Sentences with phrase «holding midfield players»

At the last World Cup, holding midfield players proved to be the difference for many sides including Spain, Uruguay and Holland.

They need two holding midfield players and they need another centre forward.

In my opinion, Özil, should be dropped from the No 10 role for cazorla who had been playing like a God prior to ozils return and we should have our two holding midfield players, similar to the way we played against City (it was Ramsey and Le Coq that day).

You can't have your two holding midfield players bombing forward and overlapping the wingers and being in the box.

«Coquelin has done really well but I would like another holding midfield player to come in, perhaps a Schneiderlin type of player.

«People are now asking why Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool all failed to identify Kante when they were looking for a holding midfield player in the summer.»

Champagne Charlie said, «Arsenal are strong and I've tipped them to win the Premier League but I would still like to see them sign another holding midfield player.

A holding midfield player is a must and 3 league games doesn't.

Sorry for continually being ignorant and missing the point («your» point to be precise)-- but playing one - twos with Alexis in the opposition penalty area in the Copa and being deployed at the head of Juve's midfield diamond is not convincing me that his coaches / managers see his best position as a disciplined holding midfield player.

One keeper, one centre half, one holding midfield player, one creative attacking midfielder and a striker that can do something different and more regularly effective than Lacazette.

He wasn't signed to be a holding midfield player and that's clearly not what he enjoys or is best at.

Not sure about his performances this season and did not watch him this season to comment on him to be honest but would be a good signing imo because he is a tall strong physical and natural holding midfielding player but first priority should be to get either schneiderlin or kondogbia if they are not gettable then sign carvalho to be a backup to coquelin or play both of them in tough away games next season in champions league and premier league chelsea at stamford bridge, old traffold, etihad etc..

Replacing under - performers such as Phil Jones, Chris Smalling and Marcos Rojo will be a priority, while Michael Carrick's retirement at the end of this campaign also means the manager's search for a new holding midfield player makes perfect sense.

Any ways I still feel we need holding midfield player.

'' [Francis] Coquelin has done really well but I would like another holding midfield player to come in, perhaps a [Morgan] Schneiderlin type of player.

«Arsenal are strong and I've tipped them to win the Premier League but I would still like to see them sign another holding midfield player,» said the former Arsenal striker.

a holding midfield player who can see the next pass and would be agressive and has a great assist and passing mobility would be scott brown, he fits perfectly plays champions league football and scottish player of the year.

«And I think it would be good business for Manchester United because they need another holding midfield player.

But if you are a central defender, a holding midfield player, where you can control your energy, positional play, you can resist, survive.

On the other hand, the Portuguese manager and his Red Devils side are in need of a consistent holding midfield player, who can be of great value to their team.

Realistically we probably need 4/5 defensive players if you include a holding midfield player and a keeper in that.

Come on Arsene buy a quality holding midfield player with strength and height

Guardiola once again continued with his experiment of using Keita as a holding midfield player, a role in which Keita has been found wanting in recent matches.

A tough tackling and energetic holding midfield player, Joe excels in breaking down opposition attacks and retaining possession.

Not exact matches

This is being reported by the Sun, who state that the player's wages are not what's causing a delay in talks, with the midfielder's want to get more first team minutes under his belt being the main reason for there being a hold up in negotiations.

Still, just 18, the Blackburn player has proved himself a capable performer in both central defence and as a holding midfielder — and has kept the likes of Didier Drogba quiet in his eighteen Premier League appearances.

We have Flamini and Arteta as «holding midfielders» WAKE UP WENGER: - Mertesacker Arteta Flamini Sanogo Monreal These are Squad players NOT players with ambitions of the title or CL, bench players for the capital cup..

Allan operates predominantly as a holding midfielder, and would provide a useful foil for the flair players in Chelsea's ranks.

«They needed a holding central midfielder and they've paid around # 30m for him, which is the type of money the Arsenal fans want to see being spent on the best players.

Barcelona have reportedly turned down an offer from Inter Milan for midfielder Rafinha as they hold out for closer to # 35million for the player.

Bottom line, if he is angered bench the players who were not good enough and play those who deserve some game time based on the Southampton game or on games where they had a positive impact: - Take Özil out and play Ox in the hole (he has to understand your the highest paid player of the club, your given freedom like nobody else and your even seeking even more money with a new contract you can't play like that ever and go AWOL)- Put Sanchez on the wing or up top but put Welbeck in (Walcott didn't track back near enough for the Alsonso goal)- Iwobi has been bright from the wing let him play there - Xhaka has to go back in the holding midfield role and I would take out Coquelin because he could've taken a foul on the hazard's goal.

