Sentences with phrase «midfield roles behind»

Which means Pique, Mascharano, Dani Alvez and Mathieu should start in the back four while Busquest to anchor the midfield with Rakitic and Iniesta playing central midfield roles behind the incredible trip of Messi, Suarez and Neymar.

Zidane is expected to go with a Gareth Bale, James Rodriguez and Ronaldo in attacking midfield roles behind Karim Benzema while Modric and Kroos to play in central midfiel roles.

Dempsey can play in an orthodox striking role or in an advanced central midfield role behind those up front.

The interval brought with it that relieving moment which saw Kasey Palmer enter the field of play - in the place of Collin Quaner; Tom Ince moved to the right - wing, with Kasey slotting into his preferred central - attacking midfield role behind the work - horse figure of Laurent Depoitre.

Spalletti tends to opt for more dynamic, physical players in the no. 10 role (such as Radja Nainggolan and Simone Perrotta - and, perhaps, Joao Mario), so I doubt Valero will play in that advanced midfield role behind Mauro Icardi.

Not exact matches

From my recollections Dennis Bergkamp always played as a number 10 just behind firstly Ian Wright and then Thierry Henri; his role could not be called «an attacking midfielder».

Putting Alexis in a free role with Ozil playing behind Walcott with Bellerin and Baba playing as wing backs with quite a narrow midfield.

Ramsay is a talented player but unfortunately for him he's not a disciplined cm, and is otherwise behind both Santi and Ozil in any kind of attacking midfield role, and that's probably where his best suited.

Aleksandar Kolarov and Samir Nasri were the scorers in the 2 - 0 victory at Goodison Park, but it was Silva who stole the show as he once again pulled the strings in midfield as he was operating in his favoured no. 10 role just behind the lone striker.

Even though one is listed as a striker and one a midfielder, the two players actually tend to play a similar role, either on one of the flanks or behind the central striker.

Ozil needs to be played more centrally if we hope to benefit from his creativity with the ball and Welbeck's first touch is far too sloppy to be played along side Lacazette... we need to find a formation which allows more service to those making runs from the middle of the pitch... Lacazette can not play so much with his back to goal or we're simply playing the same unsuccessful offensive scheme we played with Giroud, who is much better in that type of role... I can only hope we keep Sanchez and purchase a true defensive midfielder then switch to a 4 -4-1-1, which allows us to have Ozil play more centrally with Sead and Sanchez on the left side and Ox and Bellerin on the right, which would stretch defences so much that we could overwhelm most opponents with both runs in behind and overlapping runs out wide

Barça spent upward of $ 220m to sign Coutinho and Dembélé, and it seems unconscionable on its face that Ernesto Valverde would drop one of them — or perhaps remove a versatile, influential midfielder like Ivan Rakitić — to accommodate Griezmann, whose best position is in a free, Messi - like shadowing role behind a hulking center forward anyway.

Also, his deployment instead of putting in Delgado into midfield would have allowed TFC to move into an offensive 4 -3-3 with Giovinco leaning back a few metres behind Altidore and Hamilton in order to receive the ball outside the eighteen and have a free role, exploiting half - spaces and trigger crosses.

Although the Belgian youngster has often been used as a wide midfielder during his Old Trafford career thus far, Van Gaal deployed the youngster in a central role behind the side's main striker versus the Champions League holders.

They'd have Gotze and Firmino roaming behind Sturridge, Gotze more to the left with Henderson combing the right centre - midfield role and the right wing role almost like Milner was doing early on in the Klopp reign.

The role requires a player to hang back in a defensive space, slightly ahead of the two centre - backs and behind the two midfielders.

Emre Can had been used there as a substitute in previous games, but the German replace the injured Jordan Henderson in midfield, with Lucas coming into the side in the holding role behind Can and James Milner.

Suarez was given a free role around Sturridge, with Victor Moses playing behind them in an attacking midfield role.

This would remove the option of fielding Sánchez as a No. 10, but could see the Chilean even more effective in a wide role due to the increased space opened up by the lack of a central attacking midfielder behind the striker, allowing him to roam inside at will.

That meant that Nikola Kalinić went unchallenged in his role up top, while Borja Valero moved back into the midfield and Cristian Tello played in the two behind the striker with Josip Iličić.

Paul Pogba will probably move in to the No. 10 role and partner the likes of Martial and Mata in the attacking midfield behind Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

He plays 1) Behind the Striker (his greatest role imo) 2) attacking half of a 2 man central midfield 3) Wide Midfielder.

Barkley is able to play in roles behind the striker as well as in deeper midfield or in an advanced wide position.

A 21 - year - old Guinea international, he can play as a defensive midfielder, in a more creative role behind the striker and move through the thirds of the pitch and the various phases of play with speed and skill, showcasing his complete range of skills, tackling players, intercepting passes and taking opponents on, one - on - one.

With Alexis on the other side getting too involved in the midfield and not stretching play (and there's an argument his role should be adjusted, to try and get behind more), Arsenal only get width from their full - backs, which in turn, leaves Santi Cazorla and Francis Coquelin a lot of covering to do.

Match Predictions: Mourinho is likely to start with Pogba and Herrera in midfield with Carrick on the bench while Mata, Mikhitaryan and Rashford to play in attacking roles behind Ibrahimovic.