Sentences with phrase «than centre back»

Offensively, Stephens averages fewer shots on goal than centre back Dunk (0.5 per match compared to 0.7 per match), also only averaging 0.6 key passes per outing.

A decent centre back is better than no centre back at all!

Signing a striker IMO is more important than a centre back..

The Arsenal and France international star Laurent Koscielny can thank his lucky stars that he turned out to be a defender, and a central defender at that, because only goal keepers have a longer shelf life as professional footballers than centre backs.

ultimately we need two big tacklers anchoring our midfield that can distribute like Busquets as EVERY other player other than our centre backs go forward with no regard.

Not exact matches

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«The unit at the centre of JP Morgan Chase's $ 2 billion trading loss has built up positions totalling more than $ 100 billion in asset - backed securities and structured products - the complex, risky bonds at the centre of the financial crisis in 2008.

The focus of the Jubilee Centre reminds us that we need to reach further back into history than we have been accustomed to if we are to revive Catholic education: in particular, we need to learn from the great Catholic schools and universities of the pre-Reformation era.

If the centre is still softer than the edges after cooling, break into smaller pieces (setting aside the done, crisp edges), and put pliable pieces back into the oven until dried out.

Despite receiving a little stick due to the fact Arsenal fans wanted a world class centre back rather than a # 2.5 million buy from Bolton, I think Holding seems to be pretty promising.

I believe that Calum Chambers will be a centre back, more than a right back and I want to develop him more as a centre back — even a central midfielder.

This means that as things currently stand, we only have two fit centre backs in Chambers and Holding going into the start of the season and so we could see these two pairing up on the pitch sooner than we think!

A centre back was needed, preferrably a better one than Koscielny or Mertesacker.

Do we need 4 back up centre backs and could we do better than Debuchy Holding Chambers and mertesacker?

Manchester United missed out on the likes of Mats Hummels and Thomas Vermaelen this summer, and their lack of a world class centre back has been exposed on several occasions already this season, no more so than in Sunday's 5 - 3 thrashing by Premier League new boys Leicester City.

The Red's failed to bring in a centre - back as Mamadou Sakho left the club for Crystal Palace and the pursuit of Virgil Van Dijk tailed off into nothing more than an embarrassment for all parties.

We're not asking him to play centre back which he obviously doesn't have the physique and mentality for the role, we're asking him to do more than he was doing so he fits IN to us, just as much as we adapt to him.

A superbly versatile player, Napoli's Juan Zuniga could provide cover at right - back, left - back and centre - back, making him a more useful signing than the one - dimensional Alves to bolster Louis van Gaal's options in defence.

Look at MC, they had missed a 6 mil player, Victor Kompany more than they would have liked and you couldn't really say that they had not tried to find quality cover / starter for this position given that they had spend 30 million plus on what initially looks like two top centre backs the last two seasons.

Right now in terms of Striker / winger / cb position even Spurs are ahead of us Striker SPURS Kane and Janssen Winger: ARSENAL Alexis and Campb / iwobi / ox / welb Centre Back Pair: SPURS: Vertonghen and Alderweirld (even though Koscielney is better than both)

Arsene Wenger will be hoping the German was just part of the collective dip in form on the night rather than something more terminal or he could find himself scouring the markets for another centre - back sometime soon.

Am willing to chip in a tenner for a teach yourself Cantonese course for the whippet... they would cough up north of 20m for him but about the only ones... If we bring in a top quality wide right attacking player then I will be more than happy... Though I would still feel easier with a solid centre back addition

Wimmer, 24, has been linked with a move to Southampton and West Ham in the past, however it was reported by the Sun that Hammers boss Slaven Bilic was likely to play the player at left - back rather than centre - back, something the player is not so keen on.

Shkodran Mustafi is much more comfortable in a back three than with two centre - halves and Nacho Monreal has adapted well to playing on the left side of a three.

Smalling is thick clumbsy turns like a truck and has worse distribution than yodel but he's playing centre back for man united, it's a real shame

The focus of his attentions are players such as Centre back Nirmal Chettri and Syad Rahim Nabi, who rather than play for a club side, have elected to sign for IMG - R and take part in the new IPL Style tourament.

