Sentences with phrase «midfielder had only»

The French midfielder had only scored once in 57 league games prior.

Arsene Wenger has not always seen eye to eye with other managers of various national teams, such as the furore and frustration caused when Didier Deschamps over-played Abou Diaby when the injury prone midfielder had only just returned to club football after a long lay off.

The veteran midfielder has only been involved in a handful of Championship matches this season and was always likely to be on his way.

OTHERWISE I WOULD PLAY COQUILINE because he's the true defensive midfielder we have that only needs to be developed and given confidence just as chambers is as well.

The Brazilian midfielder has only one score against a team not named Maccabi Tel - Aviv this year and has otherwise been very much out of form.

After all, the England midfielder has only taken one career penalty in the past — and he missed it.

The Wales midfielder has only made 10 Gunners appearances in an injury - hit campaign, and is bidding to shake off his latest hamstring problem.

However, with the Arsenal midfielder having only just recovered from a long and frustrating injury layoff this season Arsene Wenger has stressed the importance of him not being overused on the Arsenal Official Website.

Despite playing in every game so far this season, the midfielder has only managed to score once and has a meagre shooting accuracy of just 36 %.

It's likely that he will strategically fail this test or only make the bench, with the manager very clear that the midfielder would only be risked if totally fit.

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While it is only normal for Bournemouth to be interested in signing the midfielder permanently, it is unlikely that Wenger would sanction such deal.

Coquelin's stats this year have been awesome and even on Monday he managed to record the second best passing accuracy of the Arsenal midfielders, bettered only slightly by Mesut Ozil.

Perhaps the most surprising inclusion in Klinsmann's selection is Borussia Dortmund's wonderkid midfielder Christian Pulisic, who makes the cut despite only having one international cap to his name.

The only other change made by the Frenchman is at the back, with veteran keeper Petr Cech coming back in and the midweek hero David Ospina dropping back to the bench, so Coquelin and Cazorla continue to be our first choice central midfield pairing and the summer signing Granit Xhaka will have to wait.

Chelsea midfielder Cesc Fabregas was a breakthrough star at Arsenal, following his switch from boyhood club Barcelona, and despite losing favour with the Gunners fans, only has positive words for his former side.

Picture this, if we had a quick, agile defender alongside kos, our full backs would have the freedom to bombard forward without worrying about covering for a slug at the back.Same if we had a big strong athletic dmf like gustavo, our midfield midgets would be free to move forward and create chances knowing that there is someone reliable protecting the back four.But then again this can only happen in my dreams or on FIFA manager

Ps, Also mention Sanchez having best defensive display from midfield, but mention our player only and then say yours can be a liability..

With Coquelin, Xhaka and Elneny, now our midfield is not as porous as it used to be before!!!! Hence our defense wouldn't be as exposed as it was when we only had Flamini and Arteta!

there is no doubt that we need a midfielder with the ability to dribble, fast but having a good players is not only enough, hard training for stamina, strength as a team to continuously press on the opponents not to give them time and space to settle and win the ball, go fast to the goal destabilize the defense, fiercely fight around the goal to create a space and shoot on goal with the strong power and on target needed and wenger also has to be hard and serious for the accomplishment of this.as we have seen with such a spirit even with the defence all reserve we won FA CUP

The brilliant Czech midfielder Tomas Rosicky is now in his 8th season at Arsenal, and has always performed brilliantly when called upon to play for the first team, but due to various injuries and Arsene Wenger's choices our Little Mozart has only averaged 20 starts a season in all competitions, and another 10 per year as substitute.

Some people have jumped on the situation that Wenger is using Coquelin in the CB position at training, now he only has 3 CBs there and a whole bunch of midfielders, he has 2 teams a guess practicing against each other a midfielder would more than likely be used since Bellerin, Debuchy, Gibbs, Monreal, Chambers, Holding and Bielik would already be occupied.

So I am not surprised to hear our only fit regular central midfielder declare that the Gunners are bound to be better when the manager has a bigger squad of fit players to choose from, as reported by Arsenal.com.

Schneiderlin is only 25, one of the league's elite midfielders and has the versatility to play in different roles.

Doesn't matter that they are not dm's against the mancs 3 seasons ago they had the United midfield in their pockets completely bossed them and ramsey scored the only goal of the game.

The former Liverpool and England midfielder could only make 50 in reply as Terry romped to victory, proving that Chelsea have not lost the winning habit completely.

Arsenal board are silly to give ozil for another contact worth280, 000 pounds a week bcos he is a very lazy guy are using his whole life with girlfriends in hotel and is not doing hard training bcos of cigarettes and women are making him lazy and I still prefer Sanchez hard working is doing for the club than ozil, please find another attacking midfielder is really want to commit himself for the club than the lazy guy is not have anything to offer the club and is only to demand for increasement of the payment without doing nothing for the club and is the one poison Sanchez mind for increased of the.

Henry is correct because Arsene must be the only manager who thinks one could be enough, having so much faith in his midfielders could be the reason.

It is only by admitting that we have lots of midfield talent and we should make use of it and that real defense actually starts in the midfield.

my only hope is wenger to buy kanté of leicester.this guy is a beast at dm position with a good technical and physical quality.with him and coq in midfield against barca we can hope for anything special to happen.with finally olivier giroud slowly becoming WC striker, walcott most efficient and campbell who is a revelation this season, the return of alexis we can be dangerous against any defence.our only weak position is a dm position and wenger won't have any excuz this mercato bcoz there are players available that we can buy if we want.plz wenger go for at least one of this: kanté, wanyama, w.carvalho, l.bender, krychowiak, biglia, neves, l.gustavo, rabiot... if we try to sign s.roberto he will be a good addition with great quality.gunner for life!!!

