Sentences with phrase «thing about defenders»

The thing about defenders is, that they do become good the more they age.

Not exact matches

Even though the Arsenal and Spain star Hector Bellerin has been saying the right things in recent times on the subject of his future as a Gunner amid the growing number of Arsenal transfer rumours about his potential return to Spain's La Liga with his boyhood club FC Barcelona, we really wanted this to be confirmed by the defender signing a new contract with Arsenal.

As revealed in an Arsenal.com report, the Arsenal vice / captain and central defender Per Mertesacker is adamant that the Gunners will head to Old Trafford on Sunday feeling great about things and confident of coming away with a second win of the season over Man United.

SO you are right about 1 thing — drawing defenders out by coming back to help in the build up play is very important in creating oppurtunities for space in behind.

The other thing is he like to dribble and dribblers are good around the 18 - yard box, they bring about pandemonium that defenders find impossible to deal with and cause dangers that are quickly converted into goals or assists.

Our defender did at least admit that the team was hugely disappointed to have missed the chances on offer throughout the season so far, but the rest of his comments sounded like just more empty platitudes to me, the sort of thing he thinks he should be saying rather than the truth, that the Gunners are in a bad way and are starting to really worry about losing our place in the top four.

Bellerin does not know the first thing about what it takes to be an Arsenal fan and these stupid, immature comments will hardly help this poor defender win any friends among fans.

like the instinct of our mind and body and i actually like this comment of wilshere he said that read and accepted the criticism that he should pass more and faster so he did think about corrections in his play but told us the truth about the matter that he almos instinctively wants to run at the defenders thats his football and his «character» of play, i like his honest answer and i think that fans shouldn't talk about private things of players if they wants to spend time in twitter, i think we should respect that and not criticise it cause maybe it helps him relax, thats my opinion on the matter ^ ^

One thing i like about jack is how he drives hard with the ball, he unsettles defenders who have to push up to cut him off, leaving space behind them.

A few years ago I seem to remember hearing some comments from the Arsenal and France international defender Laurent Koscielny about his burning desire to win things in his playing career, with the suggestion that if this was not going to0 happen with the Gunners then he would be forced to leave north London for a club with more ambition.

But... the ball I'm talking about was a moment of magic by him to dupe the defender and slide in the ST, unfortunately for him that ST was Giroud who had not anticipation that his playmaker was able to do such a thing and in the end the ball looked stupid.

He is a talent, would be nice if he signs for arsenal, i see Wenger adding him to the squad immediately, the thing i like about Sancho is the fact that he takes on Defenders.

We all like to know about the next big thing — but how about ten of them!?! This is out list of the ten finest defenders in the world under the age of 21, with plenty of future world class performers amongst them:

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The thing I like about the Ox is that when he's charging with the ball, it's generally the defender that gets bowled over, not the other way around which usually happens with wingers.

I can understand if it was Giroud who needs an extra 10 yards to beat the defender to the ball but the main thing about Theo is his pace... so start higher up the pitch and bring defender with you and give him a 5 yard headstart... he will still beat the guy to the ball over the top!

It didn't appear as though the French defender was too concerned about it though as the camera panned round to show him in fits of laughter filming the whole thing on his phone.

One of the best things about the Arsenal and Chile international star Alexis Sanchez, and one of the reasons the former Barcelona forward has become a firm favourite in England since coming to the Premier League, is his desire to win and his willingness to work hard, pressing Opposition defenders and also tracking back to help his own.

Gary Neville was not specifically talking about Arsenal and the situation that Arsene Wenger and the players find themselves in this season, but the former England and Man United defender was talking about things that could just as easily be applied to the Gunners, as he did his punditry for Sky Sports Monday Night Football last night.

It came about after a firm tackle by Cahill on Sanchez, and the coach was annoyed because Alexis had had the same thing done to him three days earlier against Galatasaray and the defender had only been booked.

