Sentences with phrase «tall defender»

I wouldn't mind any young, quick and tall defender with good ball control will do for me!

2 strong tall defenders in 90 % of the cases are enough!

Comfortable as a central defender, the over six feet tall defender who moved to Swedish side Brommapojkarna in January, has also played as a right back or as a defensive midfielder.

Defense wise I would love to see a speedy tall defender to replace Mertesacker in the longer run.

-- Mustafi: Good spirit but needs I think he needs a calmer and taller defender as his partner, because of his defending style.

Coming up against Hull City, Arsenal do not have a lot of tall defenders, when it comes to set - piece situations, and might have to rely immensely on Welbeck, Mertesacker and Hayden, if he plays, to bail them out of free - kicks and corners that Hull would want to make the most of.

When you cross the ball and your so called tall defender can't nod or when a very small nacho who is not a natural cb is being used often or when your defenders will allow an attacker to drag him into the 18yard area forgetting that players score goals not space.

The height of a central defender should not matter too much, as long as he has good anticipation, marking, passing skills, the ability to read the game and accompanied by a strong tall defender.

Mertesacker - typed, tall defender with positioning as main strength would be great, but with at least a bit of pace and vertical leap.

Now Arsenal have Giroud, who can play against the stronger, taller defenders, although Lucas also proved with his solo goal that he has plenty of strength and fight in his determination to score.

2 of Koscielny's 3 Premier League goals have been headed ones too, which shows the Frenchman's aerial prowess despite not being that tall a defender.

He is not the tallest defender (just under 6 foot) but he rarely gets beaten in the air — he is strong, athletic and very fast.

Just play a deep defence, and lineup your tallest defenders and CDMs, and there, you've found our weak spot!

Without Embiid, the Sixers don't have tall defenders to put on LaMarcus Aldridge.

The tall defender is on loan from Chelsea and is scheduled to stay in Germany for 2016/17 as well, which is a decision the Blues may want to revisit.

What's more impressive is that he isn't the tallest defenders around, but he has stood up to the likes of Ibrahimovic (remember that evening when he had the Swede in his pocket), Ba, etc..

Melo should please come and we need another tall defender in case of jury.

A couple of high balls into the Cambridge penalty area came to nothing as Falcao stood no chance in the aerial battles against the taller defenders.