Sentences with phrase «opposition on the back foot»

At Arsenal the costly front four should be have license to attack, and just doing that will keep the opposition on the back foot most of the time.

With the speed of Anthony Martial and the skill of Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Mourinho may be able to pull off a similar arrangement in games where he wants to try and catch the opposition on the back foot with a highly mobile front three capable of striking and combing quickly and effectively on the break.

high pressing high tempo runnin putting the opposition on the back foot... INTENT.

However, as he ended Budget 2007 with the words «I have one further announcement», he caught the opposition on the back foot with plans to cut income tax by two pence in the pound.

Not exact matches

I can say the same for Kante, he gets forward to help attack or win the ball back while the opposition is on the back foot still and he gets back to put a tackle in.

When an opposition back four has those three to deal with in one game, it puts them firmly on the back foot and paves the way for others in the team to get in on the act too.

last night i saw on Sky sports Jamie Carragher show / demonstrate an interesting flaw Arsenals game there was huge gap between our attacking and defense at least 20 yards where no man land which allowed the opposition to counter attack with no resistance until well in to our own half our defense overwhelmed and on back foot while our midfield and attackers still in oppositions half, the reason we are better then last year is because of Coq and rapid speed of Belerin saved us but what with Coq out Ramsy loving being a forward we will have problems tomorrow night with the Greeks who love to counter attack, someone has to drop back when Ramsy is on his attack ’s

Some in the party wonder whether Farron would really prefer to rebuild the Lib Dems from the comfort of the opposition benches, but he robustly denies that this would be the best way for the party to get back on its feet.