Some teams use zonal and have specific man marker for a dangerous player... shearer, Carroll etc who did or can excel at
putting the ball in the back of the net from a corner.
Not exact matches
We've had a slow start to the season with a frustrating 3 draws
from our first 5 games and our first win only coming
in the 6th — many
of these draws caused by the difficulty we have
in putting the
ball in the
back of the
net.
What I sincerely want Olivier Giroud to do as one
of his fans, is, let him wake up
from his goal scoring slumber and starts
putting the
ball into the
back of the
net at Watford as the Boss starts him
in his rotation starting XI.
Arsenal have had a long history
of players that were pretty handy
putting the
ball in the
back of the
net and over the last couple
of seasons it's been apparent that was missing
from the team.
As well as keeping our opponents
from putting the
ball in the
back of our
net, Petr Cech has the job
of keeping his team mates focused and properly prepared to handle the challenges facing them over the next few weeks and months.
The game suddenly changed however, after Greystar United whipped the
ball into the box
from a corner and unfortunately for one
of the Lallana
in Pyjamas defenders, he
put the
ball into the
back of his own
net.
The young winger Alex Iwobi started this season as the breakthrough star
from the Arsenal Academy, and was a regular starter
in the first half
of the season, but although he had some excellent performances he didn't really follow that up with actually
putting the
ball in the
back of the
net very often, and he was finally squeezed out
of the First team squad
in the last couple
of months and relegated
back to the U23 reserve side.
... Maybe our Boy's will learn
from Barca, on how to
put the
ball in the
back of the
net!
The first goalkeeper to concede a goal
in the Football League was Aston Villa's Jimmy Warner, who couldn't stop team mate Gershom Cox
from putting the
ball into his own
net on the opening day
of the first ever season
back in 1888.
Arsenal sit one point behind Liverpool
in fifth place, with eight points
from their last five matches, and — thumpings
of Huddersfield and BATE Borisov aside — have struggled to
put the
ball in the
back of the
net recently, failing to score more than a single goal
in seven
of their last nine.
Real Madrid failed to breakdown resilient Roma defense who were very organized until a moment
of magic
from Real Madrid's star player Ronaldo who
put the
ball in the
back of the
net in 57th minute with a help
of deflection to
put Real Madrid 1 - 0 up while Jese scored late
in second half to make it 2 - 0 and pretty much kill the tie.