Sentences with phrase «in that attacking midfield spot»

While this group of players is typical, they could play any of three players in the attacking midfield spot.

The France international certainly fits the bill in terms of his attributes to replace Sanchez in that attacking midfield spot, with his pace, creativity and eye for goal making him one of the stars of the season last year.

Not exact matches

The attacking midfielder will turn 35 in the Autumn and is likely to be very disappointed with this setback as it denies him the chance to impress Wenger and stake a claim for a regular first - team spot ahead of the new campaign.

The attacking midfielder has been impressing when given the chance, but with the superstars in the current squad, it is tough for him to hold down a regular starting spot.

Having started four players in the two attacking midfield spots, he now has to decide who has earned a place.

Bob Paisley had spotted something in Ray and, unable to fit him into an attack that already featured Toshack and Keegan, he converted him into a left - sided midfielder with responsibility to create as well as score goals.

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.

The young attacking midfielder has also been a part of the squad since the 2011 season (Man, Marotta and Paratici wasted no time in completely revamping our senior AND youth squad setups), and as such, he should already count as a club trained player should he ever earn a first team spot.

Since Santi Cazorla has taken - up a regular starting spot alongside Francis Coquelin at the base of midfield Wenger has been deploying a natural centre - midfielder in form of Aaron Ramsey on the right - hand side of his attack.

Cesc Fabregas could fight it out for a spot in the attacking midfield places, which may add some much needed competition in there.

And it was against the Blues that Tottenham's own tricky pairing of attacking midfielders directly combined for Dele to rise above his markers to head home from an Eriksen cross after the Dane found himself a gap to work in, and just enough time to look up and spot his teammate.