Sentences with phrase «great deep lying playmaker»

When Wilshere is fit then I think he could make a great deep lying playmaker, someone to sit alongside Coquelin and good enough to make a long pass to link the def to attack or step past a player and then pass the ball, Wilshere has done fantastic for England when playing a deep lying playmaker and he has been able to rely on his CM partners to get the ball back.

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

But also, he's a great deep lying playmaker himself.

Not exact matches

Barcelona have Busquets, a great DM that also acts as a deep - lying playmaker, and Madrid have Casemiro that does the dirty works but is also very skillful and mobile.

Juventus has one of the best defence in CL this season and who is their pure DM — NONE They are playing with a deep lying playmaker (Pirlo who barely can defence) and 2 combative (Pogba and Vidal) Coquelin is great — but he is virtually like a passenger in games like versus Swansea and Sunderland when opponent just sit for a whole game.

Montolivo is in the same mould as the great Andrea Pirlo, very comfortable on the ball in acting as a deep - lying playmaker.

Speaking to Spanish source La Vanguardia [as per AS], the deep - lying playmaker — who spent many years playing alongside the South American great — noted that he finds it amusing when people compare him to Messi.

Why do you think wingers would be a great replacement for a deep lying central midfield playmaker?