Sentences with phrase «of centre backs»

You can not have the same type of centre backs partnering one another and expect things to work.

You paint a lovely pretty picture of all being well in the elite world of centre backs.

3) Chambers, is the very first variation, he plays just ahead of the Centre back pair in the first amphibian role of Half Centre back — Half Defensive Midfield.

What is even more exciting is when the talented defensive starlets can perform the role of centre back in such an elegant manner that it turns your attention away from Neymar's trickery, Philippe Coutinho's blind passes and Paulo Dybala's exquisite finishing and makes you admire a good old fashioned slide tackle or towering header.

Left sided centre back Ryan Delaney had been tirelessly attacked by Spurs all evening, but the now playing right - side of the centre back pairing Jimmy McNulty wasn't sparred.

And his chances of first team football may have been given another boost this week, with perhaps one less player to compete with for his favoured position of centre back.

Liverpool have two veterans among their crop of centre backs with Jamie Carragher and Sotirios Kyrgiakos both getting on a bit, however they club does have solid pair Daniel Agger and Martin Skrtel, who are both 26 so have a lot left in the tank.

A worry for Arsene will be the fitness of his centre backs with Vermaelen's on - going injury problems still posing an issue and the recent hamstring injury of Squillaci during the 1 - 1 draw with Leeds in the FA Cup, another game that arsenal should have really won on paper.

The lack of centre backs at Arsenal is clear with Nacho Monreal and Debuchy who are natural full backs, having to play centre back, due to injuries.

It's no secret Everton fancy Abraham and they're talking # 15m, that would leave # 85m for Chelski to cough up, enough over for a couple of centre backs.

Just sayin Also Giroud is 31 himself so, not the worst trade ever Defenders last longer too Bags of experience Also he could play with koscielny and mustafi in back 3 or play DM in front of the centre backs for 2 - 3 years at least

Norwich City have announced the signing of centre back Joseph Yobo on loan from Turkish club Fenerbahce for the remainder of the season, Sky Sports reports.

Clearly his ability to bring up the subject of his centre back's future at any given opportunity smacks of some sort of desire to cash in on the 25 year old, otherwise why keep talking about it?

Every so often, Arsene Wenger bags an absolute bargain of a centre back who eventually turn out to be up there with the best the world has to offer.

So if one of our centre backs get injured, and Callum takes a knock where would that leave us?

Playing predominately as a full back, there is no way Arsenal are considering him as a replacement for Bellerin, so unless he plays left back in place of Nacho Monreal, then I'd assume Wenger is targeting Hysaj as being more of a centre back.

Put simply, I'm uninterested in any other transfers until the hole in our midfield is filled, with the exception of another centre back perhaps.

why is merteshaker playing at this level... he is a bench player at best... the guy has the worst distribution of any centre back i know in the epl

If Gab plays then i think well see Kos getting forward a number of times, he rarely does it when Per plays though which is sad as i love the sight of a centre back charging forward when necessary.

It was Gazidis and Kroenke who told Le Moron to play left backs at centre back despite having a number of centre backs in the squad and its was Gazidis who left the record signing on the bench.

Chec looks dodgy with the ball at his feet, Kane scared the hell out of our centre backs, xhaka and owobi brought nothing to the party, generally man for man the closed and passed the ball better then us.

Even if Arsenal do manage to secure the transfer of a centre back this week, something that is desperately needed after Gabriel joined Per Mertesacker in the Arsenal treatment room, the new player will have little time to train with and get used to his new team mates.

With Reid's current contract due to expire at the end of this season, his boss has declared that there is not much chance of the centre back still being a Hammer next season, leaving the club with the choice of cashing in now or losing him for nothing.

Secondly Bayern Munich are flourishing in top class defenders already and are in no shortage of centre backs that's for sure.

Kolo Toure was never a great defender, but with Sol, he looked a heck of a centre back.

But apart from the very few, no one knew whether Dier would even play much this season, but he has proven to everyone how classy of a Centre Back he could be.

Chelsea have good leadership, both on and off the pitch, a top goalkeeper and the best group of centre backs in the Premier League.

Lovren was often the most proactive of the centre backs, but would also clear up behind Skrtel if the Slovakian decided to step out into a challenge.

The first came from once more running at Danny Simpson on the outside of the centre back trio.

Brad Friedel was rarely called in to action to come and clear any balls played through or in - behind due to the great play of our centre backs.

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With our abundance of centre backs, moving to a back three is an option for Andre Villas - Boas.

CB: Mikel San Jose, 23 years old: A regular starter for Bilbao, he has done well in the side and although for some, there might be a better choice of centre back, I rate him highly.

Often lacking the stability of the former Manchester United defender or the ball playing skills of Oranje legend Frank de Boer, many of the centre backs the Dutch youth academies produce simply don't seem good enough.

Wrap the facing around the skirt like so, making sure it's not twisted, and sew the facing - zipper unit to the other side of centre back.

While Evans is better than our current crop of centre backs he is getting on and tends to be injury prone.

Belgium seems to be breeding this type of centre back with Vincent Kompany, Thomas Vermaelen and Toby Alderweireld all cast from a similar dye.

As one of a centre back pair or as a left back, he's unconvincing.

So on Saturday I'd really like to see Threlkeld given another chance, and this time actually in his natural position of centre back.

its time to accept that we need at least a couple of centre backs, ospina is over rated and we need goals from midfield

But that was when the regular backline was Antonio Barragán, Shkodran Mustafi, Nicolás Otamendi, and José Luis Gayà, with Fuego's usual place to the front of the centre backs, from where he added some extra resilience to the backline, and could drop back when defenders like Gaya went forward.

Despite being viewed comically as a lamppost by a section of the Giallorossi contingent, he regularly found himself in behind defenses using a combination of clever movement, a surprisingly quick burst of pace and strength to get ahead of centre backs.

Hellas Verona have met with Olympique Lyonnais over the potential signing of their centre back, Lindsay Rose.

On the subject of centre backs, I really think Curtis Davies from Hull would be a great 3rd / 4th choice centre back, experienced, English, also wouldn't expect to be first choice.