Sentences with phrase «running with the ball at»

He loves running with the ball at his feet, & he's not afraid to make a challenge or do some defensive dirty work.
There is no player in arsenal team now who can run with ball at its feet through middle like Rosicky and Santi used to do.
If Arsene Wenger and his assistants decide against adjusting their tactics to get the best out of their marquee summer signing by letting him run with the ball at defences, Lacazette needs to take the initiative by training and watching game film to learn how to thrive in Arsenal's system and in English football in general.
Ox is quick but doesn't run in behind, he runs with the ball at his feet.
Keep possession and run with the ball at your feet you are bound to get knocked.
Laca has tidy feet and can wriggle out of tight pos better than he can get past a man running with the ball at his feet while not losing the potency of attack, Laca will make a good pass instead which is what a hold up CF would be doing to bring in the wide forwards into play.
We need a striker who can run with the ball at his feet and hold it up for the other players where necessary.
A team / squad is made up from many different parts, some industrious (Boyce, Bonds, Moncur), some that can run with the ball at pace (Sinclair, Devonshire), some sublime vision and skill (Brooking, Dickens, Brady) some goal scorers (Robson, Cottee, McAvennie, Dicanio, Kanoute, Ashton) Central defenders who can play out from the back, full backs who can bomb on and cover the midfield partner in front of them.

