Sentences with phrase «playing as a lone striker»

Nice post tubbie, Playing as a lone striker you must come to meet the ball sometimes with your back to goal.

Don't forget that Campbell plays as a lone striker for Costa Rica lol..

I watched Lucas Perez last season and he was quite descent playing as a lone striker.

Great player to have, he can play instead of Sanchez if he's out and he can play as a lone striker.

Not discouraging Theo at all I'm a big fan but asking him to play as a lone striker through the middle I just don't see him lasting there for a stretch of games.

i think if we by any chance got griezmann that would be awesome, against bus parking teams like norwich we could play with a top 2 with griezmann and giroud they can play very well with eachother and griezmann could get on to girouds flicks and knockdowns and griezmann does play in a top2 at atletico and against the most teams griezmann could play as a lone striker, but anyway i do nt think he will leave atletico

Rosicky... Yes, Tomas Rosicky played as a lone striker for us in that game.

I remember him chasing down when he played as the lone striker in his second game, he was absolutely hustling the opposition player, he looks behind him and his team mates were jogging around the half way line, he was so bemused he was encouraging them to close down like he was..

Send him on loan and stop wasting time pretending he can play as the lone striker at EPL level.

«pace and ability to run with the ball and shoot» wow didn't realize playing as a lone striker was that simple!!

Only in Wengers deluded mind Sanchez can play as a lone striker, I bet he plan these schemes to show how good is OG and that he is right....

rusty or just doesn't like playing as a lone striker... better off on the LW but that would have given Coquelin a night - mare!

I don't think this is a problem because half of his six league goals this season have come while playing as the lone striker.

Welbeck can not be played as a lone striker — top two or wide striker only please.

Look at the French setup, he is performing just because he can't play as a lone striker..

Either playing as a lone striker or with an attacking partner, Mark Hughes may have found the man to lead the line for the Potters for years to come.

Man United have not bought a striker at all and relying on Rooney as their first choice striker, who infact has not played as a lone striker mostly.

Playing as the lone striker, the onus was on the Spaniard to score goals, and that is something he couln't do from forty yards out.

The static lump of a centre forward has no place at the top level and certainly not when played as a lone striker.

Wayne Rooney, playing as the lone striker, stuck to his task of frustrating City captain Vincent Kompany.

Tottenham have been searching for a quality star who can support Harry Kane upfront or play as the lone striker in the absence of the England international.

The United graduate has primarily featured on the left side of the attack this term, but he showed his versatility during the tail - end of last season, where he played as the lone striker in Zlatan Ibrahimovic's absence through injury.

Having assessed the various intriguing options for Wenger when it comes to playing Vardy, it seems clear that playing him as a lone striker in a 4 -2-3-1 would be the best choice.

Another month without the 25 - year - old means that it will again be likely to be Mario Balotelli playing as the lone striker.

How did we get in a position where one of our most dangerous players (Antonio) is rarely played in his most effective position (wide right) and now plays as a lone striker after it was discovered that he wasn't a right back?

Bellagambi started in goal, Massingham partnered Tom Bamford at centre back, Annakin featured at right back and Harratt played as the lone striker.

Gervinho, who is only suspended for Premier League matches, was a welcome inclusion to the squad and given freedom to swap wings with Walcott as captain Robin van Persie played as a lone striker.

Playing as lone striker is Wayne Rooney.

With very few world - class strikers currently available in the transfer market, in addition to Louis van Gaal insisting that Wayne Rooney will play as lone striker, it is illogical to consider an exit for Javier Hernández.

Not exact matches

first he need to solve his injury problems to prove himself like a good player to take in the squad and not a wate of space, leave that «best winger» thing... finally, he even want to play as winger, so he never would be that best winger and probably we do nt need him because he cant play like a lone striker.

And Sanogo doesn't start instead of him, we have done this LP as a lone striker thing to death, he ain't ever playing up top on his own — Sanchez or Welbeck are starting ahead of him in the wide left berth.

