Sentences with phrase «holding up the ball with»

Talk all you want about how good he is technically and how well he holds up the ball with is back to goal.

If you ask Theo to hold up the ball with his back to goal he will be crunched.

He's strong on the ball, capable of holding up the ball with his back to goal and brushing off defensive pressure, but frequently lays it off quickly to his teammates — either back to the midfielders behind him or to the sides, before moving into space to receive it back again.

Not exact matches

Considering that Arsenal are likely to sit deep at White Hart Lane, it would make sense to start with a targetman who can hold the ball up and bring others into play.

It was evident at Old Trafford when the Red Devils were held to a 1 - 1 draw by West Ham following Diafra Sakho's early strike after he was set up with Dimitri Payet inviting the ball into the box from a set pieces.

Sanchez to me seems to have the «Wilshire curse» — holding onto the ball too long, and if he doesn't fix this quickly he will end up with the string of ankle problems just like Wilshire.

I see hold up play with aguero or ronaldo holding the ball while running at you.

Them not having a striker only removes that long ball hold up play to get out of tough situations but we would be ok with that most of the time.

What about vincent janssen He has scored 14 goals in his last 11 games and made 3 assists He is a complete striker he can hold up the ball amd he can run behind defenders even he is not very fast he also play with his two legs and give very nice passes He is only 21 My ideal world will be if we got a super striker like zlatan and get this guy for the next years I'm sure he will be a beast in the coming years

* We purchase a top quality striker, Benzema, Higuain, Lacazette (choose your pic) * We give Theo a full season to prove himself up front and hopefully he can stay fit and improve with his hold up play, his movement off the ball and finishing has improved immensely (His finish in the FA Cup final wasn't as easy as he made it look... with his weaker foot) and we then sign Reus to play on the right.

I wouldn't hold my breath though, as wenger will surely balls this up with his penny pinching offer.?

Suggesting that he was worried about the fact that West Ham have been playing competitive games for some weeks now while the Gunners were facing our first, Wenger hinted that he would have been reasonably happy with a draw and perhaps that is why he played Giroud to hold up the ball and Chamberlain and Cazorla on the flanks to keep more possession.

Because too many times I have seen Arsenal get stuck in the opposition box against tight abdurate defence for long spells where the striker is so tightly mark that his role is reduce to holding the ball up and operating in tight spaces with good close control.

While the Seminoles currently hold the Crystal Ball lead, the Wolverines are catching up with a recent prediction from Recruiting Insider Keith Niebuhr.

- holding the ball up & with his back to goal he's not going to be effective is he?

When we are playing the bigger boys, we have to be more cautious and sit back more than we usually do i think this line up is good as we can also attack them with pace and counter attack and we can even hold on to the ball more if we need to.

An open - court steal by former Maverick Devin Harris allowed Atlanta to hold off Dallas: up one with half a minute left, Harris caught up to a streaking OJ Mayo after a strip by Elton Brand to save a lead, then saved the ball from going out of bounds, allowing the Hawks to finish with free throws.

He showed his scoring instinct today with 2 good finishes but his all around game does not impress me, beside 2 weakness above his hold up ball is only OK while his touch a bit heavy as well.

Arsenal need a focal point striker someone who could operate in tight spaces, lean into defenders hold the ball up with skills and control allowing his wide players like Sanchez and Walcott to make runs into the box and hence sustain pressure on the opposition.

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.

Giroud is a significant loss given that he is a key option off the bench, offering a different dynamic in attack with his physicality, aerial strength and ability to build attacks and hold up the ball.

Kentucky did get the ball back with less than a minute left, and they were able to get into field goal range, but a holding call negated a play that would have set up an easy game - winning field goal.

Your right I think, if we can get decent holding CM to help protect the back 4 then Ozil and Co will be able to focus on attacking more often, how - ever I will highlight how little effort Ozil puts in to winning the ball back For me Cazorla would be the starter because I have more confidence in him in getting back and winning the ball back with the TEAM and help us press higher up to force the opposition into making mistakes and letting in goals.

Besides several teams who have questions surrounding one or possibly two players, there is no squad that has so many issues heading into the final week of the transfer window... even Monaco, who have lost numerous players from their starting 11 have less controversy swirling in and around their club and they have champion's league play to contend with this season... just think of how ridiculous this situation is especially considering that we have had the same manager for over 20 years... no team should be better organized than ours... if nothing else, that should be the one advantage this team holds over all others, yet the exact opposite has occurred... this fact is even more disturbing considering the main argument against removing Wenger from his managerial position was that there was no suitable replacement and that people feared some sort of perceived drop - off if a new manager was brought into the mix... based on what we've witnessed since the time of his contract renewal a monkey with a magic eight ball could have done an adequate job... I hate to make jokes, in light of our current dilemma, but this team is so screwed up if I don't laugh about it, the only plausible response is to either cry or do something incredibly destructive... just look around this squad and try to see what our delusional manager sees that allow him to make such positive statements about our current team

Especially now that Ramsey has damaged his hamstring, That doesn't mean that Walcott is not capable of cutting into the box and running into goal scoring opportunitiest from here, if anything, he will end up having more opportunities, what with Giroud's hold up play from long balls.

