Sentences with phrase «of dominating possession»

The tactic of dominating possession was at first a defensive ploy from Scotland against the stronger, quicker and more devastating England team in the late 1800s.

The Frenchman organised our team with the intention of dominating possession, as well as creating a number of chances, and we did just that, having two thirds of the time on the ball, as well as notching up 13 shots, but the finishing was not good enough on the day.

Not exact matches

Rather than remaining in a fluid relationship based on listening, word, memory, choice, and response, the woman sees a possible way to take possession and to dominate at the level of this reality that she recognizes as the only stable one.

Minds dominated by the fantastic visions of the Revelation of John might easily lose the sense that all had been made new by the coming of Christ, and that in the communion of His people the life of the Age to Come was a present possession, through the Spirit which He had given.

Private ownership we must have, but not the amount and range of possession - centeredness that dominates our current society.

Again though, we weren't creating a huge amount of chances, and despite us dominating possession, Stoke were arguably looking the more threatening.

We dominated in terms of possession and chances but we didn't take any and it has cost us.

There is a lot for the boss to work on for sure, because Arsenal were poor all over the pitch, but one of the main aims must surely to be our failure to create many chances despite dominating possession.

They dominated time of possession, holding onto the ball for nearly two - thirds of the matchup.

Then Wenger drops the bombshell.Sit back let them dominate the possession dominate us physically and dominate the tempo of the game.I will then send on Laca to Esther score the winner or equaliser.FFS This man is a joke.On # 9m a year I would gladly live with the ridicule and embarrassment I am many Gooner will face this week.Unfortunately our Board feel it's only right to continually reward failure.If the man had any love for this club he would JUST GO NOW

He said on Arsenal.com: «You can say that we dominated possession and we lacked a bit of sharpness in our movement, in the way we prepared our chances and in our finishing as well.

We really miss Santi there and the backup option of Coquelin again doesn't fit the idea of dominating teams with possession by putting a player who's success in the squad came from breaking the play of the opposing team.

The Bills outgained the Eagles 412 yards to 348 and also dominated the time of possession by more than 10 minutes.

Real Madrid had dominated possession for much of the game, and had even more of the ball with an extra man.

The report adds that the Croatian international would command a fee of over $ 30m and there is competition from England, but there's no denying that he would suit what Montella wants to build as he has shown in previous jobs he relies on technically sound midfielders to dominate possession.

That left Germany with no real focal point up front and so despite completely dominating possession they were unable to make much headway in front of goal.

The FA Cup tie between the two London rivals was dominated by Spurs during the opening 45 minutes, with the Lilywhites enjoying 60 percent of the possession and going close with a series of chances.

In football you get points for scoring goals, not for dominating possession, passing stats, # of corner kicks etc..

I keep saying it and will continue saying it, We have lost the one thing that we could hide behind (Beautiful Football), since that summer that Cesc and Nasri left they left with our beautiful possession and dominating football, all of a sudden we struggle to create chances, we come up against any half decent team and they will dominate us, this never happened but since 2011 - 12 our football stinks with no direction, slow, clueless boring, players not closing down but instead just jog around waiting for the other team to lose possession..

Of course I rather us dominate, but possession isn't everything.

Podolski to come off if we need a goal obviously (we have a tendency to dominate possession all of a sudden when we need a goal so a top shooter becomes a priority)

Wales were dominating possession by the simple expedient of passing the ball around the back four, but had never threatened to construct anything progressive; Ramsey and Ledley were disappointing in midfield, the Arsenal man in particular lacking sharpness.

Suarez could be crucial in terms of keeping possession and dominating the game with his technical quality, while Dembele's pace and movement could prove problematic for the visitors.

With loose a lot of games where we dominate possession.

now regular starters is why we are failing to dominate teams even when we dominate possession... Lateral football silly flicks hopeful shooting... Need a quality replacement for carzola for second half of season to get best from ozil and Sanchez...

Easier said than done, of course, and in order to dominate possession you need to be confident and in good form, and to do that it helps if you can play with freedom.

It has almost always been the case for Arsenal under Arsene Wenger, particularly in the last few years, that we have dominated possession of the ball against almost all opposing teams.

Barcelona can dominate and have more ball possession because most of their short passes work and they intercept a lot.

Buffon was a virtual spectator for much of the match at the San Siro, where Italy dominated the game in terms of possession — 76 % — and shots — 27 to Sweden's four.

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

Spurs dominated possession — with 65 % of the ball — but the Black Cats looked like they would earn a battling point, before Christian Eriksen's eighth goal of the season fired the hosts in front on 88 minutes.

In their last two games City have come out of the blocks fast, dominated possession and played the other team off the park in comfortable wins oh wait.

if wenger will start xhaka, ramsey and ozil in his 3 -4-3 formation, and will paly a highe line of defense and try to dominate possession, we will get crushed.

When the teams met on Oct. 2 in Washington, the Redskins dominated time of possession and won in overtime, 20 - 17, with Portis rushing 25 times for 90 yards.

The result does not reflect the stats however, with Spain dominating the possession, and Bellerin not having been at fault for any of the three goals.

At the end of the day, the Chargers completely dominated in time of possession, 42:15 to 17:45, a telling stat for how the game went.

Problem is, Arsenal's style of play and philosophy is catered around dominating possession in the middle of the park.

They went into Foxborough and commanded respect by carving up the Patriot defense and dominating the time of possession.

He spoke a lot about possession of the ball and how you do not necessarily need to dominate it to win and the message was clear; defend and counter attack.

Just as many had suggested when the transfer news broke it was the difference in styles of football between the Gunners and what brings the best out of Vardy for the Foxes that was the problem, and his fears were probably not helped by England's Euro 2016 in which Hodgson did not start him and then played him out wide as England dominated possession but struggled to score.

They dominated the possession game, registering 63 percent of the game's even - strength shot attempts.

??? = New signing or instead of a def B2B we could play Ozil or Mkhi here against weaker oppositions that we are expected to dominate possession against.

The reason why Spurs dominated us in terms of possession and control of midfield is because our keeper Ospina kick everyball long handling easy possession to Spurs and our front three gave Spurs too much room to play from the back, their defence was allowed to thread ball through us straight to thier midfield.

despite their lack of fitness they still dominated possession and chunks of midfield... think with a couple of additions the game on the 13th can be ours for the taking though

The Wenger blueprint, a casual style of conceding possession and unwillingness to press the opposition reinforces a passive mentality in the squad, a reluctance to do the dirty work and dominate the opposition.

Arsene Wenger's team frequently dominate possession against both teams, but as soon as it gets to the final third of the pitch the opposition is defending so deeply and compactly that there is scarcely any space to exploit.

The Gunners dominated possession, created more chances and had more shots on goal, but it meant little as they suffered defeat and now have to respond on Saturday with many likely to argue that it's irrelevant as this proves that they aren't capable of winning the title this season.

Spain picked up a comfortable 2 - 0 win, while dominating a large chunk of the possession, and Monreal set - up Man City's Nolito to close the game off at 2 - 0.

Reports of the death of tiki - taka are doubtless exaggerated; the basic precept, that possession can be used to dominate a team in both attack and defence simultaneously, still stands up as a decent way to win a football match.

France dominated possession and outshot England by about a margin of four to one, but England rarely looked threatened aside from a 10 - minute period just before half time.