Sentences with phrase «favouring deep lying playmakers»

This is because the old fashioned DM is long out of fashion, with teams favouring deep lying playmakers and box to box midfielders instead.

Not exact matches

I personally favour tough tackling cdm like martinez or mascherano, but wilshere can become a great deep lying playmaker like pirlo, alonso, gerard in his 30s

With reference to Wilshere I honestly thought Wenger was eventually going to groom him for Cazorla's role as a deep - lying playmaker, though Wenger's recent comments took me a bit by surprise in that he favours him in an attacking position.