Sentences with phrase «does defensive work»

Interim manager Guus Hiddink has shown the perfect balance with Willian, giving him more creative responsibility but still making sure he does his defensive work.

Ozil crosses, and Kane once again does the defensive work.

He creates lots of chances for his teammates, with some of the highest xA numbers of any striker, and he still does defensive work.

You couldn't play a 3 -5-2 cos he doesn't do the defensive work... perhaps if he started to show that side of his game (like Ozil has shown, Sanchez does it, Welbz does, Santi does it, Rambo does).

Coquelin didn't need to do any defensive work hence the CORRECT decision to take him off (which some have laughably held up as THE reason we lost).

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.

He was also doing some defensive work.

«He didn't lose any balls, one pass to Wayne Rooney maybe, but that is the only pass I can remember, and he did his defensive work very well so I am very pleased with his performance.»

If, for example, we dropped Morata or Giroud, moved Hazard to a SS role behind the target man up front, and brought in a LW who would attack and do defensive work (Pedro or new signing), I'd be all for it (a 4 -4-1-1 / 4 -2-3-1 set up).

Peres / Giroud kept fighting, kept working, i need to see giroud demanding more crosses, telling them where he wants it, in the case of perez he needs to do the defensive work too and use his right foot.

We need to play a mix of both as in 3 defenders man marking 3 of the other teams best headers at set pieces and the other players marking zones, Bould and Wenger are lost at doing defensive work, Bould was part of the famous back 4 of Dixon, Bould, Adams and Winterburn he should do all the things George Graham taught them when it was the 1 - 0 to the Arsenal days

Oscar did the defensive work, but he didn't have half the vision.

The Board is only interested in money not trophies they figure they have enough in the cabinet, Ridiculous wenger is only interested in his legacy, he wants to say he did it his way and he won the EPL and the CL, but this is where his legacy is distorted, his teams that he creates for the last couple years has played with HANDICAPs, several deficiencies compared compared to precious teams he created, the main failings is the frail midfielders he has taken a loving to, while in previous years if he had frail players in the midfield, he also had man mountains who could do the defensive work in the middle of the park.

We know some players will think they are bigger than having to do the defensive work but there are only maybe three or four players in the world who can get away with not doing the defensive work.

Bob Firmino (6): Had a go on the wing, and had to do some defensive work, but we know he plays best down the middle.

Not only has Hazard taunted defenders when on attack, but has also tracked back and done the defensive work.

Whoever sits alongside him has the unenviable task of doing the defensive work of two, worsened last season by Rodgers» bizarre insistence on the defence sitting deep despite none of the players suiting it and this season Liverpool regularly giving up control of the game once they have taken the lead to sit back and protect it.

My MOTM would have been Gibbs the lad ran up and down all game and made his self a nuisance but also did his defensive work well.

Looked a real threat when going forward down the right - hand side, and did his defensive work well, another great game from the England international.

He can pull the strings in the opposition half whilst do some defensive work when out of possession also.

In Gareth Barry and James McCarthy, Everton have two players that can both do the defensive work, but can also get forward.

Not exact matches

«People feel defensive and perhaps they don't feel they can be honest about saying, «I'm working through this whole money issue and I don't know what the answer is.

Most of these in this case were worked through casually without particular design and method, and mostly by the layman because the preacher seemed defensive and never did directly engage him.

While it is clearly the defensive side of things that matters most to our France international centre back, Laurent Koscielny has been lavishing praise on the way the whole team has been working to deny our opponents and he feels that a lot of the work is done with the way we have been starting games.

One who can do all the defensive work but also play.

That argument about the inflated prices of players and having a great chance of buying a flop, while losing a player that does pitch in with crucial goals, regardless of his defensive absence (even though in 2016/17 his defensive work has drastically improved) makes a point.

Alongside a new signing, a lot of work needs to be done on the training ground, as a team our defensive organisation is not good enough.

Podolski on the left, Sanchez on the right (the only man I feel will do an equal or better - due to his defensive and all round work rate), and Walcott leading the line (like his last game against spuds.)

Another problem is defensive work in the middle, we don't have what it takes to battle toure or lampard or even to stop silva.

It was no surprise, Pjanic won several balls and did more defensive work.

He loves running with the ball at his feet, & he's not afraid to make a challenge or do some defensive dirty work.

We didn't have Coquelin at the time, if you remember the days he was highly rated we had Song doing all the defensive work which allowed him to flourish.

The question surrounding this United side, then, is whether this solidity and organization can be expected from a team that doesn't know its best defensive lineup, hasn't worked out its best defensive shape, and is constantly improvising from one injury to the next.

Ozil and Cazorla barely do enough defensive work.

Arsenal made very hard work of beating Sunderland yesterday and the relief of scoring the second goal to secure the points didn't arrive until the 93rd minute due to another defensive error from the woeful Sunderland side that were beaten 8 - 0 in the preceding week.

Schneiderlin will only play well if he has a pure DM playing along side him doing all the defensive work.....

But one thing I do know, Bolton put allot of work into Holding and he was being learned to concentrate fully on defensive work.

dnt know if Iwobi could do well in the CM role while Lucas or Welbz play LW but his defensive work is still poor.

Being defensive does work, but not for the entire 90 minutes.

What we do need perhaps is to have a serious look at this van dyk lad and work at returning some «defensive - pride» to our game.

Ozil and Xhaka should be left on the bench in view of their defensive weaknesses against a side like Man City who are likely to dominate possession.Mertz should not be played as he simply does not have the pace to cope with the Man City front three.This may appear a defensive line up but a similar strategy worked well against Chelsea earlier this season and may do so against the most impressive attacking side in the league.

Both players are being criticized for not doing enough defensive work.

The midfielder filled in admirably for Blind, but was forced to do more defensive work than he would've liked.

I don't know enough about him to attest to his work rate, his defensive willingness to not get outdone.

as for cowardly ozil who always get a flu before big matches, shameful, the only reason a player should be left off defensive work is the player must be atleast 80 % efficient on the attack, such a player must have the ability to dribble or take on defenders on his own, shot thunderly and scare the hell out of defenders with his movements... such a player is hazard, sorry we couldn't get him cos our dumb coach felt he was too expensive and arsenal didn't even pose tittle abilities like Chelsea, hazard didn't even consider arsenal... since van persie left sanchez had been the only player to question wenger's credentials and now wenger must be regretting ever signing him now... the words of manuel neuer «player arsenal was like an holiday»... shame on wenger...

Im suprised your a fan of walcott he's like the winger version of ozil, great goal contribution, poor defensive work rate, disapear for large periods in games, does nt contribute much bar one or two moments in a game.

«You talk about it and you don't want it to be a part of the game, but when you don't make shots some of the hustle plays and some of the defensive efforts just don't work,» Madlock said.

I think that Cazorla has much more to provide for us, so I think that just a pacey right side will be enough to do the trick... Or else play Walkott, Ox on the flanks, Sanchez as striker, Ozil and Rambo as providers, but we do luck a monster CDM to do all the defensive work...

Arsene didn't say that Chambers has been working on defensive mid role up until now or even lately for that matter all he said was that the lad has been educated in the role before now, it's not news we all new this from his sou days.

Liverpool defender Martin Kelly is confident the defensive work his club do in training will reap their own rewards later season.