Sentences with phrase «more goals from midfield»

The verdict from the Sky Sports pair was that United don't need another top striker as playing 2 up front isn't going to happen — they need a system that maximises Rooney's impact, and they need more goals from the midfield to take some of the emphasis off the United number 10.

Mkhitaryan would guarantee the Reds more goals from midfield, as well as offering creativity to the side in linking up with the likes of Coutinho behind the main strikers.

Hope he excells and score more goals from midfield this season, best of luck to him!

We need more goals from our midfielders too we cant just depend on our strikers, Carzola, Rambo, Ox if playing, hell even Flamini / Arteta should also chip in like last season.

@muffdiver Yes he was a huge asset but RVP was not guaranteed — how many full seasons has he played with us... with our style since he left — we got more goals from our midfielders, even JW started scoring... Ryt now we get goals from Sanchez, OG, Santi, Wellbeck, Ramsey, TR7, etc..

We need more goals from our midfielders too.

Not exact matches

A bit more organisation from our midfielder's would've helped, but some goals you just have to tip your hat to.

Bottom line, if he is angered bench the players who were not good enough and play those who deserve some game time based on the Southampton game or on games where they had a positive impact: - Take Özil out and play Ox in the hole (he has to understand your the highest paid player of the club, your given freedom like nobody else and your even seeking even more money with a new contract you can't play like that ever and go AWOL)- Put Sanchez on the wing or up top but put Welbeck in (Walcott didn't track back near enough for the Alsonso goal)- Iwobi has been bright from the wing let him play there - Xhaka has to go back in the holding midfield role and I would take out Coquelin because he could've taken a foul on the hazard's goal.

The 22 - year - old scored seven goals in 39 appearances from midfield last season, while he's got four in 13 so far this year as well as offering plenty more in midfield with his energetic, tenacious and stylish performances on a consistent basis.

It's difficult to blame Ozil for the difficulties he's faced at Arsenal without looking at the big picture... like the fans, he too was lied to by Wenger... there is no doubt in my mind that he was told by Wenger that he was trying desperately to recreate our earlier success by acquiring players that fit the system he ran when Henry was in his prime... as we know this hasn't happened... in order for Ozl to flourish he needs some speed up front, forwards that can make intelligent runs, a boss in the midfield to compensate for his obvious defensive liabilities and defenders who can transition from defence to offence quickly and efficiently... much like he had in Real and with the German National squad... unfortunately he ended up on a squad that has a striker who plays with his back to goal, very few intelligent runs into the box, minus Sanchez, no one to take pressure off him in the midfield, once Cazorla was injured, average defensive midfielders around him, which simply highlighted his lacking defensive qualities and defenders who lack the necessary cutting edge when it comes to transitional passing... instead of blaming Ozil, which is simply too easy, especially considering his mopey disposition, we should be asking ownership and / or Wenger why they brought him in if they didn't intend on doing what was necessary to get the best from him... can you imagine Ozil playing with the likes of Henry, Viera, Petit and Pires, it would be incredibly to watch and even more difficult to stop... so the only thing different between his experiences in Real and with the German team versus his time at Arsenal are the players around him and we all know who is in charge of making those decisions, the Grinch who stole soccer

As well as Swansea, Sky Sports report that a bid had already been rejected for the midfielder from rivals Leicester City, which was reportedly more valuable than the # 40M that the Toffees had bid for the Icelandic international, who managed nine goals and 13 assists in 38 league games last season as Swansea managed to avoid relegation.

What made Foy's disastrous decision even more hard to fathom was the fact that just ten minutes earlier the situation was reversed and Evra fairly won the ball from the German midfielder and was through on goal with support either side of him, when the referee decided to blow his whistle and get attention for Ballack who was in fact perfectly fine.

The 21 year old would be a great addition to the Old Trafford line up and would add more creativity to the Man United's side and could also be a useful source of goals from midfield, something they don't get a lot of.

