Sentences with phrase «midfield diamond»

I would have gone for him if the idea was to use him at the top of midfield diamond.

DM: At the bottom of a rather trendy midfield diamond, we've gone for N'Golo Kante, who is increasingly expected to return from injury for this clash and give Chelsea that protection they so badly need and have sorely missed at the back.

Lastly, a four - man midfield diamond could also be deployed, but that is far less common in the Premier League.

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.

So Walcott will partner the in form Spurs striker Harry Kane in front of a midfield diamond and that should offer him a chance to show his pace, movement and finishing on the big stage.

The only place I can see him playing is in VVs spot at the top of a midfield diamond, because as the article states, he doesn't seem too interested in defending.

This has been made abundantly clear by Roy Hodgson who plays him at the bottom of a four midfield diamond and he flourishes.

Sorry for continually being ignorant and missing the point («your» point to be precise)-- but playing one - twos with Alexis in the opposition penalty area in the Copa and being deployed at the head of Juve's midfield diamond is not convincing me that his coaches / managers see his best position as a disciplined holding midfield player.

Judging by last season's results, and the beginning of the 2014/15 campaign, Liverpool perform better when fielding a midfield diamond with two forwards up top.

I'm not sure, but to me it looks like we could see a midfield diamond here, with ozil sitting behind 2 strikers?

And Wilshere has now played three or four games for England in his new role as the deepest lying midfielder, with Roy Hodgson using a midfield diamond as well as the old favourite of 4 -4-2.

While he's best used as a right winger, Harrison has occasionally been deployed on the left wing and even as an attacking midfielder at the tip of a midfield diamond.

The German youngster could then fill that number ten role at the top of the midfield diamond.

We over loaded the number 10 position which played into West Ham's plan perfectly as they played with a midfield diamond.

Wilshere actually looked pretty competent at the base of the midfield diamond.

I think Cooper looked best last year when the midfield diamond was the main tactic of choice, or at least, in the 3 -5-2 with Johnson playing clean up crew behind / beside Cooper allowing for Cooper proper relief when he'd pull one of his stunts.

Both the teams started off with a 4 -4-2 formation with Madrid playing with a midfield diamond.

A midfield diamond formation sounds great for Cesc Fabregas, because it will slot him to a role which comes natural to him and still can link with Messi.

O'Neill received plenty of flak of leaving Wes Hoolahan out in order to put the returning David Meyler back into a midfield diamond formation which played to the strengths of Denmark's hat - trick hero Christian Eriksen.

Claudio Marchisio returned, with Arturo Vidal, Stefano Sturaro, and Roberto Pereyra completing the midfield diamond.

The midfield diamond had Busquets, Iniesta, Rakitic with Messi on top of diamond.

Over the past few months, a 4 -4-2 formation with a midfield diamond — known as a milieu en losange in France — has become the must - have tactical system for the league's leading teams, with Lille, Monaco and Lyon successively enjoying improved fortunes after adopting the tactic and Marseille potentially poised to follow suit.

Towards the end of last season, Arsenal landed on a winning formula with a deep lying partnership between Francis Coquelin and Santi Cazorla, with Mesut Ozil playing at the tip of the midfield diamond.

He played as if to the manner born in the hothouse environment of Stamford Bridge last week and appeared equally at ease performing at the home of the 2015/16 English champions, where Unsworth deployed the Academy graduate at the base of a midfield diamond.

An improved second - half showing followed after Unsworth tinkered with his tactics at the interval, opting to deploy a midfield diamond by introducing Beni Baningime for his Premier League debut and Oumar Niasse up front.

Pogba excelled in a left sided central midfield role for Juventus who played with a midfield diamond.

On a side note with Carrick out for the next month I wonder why van Gaal went with Januzaj and not Herrera in the midfield diamond formation.

Mjc that's a midfield diamond right that would leave our full backs exposed.

Initially signed to provide Allegri with another option to play at the tip of his midfield diamond, Hernanes seemed to struggle with the tactical demands of the coach both in training and on the pitch.

Hodgson's England are now a reasonably slick outfit, employing either an adventurous 4 -3-3 system or switching to the midfield diamond (which saw them come from 2 - 0 behind to win 3 - 2 in Germany in March).