Not exact matches

It's tough to run your business and manage your marketing efforts at the same time — just one more ball to juggle with the rest of your responsibilities.
(well, yes, you have a three - day pass to Lollapalooza, so you do look like you have money, but anyway) at which point he punched the 11 - year - old child in the stomach forcing her to drop her beach ball and running off with it.
Then slowly drizzle the ice water, one tablespoon at a time, with the food processor running, until the dough comes together and forms a large ball (you may not need to use all the water).
What's the point of having all these playmakers with no - one willing to make forward runs or space opponents as they all want the ball at their feet?
Wilshere plays generally well with the ball, taking risks and running with it, at least attempting to get something going.
Even Dele Ali of spurs knows when to stop running with the ball, dribble and shoot at goal.
I see hold up play with aguero or ronaldo holding the ball while running at you.
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My theory is because of constant tiki - taka passing of the ball, it amazes me sometimes how we are so good at passing and controlling the ball at such pace and power, with the amount of position we have is almost unreal, imagine the vibrations that run up your legs and knees each time you stop and kick the ball and we are the champions of tiki - taka, if your thinking why not the same to Barcelona but they have injuries too but its a warmer climate and needs less warm to the legs,
Though Theo is not as strong as Giroud, at least he can run into spaces or run with the ball and take on opposite players to score a goal.
As much as i think that's ugly and a bit reckless as well, i think it's still better to have more players like him trying to penetrate defenses and run head on with the ball, than to have our team pass the ball at the edge of their box and do nothing else.
When Romo was at the helm he did the same thing, he could read the defense and audible the play that needed to be run, his mistakes were often times the same mistakes we saw Dez and other WRs get into (dropped balls, running with the ball loose (murray I am looking at you), and tipping the ball up in the air).
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Rosicky is probably our best player at running at the defence with the ball at his feet.
The difference between a target centre forward and a striker is that «A target man waits for the ball to be put at his foot or his head for him to score and most times a centre forward holds on to the ball with his back to goal waiting for runners to run in to receive a pass from him so he can position or free himself to score but a STRIKER is a player who runs to meet the ball.
At one point, Tiger even got creative and decided to chip with his ball already on the green, going over a slope to run it to the hole.
TR should have been used to inject a greater direct threat to create space for himself and others by running at people with the ball.
At his final postgame press conference, Kotite singled out Wayne Chrebet, his undersized, overachieving second - year wide receiver out of Hofstra, who had scored New York's last touchdown with 4:45 left and then had run to the sideline to present the ball to his embattled coach.
Some of that has to do with their phenomenal shooting — you can't run when you're taking the ball out of the basket — and some of it has to do with being locked into the task at hand.
The diminutive midfielder lost Joe Ledley with a looping run and was completely free when the ball found him at the back post, allowing him to head past Julian Speroni.
Just looking at box scores, this looks like a pretty awful day down on the farm, especially since Gwinnett just blew a three run lead in the 8th inning, tie ball game with Pawtucket coming up bottom 9.
Catcher is not too exciting, but Lucroy has come through with some good at bats and important hits and maybe Maxwell will learn to pull the ball run into a few HRs.
In the past, I envisioned this team post-Big Three as this running - and - gunning dynamo with Rondo at the point of attack, but the more I see this team flourish in the half court, the more I fall in love with the ball movement and finding the open guy.
On May 31, in his first at bat after missing more than a year with back and hamstring injuries, Indians rightfielder Juan Gonzalez (left) strained his right hamstring while running out a ground ball and wound up back on the DL.
He can catch the short passes and take them the distance, he can stretch the field with the deep ball, there might not be anybody better at going up to catch a jump ball and, unlike some top wideouts, he blocks his ass off in the run game.
The very next play, on first down with the ball at the Lions» 43 - yard line, Dareus burst through right guard Larry Warford's block to tackle running back George Winn for no gain to end the quarter.
Here's how the Buckeyes are still running their base inside zone play, with a flair that allows them to keep a defense from keying numbers at the point of attack: This gives defensive backs a lot to think about after the snap, when they prefer to just flow to the ball.
Just knows how to run in one direction with the ball at his feet till he is in space.
The moment the ball was lost, there were flying tackles, regrouping at the back, lots of running towards the person with the ball and no free spaces for opposition players to play.
Now near the beginning of the second quarter, the Raiders had a first - and - 10 at the Texans» 43 - yard line and they tried to run the ball with Murray.
lst season at stamford bridge, was the first time i saw that 4 -1-4-1 formation being used, and for some weird reason i feel a very strange negative vibe and well all know the outcome.the manager has come back with this formation and its not yielding result, but he still sticks with it.i do nt know much about formations dear friends, but if you are playing a slow dm in arteta and a very very slow cb, then you are toast against quality teams with sound tactics.wen playing wellbeck as a lone striker, i think 4 -2-3-1, will work better, but if we have a big player like oliver (boooos), thn we can try the 4 -1-4-1, thingy cos he can hold the ball for our midfielders to run in.but on the overall, shame on wenger for not giving our defence a good cover DM.NO BODY PLAYS A SLOW DM / CB AND EXPECT TO B REGARDED AS CHAMPIONSHIP MATERIAL.IT HURTS GUYS, REALLY HURTS.
Giroud is slowly but steadly going back 2the we were used to, jack started from where he had ended; running with the ball with no ambition at all no wonder once he came on they started attacking us n we failed to score.
It was recovered there by a policeman named Clarence Williams, holed up in his canyon with just a piece of sky overhead so that he never saw the home run ball until it came over the fence and bounced at his feet, spattering his uniform with mud.
I've seen Ozil play the ball to Theos feet but Theo had started the run, Theo doesn't like balls into his feet as he is a runner... yet at Real he played balls in behind more often due to having a consistency of pace to work with and get use to.
The Buckeyes are actually pretty good at running into packed boxes, and they might break defenses down — except maybe Clemson's defense, which is filled with superhumans up front — if they just keep running the ball.
Ramsey is good at running with the ball into space but usually after someone like Santi has created that space.
Rob Holding reminding me of the old Tony Adams, getting the ball deep in his own half and running forward with it, unlucky not to have scored at least one already.
The next goal was incredible, and shows just how right Alex Oxlade - Chamberlain's inclusion at centre - midfield with a stunning long - ball from his own half in front of the on - running Danny Welbeck, who continues his dream first start of the campaign with his second goal.
look at Chelsea last night, when they ran with the ball it was direct and attacking, their runners weren't waiting for shit they were going for goal.
I mean WTF??!! 5 years in one of the biggest clubs / training centers in Europe that emphasizes footballing technique... and still you haven't mastered the most basic technique for any attacker - Shooting to score!!!! Plus, he isn't even superb at any other thing except to run endlessly with the ball.
I like Oxlade - Chamberlaine and I think he frustrates fans and himself by trying everything at blistering pace be it running with the ball, passing, passing etc..
Theo is an expensive failure and to keep giving him the chance when he has repaid the clubs faith with being a bottler and acting as if he's a lazy git (watched him a number of seasons ago against Blackburn away and all he did was run up and down the wing without even calling for the ball to draw defenders away from the centre) I hate to say it but in my mind Alan Hansen was right when he said that «Walcott has not got a natural footballers brain» It infuriated me at the time but its been proven to be true I feel he's been collecting his money for too long without a result to justify keeping him in our employment.
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