Sentences with phrase «in midfield and attack»

Like many talented German prospects, Brandt is capable of fulfilling a number of roles in midfield and attack.

It's unlikely that Mkhitaryan's defence - splitting passes will be aimed at playing the 34 - year - old through for a run on goal, so how will Mourinho ensure his first two major signings in midfield and attack can bring the best out of each other?

The diminutive midfielder can be deployed in various roles in midfield and attack as he has played in both sides of the midfield as well as the attack under Sarri and his predecessors.

Some good interplay in the midfield and the attack with Paul Pogba again trying to set something up, giving the ball to Mkhitaryan, who had a good first touch, but his second, a shot on goal, was wide of the mark.

Liverpool have plenty of options in midfield and attack and their recent performances have left Klopp with a selection headache.

The depth chart, as it stands today, only makes that clear, especially in midfield and attack where there is very little depth of the kind Liverpool will surely need if they are to make a deep run in Europe and hold on to a top four spot in the league.

Real Madrid crashed out of the Copa del Rey against them, and they have some really nice pieces in midfield and attack.

According to Deporte Valenciano, the Spanish heavyweights are keen on signing the Morocco attacker and are eyeing the LOSC Lille forward as the solution to their dearth of creativity and attacking menace in the midfield and the attack.

Nevertheless, losing Gomes and Alcacer would leave them short in their positions in midfield and attack, and so although they would be offloading players surplus to requirements, they'll need to be replaced in order to avoid losing key depth to compete on various fronts.

Still, Brendan Rodgers needn't be too downhearted after signing big names like Roberto Firmino, James Milner and Christian Benteke this summer to boost his options in midfield and attack.

The Catalan giants already have plenty of options in midfield and attack, but may feel Turan would be a good buy at this stage due to the departure of legendary playmaker Xavi at the end of the season.

Arsenal currently has so much depth in midfield and attack now that a good problem has gradually become an agonizing one.

Arsenal could be lining up three exciting raids on the Bundesliga this summer with Arsene Wenger eyeing up three potentially world class talents in midfield and attack.

Our problems are in the midfield and attack.

High work rate players in midfield and attack for 70 + minute a game (when not on the ball), Sanchez, Welbeck, Cazorla and Coquelin and Elneny.

Not only is Conte not a coach who overly utilizes a high press, we don't have the players necessary to do so — only Kante and Willian in our midfield and attacking lines are players who could pull off a high press (Pedro too).

Instead of these 6 players, we can get Carvalho and Robiot who are both DM's and we can have a team where we have two quality and young players in each midfield and attacking position.

His pass completion rate stood at a respectable 83 % but his completion rate in the midfield and attacking areas were at 79 % and 75 % — which is surprising given his impact in both areas of the field last season.

In the midfield and attacking areas, the Italian manager ended up making only one change, as he took off Xabi Alonso and played with Cristiano Ronaldo right from the start.

Not exact matches

Man United are ready to offer $ 70m (# 51m) for the Stadio Olimpico duo and with Michael Carrick entering the latter stages of his career, Marouane Fellaini working more effectively in an advanced attacking role and loaned out midfielder Tom Cleverley likely to be sold outright, there is scope for strengthening this area of van Gaal's squad also.

I guess you live in an alternate reality where the attacking midfielder does the defending and the 2 cms, 2 wingbacks and 3 cdms are blamesless.

Arsenal will win in Chelsea's stadium, as long as Sanchez plays as a central forward or central attacking midfielder and accompanied by Iwobi or Perez, without Ozil.

Adelaide could be the next to join the list but as a central attacking midfielder, I think he will likely play as third choice back up behind Mesut Ozil and Santiago Cazorla, mainly featuring in domestic cup competitions.

Simply put, the Egyptian international was everywhere, displaying an ability to orchestrate attacks from a deep - lying position in midfield, and also acting swiftly to cut out opposition attacks.

There is plenty of pace in that Arsenal attack and I like the balance of having Xhaka and Coquelin as well as Ozil in midfield, so now our manager has done his bit, can the Arsenal players do theirs?

his height will add some power in midfield and help us in set piece situations (defending and attacking) 4.

Here he becomes the extra defender when we are under attack, he becomes the extra midfielder when we need to subdue a team that puts in a fight and he becomes the extra man running in to flick the ball past the goalkeeper when we are attacking.

