Sentences with phrase «playing against those defenders»

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Internally, Bannon was his biggest defender against skeptics who accused him of holding anti-Semitic views and playing up his intellectual status by insisting on going by «Dr. Sebastian Gorka.»

Against Palace when teams sit in their own half, he can play the short passes and flicks to help create a chance for a shot, or can compete physically with defenders to try and get on the end of crosses.

Its very funny, how arsenal play sometimes, like they are on summer holidays and not serious, how can u put the slowest Defender against a sharp faster opponent.

Again the commentator made the observation that defenders do not like playing against him because of his speed.

This doesn't happen too often though, and I wonder whether the defenders were playing against his instructions in the games against Anderlecht, Swansea and United.

No defender likes playing against him — especially at Arsenal.

i have been saying this for along time arsenal would be better surve with a defrent stile of play maker one who can shoot head the ball take on defender dribble into space.we all see it over on over again you don't need one killers pass to win game alot of team don't have ozil on create lots of chance against us.

Now Arsenal have Giroud, who can play against the stronger, taller defenders, although Lucas also proved with his solo goal that he has plenty of strength and fight in his determination to score.

Their play - action schemes became indefensible with TE Kyle Efaw and these speedy wideouts running on conflicted defenders, like on the winning play against Virginia Tech in the season opener:

The Arsenal defender Calum Chambers was watched by Roy Hodgson in a few games recently, including at right - back against Chelsea, and it seems that the England boss has decided to pull the 19 year - old out of the U21 squad for the important European Championship play - off against Croatia to give him his first taste of senior football at Wembley, after coming on as a sub in the last friendly in Norway.

His athleticism allowed him to play above the rim in high school; in the SEC, it may help him hold his own against the conference's top defenders until he adjusts to the speed of college ball.

We will have to wait and see whether the Arsenal and England defender Kieran Gibbs is selected by his national manager Roy Hodgson for the friendly game against France at Wembley tonight, which is bound to be an odd and emotionally charged encounter after the terrible terrorist attacks in Paris, but with England wracked by injury problems and having to play a very young team, as well as the limp performance put in by Ryan Bertrand at left back against Spain, I will be surprised if Gibbs does not start.

This all sounds very positive from the talented defender, but although he is right that we are used to playing against top sides, he seems to conveniently forget that we usually lose those big games as well!

But in any case we need a new winger if want to play with four defenders again against the weaker teams.

«There were two strikers playing together (Romelu Lukaku and Martial) against three top central defenders — the best we have in Europe — and their work was amazing.»

Because our defenders have never been good at playing against high and intensive pressing.

I also feel that a lot of people have gone a bit overboard in their slating of the defender, with some suggesting that his pairing with Koscielny just does not work, because he and the French international played very well together when Wenger gave them a run after Mertesacker's red card against Chelsea and he would have kept the pairing for the Leicester and Barcelona matches if Gabriel had not been unlucky enough to pick up a knock.

the opponent defenders and midfielders know it and play very aggressively against him.

playing that ugly game against eleven burnley defenders.

He is at his best coming in to play against slightly tired defenders.

We have Mertesacker playing against Aguero, It is not Mert's fault that he is one of the slowest defenders in the league playing against one of the fastest forwards.

its not what these guys are used to they have played with football greats like ronaldo and messi and you ask them to perform with players like ox and welback we should change the way we think just sell these midocre players that we keep on feeding sell them out and one more thing i swear if even if i had a chance to play this match on fifa i would never dare to play players out of position for fuck sake we already lost against stoke due to out of position defenders what is wrong with wenger

If that Chelsea game was anything to go by his time on the wing playing 1 on 1 against a defender has improved his touch and distribution and he looks like he'd be devestating in tight areas back in the middle now.

Speedy in attack and sensibly when in defence, the left sided defender, who can also play at centre back, has taken part in two Premier League matches, coming on as sub against Wolves and Wigan.

Big in your list I can agree that all these players would improve us, but let's look at our CB At the moment Kos, top player but is struggling with a inj which may or may not heal, at the moment he isn't match fit so not up to his own high standard, so needs help or a defender of his quality so he can go and recover properly So then we have Mert, too slow and no longer good enough, I'm not sure if he's even good enough for 3 rd choice CB, too slow, poor on the air for his size and not brave enough, he's lasted this long due to Kos he needs a Top class CB just to allow him to play against average teams Ok now Reid not top class we can all agree so we couldn't really play him with MERT as he isn't Kos quality so can't cover merits deficiencys He could be ok with Kos but Kos is struggling So is Reid what we need???? And finally Wenger if he has all 3 fit will still play Kos / Mert first choice Oh and God forbid we play MERT / Reid against the top teams like Chels / city / utd / Southampton Chuckle chuckle

Let's see how we look when we have all our first choice defenders back; and let's see when United play against a proper rival, as against a depleted West Ham side.