As well as Arsenal having the rare situation of being fresher than our opponents, with Liverpool going to Bournemouth tomorrow in the League cup, the Frenchman does actually have some decent options in his defence, although the France international centre back Laurent Koscielny is unfortunately not one of them.

But the stats boffins at Who.Scored reckon that NINE centre - backs have been better than Alderweireld this season.

Barcelona centre back Gerard Pique has claimed that the current Barcelona side is better than Guardiola's side, according to Goal Argentina.

Keeping Gabriel surely makes more sense than Monreal playing centre of a back three!?

Based on the number of defenders alone, a centre back is more of a priority than a dm.

bring back our centre - backs to sure up the defence and the return of sanchez means we've more to be encouraged by than we may think.

Personally I hope we go for a top class centre back as a new first choice rather than just a decent one as a backup.

We do need a few players if we can get reus, higuan, kondgdogbia, and if we can get another centre back we are set and i think Wilshire, sanago, campbell should stay and sell rosiscky, Flamini, podolski, let go diaby, artetta oh remember i told u here that a fit gnarby is going to be a fantastic player he is gonna be better than all our winger the kid has wonderful potential and determination and he will succeed

If Arsenal stick with three centre backs then Mustafi must be considered a far better choice for the third birth alongside Kos and Holding rather then Monreal.Kolasinac has to come back in at left eing - back and Bellerin revert to the right.Midfield is a very different matter.Arsenal still desperately need a proper defensive central player.Ozil in this current side can not be considered anything more than a luxury.All of Bournemouth's creativity will come down the flanks so it's necessary to put players on to the pitch who are prepared to fulfill their defensive duties.This also means that unless Ramsey can work out that he's playing in midfield not as a number 10 he has no place on the team either.

Nicholas said: «I think the team that needed to do business more than anyone else was Arsenal and Arsene Wenger has successfully identified the two areas, positions I've been on about for five years, and signed a centre - back and a striker.

While Evans is better than our current crop of centre backs he is getting on and tends to be injury prone.

Both he and Calum Chambers have played at centre back this season and they more defensively minded than Kieran Gibbs and Hector Bellerin.

... he played there against crystal palace, Everton 2 season ago and it was a disaster... our build up is majorly done closer to d centre circle than d oppositions box... that's y girouds hold up play is vital... either we go with dat path or we look for a striker who is lightning quick (so when we make d final pass, it doesn't get wasted), uses both legs to shoot on sight, with good accuracy... playing Sanchez, who is not very good with his back to goal as a 9 is useless and though fast, holds on to d ball a lot tryn to get d best angle to shoot... we need a striker who is very intelligent with d timing of his runs... too bad Walcott is as intelligent as a sheep, cld have been d perfect cf...

Arsene Wenger's side require another centre - back as, if they are to continue playing three at the back, they're going to need more than four centre backs, as the Gunners are more often than not forced to deploy Monreal, or as we saw today Kolasinac, at centre - back due to injuries, suspensions etc..

Every great team starts with a great centre - back pair, and you won't find any better than these rocks at the back.

Would those two or another top class striker and centre back turn Arsenal into champions or do the problems run deeper than that?

Hopefully the last two weeks will have allowed Monreal and the BFG to forge more of an understanding and there are few centre backs that read the game better than the German.

I actually think that debuchy chambers and monreal look far more comfortable at centre back than they do at full back, with their only downfall, being height and experience in those positions.

Dalglish will put his offer forward as he is aware the transfer window will soon close and he needs a centre - back in the club now rather than in January.

Both our full backs, Monreal and Debuchy, are better going forwards than defending, while young Calum Chambers has done well but is very inexperienced in the centre and has never played in Europe.

While VD is a polished centre back who strolled through games for Celtic and has done well at Southampton, he is a «sweeper» rather than the fast, tough ball winning centre back that Arsenal need.

Aymeric Laporte At first glance, Laporte is the paradigm of the ball playing centre - back, «my positon's most important evolution has been in the sense of being more than a defender.

We need a commanding centre back like Virgil Van Dyk, Kostas Manolas or even Sahko from Liverpool (he is far better than Gabriel, Chambers, Mertesacker and Mustafi).

At the same time if they sign a striker or centre back they have a better team than us