Throughout his career so far, the midfielder has shown that he is capable of playing in central area of the pitch, with the midfielder being deployed as an attacking midfielder, central and defensive midfielder.

But in order to set a new Premier League record of 21 in one season, the attacking midfielder needs another four and if our strikers and other outfield players continue to spurn chances the way we have been seeing then he might just fall short.

He is not just all about attack either, because in the last year or so the boss has been using him in a deeper lying central midfield role and Cazorla has proved very adept there, better than Arteta to be honest.

Like I always say, there are certain players that can fit into Wenger's philosophy but he fails to get those kinda players IMHO Players that have excellent technicality ala Cazorla both in defence, midfield and attack especially midfield so the failure is in identifying and getting the right players for the system

That was why he put Sanchez in central forward / attacking midfielder position and Ozil is behind Sanchez on paper, but he pushed Ozil to move forward and switch his position with Sanchez as a finisher often.

Have the 2 CDM's play all game and sub an attacking midfielder for either Ramsey or Wilshere late in the game.

Unlike Barcelona, we don't have a Messi, Iniesta, Xavi or even Busquet to play «tiki taka», build on fast attacks from the midfield to penetrate the opponents defense and produce a magical moment week in week.

The arrivals of Radamel Falcao and Angel di Maria have left van Gaal with «too many cooks» when filling rolls in his attack and his midfield diamond and the former Chelsea man is seen as the odd man out.

The «extra man» would force errors when we are attacking by the opposing team's confusion over who to mark, he would close down the enemy in the midfield and he would help steal the initiative off the opponent attackers by his mobility to position himself at the less served areas.

The Reds also have other dangerous customers in the shape of flying winger Michael Antonio and precocious young midfielder Ben Osborn, however, whilst Leeds have a youngster to watch of their own in academy graduate Alex Mowatt, whilst young attacking midfielder Adryan, on loan from Flamengo, is also exciting.

Our rotated defence will have the extra protection of tweo holding midfielders in the absence of Coquelin at least, with Wenger going for Arteta and Flamini as a double pivot and it looks like Aaron Ramsey will be our number 10, with the Ox and Joel Campbell on either side of Olivier Giroud in attack.

The Germany international would make an ideal replacement for Coutinho in attack, and is capable of playing in a variety of attacking midfield roles, or even up front.

The players in question are Lars Stindl, a 26 - year - old attacking midfielder, and Leonardo Bittencourt, a 22 - year - old winger who could also operate well as a wing - back in Liverpool's fluid tactical system.

The 31 - year - old has been one of the top attacking midfield players in Europe in his eight seasons at City, and would be a major loss if he were to move on, particularly to a Premier League rival.

With midfield options now looking sorted, will manager van Gaal now turns his attentions to further strengthening his squad with additions in defensive and attacking areas?

The 25 - year - old has 12 goals and 6 assists in just 20 appearances in all competitions this season, and has become regarded as one of the world's best attacking midfield players in the last few years.

Arsenal board are silly to give ozil for another contact worth280, 000 pounds a week bcos he is a very lazy guy are using his whole life with girlfriends in hotel and is not doing hard training bcos of cigarettes and women are making him lazy and I still prefer Sanchez hard working is doing for the club than ozil, please find another attacking midfielder is really want to commit himself for the club than the lazy guy is not have anything to offer the club and is only to demand for increasement of the payment without doing nothing for the club and is the one poison Sanchez mind for increased of the.

A DM will always be a holding midfielder though and will not try to be overly involved in the attack but will always need to link play.

they couldn't do coutner attack in the first 30 minutes of the game against Arsenal, we kept a good shape and midfielders defended well.

That is because there is an issue in those games that is based in defence and central midfield and not in the attacking core.

Of course we had the priceless advantage of having real men play for us instead of little timid and afraid children in defence and especially in midfield or attack like Ozil, Walcott and all the other serail coasters who have made a rich living under their benevolent Uncle Arsene, who indulges their timidity and blames the refs, rather than coward players.

he's perfect there cus he does his job, his job is to keep the balance in the midfield btwn the defence and attack, the job of attacking is for our attackers and AM, box to box midfield your job is to get the ball and make sure your AM has it to distribute so you can cover his ass, and you can cover your DM's ass in our own half of the field.

BVB coach Jürgen Klopp's biggest move has been to pull former Juve striker Ciro Immobile, and replace him in the starting lineup with attacking midfielder Kevin Kampl.