Sentences with phrase «of dominating the midfield»

Without Kosc and Cazorla we have no chance of dominating the midfield.

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Despite the losses of Jordan Henderson and Emre Can to injury, in both legs against Borussia Dortmund, the midfield pair of James Milner and Lucas Leiva dominated the centre of the park.

But he had a remarkable breakout season for the Foxes, dominating the midfield in every conceivable way and earning PFA Team of the Year honors and a spot on the French national team.

Next season, Arsenal just needs the following players to dictate the tempo and dominate the midfield area: — A world class midfielder (with Iniesta's level of ball control, passing and vision)-- A striker (with Suarez's predatory instinct).

Even with all of our injury problems in every area of the pitch but especially in defence and central midfield, Arsenal are finding a way to dominate games and more importantly, to win them.

During the first half, All Saints dominated the game by overpowering the Eton Messi midfield and making excellent use of the wings to work the ball into the box.

Agree with the post that Callum Chambers was MOTM, and MOST of the ratings, but, last week in the CS that MIDFIELD DOMINATED THE CITY midfield, so chill oMIDFIELD DOMINATED THE CITY midfield, so chill omidfield, so chill out guys.

An alternative to Franck Kessie is needed in this Milan squad, as the summer signing has already looked fatigued having played so many minutes and there is a worrying lack of a player with similar characteristics to dominate in midfield.

If Sanchez is fit, its a no brainer for him to play however if he's not 100 %, I would rather he's rested against manure.he's a very important player in our tittle chase, so I prefer he's missed in one game rather than miss a couple of weeks, which could happen if he's unduly risked.for the midfield, le coq and boomer.yea carzola's absence has been felt however xhaka had his best game so far against spuds, only problem was the massive physical presence of dembele and wanyama, which fortunately manure can not boast off.so I expect we dominate them with combination of lecoq's tackling and xhaka's intricate passes and his extra physical presence.

However, he is adamant that the midfield battle will be crucial to the outcome of Sunday's game, and believes that the visitors will have to focus on stifling Ozil's ability to dominate a game and make decisive contributions.

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.

Quick notes on arsemal team 1 - paulista is not good as i though 2 - coquelin is essential in arsenal midfield to give stability but he can't hold the ball in his feet or give the right pass in the right time so we can't dominate teams anymore especially with santi absence 3 - ramsey = horrible, just a headless chicken running everywhere 4 - ozil could have easily 30 + assists by now 5 - Olivier Giroud the handsom french guy shouldn't ever be a big team first choice striker 6 - where are the 4 world class strikers that wenger said we had i didn't se anyone of the yet

The nerve of professional footballers to not be able to find form instantly upon return or dominate midfield's instantly is simply beyond me!!

But our German maestro is definitely one of the best midfielders in the world right now and if it wasn't for he penalty Germany conceded he would've won MOTM and been included in the team, him and Kroos were absolutely dominating France's midfield in the first half.

When we played two in Podolski and Theo we were a lot more vulnerable on the flanks... Wenger obviously prioritizes dominating the midfield so I doubt we'll see much of those three together.

I think we will also need a more disruptive dominating midfield player like Kante or Matic or Wanayama, the 3 at the back sytem reallt needs that type of player.

the only reason le coq won, t be back in the first xi straight away is that wenger won't rush him back and make sure he has fully recovered which we can afford to do now with xhaka in the team but as soon as wenger thinks he, s fully fit no doubt he will be one of the first names on the team sheet, i also agree against certain teams where we expect to be dominated in midfield (against man city) le coq / xhaka could be a good option!!

arsenal has won convincingly last FA cup even with all bench defenders, and what i have learnt from that is how much working hard on training, especially for stamina and endurance so as to press on the opponents not to give them time and a space, dominate on the ball and win the match with a big team if arsenal continue to display that with the addition of more skillful midfielders, left winger right winger wow arsenal will be monster

I always had doubts ever since when we signed him from Real Madrid because I've watched his games before and I remember thinking he's not the type to dominate the midfield and we alsoalhave do not have the type of players for him to thread passes through such as Ronaldo, Bale or Benzema.

it depends on what style of d / m wenger has in mind to he might want big strong dominating type like a carvalho, imbula or one like arteta a holding midfielder who can pass like lars bender or illramendi not big in size quite mobile but very intelligent on how they position themselves but can still plug the gaps in front of the defense, or a seek and destroyer type like le coq but with no major passing skills but shuttles around the d / m area and snuffs out all danger most likely example sven bender.

If you watched the Chelsea game, Costa was dominating the opposition side of the half with crisp passes and by creating spaces even if the midfielder were not able to.

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.

Arsenal dominated the midfield, owing to their numerical advantage over Man City's midfield duo of Toure and Fernando, which was the lynchpin to the game panning out in the manner it did.

For example 4 -3-3 concentrate less on playing in the centre and attempting to dominate it as it's contest Arsenal will win and take advantage of the fact that the full backs haven't got pace, which normally means the defensive midfielders or center backs often end up doubling up on the wingers... thus clearing a space in the middle and allowing people like Ozil and Giroud to play to the strong points of their game.

