Sentences with phrase «man in midfield»

Paul Pogba is now Massimo Allegri's main man in midfield, and reports in Italy claim that Vidal will be sold in the summer unless he can show some consistency following a number of injury issues mainly to do with his knee.

Cazorla: [8/10] Despite being quiet through patches of the game, Cazorla looked dangerous on the ball, letting off a few long - range shots which troubled Mignolet Definitely our new star man in midfield.

Pablo Piatti is the final man in a midfield three.

The man to watch out in the City side is Silva and he is the man in the midfield with all the creativity.

We need a new hard man in midfield and I think we will be ok and the new home kit looks great however the away kit is....

Leicester City's Premier League winning midfielder Danny Drinkwater has been linked with a # 14 million move to Anfield with Jurgen Klopp, a big admirer of the England international, keen on having the Foxes» man in his midfield ranks.

«Last year we were just about the underdogs because Derby had been going so well, and they had an extra man in midfield so they were always going to dominate possession.

With Arsenal now missing a man in midfield, Barcelona's strategy worked much better.

It will be key for Silva to make up for the extra man in midfield if the Chilean manager decides to line up like that.

The third man in the midfield was Elliot Collier, which was the most interesting decision.

Partnering the former City man in midfield were captain Jordan Henderson and Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain, the only real options left with Adam Lallana and Emre Can unavailable through injury.

The experience of Joe Hart will be vital, but the key man in midfield will be Dele Alli who will be credited with providing the impetus and creativity between midfield and attack.

While Victor Wanyama and Mousa Dembele have been a formidable duo in the centre of the park in recent weeks, Kante became Pochettino's go - to man in midfield.

We have only played two games so far and we don't know if Walcott will be our striker competing with giroud and welbeck this season or a Winger competing with Ox and Welbeck... In Wenger's recent formation, he loves deploying Ramsey on the flank to get that extra man in the midfield and Ramsey gives you energy and goals too» So He isn't necessary playing on the flank.

This team will give us the extra man in midfield to try and cause the in - form side trouble as they try to push forward, and I can see our team being more than happy to come away with a draw, preferably with our boys having grabbed an away goal.

Now the have an extra man in the midfield due to the subbing of theo

Ozil is NOT a commander of the troops and as has been proven when things are going badly he disappears, its NOT only him we have no Iron man in midfield to control the players both front and back and its an oft repeated criticism but it's clearly true that we NEVER replaced Viera in that midfield role and while we Cesc we had an almost replacement but since then nothing of the like.

Maybe drop an extra man in midfield and move Walcott wide Right.

I still think he is our main man in midfield.

An extra man in midfield would've help fortify us.

Now that Francis Coquelin has comeback as a new man in midfield (and signed a new contract) and the recent arrival of the beast - looking Gabriel Paulista to shore up the defence, we are now looking like the finished article at last.

Henderson the key man in midfield for them is out, maybe Lovren as well.

I don't think he is up to the job of being the last man in midfield before the defence, Ramsey isn't disciplined enough to play beside him either.

Meanwhile, the Red Devils could make the Bundesliga ace a far more central figure, perhaps as the main man in their midfield.

City have some strong men in that midfield so we need more than just The Coq to get anything at City..

Another worry is that we are under - manned in midfield.

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.

Man United have not received the expected contributions from their expensive summer midfield acquisitions in weeks, scoring just a few goals since December.

And he points to Wenger's decision not to sign a really top class defensive midfielder in order to compete with Chelsea and Man City as evidence.

At least Liverpool have lost their main midfield man Jordan Henderson to injury as well and so have gone for three combative central midfielders in Lucas, Milner and Emre Can.

I'm not saying we're fine missing our # 42.5 m man, but Ramsey is the one we need most for this game, the engine in our midfield.

I know we're short in central midfield, but Arsenal would actually be better off playing with a man less, than having Ramsey on the pitch, and Giroud proved over a whopping FOUR YEARS, that he isn't good to be our main striker.

ozil must play in the middle, without doubt... and please «stubborn man», change the formation, 4141 is not working, this four central midfielders looks invisible.

Arteta is certainly very talented, despite getting on in years, and will be hoping to get chance to impress Arsene Wenger before the season ends, but with the dogfight Arsenal are in with Man City and Man United for second place means that he is unlikely to be risked at the moment as the club has a whole host of talent in midfield right now.

Apart from his preferred role of playing as a box - to - box midfielder, the Juventus star can also play as a winger, a full - back or as a wing - back, whilst also having played as a centre - back in a three - man defence during his spell at Marseille in the 2014 - 15 season, under manager Marcelo Bielsa.

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.

The former Standard Liege man has been linked with a Goodison Park exit this summer after a solid season in the Toffees midfield last term.

I'd have to say Xhaka is easily the man of the match, def midfield done as much as any CB done defensively speaking, our players in the end kept looking to Xhaka and he didn't disappoint to often with his creativity.

The former United man believes that the England international's vision and work - rate would see him in shine in midfield, and it is a sensible move with Rooney's diminishing pace and lack of goal threat at times becoming a problem for the Red Devils.

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.

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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 moment wenger started playing chamberlain in midfield then I knew this man has lost it....

We won't have a quality depth in our striking department... Chelsea have 3 I don't need to mention them... Man city have Aguero and and bony plus goalscoring midfielders..

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.

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Man United have been finding it difficult to control games from midfield this season, and the addition of Strootman could mean that they will no longer have to play striker Wayne Rooney in the middle of the park, which has subsequently hamstrung the club captain's effectiveness in the final third.

The best formation Arsenal could have in defence and attack would be three at the back, three man midfield of a world class defensive mid, Xhaka and Ramsey just in front with Sanchez and buy a world class striker (maybe Costa from Chelsea).

(he was monaco's stand out player for me in both legs the way he just single handedly had a grip on our midfield he is a man mountain like toure / veiera he has really impressed me every time we have played monaco in last few years should be diaby replacement.

Where I hope Wenger won't be «Wenger» will be to start playing him at Wing back, HE IS A DAMN GOOD ATTACKING MIDFIELDER AND HE IS NOT VERSATILE (in Yesterdays» game he scored 2 great goes the moment he moved to the AM position from the WB position — that tells you where home is for this talented young man) He will fit well across the front 3, end of story.