Sentences with phrase «runs on and off the ball»

Once the Italians legs tire in 2nd half (around hour mark) introduce Theo, Vela and Eduardo to run them rugged in a 4 -3-3 attacking formation with lightening speed passing and running on and off the ball.

Not exact matches

Selling Walcott would be good business, we'd get his 140K wages off the bill, get # 25 mill plus and as fans not have to deal with watching him run and leave the ball behind every time he's on the pitch!

Corey Seager breaks his bat on a ground ball — Morton had to avoid the bat, as it went to the side of the mound he falls off of — and the Astros end the threat while allowing only the one run.

Bosa does a great job of coming off the ball and getting his hands inside on blockers against the run so that he can control them.

Lets get Ozil on first half and get Lacazette runing on to his through balls... get 2 - 0 up and then take him off for second half and let Ox or Iwobi take that position on counter attack

This game had some exciting moments as fielders were kept off balance (on both sides of the ball) with timely kicking and aggressive base - running.

When you are playing football and you got a high ball to control the slightest touch will push you off it for sure eguaro pushed mustafi but mustafi should have stock his leg out to bring him down or elbowed him in the face well i would have done that Arsenal were not hungry enough for the cup if they were we would have seen some blood running down of some Manchester players Arsenal need to defend in packs of wolves The first half was not to bad we should have scored though but yes no back bone no hunger and no fight What is going to happen on Thursday how are we going to line up against them??? I need to see Arsenal fight like man stand up like man and use their skill and agility to turn Manchester to a loosing side Well if we do nt we need to separate the real man from the phony ones period

The way you scheme around those deficiencies is to play a weak or light front to invite the other team into running the ball often for mostly successes, and to play Peters far off his receiver to invite passes his way that he still might be able to make a play on or at least keep the play in front of him.

If they try and run the ball all you do is go 3 and out on most possessions, so you only run off maybe two and half minutes off the clock.

Bartkowski, a free agent who's 33 and has had five knee operations in his 11 - year career, is on his most rigorous off - season workout program ever (weightlifting, running and racquet - ball) and has lost 15 pounds.

In a six - technique (head up on the tight end), Ford repeatedly got pushed off the ball and reached by the right tackle when facing a combo block or cut off by the tight end when the run was away from him.

He sees what the offensive line is doing, he sees the running back release into the flats, and at just about the same instant that Philip Rivers is dumping it off, Berry is breaking on the ball.

In Bouldys day we never had this zonal marking tactic, he wasn't coached zonal marking, it was get close to your man and not let them get a clear run up on the ball, we also used this tactic called the off side trap, where all our defenders were in tune we each other and moved forward in tandem, something that we was famous for.

All of Anderson Talisca's qualities were on display last night, and he showed flashes of brilliance, but his goal was all too easy, as he made a clever run off the back of the defence at a corner before sweeping the bouncing ball into the net.

I thought Perez made some good off the ball runs, when we're on song and he gets used to his surroundings I think he'll fit in quite well.

Because it has become harder to throw the ball past hitters and because mistakes on the inside half of the plate often become home runs, not just singles and doubles, pitchers nibble maddeningly off the lower and outside boundaries of the strike zone.

Nevertheless, there were some top performances across the pitch for the visitors, namely Lingard who received the man of the match award from BT Sport as he was a constant threat for United with his clever play on the ball and runs off it.

He was making constant runs off the ball to push the defence deeper and ensure Cazorla, Ramsey, Ozil, Ox and Coquelin all got more space and time on the ball.

He is playing fine defensively, but he won't do anything on offense if we aren't running 6 - 10 PnRs with him a game and using off ball action.

than you would have both flanks bombing forward on and off the ball along with jack or aaron dribbling or running down the middle.

Even he knows, he probably watches Giroud and says stuff like he would have scored that, he would have beat that man one on one, he would have dribbled, he would have been quicker, he would have made off - the - ball runs, he would have taken free - kicks etc..

