Sentences with phrase «turned on defender»

Giroud has done a wonderful job for arsenal, my two major issues with Giroud are the fact he lacks the pace to go by even the slowest defenders, which allow opposing defenders to have it too easy, is inability to turn on the defender and release a powerful shot.

Not exact matches

Sean Hannity, Fox News» biggest star, has long been one of President Donald Trump's staunchest defenders on cable TV, and now it turns out that they also share a lawyer.

If his supporters felt disappointment over Bryan's testimony — the play makes much of the crowd's turning on him — it was not because he looked stupid as a defender of crude fundamentalism, but because he wasn't a defender of crude fundamentalism.

A Swansea club spokesman stated that the Swans do not want to sell their star defender over the summer transfer window: «We are not looking to sell him, and therefore we have turned down the offer currently on the table.»

In turn, according to Mundo Deportivo, Barcelona will send scouts to watch Ajax and Netherlands defender Matthijs de Ligt in action for the latter when he takes on England at Wembley on Friday night, as well as against Portugal next week.

Jonny Evans has been on our wishlist since the summer, when the defender opted to turn down our advances in order to take up the captaincy at West Bromwich Albion, but his club has endured a torrid term thus far, and find themselves joint - bottom of the Premier League at present and on course for the drop.

However, the young defender has turned his back on a switch to the northeast, much to the surprise of club vice-president Julio Baldomar, who is still waiting to see whether the deal can be revived.

Metro have reported that Roberto Fernandez who is the sporting director of La Liga champions FC Barcelona has suggested that the Gunners may have paid way over the odds for the German defender and if that is true, in these days of crazy money being spent on players by Premier League clubs, perhaps he will not turn out to be the player we needed after all.

That's put defenders on their heels, and turned the pure takedown into a dying art

This is according to the Guardian, who state that both Mendy and Stones won't be back before the turn of the year, and that captain Vincent Kompany is too injury prone to be relied on for an entire season, something that has possibly tempted Guardiola to make a move for a new defender in January.

If you've got other scoring options on your team but need a primary ball - handler and perimeter defender, there are a lot worse places to turn than this new card.

However, the search for a new central defender has been a huge priority for van Gaal this summer and after missing out on signing Sergio Ramos, it appears the Dutchman could now turn his attentions to the Spaniard's teammate Pepe.

I hate to see the game turn on a play where a defender was trying to do the right thing and was still punished for his effort.

He still might, of course, but it looks very much like it will not be happening this summer at least, especially now that The Telegraph is reporting that Barcelona have turned their transfer sights on the Chelsea and Spain defender Cesar Azpilicueta instead.

Pass catchers ponder early retirement when running the button hook, a pass pattern on which the receiver starts down - field, then turns abruptly and catches a pass with his back to his defender.

Welker, on the other hand, turned and used his outside (outside = furthest away from defender) to pop Talib right about at his midsection.

Show me one goal that 1 he has scored from outside the box 2 dribbled past 2 players 3 outpaced 1 defender 4 turn a player inside out to score On and oOn and onon.

On those few occasions when he has really shaken his defender, the receiver has time to turn and run with the ball.

We certainly had a few turning points — the fact that we scored first, the fact that our defenders were calm on the ball and that we could always dictate our technical level.

Well yes, obviously Flamini has the potential to turn on god mode and single - handedly destroy any team on the planet... But we still should at least give those chumps Cazorla, Ozil and Sanchez a chance to have at least a little bit of the ball when Flamini gets tired and doesn't feel like dancing through a wall of Bayern defenders and chipping or back - heeling Neuer with his eyes closed!

He has the physical presence to control the ball with defenders around him, therefore i feel he must also use that presence to turn the defender and take shots at goal, which i have seen he has a powerful shot on him

Cameron Jerome turned his defender on the left flank and took off down the wing before hitting a perfect cutback ball towards the penalty spot.

Lucky with penalty but how can a central defender turn his back on an 8 yard shooter... Pathetic... Also iwobi is talented with great feet but can look fragile at times..

This yields space to good pull - up jump shooters and can be problematic with crafty point guards that manipulate that space well, but it also ensures they'll never turn the corner on two defenders and create easy looks for teammates.

Of course Kos turned out to be fantastic and Squishy is on the short list for worst defender in EPL history.

Once he went on his own with 4 defenders around him and he turned around to see any team miate to play with and that is called.

