Sentences with phrase «player on the ball»

He's such an influential player on the ball, he can make things happen, he can see a pass, certainly in the last month or so.

Yesterday we had players on the ball looking for a pass and nobody available.

Wenger appears to recognize that a team requires a good player on the ball in the DM pos, if you look at pre gazidis era then we see Wenger had made sure we had quality in those roles.

«He is a very good player on the ball, and hopefully he can produce the sort of passes that we missed last season,» said the Liverpool coach.

Although Flamini is not the greatest player on the ball, his presence in the midfield allows the other midfielders more freedom to commit to the attacks while at the same time not exposing us on the counter.

«He is a fantastic player on the ball, very technical,» said Aquilani's former team - mate and one - time Liverpool man John Arne Riise.

Liverpool will continue the vicious high press they've employed under Klopp, hoping to catch Manchester United's more ponderous players on the ball.

Glenn Hoddle said on the England team, «Stones represents a once - in - a-generation opportunity to break that mould»... «we need to have our best technical players on the ball, to give them the opportunity to create as many chances as they can, to put opponents on the back foot.....

Kamara, who was recently called up to the Finnish national team, is a technically gifted player on the ball but is more known for his aggression and work - rate off it.

This was needed to slow down Louisville as they had a fast player on the ball that our normal scheme would be a touch slow for.

I'm starting to believe there are some people here who have a crush on Xhaka want to brain wash others with his display regardless good or bad and today he was clearly terrible and made two fatal mistakes and if compared to Elneny the later made the 1st goal assist and almost not one touch wrong on the ball despite the few back and side passes which were necessary against a team playing zone defense intimidating any Arsenal player on the ball

Worst player ON the ball was Ramsey.

Strong, fast and imposing, the 20 - year - old has avoided central defensive stereotypes by also proving himself to be a composed player on the ball, one capable of winning possession back and progressing it.

The Brazilian defensive midfielder is solid in his tacking and has the ability to pass and beat players on the ball.

Often Chelsea had two players on the ball in possession when Tottenham were in the final third.

Santi is a great player on the ball but is he the player you want as one of your two DM when you lose possession or play against Barca or Bayern?

«He's a fantastic player on the ball and he works hard for the team all the time so he's an inspiration for all the lads around him.

Chelsea have better players on the ball than Arsenal.

Passes are misplaced, runs mistimed, we lose the ball very easy and the player on the ball has no options to pass to.

He will also often have to track the player on the ball as opposed to players making runs — this means less diagonal coverage which obviously adds to distance covered.

He is the one that breaks up play with his interceptions, tackles, and the first player to hound the player on the ball and force them to take the slower winger - route of countering.

Too often there was no movement to give options to the player on the ball, just resulting in sideways passes.

When the opposition have set their midfield platform Liverpool will press the player on the ball in defensive triangles using the Center Forward, Central Midfielder and Wide Attacker to close down the space.

They will pressure in boxes and triangles in order to close midfield space, with 1 player looking to press the player on the ball and the other 3 forming a triangle to close the channels.