Sentences with phrase «first team defence»

The entire first team defence played today except Monreal and we still made mistakes.

Without defensive grit a team is nothing, yet our manager thinks we can manage with the glaring deficiencies of our thin first team defence at the moment, let alone the fact that EVERY football pundit / fan / next doors dog knows we NEED a proper CDM, and NOT Arteta or Flamini.

Five or six years ago, most Arsenal fans would have said they did not feel comfortable at all with the first team defence.

Id say, how about him working with the first team defence.

oh right... strength in depth... different squad this year... give me a f ***** break... we have 3 world class outfielders a good first team defence... without the useless lanky german... and one decent DM... we are a couple of injuries away from midtable....

It's reall only at the Allianz that the first team defence has been all at sea.

With the likes of Hector Bellerin, Isaac Hayden and Semi Ajayi already knocking on the door of the Arsenal first team defence, as well as some excellent midfield and attacking options like Chuba Akpom, Benik Afobe, Gedion Zelalem, Daniel Crowley coming through, Jonkers and his colleague have a great chance of taking the academy on to the next level as the former head Liam Brady challenged them to do.

Not exact matches

the defence is an absolute disgrace (first and second team) And we all know Wenger will put out the same team as he did today against Ostersunds and we'll be further humiliated..

Joe willock is miles off being in the first team the goalkeeper and defence is league one standard..

I beleive this team in form will get the best out of barca and even beat them Barcelona plays with high line with high pressure with cazorla, ozil and sanchez ability to get the ball from tight spaces we can pass the first defence line and go counter attacking with theo and sanchez with some magical passes from our wizard we can put the fear in there team and could get a win atleast at the emirates but since cazorla and coquelin are not sure to be playing i feel it will be very hard to get a positive result but let's give it a go we have nothing to lose

Hummels and the Germany defence were absolutely obliterated during their first warmup friendly, shipping five goals against a team they should have beaten with their eyes closed in a 5 - 3 defeat to Switzerland.

Chelsea strengthened in defence this summer by signing Antonio Rudiger, but have also relied on youngster Andreas Christensen as David Luiz has largely lost his place in the first - team.

but more importantly it should tell you that wenger no longer has a grasp on the strengths and weaknesses of his team, or, indeed, what kind of football he is trying to play... heard a lot of people waffling on about the end of tika tak... we never got there because too many first team players lack the skills to do that kind of football... ramsey walcott giroud merteshaker coquelin are not that kind of player... nor do we rapidly convert defence in to attack as we used to or press teams in their own half..

We need to start putting out our first team, with players in their best positions and back to basics with pace in defence, pace on the wings and stability in the middle.

lst season at stamford bridge, was the first time i saw that 4 -1-4-1 formation being used, and for some weird reason i feel a very strange negative vibe and well all know the outcome.the manager has come back with this formation and its not yielding result, but he still sticks with it.i do nt know much about formations dear friends, but if you are playing a slow dm in arteta and a very very slow cb, then you are toast against quality teams with sound tactics.wen playing wellbeck as a lone striker, i think 4 -2-3-1, will work better, but if we have a big player like oliver (boooos), thn we can try the 4 -1-4-1, thingy cos he can hold the ball for our midfielders to run in.but on the overall, shame on wenger for not giving our defence a good cover DM.NO BODY PLAYS A SLOW DM / CB AND EXPECT TO B REGARDED AS CHAMPIONSHIP MATERIAL.IT HURTS GUYS, REALLY HURTS.

Kaboul enjoyed two separate spells with the North London outfit but found first - team opportunities limited last season as manager Mauricio Pochettino preferred the likes of Jan Vertonghen Eric Dier and Federico Fazio at the heart of the Spurs defence, despite the fact that the Frenchman was officially listed as the club captain.

It is fairly clear that our defence is a major factor in helping us win games, and without them, there seems little point in risking our first team attack / midfield in other competitions.

Theo certainly seems to be happier now that he is a first team player again, and we can only hope that he doesn't take out his frustration on the Arsenal defence this evening.

«He is a talented and capable defender who can play either side of defence and having seen first - hand his work rate we feel that he will fit into both our style of play and our team culture very well.»

Arsene wenger can not build team with a good defence, during his first 10 years he inherited a famous back four upon which he succeeded on by buying some offensive player along with viera.

The right back boasts an impressive two goals from defence for Ajax in the league this season and is an established name in the Amsterdam club's first team squad.

We were always a very attacking team, but Wenger underestimates just how much work his first few teams done with defence, it's like all he remembers is the Newc goal, Henry's Liv and Tott goals.

Jon - Wenger inherited a defence when he first arrived.Dixon Winterburn Adams Bould Keown.ALL English and ALL proper defenders.By that I mean that while they could all play a bit they were first and foremost Defenders.In came Campbell for Bould.Again was English, a proper defender and knew his job in the team which was quite simply to DEFEND.

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

Not having a settled first team holds us back like when a defence gets tinkered with, just my two cents.

In the first half the defence gave away the ball in dangerous areas but in the 2nd half the team played like a team.

We need to clear out three quarters of the current first team squad, including the entire defence (apart from Monreal) and top two keepers, as quickly as we can properly replace them though, to regain this mental and physical strength we used to have in spades.

