Sentences with phrase «midfield possession game»

His touch wasn't efficient and he lacked the intelligence and movement to play fluidly with Arsenal's trademark midfield possession game.

Not exact matches

Coquelin, Flamini and Ramsey are not of that same mould, Victor Wanyama and Villiam Carvaho are good defensive midfielders but do not control the flow of a game, they are more likely to a rest or stays static when their team is in possession of the ball.

Aw has lost the plot with his tactics as well.Teams read him and play us out of games.We only tend to play well when opponents give us room to play in the midfield — like Everton did.When opponents park the bus and cramp out Ozil and Sanchez, Wenger doesn't have a plan.All the possession and no goals wont win you games.

We are more focused on defending than we have been in a few years, especially the midfielders tracking back and the fullbacks sitting deeper, but it has come at the cost of some of the possession game.

One thing I really liked about his game was how he kept possession and his link up play (from hold up play to link up play) with the midfielders.

GRANIT XHAKA 6.0 The midfielder was quiet at times in the game but had some good spells in possession.

If you contrast his performance in the games where Arsenal had less possession, where he had to do the job of a true defensive midfielder, that is, chase the ball, close down the opposition, help his team play confidently from the back by coming out with the ball and taking on the one on one chase back toward his goal.

The game has evolved and there's no room at the very top for a player in midfield to only function when the team is out of possession.

Clubs need experienced and cool headed players and arteta I's just that he would be perfect to bring off the bench when were seeing games out or playing him in a 3 man midfield when we need to dictate play and keep possession.

Man City have plenty of injury concerns going into the game, which, however, could see them play a 5 - man midfield and thwart Arsenal from enjoying large spells of possession.

The Tigers themselves have enjoyed 49 % possession of the ball in the 7 games so far and, going by their midfield and striking personnel, Bruce's charges will surely have their own game plan against a beleaguered Arsenal side.

His passing game isn't good enough to link our midfield to attack and he doesn't have good enough dribbling to play as the lone frontman in a possession based team.

Wilshere got a good rest during the weekend and should really take the field against the Saints, his midfield running will be very important against their possession game.

despite their lack of fitness they still dominated possession and chunks of midfield... think with a couple of additions the game on the 13th can be ours for the taking though

How can a manager said that we had most of the possession (and accommodate our worse midfielder) and assume that we should have won the game... Is he deluded?

The midfield was a bit of a mess at that point and certain players just weren't retaining possession so it was almost impossible to get Santi into the game.

But we ddnt dominate in either just had more lateral possession... what was clear from both games is that wenger had failed to create a midfield that could control the game through the right mixture of power pressing and passing... And as long as we have xhaka Ramsey elneny and coquellin as the choice set for midfield that will remain the problem... even Saturday it was the one area where spurs looked better than us and that was with sasoko for god sake... And this can only be laid at wenger's door

That same game plan was employed by Minnesota United in the Quakes home opener, and San Jose's total team effort to press the Loons and rotate possession through the attackers and midfielders was successful.

While praising Blind for sticking «rigidly to his job at the base of United's midfield», for reading the game well and for being «adept at offering the right angle to the man in possession», Smith compared him to veteran United star Michael Carrick.

We started brightly enough, pressing Everton in their third of the pitch and not allowing Howard, Jagielka or Stones time on the ball to pick out Lukaku and build from there, or play through their midfield, this meant we were winning back possession regularly enough and dominating the game.

AEK were making the more purposeful start to the game, with Milan struggling to muster up much meaningful possession, and midfielder Lazaros Christodoulopoulos had a shot blocked as they continued to force the pace.

The Blades were under the cosh for the majority of the game, with Pochettino's side even reaching up to 85 % possession at times as the midfield trio of Christian Eriksen, Harry Kane and Andros Townsend probed for an opener.

These figures underline the fact he's the perfect midfielder for Southampton's hard - pressing game, but the Obernai sensation also impressed in possession.

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 ofPossession 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 ofpossession coming in the two most central areas of the pitch, around where Ibrahimovic spent most of the game.

Daley Blind's start to the year saw him in central midfield alongside Wayne Rooney where he looked to play the Michael Carrick role of keeping possession with his calm and effective passing game.

United started the game on the back - foot, clearly exhausted as Swansea made the most of possession creating a couple of very decent chances via Llorente combining with the midfielders.

In the Crystal Palace game he was the anchor in midfield breaking up potential attacks and recycling possession.

This game played out just the way you would of expected: a lot of possession in the midfield for both teams as they tried to build up the attack.

I don't think we beat City nor that it will be a particularly entertaining game; I see City with 70 % possession (because we can't press in midfield and can't hold the ball when we win it) and I see Guardiola being very conscious of our counter-attack capabilities, we'll have less than a half dozen shots on target.

Joe Allen looked more like a defensive midfielder than he has done in recent games, mopping up in front of the back four when the team were out of possession.

The game was arguably won in midfield, with Arsenal holding the lion's share of possession — 59 %.

And he dictates the flow of games, meaning Toronto now have two of the more dominant possession players in the league in their midfield.

Emre Can scored Liverpool's first goal and did a lot of good in midfield, but at times he was also loose in possession, turning the ball over to West Ham for their only goal of the game.

He has run the German midfield that has spent the majority of their games in opposition territory and averaged the most possession.

Their counter-attacking style is perfect to face a team like Barça, and their midfield is physical enough to trouble the Catalans» possession game.