Sentences with phrase «midfielder problems when»

We thought we had solved our defensive midfielder problems when Francis Coquelin proved to be our saviour a few years ago, but he doesn't seem to have developed into the superstar we were hoping for, and Mohammed Elneny has also failed to impress much so far, so perhaps he could even be a candidate for a first team place at Arsenal straight away.

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Where as even though we know there is a problem when it comes to defence, Wenger seems to be living in denial.All these talks of signing Lemar or Mbappe is just to keep fans guessing so that there are more ticket and merchandise sales.What we really need is a midfield general, someone like Viera or Gilberto

It was just a few short years ago when many Arsenal fans, myself included, believed that the Gunners would have gone on to lift the Premier League trophy if it was not for injury problems hitting our squad at just the wrong time, especially the loss of the Wales international midfield star Aaron Ramsey.

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.

What we got with girouh and welz are different options different styl of play last yr we didn't have that... trust me when Walcott and ozil come bk wenger wont have a choice but to play them all... right side thats Walcott left side thats Sanchez up front welz or girouh midfield is our problem... Wilshire and ramsey should fight for thT box to box and ozil and carzola should fight for that cam.....

Our system we play is the problem, everyone saying our defence is crap and i partially agree, but we need to defend as a team, the midfielders also need to contribute when it comes to defending and our defending at set plays are very poor.

Arsenal have had a longstanding problem without a strong intelligent defensive midfielder for many many years, but a few years ago Wenger got lucky when Francis Coquelin was recalled from a loan at Charlton and immediately became our beast in that position.

You cant escape he fact that Podolski was played rarely and when he was he was played out of position much the same way that Wenger has assembled a squad of players most of which are a talented bunch, but, Wenger has failed to build a team who fit n with each other, we have a midfield that overtly populated with players who al excel in the same role BUT have no solid defensive midfield talent and no options in defence when players have crap periods or are long term injury problems.

A long - term target for the Gunners this defensive midfielder could be the answer to their problems, but only when manager Arsene Wenger admits there is a problem in holding midfield.

It is really about time that the Ox showed some of his early potential, but his problem is that it has arrived when there is now enormous competition for places in the Arsenal midfield.

Let's not get carried away and think Wenger has learned his lessons he has not overnight become a tactical genius he was forced to play that way when ozil was not fit to play had he been available he would definitely played and then would have same defensive problems as before with midfield over run and ozil not tracking back to help so probably would have been beaten!!

We are a soft team, we seem to have problems mopping the pressure from most team, very little physical presence in midfield and unable to cope organise oûrselves when we do not have the ball.

If you can not start your # 30 million midfield star in November when he is fit to play, you have a problem IMO.

Cazorla is still a first team regular when fit, but these consistent injury problems are becoming quite concerning and if the midfielder can not keep his fitness up, it could spell a sorry end to what has been a truly fantastic career for the Spaniard at Arsenal.

The problem is when you have an average defensive midfielder then your backline can never be at rest.Coquelin should have started this match.Some people think he's average but I feel he's been played out of position and being tasked with doing too much like a box to box player.How can someone who bases his game on tackling and interception lose that ability all of a sudden and you tell me nothing's wrong but bdcause he's average.Are we fans going to ignore what is plain to us?Let's just pretend things are alright.Then after we win the cracks will be papered only for them to be exposed another day.

When the Arsenal and Egypt international midfield star Mohamed Elneny headed off to Gabon to meet up with his national team recently for the latest version of the African Cup of Nations, it did not appear to pose too much of a problem for Arsene Wenger.

ramsey is no winger arteta no defensive midfielder and walcott no striker... we do nt have shape... bellerin working his socks off to make up for mertesaker and ramseys lack of pace... stops him going forward when he does we create problems for them as with second goal... ozil i am sorry to say is clueless at the moment... monreal and kos doing ok....

Long term problems are that our team doesn't know how to win the ball back except when it's deep in our midfield in which case it's defenders or DMF winning the ball, or Sanchez.

The problem for Arsenal's defence and goalkeepers under Wenger has been, that he is not capable of organizing the midfield players and the offensive players and make them work, when the opponents have the ball.

our problem is not the defense we cant just score goals with so many attempts we shoudl have scored 4 - 5 goals and win it by 5 - 2 without a creative midfielder like Cazorla or Ramsey (when he plays well) our attacking play is very predictable maybe playing Iwobi instead of Elneny or Coq is at least better But Wenger's biggest mistake was to play Chambers instead of Bellerin Bellerin with his pace opens up the opponents.

