Sentences with phrase «played more counter»

Is that why Wenger and Arsenal played more counter attacking football against Chelsea rather than keep possesion and press higher and higher up and eventually get caught out on a counter break?

I understand he's trying to play more counter attacking football especially since PSG's full back like to push up a lot but will this work out?

We have many choices up in attack and just depends if we want to play more counter attacking or full possession.

Some players have complained the pitch is slow and due to its size, I think we need to play a more counter attacking game.

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With Crystal Palace in good confidence and playing at home, they are likely to be more adventurous than West Ham were and that should bring our counter attacking more into play.

We will never know, of course, but there is a good argument that with one of those first choice players available, Arsenal would have played better throughout and would certainly have enjoyed more possession and control and would probably have held on for the win or even increased our lead on the counter attack.

You could clearly see Martinez had instructed his men (especially Lukaku) to play on the right side on the counter, which caused the second goal and a few more opportunities I feel Everton should've converted.

Count Draxler will become even more injury prone at Arsenal and if Walcott does leave in the summer, I'm pretty sure that he will shine as a striker, especially at a club that plays the long ball counter — attacking system!

after our loss to everton i'm more confident now that we're going to win against man city we are going to want to bounce back and city missing key players like aguero, fernandinho, gundogan is a good time to play them and i want yaya toure to play we know that defensively he is useless so we can hit them on the counter attack!!

Possession football is still obviously our main goal, but we've been looking deadly on the counter, playing much more direct, and seem a lot more willing to cross and loft balls into space than recent seasons.

I would only make one suggestion, play hayden in the the Cazorla position, we need to be a little more defensive and we need to sucker them in so that we can hit them on the counter.

When we are going to play a more aggressive team — one that might control a lot of possession — like a Chelsea or Man City, I think we need a defensive player who can help regain possession and start the counter.

If we are set up to play a more defensive game and counter, then Ox is the obvious choice as he's a one man counter-attack.

When we are playing the bigger boys, we have to be more cautious and sit back more than we usually do i think this line up is good as we can also attack them with pace and counter attack and we can even hold on to the ball more if we need to.

Arsenal are better off not having too much possession in order to win more, against Man United we must let them have the ball and play on the counter attack!

When one analyzes the 4 games in which the team conceded three or more goals, a number of factors come into play: attacking players losing balls in our defensive third, attacking players not committing fouls when they lose the ball to stop counters, attacking players not tracking back to defend, and attacking players lacking a defensive mindset..

The intrusion of Ospina, Belerin AND cOQUELIN TRANFORMED THE TEAM the injury of Wilshere and Ramsey forcing wenger to play Cazorla and Ozil in the middle and no more on the wings a more defensive - counter attack style toThe return of a in form Giroud The aquisition Of Gabriel I am sure that if we had been playing this team, we are now and this way, we would be right with Chelsea at the top.

I understand its not all about running and part of me seems to think his attributes are better suited to a counter attacking team, but watching santi play it seems like he can provide the passes mesut can and offers more defensively.

Depending on if you want to play the expansive Arsenal football or use a more defensive shape and realease players with quick passes on the counter which we should be able to do with the pace we have in front.

They will only if they win against them next week & Man U (would make up for the 2 chelski games)... doesn't matter how just need the 3 points... Sanchez got to do better, Ramsey lost the ball a lot trying a few stuff needs to play it more simple special against better who can counter... What is happening to our strikers??

BUT it looks like everton will play on the counter with both Lennon and duelefeu playing on the flanks so wenger probably thinks the game is more suited to giroud

You know know he means business, When Arsene signed Xhaka (long ball master) and now vardy (counter attacking wizard) on top of Ozil and Alexis, Change of tactics of curse, with those in the line up I expect us to play faster and more direct, and I also expect us to lick less goals.

More recently, it has been a case of incompetence in the defensive side of our game, we've tried to take the game to Chelsea and go guns blazing which put us at danger every time we lost the ball on the counter attack especially as we used to play a ridiculously high line.

It would have been a far more direct approach and it would have been far easier to attack on the counter with a greater breadth of field to play the ball into instead of a central ball first then a ping out wide.

I believe at the moment he is much more effective in counter attacking style of play than when his team is dominating possession.

