Sentences with phrase «midfield area of the pitch»

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.

Not exact matches

Throughout his career so far, the midfielder has shown that he is capable of playing in central area of the pitch, with the midfielder being deployed as an attacking midfielder, central and defensive midfielder.

Even with all of our injury problems in every area of the pitch but especially in defence and central midfield, Arsenal are finding a way to dominate games and more importantly, to win them.

With Mathieu Flamini sitting in front of the defensive line, the four midfielders should have more chance of being able to control the centre of the pitch and stop the talented and powerful Chelae players from getting too much pressure and pushing the Gunners back towards our own penalty area.

In central midfield, Michael Carrick showed his wortth for England against Lithuania and should be brought in as one of the more defensive options for the match against Italy, who have plenty of quality in that area of the pitch.

A centre - back and defensive midfielder are top of the list (as they have been for the last few seasons), but a world class signing in any area of the pitch would surely be welcomed.

The other area of concern for Wenger is central midfield; Coquelin has provided Arsenal with something they have lacked since the good old days when Vieira could be seen charging up and down the pitch to be everywhere that he was needed, a bit of steel in the spine of the team.

Inevitably, a defensive midfielder will find themselves tackling because they operate in the area of the pitch where all the opponent's genius players are, but most of the tackling and dirty work is done by the box to box midfielder.

Also, our players over crowd areas of the pitch (areas where there should be only one midfielder, you find 3/2) and Ramsey's inability to stick to the lines.

Arsenal have already signed a midfielder of course but that is the area of the pitch that has been the hardest hit by our injury problems, and so we are still being linked with various other players for those positions.

Whilst he may not be a typical midfield enforcer, any fan of the Premier League will tell you that he is more than capable of doing a job in that area of the pitch.

Moving on to the midfield trio, this is probably the area of the pitch which gives Wenger the most selection headaches.

Why buy one of the most creative midfielders in the world if you congest his area and remove one side of the pitch,

In the match against Leicester city Arsenal needed a defensive midfielder who control the flow of their game in all areas of the pitch similar to what Arteta did.

At Middlesbrough, he'll likely be used all across the attacking midfield band, as they've struggled to get results in that area of the pitch this season.

While managers like Pep or Van Gaal want players to have very defined roles and be only in particular area's «Zones» of the pitch, Wenger constantly allows his midfielders to swap and move.

In attacking phases of play, the Shadow Striker forms a partnership with a No. 9 but when the team is defending, they drop into a deeper area of the pitch in order to try and retain possession by hassling opposing central midfielders.

As the Possession chart with heat map on the right of the image above, Sweden attacked very centrally going from right to left, the action when Sweden were on the ball occurred in the centre of midfield with 64.78 % of the Swedish possession coming in the two most central areas of the pitch, around where Ibrahimovic spent most of the game.

All of the signs point to this interest being legitimate, with the defensive midfield area being a key part of the pitch to address come the end of the 2015/16 campaign.

There has been plenty of chopping and changing in every area of the pitch; defensively they lack cohesion, the midfield isn't getting to grips with games while up front, Didier Drogba and Fernando Torres continue to fluff their lines.

Often cited as the club's last truly complete midfielder, Roy Keane and his shadow loom large over many discussions on this most crucial area of the pitch.

Grant is missing key and influential players in just about every area of the pitch ranging from the absence of David James in goal to John Utaka up front, while there are a good three or four midfielders currently on the treatment table.

Noble, with undoubtedly his best game all season, and Kouyate bossed the midfield against their illustrious opponents in this area of the pitch.

Barca's first statement on Tuesday read: «Although he was originally signed as a defensive midfielder, he was used at centre - back to cover for the many injuries in that area of the pitch and did such a good job that he would go on to play just as often in that position as he did in the middle of the park.

Midfield is an area of the pitch that we are spoilt for choice and the current crop of players give us variety, intelligence and the ability to out - possess any other team in the league.

Arrigo Sachi, the mastermind of the Milan side of the 80 ′ s, had once staked a claim that the next tactical revolution in the game, would be the conversion of the whole pitch into a midfield area.