big team especially against Mou is with Wenger, Mou messes with Wenger's head n makes him make some annoying decisions that makes no sense like all of a sudden starting Elneny as CM, one who couldn't even dictate play from deep against Sunderland n benching Xhaka who has this ability n has shown it over n over.

I'd like to see TR7 in ahead of Flame with Rambo instructed to sit back and dictate the play from deep — the «Pirlo» role.

I think he's going to have to improve a lot to displace Xhaka as his ability to dictate the play from what I've seen eclipses the frenchmen.

He dictates our play from the back and frequently tops our completed passes and passing accuracy stats in every game he plays.

DMC — Jack Wilshere (5.5)-- Perhaps the big disappointment on the night for England, Wilshere was largely anonymous and didn't show enough authority in dictating the play from deep.

Meanwhile, Jack can only come in for Ramsey out right flank and not for Santi who is simply undroppable in his new found sexy box2box role where he dictates play from deep..

Xhaka playing long passes and dictating play from deep.

Cazorla is not also great defensively either, his strength is in dictating play from deep n dribbling same as Wilshere is on a good day (b4 Injuries came).

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.

imagine Cesc and santi dictating the play from the midfield.....

Provided a marvellous assist for Sergio Aguero's headed goal and was terrific from start to finish, dictating play from left to right to centre as and when he pleased.

The youngster has also shown his willingness to take responsibility for dictating play from deep by making an average of 81.2 passes per 90 minutes in Serie A this season, more than Carrick's tally of 73.4.

The midfielder is their anchor, spraying passes and dictating play from the centre.

Not exact matches

I know those are big boots to fill, and there isn't many players on the planet who we believe is ready to take over from Santi, but we need someone who could potentially do it, and I see Barkley as a player who can find some amazing balls and dictate play on a good day, and maybe (just maybe) Arsene Wenger could get a consistent tune out of him.

Present day Ozil is often blamed for the Arsenal loses and in truth at most times should be, his moods dictates the way arsenal plays, he dictates the tempo of how arsenal plays and once he begins to lose balls and things not going his way he tends to shrink away from the ball, he is not a player who is going to call for the ball, get in the game by doing some defensive work or get the ball to get some fouls and move the team upwards.

If he signed, he would be capable of playing a Xabi Alonso role, dictating the game from the middle of the park and freeing Steven Gerrard and Raul Meireles to move further forward.

Coq performed really well last season because Wenger allowed him to keep things easy (shield, retrieve then give the ball to either Cazorla or Ozil) by playing Cazorla beside him to dictate / start attack from deep which made them both excel.

The previous 4 or 5 games to this one that had a partnership of le coq and xhaka displayed that that pairing was not a very good one going forward because Francis basically plays in the box to box role, which is not his strong suit, while Xhaka would dictate from deep.

Xhaka sits and tries to dictate from deep, forcing coquelin to play in a more advanced role offensively.

At home we should be dictating the play not the other way round, it maybe due to complacency or over confidence because of out winning run but they players must of expected a loss as the last few games have been far from impressive.

We can not win against top teams if we can not dictate the game from the ball possession and if we can not create chances from open play.

Flamini does nt have the ability to bring d ball out from defense to attack, he cant dictate the play nor launch attack from his position which is bad especially when you compare him to the way modern defensive midfielders plays this days... Things has evolved, good and modern coaches now prefers to have ball playing and technical defenders, we have that in koscieny and Gabriel, also our full backs are excellent with the ball, but Flamini is not, you can see all see how we kept on loosing possession against Liverpool.

So what u guys are practically saying is that u need absolute dm who has no license to attack, than u need someone to dictate the game and has close control to get away from players even if it means he cant score or assist or play dangerous passes.

ramsey was in better form last season because he played the game from deep and helped dictate our play well with arteta.

Xhaka being able to shield, sit deep and dictate play is similar to the role Arteta played... I'm quietly hoping Xhaka and Ramsey will get the best from each other.

I don't think it's that Le Coq exposes Xhaka, is that Wenger (judging by positing on the field) asks Coquelin to play in a more slightly advanced starting position than he's comfortable with, and finds himself in the final 3rd too often so that Xhaka can stay deeper and dictate from further away.

He is not cutting inside with the ball but make inside run without the ball — exploiting space between full back and centre back Chamberlain is playing as the real Winger in our formation — like to beat full back with his quick feet and cross the ball in the box — he is less than 1 dimension as Young or Navas and try to dribble his way in the box from the wing a few times Ramsey on the right is like a Wide - Playmaker — dictate the game from wide area and occasionally make penetrate run to the box

The only two midfielders you've mentioned who are capable of dictating the play, tempo and basically running the show from deep are Santi and Xhaka.

Ramsey's final ball has grown from strength to strength over the years, except I think vision for the final ball often gets confused with an ability keep the attack ticking and dictate the play.

For the most part, the quality of play from the opposition was embarrassing, and during these past 8 games there has been a sea change on Ben's dictating the offense and that's not going back.

Skipper Michael Bradley marshalled the backline from his defensive midfield role, as he constantly retreated back to split the central defenders in order to dictate the play.

They were able to dictate the play, which was an anomaly for us at home and from there it just snowballed a bit.»

Medis reports had it thst he's been dictating the position he wants to be playing from on the field for Chelsea to Antonio Conte, the Chelsea manager who will not have none of that.

Today, from the touchline, he can call upon Casemiro, and it is striking just how many similarities can be drawn between the Real team of today and the first wave of Galacticos that Zizou sat at the heart of, not only dictating play but defining an era; defining a style.

England were controlling the game with good passages of play with captain Wayne Rooney dictating the tempo from midfield.

He would probably be indebted to Ancelotti for getting Mikel off his back after the half, which gave him more freedom to dictate play, but nothing can be taken away from him for putting in an inspired show.

Protect the ball from opponents to control play through midfield and dictate the pace of the match.

Imagine what he could do in similar circumstances, with the likes of Ander Herrera running on from deep to support his attempts to bring anarchy into the final third, Martial feeding off the chaos created by his work on and off the ball and Juan Mata slipping through the cracks into more central positions to dictate play.

As this is a game where we will dominate possession and dictate play the French star will have a lot of freedom to venture forward and perhaps add to his brace from the Manchester derby last weekend.

Dictating the play and preventing Ipswich from escaping its own half.

He has spent most of the season playing as a second striker, but with his troublesome hamstring, Blackpool's high line and no designated holding midfielder in the Arsenal side, he dropped into a deeper «quarterback» role, dictating the game from there.

Anonymous Luis Suarez got no change from Marquinhos, while, in midfield, Marco Verratti dictated play with a 90 per cent passing accuracy from 50 passes - including his slide - rule assist for Draxler - before going off injured.