Sentences with phrase «on holding midfield»

Willian, Oscar and Cesc Fabregas lined up behind Diego Costa, while Ramires and Nemanja Matic were on holding midfield duty once again.

Not exact matches

Some people have jumped on the situation that Wenger is using Coquelin in the CB position at training, now he only has 3 CBs there and a whole bunch of midfielders, he has 2 teams a guess practicing against each other a midfielder would more than likely be used since Bellerin, Debuchy, Gibbs, Monreal, Chambers, Holding and Bielik would already be occupied.

Our rotated defence will have the extra protection of tweo holding midfielders in the absence of Coquelin at least, with Wenger going for Arteta and Flamini as a double pivot and it looks like Aaron Ramsey will be our number 10, with the Ox and Joel Campbell on either side of Olivier Giroud in attack.

When you see the likes of West Brom bringing in decent holding midfielders on loans while we do nothing, makes you wonder if we'd be better off with Tony Pulis in charge.

While on the offense, as there is no attacking midfielder, both the central midfielders bomb forward leaving the holding mid and two central defenders exposed to counter attack.

«They needed a holding central midfielder and they've paid around # 30m for him, which is the type of money the Arsenal fans want to see being spent on the best players.

giroud plays well as a dm in his usual no9 position based on his «hold up play»... but don't mistake that gibberish with playing in midfield which requires more concentration and technique which the tall man does not possess at all... hed make a good defender though

Bottom line, if he is angered bench the players who were not good enough and play those who deserve some game time based on the Southampton game or on games where they had a positive impact: - Take Özil out and play Ox in the hole (he has to understand your the highest paid player of the club, your given freedom like nobody else and your even seeking even more money with a new contract you can't play like that ever and go AWOL)- Put Sanchez on the wing or up top but put Welbeck in (Walcott didn't track back near enough for the Alsonso goal)- Iwobi has been bright from the wing let him play there - Xhaka has to go back in the holding midfield role and I would take out Coquelin because he could've taken a foul on the hazard's goal.

Pogba is picked on because he's our best and most expensive outfield player, but Mourinho has primarily played him as a holding midfielder, which I think we can agree isn't what he was bought to do, and is not what he's good at.

Chambers would have been playing the holding midfield / 3rd Central Defender Role (Its still beats me how and why wenger didn't even try Vermaleen in that role — his cautious attitude is one of Arsenals biggest albatros) If Arsenal had started playing Joel Campbell on the flanks since the beginning of the season, when it was obvious Carzola was misfiring, Campbell will be getting used to the league by now and will have been chipping in with the odd goals time and again - but NO Arsene will stick with Carzola and even play him in the wings thereby putting pressure on gibbs because he lack the discipline to stay there and will rather keep roaming to the certain.

Although a natural holding midfielder with a preferred emphasis on defending, Lucas notched an assist, too.

For someone who's long been touted as the midfielder to hold his own for many years, Wilshere has spent more time off the pitch than on the pitch.

The good news is, if we can finally close the deal on Lemar and bring in a top class midfielder to take Ozil's spot (and ideally also an imposing holding midfielder and either another top class center back and / or Mustafi reaching more of his potential consistently), next year and beyond could be a lot of fun!

While Les Bleus coach Didier Deschamps can call on a number of possible replacements for the lanky midfielder, Arsenal are lacking in the holding midfield department.

Alexis was a liability when he came on, encouraging Holding to try and dribble through midfield.

If its Cavalho, then Chambers becomes Vermaleen's replacement and Hector is coming of age as our second Right Back for the season (Jenkinson is still on our books though not available to us this season) and if its Sokratis, Chambers will become our holding / defensive midfielder.

While de Guzman is keen to stay on with the South Wales club, Laudrup admitted that should the Spanish side decide to recall the midfielder, the Swans are powerless to hold onto him.

On top of that, Francis Coquelin is their only solid holding midfielder, unless Wenger is able to invest in a player who's not cup tied, come January.

