Sentences with phrase «season as central striker»

He had problems to adapt to Wenger mediocre gameplay and little ambition... He showed his best during the first half of the season as Central Striker untill guess who changed him back to the wing... yes «Marvellous knows it all» Arsene Weneger.

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Welbeck is fantastic, he only played 13 games as central striker last season and scored 8 times.

Yes he could be alot better at finishing, but let's see, maybe we got a new sturridge... What I am mad on Wenger about is not so much the lack of a proven striker to our ranks... No it's that we haven't bought a central defender to cover, but most important, we haven't bought a defensive midfielder, that we need so much!!? Wenger makes the same mistakes over and over, everybody else can see it, just not him... hmm: / but still lets respect him as a man and judge when we are atleast half way into the season... COYG!!!!

Just putting it out there but I would like to see the Ox given a go as a central striker sometime during the season.

Having added a striker and midfielder, a central defender is arguably next at the top of his to - do list as he looks to rebuild the spine of a team that finished 10th in the Premier League last season and is short of options at the back with John Terry, Gary Cahill and Kurt Zouma arguably not enough.

He was second fiddle to Zlatan Ibra at PSG, and was forced into playing in a foreign position on the RW all season where previously at Napoli and earlier he was bred and groomed as a central striker.

With the signing of Draxler it is believed that Wenger will be happy with the number of wide forwards at his disposal for next season which will include Welbeck, who Wenger feels needs more time before playing as the teams main central striker.

Here's my take on Walcott; the typical English hype got to him and he over estimated his own abilities in recent seasons, wanting to play as striker without first establishing himself as a world class winger forgatting that even Henry, Ronaldo and even Messi had to first prove their undoubted abilities on the wing befroe going central, Wenger let him suit himself, he hit rock bottom when he wasn't even selected for the Euros and has finally decided to dust himself up and work his way back up, why cant we see that and just give him the necessary support?

The young playmaker, who can operate in the hole or even as a central striker, has netted ten goals in 42 appearances for the Amsterdam club this season.

We were playing quite well in a few games earlier this season, as I remember it most of these games included a speedy attack with Iwobi, Ozil and Walcott playing behind a free roaming Sanchez as central striker.

When used as a central striker in the latest premier league season, he scored 8 times out of 13 appearances.

Also, don't forget last season Sanchez scored most of his goals as a central striker until Wenger moved him back to the left wing when his goals understandably dried up a little bit.

As of the end of last season we needed a central defender and a striker, ideally before the Euros, but that hasn't even been started on.

Milan are likely to continue strengthening in the coming weeks as there are still areas of the squad that need to be addressed, namely a creative central midfielder and another striker to take some of the pressure off Silva next season, but this is undoubtedly turning out to be a very impressive summer transfer window, the first window under new owner Yonghong Li's stewardship.

If like the last two seasons we are going to go for a single world class player then we could possible go for Pogba, but that would still leave potential problems in central defense and striker positions and possibly Goalkeeper as well.

As for the last 8 seasons no recognised striker nor central defender.

The smart money, however, says that the Gunners will be looking to add a striker, central midfielder, centre back and keeper and so this report on the stats website Squawka.com might be of some use to the prof as it lists the top 10 performers in defence across the top five leagues in Europe this season.

He has shown this season (34 goals in 32 games) that he can thrive when played as the central striker.

Despite lining up in a central midfield position in Quanjian's Best XI for the season, Rooney was generally deployed as a striker with 21 of his 30 appearances coming up front and the remaining nine in midfield.

Diabate, who can play as a central striker or on the wing, moved to the Corsican club after two seasons with Guingamp.

Capable of operating on either flank, as a central attacking midfielder and also as a secondary striker, the former Rennes star has been a key member of Tuchel's side this season.

Capable of operating on the left of a front three, or leading the line as a central striker, Keke has proved his ability in the both positions for the U18s this season.

We need a central midfielder almost as much as we need another striker because the current mob haven't been able to pass water this season but alas.......

After all, Danny Welbeck showed himself to be hard - worker rather than clinical finisher in the Arsenal attack last season while the fact that one can still count on two hands the number of times Theo Walcott has started as a central - striker during his decade long Arsenal career speaks to the fact that the boss still sees him as a wide - forward.

Personally, I don't see Mkhitaryan as a winger, that is a position United need to strengthen this summer, among others, so the Armenian can occupy a central role, behind the striker, which is a position he has been dangerous in this season, providing United play in a similar formation to this season, of course.

Sturridge's best position is definitely as a central striker too, but in his best season to date he also shared that role — so there are no qualms about him playing as part of two upfront — however he does have the versatility to be deployed as a wide inside forward, where he can cut in and shoot — although this negates his natural goal - poaching ability.

As we gradually begin to countdown to the kick - off of the 2015/2016 EPL season with the compliment of a fully fit squad to select from (while still expecting few more summer signings), one debate that could be foremost on manager Arsene Wenger's mind will be if Theo Walcott should be converted into a central striker... Continue reading →

However, he is also impressively versatile having filled in capably as both a central defender and as a support striker this season.