The first thing that the German defender, signed by Arsene Wenger for a tidy sum last summer, will have been pleased about was being in the starting XI in the first place, as the Germany manager Joachim Low had dropped the Gunner to the bench for the semi-final in which the Germans cruised past Mexico.

Time for some brutal honesty... this team, as it stands, is in no better position to compete next season than they were 12 months ago, minus the fact that some fans have been easily snowed by the acquisition of Lacazette, the free transfer LB and the release of Sanogo... if you look at the facts carefully you will see a team that still has far more questions than answers... to better show what I mean by this statement I will briefly discuss the current state of affairs on a position - by - position basis... in goal we have 4 potential candidates, but in reality we have only 1 option with any real future and somehow he's the only one we have actively tried to get rid of for years because he and his father were a little too involved on social media and he got caught smoking (funny how people still defend Wiltshire under the same and far worse circumstances)... you would think we would want to keep any goaltender that Juventus had interest in, as they seem to have a pretty good history when it comes to that position... as far as the defenders on our current roster there are only a few individuals whom have the skill and / or youth worthy of our time and / or investment, as such we should get rid of anyone who doesn't meet those simple requirements, which means we should get rid of DeBouchy, Gibbs, Gabriel, Mertz and loan out Chambers to see if last seasons foray with Middlesborough was an anomaly or a prediction of things to come... some fans have lamented wildly about the return of Mertz to the starting lineup due to his FA Cup performance but these sort of pie in the sky meanderings are indicative of what's wrong with this club and it's wishy - washy fan - base... in addition to these moves the club should aggressively pursue the acquisition of dominant and mobile CB to stabilize an all too fragile defensive group that has self - destructed on numerous occasions over the past 5 seasons... moving forward and building on our need to re-establish our once dominant presence throughout the middle of the park we need to target a CDM then do whatever it takes to get that player into the fold without any of the usual nickel and diming we have become famous for (this kind of ruthless haggling has cost us numerous special players and certainly can't help make the player in question feel good about the way their future potential employer feels about them)... in order for us to become dominant again we need to be strong up the middle again from Goalkeeper to CB to DM to ACM to striker, like we did in our most glorious years before and during Wenger's reign... with this in mind, if we want Ozil to be that dominant attacking midfielder we can't keep leaving him exposed to constant ridicule about his lack of defensive prowess and provide him with the proper players in the final third... he was never a good defensive player in Real or with the German National squad and they certainly didn't suffer as a result of his presence on the pitch... as for the rest of the midfield the blame falls squarely in the hands of Wenger and Gazidis, the fact that Ramsey, Ox, Sanchez and even Ozil were allowed to regularly start when none of the aforementioned had more than a year left under contract is criminal for a club of this size and financial might... the fact that we could find money for Walcott and Xhaka, who weren't even guaranteed starters, means that our whole business model needs a complete overhaul... for me it's time to get rid of some serious deadweight, even if it means selling them below what you believe their market value is just to simply right this ship and change the stagnant culture that currently exists... this means saying goodbye to Wiltshire, Elneny, Carzola, Walcott and Ramsey... everyone, minus Elneny, have spent just as much time on the training table as on the field of play, which would be manageable if they weren't so inconsistent from a performance standpoint (excluding Carzola, who is like the recent version of Rosicky — too bad, both will be deeply missed)... in their places we need to bring in some proven performers with no history of injuries... up front, although I do like the possibilities that a player like Lacazette presents, the fact that we had to wait so many years to acquire some true quality at the striker position falls once again squarely at the feet of Wenger... this issue highlights the ultimate scam being perpetrated by this club since the arrival of Kroenke: pretend your a small market club when it comes to making purchases but milk your fans like a big market club when it comes to ticket prices and merchandising... I believe the reason why Wenger hasn't pursued someone of Henry's quality, minus a fairly inexpensive RVP, was that he knew that they would demand players of a similar ilk to be brought on board and that wasn't possible when the business model was that of a «selling» club... does it really make sense that we could only make a cheeky bid for Suarez, or that we couldn't get Higuain over the line when he was being offered up for half the price he eventually went to Juve for, or that we've only paid any interest to strikers who were clearly not going to press their current teams to let them go to Arsenal like Benzema or Cavani... just part of the facade that finally came crashing down when Sanchez finally called their bluff... the fact remains that no one wants to win more than Sanchez, including Wenger, and although I don't agree with everything that he has done off the field, I would much rather have Alexis front and center than a manager who has clearly bought into the Kroenke model in large part due to the fact that his enormous ego suggests that only he could accomplish great things without breaking the bank... unfortunately that isn't possible anymore as the game has changed quite dramatically in the last 15 years, which has left a largely complacent and complicit Wenger on the outside looking in... so don't blame those players who demanded more and were left wanting... don't blame those fans who have tried desperately to raise awareness for several years when cracks began to appear... place the blame at the feet of those who were well aware all along of the potential pitfalls of just such a plan but continued to follow it even when it was no longer a financial necessity, like it ever really was...

