Sentences with phrase «more possession play»

After more possession play, Wilshere sprung Walcott who burst forth on the right side, drove a hard low cross into the box which was fired home by OWEN GOAL to extend Arsenal's lead to 4 - 0.

i know klopp (i believe he will be perfecting his tactics maybe might add a bit more possession play to his game and management skills while on leave) likes to have big control in the transfers of his clubs so this might be a more smoother move for the club in future.

Not exact matches

Even those children who didn't open their gifts until Christmas morning had now done so, and would be playing with their new possessions, more or less discreetly, in the pews.

We really should play more direct when we have 70 % possession.

We will never know, of course, but there is a good argument that with one of those first choice players available, Arsenal would have played better throughout and would certainly have enjoyed more possession and control and would probably have held on for the win or even increased our lead on the counter attack.

Possession football is still obviously our main goal, but we've been looking deadly on the counter, playing much more direct, and seem a lot more willing to cross and loft balls into space than recent seasons.

at the start of this season, we were playing a different type of game: we were letting the other teams have more possession and we were winning more often than we are now.

If Arsenal allow opposition teams a good foothold in the game as they seems to always do nowadays and continue to play with less than 50 % possession, they will have to score at least 3 goals or more per game to win matches.

Arteta does do a great job of keeping possession and dictating the pace of the game, but he is much more effective when Arsenal are playing the so - called lower clubs.

Suggesting that he was worried about the fact that West Ham have been playing competitive games for some weeks now while the Gunners were facing our first, Wenger hinted that he would have been reasonably happy with a draw and perhaps that is why he played Giroud to hold up the ball and Chamberlain and Cazorla on the flanks to keep more possession.

When we are going to play a more aggressive team — one that might control a lot of possession — like a Chelsea or Man City, I think we need a defensive player who can help regain possession and start the counter.

The Pelicans are more than nine points per 100 possessions tougher to score on when Jrue Holiday is on the court, and Holiday has played 1,000 more minutes than Gobert.

As a major importance to their style of play it is no surprise that Arsenal control almost 5 % more of their games in possession.

Arsenal are better off not having too much possession in order to win more, against Man United we must let them have the ball and play on the counter attack!

I don't blame Giroud for not having the same movement ability as Theo, I blame Wenger for not playing a more agile CF against a team which was going to dominate us in possession.

Haven't you all noticed already that pretty much every away game we play more defensive and counter-attack oriented football and at home we go back to being more possession and passing based?

Playing out from the back with possession based football will give our strikers more opportunities, esp as we are getting the ball back so nicely now.

While I do understanding, all this writing is for nothing, AW will once again play ramsey (the man who has given away possession more times than any other player bar 2 this year) on the right.

This is how good teams play, arsenal only had 30 % possession but made more threatening chances.

1) What our tactical approach is going to be; there seems to have been a transition away from possession football to more direct / setpiece play.

With a player blessed with his speed and goal scoring abilities it is vital we play to his strengths.We need to inject more pace and directness into our attacking play otherwise Auba will struggle just as Lacazette.This stems from our «pass the ball to one another at all costs» possession football that has overtaken system we played when we were challenging most seasons for the Premiere League Title 1998 - 2004.

He's stated on multiple occasions that while the philosophy and technically sound possession oriented football remains the foundation, the play as a whole is intended to get the ball from back to front as quickly as possible, giving the MSN more time with the ball with less defenders to break down, and not spend as much time as they used to stringing passes in midfield.

But after 18 plays, 75 yards, and more than five minutes of possession, the Tigers stall out on fourth - and - goal.

In any event he managed to create more and be better in possession than the other play - makers / creatives last season so you would imagine someone else would make way if it was a case of «overcrowding» / too many playmakers.

I would like to see JC taking a few more chances when in possession though, there are times you feel that he could take on his man but decides to play it safe.

Also barcelona's style of play is built around possession with pass and movement, barca players do nt really take more than one touch before moving into a different position to receive the ball or draw the man and because they press intently after losing the ball it is not as vital that all players are correctly positioned.

THey seemed to want it more and they played very well and while Arsenal dominated possession early on, they coped with it well and we did not do the same as they grew into the game and punished us with some good goals.

