Sentences with phrase «many key midfielders»

Man City beat Bristol City 3 - 2 to advance into the League Cup final tonight, with fans praising key midfielder Kevin De Bruyne following the Belgian's performance in the win.

The addition of Pogba, 22, would no doubt go some way to addressing the team's need for quality, with some doubts over the future of key midfielder Yaya Toure.

Meanwhile the French side were without key midfielder Jeremy Toulalan after he picked up an injury in the league fixture against Caen last weekend.

Another key midfield player for England, Jordan Henderson should start alongside Carrick again against Italy and will need to keep an eye on the likes of Marco Verratti.

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In our second comparison, you can see that these key statistics supplied by the leading daily fantasy sport site Football Fanager show, key midfielders Aaron Ramsey and Yaya Toure couldn't be more closely matched.

Liverpool have also been handed a boost with their new signing Firmino and their key midfielder Coutinho heading home early.

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So it is no wonder that Wenger was left scratching his head after losing both of the key midfielders on Saturday; the Welshman with a hamstring problem and the Arsenal captain with a calf injury.

Monaco welcome back key midfielder Jeremy Toulalan, who missed the game in Turin last week through injury, but there is no place for former Chelsea defender Ricardo Carvalho at the heart of the defence.

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And are we not still waiting for key midfield stars Francis Coquelin and Santi Cazorla to come back?

The reigning champions of Italy have lost two key midfielders over the summer in Andrea Pirlo and Arturo Vidal, however much like the two London rivals, they must now turn their attentions elsewhere.

Arsenal «s miserable afternoon against rivals Chelsea on Saturday has been compounded with the news that key midfielder Francis Coquelin is set to miss the North London derby against Tottenham Hotspur in midweek, Mirror Sport reports.

However, a late decision to sell key midfielder Xabi Alonso Bayern Munich saw Real rule out his exit in the final few days of the market, with the club still hoping to persuade him to commit his future and put pen to paper on a new deal.

If Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool are to make a deep run into Champions League and finish in the top - four of the Premier League, they'll have to do it without a key midfielder.

That is a hammer blow for Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger to face the prospect of losing one of his key midfielders for the European clash.

Key midfielder Manuel Lanzini has hinted that he could return to action against Liverpool this weekend!

As the midfield general, Toure also played his part in terms of winning back possession for his team, doing so on 195 occasions with 125 of those being in the key midfield area of the pitch.

The Red Devils were on the lookout for that key midfielder last summer when former boss David Moyes decided to shell out # 27.5 million for the Belgian international after missing out on targets Thiago Alcantara and Cesc Fabregas.

With Andre Villas - Boas already preparing for life without Luka Modric, it looks as though Spurs may also be without one of their other key midfielders for the start of the campaign.

Fatih Terim has traditionally loved to play attacking football, but in France he will rely on his key midfielders — the likes of Arda Turan, Selcuk Inan, Hakan Calhanoglu and Oguzhan Ozyakup — to support the front man by getting into the box as much as they can.

However, they may have trouble acquiring the duo from Roma as the Serie A side are unlikely to let two key midfielders leave in one summer.

Juventus have put their poor start to the campaign fully behind them by winning their last 15 games in Serie A, and Paul Pogba has been one of the stars of the show, after initially struggling to replace Arturo Vidal and Andrea Pirlo as their key midfielder.

As we stagger ourselves for the imminent back pages linking Arsenal to some key midfield signings, it seems Wenger has internal problems to sort first.

Rovers boss Sam Allardyce is still without several key midfielders through injury but does at least have veteran David Dunn back in contention, with the vastly experienced but so often injury - prone Dunn scoring his first goal of the season during Blackburn's 3 - 0 rout of Wolves last weekend.

And if that list of absentees wasn't extensive enough, Steed Malbranque, as well as key midfield duo Lee Cattermole and Jordan Henderson, are doubtful for the trip to Greater Manchester.

Antonio Conte: will be forced to juggle his squad against Crystal Palace in the absence of key midfielder N'Golo Kante and leading scorer Alvaro Morata.

The Blues did not manage to acquire their prime targets in the form of Romelu Lukaku, who joined Manchester United and also lost key midfielder Nemanja Matic to their Premier League rivals.

Steve Bruce has not been helped by the injury to key midfielder Lee Cattermole (who did at least come on as a sub in the second half), but he needs to arrest this slide, and soon.

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Ozil and Sanchez (The Chilean basically carried us for the first half of the season when the keys of the team were given to the worse midfielder in the Arsenal squad, Jack Wilshere... He is tired and it is easy to see) have come to Arsenal to get paid because they know they will win f*ck all here.

The classy midfield maestro has also played for AC Milan and Inter Milan in a glittering career, and remains a key player for Juve after helping them to three title wins in a row in Serie A.

We can not rely on a central attacking midfielder that can only create key passes occasionally but is unable to dictate the tempo in the front.

Unfortunately that is a big question mark following a number of setbacks in recent years, but Arsene Wenger is trying his best not to overuse the creative midfielder, and with any luck his extended time working into his key role will help him to stay fit through - out the campaign.

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Granit Xhaka will lead that Arsenal midfield because he used to get the key off his parents when he was younger.

But then when he is played at CB in meaningless preseason games to help improve key aspects of his game like positional awareness, reading the game and tackling among other things, we all are up in arms... Playing cb did wonders for Alex Song when he was eventually pushed up to midfield.

i agree, Carzola used to be the key to helping out the defence and defensive midfielder..

These days the middle of the field is where all it happens and versatility of the midfielders is key.

and this is why arsene has to go, because he should have done something by now to try and turn the game around, and bringing on ramsey is probably not the key, unless we want to see our midfield flooded and concede even more

Both sides recorded solid victories over New Year, but could face off on Tuesday night without a key attacking midfield component.

Their key player would be Toure, he can drive through the midfield phsyicallly with the ball like no one else in either side.

Even if they don't put in a lot of crosses, the players draw defenders wide to stretch the defense and look for passes back to the midfield behind the striker where space may open up for a key pass or a shot from distance.

Unfortunately for Arsene Wenger his selection options in central midfield have suddenly disappeared at the worst possible time, so with Cazorla, Xhaka, Ramsey and Elneny all unavailable, so the Frenchman has had to put his faith in Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain and you would think that his performance and effectiveness in the middle will be a key factor in the outcome of this hugely important Londo0n derby.

Oulala's stats shows that Reds midfield pair, Lucas Leiva and Emre Can, have outperformed Arsenal duo, Mathieu Flamini and Aaron Ramsey, in a host of key areas this season.

Haas» second season in F1 didn't quite reach the heights of their debut year which saw a handful of top six finishes and served as a campaign in which the team firmly established itself as a key player in the midfield rather than a new squad just there to make up the numbers, something we have been accustomed to with other new teams in recent years.

Jack Wilshere is a key part of England's midfield, and despite his injury problems he's almost certain to be going to France this summer.

This is a guy who said «he did not need Fabregas» (just to show how insanely delusional he is) and gave the key of the team to the worse midfielder we got (Wilshere) by putting Ozil on the wing (madness!!).