But however, I do nt think Ramsey is the main culprit, because that problem stated at the begining of 2015 when Coquelin replace Arteta as defensive midfielder Arsenal overall football change from posssession dominance to a sporadic countering style game.

Whether draxler or not arsenal is still a weaker team, is it something bad if we have both draxler and Sanchez in the same team fighting for places, just imagine van persie, Sanchez, ozil, carzola are in the same team, with likes of inform konsieny, mustafi, and konlansinic, and good holding midfider,... our problem with this 343 information or 3421 information apart from Wenger playing players out of position we don't have a strong holdmidfider that retrieve the ball back when we lost possession... Kant's is perfect example of that, look at the job he does at Chelsea is amazing...... without a good holding midfielder our defenders are vulnerable

It is partly because of a weak defence, but the main problem lies in our midfielders ad offensive players, who simply don't defend aggressively, when the opponent has the ball.

I've noticed that some of our problems occur when our midfielders lose the ball in the middle.

First of Jack was not really missed Sunday and with the amount of midfielders we have he will perfectly come back 8 weeks from now when probably some other midfielder (cough, Arteta, Ramsey, cough) will have problems.

Some deluded fans seem to think that coquelin is the solution to our midfield problems and that we don't need a new cdm.This has been a common occurrence during transfer windows whereby average players step up their game since they know their place is under threat, and it works wonders in convincing our disillusioned manager.But once the window closes that's when we see the true colours of the players, or they get injured the day after the window closes.Remember yaya sanogo putting 4 past benfica and everyone thinking he's going to score 10 + goals this season?Monreal looked impressive at CB during preseason and somehow convinced wenger that he doesn't need a new CB, the list is endless.

Well im not in a wonderland he has his failings as we all do and great teams find a way to win good teams sit where we are 6 -5-4 but thats besides the point and it would be nice if your aunty had bolocks cause then we d be second but ive watched the games were an offensive team most the time although were terrible in the pissing rain but for the most part the game plans have worked weve created chances quality scoring chances one after the other problem is for me the finishing unless we sit back with 9 man behind the ball or ten when you push forward you will give up a goal if you lousy forwards fail to finish the set ups have been there this year but our strikers have failed to kill the games if we create quality chances and grab leads in the first 60 minutes like we have for the most part and in those games those games should of been killed even if we give a goal or two alongside the strategy but we failed to hit multiple should be goals we tried laca we'll see abou auba although hes a bit lazy so far but we'll see but we've lacked that quality in front goal a player the chances have been there im looking at the failure of the strikers and maybe that is his fault but monreal has scored as many goals recently as our strikers and thats sad our defenders or a midfielder will score and our stikers cant tally one in th first 60 mins of a game alongside them then were tired for last 40 give them hope there still only down one and we rue our missed chances while they push thats where iv been frustrated with this season not the tactics but the finishing

The biggest problem arises from Wenger - ball which explains why so many of our midfielders do struggle when they have gone to different teams.

We were broken against too easily, a proper holding midfielder will sort that problem out, not Flamini who dives into a challenge when he's the last man.

I have partly agree, but we were terrible when Alexis WAS upfront against City and Everton, but I think that has more to do with the midfield than our forwards, and I think that is still the problem no matter who is upfront.

Have to disagree flamini has done well this season and has been one of our better midfielder he is 2nd to yaya toure in passing accuracy in the whole leauge and he is very aggressive when compared to other arsenal players.the problem with playing flamini is that he is lined up with the ill disapline wilshire n ramsey we allways try to go forward and not think to much about defense.he has been a valuable part of the squad this season just like monreal but because they ain't everyone's cup of tea they won't get recognition.

Problems with discipline and consistency plagued the player when he started out at the Emirates, but there is no denying that Granit Xhaka has been top - notch since Arsene Wenger introduced the new system and has established a solid partnership with Aaron Ramsey in the heart of Arsenal's midfield.

