Sentences with phrase «even second strikers»

Even their second striker VJ cost more than our Giroud.

The problem, of course, is that Roma currently has Diego Perotti and Stephan El Shaarawy to man that flank, so unless Depay is willing and able to transform into a more traditional right winger, or even a second striker, there doesn't seem to be much of a need for him, unless he completely blossomed in Roma making either of Perotti or SES expendable at some point in the future.

Not exact matches

how many times have we see him playing with disdain losing the Ball and not doing any effort to recover, how many assists never mind goals has he offered lately (b4 injury), ask why Le Fraud doesn't change him for a SUB because is pitiful watching him play...... even the Donkey Giroud (second class striker) compensates his lack of ability by working hard on the field.....

Dennis was never play as winger, hes play as striker, and later as second striker, even as attaking middlefield.

Wenger overworks our strikers asking them to defend and playing one CF. even the great Hendry had a second striker in Wiltord and Bergkamp to help out.

So as i see we have great (if not the best in the world with bayern) creative midfielders in the world but we just have to goal scorers (alexis and giroud) so these two platers that supposed to score the goals for us must be catogery A + We are having one in alexis but the second scorer and he is even important as he is our striker is not an A + not even A I love this guy called giroud he always gives his best but just his abilities are nit good enough we simply need an A + and he will score for fun for us

Even though Wenger named a side with a few young Gunners in it and you would expect us to be a lot stronger when the real competitive games begin, there were players like Ozil, Monreal, Xhaka, Ramsey and the new striker Lacazette in from the start but we were second best throughout.

They also would have no replacement and given that they are more ambitious than us, this makes it even more unlikely they would sell there second best striker.

The Chelsea striker, resembling a bank robber in the headgear protecting his broken nose, was clearly offside when he scored their second against Norwich City at Carrow Road this evening.

Everyone is calling wenger to buy a striker, but why need to buy a second fiddle striker that cant even compete with giroud and walcott.

He pulled the two defenders away to allow griezeman to get a free header on goal and then out jump two defenders to set of griezeman second, base on the commentators action it shows a bias against giroud, we as fans also do it which is quite unfair, he does contribute to arsenal and the french team massively even if he is not our preferred striker

1) GK — better 2) LB — same, possibly better if Gibbs improves, Monreal has plateaued 3) RB — better as Bellerin will only improve 4) CB first pairing — same, as the BFG is getting older but he can't get shorter or slower, 5) CB second pairing — better since we didn't have a pair last year 6) DM — better as Arteta is now back up and Coquelin should get even better 7) Box to box — better if you think Ramsey and Wilshire still have room to improve and are still being kept out by Carloza 8) LW — better, Sanchez might not get too much better but Welbeck is an improvement on Podolski 9) RW — same if Theo moves up front but Ox and Gnabry have lots of room to improve 10) CAM — same 11) Striker — better as Giroud / Theo is stronger than Giroud / Sanogo

Despite Arsenal finishing second in this years Premier League, Arsene Wenger has had to endure constant criticism from the fans for not buying a top striker last summer, and there were even a small proportion of Gooners calling for his head if we didn't end the season as Champions.

He is hardly versatile nor industrious — the only place he can feasibly play is in that wide - ish left slot — we don't even play a system to utilise his undoubted best use as a second striker.

Well im not in a wonderland he has his failings as we all do and great teams find a way to win good teams sit where we are 6 -5-4 but thats besides the point and it would be nice if your aunty had bolocks cause then we d be second but ive watched the games were an offensive team most the time although were terrible in the pissing rain but for the most part the game plans have worked weve created chances quality scoring chances one after the other problem is for me the finishing unless we sit back with 9 man behind the ball or ten when you push forward you will give up a goal if you lousy forwards fail to finish the set ups have been there this year but our strikers have failed to kill the games if we create quality chances and grab leads in the first 60 minutes like we have for the most part and in those games those games should of been killed even if we give a goal or two alongside the strategy but we failed to hit multiple should be goals we tried laca we'll see abou auba although hes a bit lazy so far but we'll see but we've lacked that quality in front goal a player the chances have been there im looking at the failure of the strikers and maybe that is his fault but monreal has scored as many goals recently as our strikers and thats sad our defenders or a midfielder will score and our stikers cant tally one in th first 60 mins of a game alongside them then were tired for last 40 give them hope there still only down one and we rue our missed chances while they push thats where iv been frustrated with this season not the tactics but the finishing

Mkhitaryan can even be deployed as second striker.

best left forgotten game, well then I'd think about deploying Wales tactics v Bournemouth, by instructing Ramsey to make a dart for the box at every opportunity, become a second striker testing the GK, give the manager a selection head - ache, even though it ends in only one way.

Even though it was comfortable in the end, with the Gunners totally dominant in the second half, we had to ride our luck early on, when the former Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner could have had a goal and an assist in the opening exchanges.

i also think more of our squad players would suit this system i.e walcott can play as ginuine second striker, two box player opertunities that would suit rosicky, ox, coquelin, diaby and even arteta if he was not deployed as DM.

The Tottenham Hotspur striker has come in for criticism at the start of the new season because of his lack of goals at club level, but did score his second senior international goal with a brilliant effort against San Marino on Saturday evening as the Three Lions sealed their qualification for Euro 2016.