We need to start hitting teams on the counter and with that explosive pace it would scare loads of teams we need to start playing with more tempo

We're going to waste time and money on a CB when we should be looking for a top class DM.If Wenger think signing another CB is solving our problems then he's lying to himself.Mark my words any other CB we sign no matter how good will still come and add to a shaky defense.The problem with our defenfing is more of tactical and mental.Tactical because we play without a DM, we mark and track players poorly, the fullbacks are usually isolated leaving them to cope alone, our passing is not good enough leaving us exposed to counters which we aren't prepared for and no leadership and maintenance of defensive shape.

We need to play more on the counter attack with pace which is how u win games and play attractive footy in the modern game..

I reckon Giroud could be a world class player playing just behind a clinical speedster with a more counter attacking style.

Wenger must play counter attacking football against stoke in order to stop them from parking the bus and should win by 3 or 4 or more goals to increase the confidence against chelsea at Stanford bridge.

Chelsea play counter attacking football and bellrin has more than enough pace to keep up with any of the chelsea players!

Vardy makes some great runs and as they have played counter football so much, his runs have had more effect, great tactical play by CR.

I don't care that we do not have 70 % possession anymore, we are still playing good football, in fact I find out more counter attacking game more enjoyable to watch and most importantly we are getting the 3 points!

He would be much more successful if he played in a defensive formation that counter attacked.

Welbeck over Giroud as I expect us to be playing a lot on the counter but Giroud can also start if we take a more possession based approach.

I'm not saying that they should be going into a shell like some of the great Devil's teams of the past but, need to learn how to play a bit more carefully and wait for the counter attack opportunities (Daneyko's favorite word) that will present themselves when the opposition is behind and taking more risks.

We did so well in Dortmund last year by playing more defensive and getting out on the counter, why try not to repeat the same strategy.

why do we never look at the opposition and assess where the threat comes from and set up accordingly, stoke plays deep with direct balls to creative players, liverpool plays high press counter attacking football why arent we more fluid based on the team we face?

I would rather give up the ball and play for the counter «not parking the bus off course but more direct play», so I would go for speed:

As it stands, this squad is fairly well positioned to compete for the Wenger Cup and make a deep run in the Europa, if and only if we play first stringers in Europe and use the bench for the League and FA Cups... that being said, and based on the fragility of the manager and the team in recent campaigns, it's more likely that Wenger will focus on a top 4 finish and the FA Cup... while the reasons for such an approach may appear logical, it would confirm a rather disturbing trend and appear counter intuitive for any team which claims to have higher aspirations... I feel that Wenger simply can't afford to put all his eggs in the Europa basket because if he fails the potential backlash could cripple any top 4 chances due to the aforementioned fragile psyche that tends to rear it's ugly head like our own personal groundhog day each and every February... furthermore, can you even imagine Wenger bringing in the necessary recruits to adequately supply top quality lineups in a Thursday / Sunday dominated schedule; based on everything I've seen in recent years, I can't see that happening... in fact, mark my words, it's more likely that we see Lacazette playing out wide in Alexis's position with Giroud at striker, than we see Wenger make the necessary moves to right this ship... god, I hope I'm wrong but is it really that far - fetched considering what we've witnessed for past several years

Everton at home on the other hand will play attacking football, Baines and Coleman constantly push forward, having a major counter attacking threat with pace would frighten them into sitting back more, alleviating pressure from our defence and making us a lot more threatening on the break.

Having said that we probably need to play Debuchy in the Palace game because they are so good at counter attacking, we will need someone to play a more controlled defensive game i.e. Debuchy....

I know we're playing at home, but I just know that if we adopt Wenger's usual open tactics we'll get caught on the break by Utd, after all they have scored more counter attack goals against us over the years than I care to think about and with the likes of Mata, Rooney, Martial and Memphis I would urge caution in our approach.

If Giroud starts then I will bet that Chelsea will play a higher def line until they can get a goal and squash out the space for our game changers to make much of an impact, how - ever I feel more confident that Theo will at least cause Chelsea to defend deeper and as such, force Chelsea to play with gaps between their def and mid or play a LOT of players behind the ball and try to hit us on the counter.

They are always wary of playing us at the Emirates and how well we can counter attack, So maybe they will play a more patient game, instead of trying to murder us, As the Nou Camp is where their opponents Normally get buried.

I would prefer Kondogbia, he is more of a holding CM yet I can see him coming on and playing alongside Coquelin when we are holding the lead, make the lung bursting strides forward on counters but quick to get back and defend.

It is time to play to Laca's strengths and start playing a more pacy game including working on counter attacking style.

Having a defence first minded midfielder with the skillset to back it up has really opened up our game to play with a lot more attacking freedoms while feeling a lot less vulnerable to counter attacks.