Sentences with phrase «playing as a lone striker in»

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..

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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....

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.

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.

Mario Balotelli — 6 (Markovic 45 ′) Came on in an unpreferred role as a lone striker, but still managed to link play up and pose the occasional attacking threat.

Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney struggled during the early weeks of the season featuring as club's lone striker, but since the arrival of Anthony Martial has now seen the United skipper gets back to his more skilled role as the 29 - year - old suits has been better in form and given the lack of coverage the Gunners midfield offers the team's defence, Rooney will be able to find a lot of space and play his best of the season so far.

Playing Falcao as a lone striker and putting Adrián in behind has worked wonders.

The three advanced midfield players will remain unchanged as Pochettino sets to give Dembele another chance in a more attaching position alongside the two top scoring midfielders Chadli and Eriksen, while the fan favourite Harry Kane will play up top as 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.

Any decent striker in Europe would have scored that amount of goals playing with Cesc and Hleb as a lone striker.

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.