Sentences with phrase «only aerial duels»

Not exact matches

Giroud is not only a striker but also a defender of set pieces and a winner of aerial duels.

Size or height only has any real advantage in aerial duels and even then it not a clincher, depends as much on spring, upper body strength and timing etc..

When you add in the other factors like take ons and aerial duels to get the total, only the defenders Amavi of Aston Villa and Pieters of Stoke have more than the Gunners midfielder.

Don't get me wrong stats DO NOT tell the entire picture but, back in the day the only stats were goals, assists, tackles, but now they have statistics for all parts of the game so something like aerial duels can be quantified and we can see how dominate Le coq is in all aspects of the game

Giroud aerial duel and his cohesion to the team (after 2 years, of course he has to) might be his only strong point.

Former Burnley player Keane completed 10 clearances — the most of any player on the pitch — while Jagielka won eight aerial duels, a total bettered by only Brighton & Hove Albion striker Glenn Murray and Wes Morgan of Leicester City in the Premier League all weekend.

Chirches only won 20 % of his aerial duels, although he could be forgiven for this as many were lost to Christian Benteke.

Jordan Henderson completed only 75 % of his passes, won 0 tackles, 0 aerial duels and completed 0 dribbles.

Won his only tackle of the game; 68 % aerial duel success rate.

One surprising fact that came out, is he managed to win only 55.6 % of his aerial duels, yet managed the same number of duels per game as Koscielny.

In his full season at Nice he averaged 3.9 tackles, 4.8 interceptions, 3.9 clearances, won 3.1 aerial duels and was only dribbled past 1.5 times per 90.

Surprisingly, Vermaelen, who many fans generally consider a fantastic jumper, and hence a great header of the ball, won only 55.6 % of his aerial duels, while Koscielny, the defender with a slim frame contested 101 aerial duels at the rate 3.06 per game, winning 62.

By the winter break, the Polish enforcer had begun to show his steel in La Liga, winning 54 out of 74 aerial duels (73 %) and only Malaga's Ignacio Camacho had won more duels in La Liga.

In terms of aerial duels won per 90, only 17 attackers in the Premier League can better his 3.88.

Kieran won 7 Aerial duels, in which only teammate Gabriel had more (8).

Jagielka won eight aerial duels — a total surpassed by only Glenn Murray of Brighton & Hove Albion and Leicester City defender Wes Morgan across the Premier League weekend.

Three of his 11 goals this season have been headers, but only one has been via an aerial duel at a set - piece, with Selke often drifting away from his marker to get on the end of crosses in open play.