Sentences with phrase «in opposition box»

Carroll on the other hand generally plays a lot shorter passes, but is also up in the opposition box looking to play through balls and put team mates in.

Mesut Ozil: Likewise Ozil struggled to make an impact in the opposition box, but he nevertheless put in a better showing as he link up play during the course of the game.

Liverpool improving the positional link - up play, penetration and finishing ability of these midfield players after attacking moves created by long vertical passes, penetration from wide areas via intelligent use of attacking full - backs and intricate movements of midfield players who use decoy runs to create space for others in the opposition box.

At the same time, Chambers was in the opposition box, leaving his wing totally exposed to a breakaway — which did happen — and Mustafi had to commit himself to a very risky tackle to prevent a possible third goal.

Despite the drop in pace, the 32 - year - old has the gifted ability to find space in the opposition box, and Spurs will have to be wary of his movement.

With 5.12 touches in the opposition box per 90 he ranks 27th in the league.

After weathering the first storm, he would find himself in the opposition box, waiting for the play to work its way to him or for crosses to come in.

The additional advantage is his presence in opposition box something we have been lacking recently.

Newcastle have made fewer touches in the opposition box than any other Premier League side after the opening five matchdays (61)

The Tigers have averaged just 15 touches per game in the opposition box this season; a league - low.

In the opposition box they were either luckless or toothless or Grant made fine saves.

Now, this is the one problem Paulinho didn't directly solve — a midfielder who spends most of his time in the opposition box won't give your team a new backbone.

It's easy to get bogged down in the «terrier - like» aspects of Vidal's game and see him as a pure DM, whereas in actual fact he's pretty useful in high press football and does like to pop up in the opposition box on a semi-frequent basis.

Last Night Wilshere had self discipline by not been tempted to go in the opposition box and he held his position well, unlike most of our players, he was amazing making space for himself to receive passes and making passes quick so not to lose momentum of our attack or possession, in fact i was hugely disappointed with Sanchez and some of our forwards they complacently blanked Wilshere like he was there to make the numbers up, i was hoping Sanchez could connect with Wilshere too feed him with great passes in the box,

Waiting for a free - kick to be delivered in the opposition box, Blackett seems to become irritated at something said by Sunderland's Martin Smith.

When Arsenal moves up the pitch in the opposition box and loses the ball, because El Neny always hold a defensive position close to the ball allows him the time to divert the attack or win the ball back quickly.

Out of form players include Ramsey (trying to be the worlds best player it seems, too many flick, wasting possession) Wilshere (too much dribbling and always wanting to do 1 - 2 everytime in opposition box) Ox (no 1 good game in 8 isn't good enough) Welbeck (not getting in goall scoring postion isn't wanting to make runs to receive passes) Cazorla (too many chances missed in last 5 games, alsmost all from the same position) Flamini (is not making enough tackles and isn't commanding the midfied) Mertesacker (Has lost positional awareness, reacting late to situations) Scszesny (can't make 3,4 or 5 good saves in a match, maximum is always 2) Monreal (although not really since he isn't a CB)

Strikers score, defenders defend, midfield keep the ball and work hard Would rather have a striker who will gurantee goals than one who will run the whole pitch and be ineffective in the opposition box

Look at ramsey, he can't even have a good pass completion stats and can't control the midfeild and spends most of his time in the opposition box trying to score when he should help defensively and serve as an outlet for the defence and then playing mertesacker in a high line defence.

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.

We should stop this over passing in oppositions box.

Not exact matches

Elections in the age of low - intensity conflict are generally managed more efficiently than in the past when ballot boxes were stuffed and opposition candidates killed, bribed, or exiled.

Summer time we need a dedicated LW, we are constantly left exposed on the counter with wing backs in, or in line with, the opposition box.

We do nt mix it up when it comes to the tactical side of the game, a good example is we hardly if ever take shots from outside the box, so the opposition know that we like to «pass it in the net» teams do nt find it as difficult to defend against us anymore.

But problems will still remain in the opposition's box, even though Giroud had a fine tournament in France.

Right these «fans» should stop using Ramsey as the scapegoat, it was thanks to him we kept threatening the opposition, he's the only midfielder that was constantly making runs in the box even more than Walcott and Chambo, yet somehow it's his fault we play bad?

A penalty is when the opposition fouls you in the penalty box, otherwise any striker can simply run into a defender in the penalty box and claim a penalty.

