Sentences with phrase «to play between the lines»

One could immediately see what the team was missing with his ability to drop deeper and play between the lines of the opposition midfield and defense.

We were compact and organized and they couldn't play between the lines.

We started off by going long, then switched to shifting play between the lines, which finally paid off in the last minute of the ninety.

And sorry again, but playing a 4 -1-4-1 does necessitate playing between the lines and not over-committing or being undisciplined.

Part of this was to help give Balotelli some support up front that had been sorely lacking in both of the previous games and also to bring Sterling inside to play between the lines behind two forwards.

Too much was being asked of him — either he had to take down and hold up a ball without much support, or he was being asked to create penetration by linking play between the lines, which isn't one of his clear strengths.

An attacking midfielder who plays between the lines and concentrates on playing killer passes, he's unquestionably Brighton's major creative threat.

The most obvious way to progress play through the centre was for Benteke and Sturridge to help associate play between the lines.

Mertesacker, of course, is good at building play, and his partnership with Koscielny excels in that area simply because he plays shorter, tempo setting passes, while Koscielny plays between the lines.

The vocabulary of the design idiom includes the contrasting play between lines and exaggerated areas, which combine to create an animated area of interaction.

So while he played between the lines, and threatened from there, France played similarly to the way Spain played against Italy (until they brought on Torres).

Creative spark for United in linking up play between the lines.

I don't think that anyone else in the squad is capable of playing between the lines and linking the midfield and forwards, either centrally or from a wide position.

Firstly, Nainggolan and Schick would come inside to play between the lines, forcing Barca's backline into narrowing to ensure the attacking three couldn't outnumber the two centre - backs.

The switch in the second half after the introduction of Moussa Dembele meant we went from long passing to playing between the lines and it was much more effective.

Nevertheless, Genoa's emphasis on compactness ultimately enabled them to have numerical superiority in their defensive third and snuff out play between the lines:

a ball winner type and a cool distributor / play between the lines and space type