Sentences with phrase «team loses possession»

Swapping for a player that has a better scoring record, better passing stats, and is not so greedy that most times he gets the ball the team loses possession?

His work rate and ability to mark when his team loses possession makes him extra special.

He lacks the ability to track back, help the team to defend and win back the ball when the team loses possession.

Not exact matches

i think some people have a short memory, not so long ago we would have lost these kind of games, do you remember the days when we had the lion, s share of possession and god knows how many chances to score without doing so everybody was giving out, yesterday everybody (including the players) knows we didn, t play well, had one chance and scored, we need to look at the bigger picture every team is going to have blips the season is a long one, look at liverpool they reminded me of us they drew a blank having missed loads of chances!

These are the players who lose possession more than any other players in Arsenal team

when u see guys like ramsey playing (not jus this game) who prefers style over substance, losing possession in centre and leading to goals, then u know team has a problem.if u were to lose possession and try to be stylish, u wud get instantly removed at a team like barca, real.u cant hav players who lose possession, do wayward passes and yet expect to win.both things cant co-exist....

I think that Alexis stifles the way that Arsene likes the team to play by failing to pass at the right time and losing the ball when in possession.

Team Shamberg actually lost the tip but forced a jump ball on that possession which led to a tough bucket on the other end which meant victory.

It's you guys that have been going on about Arsenal having much possession and losing games, but now we have 35 % possession against teams like Villa, Swansea, Stoke, Palace, Spuds etc but win the games» blah blah.

We don't close teams down and harass them as soon as we lose possession.

But the» 96 — 97 team, which lost in the NCAA final to Arizona, ran the same stuff with less famous personnel (guards Wayne Turner and Anthony Epps) and better statistics, forcing turnovers on 29.8 % of their opponents» possessions, a higher rate than any team in kenpom.com's database, which only goes back to 2002.

or how to attack without losing your shape should you turn the ball over Wenger teams have always been vulnerable to counter attacks they just won a lot because the attackers were SO good they dd not concede enough possession for many teams to get the chance to counter.

It was that awful standing and waiting around for a long time near a fully crowded penalty box and hoping something comes of it... the style of play that has plagued the team all season, and the thing that almost inevitably comes of nothing but lost possession.

Our team had to fight tooth and nail in that game and we were still losing out on possession and not creating too much up top until the counters towards the end.

@Big Gun I think thats it in a nutshell... We wait for teams to lose possession before we start our attacks.

cos dennis tracked back who is he to give up when possession is lost an ball watch while the other team scores

Against better teams again we will keep losing, at least before we could keep possession and create chances but we still remained in 4th place battles.

Allright firstly, we will talk about our lose to man utd... its no good we keep losing by team with most weakness defend... its hurt inside bit still has something we learn... it is the possession... we r winning too much possession against man utd, so we are first step on back to our beautiful way of play... and we are dreaming on that... we will back to those way and win games...

I keep saying it and will continue saying it, We have lost the one thing that we could hide behind (Beautiful Football), since that summer that Cesc and Nasri left they left with our beautiful possession and dominating football, all of a sudden we struggle to create chances, we come up against any half decent team and they will dominate us, this never happened but since 2011 - 12 our football stinks with no direction, slow, clueless boring, players not closing down but instead just jog around waiting for the other team to lose possession..

Deny it all you want but since Fabregas left Arsenal our frre flowing football has really declined.It feels like am the only one who thinks we lack real penetration and ideas in the final third of opponents.Also in 14/15 sesson I lost count of our misplaced passes and poor gameplay overall.We've been very very poor in our passing game for some seasons now.For a game like this to work you need players whonhold the ball very well and are possession efficient.Look at the Arsenal starting lineup and compare it to that of years back and you'll know what I mean.We have very few possession efficient players which is causing this problem.We don't have many players who can actually hold the ball and play the ball.That's what differentiates us from the top passing teams.

Having said all that, Germany last night played the tiki - take football with 65 % possession and lost 2 — 0 deservedly to France who played more like a typical German team, despite only 35 % possession!

