Sentences with phrase «foot around the ball»

The thing is back then the pacy dribblers needed to know how to wrap their foot around the ball sending it into the box.

Superior technique enables him to wrap the side of his foot around the ball when taking free kicks, making the ball spin so much that it has a variable trajectory of up to 9 feet — leaving the opposing team's goalkeeper helpless.

Jerome Thomas squandered a glorious chance for his side after the break as the West Brom forward was played through on goal but could not wrap his foot around the ball and finish an easy one - on - one opportunity.

Not exact matches

of what use it is if u r just running around without putting a foot in to get the ball.

obviously I would prefer to have a much more suitable alternative in the defensive midfielder positions but if they focused more on defensive end and the occasional long - ball, this would allow Bellerin and Sead ample opportunities to bomb forward on their respective wings while still having enough cover to maintain their defensive shape... it would likewise allow for overlapping runs on both wings, thereby letting both Sanchez and Perez to cut inside and get shots away in and around the top of the box with their most dominant feet... if goals were needed I would sub Bellerin for OX and bring Ramsey in for Elneny then switch to a 3 -2-4-1 (more of a 3 -1-5-1 with Ramsey playing higher up the pitch) and I would only use Giroud as a sub when the game dictated it for tactical reasons... this would allow us to be a high energy team with incredible link - up play and a much more direct approach in the offensive end

At around 81 minutes the ball gets played back to Schez who looks for OG way down the pitch and OG holds off a defender while having the ball hit his chest and the ball falls to his feet.

, then I say a definite yes because both players can use both feet and swirl around OG when a ball comes in or like yesterday when a ball came in to OG with back to goal and he let it go with a flick and Griezeman was off on a breakaway which he chipped the Iceland keeper.

And why does nt chamberlain make any f*cking runs, he wants the ball to feet too much and hes not the only one, thats why we always pass it around for ever.

It's hard for me to believe Hammond didn't notice all of the teal around his feet as he was about to back into the end zone before catching the ball.

Everytime I see him hes just standing in the middle, flat footed watching the ball ping around him

But Mr Wenger if Xhaka has to stop tackling all together that means Xkaka will have to stay on his feet and take on the one on one chase back towards his own goal, he would also need better positioning by following the ball all around the pitch in a defensive position like Elneny does.

For one thing, I reckon that the possibility of tired legs should make Wenger try to ensure that we play on the front foot, as it is harder to chase the ball than to knock it around.

Then with a magnificent left - footed blast, he arcs the ball around the post and up into the far corner of the net.

He cut his ball around the tree in front of him and made it check up on the green, 20 feet from the hole.

When someone like Iwobi, the ball, two other players should be creating options around him not hiding behind opposition players and expecting a magical pass to land at their feet.

Johnson used his pivot foot to get around Jordan, threw the ball off the backboard to himself, and dunked over Matt Barnes, probably traveling in the process.

He isn't a Sanchez, Jack or Ramsey type that is going to run around putting his foot in or chasing loose balls!

I love watching Pogba with the ball at his feet, he like a Rolls Royce — time just slows down around him.

When he was in Tucson [in 2001 aspart of the Diamondbacks» organization] and playing us, he fouled a ball offhis foot and limped around for four minutes.

When the ball landed well beyond the 25 - foot - high scoreboard in rightfield, there was an explosion of noise, and Palmeiro ran around the bases with his head down.

My concern is as long as Ozil is around he will find little opportunity, and I don't think he should be playing as a winger because of his natural ability to dribble with his ball at his feet.

Only 5 feet 2 and 18 years old, Rosemary Casals of San Francisco hits the ball so hard and moves around the court with such agility it seems just a matter of time until she takes over as the next queen of tennis

I don't care if the hitter in question has a glove on his foot and tries to kick the ball around the bases with his other foot: He gets consideration for the Hall of Fame after that.

Underneath, he bounces on the balls of his feet, ready to cut out for a pass or maneuver for a rebound, though it looks as if he is just doing all that jumping up and down to see over the heads of the bigger people all around him.

«One day when I was hitting him balls, I told him to throw to a six - foot chain link fence and that if any balls went over, he'd have to go around — a pretty good walk — and pick them up.

