Sentences with phrase «play the midfield double»

In the first phase of play the midfield double pivot of Lucas and Gerrard are culpable for leaving the space Bony drops into when receiving Shelvey's pass, Sakho is also culpable for the goal as his decision to push up has forced Škrtel to cover for him and created space for Shelvey to exploit.

Not exact matches

Will Wenger shift to a 4 -2-3-1 system, which would allow him to play a double midfield pivot in Chambers and Wilshere?

A midfield that suits Theo will / may not suit Giroud and that's where the problem lies... I'm sure Wenger has something up his sleeves to have offered Theo and Giroud high wage contracts... For tough away games, e.g chelsea, play a double DM and hit on counter, that makes Theo ideal... And at lower team that likes to depend deep in their half, he can play Giroud because of his physical presence and great hold up play, or even play both depending... All in all another DM is HIGHLY needed.

carzola can play as an attacking midfielder and a central one... IMO hes a better attacking midfielder than ozil as he consistently gave you double digits in goals... season in and out and still created chances.

That leaves the box - to - box role and the defensive midfielder, unless our manager elects to play a sort of double pivot to protect the weakened defence.

For example 4 -3-3 concentrate less on playing in the centre and attempting to dominate it as it's contest Arsenal will win and take advantage of the fact that the full backs haven't got pace, which normally means the defensive midfielders or center backs often end up doubling up on the wingers... thus clearing a space in the middle and allowing people like Ozil and Giroud to play to the strong points of their game.

Also Arsenal play as a TEAM which means the right and left attacking midfielders should be chipping in with about ~ 20 a season with B2B players getting into double figures.

At the end of the day, the best formation to suit Ozil is a classic Arsenal 4 -2-3-1 which means he can play in the hole behind that striker feeding balls to the pacey wingers and striker without having to worry about tracking back too much seeing as there will be 2 midfielders behind him playing the double pivot to track back aswell as the wingers.

The other part of our double pivot of a deep midfield position is played, in order of preference, by our dearest MMM (Midfield Magical Maestro) Santi Cazorla, Ramsey and Wilshire (save for when Wenger needs a stronger mimidfield position is played, in order of preference, by our dearest MMM (Midfield Magical Maestro) Santi Cazorla, Ramsey and Wilshire (save for when Wenger needs a stronger miMidfield Magical Maestro) Santi Cazorla, Ramsey and Wilshire (save for when Wenger needs a stronger midfieldmidfield).

my opinion is that OG has proven himself in the last calendar year to be a top striker, its only us Arsenal supporters who don't rate him the way the footballing world see him, this season he has the best minute to scoring ratio in the EPL, if he was playing for Chelsea we would all be wishing he was playing for us for double the salary and pay 60 to 70 million to buy him, almost every club has striker, defensive midfielders, and goalkeeper problems but not us we have a full squad for the first time for a ling time but some how we don't rise to the challenge

Yea Barcelona are beatable and they will get beat and yes they have a world class attack but so dose others its all about the game plan you block the midfield and man mark you minimize the lose Arsenal were sloppy for a goal and the first goal was offside the attack started buy playing the ball out wide that very insistent he was offside but play was moved back in the middle and then the goal came i remember their manager was laughing and pointed it out to his assistance I was looking for replays to double check but cant find any I am looking forward for barca loosing just so i get back onto their supporters

The 27 - year - old only joined the Greek side last summer from Ligue 1 team Toulouse in a $ 2.7 m deal but he has since excelled for his new team playing in a deep lying midfield role as they won a league and cup double in sweeping fashion.

If I was to choose between them, I will chose Ozil and play a midfield powerhouse like Diaby / Toure / Khedira in a double pivot behind.

Kovac, a former Croatia midfielder and coach, played for Bayern between 2001 and 2003, winning the Club World Cup in 2001 and a domestic league and cup double in 2003.

With the recent spate of injuries and suspensions plaguing Roma's midfield, Paredes has been gifted more playing time, logging 433 minutes in his last five appearances for the Giallorossi, including back - to - back full 90s, where he played in the double pivot alongside De Rossi, a role to which he seems perfectly suited.

The 20 - year - old is primarily a defensive midfielder but is equally adept to playing as a central midfielder in a double pivot role.

Toure as an attacking midfielder had worked better defensively than if he was playing in the double pivot in midfield.