He's a bit overrated I must say.I also don't get those who are asking him to tackle well.The fact is he's not a good tackler.I fear Wenger has made him untouchable in our team such that even if he plays badly he still starts.I mean if people are saying he's not a DM in the first place then is he also a CM?If he's a CM does he have the quality to play along side a DM?These are the questions we need to ask ourselves.If he's a CM then he's good at distributing from deep and also up top but he can't hold thd ball in tight spaces or dribble which is very important.If he's a DM then he simply can't defend.That's why for us to be successful in the long term with him we need a hybrid midfielder or what I call a defensive box to box midfielder.

... 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...

Update: Bubba did hold on to get the win and quickly make up that $ 1 million in golf ball money for this year with this week's hefty payout.

He's more likely to win a hoofed ball out of defence, then he can hold it up and allow the pacey players like Walcott and Alexis to sprint forward — they can run a lot faster when they don't have to take the ball with them up the pitch.

What is wengers obsession with giroud... hand balls sanchez goal bound cracker and gets effort disallowed... 2 missed sitters... constantly giving the ball away... cant hold up play... we desperately need a striker who can put the ball in the net... ffs how much longer have we got to put up with him..

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.

i still hold the opinion the striker we use is dependent on the opposition we play, for all the brilliance of Alex he has been shut out in several games by pressing arsenal and letting us having to resort to long balls which he fails to get on to, if teams stops arsenal build up, they stop arsenal with sanchez as the forward, however with both Alex and Giroud on the field we have the opportunity to switch styles without making changes.

we have shown times without number we don't do pressure, we lack grit and balls, so if the title race goes to the wire, with each match plays dxd under enormous pressure to hold on to the top spot or chase the leaders down you cn be rest assured we will find a way to bottle it, its what we do best...... and as soon as we are out of contention and pressure is off, just watch us rack up wins after wins, in time to nab the 4th spot

When a player is eable to beat players with ease, and hit the ball the way he wants to, so in ends up in the goal, whats point in this hold up play in first place then?

How is getting held with an obvious shirt pull (almost twisted his shirt off) and then when getting up to retrieve the ball tripped by the defender a soft call?

Until Wilshere grows up, Arsene can't trust him with any serious role esp in midfield, Wilshere needs to know what his job is on the pitch and save us fans headache each time he holds the ball.

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

He was chasing balls, making runs into channels, holding up, battling in the air and topping it all of with a scintillating finish.

A maul is formed with a similar gathering of players, except the player in possession of the ball is simply held up, and not tackled.

A couple times he had a good opportunity to play a simple enough through ball, also when out wide he held up play allot, with little penetration for getting in behind and getting decent space for crossing.

Laca has tidy feet and can wriggle out of tight pos better than he can get past a man running with the ball at his feet while not losing the potency of attack, Laca will make a good pass instead which is what a hold up CF would be doing to bring in the wide forwards into play.

He does not seems to be able to attack crosses and corners, he also does not seems comfortable holding a position high up the pitch and tight with defenders his ball control is not good enough for that.

Ramsey combines extremely well with Giroud due to his hold up play and ability to knock balls down.

The inning starts with Gurriel unable to hold on to a ball at first, so Bellinger reaches on an error, and is at first with Puig up to bat.

For an indicium of clout, Votaw's players had the cover of Golf World to gloat over — it showed Annika holding up a golf ball with 59 written on it.

However, thus far Arsene has shown that he wants Welbeck to play in a similar fashion to Giroud, holding the ball up with strength and winning the aerial battle.

Intellgient movement to beat defenders and did much better holding onto the ball, linked up well with Ozil, Alexis.

Wenger lost the plot when he brought in Giroud... what about the beautiful game involves having a lumbering striker who's main attribute is holding up play... our success with Wenger, and even before, came with pace and clinical striking up front, having a boss in the midfield and having physically imposing CBs... what about Wright, Bergkamp, Anelka, Henry or RVP remind anyone of Giroud (minus the left foot of course)... the formula was broken, which didn't have to be the end of our success, but when you adopt half - measures you can't expect things just to work themselves out on their own... at the very least Wenger should have brought in some wingers that can consistently cross the ball and then spend significantly more time addressing our lack of success with set pieces... ultimately this is why we continued to struggle with consistency and continued to constantly play people in the wrong positions

Personally I like a 4 -4-2, because a Giroud to hold up the ball, and a Wellbeck or Sanchez to link with, plus bursts from midfield will provide us lots of goal scoring opportunities

The very least the Frenchman can hold up the ball and pass it to others with a scoring chance.