Another thing which is a bonus in my mind, is, you know the whole English core thing, I really prefer it when it's English defenders we are talking about.

For one thing Ighalo himself was full of praise for the Arsenal defender Laurent Koscielny, as reported by the Evening Standard, talking about the Frenchman as the hardest player he has had to play against this season.

Wilshere has a thing or two to learn from Sanchez; dribbling is meant to get you in a goal scoring position or create opportunities for your team mates and not about running into defenders blindly.

One thing that the Arsenal fans will not have to worry about at Old Trafford in the FA cup is being spat at by the Manchester United defender Jonny Evans.

On the other hand it is just about typical of Gibbs» luck that the exact same thing has happened to his rival at Arsenal Nacho Monreal, who has joined up with Spain for the first time in three years after an injury to the Barcelona defender Jordi Alba.

Ex-Tottenham defender Michael Dawson has warned his former club about Jose Mourinho's «way of winning things» ahead of Saturday's FA Cup semi-final.

What Adebayor seems to forget in all of this is that the thing that people liked most about him was his willingness to work hard for the team, to chase and harass defenders and provide a mobile focal point from which this team could revolve around.

The editorial board has good things to say about all five Democratic AG contenders, but decided to go with the Manhattan lawmaker because «(he) has been a stalwart defender of the rights for our community.»

The extraordinary thing about Pride is that, underneath the mainstream presentation and heartstring - pulling manipulation (which never feels hokey, since it's largely based in fact), it quietly expands the horizons of queer cinema: Gays are portrayed not as frail victims, but as powerful heroes and defenders, and they aren't sexualized in the slightest (sex and romance are virtual non-factors).

The funny thing about seeing all of Netflix's Defenders fighting together is that when you think about it, they all kinda have a variation of the same archetypical superpower.

After all, the Voltron: Legendary Defenders executive producer knows a thing or two about anime, and he's got a definite interest in Street Fighter.

And it soon became clear that the first extraordinary thing about the evidence for the Hockey Stick was how extraordinarily weak it was, and the second extraordinary thing was how desperate its defenders were to hide this fact.

«The other thing I remember: I was sitting around with Ruth one night drinking wine, and she was real curious about what it was like to be a big - city public defender, with murder and drugs,» says Nation, who now practices with the Prescott, Ariz., office of Goldberg & Osborne.

I jumped and I did this entrepreneur thing and my wife has a good job and she's able to support us, but we are successful and I think that I expect that I'll make every bit as much money as I did last year being a capital defender but ultimately what's really been the most rewarding thing about this is just been getting to go do really cool stuff like this show and meet really cool people online and just kind of make new things and build new things and that's why, don't get me wrong, there are 20 hour days, there are weekends where I wish I was with my son and I wish I was with my wife, but overall just getting to make the law firm that I would most want to work at.