Sentences with phrase «solid game in the midfield»

Nabil Bentaleb: Beaten for pace by Mahrez for Leicester's goal, but generally had a solid game in the midfield.

Not exact matches

Mohamed Elneny played a big role in calming the nerves with a solid midfield display, and he also had a rare impact going forward with two fine assists to level the game.

It does seem like Ramsey and Xhaka are now the regular startes in central midfield but I reckon Coquelin can force his way in there, especially in the games against our big rivals in which Arsenal need to be more compact and defensively solid.

No wonder Ozil (a brilliant footballer who should be the icing on the cake in front of a solid defence and competitive midfield) and Sanchez (who gives 110 % in every game) are looking dejected.

wenger needs to broaden his thinking and horizon... and think beyond sanchez, so many players can replace him, carrasaco, even baruwa (of lipstik) whom we just saw in the emirates cup, dembele etc... i just watched liverpool trash bayern... liverpool have always has a sharp attack, now their defence seems solid... wenger is just a straight jacket, i do nt care what others are doing, i know it all coach and it will really hurt come begining of season, unless he prunes his pride and look over the wall at what his competitors are doing that is strengthing the weakness and planning ahead... our midfield was weak and indeed still is... we glad about lacazzete, but unless our defence gives 110 all games, and we look at life beyond sanchez... we will have our fellings hurt this season

They say goals will be distributed from midfielders to strikers, lets say: Alexis scores 20, Walcott 20, OG 20, mid scores around 20, thats 80 goals, and we all know OG wont score 20 plus, Chelsea won with 74 goals, but their defence was so solid that they did nt need more goals, while our style demands goals, if we do nt score in first half, our players are starting to panic, something like against Swansea last year, we were better but they won, to win those type games you need someone to produce something special, OG simply cant do it

Martinez vs Mert or Gabi — Martinez is solid in defense plus has some education in midfield meaning he can read the game well plus create play.

Predictable and risky... Mert is poor in the air and will be bullied by Austin and in boffal and tadic they have a couple of nippy and skillful forwards who will trouble the defence... Much will depend on whether this very average midfield can control enough of the game to allow the attack to do their job their defence is solid but if the three are on form it should be enough to see them off..

As for the big games, we need to be more solid in Midfield.

love your articles galen this just proves the sheer stupidity and arrogance of our manager what are players like ozil and giroud still doing at arsenal after their first season ozil should probably be sold back to shalke in a soft league and who knows he might play his best football and it might help in his national team form cazorla is a good player but not world class he can not be classified on the same level against players like silva iniesta and the old arsenal fabregas sanchez is also good but he needs to add more to his game for him to be put on the same level with world beaters like suarez neymar and bale koscienly is also good but he has too many injury troubles coquelin is a class player but he is not world class he is good technically but not a dominant midfielder like schneiderlin and fernandinho as for cech he is there among the best keepers and he is the only positive in this arsenal team.Needs to work on his distribution though the back four is solid but has alot of light weights strong and powerful foward might find it easy

Wenger should experiment with Paulista in DMF against smaller teams in the league if Coquelin is injured or in the cup games if he doesn't buy a solid physical midfielder.

The nineteen year - old has a pretty good match away at Bastia, and he grew into the game as it went on, with the holding midfielder looking solid in the opening stages, but gave away a couple or needless free - kicks, and have the ball away a couple of times in the middle of the park.

Brendan Rodgers could stick with the more solid looking 3 -5-2 formation which he used against Everton, and in the game against Anzhi, and the extra defender could come in useful when it comes to stopping Chelsea's attacking midfield trident.

Wanyama won a solid 50 % of his tackles in what was a hotly contested midfield battle, and hardly put a foot wrong all game.

A solid midfielder who has the skill to be a contributor in the passing game, Matuidi would be perfect foil for Miralem Pjanic to bomb forward at will while keeping the area in front of the defence clear.

Again, he's a fullback, typically the realm of straight lines and curled crosses, yet over the past two games, Juve's solid central structure — three center backs and two deeper midfielders — has allowed him to drift in - field and show off the kind of vision, delicate touch, and pure ball - striking that's supposed to be exclusive to center mids.