Sentences with phrase «to play midfield»

Very creative ball playing midfielder who's tall strong and also good ish defensively.

But indeed, playing a midfielder on the wing is pure bullshit.

That's the thing, people seem to think we can play a midfield without any defensive player and somehow get away with it.

AW idea of playing midfielders in wide positions doesn't work..

He should just STOP playing our midfielders as wingers FFS!

So Wenger decides to play ALL midfielders at once?!

I so wish we had some ball playing midfielders like de bruyne and silva.

Petit / Gilberto / Viera were the best three deep playing midfield players I have seen in an Arsenal shirt.

Gundogan is the first major step towards achieving that ambition, with the former Borussia Dortmund midfielder now set to become City's main ball - playing midfielder with an ability to dictate the tempo of the game through retaining possession.

and not to insist on playing a midfield trio that DOES NOT have good chemistry.

A previous report from the Independent also linked United with an interest in Toni Kroos, another similar style of ball - playing midfield player.

Walcott, Sturridge, Welbeck, Sterling & Rooney then get Jack & the ox playing midfield.

Wenger has to stop playing midfielders wide, and play ozil behind welbeck, seriously, imagine a front line of sanchez - welbeck and walcott with OZIL behind them.

Wenger has never hinted at Koscielny playing midfield before.

Roberto Mancini has opted to play a midfield pairing of Gareth Barry and Yaya Toure in the centre of the park as the Italian opts for a far more attacking approach this term and this has left Dutch international De Jong warming the bench with the 27 year old making just four Premier League starts compared to the 30 out of 38 he made last term.

I don't know why you bench Iwobi and play a midfield duo (Coquelin n Elneny) that has never been creative and will never be creative when the match wasn't a match we just wanted to defend.

If we're blooding a new DM we definitely can not play a midfield involving Ozil and Cazorla.

The issue was tactical, our superior ball playing midfield went out and submitted possession to bentaleb and mason which was lunacy.

City could even play a midfield of Toure, Fernando AND Fernandinho to thwart our numerical advantage there.

Even if we get someone like Benzema we still have Arsene Wenger playing midfielders as wingers.

Chambers played Midfield when he first arrived at Southampton and Bielik played a few first team matches before arriving here.

Does Mkhitaryan play midfield or on the wings or both?

Van Gaal has been forced to play midfielder Daley Blind in the heart of the defence this season, although a long - term injury to Luke Shaw has also necessitated that the Dutch international has been required on the left of the defence.

Unable to receive the ball in, behind or from crosses (the one time he did receive the ball in behind, Johnson came across and intercepted the pass), he came deeper and deeper to get the ball, effectively becoming another ball - playing midfielder instead of a striker.

Beckenbauer played midfield.

Put simply, Borja is the kind of player that we did not have and have needed for a very long time: a gorgeous ball - playing midfielder who makes everything more fluid.

If I was to choose between them, I will chose Ozil and play a midfield powerhouse like Diaby / Toure / Khedira in a double pivot behind.

I first saw him last season whilst he was on loan at Swindon Town playing midfield against Tranmere Rovers in League One.

Thanks to the progressive, fluid football of sides like Barcelona, Germany and Bayern it became popular to play midfield commandants like Busquets who work doggedly with an eye to tactical play, coverage and building an attack.

«He came as a defender but Paul McGuinness played him midfield where he excelled too,» Parks said.

He plays like Xabi Alonso would in Mesut Ozil's position; a hard working ball playing midfielder pushed on further forwards behind the striker.

Patrick Vieira had a lot of spats with him but I also played midfield.

Mourinho labelled De Bruyne «an upset kid» and criticised his efforts in training, despite playing the midfielder in the first three Premier League games of Chelsea's 2013 - 14 season in August before selling the midfielder for # 18m to Wolfsburg in the same month.

The ball - playing midfielder enjoyed an excellent Euro 2016 campaign, but ended it on a low after his missed penalty against Poland cost Switzerland the chance to progress to the quarter - finals.

In the first phase of play the midfield double pivot of Lucas and Gerrard are culpable for leaving the space Bony drops into when receiving Shelvey's pass, Sakho is also culpable for the goal as his decision to push up has forced Škrtel to cover for him and created space for Shelvey to exploit.

By playing a midfield of Cazorla and Xhaka, Arsène Wenger went for extra creativity and passing control at the expense of some defensive solidity.