The Gunners missed out on Carvalho this summer, but remain keen on adding a young holding midfielder to their squad, capable of challenging captain Mikel Arteta for a starting spot.

Much will depend on Villa keeping hold of stars Ashley Young and Stewart Downing but other areas need to be freshened up, notably in goal, defence and the midfield.

the truth is that arsenal are not a coherent team anymore... not clear what their footballing strategy is... seem to have given up on passing game for counterattack which might work in odd games but wont win us anything unless we have a midfield that can hold on to ball because we will be under the kosh most of game and will eventually buckle... but the problem was clear at half time in this gane and wenger did nt do anything about it... and if he is paid for anything it is to make those kind of critical decisions....

Man United currently rely a great deal on veteran Paul Scholes and do not really possess much in the way of a goal threat with the likes of Michael Carrick, Anderson and Darren Fletcher not being all that attack minded, whilst also not providing a great deal in the way of a link between midfield and attack, being more concerned with keeping hold of the ball.

Our proBlem is just in central midfield, one only thinks about scoring goals, one likes holding on to the ball for long, cant pass before he runs and bumps into other players, the others just weak and slow.

Laurent Blanc responded to the loss of his most defensive midfielder in somewhat surprising fashion, throwing on a much more attacking player in Lucas Moura and abandoning the 3 -5-2 that PSG had struggled with in favor of a 4 -3-3, bringing Marquinhos off the back line to serve as his holding midfielder.

Another commonly held belief among Arsenal fans is that our central midfield could do with strengthening, as Mikel Arteta and Mathieu Flamini are not at the top level and we rely too much on Francis Coquelin.

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

On a serious note, as the source point out, Tottenham Hotspur already have Scott Parker, Olympic hero Sandro and Jake Livermore to fill the holding midfield role and the north Londoners surely have other, more pressing concerns this summer.

I always thought Ramsey could be the creative midfield inspiration of a top 7 - 10 team and if Wenger stays and Sanchez and Ozil leave, depending on the successful investment of Everton wealthy owner and their ability to hold on to Koeman 7th will be the target for Wenger next year.

To be honest jack slows down the midfield by over holding on to the ball and in most cases loosing it to the opponents, giving them time to rebuild there defense, being fouled and no response from the referee or some times we are awarded free kicks which we hardly any thing good from.

lst season at stamford bridge, was the first time i saw that 4 -1-4-1 formation being used, and for some weird reason i feel a very strange negative vibe and well all know the outcome.the manager has come back with this formation and its not yielding result, but he still sticks with it.i do nt know much about formations dear friends, but if you are playing a slow dm in arteta and a very very slow cb, then you are toast against quality teams with sound tactics.wen playing wellbeck as a lone striker, i think 4 -2-3-1, will work better, but if we have a big player like oliver (boooos), thn we can try the 4 -1-4-1, thingy cos he can hold the ball for our midfielders to run in.but on the overall, shame on wenger for not giving our defence a good cover DM.NO BODY PLAYS A SLOW DM / CB AND EXPECT TO B REGARDED AS CHAMPIONSHIP MATERIAL.IT HURTS GUYS, REALLY HURTS.

Tottenham could reportedly face a battle to hold on to Dele Alli, as Real Madrid are constructing an offer for the England midfielder.

If Arsenal stick with three centre backs then Mustafi must be considered a far better choice for the third birth alongside Kos and Holding rather then Monreal.Kolasinac has to come back in at left eing - back and Bellerin revert to the right.Midfield is a very different matter.Arsenal still desperately need a proper defensive central player.Ozil in this current side can not be considered anything more than a luxury.All of Bournemouth's creativity will come down the flanks so it's necessary to put players on to the pitch who are prepared to fulfill their defensive duties.This also means that unless Ramsey can work out that he's playing in midfield not as a number 10 he has no place on the team either.

