Sentences with phrase «when opponents attack»

The political crosscurrents are strong and continuous and when opponents attack, they often make it personal.

Ma attempted to defend his change during the post-match news conference, saying: «When our opponents attacked, Wang Qiao's side was a problem.

Took the position of the central defender who moved to cover full - backs when the opponent attacks down the flanks.

Not exact matches

The so - called «lag pursuit» when the nose of an attacking plane points at the tail of the opponent's aircraft is considered the optimum location in an aerial fight.

Cain looked good for a while but it is a lot easier to look good when the media aren't looking into your statements and your opponents are either ignoring you or throwing you little rhetorical bouquets while they attack each other.

Disraeli and Gladstone had long been rivals and when Gladstone successfully attacked his opponent's policies in Turkey Disraeli turned on him and called him «a sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.»

So, when opponents say that gaay marriage is an attack on traditional marriage they are correct aren't they?

Against Sunderland, the Gunners need to make their passing and attacks count, and get this game done and dusted by Half - Time; failing which, the aforementioned duo of Johnson and Wickham will start growing in stature and pose serious problems for the Arsenal backline that can be rattled when their opponents start running at them.

In attacking performance problem, we can't break opponent defence and we lack of goal scoring abilty, when we face Besiktas, Crystal Palace, Leicester City.

The «extra man» would force errors when we are attacking by the opposing team's confusion over who to mark, he would close down the enemy in the midfield and he would help steal the initiative off the opponent attackers by his mobility to position himself at the less served areas.

as for me ozil is a talented and skilful player but having only that is not enough to win the ever getting stronger premier leage teams, he has to train hard for endurance and be a fighter, he has to come back and press on the opponent defense and even midfieldes to disposes the ball when arsenal loose the ball and go back fast attacking like iwobi and welbeck are doing.

We continue to try to pass through opponents playing for an idea of great Barcelona-esque football, when we don't have the players for it and our best successes come when we play counter attacking football.

He is often too far upfield or drawn inside, or outside sometimes, when needed to mark his attacking opponent.

If the attack is blunt (like the Lions teeth), than your opponents hold strong in defence better and attack when the time is right.

This is why we need substitutes that can offer us different attacking methods, like Giroud, especially when our opponent just sit back and play ugly.

Vidal is a box to box he is not a DM and a DM we need... let me put it like this Vidal will try grab glory by getting goals (much like flamini) we will not take up true glory like Coquelin who knows his job is not to attack but to protect our back 4... not go for gaols but look hold up play when we are getting hit with a counter until the rest of the team get back into play... Someone who will get battered and bruised but not lose his temper or cool but instead battle get in good tackles and disturb the opponents Rhythm...

When you loss the ball when attacking then the opponents can very easily hurt you as you try to transition immediately from attack to defence and when we loss the ball it happens to be in a risky spot and our fullbacks are forwWhen you loss the ball when attacking then the opponents can very easily hurt you as you try to transition immediately from attack to defence and when we loss the ball it happens to be in a risky spot and our fullbacks are forwwhen attacking then the opponents can very easily hurt you as you try to transition immediately from attack to defence and when we loss the ball it happens to be in a risky spot and our fullbacks are forwwhen we loss the ball it happens to be in a risky spot and our fullbacks are forward.

Point being sometimes attack is the best form of defending, much more so this season when you see City and Pool putting so much pressure on their opponents whenever we push forward.

It's the old greedy bolloxs tactic which deliberately stops your team mate from attacking the opponents goal while it gives you the chance to run into the box and gain the glory when the cross comes in... i hope that made some sense???

The «extra man» would force errors when we are attacking by the opposing team confusion over who to mark, he would close down the enemy in the midfield and he would help out steal the initiative off the opponent attackers by his mobility to position himself at the less served areas.

best formation is 4 -5-1, high pressure and fast counter attack, something like Klopp did with BvB seasons ago, Ozil vision, Walcott speed and Sanchez class can defeat anyone, passing is good but when opponent like Watford just sit and wait its hard to pass and score, start game with high pressure and fast counters than in second half start playing pass game, so with right balance it could be done, something we did against Liverpool last year on Emirates, first half high pressure and counter while in second half passing and controling game.

Bellerin is very good when attacking, because he is very fast, but sometimes he can be easily bypassed by the opponents, as seen in the FA Cup match.

When you have players like Toure and Aguero the opponent will not even think about attacking you as much because they would rather defend which essentially hands City control over the majority of games they play.