Pogba is picked on because he's our best and most expensive outfield player, but Mourinho has primarily played him as a holding midfielder, which I think we can agree isn't what he was bought to do, and is not what he's good at.

Quality holding midfielder purchased instead of both of those horrible players

Flamini is not bad when paired with another holding midfielder, but we need a player in that position who can thrive in isolation.

He is learning gradually how to use body strength to hold up the ball and get midfield players into the game.

On top of that, Francis Coquelin is their only solid holding midfielder, unless Wenger is able to invest in a player who's not cup tied, come January.

For Liverpool fans, they'll be delighted to see Coutinho is no longer Barca's only target for that creative midfield role, and will hope that means they can keep hold of their star player for at least a little longer.

Our proBlem is just in central midfield, one only thinks about scoring goals, one likes holding on to the ball for long, cant pass before he runs and bumps into other players, the others just weak and slow.

Laurent Blanc responded to the loss of his most defensive midfielder in somewhat surprising fashion, throwing on a much more attacking player in Lucas Moura and abandoning the 3 -5-2 that PSG had struggled with in favor of a 4 -3-3, bringing Marquinhos off the back line to serve as his holding midfielder.

Mexico manager Juan Carlos Osorio said he «sees possibilities for him to become an important player» if the Monterrey midfielder picks El Tri, noting that he believes Gonzalez can expand his game and play a box - to - box role, rather than the holding midfield position he plays for Rayados.

From signing big name players to keeping hold of the best ones we have already got, from adding the firepower up front to strengthening the midfield and firming up the defence and then last season we sorted out the big away game blues.

If this is true then schneiderlin would be a very good signing IMO and we will then have two excellent holding midfielders le coq and morgan to rotate and also to play both of them in tough games like chelsea at bridge next season etc so he would be welcome addition otherwise go for kondogbia or wanyama tall tough strong physical players and they will give players like matic and yaya toure run for their money..

Where he will play is still unknown, Vidal is a tough tackler but he also provides for his team further up the field, scoring 7 goals last season including 4 in the league for Juventus, not really the holding player that Arsenal appear to need but another box to box all action midfielder.

Welbeck will probably never be in the same league as a hold up player, but it really isn't necessary if the midfield can keep the ball better.

Give him some rest for PSG But I think most of the players playing Southampton will play PSG I think we should make good use of our Central Midfielders for both matches because we have plenty of quality players: Ozil, Cazorla, Xhaka, Coquelin and Eleney We have only 3 CBs available at the moment Koscielny, Mustafi and Holding

lst season at stamford bridge, was the first time i saw that 4 -1-4-1 formation being used, and for some weird reason i feel a very strange negative vibe and well all know the outcome.the manager has come back with this formation and its not yielding result, but he still sticks with it.i do nt know much about formations dear friends, but if you are playing a slow dm in arteta and a very very slow cb, then you are toast against quality teams with sound tactics.wen playing wellbeck as a lone striker, i think 4 -2-3-1, will work better, but if we have a big player like oliver (boooos), thn we can try the 4 -1-4-1, thingy cos he can hold the ball for our midfielders to run in.but on the overall, shame on wenger for not giving our defence a good cover DM.NO BODY PLAYS A SLOW DM / CB AND EXPECT TO B REGARDED AS CHAMPIONSHIP MATERIAL.IT HURTS GUYS, REALLY HURTS.

Not with our vulnerable holding midfielders, we need to play Kant's type of midfielder if we want take that risk, eleny and shaka don't retrieve ball from opponent, they run around the field all the time, giroud has prove himself but is time we look beyond him and sign quality players next summer

If Arsenal stick with three centre backs then Mustafi must be considered a far better choice for the third birth alongside Kos and Holding rather then Monreal.Kolasinac has to come back in at left eing - back and Bellerin revert to the right.Midfield is a very different matter.Arsenal still desperately need a proper defensive central player.Ozil in this current side can not be considered anything more than a luxury.All of Bournemouth's creativity will come down the flanks so it's necessary to put players on to the pitch who are prepared to fulfill their defensive duties.This also means that unless Ramsey can work out that he's playing in midfield not as a number 10 he has no place on the team either.

I.think we need at least five players, a defender, holding midfielder, a winger goalkeeper and a striker, so let Alexis Sanchez go.

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