I get your point mate.But in truth Ramsey is the CM and Xhaka is the DM according to our formation anf tactic.It's even debatable if Xhaka is capable of playing DM.I think Ramsey's tactical awareness is poor but he has every right to take risks and move into the opposition box.He's a box to box player.The only problem is Ramsey overdoes it.If we had a proper CDM the team would be more balanced.Now it's like we have two CM's playing in midfield and due to their poor tactical awareness we're always left exposed.I conclude by reminding people that Wilshere is better footballer and is more intelligent than Xhaka.It'll be better playing Wilshere and pairing him with a CDM than having Xhaka play there.He just gets to play over him becausr we signed him for # 35.

Yeah, real managerial tactics like LVG and his famous tactical sketchbook...» hey Schweini, I need u to make a run into the opposition box in the 58th minute»

After Kylian Mbappe was tackled to the ground by an opposition defender in the penalty box and the referee subsequently pointed to the spot, a little confrontation between Cavani and Neymar broke out as to who should take the penalty.

we have great fire power with probably the 2nd best creative attacking midfield in the EPL now the problem is that if we get congested in every game just outside the oppositions box there is no way we can score goals with 15 to 18 players in and around you, we need to change the way we play we can not play the million passing the ball game outside the box, we have to draw out the opposition to half way to be able to get behind their deference

I also prefer Giroud as my striker and Walcott on the right, because when Giroud plays as striker Arsenal tend to play better and more football in the opposition penalty box.

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.

regarding Lacazette his going to make a huge difference in our goal tally, we always needed a player with his ability in and around the box, Laca is a better version of Lukas Podolski, for years now we are always passing the ball around the opposition box for ages with no end result but with Laca with his accurate aim and powerful shots we should do well, that is if he gets enough time on the pitch,

Ramsey is not a «typical box2box midfielder» because he only plays in one box, the oppositions.

A terror in the opposition's box — Hammers right - back Carl Jenkinson will not be looking forward to facing the Belgian ace.

Arsenal to finish 2nd, Liverpool miss out Premier League team of the weekend: Everton duo in after Chelsea win, plus Arsenal & Man Utd stars Arsenal transfer news Facing, New England Revolution, the pint - sized attacker picked up the ball inside the opposition half, dribbled past two opposition defenders — the first of which is left particularly red - faced — and tore into the box.

You'll see him very often in the opposition's box to try to head in some stray crosses or shoot and he's very good at that.

We still want to, or are forced into playing short passes across the pitch which might get us five yards closer to the opposition goal, but when you've made 12 short range passes and are still 50 yards away, with no striker in the box.....

That is why you see Kolcieny bombing forward trying to score in the opposition's box.

awesome line up but our defenders must remain in defense instead of trying to become the top scorers, we need to stop counter attacks against us so Belerin and Monreal / Kolasinc must drop back at all times, this will stop rapid counter attack's against us which in return opposition teams must play further up and stop parking the bus and free up the box for our forwards to be able to have space to do their magic

Liverpool's use outside the box shots often n it helps them against such teams xcept the opposition GK is in top form.

Most times we have one player in the middle of the box against 3 opposition defenders.

We take the ball into the opposition box and wait for them to give us room to tap in, and we struggle when that doesn't happen.

Benzema has scored 87 league goals in 188 appearances for Real Madrid, but it is not just his eye for goal, but his movement in the box (see above) that leaves opposition defences in disarray.

Remember how we used to leave Walcott on d halfway line wen d opposition had all its players in our box during corners!

No words can describe a team that plays 90 % of their football at opposition box yet can hardly score goals... i wld rather we had more coutinhos in our squad who need not to be inside the D to sort us points.

He got the ball in Charltons own box, ran past the entire team to the oppositions box before scuffing his shot.

Verses Australia in Holland's next match, Robben again showed his almost unmatched dribbling ability to speed into the opposition box and finish again with his left — helping Holland qualify from Group B. Again he impressed in Holland's 2 - 0 win over Chile, before winning the crucial penalty against Mexico in the Last 16, following clever dribbling in the box — that saw Klaas Jan Huntelaar bag a last minute winner from the spot.

Ideally, the only business an attacker has in defense is to make up the numbers and close up spaces on the opposition, I wouldn't want a Walcott tackling in the box too often... I love Wenger, I think he is intelligent but then if he can't figure out how to get things ticking over in good time maybe its really time we start considering finding a new role for him at the club.