This is an incredibly difficult question to answer for a variety of reasons, most importantly because over the years our once vaunted «beautiful» style of play has become a shadow of it's former self, only to be replaced by a less than stellar «plug and play» mentality where players play out of position and adjustments / substitutions are rarely forthcoming before the 75th minute... if you look at our current players, very few would make sense in the traditional Wengerian system... at present, we don't have the personnel to move the ball quickly from deep - lying position, efficient one touch midfielders that can make the necessary through balls or the disciplined and pacey forwards to stretch defences into wide positions, without the aid of the backs coming up into the final 3rd, so that we can attack the defensive lanes in the same clinical fashion we did years ago... on this current squad, we have only 1 central defender on staf, Mustafi, who seems to have any prowess in the offensive zone or who can even pass two zones through so that we can advance play quickly out of our own end (I have seen some inklings that suggest Holding might have some offensive qualities but too early to tell)... unfortunately Mustafi has a tendency to get himself in trouble when he gets overly aggressive on the ball... from our backs out wide, we've seen pace from the likes of Bellerin and Gibbs and the spirited albeit offensively stunted play of Monreal, but none of these players possess the skill - set required in the offensive zone for the new Wenger scheme which requires deft touches, timely runs to the baseline and consistent crossing, especially when Giroud was playing and his ratio of scored goals per clear chances was relatively low (better last year though)... obviously I like Bellerin's future prospects, as you can't teach pace, but I do worry that he regressed last season, which was obvious to Wenger because there was no way he would have used Ox as the right side wing - back so often knowing that Barcelona could come calling in the off - season, if he thought otherwise... as for our midfielders, not a single one, minus the more confident Xhaka I watched played for the Swiss national team a couple years ago, who truly makes sense under the traditional Wenger model... Ramsey holds onto the ball too long, gives the ball away cheaply far too often and abandons his defensive responsibilities on a regular basis (doesn't score enough recently to justify): that being said, I've always thought he does possess a little something special, unfortunately he thinks so too... Xhaka is a little too slow to ever boss the midfield and he tends to telegraph his one true strength, his long ball play: although I must admit he did get a bit better during some points in the latter part of last season... it always made me wonder why whenever he played with Coq Wenger always seemed to play Francis in a more advanced role on the pitch... as for Coq, he is way too reckless at the wrong times and has exhibited little offensive prowess yet finds himself in and around the box far too often... let's face it Wenger was ready to throw him in the trash heap when injuries forced him to use Francis and then he had the nerve to act like this was all part of a bigger Wenger constructed plan... he like Ramsey, Xhaka and Elneny don't offer the skills necessary to satisfy the quick transitory nature of our old offensive scheme or the stout defensive mindset needed to protect the defensive zone so that our offensive players can remain aggressive in the final third... on the front end, we have Ozil, a player of immense skill but stunted by his physical demeanor that tends to offend, the fact that he's been played out of position far too many times since arriving and that the players in front of him, minus Sanchez, make little to no sense considering what he has to offer (especially Giroud); just think about the quick counter-attack offence in Real or the space and protection he receives in the German National team's midfield, where teams couldn't afford to focus too heavily on one individual... this player was a passing «specialist» long before he arrived in North London, so only an arrogant or ignorant individual would try to reinvent the wheel and / or not surround such a talent with the necessary components... in regards to Ox, Walcott and Welbeck, although they all possess serious talents I see them in large part as headless chickens who are on the injury table too much, lack the necessary first - touch and / or lack the finishing flair to warrant their inclusion in a regular starting eleven; I would say that, of the 3, Ox showed the most upside once we went to a back 3, but even he became a bit too consumed by his pending contract talks before the season ended and that concerned me a bit... if I had to choose one of those 3 players to stay on it would be Ox due to his potential as a plausible alternative to Bellerin in that wing - back position should we continue to use that formation... in Sanchez, we get one of the most committed skill players we've seen on this squad for some years but that could all change soon, if it hasn't already of course... strangely enough, even he doesn't make sense given the constructs of the original Wenger offensive model because he holds onto the ball too long and he will give the ball up a little too often in the offensive zone... a fact that is largely forgotten due to his infectious energy and the fact that the numbers he has achieved seem to justify the means... finally, and in many ways most crucially, Giroud, there is nothing about this team or the offensive system that Wenger has traditionally employed that would even suggest such a player would make sense as a starter... too slow, too inefficient and way too easily dispossessed... once again, I think he has some special skills and, at times, has showed some world - class qualities but he's lack of mobility is an albatross around the necks of our offence... so when you ask who would be our best starting 11, I don't have a clue because of the 5 or 6 players that truly deserve a place in this side, 1 just arrived, 3 aren't under contract beyond 2018 and the other was just sold to Juve... man, this is theraputic because following this team is like an addiction to heroin without the benefits

His strength is in harrying the ball and making fast runs behind the defence, which is great, but he really has to work on his game off the ball.

