Sentences with phrase «to hold the ball up»

Most importantly he can't hold the ball up for others to come into play, he is too weak.

Q: would we rather have 1 striker finishing off the 3 attacking midfielder passes Or would we rather have 1 striker holding the ball up and feeding the attacking midfield?

Neither have proven to hold the ball up top well.

That's why he needs to ALWAYS hold the ball up high.

Its elastic band holds the ball up high between the thighs to activate hard - to - reach muscles in your core, glutes and thighs, for unbelievable tone and definition.

And without him (which is usually all season) we have nobody capable of holding the ball up or breaking the opposition play, linking defence with attack..

His main job is to get on the end of crosses but you are right holding the ball up is the part of a target man.

He does actually hold the ball up, has pace and tricks.

Did not hold the ball up long enough to relieve pressure on his defence.

He presents a solid target, holds the ball up well, and can turn people when needed.

He couldn't hold the ball up, it just kept bouncing off him.

Higuain couldn't hold the ball up for any length of time.

While he didn't hold the ball up as well as the Frenchman to bring others into play, Welbeck was a constant threat because of his pace.

Rashford was allowed time and space once again, and was able to hold the ball up in the area until Ander Herrera arrived.

Much of Burkina Faso's best first - half work came from Bance, who held the ball up effectively and had his own sights of goal too.

He's strong, he can hold the ball up when Theo can't.

It meant flamini could hold whilst sanogo just held the ball up and fed people in.

With Toure down injured and playing Sagbo onside, Skrtel attempted to fill the position his injured teammate had left, but rather than making a challenge on Sagbo, he only allowed the striker to hold the ball up effectively.

Giroud held the ball up pretty well but his pressing was almost non-existent.

The winger held the ball up superbly to draw a challenge and vitally win a corner, which Town would take full advantage of.

Mario Gomez held the ball up on the left flank and cleverly played in wing - back Jonas Hector, who ran to the byline and pulled a cross back for the onrushing Ozil to stab the ball past Gianluigi Buffon.

He failed conspicuously to hold the ball up against Stoke when Harry Kane went off, and Spurs paid a heavy price.

As for pressing higher up, Vardy moves about and his movement is nothing Giroud has ever done, if we go back to before Giroud then you will see how RvP was moving around to get the ball and be active in the game, not a static fool like Giroud who could only hold the ball up for others... which slows down any attack we make.

After Lukaku held the ball up for Mata, Mata then carried it forward and laid it off to Lingard who took a couple of touches and shot at goal (and scored).

Its nice to see people comment on sanogood hold up play and runs but hell even Emile Heskey was quality at holding the ball up hence why he was Owen's foil for so many years for England yet how many goals was he scoring a season?

Of course Son isn't as clinical as HK, and he's not a leader, and he doesn't hold the ball up like HK, and he's more fragile and...... but the team played like they can still win without Harry.

Giroud on tro hold the ball up field?

Yesterday Ozil held the ball up.

A big target man in the box for set pieces, crosses and holding the ball up alongside a pacey striker to get in behind.

It would also help if he learned to always hold the ball up above his head instead of bringing it down where the «dwarves» can reach it to swat it away.

In addition, just like Giroud, Benteke is also very adept at holding the ball up using his big frame, so Arsenal really don't need to tweek the system if he's playing up front.

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Swansea scorer Llorente held the ball up well, but was offered little support from his teammates.

Anyone who has followed Danny Welbeck's Manchester United career will be aware of the fact that Danny is lethal playing down the left - hand side and can also provide more work - rate in that area of the pitch, while Olivier can effectively hold the ball up upfront.

Meanwhile Messi, having skipped around Andreas Christensen, is now holding the ball up just outside the area.

Just two minutes later, however, it was France who struck, Benzema letting a direct ball from Matuidi drop over his shoulder, and after appearing to be merely holding the ball up, suddenly whacked a half - volley across goal which caught Cillessen by surprise and put France into the lead.

Fail to recognise the hard work that Giroud puts in for the players around him, how he can hold the ball up aginst the bleeding Hulk if he had to, to help his team mates maintain the possesion.

All giroud seems to be interested in is doing first time gay little flicks that half the time do nt come off instead of actually doing his job of winning the ball in the air and holding the ball up properly which benteke done brilliantly yesterday

Could you imagine Oliver holding the ball up for Theo and Alexis to come running in, it would tear any defense apart.

If we're playing narrow with our wing backs overlapping that is fine, just we rarely got to that point because Welbeck could never hold the ball up to create a platform.

Aguero held the ball up and released Fernandinho on the overlap.

Defended from the front, held the ball up really well, and won so many aerial duels, especially goal kicks (he was helped by the accuracy of OOOOOOOOOOOSPINA's kicks).

He leads the line, holds the ball up taking pressure off MF and Defence, has physical presence in box, and has great touch for big man (his 2nd on Saturday, and touch for Ramsey's Cup Final winner).