When Bellerin first came into the side he not only defended well but was always so dangerous going forward.His pace and ability to go outside his marker gave us an attacking outlet that allowed us to play without a recognised right sided attacker which coincided with Walcott getting less and less game time.We all thought this boy was going to turn into someone very special and so obviously did the management who apparently renewed his contract on a reputed # 100k per week.What have we seen since then?A player that seems as indecisive and under coached as the rest of the defenders at the club.A player that has rarely delivered a performance that reflected his initial early form.A player whose body language seems to display his displeasure at being at our club when Barcelona reputedly offered # 40m for him in the close season.

We already knew that Arsene Wenger would not be able to call on the best defender at the club, Laurent Koscielny, and that turned out to be just as damaging as we feared.

While Wenger remains he will NEVER get a proper defence with defenders who are physically powerful, tall if they are CB's and who are committed and do not turn their backs on shots and are not afraid to take a knock.

The Gunners are claimed to have made an initial offer of # 750,000 for the 20 year - old, which has been turned down, with the sides valuing the defender on completely different scales.

Unlike a midfielder who will always be on the half turn or a defender who will do his best to play facing the opposition, a striker is most often required to be facing the rest of his team.

I personally loved what i saw of him, his driving at defenders, taking people on, turning and running forward and his 5 yard burst was back not even MATIC who everyone is on his nutss for being this great destroyer could stop him.

In turn, United switched their focus elsewhere after missing out on the German international, with Jose Mourinho making former Villarreal defender Eric Bailly his first signing as manager.

That Nelson is a goon is something that just jumps off the tape as soon as you turn it on because he ends so many plays driving defenders all over the field through the whistle.

Through balls from Ramsey and Carzola (if he finds his boots) and factor in big Welbeck's turn of speed with Sanchez pulling defenders all over the left side of the pitch and we could (if Wenger doesn't slow it down) have some beautiful attacking / counter attacking football on the horizon.

Defenders are often under more scrutiny than anyone else on the pitch, so when they're signed by a club and don't deliver pretty quickly, the heat gets turned up and they can be judged quite harshly.

It should depend on the opposition which players start, against a Stoke City a player with pace like Walcott should start ahead of Giroud because defenders like Shawcross deal easily with crosses but lack pace when they are turned facing their own goal

Some magnificent trickery on the left flank saw him glide past two Everton defenders, he then picked out Arnautovic who in turn played a cute ball to Shaqiri, and the Swiss international made no mistake from close range.

But like his schooling four defenders in his goal in contention for Goal Of The Season, when he turns it on, it's Oon, it's ONON!

And in pass pro, whether quick setting or on a kick slide, his feet are just too heavy right now, they end up being too slow to beat the defender to the spot, so he turns his shoulder and hips, further compounding the problem and it goes down hill from there.

After having a # 17million bid turned down by Liverpool for defender Daniel Agger this summer, it's unknown whether the club will improve on the bid.

He began to turn it on as a defender late in the season and remains a dynamic player in transition, where few can keep up with him.

Liverpool were believed to have been closing on a deal for the Dutch defender, before the Saints turned on them and forced the club to apologise for supposed tapping up, and the other clubs are also claimed to have gone to the agent before talking to the club.

In turn, it takes a smart defender to be able to deal with him when he's either running at you or running in behind you in order to avoid being embarrassed and we're sure that there's plenty of meticulous planning that goes on in training prior to facing City if Sane is set to feature.

After running down his contract, refusing a deal to make him the club's highest earner, and turning down an array of offers from top European sides, the defender quickly signed for the Gunners on a free transfer.

Playing the ball back to the midfield with just a single defender on him, can't even turn and creates chance for himself it is just a shame of a striker to say a little: Oooh!

I wouldn't be surprised if Wenger turns his attention towards # 20 million rated Kante and save himself 14 million which could easily spent on Monolas (spelling) the greek defender who we have been linked to a few times in the past.

Sagna's Champions League experience has not gone unnoticed by Conte, yet the French defender is set to turn his back on the Premier League for a move to Italy.

Despite the arrival of Eric Bailly and the suggestion that Mourinho is still looking for another defender, the Portuguese tactician will have to rotate his squad this season as he looks to compete on various fronts, and that in turn should allow Fosu - Mensah to continue to secure valuable playing time.

Sweden also turned the tables on Italy with a masterful display of defence in the old Italian style, including one of their defenders committing a foul so bad (a knee in the stomach) that would have resulted in an arrest on the street, yet the referee deemed that the Italian forward who controlled the ball on his thigh before being assaulted had handled the ball!