Sentences with phrase «rather than a winger»

Speaking after Walcott announced that he wants to return to playing on the wing, where has had his better days, Wenger has instead came out to the media to announce that he personally sees Walcott's future as a striker at Arsenal, rather than a winger.

Giroud played twice for France so we will get to see Lucas Perez for the first time, and I am glad to hear that Wenger wants him to play as a centre - forward rather than a winger.

There would be a lot more ground to cover and playing as midfielders rather than wingers would mean that their positioning and movement for attacks may become more restrictive.

I think attacking wise he will look like a left sided CF, far left, rather than a winger.

Southgate has utilised a 3 -5-2 system in England's last three friendlies — goalless draws against Brazil and Germany and the win over the Dutch — but used wing - backs in the wide roles rather than wingers.

Chamberlain already showed his skills for the Gunners and he's highly recommended to become a star player if he'll manage to stay away from bad injuries, but according to Arsene Wenger, Chamberlain will only hit his peak when he manages to turn himself in an attacking midfielder rather than a winger.

Not exact matches

Is it worth paying him the extra # 10k rather than see him go and have to go through the rigmarole of scouting and signing another winger?

The 24 year - old has netted 16 in just 22 League games and he is probably much more likely to be a success in England as he can play as an attacking midfielder or winger as well, rather than being an out - and - out front man like Lacazette.

Rather than buying Morata I would prefer for us to stick with Giroud with Sanchez as second striker like Griezmann in the France team then we sign a left winger like Reus, Draxler or Gotze

Chamberlain is suggesting that perhaps he would prefer to play in the centre of midfield rather than as a winger.

This is an accusation that has been levelled at the Dutch winger in the past, with the former Chelsea regularly opting to cut inside and shoot rather than pass to a teammate or send in a cross for a centre - forward to meet.

In my opinion Giroud may well be the club's main striker, because let's face it Alexis is a converted winger rather than a striker.

He has a history of converting wide men to CFs so he'll probably look at some powerful, fast, technical wingers who have a knack for finishing rather than crossing.

Again Gotze is not a conventional winger and his game is based on ball control and dribbling rather than pace, but not every winger needs to base their game upon speed at Arsenal, otherwise we may as well stick with Theo Walcott.

We have great wingers — I just wish we played them more often rather than shifting an attacking midfielder onto the wing.

he's very composed, not a typical winger like ox he's always looking to get in on goal rather than stay out wide

I pray he does nt start vs Spurs because we have been playing very well with wingers who want to take responsibility for their position rather than come inside and try to steal the show.

Ps - I would rather go for a quality winger than a striker.

I really don't understand what you're saying here — to play Sanchez through the middle you need AMs out wide, rather than natural wingers?

The other thing is that although Gotze could play on the wing for Arsenal like he has done occasionally for his national side, he isn't a natural winger in the sense that he is more direct with build up play, passing and the ball at his feet, rather than the pace, ability to beat a player and to put crosses in as you'd expect from a «real» winger.

Like kuyt, I think campbell's best position is winger rather than CF.

-- Bring in R. Perez to teach Bellarine, Ox, and all the wingers and wing backs how to cross a damn ball rather than always cutting back.

The Argentine winger has often been too busy showing off his clever skills rather than focusing on doing a job for the team.

He is usually deployed as a winger rather than a striker, but this season the Englishman has started popping up with important goals when called upon.

HAHAHA some of you would rather have another winger in Reus or broken Cavani than Jackson Martinez.

Give them free roles up front, that way all of them will be able to play as strikers rather than «supportive wingers» as i'd call it.

I'm not confident with Debuchy, he's more of a right winger that can defend rather than a right back that can attack.

Valverde started off using him and then changed him to a right winger rather than right back.

The evolution of wingers into wide forwards, tasked with cutting inside on their stronger foot to score goals rather than staying wide to provide crosses, means that wide attacking areas are almost solely the fullback's domain.

His attempts to ping the ball far and wide remained but more often than not his long passes were on - point rather than Hollywood, with the runs of Lingard in particular helping to get the best out of the Englishman, who regularly looked to cut across the park to find the winger racing for the byline.

Torres often pulls out to a wide position, and even if he is in the middle, Chelsea's inverted wingers are more likely to shoot rather than cross.

However, the lack of other wingers suggest these formations will be a plan b or c, rather than being central to England's tournament plans.

As well as straying from their usual 4 -2-1-3 shape, they also played with wingers playing on their «right» side (right - footed on right; left - footed on left) rather than the inverted wingers we have come to expect from them.

Rather than use a traditional number ten in the middle behind a striker, Tim Sherwood has been favouring a central winger recently.

To get the best out of Zlatan he needs to be the lone striker or at least have a quick supporting striker behind and flanked by natural wingers who would rather create than score.

During the game against Coventry, both players showed a renewed spirit to compete within the squad and both wingers have shown real class playing through the middle rather than their usual flanking positions.

He chose to pursue a winger rather than a centre forward.

Here we have two players, gifted passers, sure, but slow as molasses and generally occupying the same space on the pitch, working a two man lateral passing game, rather than moving the ball up the pitch, forming triangles with the wingers or overlapping full backs.

Embed from Getty Images However, it seems Theo Walcott has his eyes set on that challenge, after revealing he wants to be known as a right - winger rather than a striker from now on.

Chungy's form since the arrival of Neil Lennon at the Macron Stadium in October has been superb, with the winger looking like the player that Wanderers fans loved when he first signed rather than the player that looked devoid of confidence and interest under Dougie Freedman.

James Milner operated much further forward than in recent games, and was more of a proper defensive right winger, rather than the central - midfield / attacking - midfield hybrid he's been so far under Klopp.

He opted for a 4 -3-3 formation, dropped Olivier Giroud for Alexandre Lacazette and gave Antoine Griezmann and Kylian Mbappe licence to roam rather than forcing them to operate as traditional wingers.

It's a problem that he is yet to recover from with the former Barcelona winger scheduled to return for the New Year, rather than the new Premier League season.

However, with a host of star attacking midfielders and wingers linked to the club, the return of Markovic, and Roberto Firmino also comfortable leading the line, Alario might be a man for a specific role, rather than a star man who'll have to be shoehorned in.

I would guess the right wingers would be quite happier if US government's budget and taxes was more similar to Hong Kong or China, rather attempting to be than be more like, Cuba or Denmark.

Depressingly, it seems that for many, if you cant find an energy solution that is cheaper than even unsubsidized coal, then Right - wingers would rather go to hell in a handbasket than accept any other solution.