Sentences with phrase «of key defenders»

We'll have to wait and see whether or not MLS All - Star coach Veljko Paunovic's decision to pull Garza was a mere precaution or if it's something more serious (FS1 called it a separated shoulder, for what it's worth), but Atlanta can ill afford to lose one of its key defenders with the back half of the season staring at them.

There were lots of factors behind it and during the biggest week of our season we were without some of our key defenders because of injury.

Ahead of a busy Christmas schedule, Pochettino will be looking to rest a couple of his key defenders such as, Kyle Walker, Danny Rose and Jan Vertonghen.

The Frenchman's injury can not be taken lightly, and Wenger needs to handle one of his key defenders diligently.

Southampton are reportedly unwilling to sell Soares this summer as per the Sun, as the Saints try to fight off interest in three of their key defenders before the transfer window closes next summer, with the 25 - year - old keen on a move to Stamford Bridge should the two clubs be able to agree a deal for the player.

Louis van Gaal's dismay was visible as the defender was replaced with injury, both due to the horror of Shaw's complaint and perhaps as he recognised that he would be without one of his key defenders for much of the season.

Chamberlain is enjoying his longest run of regular football in the first - team since joining the club thanks to him impressive displays in the new role, although with Sead Kolasinac also impressing since him move from Schalke, along with the return of key defenders, the Ox could well find himself back on the bench in the near future.

And one of those tactics is how best to exploit the fact that West Ham will be missing one of their key defenders.

Now, we all know we have defensive frailties due the injuries that plagued 2 of our key defenders in the persons of Debuchy and Koscielny.

Not exact matches

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One of these is our great defender and key player Laurent Koscielny, who Wenger plucked from relative obscurity and helped to make one of the very best around, so The Mirror has reported our centre back declaring his deep gratitude and the sense that he needs to repay that faith.

He is clearly just awful as a one on one defender, and that is a key part of Arsenal's defense that Sagna was quite exceptional at and that Bellerin is already quite good at.

Even if they don't put in a lot of crosses, the players draw defenders wide to stretch the defense and look for passes back to the midfield behind the striker where space may open up for a key pass or a shot from distance.

Tottenham Hotspur may accept bids in the region of # 14m to sell key defender Danny Rose to Chelsea, Manchester City or Atletico Madrid this summer, according to reports.

Other journalists either seem to believe that a central defender is key to our campaign, or are hearing that our club is predominantly looking to bring in one, as there are plenty of links at present to get the mind thinking.

A key Real Madrid defender has been ruled out of the Madrid derby tomorrow in a huge blow to Zinedine Zidane's side.

At the beginning of the month, the Daily Mail reported that the defender was confident that he would soon complete a # 39.2 million deal to the Etihad Stadium, having been made a key target by incoming coach Pep Guardiola.

There is an obvious solution to the problem though and that is for Arsenal to sign another top quality striker and defender to strengthen these key areas and take the pressure off the likes of Walcott, Mertesacker and the manager himself.

Mind you, Southampton lost 8 key players plus a manager in the transfer window, they now sit fourth, 3 pts ahead of us.We can no longer use injuries as an excuse because we have always had them, and if wenger was a smart manager, he would have addressed this problem by having better squad depth, but instead he chose to send a defender out on loan despite being short in numbers at the back, foolishly chose not to sign a defender despite an array of good defenders on show at the world cup.So now who is to blame?I guess it's anyone or anything but Wenger.

Pity the poor defender charged with trying to shut down Reggie Bush, the nation's most electric player and the key to USC's goal of a three - peat

this is type of match where midfielders r jokers and defenders r d key men....

UCF will still be a nightmare on offense despite losing its entire coaching staff and key defenders, and FAU should put up about a billion points, but Boise State once again feels like the safe Group of 5 bet.

Villa have also been linked with a move for OGC Nice defender Jordan Amavi [Daily Mail], with Sherwood clearly seeing the full - back positions as key areas to strengthen ahead of the coming campaign.

Mistamonn most of the time his playing players out of position is because we don't have the necessary depth of players for each position specially on the left, the team is always out of balance he rely needs to buy W / C if not top players in key positions, last year i was commenting that we needed a striker before a class DM but i was so wrong, we first need the best DM that money can buy no mater how much then and only then we can look for another class DM and a couple of descent defenders.

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Koscielny has been a key player for the side in recent seasons, because despite having a fairly shakey start to his Arsenal career when he joined back in the summer of 2010, the Frenchman has since grown into not just one of the best Premier League defenders but one of the best defenders of the current generation on a world wide scale.