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.

I think the whole team has improved defensively since Coquelin has come into the team more bodies getting back behind the ball Arteta was the only real disciplined player in midfield at times.

And we have quality, but only in certain areas principally in midfield where every player is identical in style and physicality.

We have only 4 regular midfielders left to rotate on 3 spots, very taxing for them as only 1 get to rest each time.

Not only will Arsenal have our midfield warrior back for Stamford Bridge, but he will be fully recovered and fresh for the fight.

Let's go Vardy, and we shall be complete, remember we only lost this EPL because our strikers couldn't find the net, if we have that complete finisher in Vardy, then I guess our midfielders will have the extra boost.

obviously I would prefer to have a much more suitable alternative in the defensive midfielder positions but if they focused more on defensive end and the occasional long - ball, this would allow Bellerin and Sead ample opportunities to bomb forward on their respective wings while still having enough cover to maintain their defensive shape... it would likewise allow for overlapping runs on both wings, thereby letting both Sanchez and Perez to cut inside and get shots away in and around the top of the box with their most dominant feet... if goals were needed I would sub Bellerin for OX and bring Ramsey in for Elneny then switch to a 3 -2-4-1 (more of a 3 -1-5-1 with Ramsey playing higher up the pitch) and I would only use Giroud as a sub when the game dictated it for tactical reasons... this would allow us to be a high energy team with incredible link - up play and a much more direct approach in the offensive end

I only wish to focus on those who can play in the CF position (as that's what everyone's getting bent out of shape about) but it is clear we have wide players who can score and we have players who can do so from midfield, some of whom are still developing — like Wilshere, Ramsay, the Ox — and from whom most of expect to see more and more this season.

This means he will be one of the hottest properties in the coming transfer windows and I am sure that Wenger would be interested in yet another top - class midfield addition to the Arsenal squad, as that seems to be the only players he looks at nowadays.

I get your point mate.But in truth Ramsey is the CM and Xhaka is the DM according to our formation anf tactic.It's even debatable if Xhaka is capable of playing DM.I think Ramsey's tactical awareness is poor but he has every right to take risks and move into the opposition box.He's a box to box player.The only problem is Ramsey overdoes it.If we had a proper CDM the team would be more balanced.Now it's like we have two CM's playing in midfield and due to their poor tactical awareness we're always left exposed.I conclude by reminding people that Wilshere is better footballer and is more intelligent than Xhaka.It'll be better playing Wilshere and pairing him with a CDM than having Xhaka play there.He just gets to play over him becausr we signed him for # 35.

The only way to get the best out of Rambo is to sell him for anything above 20m but as I suspect no top team would b dumb enough to shelve that out keep him as a bench player with elneny sell xhaka hope wilshere stays fit and bring in a quality DM... midfield sorted..

Ramsey is the only player who makes runs into the box for us... lf not for him we would pass sideways for hours outside the box as none others make the runs he does Hes our best midfielder overall can do everything good and sometimes worldclass but just does nt do enough but who has @Arsenal.

Coutinho is the real problem for me in that Liverpool team.He can destroy midfield strategies.That's why I worry when I see us with no DMF.Years back (14/15) I remember Coquelin back pocketing Coutinho yet it's likely Wenger will bench him for no reason.That guy has so much potential if only he's used wisely.He has the abilityto mark players out of a game and intercept many passes.I know many of you will call me stupid and say he's average but imagine if Coquelin was used in a very defensive sense.Being brilliant tactically is all about producing the best system with the players you have and clearly that's not what's happening.I already lose hope when I see Kolasinac and Bellerin at WB whsn clearly it doesn't suit them.WB's are so important in a 3 back but clearly we've ignored that.

The attacking midfielder is not only one of the Bundesliga's top scorers but no other player in the German top tier has provided more assists, form that is all the more laudable given he represents mid-table Hoffenheim.

We have still only signed yet another midfielder, but we have not signed the players who win the league — a centre forward, a centre half and a CDM who controls things at the back.

Hope le coq gains fitness soon... hes the only tough tackling midfielder we have.Remember how effective the Coqzorla partnership was.Granit Xhaka is clearly not cut out for the premier league... would rather thrust wilshere back into the fray tbh

we played against untd B team, their defence was non existant, made from midfielders, attack not even need to adress, if you cant win this than you wont win anything, lack leadership ffs you play against teen players, and you need leadreship hahahahahahaha Wenger is only one to be blamed, if he loved Arsenal he would never let this happened

Reds captain Jordan Henderson has been the main man in Klopp's midfield in recent weeks, but, with a FIFA 17 rating of just 80, the skipper is only deemed worthy of a place on the bench.

One can't afford the luxury to have a midfield player locked in denying the opposition only.

However our manager never admits he was wrong, our manager takes upon himself too many functions in the club, our manager only have eyes for one body type, in regards to midfielders, our manager refuse to go back to a traditional DM.

Manchester United don't have an out and out defensive midfielder, of the top 6 teams only us and Chelsea have defensive midfielders, that are used properly anyway.