I wonder why we keep running back when opponent is on the attack.

our problem is not the defense we cant just score goals with so many attempts we shoudl have scored 4 - 5 goals and win it by 5 - 2 without a creative midfielder like Cazorla or Ramsey (when he plays well) our attacking play is very predictable maybe playing Iwobi instead of Elneny or Coq is at least better But Wenger's biggest mistake was to play Chambers instead of Bellerin Bellerin with his pace opens up the opponents.

Naturally you would have thought that Peter crouch will be mertesacker «s easiest attacking opponent to play against, (bcos they are both tall and slow) but where was mertesacker when crouch was jumping above four arsenal players....

Walcott too loves the confusion created by a fast paced attack and often overruns the defensive cover of opponents when such quick and confusing melee is generated.

On the attack, however, he rarely positioned himself to punch, and when he did it was only to contain his opponent.

And u give campbell 3???? if u weren't watching he initiated so many attacks and even ran to defend especially that moment were he slid to grab the ball from the opponent when they had counter attacked us.

He positions pretty poor for a guy his age, starting too deep — like he's afraid to confront his opponent when he finally comes out to attack the ball.

Just put him up front for Dzeko, it's not like our attack can be any more dysfunctional when playing weaker opponents

Opponents know they can score on him, so they attack him even when he stays back.

Our biggest problem is when the opponent counters after we have just attacked.

Considering he's almost always been so much more athletic than his opponent, it makes sense that he still needs to develop his patience when attacking.

We should get back to our pressing game this will shrink the spaces the opponents can use and play into our hands of using our speed on counter attacks when we win the ball back in our own half.

The performance wasn't the worst that's for sure though its very clear we do not have a true leader or midfield general in the team who can drag the team forward when needed too, break up our opponents attacks before the ball goes near slow Mert and the defense, and also someone who can buck out instructions to other players.

When applied in a sporting situation, it allows the athlete to quickly and forcefully attack or avoid opponents or situations during competition.

After each of Pittsburgh's four games this season — the Penguins were 2 -1-1 at week's end — Johnson was faxed the game evaluations of the players, and when he felt up to it, he sent interim coach Scotty Bowman suggestions for attacking the next opponent.

Also very rarely do we see them really tear into an opponent and rack up huge scores as great attacks can do when they are on form.

why is Chambers and Gibbs always in the opponents six yard box when there is a counter attack against us.

Ankle sprains usually occur at the net when a players lands on the foot of an opponent or a teammate after blocking or attacking the ball.

Even when the fans are screaming at Wenger to try and win ugly against obviously better sides, the boss will also have belief that the Gunners can outplay our opponents and try to attack without fear.

@Robin, not his primary job, and don't forget when he is on the pitch, the opponent's LB are normally not joining the attack, which is another form of defense.

We did nt get it and the longer the season goes on the more dependant we will become on goals from midfield, which makes our attacking predictable and easy to defend, we have no element of surprise in attack, nobody dribbles or runs past an opponent at pace at Arsenal, its all based on rotating positions and passing until a gap opens, the big sides, and smaller ones aswel wont always give you the gap, and even when the gap does prevent itself your depending on Giroud being clinical enough to take the chance, and he is not clinical.

Predictably, after Barcelona's 7 - 0 2013 Champions League semifinal defeat to Bayern Munich, when they were physically overpowered by a compact and organized 4 -4-2 press, many of their future opponents adopted Bayern's tactics in an attempt to nullify the attacking strengths and exploit the defensive frailties of the Catalan giants.

He's a bull terrier on tracking back and provides great assistance to the intermediate defense when opponents are trying to counter attack, often winning balls and getting us back on the attack.

I remember when an opponent having a corner against us was almost an attacking opportunity to Arsenal because if we intercepted it, then two / three passes and Henry was away.

As I was watching I was trying to work out what had gone so wrong with those two, the only idea I could come up with was that although in training the energy of Sanchez and his determination to defend from the front has clearly rubbed off; they track back with greater determination, the problem is they also seem to both be copying the man from Chile's unnecessary obsession of trying to beat at least two opponents before making his pass, Sanchez can get away with this — just — but it is downright infuriating when Walcott and Oxlade - Chamberlain try and do the same as neither of them has Sanchez» close control; nothing like it in fact, the result is that we lose possession so easily and so unnecessarily which gifts attacking opportunities to the opposition.

It changes into 5 -3-2 when they are defending, and for a game like that of today where the opponent are blessed with lot of pace in attack, and full backs who love to join the attack, the system is perfect.

Often, Henderson looks as if he's caught in two minds when the other team attacks: he wants to move forward to press, using his energy to squeeze by rushing at opponents and cutting off potential passing spaces; paradoxically, his job requires him to sit back and screen, something he's not always prepared to do.