Monaco welcome back key midfielder Jeremy Toulalan, who missed the game in Turin last week through injury, but there is no place for former Chelsea defender Ricardo Carvalho at the heart of the defence.

Guardiola has targeted Spurs defender Walker, with the full - back reportedly being one of the Spaniard's key targets this summer, as the former Sheffield United man looks set for a move to the Etihad, reports Sky Sports.

It seems pretty clear that Everton are determined to keep the highly - rated youngster, who has become a key part of their defence in the last year - and - a-half, showing himself to be one of the top young defenders in the English game and perhaps Europe.

Yet as his country reached the last - 16 of the competition for the first time in their history the defender has played a key part in that success.

Laurent is of course a key part of our squad and I believe one of the best defenders in the world today.

This would be a steal for a defender who was a key part of the Sky Blues» title winning team just two seasons ago.

An experienced defender with 16 caps for Spain, there's no doubt of Monreal's quality and it looks like handing the club more good news this week after their official site yesterday confirmed new contracts for another key first - team pair, Theo Walcott and Santi Cazorla.

Villa risk being in disarray ahead of the coming campaign, having lost their best defender, Ron Vlaar, their best midfielder Fabian Delph, and their key offensive presence in the Belgian hitman.

City is stingy on their home turf but they could be without key defender Vincent Kompany, which could cripple them against a formidable front line of the Reds.

MATER DEI KEYS TO VICTORY: The Monarchs need one of its top perimeter defenders — whether it be Harrison Butler, Justice Sueing or Matt Weyand — to keep their defensive assignment in check.

Pulis spoke about the number of key injuries that Arsene Wenger has had to cope with, as an earlier Just Arsenal post explained, but our German defender was much more specific in his own comments and pointed to the amazing effect and positive impact that our Chile international forward Alexis Sanchez can have on a game if he is fit and in form.

The season before last 14 15 we did better with the points than last season even though we came second from last season we know we conceded many goals from set pieces and were very short on goal scoring the logic of this season was to fix the defensive department and the offensive department by introducing a defender to reduce the amount of goals conceded unless holding is to be the man we havent us of yet fixed the problem on the offensive department we all know the only offensive player is chuba apkom well else we have not addressed the problem so in reality I do not except Arsenal to finish the season with more than 70 points and personally think minimum point required to win the premier league is 85 points have we got that in our squad it will remain to be seen if chuba and holding are enough for a key to unlock the season we will soon find out but I think MR wenger is gambling with the introduction of new manageress which lives us with Liverpool and Leicester and who will take the points off united chelsea and city the next 6 games should give us the indication to what may happen to the long run for the new year

Ever since this summer's pre-season, we have seen some pretty strange combinations played, but no one was prepared for the insane team selection announced one hour before the Liverpool debacle While nothing can explain, let alone justify, leaving our only two summer signings on the bench for such an important match, and giving starts to our two most fervent want away stars, the maddest decision of all was playing key defenders out of position against a fast, attacking team like Pool.

One of van Gaal's key jobs at Old Trafford this summer will be bringing in central defenders, with experienced partnership Rio Ferdinand and Nemanja Vidic both having left the club on free transfers this summer.

Smalling's first team chances are likely to become diminished by the arrivals of Daley Blind and Marcos Rojo and if Louis van Gaal makes it clear that he is not a key part of his plans then a return to London may well tempt the adaptable defender.

Juventus surprisingly sold key defender Leonardo Bonucci to arch-rivals AC Milan last week and are unlikely to be keen on losing Higuain, despite the emergence of Paulo Dybala and continued good form of Mario Mandzukic.

Failure to strengthen at key times in either the summer or january is nothing short of brainless and ambitionless especially for a top team with champions league and premier league ambitions (sorry we are there to make up the numbers) Year after year we see either a striker midfielder or defender become injured and we lose momentum because either the board or Wenger see otherwise..

That, in turn, holds the key to Williams's outside game: As a result of his quicker cornering ability, defenders must now play a step off him, so he has improved his three - point shooting percentage from 35.4 % a year ago to 44.6 %.

The 30 - year - old made the most assists (9) and the most key passes of any defender (61).

The Saints will also be without their key defender in Virgil Van Dijk, who has been sidelined since February, and could miss the remainder of the season.

He also made a total of 59 key passes, the second highest of any defender.

After missing a key penalty in the 1990 World Cup, the England defender stepped up against Spain at Wembley at Euro 96 and hammered his effort into the back of the net.