And when Holding headed the ball right into the danger man on the edge of our box, Elneny ran towards him and looked like he could at the very least put him off by lunging in before the shot was connected with, but Elneny does a Walcott, and just stops shorAnd when Holding headed the ball right into the danger man on the edge of our box, Elneny ran towards him and looked like he could at the very least put him off by lunging in before the shot was connected with, but Elneny does a Walcott, and just stops shorand looked like he could at the very least put him off by lunging in before the shot was connected with, but Elneny does a Walcott, and just stops shorand just stops short..

Yes we have improved we have become more aware we have started to show some maturity when facing the top dogs and that's the difference between us this season and us getting SMASHED by all of the top teams last season and if you watch football you can see that the city side are not a patch on their former selves nor Liverpool nor even chelski, we are NOT another 49 unbeaten squad not yet and not for a while until the improvements are made, Yea credit where its due of course but lets NOT RUN AWAY WITH THE IDEA WE ARE WORLD BEATERS JUST YET EH, AKB's are the reason we'll never improve as a fan base because they can see NO wrong in anything the board or AW does, Im no AOB but I do see the need for self criticism and improvement and at BIGGUN its not a ridiculous statement at all we have improved but they have also been off the ball and that why we're having a good run.

A lot of run blockers only try to come off hard and get that initial pop on a defender, but Williams looked like he was being filmed for training tape on the sleds, chopping his feet and gaining inch after inch after inch until you look up and his has pushed his man five yards off the ball.

Gundy was the OC for Les Miles in Stillwater, and while Gundy embraced the spread pretty quickly, he always maintained an emphasis on running the ball and throwing vertical routes off play action.

I didn't watch the match last night as I was on the field playing I ran my heels off I was in their faces I was angry I got a well - deserved yellow and could have been sent off later on I intercepted a good few balls and assisted with 2 goals and won the match From the highlights and the analysis I understand the Arsenal were weak in midfield the Arsenal needs an enforcer someone just like me a motivator and in the face of the opponents a thorn in the side I also believe MR wenger was at fault we all knew we would be weak in defence the least MR wenger should have had is a strong fresh midfield after all we had a tough encounter with city + traveling why didn't he use Rosciky, Carzola and Campbell On a different note I like chamberland stature he is tall and has pace and energy why not adapt him to the defensive midfield position with clear emphasis to be in the opponents face The arsenal and Mr wenger need to wake up fast now we have this weekend to prepare for Chelsea if we believe we are title contendeon the field playing I ran my heels off I was in their faces I was angry I got a well - deserved yellow and could have been sent off later on I intercepted a good few balls and assisted with 2 goals and won the match From the highlights and the analysis I understand the Arsenal were weak in midfield the Arsenal needs an enforcer someone just like me a motivator and in the face of the opponents a thorn in the side I also believe MR wenger was at fault we all knew we would be weak in defence the least MR wenger should have had is a strong fresh midfield after all we had a tough encounter with city + traveling why didn't he use Rosciky, Carzola and Campbell On a different note I like chamberland stature he is tall and has pace and energy why not adapt him to the defensive midfield position with clear emphasis to be in the opponents face The arsenal and Mr wenger need to wake up fast now we have this weekend to prepare for Chelsea if we believe we are title contendeon I intercepted a good few balls and assisted with 2 goals and won the match From the highlights and the analysis I understand the Arsenal were weak in midfield the Arsenal needs an enforcer someone just like me a motivator and in the face of the opponents a thorn in the side I also believe MR wenger was at fault we all knew we would be weak in defence the least MR wenger should have had is a strong fresh midfield after all we had a tough encounter with city + traveling why didn't he use Rosciky, Carzola and Campbell On a different note I like chamberland stature he is tall and has pace and energy why not adapt him to the defensive midfield position with clear emphasis to be in the opponents face The arsenal and Mr wenger need to wake up fast now we have this weekend to prepare for Chelsea if we believe we are title contendeOn a different note I like chamberland stature he is tall and has pace and energy why not adapt him to the defensive midfield position with clear emphasis to be in the opponents face The arsenal and Mr wenger need to wake up fast now we have this weekend to prepare for Chelsea if we believe we are title contenders

The players on each side of him and in front of him play balls to him and then make the run off that pass.