I think the main problem with AMs on the wing is that they are reluctant to get in the penalty box, that's what makes Ramsey so effective, he is one of the only ones in midfield these days who has no pace but knows when to run in the box as support (resulting in goals, freeing up the striker, or just getting an awkward defensive position to take advantage of.

here is the simple truth a team that has walcott giroud campbell merteshaker flamini and ramsey starting wont win trophies... not one is a top class player in their position... having two on the park on regular basis is not a problem and three can probably still ensure 4th place... if we want to go beyond that we need to bring in two top class players in to the midfield and attack (thats in addition to the quality returnees we do have) and to increase the work rate particulalry when we do nt have the ball by a good ammount... that was true 3 years ago 3 months ago and 3 days ago... wenger had the nerve recently to say not signing an outfielder in the summer had been vindicated... the man has been drinking his own kool aid

It's a old player who realy don't do enything in his entire carrer.I don't want him.Wenger searching for old, cheap players, but he want to win PL, IMPOSIBLE.If he want a world class player, take Vidal, I think Juventus will sell one of it class midfielders now with Khedira come.My problem, it's the old 4 -2-3-1, the sistem that we play and simply doesn't work anymore, not with lazy players like Ozil and worst strikers like Giroud.I think we can swamp Ozil with Gotze (he is younger, work more and can play CM to if we need to), and maybe buy Sterling (for his speed and great cover of a large area of pich when the team need it).

last night i saw on Sky sports Jamie Carragher show / demonstrate an interesting flaw Arsenals game there was huge gap between our attacking and defense at least 20 yards where no man land which allowed the opposition to counter attack with no resistance until well in to our own half our defense overwhelmed and on back foot while our midfield and attackers still in oppositions half, the reason we are better then last year is because of Coq and rapid speed of Belerin saved us but what with Coq out Ramsy loving being a forward we will have problems tomorrow night with the Greeks who love to counter attack, someone has to drop back when Ramsy is on his attack ’s

After what happened to Arsenal when the club captain and central midfielder Mikel Arteta picked up an injury problem in the Champions League clash with Anderlecht on Tuesday, Arsene Wenger and the Arsenal fans have been sweating on the medical reports on the Spaniard and fortunately it is good news for once.

However, the midfielder was only able to complete 35 minutes of the game with the South Americans, when a lower back problem flared up.

Both full - backs should close down balls lobbed into the area — a problem with Milner's transition to full - back from midfield — but the root of all the defensive evils is the panic that sets in when Liverpool try to defend a lead, and the inevitable disaster that befalls a team that should be winning.

The 3 -5-2 made the most sense for the players available: Sturridge and Suarez were given free rein up front, Rodgers could make use of several of his new array of centre - backs (although the exclusion of Agger made little sense given he is the best on the ball) and the midfield problems are lessened when a switch to a triangle puts less emphasis on Gerrard's positioning.

This problem was further demonstrated in the last twenty or so by looking where Alexis and Ozil were going to get ball and where Ramsey was when they did, they were dropping deep into midfield and he was twenty yards in front of them.

Arsene Wenger also had good news for supporters on Friday when reporting for his customary pre-match press conference, with the Frenchman declaring that keeper Wojciech Szczesny, defender Johan Djourou and midfielder Denilson could all rejoin the squad for Sunday's game after recent spells on the sidelines, although full - back Bacary Sagna is out with a knee problem.

It didn't entirely convince, carrying the hints of problems heavy and underlined when he complained about the late departure of midfielder Javi Fuego, who went to Villarreal.

When Anderson back and Cleverley already showing his talent, the solution for our midfield problem might be in our hands.

This created a problem for United however when Tiemoue Bakayoko started pushing up into the space Hazard vacated: with Bailly gone, Chris Smalling and Phil Jones lost their man avantage, and with Herrera having to drop back to help out with Bakayoko, United began to lose the midfield battle, leaving them pinned back defending.

To be fair to Sir Alex Ferguson, he did admit when pressed that playing Wayne Rooney as a sitting midfielder was likely to be only a short - term experiment, a solution to the combined problems of Ma...

To be fair to Sir Alex Ferguson, he did admit when pressed that playing Wayne Rooney as a sitting midfielder was likely to be only a short - term experiment, a solution to the combined problems of Manchester United having a few injuries in that department and needing to tighten up their defensive act.

Likewise, he poured through a substantial amount of work in protecting the Toffees» rearguard when Liverpool broke forward — an essential contribution on a day when midfield dynamo Idrissa Gana Gueye was fit enough only to appear as a second - half substitute following his hamstring problem.