It seems you would prefer not to try to feed the high or low post because you think tossing the ball around the perimeter 3 feet outside the 3 point line is easier (and more effective).

Newcastle returns to its normal, cool style; a fullback dribbles the ball 15 or 20 yards, then slips a short pass to a halfback, who carries a few yards and passes to another halfback, who rips a curving, spinning drive around a defender and spang on the foot of a forward.

The ball was worked around the edge of the box following a long ball over the top of the defense, eventually finding the feet of Iniesta on the left side of the area.

Birley FC managed to climb back after their player Matt, managed to weave around the Cambridge defence in the box with some nice feet to tuck the ball away making it 3 - 2.

Of course there are several other common concerns, like Monreal playing against any top competition, since he proved last year, especially against Bayern, that he will give any class player his dominant foot in and around the box time and time again, or that we still haven't found anyone, other than the mopey Ozil, that can distribute the ball from deeper lying positions, minus the occasional gem from Xhaka, which means that we still spend way too much time trying to pass the ball into the net, but I'll save that for another time

For example; soccer athletes must be able to quickly accelerate forward to close out, decelerate, and quickly whip the feet and hips around in order to defend against a player attempting to get past them with the ball.

The Frenchman pulled back the ball, shimmied around Rubén and left back Jonny before picking out the top corner with his right foot.

There was plenty left for Rashford to do, a jab of the head to nod the ball down into his path and originally he went from a promising position goal - side of Alexander - Arnold before having to come back around the young defender onto his right foot.

Despite the locking up of his fatigued muscles late - on, the 22 - year - old's feet and brain looked more than well - equipped to cope with the pace of the game pin - balling around him.

Standing at five - foot - nine, he isn't the tallest player and is instead at his best when deployed behind a larger, stronger strike partner to hold up the ball for him to run onto and find space around rather than play as the sort of target man or «nine - and - a-half» that can play as a lone forward in the heart of a front three.

The Portuguese forward was happy to find himself with plenty of space to turn around and run forward a few meters with the ball close to his feet, which ultimately allowed him to release a powerful shot from nearly 30 - yards out.

Their typical» route 1» style of play has been binned and instead the attractive manner in which Burnley are spoken so highly of in today's game was apparent in Bolton's style of play last Sunday in that they got the ball down, passed it around to feet and their movement on and off the ball was miles better.

We shouldn't abandon the ball to feet moving it around but we do it far too much of the time rather than trying to probe more.

Now this comes from a, this piece of it comes from a 2003 paper by a planetary scientist named Jack Wisdom at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and what he discovered is that you can move, as you [were describing] through curved space by moving, [let's] say, your arms and legs, or if you're an alien as it is described in the article, a tripod alien — just for the simplicity of demonstrating how the movements are with, sort of, heavy feet and a ball at the end of the tail that helped to move the [weight] around, just to make it kind of simple to look through — you can move through curved spacetime without pushing against anything, and this is the key here.

Slip thin gel or foam cushions into high heels you already own to cover and protect the area around the ball of your foot.

Lift your opposite leg and wrap a strap or stretch band around the ball of your foot.

To do the towel calf stretch, sit with your leg out in front of you and wrap a towel around your toes and the ball of your foot.

How to: Lie on your back, put a strap around the ball of the right foot, and extend your right leg up.

Use a Yoga belt around the balls of the feet just under the toes, or grab onto the right big toe with your index finger and attempt to straighten the right leg foot up to the ceiling.

Place one end of the long strap around your right thigh and the other end around the balls of both feet.

Place the yoga strap, towel, or belt around the ball of your right foot.

For example, a lacrosse ball works better in and around your hips and pelvis, whereas rollers work better for your quadriceps, and smaller diameter cylinders work great for your feet.

It attaches to the calcaneus or heel bone, (the largest bone in the foot), fanning out and attaching to the metatarsal bones around the ball of the foot, at the base of the toes.

I tried wearing them around the apartment a bit to break them in, but the ball of the foot is still a little tough.

That way, there is room for your toes to move around a bit, and less pressure on the balls of your feet.