Sentences with phrase «than strikers as»

schweinsteiger has captained the german national side has won basically every domestic trophy as well as the cl and central midfielders tend to play at their peak longer than strikers as their game is not based around attributes such as pace.

Defensively he also defends set pieces better than any striker as well.

Not exact matches

the problem isn't cos he isn't WC, the problem is cos he is a rich man's Andy Carroll; I mean even Defoe that play for relegation candidate - Sunderland is a far better striker than him.he isn't WorldClass either Chicharito is also way better, he isn't a 30 - goal striker but when u play almost all games for a club with the creativity as Arsenal, scoring 30goals isn't a big deal.

I do hope that Arsene Wenger has a fantastic ace up his sleeve when it comes to getting a new striker for Arsenal fans to cheer about in the current summer transfer window, but I must admit to living more in hope than expectation and as the days and weeks tick by my concern increases that it will be the same old story for us.

I keep getting surprised when people talk about our «striker crisis» and we need world class this and world class that — Alexis has scored more goals this season as wide second striker than Chelsea's main man Costa.

hope theo comes back soon that will allow ozil to play behind striker than on lw & hope in jan wenger goes & buy a cb & cdm mertasacker too was slow yesterday & caught ball watching on some ocassiosns we need a new cb as well

Even assuming that Chelsea's three strikers are out of action though, it does not mean that the Gunners will have an easy task on Sunday as it will make Mourinho even more negative than usual and that means a massive blue bus and plenty of gamesmanship is heading to north London.

goodness i can't believe it people will still defend him.You know something when Giroud misses many chances like at Monaco i did not criticize him even based on that you know why?its because he has always not been clinical.The only way a team can improve is by indentifying its problems and solving them.Arsenal has Giroud as the main cf and Welbeck as backup to him.Giroud has done well scoring some goals some too important but collectively he does more harm than good.Do not use moments to judge a player judge him based on content.Giroud does not excel in many games than he excels in games.As a main cf you need to be consistent.I see people here saying Giroud can not dribble he cant do this he cant do that but its a bit crazy to criticize him for that because every player has his own style.Giroud limitations as a player costs arsenal and will cost us a lot.Most importantly his poor finishing which has cost us several times.Not good enough.His style of play is ok for us but a striker who can take on players and run behind defences very well would make us very strong and also should be clinical.For Welbeck he needs to works on his finishing and composure by doing the basic things right.He rushes infront of goal too much.For now he is just above average.However he can excel if he works on improving.Giroud and Welbeck will always be a pain in arsenal's neck for most part.Some will call me stupid but hey at least i want to analyze the problem.People may support Giroud or Welbeck to lead the line next season but as the saying goes if you fool me once shame on you but if you fool me twice shame on me.Will you let Giroud and Welbeck fool you again?

He said he is one for the future now let's all hope as teams get knocked out of the euros we can here a more «ready now» striker than one for the future.

Speaking after Walcott announced that he wants to return to playing on the wing, where has had his better days, Wenger has instead came out to the media to announce that he personally sees Walcott's future as a striker at Arsenal, rather than a winger.

If Walcott starts the Liverpool game as the striker, then Ramsey will start at right wing because Jack Wilshere who is better at right wing than Ramsey is, will not be available for this match.

if u hv noticed his runs off the ball and the way he face the goal rather than showing his back and trying hold game he plays as outright striker... and walcot is injured so he cant play upfront for time being and abt alexis to be honest i hv not seen him play as a striker much... and as of now we hvnt sign a new striker..

As his agent says, it's important that the club has at least two competitive quality strikers and unfortunately as Welbeck can not stay fit, it's very important that Arsenal look to invest in another striker to provide competition to Giroud, rather than replace the FrenchmaAs his agent says, it's important that the club has at least two competitive quality strikers and unfortunately as Welbeck can not stay fit, it's very important that Arsenal look to invest in another striker to provide competition to Giroud, rather than replace the Frenchmaas Welbeck can not stay fit, it's very important that Arsenal look to invest in another striker to provide competition to Giroud, rather than replace the Frenchman.

Aubemeyang is no Thierry but he is a damn fine player and goalscorer, he suits our play as - well maybe more so than any other striker on the market.

Money should not be an issue as we have over 200 million in the bank and a top striker on the pitch is more valuable than a few more millions in the bank.

He can play as a striker but it's not his best position, he's just not good enough and he's been with us long enough to know we should be looking for better options rather than throwing # 140k a week at him.

he always misses chances from 6 yards.with giroud as our striker forget about winning anything.even akpom is better than that hair gel striker.

Even if Wenger thinks there is no better striker available than Giroud (Only wenger knows why), still he needs to buy a striker as Welbeck is almost certainly out of most of next season, I am sure he would not go for Walcott and Akpon as our backup striker.Hopefully

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Giroud has a better scoring record than Morata so he's definitely not the striker we need and is not in the same category as Lewandowski or Higuan who are 30 goals a season strikers!

@john0711 it's people like you I don't get.Do you know Chamakh may have been a worse player than Giroud but let's be honest Chamakh was a better finisher than Giroud.Even him was labelled as garbage.Can someone name a striker with exception of Gervinho (man he was awfully out of this world) who played for Araenal who Giroud had better finishing than.Giroud is to me part of Arsenal's worst finishers ever and please let's not deny it and note I considered only «finishing»..

