Sentences with phrase «high up the pitch»

While Cesc was considered one of the world's best in his position of center midfielder, he had a tendency to roam high up the pitch (away from his assigned terrain), leaving gaps in the midfield and the defense exposed.

A proper offensive fullback, just like anyone who would play fullback at Arsenal should be ready to bomb forward and support an attack high up the pitch.

While defending, after we win the ball deep, there is no one to pass the ball to other than the striker, who is high up the pitch and also isolated.

ughhh he was doing so well too, full of confidence, even playing high up the pitch sometimes.

The game was played high up the field and it was down to our attackers to win the ball high up the pitch and score.

answer this, who lost the ball high up the pitch in both of their goals?

Theo has no heart, he's not authoritative, he's on the wing high up the pitch, and he's a mouse.

We also need to stop pushing our full backs up so high up the pitch, that's why we got thrashed away to the big teams last season, notice how most of their goals were on the counter?

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

But since comming back from injury he plays much higher up the pitch, he even bursts into the box now (probably trying to mimic ramsey), seems to have discarded the defensive side to his game and tries to hard to force things.

We can beat any1 of those teams on our day, we have trouble like teams against dortmund who press us high up the pitch, those 3 you just mentioned don't play a pressing game and i truly believe we are capable of beating them.

Doesn't make sense to me because we can't be attacking from both left and right so not sure why both end up high up the pitch.

He wrote that the full backs have to be attack minded and play higher up the pitch.

Nevertheless, the hosts deserved plenty of credit for a resolute defensive display which saw them press high up the pitch and put the Viola under pressure when in possession.

AMN also has pace to burn which would help in pressing high up the pitch which would aid in opportunities being created, Xhaka is too vulnerable to counter attacks with his lack of pace and it has hurt us.

Arsenal's attack has been ineffective for most of the season so - far, slow and useless horizontal passing, no penetrating runs from attackers, and our defenders push wayyy to high up the pitch to try to facilitate the attack leaving acres of space for counter attacking teams to exploit.

He plays higher up the pitch than ramsey and a lot of his «defensive contributions» are further up the pitch that's a lot different than being the lone man on an island screening the back 4.

For example, tight intricate exchange of passes, probing and control high up the pitch.

We aren't able to press and penetrate West Ham because they're playing higher up the pitch.

That's not true higher up the pitch.

If you pause there you would see that Ozil and Alexis were high up the pitch thus encouraging Iwobi to thread a through ball.

Walcott now wants to play the right wing, Sanchez best attributes is charging defenders and fullbacks with the ball at his feet commencing from deep and wide areas his weakness is holding a position high up the pitch alongside defenders and allowing midfielders to feed him balls.

The opposition high up the pitch.

Arsene's style of play is to have both full - backs attack high up the pitch, as our wide forwards cut inside — this has often caused us huge problems on the counter-attack.

He is capable of sitting deep or playing higher up the pitch but has all the attributes to excel in either role for the Hoops.

Personally I would love a 4 -3-3 holding wich has the wide players high up the pitch but the central players are more playing half way as cm and the dm behind the D.

@admin what are we smoking there.drop le coq and ozil and tell me who will cover our defence during a counter attack coz ramsey will be high up pitch.

if you look at the move that led to the red card, everyone was caught out of position high up the pitch.

Those players you highlighted do not play in a team that goes gung - ho in attack, if you consider Arsenal set - up we play so high up the pitch that we leave our defence exposed, there are even times when our defenders also play a very high line and all this is Wenger's instruction...

Dude transitions high up the pitch, keeping their forwards in your face...

The whole defence is shambolic on the 1st goal we were counter attacked with our full backs high up the pitch nowhere to be seen, Koscielny fails to block Navas's cross, Flamini loses sight of Aguero letting him score and Fernandinho's performance showed us why a hardworking no nonsense CDM is needed in our team!

He was doing it against West Ham too, I don't know why he does that, he gets so tight and pushes so high up the pitch time and time again and it never helps us or him..

I will just want Elneny to show more discipline instead of pressing CB's so high up the pitch.

At Newcastle I would have brought Giroud in already at the interval but Wenger was right to start Theo as Newcastle was high up the pitch trying to break bones

Deep - Lying Playmaker Operates in the space between the defence and the midfield, and aims to initiate attacking moves through pinpoint passes to players positioned higher up the pitch.

That could leave us narrow in the back and easily exposed in wide areas - Alonso and CR7 will have to do more work covering defensively on the left side with the imbalanced formation (V8R would obviously play higher up the pitch than Leerdam)

I'd have focused more on Torres (which I did), the lack of CB depth (I'd prefer to have two quality CBs to back up a 3 back rather than just one with one of the starters being a converted CDM), the lack of players who fit the outside mid role well in this formation (which, hey, maybe that's part of what you were referring to), and the fact that when you play more attackers higher up the pitch, it often requires a team to be able to implement a high pressuring defensive line (Dempsey and Bruin are not suited for that).

but it was Aaron who was always caught too high up the pitch to get back and help him or whoever his midfield partner was at the time.

Campbell rather than the Ox as Ox can be a super sub, Campbell is better defensivly and as such I would want that to help press higher up the pitch.

Need to come out in this half and press high up the pitch.

The worse one was after the his goal against southampton at the kick off he told everyone to concentrate a press high up the pitch.

Even at Manchester United with two defensive midfielders on the pitch Carrick and Fletcher, Welbeck still drop deep and wide and he refuse to hold a position high up the pitch because his not comfortable their.

This statistic highlights the team's playing style, which often involves minimising risk in their own third by building attacks as high up the pitch as possible.

What you also forget, with a donkey upfront, defenders can sit higher up the pitch, thus congesting the middle field which is the strongest part of our team.

And I'd be afraid chambers might get left behind if he wanders too high up the pitch and it only takes 1 mistake to lose a game!

Our offensive players at times do not put opponents under pressure high up the field resulting in long ball from high up the pitch into our box.

He can not hold a position high up the pitch and tight with defenders because his ball control is not good enough so his solution is to drop deep and wide in his own half to give him extra time to gain control of the ball past to him.

We pressed and harried there player and won the ball high up the pitch and did well to capitalize on it.

He will not venture high up the pitch because his slow running back acceleration and poor long distance pace will let him down, he most often pass the ball long and too quickly, this is also a problem for arsenal in a sense that he does not come out with the ball and allow his players enough time to take up better position.

I am not as down on Theo as most but why not give Nelson a chance higher up the pitch where his talent comes out more?