Sentences with phrase «other midfielders would»

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.

Your a rubbish fan flamini does well he isn't like the other midfielders we have which makes him important he has the fight and the combative nature the rest lacks eg he was the best on the pitch vs chelsea.

I wouldn't think other midfields have that many more goals than ours... it's just our other forwards.

i mean I saw it xo vividly against man city, the way he finished four players, gliding through them was something else... He is so different from the other midfielders we have... I really love him.

If that is the case, which other midfielder would you like to see come to Arsenal in the January transfer window?

Barcelona's other midfielders have been in fine form this season, with Paulinho the pick of the bunch.

Pairing him with other midfielders has tended to end poorly, as he lacks the mobility to truly shield the defence.

Not exact matches

Walcott should not start as a first teamer he is a bench player I'd rather have the ox there with sanchez on the other wing.As for the central midfielders I'd like to see xhaka with cazorla with ozil just behind giroud.I won't be able to see the match but i hope we win or else its curtains for another title challenge: -LRB-

But in order to set a new Premier League record of 21 in one season, the attacking midfielder needs another four and if our strikers and other outfield players continue to spurn chances the way we have been seeing then he might just fall short.

The only other change made by the Frenchman is at the back, with veteran keeper Petr Cech coming back in and the midweek hero David Ospina dropping back to the bench, so Coquelin and Cazorla continue to be our first choice central midfield pairing and the summer signing Granit Xhaka will have to wait.

Tolisso, Goretzka, Seri, so many other midfielders I think would be a better fit.

Replace these players with 2 central midfielders (in Wenger's mind 1 of them is probably Bielik and I'd consider Schneiderlin a must - buy) and a winger (Lacazette, Reus, Sterling or whatever other rumor there is right now)

We all know that Ozil has created more chances than any other midfielder in the Premier League, but the German just does not match that with the goalscoring feats of many attacking mids.

By now we sould have known a defensive midfielder is of extreme importance and so are a few other positions.

Campbell is better player than Theo, he run forward and backward to support the midfield, it must be a personal with Wenger.i got the impression Wenger does not like a threat or someone to challenge him at any cost.There are few players that should have been sold and use the money to buy a couple of players.We lost on Kanye, ibramovitch, Bailey, and a few others, simply refuse to pay market value.

The Reds also have other dangerous customers in the shape of flying winger Michael Antonio and precocious young midfielder Ben Osborn, however, whilst Leeds have a youngster to watch of their own in academy graduate Alex Mowatt, whilst young attacking midfielder Adryan, on loan from Flamengo, is also exciting.

And that is just the central midfield area of the squad, while Wenger has had to cope with injury problems in all the others as well.

Every year, we have the same shortcomings: — Bad organization defensively, especially our attacking midfielders lack defensive discipline — We get bullied physically — We are not charged up for all games — More injuries than almost any other team How can these things be explained, when they are there every year?

Of course we had the priceless advantage of having real men play for us instead of little timid and afraid children in defence and especially in midfield or attack like Ozil, Walcott and all the other serail coasters who have made a rich living under their benevolent Uncle Arsene, who indulges their timidity and blames the refs, rather than coward players.

But it would be better if Arsenal gets a midfield general that can dictate the tempo and stand out as the example for the other players.

Signing Mark Albrighton after his release by Aston Villa, and the # 5.6 m capture of tireless midfielder N'Golo Kante, are other examples of the shrewd work that Leicester have done.

We haven't got any other fit midfielders so we may as well save him for Chelsea!

Reading the thread on this article and I noticed a lot of people naming strikers we could have gotten in past transfer windows that have gone to other club and failed, Balotelli, Falcao, Martinez, Boney etc are recurring names in all the comments, and am sat here thinking because they failed in thee clubs does not necessarily mean they would have failed if we had pulled out our fingers and hot them back then, Balotelli aside I strongly believe all of these players could have made a difference playing infront of our midfield and given the kind of attention and care Wenger gives Giroud and Walcott, adapting our play to suit them and giving them chances after chances even when its blatantly obvious they are average players so please lets not keep using that as an excuse for Wenger's ultra careful attitude in the transfer market, they could have failed with us, or they could have been massive for us, all speculations.

To all giroud bashers, who claimed other strikers would score 30goals for all the chances wil created, man city, liverpool actually created more scoring chances than us which depicts that our midfielders need to create more to meet up with these teams and our fans must stop picking on players to attack.

Can someone pls tell Wenger if he didn't know that we can't win d League, d Champion League d Europa league or any other International competition without a proper defensive midfielder?

We wouldn't be talking about buying a defensive midfielder in January blah blah or any other addition because we would have exhausted our quota.

Ramsey is the only player who makes runs into the box for us... lf not for him we would pass sideways for hours outside the box as none others make the runs he does Hes our best midfielder overall can do everything good and sometimes worldclass but just does nt do enough but who has @Arsenal.