If we had identified Vardy as our striker target we had more than enough time to close the deal, fact we didn't is bad business and bad execution.

I am ready to admit right now that I didn't believe that he would fare better as a striker than a winger.

You say that «If we had identified Vardy as our striker target we had more than enough time to close the deal, fact we didn't is bad business and bad execution»

THere may be more to that than we know but it could just as easily be true so we really can not use it to give us an indication of what is going on with the striker and his La iga club.

In the long term, Liverpool will be hoping that Sturridge's injury problems are just bad luck rather than any hereditary, as the striker fears.

we have at most 4 real quality outfielders i.e. players that other top european teams would take... ozil sanchez santi and kos... in my books you need 6... we are two short but worse the quality of others is lower than needed... only bellerin coq and wilshere have that potential... and there are problems with each still... we should have put in bids in june for griezman kondogbia and the Burussia striker as all could have been prized away with right bid plus players thrown in IMO... now its too late and wenger is in some weird gallic world of existential hope and denial and fans are just praying we do nt lose opening 2 matches for first time in over two decades... but no one is really confident against a team which is sure to finish around mid table...

this tells me that the financial prudence we have extolled as prudent for the clubs future and for the adherence to FFP is really a smoke and mirrors situation we need a striker (opinions differ to which one) we need cover for Le Coq (again opinions differ) and maybe we need one other in another area of the pitch, but if we don't get them we wont be better than we were this year and we wont move closer to the real glory.

Forget about another striker... France Football again confirmed that Wenger won't bring anybody as Welbeck and Walcott are more than enough in case Giroud does not perform (Sanchez could be use also... Arshavin played at the position too, so nothing is impossible with the «deluded one»).

No, Sanogo is terrible but Podolski I have reasons to believe that had he played the same amount of games as Giroud he would have more goals than Giroud, and Podolski was only played once, twice atmost as a striker last season, you can't really judge him on that.

if we buy a fast, clinical striker in summer and a someone who's as good or better than coq, i think we can win.

Bale plays as a shadow striker, meaning he plays in the # 10 role but is more focused on driving at defenders with his pace and shooting (rather than the Ozil - way of playing the # 10 role for example).

Campbell has it in him to be a striker who can become a consistent force in the top tier and the deal seems like a pretty good deal all round as Sir Alex has more than enough firepower in his established front line and young back up's in Daniel Wellbeck and Federico Macheda.

I really do nt see any legs in any of these stories about any more transfers, The evidence is all there among all the smoke and mirrors, Look at the evidence, Wenger stated that Giroud would lead the line next season and as such we have have only seen any real movement towards buying a striker in the purchase of Asano who clearly is nothing more than a shirt selling move.

If the Arsenal transfer rumours linking us with the Real Madrid and France striker Karim Benzema are true, however, then Wenger is going to have to find some leverage other than money because The Guardian is reporting that moneybags Man United are after him as well.

The fact that you take Gibbs as an example makes everything you say jut a pile of french frog poo, and you know it, same with Wilshere, like he was playing for Arsenal ever knowing that he spend more time at the bench than in the pitch, Giroud is also a stupid example knowing that we had no other striker besides him for years

More especially as 1st choice... Costa, RVP, aguaro, sturriedge and even adebayo I.e top 6 team's strikers are much better than him.

We need a Top striker capable of over 20 goals per season Lacazette or Lukaku or Icardi (not Mandzukic who is as good or maybe worse than Giroud)

Sanchez partly addressed this issue as he does score a reasonable number of goals whilst welbeck was more of a prospect than a proven striker.

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And of course... Having Lacazette as our striker, is better than a kick in the nuts!

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Rather than buying Morata I would prefer for us to stick with Giroud with Sanchez as second striker like Griezmann in the France team then we sign a left winger like Reus, Draxler or Gotze

The Premier League is back this weekend and there are some interesting choices to be made with regards to picking your team, none more so than who to fill in for Diego Costa upfront as the Chelsea striker starts a three - match suspension.

I think he was bought more as a Welbeck replacement (2nd striker) than a Giroud replacement (1st striker) and don't think we could have got any better as a 2nd striker for the price.

that has always been a lie, podolski got enough games every year and yep he was our best finisher but last time i checked football and wingers / strikers had more to them than only finishing, of course its a good thing but podolski didn't offer anything else than having a shot when the ball fell to him or came to him, this would have been okay would he have been a striker, but as a striker he never performed

We finally have a solid striker (even if he will take some adaptation time I think he'll be true class) in Lacazette, we have solid center backs (once they are all healthy) much better than in recent seasons, Giroud is our killer weapon off the bench rather than the key we are relying on as the main source of goals, Coquelin and Elneny are now midfield fall - back options rather than Flamini (no offense Mathieu, I appreciated your efforts, just making the obvious comparison), two high quality keepers, etc..

It's not even Bradley or Altidore - I can stomach them as Altidore most likely has a role to play as our 3rd striker in 2022, and even as someone who has been critical of Bradley's past six or so years in a U.S jersey, he's better than Wil Trapp.

He is more versatile than the Algerian, he can play as a DM and can also play just behind strikers.

With Walcott's form ever inconsistent and The Ox's injury concerns every season, it would be no surprise to see that Wenger play Lucas on the wing, rather than as a conditional striker up front.