Sentences with phrase «in the attacking midfielder role»

Manager Jurgen Klopp is seemingly planning to sign AC Milan forward Stephan El Shaarawy to come in as Reus» replacement in that attacking midfield role, which is likely to lead to bids from United, Liverpool and Arsenal.

The Wingers will provide support to the three - man midfield of Elneny or Xhaka (I would go with Elneny right now) in the defensive midfield role; Ramsey in the Vieira role — Yes, our Vieira, if well motivated, is Ramsey — and Ozil in the attacking midfield role.

Although we have plenty of youngsters in midfield, I'd expect an experienced central midfield of Xhaka and Coquelin, whilst The Ox and Reine Adelaide should get an opportunity in attacking midfield roles.

He is known for his impressive dribbling and passing ability and plays in an attacking midfield role for Granada.

With James McArthur and Jason Puncheon still ruled out, Joe Ledley and Mile Jedinak will be starting at the middle of the park and Yohan Cabaye is expected to shrug off a knock to take his place in an attacking midfield role.

Arguably all better utilised in an attacking midfield role.

Zidane is expected to go with a Gareth Bale, James Rodriguez and Ronaldo in attacking midfield roles behind Karim Benzema while Modric and Kroos to play in central midfiel roles.

We had two out and out wingers on the pitch in N'Zogbia and Richardson but Weimann seemd to be playing on the left hand side, with Richardson starting in the attacking midfield role.

Bernardo Silva is one of the most exciting talents to have emerged from Portugal and his creativity and flair in an attacking midfield role should allow him to pick off defences with his pinpoint passing.

Suarez was given a free role around Sturridge, with Victor Moses playing behind them in an attacking midfield role.

He is a great winger but has also played very well in the attacking midfield role for Madrid this season.

As a result, Henderson's first team playing role acts as a rate limiting factor to improving Liverpool's midfield dynamic, while further denying his greatest strengths to come to the fore in an attacking midfield role.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan is set to return after being ineligible for the League Cup final, and the Armenian is likely to feature alongside Mesut Ozil in an attacking midfield role with Pierre - Emerick Aubameyang leading the line.

It would be simplistic to think that he can only play in the attacking midfielder role.

There was another solid showing in central midfield from Mohamed Elneny and Alex Iwobi shone in the attacking midfield role.

Golovin continuously floated around in attacking midfield roles pulling Ural's defence out of position and creating space for CSKA attacks at the weekend and expect the same against Lyon.

Under Andre Villas - Boas, Christian Eriksen primarily played in the attacking midfield role, the no. 10 role, and was poor in the rigid system as stated above.

While his ability to link play and drift away from defenders made a great added bonus to the typical bulky goalscoring number nine archetype, it is the bare minimum expected of him in an attacking midfield role — when moved back, he could go from being Swansea's best player to a run - of - the - mill playmaker.

Colombia on the other hand might bring in Martinez alogside Falcao while James Rodriguez should start in the attacking midfield role.

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.

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.

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.

With Theo Walcott almost permanently injured and Lukas Podolski possibly leaving, Arsenal could be lining up an exciting # 26m move to sign Barcelona winger Pedro, who can fill in a number of attacking midfield roles and provide the team with another goal threat.

I'd like to see Nelson in a more attacking midfield role and Niles in a defensive midfield role.

In his new role he dictates the midfield while Ozil dictates the attack

The midfielder however looked ineffective throughout despite playing in a pushed forward attacking role.

In truth, the Brazilian attacking midfielder has disappointed in recent times, as he has played a much lesser role under Simone Inzaghi this seasoIn truth, the Brazilian attacking midfielder has disappointed in recent times, as he has played a much lesser role under Simone Inzaghi this seasoin recent times, as he has played a much lesser role under Simone Inzaghi this season.

Both Mkhitaryan and Ozil have the potential to start up attacks from deep in the central defense area and continue those attacks in the pivot attacking midfield set - up as well, and completing the same in advance attacking roles as well as striking positions.

He featured for the first team at wing - back earlier in the season, but has been playing in his natural attacking midfield role in the Championship.

Coutinho scored 14 goals and provided nine assists in 36 appearances in all competitions for Liverpool this past season, but if he were to move to Barcelona, then as detailed by Tite, he would have to move back into a midfield role given the current attacking trident at the Nou Camp with Neymar, Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi.

