Sentences with phrase «teams played against ball»

Several of those top - 10 teams played against ball - control teams in Week 1, including Arkansas and Navy (and Florida didn't play anybody), while the Trojans played against a fellow up - tempo team, meaning the game had more total snaps available.

Not exact matches

To give them a fighting chance against more talented teams, they emphasized fundamentals — tough defense, team play, ball control, hustle.

The Englishman can make runs down the flanks, catch on to quick through balls and would be better suited to play on the counter attack, which we may have to do against a team like Manchester City.

When Arsenal plays against smaller teams, we somehow manage to win the ball back, but playing against biger teams we play like basketball, leting the enemy attack and hope that they do nt succeed in scoring, rather then us winning the ball back.

i have been saying this for along time arsenal would be better surve with a defrent stile of play maker one who can shoot head the ball take on defender dribble into space.we all see it over on over again you don't need one killers pass to win game alot of team don't have ozil on create lots of chance against us.

Ozil is only very good if you have a better team than all the teams you are playing against, he needs to be in a team that has top players in every position and they all basically have to be very comfortable on the ball.

Teams beat us bec we have trouble - ties to win the ball of the team which we are playing against.

They both love arsenal, they up the tempo when we are losing and they have the nerves to score against any team unlike ozil Since we lost fabregas, no one plays the ball over the top for us frequently, then we lost rosicky that drives through the middle, then we lost super Wilshere that drives through the middle and plays the ball over the top to injury and ref mismanagement, since then we've been playing the safe pass to the wing to cross like other EPL teams.

They came up against Team Apuli who shed themselves of a bad losing skid a couple weeks ago and are now playing their best ball of the year..

CLOVIS WEST KEYS TO VICTORY: Against top teams the Golden Eagles have been near or above their 74.1 points per game scoring average, and if they can score at least 70 points and play solid team ball with the kind of defense they have shown — except in the second game against Centennial - Las Vegas when they lost 70 - 46 at the MLK in Stockton — coach Craig Campbell and his girls should win again just like they did in a 70 - 67 overtime victory over Poly at the NiAgainst top teams the Golden Eagles have been near or above their 74.1 points per game scoring average, and if they can score at least 70 points and play solid team ball with the kind of defense they have shown — except in the second game against Centennial - Las Vegas when they lost 70 - 46 at the MLK in Stockton — coach Craig Campbell and his girls should win again just like they did in a 70 - 67 overtime victory over Poly at the Niagainst Centennial - Las Vegas when they lost 70 - 46 at the MLK in Stockton — coach Craig Campbell and his girls should win again just like they did in a 70 - 67 overtime victory over Poly at the Nike TOC.

St. Louis is still enjoying the win against the Nationals, but when it comes time to play ball again, they will ride the momentum of a four - run ninth inning on Friday night that saw the team's offense produce nine runs.

Miami doesn't want to play junk ball, but it has had to do so; junk ball isn't going to work against the Florida State team we've seen so far this year.

The coaching staff has decided to give personnel looks to the opposing offense to encourage running the ball against them and is willing to play the percentages of them being able to stop enough multiple play march down the field drives and be stingy enough about stopping touchdowns to allow this team to hold others to a low enough score to allow an average offensive showing by our offense to score enough points to win.

I'll be the first to admit counter attacking football and Arsenal should go together like cookies and cream but ever since the invicibles teams have refused adamantly to play high defensive lines against us and counters do not work if the opposition has a defensive 5 or 6 set up near the edge of their box when you finally get the ball up there.

Besides several teams who have questions surrounding one or possibly two players, there is no squad that has so many issues heading into the final week of the transfer window... even Monaco, who have lost numerous players from their starting 11 have less controversy swirling in and around their club and they have champion's league play to contend with this season... just think of how ridiculous this situation is especially considering that we have had the same manager for over 20 years... no team should be better organized than ours... if nothing else, that should be the one advantage this team holds over all others, yet the exact opposite has occurred... this fact is even more disturbing considering the main argument against removing Wenger from his managerial position was that there was no suitable replacement and that people feared some sort of perceived drop - off if a new manager was brought into the mix... based on what we've witnessed since the time of his contract renewal a monkey with a magic eight ball could have done an adequate job... I hate to make jokes, in light of our current dilemma, but this team is so screwed up if I don't laugh about it, the only plausible response is to either cry or do something incredibly destructive... just look around this squad and try to see what our delusional manager sees that allow him to make such positive statements about our current team