Newcastle United signed Cabaye from Lille in June 2011 and he more than proved himself at Premier League level, scoring 18 goals in 93 appearances for the St James» Park side, and is a player Arsene Wenger will hope can add a fresh dimension to his Gunners midfield.

Rambo is s very good box to box midfielder IMO, if you're happy to put more emphasis on going forward... His tracking is awful, but he will and has weighed in with goals from centre mid!

Sanchez on the right further from the goal with enough space to explode forward in quick attack, Cazorla on the opposite side with room to man the Central Midfield like he has always done, opposite action from Sanchez... the two can interchange wings as they are both very apt from both wings, with a telepathic understanding with Sanchez more amenable to move the ball forward from the deep but Cazorla more amenable to defend from the deep.

Xhaka really contributed more to the game and also determine flouence of the ball from the midfield with his long passes, he was wonderful in the game and suppose to be rated atleast 8, while Ozil was not really active in the game, he too fragile and his contribution to the game was not really felt but he was able to record a goal and assist to his name.

So, someone who is supposed to support our back four and be the link between them and midfield and, even more importantly, prevent the other team from scoring, is basically giving opponents balls, goals and points.

They say goals will be distributed from midfielders to strikers, lets say: Alexis scores 20, Walcott 20, OG 20, mid scores around 20, thats 80 goals, and we all know OG wont score 20 plus, Chelsea won with 74 goals, but their defence was so solid that they did nt need more goals, while our style demands goals, if we do nt score in first half, our players are starting to panic, something like against Swansea last year, we were better but they won, to win those type games you need someone to produce something special, OG simply cant do it

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

We could have scored more in the second half with some better decision making and finishing but we showed some stell to stop a resurgent Watford from adding to their goal, with Cech making some good ssaves and Wilshere and Elneny coming on to shore up midfield.

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I want you to be more of a Lampard son because you can... get us 15 goals each season before you ultimately retire here and i will make a stature myself and plant it at the emirates if they don't... Guys i know these kid is not Iniesta but he works his ass off, he is a fighter, he is young, he loves arsenal and most most important, HE SCORES PLENTY OF GOALS FROM MIDFIELD... Play him in his preferred position mr wenger and having matured, i know he wont disappoint us goals each season before you ultimately retire here and i will make a stature myself and plant it at the emirates if they don't... Guys i know these kid is not Iniesta but he works his ass off, he is a fighter, he is young, he loves arsenal and most most important, HE SCORES PLENTY OF GOALS FROM MIDFIELD... Play him in his preferred position mr wenger and having matured, i know he wont disappoint us GOALS FROM MIDFIELD... Play him in his preferred position mr wenger and having matured, i know he wont disappoint us all..

But for those of you who can perhaps broaden this out a little and see what title winning teams around Europe have been doing for the past 5 seasons, and also acknowledge the shift in emphasis with many teams relying more now on goal - scoring potency from wide forwards, wingers, second strikers and attacking midfielders then I think the debate is a little more subtle than the «cut and paste a # 40M «guaranteed 25 goal» centre forward with no possible downside» proposition.

Apart from Sanchez, who the last midfielder to score more than15 goals a season?!

vidal would take up a big chunk of our budget and we need more a big name striker, than a big name midfielder (otherwise what have we got ozil for if he is just supplying slow giroud) me think unless vidal is going to score us 20 goals from midfield, then that would swing it for me.

With the goals drying up for Romelu Lukaku of late, it seems clear the Belgian needs more help up front, with both more creativity in behind him and more players who can contribute goals from midfield.

I don't even know why he started Welbeck ahead of Walcott in the first place, Welbeck was giving away the ball too often on the right and wasn't helping Bellerin in defence.Bellerin too can't be blameless for being caught out of position many times, he didn't even know who he was marking.The reason why we lost the midfield battle wasn't because Coquelin didn't do much, the problem was with Ramsey and Cazorla, they were loosing possesion too often in our own half giving more room for counter attack Coquelin alone couldn't contain opponent's pressure for the full 90minutes he needed help too defencively from Ramsey who didn't give him any, Ramsey now sees himself as an AM who could go forward at anytime and ignore his defensive responsibility.Koscielny didn't do much to prevent the second goal.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

Someone who can run the midfield from collecting from CB to passing the ball over to the more attacking players and getting goals.

