Sentences with phrase «role as second striker»

Even though Louis van Gaal has given the England forward his vote of confidence and even moved him back into his favoured role as second striker, Rooney is woefully out of form.

Not exact matches

Edinson Cavani will likely be the number one choice in attack but, whether as a partner or a second - choice striker, there's no better time to stake a claim for a key role in the Uruguay squad.

This system allows Hazard to play as a second striker close to Diego Costa, giving him a free role instead of asking him to track back a lot, like in the past few years.

We're NOT linked now with anyone else and that's a worrying thing in itself, I personally really don't think Walcott is good enough to play that striker role and I know I'll get roundly «thumbed down» for this but its how I feel about the boy he's good but NOT as good as he thinks he is and it annoys me that theres a possibility that all the toing and froing around his contract may be stopping us from signing a top notch striker (and I DO NT think Martinez is this) I do feel that AW will opt for the cheap and second rate options again and this will also include not buying a striker and putting Walcott in this role, meanwhile all our rivals will be putting strong established players into the positions where they need to bull up their squads we are not well known for doing this and its not going to happen now, which is infuriating as this is the right time to break that mould and go for it!!

That is why I think that Griezmann would be the better transfer target for Arsenal as he can play as the extra striker we need as well as on either flank and in the number 10 role and he is already used to playing as a second striker with Giroud to some effect for France.

Goals didn't come quite as frequently, but Bergkamp was a true pioneer of the second striker role as we know it.

Gerrard has played much of his career in the centre midfield role but has also been used as a second striker, holding midfielder, right back and right winger.

I always saw Van Persie as playing a little behind in the second striker role.

In many ways, the 25 - year - old would arrive in Manchester as the obvious, natural replacement to Rooney, who has found it hard to carve out his usual niche in the second striker role between midfield and attack that saw him thrive at his pre-30 peak.

He has spent most of the season playing as a second striker, but with his troublesome hamstring, Blackpool's high line and no designated holding midfielder in the Arsenal side, he dropped into a deeper «quarterback» role, dictating the game from there.

All of this is not to say that he wouldn't make Roma better — he absolutely, unequivocally would — but given the cost and Luciano Spalletti's preferred tactics, Defrel's role, even as a potential second striker, is already filled by El Shaarawy.