Whether draxler or not arsenal is still a weaker team, is it something bad if we have both draxler and Sanchez in the same team fighting for places, just imagine van persie, Sanchez, ozil, carzola are in the same team, with likes of inform konsieny, mustafi, and konlansinic, and good holding midfider,... our problem with this 343 information or 3421 information apart from Wenger playing players out of position we don't have a strong holdmidfider that retrieve the ball back when we lost possession... Kant's is perfect example of that, look at the job he does at Chelsea is amazing...... without a good holding midfielder our defenders are vulnerable

you wont see a cazorla or a xavi losing possession, not only that but they drive the team forward.but unfortunately u hav players like ramsey, who do nt drive the attack like the above two, also he loses possessions sometimes by attempting fancy moves.its sad ramsey gives more importance to style over substance.unfortunately, i feel players like ramsey hav contributed to arsenal's inability... imagine a team like barcelona playing with him, constantly losing posession leading to conceding goals and so on.difference is barca's manager wud take them out, while under wenger u r rewarded with the nxt game!!!! i do nt deny he was top notch a season or two back, but now hes a liability imo and need to change his mentality.even that opportunity he got against tottenham where thought longer before taking a shot thus giving defender time to get to him and take off the ball.i bet if it was cazorla, arsenal wud hav scored...

Except mourinho parked 2 double decker busses and would tell his team to lose possession on purpose like a p*ss y

they have reasons for every match they win and the ones they fail to win... but can you explain why a team will have 70 % possession and still loses.

If you assess the last 10 games Arsenal have lost at home, it was about dangerous possession for the teams who won.

You begin to pretty clearly notice how a team begins to zero in on an eventual score with tighter, more purposeful possessions; suddenly, the team doesn't lose possession as much, the passing penetrates the defense a little more, and a goal becomes nearly imminent.

Once Arsenal score an early goal or lineup against a good passing team their possession stats takes a tumble, they then lose their shape, every Arsenal player drop deep and defend.

Herbert Chapman played a WM formation, in numbers it is a 3 -2-2-3 formation, it allowed for narrow play while pressing as soon as the team lost the ball, the formation lends itself to possession based football as well.

and that is equivalent to losing possession, bc most of the time, when we lump it up, the other team gets it.

Even in the match against villa — ozil lost possession a number of times — against better teams it can make be disastrous... till he is ready to go into a tackle or a 50 - 50 ball with a hope that he can win the ball — he should be played against teams which are not quick / fast... i worry wenger praising him too much — rosiscky is much better especially with coquellin providing cover...

Yes I suppose the team does lose possession when our opponents have to kick off from the half way line again and again.

Typical Arsenal indeed with lost of aimless possession, Arsene Wenger is a poor man's Pep Guardiola he has failed to get the team up for this game they've started way too slowly!

Just running and ignoring his team mates, runs into a dead ends ending up losing possession because the chance is gone.

The defending team wants to regain the possession at the earliest, but can lose the defensive shape, «You can not have the ball.»

Marquette lost the ensuing face off, which led to an ongoing series of possessions back and forth where neither team could find a game winner.

He loses possession too often in deep positions, but Leipzig's counter-pressing system, where the team's directive is to win the ball back as soon as they lose it, can account for those mistakes.

They don't control the game particularly well for a team at this level — just 55 percent possession — and they don't press opponents when they lose the ball.

But watching him as the season has gone on, I have become increasingly unconvinced of his contribution; there have been plenty of instances of top - class composure and control, some tough - tackling, and some generally methodical, business - like play, but, for me, there remains a sense that he loses possession too much, and that his displacement of Carrick in the team is not entirely fair.

His Inter team survived with 10 men against Guardiola's Barca, holding possession for just 14 percent of the match (they lost, but went through on aggregate score).

Aaron Ramsey, playing in his new deeper role, alongside Arteta, lost possession far too often, even as Rosicky and Cazorla tried to squirm out of tricky situations and drive the team forward.

As was also the case 12 months ago, the team's abrupt coming together did not arrive through an abandonment of their manager's principles, as some fans had come to hope for after losing faith in the central conceit of Van Gaal's approach that prioritised the system over individuals and its «boring», possession - led style of play.

It was a cagey start to the contest with both teams guilty of losing possession during the opening exchanges, but the first real piece of quality saw the Blues take the lead after only nine minutes.

Speaking with Tottenham fans after the game it was agreed that Arsenal was in fact the better team throughout the game but just became too wasteful with possession, and often losing the ball with wayward passing which Ramsey was guilty of on several occasions.

Lava Bubbles also make an appearance in the Wii game Mario Sports Mix, where teams must avoid losing possession in the Bowser's Castle court.