Sentences with phrase «ginuine second striker»

I keep getting surprised when people talk about our «striker crisis» and we need world class this and world class that — Alexis has scored more goals this season as wide second striker than Chelsea's main man Costa.

I see Poldi's best position as a second striker, but unfortunately Arsenal doesn't play a 2 man forward lineup, hence there's no way we can bring the best out of him unless we drastically alter our style of play.

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

He needs to get closer to Alexis, or whoever is in and around the box, he needs to play as a second striker, the way most do when behind the front man.

I don't see Benteke as a suitable partner for our second striker Alexis.

Pavon can play both wings and as second striker when we need it.

Walcott was always effectively our second striker and came inside nearly all the time — things have moved on and we have some bloke called Alexis who presently performs this role.

nope its just that if we play with giroud we should have another second striker or sanchez has to do that more..

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.

JustArsenal were not around then and I wish they were, because Walcott played pretty much every game as a second striker with Adebayor or Bendtner... that was A LOT of games to prove himself a striker.

But i do not think any team in the world now will do that knowing well in advance about the injury of the second striker.

May be as a second striker and his defenetly good enough for 4th spot, it's not his fault if Arsen thinks his the man for the job, I feel sorry for him strikers one level above him earn twice as much as him

We go to town on OG but we have 2 wide / second strikers in TH14 and AS17 who have league goal / game ratios of 0.41 and 0.44 respectively over the last 3 seasons.

Podolski is not a winger or natural wide player — he is a second striker and therein lies the problem as we don't play a system to use him properly.

French publication L'Equipe insist that the Frenchman won't be able to be accommodated as a second striker, and will be forced to play wide of the Gabon international, but he will have to vie with Mesut Ozil and Henrikh Mkhitaryan for a starting spot in the starting XI.

an hes a second striker anyway, at 10 million hes given us an excellent return.

4 4 2 allows PODO and maybe Campbell or Sanchez to play second striker.

may be am blind but in the games I have watch for both Juventus and Chile he is almost playing as a second striker sometimes.

After the performances of the number tens at the 2014 FIFA World Cup, it is undoubted that that the second striker has become the most fashionable position in world football.

he has always played the second striker role..

Podolski and Alexis can freely rotate being themselves for wide position and second striker position.

However, Sibierski has been a revelation this year â $ «scoring 8 goals, often crucial, including 4 in the UEFA Cup and impressing mainly in the second striker position playing off Obafemi Martins.

The centre forwards at Bayern, PSG, Juve, Real, Chelsea, Man City and Barca all had totals in the teens for their league goals from open play and all (bar Chelsea) were comfortably outscored by wide forwards / second strikers in their teams.

This system allows Hazard to play as a second striker close to Diego Costa, giving him a free role instead of asking him to track back a lot, like in the past few years.

I was another one that thought of Giroud as a second striker.

Never as a second striker, always on the left and right.

For Theo to do well he needs a second striker (not necessarily an out and out striker) in the top 3.

Rather than buying Morata I would prefer for us to stick with Giroud with Sanchez as second striker like Griezmann in the France team then we sign a left winger like Reus, Draxler or Gotze

Giroud is a menace when he comes on as a second striker.

While I respect him, he is on a pointless mission to nowhere because he is not stupid but still won't buy a DM or a second striker.

No need having Mertesacker acting as a second striker.

Should Sanchez move on then I would wish Mahrez to be drafted into the side as the second striker attacking with freedom to roam the entire left wing.

Many appear to be ignoring Alexis in all this and seem reluctant to take on board that he is a second striker working in tandem with OG.

Theo was effectively always our second striker — we have now some geezer called Alexis doing that instead.

Poodle is that player you just don't know where his natural position is, is he a main striker, second striker, winger, false no9 etc..

But he seems to play almost as a second striker.

As a second note I think Theo and Alexis are good second striker options.

That's why he's a 4 -4-2 man — you can afford to have loose ball then because you have a second striker.

Alexis does play very well behind Welbeck, but not really as a No. 10, more of a second striker really, we've been playing a 4 -4-2.

It's disastrous when all 3 are» second strikers».

Why do we never switch to this system with Sanchez as the second striker?

We need A second striker of better quality than Giroud (who is still excellent) but Welbeck and Akpom won't cut it For CF.

To be fair to Ozil though, Bergkamp was a more natural striker and his game was more as a second striker than a play maker, although he was heavily involved in our creative play.

I know that Alexis Sanchez has been doing great there in recent games, but I also reckon that Arsenal cvould do just as well having Cazorla there and Alexis coming from wide or playing as a second striker in a 4 -4-2 formation.

We needed a second striker for a long time.

When people reel off all the forwards at other clubs in order to denigrate our own CF contingent, especially when they cite the Manchester teams where they normally play with 2 forwards, it seems unfair to omit Alexis, our 25 goal second striker / wide forward call him what you will.

If you must start Giroud, I would prefer the OX to play from the right and Perez on the left with Sanchez playing behind Giroud as playmaker and second striker with Coq - Xhaka behind.

if we are really in business to sign a second striker or young promising player why not buy sandro ramirez instead of 25 years old niang.

Greizman is a Second Striker who plays behind a Striker, Lacazette is a Striker who leads the line what are you talking about?

That is why I think that Griezmann would be the better transfer target for Arsenal as he can play as the extra striker we need as well as on either flank and in the number 10 role and he is already used to playing as a second striker with Giroud to some effect for France.