Sentences with phrase «does in midfield»

I'd like to see how he does in midfield now he has dealt wit the physical side of the game having played in defence all season.
If Anders Herrera and Schneiderlin can't get it done in the midfield, there are Marouane Fellaini, Bastian Schweinsteiger, Juan Mata, Daley Blind, and Michael Carrick.
am really looking forward to seeing what elneny can do in our midfield, hopefully he can anchor it down and give our attackers the best platform to work off.
modern football is all about a defensive midfielder who can be the one to cover the 2 CBs and not leave them hanging whenever a mistake is done in the midfield also if you can remember when we bought nacho monreal he was supposed to cover a position in the midfield and now is left back for 3 — 4 years and this is unacceptable if you see other clubs the build the teams over the DM so that the rest midfielders can create we bought this mess ozil which from day one he is not performing and not adjusting to BPL i don't know my friend i am speaking my mind from here in Athens so you who are in UK you now better than me and you can press for quality players
No surprise to see Ozil's former captain at international level make the team and Lahm has consistently been one of the best players in the world in the last decade and has proven he can do it in midfield too.
PS: Monreal is one of our most intelligent and adaptable players, I wonder how he'll do in midfield, hmmmm
can not imagine what we'd be going through ig the to derby injuries occured to back four (like it did in midfield)!
The big talking point is what to do in midfield.

