Sentences with phrase «wide second striker»

3) Theo had historically played effectively as a second striker and did well with his 20 + goals — but someone else has turned up who has taken a liking to being a wide second striker with a taste for 20 + goals — Alexis.

I keep getting surprised when people talk about our «striker crisis» and we need world class this and world class that — Alexis has scored more goals this season as wide second striker than Chelsea's main man Costa.

Not exact matches

Graham hit the post seconds later and the striker then also blazed wide with the goal at his mercy.

We go to town on OG but we have 2 wide / second strikers in TH14 and AS17 who have league goal / game ratios of 0.41 and 0.44 respectively over the last 3 seasons.

Podolski is not a winger or natural wide player — he is a second striker and therein lies the problem as we don't play a system to use him properly.

French publication L'Equipe insist that the Frenchman won't be able to be accommodated as a second striker, and will be forced to play wide of the Gabon international, but he will have to vie with Mesut Ozil and Henrikh Mkhitaryan for a starting spot in the starting XI.

Podolski and Alexis can freely rotate being themselves for wide position and second striker position.

The centre forwards at Bayern, PSG, Juve, Real, Chelsea, Man City and Barca all had totals in the teens for their league goals from open play and all (bar Chelsea) were comfortably outscored by wide forwards / second strikers in their teams.

I know that Alexis Sanchez has been doing great there in recent games, but I also reckon that Arsenal cvould do just as well having Cazorla there and Alexis coming from wide or playing as a second striker in a 4 -4-2 formation.

When people reel off all the forwards at other clubs in order to denigrate our own CF contingent, especially when they cite the Manchester teams where they normally play with 2 forwards, it seems unfair to omit Alexis, our 25 goal second striker / wide forward call him what you will.

He is hardly versatile nor industrious — the only place he can feasibly play is in that wide - ish left slot — we don't even play a system to utilise his undoubted best use as a second striker.

But for those of you who can perhaps broaden this out a little and see what title winning teams around Europe have been doing for the past 5 seasons, and also acknowledge the shift in emphasis with many teams relying more now on goal - scoring potency from wide forwards, wingers, second strikers and attacking midfielders then I think the debate is a little more subtle than the «cut and paste a # 40M «guaranteed 25 goal» centre forward with no possible downside» proposition.

Better still, name 24 who presently play as a centre forward alone up top like OG — not second strikers, wide forwards etc And a bit silly to include one of our own in such a list.

Whatever you want to call him, striker, second striker, false winger, wide forward he is in our team with a primary function of scoring goals.

Yannick Ferreira Carrasco can also play as a wide forward or even as a second striker in a pinch.

The French striker would go much closer 90 seconds before full - time when Alex Iwobi played him in behind the Spurs defence but Lacazette curled a shot just wide of Hugo Lloris» far post.

Mehmet Topal headed wide as the home side looked to extend their advantage, but Feyenoord's former Liverpool striker Dirk Kuyt threatened an equaliser before alert goalkeeping by the visitors» Brad Jones prevented a second - half own goal and the visitors» Bilal Basacıkoglu saw a low effort saved.

Furthermore, though he can ostensibly play as an attacking midfielder or second striker, he is nominally a wide forward, an area in which Roma is currently well stocked.