Sentences with phrase «to cross into the box»

we are leading for christs sakes, bring on someone to stop crosses into the box, Ox came on and looked more tired that anyone else, Gibbs has zero football brain.

And with Messi, Neymar and Suarez, the forward line is full of pace, trickery and technical ability rather than crosses into the box.

Per reads the game spectacularly well, probably better than anyone we have, but one slight misjudgement and he can not recover and is out of the game, I also feel he should be more potent in the air, whenever he loses an aerial ball I get so frustrated, he should be winning any crosses into our box, and should also cause havoc from corners, but he does not.

No crosses into the box also hehe we really are playing like fifa where you just pass pass pass till ur opponent snatches the ball and he scores you on a counter.

The only regret is we have lost a good chant for a striker who was / is never prolific and went through too many barren spells with his goal scoring.While the Chavs put more and better crosses into the box (yes take note Bellerin) Giroud has no pace to get on the end of most of them.No great loss as far as I'm concerned and good money for a bench player at best

The alternative to this is lumping crosses into the box hoping that your CF will connect to it properly - Giroud did connect to one, but missed it unfortunately.

We play with a «target man» who likes crosses into the box, its beyond me why we stil purposely put cazorla on the left wing.

After receiving the ball, the winger curled an exquisite cross into the box.

Chec is a better keeper... Courtois» has more catches, cause is is always quick of his line and trys to catch very areal cross into the box before any attempt on goal can be made... that's how Charlie Adam caught him off his line with his long range goal last season.

The recent fixture at West Ham was a perfect case in point; the quality of football was superb when we raced into a 2 - 0 lead, but our intent on attacking to add a third and fourth, plus an element of poor understanding to not realise that West Ham were trying to find Andy Carroll with early crosses into the box from out wide, ultimately led to our downfall.

How many times did Belerin cross into the box to find not a single Arsenal player?

giroud is a very good striker w the ball but his position off the ball is terrible, he camps behind defenders, he constantly gets caught to far behind the counter to give an outlet, once on the ball he is lethal, great ball skills, but he rarely gets the ball with advantage, take cambells cross into the box, you expect a poacher on that ball, giroud was 10 yards behind,

The second half started with the Gunners on the front foot again and Bellerin nearly increased our lead early on, but we were just a little too laid back, and when Zaha flew down the left wing and hit a hopeful cross into the box the Arsenal defenders were nowhere near it, and Townsend had a very easy shot to equalize.

We scored 2 goals from crosses into the box last night.

Did the scouts just do a bad job and miss the fact that one of their biggest threats was from corners and crosses into the box, with size on their side?

Against Man City for instance, at 50 minutes, he should have brought in Giroud with a clear instruction that Monreal and Bellerin should put in more crosses into the box.

The full backs should get crosses into the box from the byline.

Good to have a RB who can deliver a decent cross into the box.

Giroud may help in terms of crosses into the box but we need to make sure the crosses are decent enough.

Liverpool then found themselves 3 - 1 down just before the break, after a cross into the box was turned into his own net by Joel Matip as the Reds entered half time two goals down.

To win this game, we'll need to dominate possession but also ensure that we prevent Stoke from getting crosses into the box.

Against villa Benteke had a free header where Kossy was beaten all ends up, he never seems to get gud co-ordinations right with good crosses into our box.

As well Welbeck is taller than Falcao, which is essential when the opposition is parking the bus and height is required to bypass all the defenders with continuous crosses into the box for headers.

In general Man Utds best chances came from wide crosses into the box, so looking forward we need to consider how to close those gaps out wide (and get Koscielny to trust Coq more and cover his own space instead of watching Coq's man!).

It made no sense then that we took off Giroud, weirdly enough after we took him off we THEN started putting cross into the box.

Alexis can drop in next to OG12 and Ozil can drift wide left to deliver the quality crosses into the box or the defense splitting diagonal pass.

We need to shut down their crosses into the box so as to neutralise their aerial threat of Ayew and Gomis, so our full backs and wingers will need to be on point.

Played on the right but could not deliver enough crosses into the box.

Welbeck, with his height and aerial ability, could be better utilized if someone can swing crosses into the box and find the former Manchester United man.

I couldn't remember Bellerin sending a single cross into the box all afternoon.

cons — no wingers but we do nt need so much crosses into the box without the presence of giroud and we have got great attacking full backs

I think Hector could still be used as a wing back rotating with AOC, he has the pass, normally a good crossed into the box and obviously more defensive minded each year with Ox.

Sadio Mane's back - heel released Cedric Soares to cross into the box.

What it will do is, give Arsenal better flexibility, which they couldn't find with Ozil playing on the wings and, by playing Chamberlain as the winger who delivers dangerous crosses into the box, Welbeck's aerial ability can come in handy for the Gunners.

Let's just carry on doing what hasn't been working, and guess what... the very first time we cross into the box, Giroud scores.

Talking Points Debuchy's attacking prowess is definitely captivating; he can shuttle up and down the flanks all day and, more importantly, put productive crosses into the box, for the lanky strikers in Giroud and Sanogo to make the most of.

In support of Admin's post, the thing I have always found perplexing is Arsenal's inabilty to play to Giroud's strengths by attacking down the wings and crossing into the box.

No matter how you slice it, you can't run an uptempo offence with Giroud on the pitch and that means sideways soccer and an over-reliance on crosses into the box, thereby negating many of the very reasons Lacazette was on your radar in the first place... we simply aren't clinical enough from wide positions to continue with that approach, which is why many fans have been clamoring for a viable alternative to Giroud for several years... once again this isn't an attack on Giroud, he clearly has some tangible skills, but his mere presence on the pitch greatly impacts your tactical options... Giroud's weaknesses are simply highlighted by the way in which our offence now moves in a more horizontal than vertical manner, which allows most teams ample time to regroup defensively before a scoring opportunity even arises... a player of Ibra's or Benzema's ilk would have been far more effective as they had size, speed and the first touch capabilities required to for intricate link - up play... once again square peg in a round hole

Sanchez on the right would provide us width and crosses into the box.

more pace, more physical, better defending and tracking back, and can actually CROSS into the box - something we've been missing for years.

But, with the tall strikers like Giroud and Sanogo leading the line for Arsenal, Ozil might be forced to put a lot more crosses into the box — something which he is not accustomed to.

Both came from crosses into the box, and both highlighted just how welcoming a place the Stoke City penalty area has become.

You get 10 decent crosses into that box per match and he could easily become a 30 goal a year striker.

With United's central defenders completely out of order, Xherdan Shaqiri put a cross into the box that was kicked away by David De Gea.

Also when Leic park the team, they have CBs who dine on crosses into the box.

Has he delivered a cross into the box yet?

He just looks clueless when it comes to contesting for very good high crosses into the box, Benteke exposed him, the southampton, Stoke, Liverpool and Spurs yesterday..

Had some decent crosses into the box too.

A spell of pressure towards the end of the game eventually paid off, with Albert Adomah whipping a cross into the box and David Nugent getting a glancing header on the ball.

«But I think Olivier Giroud, in the right circumstances, coming on as a sub at times when the team is struggling, when you're on the front foot and getting crosses into the box, he can score lots of goals for Chelsea.