The Brazilian, 23, can play a number of roles in attacking midfield or up front, and could be a great signing.

Paul Scholes, former England and Manchester United midfielder, has proclaimed that Wilshere is an attacking midfielder and not a midfield anchor — a role he played for his national side in the 2 - 0 win over Switzerland on Monday.

Marco Reus has netted 59 goals in 128 appearances for Borussia Dortmund and is capable of filling either central striking or attacking midfield roles.

Dzagoev can play in a myriad of roles across the midfield and attack and is incredibly comfortable on the ball and is also being pursued by Serie A pair Fiorentina and Inter Milan.

It literally takes pretty much all the strengths away from our world - class triangle of Mesut, Santi and Ozil to place a struggling for form Campbell in a more attacking role when the part of his role he's been doing best is providing extra defensive cover, while making us weaker in midfield when our strongest midfielder has been injured!!

Our side currently have Aaron Ramsey and Granit Xhaka holding down our two central midfield roles, and Mesut Ozil and Alexis Sanchez firmly set in our two attacking midfield roles, as well as having a number of others also capable of starring in those central roles, including Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain, Mohamed Elneny, Francis Coquelin, Alex Iwobi and Theo Walcott.

We heard a few days from the Arsenal and Spain international midfield maestro, Santi Cazorla, about why he felt that he was more effective in the Central Attacking Midfield role for the Gunners, rather than being stuck out wide as he was for much of lastmidfield maestro, Santi Cazorla, about why he felt that he was more effective in the Central Attacking Midfield role for the Gunners, rather than being stuck out wide as he was for much of lastMidfield role for the Gunners, rather than being stuck out wide as he was for much of last season.

wenger needs to build a golden idol in the shape of ozil @ no10 statue and make everyone in the squad bow down before it to make ozil feel special again and he will be rocking and rolling again wengers first commandment will be play ozil @ no10 only no where else, command no 2 build the whole arsenal attack around ozil only at no 10, ozil is the future of our attacking play along with wilshere and ramsey controlling midfield in box 2 box roles along with a worldy d / m in front of back 4.

He needs to be played in an attacking role where he doesn't need to go to ground trying to win the ball back from deep midfield.

Ramsay is a talented player but unfortunately for him he's not a disciplined cm, and is otherwise behind both Santi and Ozil in any kind of attacking midfield role, and that's probably where his best suited.

Our number 11 was largely anonymous once again in the Premier League win over Hull City and that makes it three games in a row when the attacking midfielder has been challenging for the role of worst player on the pitch.

The 20 - year - old arguably fared best in a «false 9» striker role last year, and could be used there again due to the vast options in attacking midfield now with the signings of James Milner and Roberto Firmino.

Ramsey was positioned in a central attacking midfield role and there was a clearly a lot of pressure on the Welshman to provide for the Gunners, with main man Mesut Ozil not present for the game.

The Guardian put forward a predicted line - up with the Frenchman involved, sitting on the left of a midfield three where he is arguably at his best and free to play a more influential role in the attacking third, with Marouane Fellaini already tipped to start.

The Belgian says he has long idolised the Frenchman, who played in a similar role and with comparable flair in attacking midfield during his playing days for the likes of Juventus, Real Madrid and France.

The attacking Central midfield role must go to Ramsey as 1st choice at the moment, but this should also be rotated with Jack and Ox who I thought showed huge potential in that role last season.

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

I still don't understand people's obsession with boxing players in to a specific role... The whole «true DM» is a dying breed, even Coquelin is arguably something else considering the advanced positions he takes up often in front of Santi and takes major risks in winning the ball back for us... IMO, the reason Coquelin has had such a successful integration into the first team is that he focussed incredibly hard on the basics of his role first and foremost before adding other elements to his game (long - balls, driving runs into space, more aggressive ball movement in general) it's not rocket science to tell a player to curb the attacking side of their game and focus primarily on defence before attack... Nor is it that hard to see that playing in a midfield pairing with either Ramsey or Cazorla is going to be different as well.

Ramseys best position is in the middle as nr 10 or attacking midfielder, when Ozil and Santi are not available for that role Ramsey might be our next best option.

What does stand in his favour is his versatility as aside from his more natural role as an attacking midfielder, he can also play a little deeper and out wide.