Sentences with phrase «possession football rather»

Not exact matches

I would rather we played attractive football because it looks like the boring style has not got us any better, but instead we are making all the small teams have 60 % possession and when we play the big ones we still can't do sh» t..

The Arsenal boss concluded that the rigors of the Champions League would make all of Leicester City's other football matches more difficult to play — especially given that Leicester are devoted to aggressive counter-attacking rather than focusing on possession — but stopped short of guaranteeing the team would fail to reach their ambitions for the Premier League in the 2016 - 17 season.

«He'd have us pressing high, keeping a high line, receiving the ball in difficult situations, keeping possession and basically having the confidence to play football rather than being afraid,» said Clyne.

This would prove rather detrimental for a team that plays Arsenal's style of possession football.