The work of a DM is quite clear cut... Jam the opposition radar, don't let them find their range, constitute a nuisance to the opposition, if and when you win the ball, give it to a better ball playing / retaining team - mate, never complicate issues... 16 year old Reece Oxford did that superbly against Ozil especially, Le Coq for the most part has also done it.

lst season at stamford bridge, was the first time i saw that 4 -1-4-1 formation being used, and for some weird reason i feel a very strange negative vibe and well all know the outcome.the manager has come back with this formation and its not yielding result, but he still sticks with it.i do nt know much about formations dear friends, but if you are playing a slow dm in arteta and a very very slow cb, then you are toast against quality teams with sound tactics.wen playing wellbeck as a lone striker, i think 4 -2-3-1, will work better, but if we have a big player like oliver (boooos), thn we can try the 4 -1-4-1, thingy cos he can hold the ball for our midfielders to run in.but on the overall, shame on wenger for not giving our defence a good cover DM.NO BODY PLAYS A SLOW DM / CB AND EXPECT TO B REGARDED AS CHAMPIONSHIP MATERIAL.IT HURTS GUYS, REALLY HURTS.

GK, GK, GK we don't need one we have 2 maybe 3 decent options, on the other hand on the striker OG can play wonders at times (usually against lesser teams) but today he hardly touched the ball against ALBANIA yes ALBANIA....

We still struggle, look shaky and uncomfortable when we come up against any team that plays a high intensity game, teams that don't give us time on the ball, in your face etc all give us a hard time, Watford did that in the first half but poor final 3rd quality saved us, in the second half they were tired and knackered so we took advantage.

With Mertesacker in the side, the team will have to be very cautious to play a high defensive line because as we saw against Chelsea, one precise through ball can take the big German out of the game.

It a shame no one has stats for drawing opposition players out of play which Wilshere dose so well but sometimes his cought with the ball and he gets heavy tackle against him, I would like to see them both on the pitch and see what hapens, I'm sure it will be a high scoring game for both teams

«The Premier League is not always about football qualities, it is about physically, second balls, and in that aspect the team is too weak at the moment and we have many difficulties against teams like this who play really direct and are aggressive.

We played like a small team with big balls against a big team.

We lost against Watford we expect to win against Chelsea are we serious???? I dreamed we lost 4 1 I could not watch the match after we let the second in that nightmare was on I thought >> >> > as for that first goal it should not have stood as the goal came from dangerous play >> >> > unfortunately the team fell apart the unity has gone out the window >> >> players make school errors yet they earn 100 000 a week crazy carry on >> >> > I am sick of it I have had it with this punch >> > embarrassing carry on cant defend cant attack they only thing they can do is dwell with the ball side ways I am sick of this dwelling about with the ball

......... Giroud should get used to the fact that walcott offers something else like pace, GBD - tech (Get behind defenders) and he's still in his prime...... Ball protection, hold - up play and low pace (though useful sometimes) won't win u all the games against certain troublesome teams...... Then there's the Law of Succession...... today ur turn, Moro another's.....

We can not win against top teams if we can not dictate the game from the ball possession and if we can not create chances from open play.

He played well against a team renowned for sitting back making things difficult so would of had confidence, also DZ where likely to try and play ball so he would have had some space.

Unless there is a huge gulf in class with us playing against a really poor team, we should kick goal kicks long and we should try for balls over the top, that way we are either creating a chance or we are giving them the possession so we can set up to counter.

Arsenal main task this year is to improve on keeping the ball and stop teams from playing well against them by pressing effectively, goals is not the problem.

Kelly King, who coached Vea at Milpitas, on a play from his junior season: «We were down ready to score on the goal line against another team and the sprint champion from the other team [Delshawn Mitchell of Wilcox High School], we had fumbled the ball and he picked it up and was running down the sideline.

«In softball, you play your best and in the big games against the top teams there's always a break, a bloop single here, a spinning ball there.

They are a tough team to play against, they are a young team who like to play with the ball so I'm happy they have started well.»

Saying Ozil has been poor for us is an understatement, in fact he has been very woeful for the past 10 matches and I totally agree with you that we have been playing 10 against 11 all these while, he just can't fight for the ball or his life and whenever he doesn't play very well, he puts the whole team in big danger and i still don't know why Araene can drop him for at least 2 matches and play Iwobi in his position

Giroud becomes a SQUAD player, bring him on in last 10 - 15 mins kinda thing to hold up ball or against teams that like to play rugby (cough stoke cough).