Not exact matches

Don't be a lone striker; we all need midfielders to win in the game.
Midfield boss Colin McKenna, who told local press that he hoped the plant would be operational in 18 months, did not return calls yesterday.
Now while Ramsey and Flamini are doing a good job in central midfield, what happens when Coquelin and Santi are back?
The midfielder featured in every Championship game for his club last term, but I don't think he is ready for the step - up to Arsenal I'm afraid.
All I know is we need to see some changes in our attack or midfield while it so, so obviously didn't click against PSG.
I guess you live in an alternate reality where the attacking midfielder does the defending and the 2 cms, 2 wingbacks and 3 cdms are blamesless.
Gibbs hasn't got the confidence to pass the ball forward, he gets to pass back to often and is not good at defending Monreal is a class act so we need to add there Ramsey is not a wide player, why Wenger doesn't play his strongest first then make the 2subs in 65 min and Walcot should have started as Ramsey is better in Midfield.
We did very well in the beginning of last season with our Coquelin + Cazorla at the base of our midfield.
There is plenty of pace in that Arsenal attack and I like the balance of having Xhaka and Coquelin as well as Ozil in midfield, so now our manager has done his bit, can the Arsenal players do theirs?
i don't get it, he claims it's about money but game time and wanting to play in midfield, but he won't get more game time at chelsea and conte will use him as a WB just like wenger.
The former midfielder played for the Gunners for 12 years between 1985 and 1997 and is sometimes described as an «Arsenal Legend», but he seems to do nothing but talk badly about our club in recent years.
I didn't realize how shit debuchey is... Mert is slow beyond belief and Monreal is clueless but no interaction in midfield carzola adds nothing really... Wenger is not the manager to put together a winning team anymore... no real connections
Even if we needed a midfielder I don't want a baby - faced, fragile, injury prone short player in this team anymore..
Problem is we have too many players in midfield for one position that we do nt really use.
Luka Modric will turn 33 in September, and while the Croatian international continues to be a joy to watch at times with his ability to run a game in midfield and set the tempo for Los Blancos, he can't do it forever as it'll surely start to catch up with him.
Wenger showed in Podolski that he doesn't care for wingers that don't contribute defensively, and we've always played one winger / one midfielder type on our flanks.
We don't have enough quality in back of Central midfield be it a top holding midfielder or top box 2 box.
Welbeck has been doing it for Roy Hodgson for a while, while the Ox kept his place in Hodgson's midfield because he knew how to maintain shape and track back.
Barcelona don't exactly look short of options in midfield right now, but are often on the lookout for the best young talent due to their proud tradition of nurturing youth and building a team that can grow up together instead of simply splashing out on big - name signings.
He was invisible in midfield as if he doesn't know what his duties are.
Arsenal could certainly do with upgrades in midfield at the moment, and Rafinha still has time to prove himself capable of being the player Barcelona thought he would be when he came through as a highly - rated youngster.
Our BFG is not saying that it will be easy by any means, but he reckons that as long as Francis Coquelin can do the same sort of job on the United and Belgium midfielder Marouane Fellaini that he did in March, then Arsenal will have the right recipe for success.
I thought Cabazes was the MoM — he didn't get much attention but he make several timely challenges and was a thorn in the side of the Quakes midfield all night.
Unlike Barcelona, we don't have a Messi, Iniesta, Xavi or even Busquet to play «tiki taka», build on fast attacks from the midfield to penetrate the opponents defense and produce a magical moment week in week.
We all know that Ozil has created more chances than any other midfielder in the Premier League, but the German just does not match that with the goalscoring feats of many attacking mids.
But the game does a decent job at giving you plenty of options — young and old — who are free agents, if you find that your current group of defensive midfielders don't include Nemanja Matic or Paul Pogba in their ranks.
Liverpool midfielder Emre Can is expected to make a decision on his future in the next 10 days as speculation rumbles on over what he will do.
Of course it does not help Arsenal that Coquelin picked up the problem at the same time that another central midfielder Mohamed Elneny has headed off to Gabon to play for his national side Egypt in the African Cup of Nations and that he might not return until the February if they go all the way, but in a report on the Arsenal website the manager has set the estimated return date of Coquelin at just a few weeks.
I'd have to say Xhaka is easily the man of the match, def midfield done as much as any CB done defensively speaking, our players in the end kept looking to Xhaka and he didn't disappoint to often with his creativity.
Giroud got injured and we do not have enough depth in CF, he went and buy Welback The second major problem is our midfield got dominated in big away game, we need an upgrade for our DM.
Funny how despite the cupboard being empty in terms of experienced midfielders, I don't think many of us shed any tears about Ramsey limping off.
Not saying we don't need a striker, which we definitely do, but I think even Giroud would be scoring in front of a midfield lineup of Alexis, Ozil, Xhaka, Mkhitaryan and Cazorla.
With the midfield we have and without a superstar player that overshadows everyone in the squad like Ronaldo does at Madrid, Giroud should be scoring a lot more.
Xhaka and Ramsey in central midfield does not work, everybody knows.
The obvious one is that we simply do not need any wide players with the likes of Alexis Sanchez, Theo Walcott, Danny Welbeck, Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain and also the midfielders like Wilshere and Ozil before you even get to young Gunners like Gnabry, Iwobi and all in the squad.
I do hope Bielik isn't Wenger's answer form new Defensive Midfielder, we have to sign a top class one in the summer.
I personally don't see Arsenal beating City not because we can't but because the central midfield area is not reliable.A player like Coquelin must start tomorrow in place of Xhaka who can't defend.I would rather we changed our formation to 4 -2-3-1.
If cl qualification is secured for next year I'm hoping wenger continues to spend and ready us for next year, (starting cb to replace per, genuine left winger that doesn't cut in on their right foot and a defensive midfield player to rotate with coquelin).
According to recent reports from CNN Turkey, Arsenal are interested in out - of - favour Barcelona midfielder Arda Turan, who seems a like - for - like replacement for Ozil if the German does end up moving on.
Wenger is famous for not being the biggest fan of the January transfer window, but it is widely believed that he will be using this one and hopefully will do more than bring in an aging Swedish midfielder who is carrying an injury.
Although most Arsenal fans would still like to see Arsene Wenger spend good money in the transfer market on an experienced and top class central midfielder like Morgan Schneiderlin, we do not seem too concerned about the boss waiting until the summer and giving young Coquelin the chance to keep strutting his stuff for the rest of the season.
As a team we look very weak, Our midfield have no bite to them as we keep buying little fancy players but they are no good at tackling and getting stuck in, Santi for me this year do nt want to play maybe he is looking for a move!!!! Jack in in and out of games he is so inconsistanat, Arteta past his best and needs to be replaced, Wenger needs to look at the time and improve it, Last year we got Ozil this year we got Alexis but we are not using them to there full potental, Ransey is class but we can keep hoping for is magic to get us out of shit, Giroud for me is a waste of time we need a top top forward he battles away but he is far below the class we need,
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