A side note to this, is Wilshere has that short distance turn of pace which Ramsey and Elneny do not have, and while Coquelin has the pace, he doesn't have the other attributes we need a midfielder to have in our current formation.

The attacking midfielder is not only one of the Bundesliga's top scorers but no other player in the German top tier has provided more assists, form that is all the more laudable given he represents mid-table Hoffenheim.

You could even say that we don't really have a concrete centre - forward any more, as while Sanchez is moving back into midfield to get the ball, then other players like Walcott, Ozil and the Oz are moving into the centre to replace him, like a rotating diamond formation.

ANY attacking minded midfielder would struggle playing alongside Flamini that's a FACT, Aaron had to play roles that aren't part of his strength because no other midfielder was available, blame the manager NOT the player.

No other top 6 team would have this guy as a starter... He's ok on the bench but at this moment I would go kolosinac and wilshere in midfield with ozil miki laca and pea as attacking force... Otherwise they will overrun the midfield and dominate possession... But as with the imperishable mr fox I have no interest in an ersatz victory based on man city underperforming and giving the fossil an excuse to «respect his contract»

One of the other reasons we lost I believe was because we didn't play our best players of those who were available and played a midfielder in defence who hasn't played there before against the best team in England, yeah of course that doesn't mean we would have won.

Other big clubs have great midfielders within that age bracket, its all about keeping him fit.

This means that the other natural play - makers and central midfielders have been played out of their preferred position.

Francis Coquelin burst into the Gunners first team a couple of years ago after returning from a loan period at Charlton purely because Arsenal had no other fit midfielders to choose from.

His exclusion has produced an angry response from some who believe he should be in ahead of other midfielders with question marks over their fitness.

Mertesacker shouldn't be given a contract, not because of his age, but he doesn't have any other thing to offer on the pitch, Cazorla on the other hand needs at least two year contract, I would have preferred a year but since we don't have creative midfielder like him and I said it in one article a while ago we needed his replacement since three years ago, someone who is good and can learn from Santi also.

Haas» second season in F1 didn't quite reach the heights of their debut year which saw a handful of top six finishes and served as a campaign in which the team firmly established itself as a key player in the midfield rather than a new squad just there to make up the numbers, something we have been accustomed to with other new teams in recent years.

wenger is a legend in his own mind so other peoples opinions... fans, ex players, journalists, etc... have no bearing on his greatness or the righteousness of his own decisions... from end of last season it was clear we needed two quality attacking options to put up a serious challenge (getting rid of walcott and campbell or ox and bringing in a serious upgrade over giroud) instead he brought in another midfield option (having done the same in the winter window) which only makes sense in his own delusional world rather than the reality of facing up to serious and strengthening competitors and which defines the job at hand....

Of course, losing wingers Robben and Ribery will have forced his hand slightly here, but it still shows a lack of a Plan B that Pep couldn't bring out a similar threat from other players like Gotze and Muller, who can both play wide, or indeed use Lahm in his preferred position of right - back and utilise his quality from there — in fact, the former Germany captain's use as a midfielder since this manager's arrival is one of many examples of his attempts at tactical innovation going wrong.

Ronald Koeman did well to keep hold of the strong tackling midfielder last summer, having seen a host of other talents leave St Mary's, but his side's recent wobble may be indicative of the club's likely fall from the top four picture.

Looking at some of the other transfers to go through this summer — notably Cesc Fabregas to Chelsea and the expected deal taking Toni Kroos to Real Madrid — have seen superior midfielders to Vidal move for smaller transfer fees.

Diame, Tiote, Capoue, M'vila, McCarthy, Schneiderlin are other defensive midfielders we've been strongly linked with over the years.

However, Nani has now rejoined his old club Sporting Lisbon in another swap deal which has seen United sign versatile Argentine defender Marcos Rojo, leaving Juve to ponder other options in the attacking midfield position.

Interestingly, looking from the other end of the action, the Palace manager Alan Pardew claimed that the referee Lee Mason had lacked the «bravery» to send off the Arsenal midfielder even earlier.

You cant escape he fact that Podolski was played rarely and when he was he was played out of position much the same way that Wenger has assembled a squad of players most of which are a talented bunch, but, Wenger has failed to build a team who fit n with each other, we have a midfield that overtly populated with players who al excel in the same role BUT have no solid defensive midfield talent and no options in defence when players have crap periods or are long term injury problems.

Some are glad to have kept hold of the 34 - year - old, who has won five Premier League titles with the Red Devils, but others feel that Mourinho needs some fresh blood in his midfield...

You've got to look at more than just goals, it's the type of goals players score how they link up with other players, work rate potentially players who don't score as much if you stick them in our team with our midfield and they could become fantastic.

Jack, Sanchez and the Ox have got something that our other midfielder's don't have.