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

The man who has scored more goals for Arsenal than any other has been bigging up the current crop of Gunners this week, despite the team having to rely on goals from the most unlikely source of our defensive midfielder Mathieu Flamini to beat north London rivals Tottenham to progress to the next round of the Capital One cup.

Former Arsenal midfielder Emmanuel Petit has stated that he believes Arsene Wenger is protected from pressure at the Emirates far more than his rivals elsewhere in the league, per Omnisport (via Goal).

Mo looked much more comfortable in midfield, and will have gained extra confidence from his goal and even hit the post..

A little bit more composure in front of goal, a little bit more understanding and organisation at the back and a bit more incision from our creative midfielders and we would be scoring goals for fun and keeping clean sheets.

Vako, more offensively oriented — he leads the team with two goals and two assists — and Salinas, a converted midfielder playing as a full back, haven't developed a partnership as quickly as is needed, and the majority of the goals conceded this year have started from this side of the field.

We did nt get it and the longer the season goes on the more dependant we will become on goals from midfield, which makes our attacking predictable and easy to defend, we have no element of surprise in attack, nobody dribbles or runs past an opponent at pace at Arsenal, its all based on rotating positions and passing until a gap opens, the big sides, and smaller ones aswel wont always give you the gap, and even when the gap does prevent itself your depending on Giroud being clinical enough to take the chance, and he is not clinical.

Paul Pogba 8 — A much better performance from the French midfielder who showed more energy this evening and produced a nice assist for Romelu Lukaku's goal.

As a midfielder, the aim every season should be to notch around ten goals or more and Ramsey did exactly that despite only starting 20 Premier League games, having suffered from injuries during the latter part of the campaign.

He chipped in with five goals, not a bad rate for a central midfielder at a club many tipped to struggle, and had a very tidy 84 % pass completion rate - «and from nearly 2,000 attempted passes: only eight players completed more passes over the course of the season.

However, with 16 from 33, Mahrez has scored more goals than any other midfielder this season and more than many of the division's most highly - regarded strikers.

As Wenger threw on more attackers in order to try and take something from a derby match that had looked lost after goals from Toby Alderweireld and Harry Kane shortly after the hour mark, the midfielder's staying power helped the visitors to forget they had ever had their numbers diminished.

In what was perhaps the best individual performance of the week, Sanchez ran the game from his deep midfield role, winning a total of 8 tackles (more than anyone in the game) and most importantly grabbing two crucial goals in a man of the match showing.

Goals from Perisic showed there is more to the attack than just Icardi and the changes in midfield and defense did not adversely affect the performance.

Part of this problem could be considered to be that the most used central midfield pairing, Lucas Leiva and Charlie Adam, aren't particularly dynamic nor inclined to get on the end of crosses (of which Liverpool have had more, per game, than any other team in the league apart from Wolves — more of which, will be discussed later), so this only leaves a certain number of players who will be able to get into the box in the more rigid 4 -4-2 utilised for most of this season. Inspite of this, however, 58 % of Liverpool's goals have come from inside the 18 yard box, the highest in the league so far this season in terms of percentage of goals scored by each individual team, suggesting that this is the best avenue of attack for Liverpool, so the question has to be: why have Liverpool only managed to score 14 times, the 10th lowest amount of goals in the league?

Personally Antoine is my top priority for the wide left role, mainly due to fact he gets a number of goals and with the possibility of Arsene not buying a striker this season, goals from midfield will be more important than ever.

And whilst Barca have met their match the key difference between us and them is where their centre midfielders and Iniesta spend most of their time, ie not on the edge of the 18 yard box, more likely somewhere between half way and 30 yards out from goal, always available for the breakdowns and to be an outlet when Messi or Neymar has run into a crowd of players, they rarely force a pass where the sun doesn't shine, they just wait their chances.