@Dee @ease Like I wrote» IF we play our way and do it right» Players not tracking back, gettin easily knocked off the ball, not pressin off the ball, layin down on the pitch waiting for the ref to call foul, while the opposition runs through us, no that is not AW's tactics gone wrong.

Now instead of making runs off the ball, he too wants to get on the ball and make fancy 5 yard passes like the rest of our midfield.

He was sloppy in possession, but again, Ozil is brilliant when we have runs and pace and some space, his game is not based on working with the ball too long, but nevertheless he was there at the end to get the ball past the line, despite Neuer almost pulling off another sensational save.

Notices: - Jack OLB reduces to a 4i - tech and looks like the b - gap defender (55 Ryan Bowman in this image)- Mike ILB aligns in a 9 - tech and looks like he's got force versus run and back out his side versus pass - Dime ILB aligns in 00 4.5 yards off the ball - Rover drops down close enough to cover the slot receiver on the boundary side - FS rotates back to deep middle

Andy Dalton went to throw it to a running back who was already down on the ground, and the ball went off his lineman's back and deflected into the air.

Smith didn't, either, except on two occasions when he lost his head, checked off the coach's plays and ran the ball on sneaks.

But Kane consistently had Chiellini beaten from the first whistle, skipping past him on the dribble, making Chiellini read runs off the ball wrong, and continually pulling him out of position and left well outside the play with his hold - up play and distribution.

An unfit alexis looses the ball a lot but it don't matter coz xhaka will loose it way more as ozil waits for the ball and monreal backs off and let's anyone run threw on goal aswell as the weak mentality of kicking the ball out of play for no reason and not even trying to argue with the officials we might as well chuck Alexis in and out him in goal then put giroud at CB!

If Palace beat the Spuds which they could, after winning away at Liverpool and if we Beat Leicester, the mood in the camps would shift into Arsenal's favour and with the NLD up next, we would have a great opportunity to knock the stuffing out of their proud rooster on a ball and send it running off to KFC to hide in a bargain bucket.

Geiberger registered his protest the next day when he teed off on the first hole, threw his driver to his caddie and ran down the fairway toward his ball.

Can some one tell me why 4 -1 mid week Ozil in middle Oxy wide then he changes it a game that had Welbeck running at the goal keeper scores hatrick and then he plays Ozil on the right never touched the ball for 20 minutes and not one shot or attempt at goal The man Wenger has lost it surely he can't keep changing things and just play the way he wants It wouldn't mater who he buys he will still play that person out off position it's like he thinks he knows best about a player like Ozil who is a play maker not a tackler has not played that way ever is it just me or am I barking up the wrong tree CB

That's the position where Philippe Coutinho made his first start (although, as a righty who likes to cut infield, he's an awkward fit on the right side and is unlikely to stay there), and it's likely where Dembélé will play, unencumbered by having to also make attacking off - ball runs.

Sanogo off and Cazorla runs around in the middle controls the ball and feeds Ozil or the Ox on any counter we have.

Compared to Carrick's numbers from last season — when he remained influential, his introduction into the starting XI in October setting United off on a lengthy unbeaten run — Jorginho is seeing more of the ball, is marginally more accurate in his distribution and is proving to be more creative.

Roberto Firmino ran with his man and shoulder charged him off the ball with such ferocity that the Spurs player was left sprawled on the pitch.

In full flow, however, he carried the ball from deep, running at the retreating Burnley defenders as they backed off, before cutting inside Michael Keane on the edge of the penalty area and curling a brilliant right - footed shot past Tom Heaton into the bottom corner.

Direct running at defenders, a threat on the counter, and a good amount of running for the team on and off the ball during the 25 minutes he was on the pitch.

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Imagine what he could do in similar circumstances, with the likes of Ander Herrera running on from deep to support his attempts to bring anarchy into the final third, Martial feeding off the chaos created by his work on and off the ball and Juan Mata slipping through the cracks into more central positions to dictate play.

Leroy Sane, clearly in the mood to inflict harm on the home side, collected the ball on the left and then set off on a slalom - type run that wouldn't have looked out of place in the winter Olympics.

Saiz set off on a marauding run in the 61st minute, ducking and diving through the Derby defence, only to fire a shot over the bar after he was unable to get the ball to Alioski.