Sentences with phrase «work against poorer teams»

That defensive 3 -4-2-1 (Arsenal's formation:D) will only work against poorer teams in Premier League.

Not exact matches

Before this Arsenal away game at Swansea City, Arsene Wenger spoke about how our recent poor results against Garry Monk's team have been caused in the latter stages of the game, so he urged his players to keep focused and working hard right until the end of the match.

Toronto shot 50.6 percent from the field, but that was mitigated by some poor work on the boards against a Miami team that ranks toward the bottom of the league in rebounding.

against a poor side but the team worked hard together to earn the three points......... they deserve our collective adulation............ not focusing on individual mistakes.........

Qualities: Giroud - Hold up (but not against top defenders Tery, Cahil, etc), short pass, hard working, team player, defensive duties (set - pieces), injuries Benteke - Hold up, short pass, better dribbler, long shots, finishing, positioning, defensive duties (set - pieces), can play with his back to the goal and also drop deep and face the goal when marked weakness: Giroud - very slow, easily marked, poor finishing (not wc finisher), technique Benteke - injuries, not a hard worker If you look the stats for the since 2012/2013, they have almost similar records except that Benteke scored like total of 19 goals (correct me if I'm wrong) in his 1st season and also have a decent record against top teams, keep in mind he plays for AstonVilla not Arsenal where you get much more chances and better players around.

negatives -LRB--)-- terrible result — wengers team selection (arteta + ozil in particular)-- generally poor work - rate across the pitch and nothing like the backbone we showed against man city — handing dortmund initiative to top the group (we all know what finishing 2nd means)-- lack of hunger + desire — welbeck misses — still no joel campbell (who in my personal opinion is a big game / stage player)-- in all our «set - piece» training we totally forgot about the bread and butter of football which is making an impact in open play

Extremely high work rate, which I love and totally appreciate, but very poor defensively against technically gifted teams.

Theo is no ST, I agree he needs to prove himself there but I don't see it working aside from against poor teams and in the last 20 mins to play counter attack.