Sentences with phrase «pairing in the attacking midfield»

Lallana's absence leaves Raheem Sterling — eager to prove a point following this week's continued contract reports — and Philippe Coutinho, as the obvious pairing in the attacking midfield positions.

Not exact matches

Roberto Mancini has opted to play a midfield pairing of Gareth Barry and Yaya Toure in the centre of the park as the Italian opts for a far more attacking approach this term and this has left Dutch international De Jong warming the bench with the 27 year old making just four Premier League starts compared to the 30 out of 38 he made last term.

Liverpool — Henderson — Gerrard Real — Modric — Kroos Don't get me wrong, we absolutely need a pure DM for tough matches — but spending 25M + + for extra depth in that position is really luxury Vidal is a versatile all around central midfielder — If we play 4 -2-3-1, let him pair with either Ramsey / Carzola and we have a very strong midfield base in both attack and defense.

Dzagoev can play in a myriad of roles across the midfield and attack and is incredibly comfortable on the ball and is also being pursued by Serie A pair Fiorentina and Inter Milan.

Ramsay in my view is an attacking MF who can make runs into the box and nick goals but lacks discipline in a central midfield pairing and unless we lose a winger or cm (or perhaps Ozil) is better benched and used as a sub.

Did he actually watch the game against Leicester?Yes we were strong attacking, but the defending was dire and as importantly Elneny and Xhaka were the worst midfielders pairing I have seen in the red and white.

I'm not sure any club in Europe has as good a pair of attacking midfielders in Özil and Cazorla to choose from.

I feel that since we have lost our key pairings in both attack (Sanche — Ozil) and Midfield (Coquelin - Cazorla), it is time to rethink our pattern for the time being in order to make most of what is left of our preferable first XI.

I still don't understand people's obsession with boxing players in to a specific role... The whole «true DM» is a dying breed, even Coquelin is arguably something else considering the advanced positions he takes up often in front of Santi and takes major risks in winning the ball back for us... IMO, the reason Coquelin has had such a successful integration into the first team is that he focussed incredibly hard on the basics of his role first and foremost before adding other elements to his game (long - balls, driving runs into space, more aggressive ball movement in general) it's not rocket science to tell a player to curb the attacking side of their game and focus primarily on defence before attack... Nor is it that hard to see that playing in a midfield pairing with either Ramsey or Cazorla is going to be different as well.

Two of Real Madrid's attacking midfielders in James Rodriguez and Alarcan Isco are also possibilities to become available in the close - season, with the pair having fallen down the pecking order at the Bernabeu.

I think he may in the long run convert Gibbs to attacking defensive midfielder to pair him with Coquelin at the Gunners defensive base.

Pair that lack of organization with Juventus bringing a multi-angled attack that had Madrid's midfield spinning in circles, and it's little wonder that it was such a long day at the office for Raphael Varane and company.

Heckingbottom usually has his teams play in either a 4 -1-4-1 or a 4 -4-2 formation without a «number 10» attacking midfielder position, so I expect we will see Samu Saiz paired up top with Lasogga, with Saiz given either a free role to lead the attack or instructions to play off of Lasogga.

In midfield, a deep - lying pair of Michael Carrick and Maruone Fellaini will sit behind the strong, attacking trio of Wayne Rooney, Adnan Januzaj and Angel Di Maria.

Traditionally, one of the pairing at the base of midfield in a 4 -2-3-1 is more attack minded and the other is defensively focussed.

The pair have been pivotal to their success in their deeper midfield roles, with the Frenchman breaking up play and generally being a combative presence, while Cazorla builds play from the back and releases the ball to his attacking teammates.

Part of this problem could be considered to be that the most used central midfield pairing, Lucas Leiva and Charlie Adam, aren't particularly dynamic nor inclined to get on the end of crosses (of which Liverpool have had more, per game, than any other team in the league apart from Wolves — more of which, will be discussed later), so this only leaves a certain number of players who will be able to get into the box in the more rigid 4 -4-2 utilised for most of this season. Inspite of this, however, 58 % of Liverpool's goals have come from inside the 18 yard box, the highest in the league so far this season in terms of percentage of goals scored by each individual team, suggesting that this is the best avenue of attack for Liverpool, so the question has to be: why have Liverpool only managed to score 14 times, the 10th lowest amount of goals in the league?

And it was against the Blues that Tottenham's own tricky pairing of attacking midfielders directly combined for Dele to rise above his markers to head home from an Eriksen cross after the Dane found himself a gap to work in, and just enough time to look up and spot his teammate.

The coach's mishandling of Jorginho and Lorenzo Insigne angered critics, with the coach refusing to play an attacking trident that would have got the best out of wing dynamo Insigne with a midfield three that would have mirrored the system in which the pair shine at Napoli.