However he will come up against the leagues top defenders on a regular basis and experience what it's like to play in a defensive line fighting for Premier League safety, rather than alongside a more collective defence that includes the likes of Koscielny and Monreal.

Against Chelsea with most of their defenders out like 5, they almost won they game.Against City with most of their defenders out with injuries and with ten men they almost equalized.And Against Arsenal, they were playing with 2 wingers, two 19 year old at the defense.which gives them the perfect reason for being dominated and with the tactics their manager use they beat Arsenal.After that with Hull, they completely dominated the game and with Stock City.

Baines wouldn't have had all that position playing against Perez and immediately he came on he won a red card for us because he is an expert in his movement behind defenders, though the red card came late.

There are the two defenders who played against Southampton last night, Hayden and Bellerin, along with midfield talent like Zelalem, Olsson and Crowley.

It's funny how a lot of people want Ox gone.He'd give any defender a tough time.With proper coaching and advice the guy will destroy teams.I fear Conte can do that and won't mess around with him.It's very difficult when players like Ox play against you.I don't want to see him beating pur players for fun and putting in good crosses against our team.This move will be suicidal to us if everything goes well like it's supposed to be but if things don't go well for him we won't regret.

Coquelin did all the dirty work in midfield, tracking back, being the first defender and covering at the back to give time for the more forward players to come help and for the defence to organise (Mertesacker never found himself outrun... against City) breaking up plays and cleanly passing the ball forward!!

So the only major stat Coutinho wins on is Duels... and Rambo plays out of position and against wingers and defenders more then against CMs.

Wenger can put Bellarin against Bvb in a ucl match but cant do that against Sunderland enabling defenders to play in position.

Fear factor, I bet the feeling when you play against Aguero or Suarez is not comparable when you play against handy Giroud (for example), this fear factor may result in defenders making errors... 4.

And on top of that he loans out Jenkinson on the deadline day, when he knew exactly we have few defenders, now we're in a crisis, we played with no real defender on the bench against Aston Villa.

Ask Stoops about what he did differently this time around against the Buckeyes and he'll tell you that the Sooners played more odd fronts, with a defender lined up directly over the center, leading to either three or five down linemen.

While playing for leicester Vardy was granted all the space in the world to run behind defenders, About 75 % of the same teams playing against an arsenal park the bus so there is less space to run behind.

awesome line up but our defenders must remain in defense instead of trying to become the top scorers, we need to stop counter attacks against us so Belerin and Monreal / Kolasinc must drop back at all times, this will stop rapid counter attack's against us which in return opposition teams must play further up and stop parking the bus and free up the box for our forwards to be able to have space to do their magic

The Brazilian is not expected to feature for another month, while the French defender played the full 90 minutes against Leicester, despite having a «big back problem «suffered the day before the match, with him forced to play through the pain.

The defender had to be replaced after picking up an injury against Reading but he had already played a key role against a fiercely determined Reading side.

literally saying he is prone to many mistakes for instance goal misses (1 on 1), retaining possession, hold up play, poor goal conversion rate against a «formidable team», inaccurate passes, struggles when backing a defender (s) and he's not good in the air.

......... Giroud should get used to the fact that walcott offers something else like pace, GBD - tech (Get behind defenders) and he's still in his prime...... Ball protection, hold - up play and low pace (though useful sometimes) won't win u all the games against certain troublesome teams...... Then there's the Law of Succession...... today ur turn, Moro another's.....

I for one would go and get him straight away as Ben Yedder is an all round striker a bag of tricks he plays in a lower team and scored a bag full of goals which means he fought hard against better defenders to get his goals Ben Yedder can come at you from any direction with either foot and score and he is good at set pieces two I would be ecstatically delighted if we sign him up as we would have our own Mahrez

According to a Metro report, the Arsenal boss is now ready to place an offer of a little over # 14 million for the defender, who missed six months of football after breaking his leg playing against Holland in the knockout stages of last summer's World Cup finals.

The problem we have with Chelsea is that they love to play us, their strikers always get chances, their defenders love playing against Giroud and do own him I must say and lastly but most worrying is how their midfield just bosses our midfield.

On offense we can't continue to play iso ball against to plus defenders.

Arsenal fans will be hoping to see Mustafi perform as he did against Bournemouth last weekend, which saw the German play in the committed and aggressive style of defending that caused Arsene Wenger to make him the most expensive defender in the club's history in last summer's transfer window.

the likes of neista David Silva our own ozil they don't defend but rather tack back to slot in the defensive line for the real defenders to do their job.have u all take note that ozil don't normally jump for headers in the heart of the midfield.so all I'm saying is if Chamberlain do nt want to defend yo make that position his then he should trying playing in the attacking position as he did excel there when he was played against Bayern last year or he is out from arsenal.

He was awful against Southampton along with kos but kos is still the better defender...... Everyone thinks merts good when he plays against poor opposition and we boss the game.