Sentences with phrase «side possession football»

New tactics (tired of this side to side possession football with no killer instinct and strike rate),

Not exact matches

This despite the fact that in any given game each football sides will have at least 100 possessions.

However, as last season painfully taught the Frenchman, possession is not nine tenths of football as it is the law and those heavy and damaging away drubbings at the hands of Liverpool, Man City, Everton and our opponents this weekend Chelsea have forced the manager to re-evaluate his tactics against the bigger sides and boy has it paid off, as Wenger explained in a report on the Arsenal website.

Thus, if Arsenal do play their possession - based Football, and guard against pacey counter-attacks from Martinez's side, the game could become an atritional one, with both sides working out each other and attaining parity at the end of 90 minutes.

Arsenal were unable to break down a resolute Aston Villa side at Villa Park as Martin O'Neill's men played good possession football and the north London side struggled to impose themselves on the home side.

Here, you are talking about two Footballing sides that play with different philosophies; Arsenal play possession football, embellished by intricate passing moves.

I fell in love with this football, slow in possession at times but pulling the opposition from side to side and then, with a flaming cut and thrust, the ball someone sped up and ended up nestled in the bottom corner.

As the great Liverpool sides of the 1970s and 1980s discovered, success in two - legged European ties often requires a different kind of football, and the ability to retain possession and close out a game, something that Tottenham's high - energy style does not easily accommodate.

That's particularly evident in the current Liverpool side, with possession football a key aspect of Klopp's philosophy.

Pep Guardiola's side are not only playing the most thrilling, possession - dominant football in Europe this season, they are also a tremendously ruthless winning machine, owning a commanding 16 - point lead at the top of the Premier League, the League Cup already in the bag and favourites with the bookmakers to add the Champions League their haul.

They were just fantastic, the one and two touch and effort when out of possession to get the ball back, that was a [Pep] Guardiola side on Saturday as some of their football was just splendid.

His impeccable metronomic passing and football intelligence triggered Ajax's positional game (in possession they morphed into a 2 -3-2-3 shape), one - touch combination football was second nature to them, and the same could be said of Wenger's sides.

I'm not talking about possession football, one can have an attacking mindset without dominating the ball as clearly expressed by his early FC Porto and Chelsea sides.