Arsenal can not win against top teams from an open play, if the players can not even possess the ball longer than two touches.

I agree when I see one shot on goal against us and them playing the entire team behind the ball, our CB's should be able to handle that and Cech should be able to come out easily for long balls.

If he plays with Bellerin from the right am sure we'll see more from him, and i wont just support playing Ramsey in every match, lets start rotating please, give Campbell some games too against lower teams and rest Ramsey sometimes (any time he gets injured we always feel it even tho he's been wasteful with balls) or Rest Carzola and play Ramsey in CM so Campbell can play the RW..

You play against a team with 23 per cent of the ball and they create more chances, have more shots on target.

I agree with you that AW has done some astounding things for the club, but he has also made some reall balls ups and week in week out it seems he is not able to offer up a tactical plan B or utilise key players in key positions against the relevant sides we play, (not starting with Rosicky and Walcott on Saturday was one such instance) I realise that no team wins all their games and I know that we have been under the cosh for quiet a few years now, but what annoys me more than anything else is the lack of Visible ambition, we spent three weeks messing around with Beliek and only just managed to get Paulista who was an uncertainty due to a work visa.

We need some midfielders that can be strong and battle for us!!!! al our midfield are forward thinking and there is such a big hole from them and the back 4, It does not matter who we have playing at the back we will always get attacked with goals against us with the style of midfielders we have, Let get some steel in the middle of the park, Lets bring in some players that other teams feel fear playing against us, Look back at our best teams and we have always had players that will get back and cover and can tackle and win balls in the middle of the park, So many of our midfield now can, t even get back never mind win the ball back when we need it, It is NOT about the price of players it is all about buying players that can balance a good strong team, At time we need to buy a player who is not a star but is good at doing what we need him to do,

Cazorla is not the best defender and against tough teams he may struggle — he was clearly playing a deeper role — and vs. Chelsea he would thus be needed to sometimes defend with the DM and stand strong on the ball.

But when teams in the BPL play against us they have realised that all you have to do is play with men behind the ball whenever we are in possesion of the ball....

«When you play against this team you know they're going to have a lot of the ball.

playing high line against all the teams with the same attacking mentality 2: this is most important problem, unable to keep the ball and take it to final third against high pressing teams....

Walcott though limited would be very confident against Man united Cech (No word he has shocked me, Wow this guy is too great for a team with wenger as coach) Bellerin (He really has to improve his attacking side nd try to take on defenders) Chambers (Hez really good against de big guns & always gud in de middle of de park) Kos (Hez been a bit de-moltivated due to wengers lack of ambition hope Man u will do) Mon (link - up with walcott on the left would be breath of fresh air) Coq (great tackler, stamina & power) Ramsey (great passer of de ball, professional & great stamina) Sanchez (on the right, so he won't always play predictably) Walcott (thats where he was effective the last time against man u) Welbeck (Pace, goals & trickery) Giroud (Power, bully, link - up & goals) 4 -4-2 formation

Had we been playing a world class team like Bayern Munich, or Barca and we managed a 2 - 1 win against the flow of play I would say well done but it was West Ham Arsenal should have been able to push them back into their half and keep the ball up their end for 60 % of the game creating chance after chance WITHOUT being caught on a counter.

Mr Fox, that shows how utterly stupid wenger has been sanchez should have gone in summer right at the beginning of the transfer window, that gives arsenal enough time to get someone else in but stupid wenger keeping too much faith in certain players to the annoyance of other players and on top of that wenger can only play one style of football and that has allowed other teams to nullify our players and sanchez gave the ball away almost 30 times against Southampton I believe that alone warrants you being benched under ferguson

WE NEED PLAYERS WHO ACTUALLY HAVE THE BALLS AND ABILITY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE WHEN PLAYING AGAINST A STUBBON DEFENSIVE TEAM, WHETHER ITS CHELSEA OR IN EUROPE.

Yes, we had some chances ourselves but our lack of quality, strength in depth and ball watching team deserved to loose against a team who go out to play the game.

Yea, cause he played against Everton when they are low on morale, Everton that are playing very poorly due to the high no of players signed.the problem is he has never played well against technically strong and physical teams like Stoke, Chelsea, bayern...... simply put, he doesn't have the balls................