Sentences with phrase «goal than centre»

Offensively, Stephens averages fewer shots on goal than centre back Dunk (0.5 per match compared to 0.7 per match), also only averaging 0.6 key passes per outing.

Not exact matches

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Zlatan would have easily gotten twenty plus pl goals in this Arsenal side, he is much better than any of Arsenals centre forwards.

Barcelona centre back Gerard Pique has claimed that the current Barcelona side is better than Guardiola's side, according to Goal Argentina.

The Arsenal and France international star Laurent Koscielny can thank his lucky stars that he turned out to be a defender, and a central defender at that, because only goal keepers have a longer shelf life as professional footballers than centre backs.

In Part 2 I will offer a suggestion, together with some evidence, that actually the archetypal successful teams in Europe rely far less on massive goal returns from their centre forwards than many might imagine.

... he played there against crystal palace, Everton 2 season ago and it was a disaster... our build up is majorly done closer to d centre circle than d oppositions box... that's y girouds hold up play is vital... either we go with dat path or we look for a striker who is lightning quick (so when we make d final pass, it doesn't get wasted), uses both legs to shoot on sight, with good accuracy... playing Sanchez, who is not very good with his back to goal as a 9 is useless and though fast, holds on to d ball a lot tryn to get d best angle to shoot... we need a striker who is very intelligent with d timing of his runs... too bad Walcott is as intelligent as a sheep, cld have been d perfect cf...

I've managed to convince myself that the guaranteed 25 league goal centre forward is something a lot rarer and more elusive than many imagine.

So let me get this right, Benzema has a similar scoring record to Giroud but is actually miles better because as a centre forward in a team scoring 118 league goals he was cruelly prevented by Ronaldo of scoring more than 15 league goals last season, or 17 the season before, or 11 the season before.....

To summarise, you need as a top team (if we are one) a centre forward (preferably more than 1) that bang in the goals every week for fun in their PREFERRED AND NATURAL POSITIONS WHERE THEY HAVE YEARS OF EXPERIENCE IN DOING SO.

He is not a quality striker because he makes a lot of mistakes in his game.The fact that he scores 20 goals does not mean he is a quality back up striker.It is one thing to be a goal scorer and another thing to be a good or average player.Goal scoring is a very important aspect of a player but not the only aspect.Trust me you can score 20 goals in all competitions and still be average.If Chamakh, Gervinho and all the so called flops scored this same goals they would still have been considered not good enough for Arsenal.His game is just not good enough and I for one believe even if no one believes that we can get a backup striker who is better than him and also a top centre forward.Its all about mentality and willingness.Forget his goals and look at his game or else you'll force me to bring up strikers in the world who have scored his same goals and are even considered terrible.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but Welbeck never scored more than 10 goals in a single epl campaign, let alone 20, which is usually the benchmark of a world - class, title winning centre forward.

They have a number of promising young centre backs who ought to be given an opportunity to prove themselves for the remainder of the season in the EPL matches.They simply can not be worse than the rapidly declining Koscielny and Mustafi who can not cope with the likes of Swansea, Bournemouth etc. let alone a team like Spurs.The lack of steel at the back impacts on our more attacking players as they know they need to score 2/3 goals to have any chance of producing a win.As usual Elneny has come in for criticism but the real culprits are our centre backs and Xhaka who seems to be a fixture regardless of being bang average.

But for those of you who can perhaps broaden this out a little and see what title winning teams around Europe have been doing for the past 5 seasons, and also acknowledge the shift in emphasis with many teams relying more now on goal - scoring potency from wide forwards, wingers, second strikers and attacking midfielders then I think the debate is a little more subtle than the «cut and paste a # 40M «guaranteed 25 goal» centre forward with no possible downside» proposition.

Whilst I am not offering these as absolute rules, it appears that generally teams with more goalscoring potency in wide areas «make do» with more modest totals for their centre forwards (think Barcelona or Real Madrid for the obvious examples — and before you say anything, the likes of Benzema, Villa and Suarez have all had goal returns less than 20 in La Liga winning teams in the last 5 years).

And then there are more defensive teams with relatively little goal potency elsewhere on the field who rely to a very significant extent on the goal returns from their lone centre forward (think Costa at Chelsea last year, aside from Hazard they could not rely on goals from too many other sources other than the centre forward position, or Atletico in 2014 strangely enough with Costa again, or Martinez at Porto (admittedly not quite so defence minded) in 2013 where no other player got in to double figures).

This is very interesting.I look at the number of striking options in our team and i wonder how Wenger will be signing a cf.However as i keep saying a cf is a need not a want.And needs are more important than wants.We have needed a World class cf since Robin Van P. Left.Just look at the feeling you get when you have a world class goalkeeper e.g Cech in the team.You feel relieved you know why?Its because the goalkeeper is very reliable, very talented and consistent.Imagine the feeling you would have when having a world class cf in the team.You feel very relieved you know why?its because the cf is very consistent, is super talented, will at most times finish off chances and will mostly create moments of magic.Arsenal need a world class cf so as to have that sense of reliability and to not put too much pressure on the midfield to always create chances for them.We neeed that consistency infront of goal to excel.Right now arsenal's centre forwards are very inconsistent, unreliable at most times and are not very clinical.We need a world class striker so that at least if the team is not performing he can take control and do something out of nothing.You need to understand the benefits of having a world class cf its not just about goals or talent but about being a leader of the attack, a strong scoring mentality and also the will to be consistent.World class cf's give your attack the ish factor.

It's the goals, and the importance, and the fact that Benteke — who's keener on crosses than any Christian has a right to be — is a centre - forward in the proper style, built to do all of the scoring.

You can't really give a centre - back much more than this when you concede three goals, but Mertesacker made a huge number of great headed clearances throughout the game.

His goals to starts ratio is very respectable — most people would say a ratio of 1 goal every 2 games is fine for a lone centre forward and his was better than that.

While Arsenal controlled large spells of possession during the match, thanks largely to the extra man in the centre of midfield, they lacked a cutting edge and weren't able to trouble Brad Freidel's goal as frequently as was necessary to conclude anything more than zero points was deserved.

You got that from watching 8 min Tony, If they had not had there goal disallowed and Adrien had not saved the penalty we would have lost 2 - 0 where in your 8 mins did you see us deserve any more than 1 point, We sent a team out there with no centre forward with a bench full of better players and BFS this time got his point but will not have slept because his boy is running out of games to score that most important goal, Yes it was better crap then the crap we have had for the last 3 games but crap is crap And I am glad it's good enough for some.

What makes it worse, is that - Doukara aside - our two centre - halves have scored more goals than the other three full - season wingers combined.

So, when a 22 - year - old locally born centre half scores his first goal for the club in only his third start — when it's an equaliser and it's right in front of the Kop - you imagine the glow of the moment to last a little longer than it did.

Badou Ndiaye (Stoke City) right footed shot from more than 35 yards is saved in the centre of the goal.

7 — Crystal Palace centre - back Scott Dann has scored seven goals since the start of last season — two more than any other defender.

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