Sentences with phrase «places in the midfield now»

Huge competition for places in the midfield now with Sanchez Ox Jack, Rosicky, Cazorla, Ramsey Gnabry Podolski, Ozil Walcott and Campbell.

Not exact matches

In the 2015 - 16 campaign, Coquelin missed several months with a knee injury and now according to Arsene Wenger, the defensive midfielder has sustained a knock in the same placIn the 2015 - 16 campaign, Coquelin missed several months with a knee injury and now according to Arsene Wenger, the defensive midfielder has sustained a knock in the same placin the same place.

Arteta is certainly very talented, despite getting on in years, and will be hoping to get chance to impress Arsene Wenger before the season ends, but with the dogfight Arsenal are in with Man City and Man United for second place means that he is unlikely to be risked at the moment as the club has a whole host of talent in midfield right now.

Former Arsenal midfielder Alan Smith has now insisted that Wenger made the wrong decision, and the club remains in a «funny» place due to the ongoing sagas.

The Arsenal midfielder was in a race to prove his fitness before the end of the season, and is now set to start for his country in one of two matches remaining before finding out if he has secured his place in the final 23 - man squad.

If we had focused Ainsley Maitland - Niles as a Central midfielder, Xhaka and Ramsey would have been scared for his position right now and that would have brought out the best in him and we won't be looking for one Seri all over the place.

Although he has only missed two PL games for Spurs this season, Dier has lost his place in Tottenham's midfield to Victor Wanyama, who is now seen as the better option to partner Dembele.

Francis Coquelin has been a revelation for Arsenal since being recalled from his loan spell at Charlton and there is certainly now way he's losing his place in the side, while Aaron Ramsey and Santi Cazorla have taken it in shifts to partner the Frenchman in the heart of the Gunners» midfield.

It is really about time that the Ox showed some of his early potential, but his problem is that it has arrived when there is now enormous competition for places in the Arsenal midfield.

Now it would appear that Arsenal have turned their attention to the Nice midfielder Jean - Michael Seri, who has helped the South of France club make it back into the top three of Ligue 1 and a place in Europe's elite competition, the Champions League, for the first time in over 50 years.

But he has had a few injury problems and has now lost his place in central midfield to Santi Cazorla and although Wenger has stuck with him and kept him in the starting line up, it has been out on the right.

# 100M of midfielders in Mata, Herrera and Fellaini whose places now threatened — do they stay / can Utd keep them?

The ex central midfielder gave special attention to the recent performances of Francis Coquelin, as reported by the Daily Star, and accepted that the young Frenchman has, for now at least, secured his place in Arsene Wenger's starting line - up.

However instead he has looked like a passenger at times and as a result, his place in the starting eleven is now under threat with so many class midfielders in our squad.

Both Gerrard and Lampard commanded places without really fitting a system that could work, or indeed without being used as they were so successfully for their clubs; what England have now in their Carrick - Henderson - Delph midfield three is a far more solid, less flashy combination to allow the attacking players like Raheem Sterling, Danny Welbeck and Wayne Rooney (as it was against Lithuania) to do the rest.

Now he finds himself as a consistent regular in Gunners midfield that is very competitive for places.

Wilshere was given a few chances to come back into the Arsenal first team towards the end of the season, but even he realises that there is now a lot of top class competition for places in the Gunners midfield, and according to a report in the Star he is seriously considering a big money move to Manchester City.

I'd much rather our situation with the strikers be like it is with our midfield, Since the signing of Xhaka, none of our center midfielders or defensive midfielders can for certain say that they'd be guaranteed a place in the starting line up (I'm referring to the likes of Ramsey, Elneny, Coquelin, Wilshere) perhaps Cazorla, but given his age now it would still be questionable.

Wenger has also mentioned that he thought Calum Chambers could also be an accomplished Defensive Midfielder, so Arteta now has two more challengers to his place in the first team, on top of his straight replacement Matthieu Flamini!

All of which now places a big question mark over the future of Sherwood at the club next season, despite the fact that the ex-Spurs midfielder was only handed a permanent 18 - month contract to manage the club in December.

I don't even know why he started Welbeck ahead of Walcott in the first place, Welbeck was giving away the ball too often on the right and wasn't helping Bellerin in defence.Bellerin too can't be blameless for being caught out of position many times, he didn't even know who he was marking.The reason why we lost the midfield battle wasn't because Coquelin didn't do much, the problem was with Ramsey and Cazorla, they were loosing possesion too often in our own half giving more room for counter attack Coquelin alone couldn't contain opponent's pressure for the full 90minutes he needed help too defencively from Ramsey who didn't give him any, Ramsey now sees himself as an AM who could go forward at anytime and ignore his defensive responsibility.Koscielny didn't do much to prevent the second goal.

Wilshere has been injury prone but has been injury free for a good while now... Missing a friendly against holland is hardly a sign of medical catastrophe so this is a massive overreaction... Wilshere is by a very long way the best of the British stable at arsenal and on his day he is a top flight creative midfield play maker... Don't take my word for it ask xavi arguably the best ever in that role... Since his return he has shown signs of his best but not over 90 mins... But wenger has played him all over the place does not no how to combine him with ozil and miki and surrounded him with utterly hapless players like Ramsey and xhaka... He needs a new manager to bring best out of him I hope at arsenal but if the fossil stays he should go...

Having started four players in the two attacking midfield spots, he now has to decide who has earned a place.

The midfielder, now retired after doctors advised him not to play on after having a heart attack, had the likes of Cesc Fabregas, Patrick Vieira and Gilberto Silva in front of him in the pecking order for a place in the first team when he made his breakthrough.

The controversial midfielder, who joined QPR in August after being placed on the transfer list by Newcastle following a public slanging match with the club's board, has now said his departure was inevitable after he led a dressing - room revolt over an argument over a bonus structure.

But the mayor of Liverpool in the UK has now taken the debate to a whole new level after formally calling for an investigation as to whether any fraud took place surrounding England midfielder Ross Barkley's recent switch from Everton to Chelsea.