Sentences with phrase «role as a lone striker»

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.

It's difficult to remember a time when Ibrahimovic couldn't command the starting role as a lone striker, and his spats with Pep Guardiola over the issue at Barcelona led to a break down and subsequent move away from the Nou Camp.

Not exact matches

Sevilla signed Gameiro from Ligue 1 champions Paris Saint Germain 18 months ago and, despite a relatively prolific debut season in La Liga that saw him plundered 15 goals, he has largely been a substitute this season as Unai Emery has preferred Carlos Bacca in the lone striker role.

In a lone striker role, Manchester City's Edin Dzeko stole the show upfront this weekend with two superb goals for his side as they came away with a 4 - 2 win away to Hull City.

I'd be happy to be proved wrong however Theo has a very poor injury record, if he is a striker than he hasn't been replaced in the wide area and he has big issues in general as of now on the lone striker role

Aleksandar Kolarov and Samir Nasri were the scorers in the 2 - 0 victory at Goodison Park, but it was Silva who stole the show as he once again pulled the strings in midfield as he was operating in his favoured no. 10 role just behind the lone striker.

As you can see from the above team news, Olivier Giroud has now failed to score since early January, a statistic that almost confirms Welbeck's inclusion in the lone striker role.

As described above, Lacazette is more suited to a lone striker role, with two active flankers.

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.

It was good to see Ayew get on the score - sheet (and no assist for this awarded to Antonio I believe) but do not see him as being able to offer much in the lone striker role.

It is not usually remembered now, given how well he took to the role, but playing van Persie as a lone striker following the sale of Emmanuel Adebayor to Manchester City was a risk.