I still don't understand people's obsession with boxing players in to a specific role... The whole «true DM» is a dying breed, even Coquelin is arguably something else considering the advanced positions he takes up often in front of Santi and takes major risks in winning the ball back for us... IMO, the reason Coquelin has had such a successful integration into the first team is that he focussed incredibly hard on the basics of his role first and foremost before adding other elements to his game (long - balls, driving runs into space, more aggressive ball movement in general) it's not rocket science to tell a player to curb the attacking side of their game and focus primarily on defence before attack... Nor is it that hard to see that playing in a midfield pairing with either Ramsey or Cazorla is going to be different as well.

He built ONE top defence of his own, in The Invincibles, which was the first title team under him, not to include a George Graham defender, as a regular starter.

Arsene Wenger is aware that his team need to spend in January if they are to challenge for honours both domestically and in Europe, but his first priority will be reinforcing his injury - riddled defence.

So Wenger is going to have to bring in some youngsters to augment his squad ahead of our FA Cup defence at Nottingham Forest on Sunday, and the U23 players that have been training with the first team recently have been Krystian Bielik, Ben Sheaf, Jordi Osei - Tutu, Josh Dasilva, Joe Willock, Reiss Nelson and Eddie Nketiah.

We lost so many games against top 4 teams in the past couple of years, that one win won't erase it all (let's not get ahead of ourselves) but if we can keep getting such win by putting not only a fluid and great offensive display but also grit and composure in defence; our win today and the way it happened will be the first step in the right direction... our best players being fit will help too: it looks promising, as a GUNNER today I can celebrate and hoping for many more!!

can u ever write an article without mocking arsene or wishing his reign to come to an end it is ok sometimes but every time come on man give it a break on to our defence there are only 2 games in this season where team's overall defensive performance can be taken to doubt first was pool because of both first team defenders out second is olympiakos where u can point to team not defending so well on corner that also was actually an individual mistake by ospina which changed the game so our defence is doing good job give credit where it is due of course it would be interesting to see whether we can contain the most inform team in Europe.

Wilshere still has a keen eye for finding those key balls which can open up defences, and could be a huge plus for our squad, but is he ready for first - team football again?

This is because (in my opinion) Arteta is average, he is the old man with a slow brain and slow feet, and is often caught out which puts the defence under unnecessary pressure (opposition teams seem to target him), He should never be first choice for such a prestigious club such as Arsenal..

The 28 - year - old has not enjoyed as much regular first - team football this term due to the summer signing of Davinson Sanchez in defence, along with some injury worries.

Arsenal were also careful not to expose the defence but were the team trying to go forward more in the first half, esopeciall after the opening 15 minutes as we began to dominate possession and force Chelsea to sit deeper.

Yep, defence is first priority in a team, but we need a hungry talented striker (assuming we can't get an established name) too, plus a midfielder or 2.

6 or 7 players who were our first team 2/3 years ago — so that shows what improvements in the team we have made GREAT WIN but lots to do re defence wise but hopefully the guys coming back will address that

The defence has had some horrible games this season, that goes without saying but with Monreal, Kos, Bellerin in the team we already have a good foundation to build on, but Wenger in his infinite wisdom will nit buy a world class CB, choosing to rely on a Per who will not make the first 11 of any half decent side, so who is to blame for that oversight?

And the other annoying thing is not replacing Gabriel — on the edge of being a first team member, and definitely preferable to Coq and Elneny in defence, yet we didn't think to replace him, and as soon as we get an injury, which fair enough was Mustafi, rather than the more expected Koscielny, but to expect our defence to go through the season uninjured, with Kos carrying a semi-permanent injury and well into his 30's is pure madness.

«Both teams got off to a strong start but with numerous turnovers in defence and attack and some great shooting from Chloe and Fran, MMU took the lead at the end of the first quarter, 15 - 10.

Donald secured victory with a cool first - time finish after Sam Firman's neat slide - rule pass split the defence to put the cherry on top of an efficient team performance that sees the Blues progress to the last 16 of the Cup.

Arsenal are currently running on thin ice in both defence and attack at the moment, with no recognised quality striker and in defence, we only have two recognised first team centre backs.

The Arsenal defence has been looking extremely suspect this season, and it is little surprise that the Gunners have conceded 16 goals in our first 11 League games, and there are only 6 teams in the whole Premier League that have conceded more.

Real, hungry, motivated, 21st century tactics managers — like all our main rivals have — think first about how to win games and understand that teams MUST have balance and shape; that defence MUST be sound, you must have fiercely committed players across the team and squad and you can not carry injury prone players year after year after long frustrating year.

If they were to successfully deliver a title defence, then they would be the first team to do so since rivals Manchester United pulled it off in the 2007/08 season.

Do we think he will start to coach in more detail and / or allow other first team coaches to do more, for example Bould with the defence?

Shaw is next in line to do the same with his own slot out on the left of the defence now the only part of the team lacking an obvious, first - choice starter to staff it when all players are fit and available.

The trio can play on the right side of defence, but are inexperienced and not regulars with the first - team.