They love to sit back and can dominate the midfield on account of the fact that they are bigger and more aggressive than most teams.

And with Flamini back in the centre of midfield, there should be no repeat of the limp defending that saw Stoke race into an early lead and completely dominate us at the back.

Yet nobody imagined that the foreign contingent would dominate the WUSA the way it did this year, providing five of the top six goal scorers, all three MVP finalists and, in the Courage's Prinz and midfield maestro Hege Riise of Norway, the top two players on the league's championship team.

If they go for two strikers and four in midfield, I'd rather we tried to go toe - to - toe, I wouldn't fancy us sitting back with Dzeko's ability in the air as well as the threat of Aguero, plus we'd dominate the midfield with the extra man if we went for it.

That 19 year old kid then had the cheek to almost effortlessly dominate not just one of them, but both of them, for 90 minutes, his passing was superb, he battled, every time the spanish geniuses came forward, he was there with a crunching challenge to get the ball, he had the confidence to demand the ball off more experienced teammates, no matter his situation, facing his own goal, tightly marked, it made no difference, he received the ball and as a result of either his immense skill or his animalistic desire, he broke free of two of the best midfielders ever to grace a football pitch and effortlessly glided forward.

So Elneny had to play ahead of Xhaka, playing two defensive midfielders against a team you are going to dominate makes no logical sense.

In 2011, a certain 19 year old boy wonder utterly dominated against the likes of Xavi and Iniesta, who at that point were probably the best central midfielders around.

Like I mentioned with Coquelin, he has done a fantastic job at protecting our back line and has often dominated that midfield by getting stuck in with his opponents, however now we have someone else in the team that can show the same qualities and not be left stranded when the Gunners need that type of player most.

We will absolutely get dominated and our midfield will be left exposed due to OZIL»S lack of effort and fight..

we faced them twice without loosing against them beating them in d process, world class matic was in chelsea team we dominated and annihilated @ fa cup finals, with matic making zero successful tackles and was a liability all tru d duration of d match, was ran over by our midfielders like ever, lukaku was in Everton team we beat 3; 0 even with 10 men, even with Mert @ our back he couldn't even smell a goal, the way we ridicule our players is terrible, to some dudes here all we have is bunch of idiots, parading as players, what a pathetic bunch of ingrates, between Sanchez and walcot last season we have 49 goals and numerous assists, how many goals has Rashford and Martial scored since last season that makes they super stars?

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

Hypothetically speaking, Coquelin, Elneny, Xhaka and Cazorla are the exact set of players you need if you want to dominate central midfield with energy, aggressiveness and movement.

They will press and score against most defences let alone a weak one like ours but they are vulnerable to speed... as we saw again today... So what does the fossil do puts in a couple of lightweight midfielders who are completely dominated... Wilshire left in no mans land with no support... Ozil and miki misplaced... Pea isolated... Equals no threat but lots of sideways passing... Did you watch the game or just high on wenger juice?

All those clamouring for Arturo, are absolutely right, he plays up the pitch because he can play there, and because Charles Aranguiz is the goto Defensive Midfielder for Chile, at Juve, Pirlo occupies the deepest position, plus the midfield is packed with Pogba and Marchisio, hence he does nt need to do the Job of a defensive midfielder, and added to the fact that Juve completely dominate other ItalMidfielder for Chile, at Juve, Pirlo occupies the deepest position, plus the midfield is packed with Pogba and Marchisio, hence he does nt need to do the Job of a defensive midfielder, and added to the fact that Juve completely dominate other Italmidfielder, and added to the fact that Juve completely dominate other Italian teams.

Wenger is responsible for not signing DM and CB... If we had Matic type DM we would have dominated in midfield... Wenger out, no more excuses MR. Wenger... Enough is enough leave at the end of this season..

Spurs had dominated a shockingly disorganized Juventus midfield to control the half, and their front three was making mincemeat of Juventus» generally - intimidating back line.

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Some flashes of how commanding and classy he can be but wasn't consistent enough to dominate the game for his side in midfield.

Against Liverpool, they also dominated the midfield in the second half but created little in front of goal.

Once again Arsenal were superb against the hosts dominating in the midfield areas to show the strength of the team.

The timing of the deal is of course very beneficial for us, had we waited for the Euros to pass, and say he single - handedly dominated Germany's midfield, suddenly the price is closer to # 45 million with the likes of Bayern suddenly taking notice.

Our midfield has to dominate the game against City's and we have to keep players like Silver out of the game.

The introduction of the Belgian powerhouse enabled Spurs, even with 10 men, to dominate in midfield, which laid the foundation for their comeback.

In a game where Arsenal will expect to dominate the ball but have a tough defence to break down the vision and ability of the English midfielder could be crucial but he does not have the pace of Iwobi and as I say he has not started an EPL game for Arsenal since the last game of the 2015 - 16 season, so would you put him in?

Can he dominate the midfield against the likes of Toure, Fernandinho, Wanyama and Matic?