Sentences with phrase «just held the ball up»

It meant flamini could hold whilst sanogo just held the ball up and fed people in.

Not exact matches

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.

Didn't hold up the ball well enough and just isn't clinical.

We want a striker who can score 20 + goals a season not Just some target man and can hold the ball up!

I still don't see how he is a super sub.He's labelled as a super sub just because of this season.Those matches when he scored he was supposed to be played because we needed an aerial presence.A lot of those matches had he started we could've won because we needed aerial presence.But the thing is that his abilities don't suit him as a super sub.I mean he holds up the ball well and is great in the air and that's just about it.He's actually the one one who needs service and who needs players around him to open up defences for him to receive the pass and not vice versa.Super subs actually provide they are not the one's to be provided for.In Giroud's case he was supposed to start in those in matches as Sanchez was not up to the task in aerial battles.Giroud will not be able to affect a match if the opponents are as good in the air.

Sometimes you just need to throw balls into the box and then we really lack a physical presence, which really helps when you need to hold a player off and give other players time to link up.

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

as for cech the difference is that Chelsea he had matic / terry & cahill / ivanovic in front of him all of them are well over are good at defending esp at set pieces while at we have midgets defending apart from mertasacker & giroud one of the reason wenger plays giroud is not just because he can hold up the ball but he can defend in conner kicks / freekicks as well

Giroud just chests the ball holding some player up and then hits the floor.

His worst shot of the day probably came at the eighth, but the golden child's ball got held up just inches before trickling into a hazard.

The slow patient build up is a difficult approach, as it gives opposition teams the time to organize their defense, while we hold onto the ball just outside their box and do nothing profitable.

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

In addition, just like Giroud, Benteke is also very adept at holding the ball up using his big frame, so Arsenal really don't need to tweek the system if he's playing up front.

He needs to look at gerrard and see how he plays his game or even xabi alonso, they control the midfield but not by holding on the ball forever and trying to win every challenge, wilshere looked good in englands last couple of games just picking that ball up and pinging it around the pitch

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 couldn't hold the ball up, it just kept bouncing off him.

We call ground substitution a masterclass and he could hold d ball and look up if there were his teammates around, he just crossed hoping someone will be there whereas welbeck or a better striker would have held d ball, tried to dribble or do it all alone.

Meanwhile Messi, having skipped around Andreas Christensen, is now holding the ball up just outside the area.

If you assessed him correctly when we played against citi he was just a passenger, the only good he did was the goal and it was from set pcs otherwise he had not used to his hold up play as most of the balls came from behind.

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

Oribe Peralta has done an excellent job of replacing his national team mate Raul Jimenez, becoming America's do - everything target man who does just as much work holding up the ball and setting up his teammates as he does scoring.

He spent most of the match playing as a deep - lying midfield instead of making runs or holding up the ball or even just staying in his own bloody position.

He just holds onto the ball until he either gets fouled or the ball taken off him, by which time all the oppositions defence are back and in position, and he's broken up any momentum we had.

Just two minutes later, however, it was France who struck, Benzema letting a direct ball from Matuidi drop over his shoulder, and after appearing to be merely holding the ball up, suddenly whacked a half - volley across goal which caught Cillessen by surprise and put France into the lead.

Not just a player that can «hold up» against the run and let the LBs make plays — the point in this scheme is for the linemen to be quick off the ball and at least be an absolute load to handle, hopefully also making splash plays in the backfield.

If we're playing narrow with our wing backs overlapping that is fine, just we rarely got to that point because Welbeck could never hold the ball up to create a platform.

the only thing i fear is that him coming to us ends up playing like our stagnant teammates (especially Cazorla, Arteta Wilshere who just likes to hold ball or side pass more than passing into space)

However, Oxford quickly responded with further pressure, keeping the ball just out of Harvard's reach as blues back Louis Maddison made excellent plays in holding the ball before shooting it up field to his team mates.

Without hold up play from OG we cant transfer ball and play our possesion game, cuz our smaller players cant hold ball against big CDM - s Walcott played as CF few minutes, and i ve noticed we did nt cross any ball we just circled arround, we neutralised ourselfs.

Hahaha pepes here saying Benzema is not significantly better than Giroud.i do not even want to go to stats.Firstly lets talk about finishing, Giroud finishing is not really that good at all.He misses a lot of chances.He most at times needs many chances to score and all also misses sitters too much.his shot accuracy too ai nt that good at all.This makes him an average finisher.Secondly, lets go to his dribbling abilities.every player has his own limitations.Giroud has average dribbling.there are many times if he could beat a player he would have been through on goal but since he cant he just waits for support denying the team a chance to score in most cases.Average dribbler.In addition, hold up play, Giroud holds up the ball really well, however, this does not work in all cases against physically strong defenders and also very intelligent defenders his hold up play suffers a lot.so for hold up play he is ok.i could go on and on my word this striker is not good at all do nt you watch him or you want to use his stats.ah!

We were totally muddled with Delph, Lallana, Sterling and Townsend all just bumbling about, not holding positions, not making any movement off the ball and not getting their heads up.

To really be a dominant team we need a world class striker and not just one who is good at holding up the ball, we can not have Per as one of our CD, we would need a leader in midfield and preferable a world class wide player.

Antonio has the ball with just seconds left on the clock - just needs to hold up play by the corner flag, but instead passes it perfectly back to Palace so that they launch a counter, and Zaha scores as the Hammers still remain winless away from home in the league.

Just like he did for the game at Stoke, I think Lambert will probably continue with Gabby Agbonlahor up front, as he is better than Weimann at holding the ball up and winning headers.

Hold the ball in the centre and just get forward and hold the ball up as much as we can aim to catch United on the break, won't be eHold the ball in the centre and just get forward and hold the ball up as much as we can aim to catch United on the break, won't be ehold the ball up as much as we can aim to catch United on the break, won't be easy.

A greater incline will be more comfortable for a baby who is just beginning tummy time (kind of like being held up against an adult's shoulder as a newborn), whereas a more flat position right on top of the ball will be more challenging and appropriate for babies who are further along in the process and more comfortable being on their tummies.

Basically, just hold you little one in your arms, sit down on the ball with your legs apart, to give you better balance, and bounce gently up and down on the ball.

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Hardly anything holds the children up, each poised mid-air, barely the ball of one small foot kissing the chair's wood, so they don't just step across, but pause above the water.

The FIFA series has been criticized in recent years for just being focused on the pace aspect of the sport but now they are taking a bit more of an interest in using a player's strength to hold the ball up, protect possession, and keep defenders and strikers at bay.