@almostawinner I totally agree with you we are good at creating chances we reach very good positions but giroud is less than average he won't even play at some mid-tables teams beleive me he can't dribble he rarely take long ranged shots he is not the best at movement I don't understand what do arsene wenger see in him to rely on him as our first choice We were going to get a striker three years ago (higuain) but the deal failed in the last second because wenger prefered to get ozil so what did giroud do to prove that he deserves his position can anybody tell me I really get mad when some arsenal fans tell that he is a good player because he is not!!

Even though Louis van Gaal has given the England forward his vote of confidence and even moved him back into his favoured role as second striker, Rooney is woefully out of fEven though Louis van Gaal has given the England forward his vote of confidence and even moved him back into his favoured role as second striker, Rooney is woefully out of feven moved him back into his favoured role as second striker, Rooney is woefully out of form.

Kane then bagged his second of the evening, as the striker was put through by Moussa Sissoko before placing the ball into the net to double his side's advantage.

But it's an even better idea to keep Mourinho second guessing which striker is going to turn up against them.

His all important headed effort gave us the lead in the first leg, while his acrobatic finish in the second proved to be nothing more than a consolation.Regardless, Giroud is still the holder of an impressive record, despite many Arsenal fans feeling he's nowhere near good enough to be playing for the club.Few strikers get the better of Manuel Neuer — a player widely regarded as the best goalkeeeper in the game — and even fewer score against him with regularity condolence to the families affected by the Paris terror attack - the whole world let's pray that no more life goes down

During Coquelin's absence I remember him letting Willian run through our midfield which in turn got Per sent off even though Per didn't help with his tackle on Costa, missing a sitter with his karate move which could have earned us precious points at this stage, bombing forward like he's a second striker, making reckless challenges time after time and was lucky not to see red in our last league game, and the list goes on.

they dominated mid field though we had some good potential counters which fizzled out upfront because ramsey was non-existent alexis overcomplicated and walcott was never a threat even to their lumbering centrebacks who he felt he needed to steal a pace on and was endlessly caught offside this guy will never be a serious striker ever... second half should be forgotten

In fact, Bielik has already suggested that it would be a few years before he is likely to break into the first team and our second signing of the year is going to be even longer, because the young Czech striker Martin Graiciar that the Metro reports is due for his Arsenal medical this weekend before completing the transfer from Viktoria Plzen, is only 17 - years old.

In our desperation for a new striker we might end up signing the wrong guy for a transfer fee he's not worth, this Lacazette is not all that and there's a reason why no big teams are after him even despite his 48 goals in Ligue 1, even though I'm not a fan of Giroud I would rather stick with him with Sanchez as second striker like Griezmann for France than sign Lacazette

Not only might our manager's comments about Alexis Sanchez and his role in coming back out for the second half despite an ankle problem make the fans feel even more that he is not the man to take us forward, there could be a bigger backlash if this injury rules the Chilean striker out for long.

It's almost certain that we won't sign a really top class striker so even if we do sign a more experienced striker they'll be what I'd say is second tier in terms of their quality — i.e. Lacazette, Morata, Icardi or Lukaku.

Yannick Ferreira Carrasco can also play as a wide forward or even as a second striker in a pinch.

Mertesacker, making his first start of the season, and the young Rob Holding surprisingly managed to keep Costa largely quiet throughout the game — even though the striker seized on his only chance to score a second - half equaliser.

His ongoing malaise became acutely apparent shortly into the second half when, after doing well to create a clear one - on - one opportunity for himself, the striker failed to even hit the target.

Even with England striker Andy Carroll at the spearhead of a strong lineup, the Premier League side came off second - best against a club making their first appearance in Europe.

While not known for lightning pace or formidable aerial ability, Holt is a nuisance and his performance against City's rivals was reminiscent of a vaguely similar striker that ruined Norwich's return to the second tier on the opening evening of the season.

During a Facebook live speech, former Italian international striker Mario Balotelli (27), living his second OGC Nice season in a row, stated: «Donnarumma might become even better than Buffon.

The 25 - year - old striker further claimed that he deserves more game time and even after lack of regular football he is Liverpool's second highest goal scorer in PL.

It's impossible to second guess the moves of a manager who did away with strikers at Barcelona, moved the world's best right - back to play in a title - winning midfield at Bayern Munich and has even sought to play without centre - backs during his time in Germany.

All of this is not to say that he wouldn't make Roma better — he absolutely, unequivocally would — but given the cost and Luciano Spalletti's preferred tactics, Defrel's role, even as a potential second striker, is already filled by El Shaarawy.

what a joke!how can we go from absolutely dominating one half to complete self destruction in the second?watching us in the first half I would have said no team in the league could have lived with us, never mind bloody Tottenham!second half were shocking.what was bales goal all about?a hoof over the top and our defence all taken out in one go.the second was an even bigger farce.why the hell couldn't cesc just head the thing.we should have been out of sight by then.what kind of striker is chamakh?what is his problem.twice he was played clean through and he had no intention of going for goal.work rate is all well and good and being able to put it in from 3 yards but if he is going to lead the line he needs to have a proper strikers instinct.sure enough if we give away enough stupid free kicks then the opposition will score because we cant defend and thats exactly what happened.we'll be winning nothing unless we buy some players with spines and balls.getting beat to 2 newly promoted teams and spurs at home.way to let chelsea off the hook fellas.what did wenger say yesterday...» best squad ive ever had....