Having said all that, Germany last night played the tiki - take football with 65 % possession and lost 2 — 0 deservedly to France who played more like a typical German team, despite only 35 % possession!

Napoli do play with a very attacking style, while the Gunners play a more possession - based style, and his current side also play with a very attacking front three, compared to our one.

@Big Gun «When we played them, we had more possession and 10 shots at goal.

When we played them, we had more possession and 10 shots at goal.

This should be enough reason to highlight the need for a creative CM similar to Cazorla so that either Xhaka or Coquelin can be liberated and focus more on maintaining and balancing the middle in defense; ball possession and hold up play.

I hope we don't try to play the defensive game because they are dangerous in and around our box, they were unlucky not to score one or two more goals in the first leg at Emirates and if they find their confidence with home advantage and their fans getting behind them it could be curtains for us, i don't think they will allow us the same space as they did last week so lets take the game to them early and keep the ball in their half with high possession,

He is highly rated by Guardiola, Bayern wanted him, and he plays great attacking football that is mostly possession - based, so it's not far off from what Arsenal are used to, but this guy is much more of a tactician as well.

I believe at the moment he is much more effective in counter attacking style of play than when his team is dominating possession.

All three players encourages the possession game, which slows down play and take away the directness to the attack, but this is more suited when we are in the lead.

Also encouraging that we play against a big team away from home and are able to get the better possession and more shots.

you wont see a cazorla or a xavi losing possession, not only that but they drive the team forward.but unfortunately u hav players like ramsey, who do nt drive the attack like the above two, also he loses possessions sometimes by attempting fancy moves.its sad ramsey gives more importance to style over substance.unfortunately, i feel players like ramsey hav contributed to arsenal's inability... imagine a team like barcelona playing with him, constantly losing posession leading to conceding goals and so on.difference is barca's manager wud take them out, while under wenger u r rewarded with the nxt game!!!! i do nt deny he was top notch a season or two back, but now hes a liability imo and need to change his mentality.even that opportunity he got against tottenham where thought longer before taking a shot thus giving defender time to get to him and take off the ball.i bet if it was cazorla, arsenal wud hav scored...

Can we just play wingers on the wing, f*ck possession we need to be more direct.

It feels like we have more of a determined and gritty CM who can still play the possession game, been a bit too long for us fans but our future looks good with those 3 all being young still.

I don't care that we do not have 70 % possession anymore, we are still playing good football, in fact I find out more counter attacking game more enjoyable to watch and most importantly we are getting the 3 points!

«I think we have to do better with our own possession, to put more pressure on them [opponents], not to lose so many balls in the middle of the park, to play more in wide areas.

Welbeck over Giroud as I expect us to be playing a lot on the counter but Giroud can also start if we take a more possession based approach.

Playing to dominate the possession like this requires more skillful players, otherwise they will get robbed a lot.

In addition, he had the most tackles so he was breaking up play but our lack of possession says far more about our RETENTION of possession rather than our turnover rate (which is the role he helps with).

I don't think his job is to initiate attack, he's main job is to win the ball back and play a simple pass to our more offensive players, and he is not bad in possession as d stat and u re suggest, and I don't see any tactical reason behind carzola being backward order than ramsey being injured, nobody initiate our attack better than ramsey and dats d work of a box to box midfielder and not the defensive midfielder.

In my honest opinion, I think 3 -4-3 limits our players, particularly Ozil and other technical players.The formation is too flat therefore in most cases we will always have narrow wins unless we are playing on the counter.But hey, our playing style is based on moderate to high possession.Formations that favour possession based style are 4 -2-3-1,4-1-4-1, 4 -3-3 (holding) and for more technical players 3 -2-3-2 (3 -5-2).

How many goals have we conceded due to his continual failure to track back with his man?We are desperate for someone to play as a CDM and we will continue to have a soft underbelly until a top draw player is introduced.Elneny sat deep for the 2nd half of the semi-final against Chelski and we immediately looked more compact and solid.The Back 4 had protection and we were rarely under pressure.Elneney is not the long term answer and is a squad player at best but he is more solid than Xhaka defensively although not as capable when in possession.

We have many choices up in attack and just depends if we want to play more counter attacking or full possession.

It's more that it's spreads them out more than a typical system, or certainly a system like phillys where Simmons has the responsibility to play make on almost every possession.