Now with Giroud out for 3 months Wenger wont be able to play the lone striker upfront as we don't have a player of that quality, so what happens now,

Wenger could save him by selling alexis and giroud to buy aubamayung and play ozil behind lacazette n aubamayung then we might compete with batsuaryi morata lukaku rashford aguro Jesus but as it stands lacazette will not work as a lone striker coz he still to small and immobile!

lst season at stamford bridge, was the first time i saw that 4 -1-4-1 formation being used, and for some weird reason i feel a very strange negative vibe and well all know the outcome.the manager has come back with this formation and its not yielding result, but he still sticks with it.i do nt know much about formations dear friends, but if you are playing a slow dm in arteta and a very very slow cb, then you are toast against quality teams with sound tactics.wen playing wellbeck as a lone striker, i think 4 -2-3-1, will work better, but if we have a big player like oliver (boooos), thn we can try the 4 -1-4-1, thingy cos he can hold the ball for our midfielders to run in.but on the overall, shame on wenger for not giving our defence a good cover DM.NO BODY PLAYS A SLOW DM / CB AND EXPECT TO B REGARDED AS CHAMPIONSHIP MATERIAL.IT HURTS GUYS, REALLY HURTas a lone striker, i think 4 -2-3-1, will work better, but if we have a big player like oliver (boooos), thn we can try the 4 -1-4-1, thingy cos he can hold the ball for our midfielders to run in.but on the overall, shame on wenger for not giving our defence a good cover DM.NO BODY PLAYS A SLOW DM / CB AND EXPECT TO B REGARDED AS CHAMPIONSHIP MATERIAL.IT HURTS GUYS, REALLY HURTAS CHAMPIONSHIP MATERIAL.IT HURTS GUYS, REALLY HURTS.

Apart from playing up front as a lone striker, Danny can also play effectively on either flank, as we have seen last season.

He plays for Villa, do you not understand how difficult that is as their lone striker?

@muda Joel plays up front for his country, as lone striker / target man.

Playing a lone striker in that environment is just about the dumbest thing you could do... he would become isolated very quickly, the threat of an aerial ball against Stoke becomes almost comical, Stoke have height in spades — attempting to beat them in the air sounds just about as stupid as attempting to out pass Barcelona.

I understand what you're saying bounty hunter, but I feel like the week prior to big games should be enough time to at least tweak our formation slightly or employ a certain tactic, whether it's counter attack with less possession or playing with two strikers up top instead of the lone striker, I would hope that players at the level required for arsenal would be able to adjust to this as it seems I tend to hear other teams coming away from big wins uttering phrases like «we worked on the manager's ideas this week and executed them well», I cant remember our players saying this for a while.

Playing a forward who is unable to play with his back to goal as a lone striker wont improve the team.

Giroud always does well as a sub, but he doesn't seem to be half as hungry or effective when he starts a game, and so it proved again last night, as he doesn't play so well as a lone striker.

Its true that Ronaldo hasn't played great as a lone striker but the kova - kroos duo ahead of the CBs will offer us a lot in defending.

Playing Sanchez as the lone striker meant that he missed this match, i was hoping it would stay 1 - 4 but like someone else commented they played better once the pressure was off.

I 100 % agree though on the expectations were ridiculous and i remember the comments you were referring to as many were listing him as playing lone striker.

2 other things are clear to me — cazorla has to play cam and no one else (specially not Ramsey)-- Sanchez as lone striker wont work.

Don't tell me Poldi played one game here one game there, started as our lone striker for 2, 3 consecutive games (only), and said the chance was being given.

Diego Simeone matched Zidane after controversially playing Griezmann as a lone striker in the November derbi — this time, the Frenchman had Diego Costa next to him.

You may say that there is no change in system, but it saw Soldado play as a number ten, but also helped out Adebayor or Kane up top, so effectively, we saw a 4 -2-3-1 formation, sometimes changing into a 4 -4-2 when Soldado chose to join the lone striker up top.

left to me Falcao starts every single game as the lone striker, Herrera starts every game as well and we play a 4 - man defense.

Paulo Di Canio has lined his previous sides up with Danny Graham as a lone striker, but here he went for Conor Wickham playing just off him in a 4 -4-1-1.