let me state this clear.we will beat real Madrid hands down if we played d way we played Bayern on d first leg and how we played manure in d league.if we have especially carzola, coq & ozil on their a game nobody in reals midfield can stop and hold d ball d way we'll do.intact our main team comprising bells, monreal, kos even per, and den Sanchez walcot and of course our handsome giroud.common dis guys will beat any team except DAT surreal barca

A midfield that suits Theo will / may not suit Giroud and that's where the problem lies... I'm sure Wenger has something up his sleeves to have offered Theo and Giroud high wage contracts... For tough away games, e.g chelsea, play a double DM and hit on counter, that makes Theo ideal... And at lower team that likes to depend deep in their half, he can play Giroud because of his physical presence and great hold up play, or even play both depending... All in all another DM is HIGHLY needed.

He can play in holding midfield, he can play if needed on the flanks as well.

The bottom line this summer in Arsenal signings is Le Prof MUST sign a top quality holding / attacking midfielder of Goretzka's caliber to fully complement his entire starting XI team next season and just limits himself to the signings of Kolasinac and Lacazette alone which if he does without signing a top quality holding / attacking midfielder, his starting XI team next season could be understrength at midfield as Santi Cazorla won't be available in the first half of the season and Elneny can't be relied on to deliver high performances for Arsenal on consistent basis.

lets all thank arsene for finally doing the right thing only time will tell but have we finally signed the DM we need STRONG MINDED NO HOLD BAR MIDFIELDER WE HAVE ALL CRAVED, but lets take it back we all know it will take 2 or 3 more like minded players to make us great again, he has tricked us all buy buying one superstar in the last 3 windows ALEXIS, OZIL and CHEC great players but can't do it all on their own, spending huge amount of money and saying we can buy the best players, on the surface this looks great we are buying top top players big prices but instead of spending his usual 50 mill on 2, 3, 4, 0r 5 players he has pulled the wool over are eyes with 1 superstar thinking the fans are that dumb enough to believe it, infact he has never spent his budget only balanced on sales too purchases, i love arsenal but this summer i hope for more he needs to do that consistently through out the team spend the same amount on the team stop balancing the american owners, grow a pair say yes we will buy a top defender and a world class striker, stan we love arsenal please be one of us do whats needed then you will fell proud as we are and we will adore you for it.

I actually think he'd be a great holding midfielder — intelligent, reads the game well and has good positioning, strong, relatively big with decent pace, good stamina, good in the air, confident on the ball and able to go forward with it and hold off other players.

But the midfielder is already a member of the Algerian national team and I think this loan move to the French division could be the perfect opportunity for Bennacer to show the Gunners exactly what skills he holds on a regular basis.

guys i never see arsenal score with a one on one with the goal when giroud in on the pitch The same balls that giroud will hold it for midfielders walcott can go one on one with the goalkeeper

Wenger must stop gambling on our future and increase the odds of us winning the league title by buying a quality holding midfielder this winter.

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.

Even at Manchester United with two defensive midfielders on the pitch Carrick and Fletcher, Welbeck still drop deep and wide and he refuse to hold a position high up the pitch because his not comfortable their.

It is a scary thought for the Gunners because we believed we had moved on from the days of having to rely on Flamini holding our midfield together.

From having to rely on Flamini and Arteta as holding / defensive midfielders, we now have Coquelin, Elneny and Xhaka.

we have enough midfielders, OG should concentrate on his primary job (scoring goals) then the hold up play should just come as a bonus

N'Zonzi's defence ability, calmness on the ball and will to break up attacks have seen some label the Frenchman as one the best holding midfielders in the league.

Coq was worst player on the pitch he is a player for stoke city or barmsley at best, holding midfielder is crucial buy next window to protect the back four not to make it harder

He needs to look at gerrard and see how he plays his game or even xabi alonso, they control the midfield but not by holding on the ball forever and trying to win every challenge, wilshere looked good in englands last couple of games just picking that ball up and pinging it around the pitch

Until Wilshere grows up, Arsene can't trust him with any serious role esp in midfield, Wilshere needs to know what his job is on the pitch and save us fans headache each time he holds the ball.