Aided by the midfield, the Kirkby defence managed to weather the initial storm. |
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Italy have a strong defence and the midfield is more settled than a month ago. |
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It was in midfield, though, where Leeds United's supremacy was most apparent. |
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While our attack and midfield played mediocrely, our defense was a nightmare. |
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Bonniconlon at this stage began to tire and with the Belmullet midfield and half back line in top form Belmullet ran out winners. |
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The Barrowsiders began to get on top with Willie Power and Keith Hession dominating midfield. |
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His vacation of the midfield also enabled Jamie Buchan to get back to his favoured position in midfield after a long spell at left back. |
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Cameron Latter scored two first half goals after good work from George Holmes in the midfield. |
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Danny Carroll was switched from the midfield to centre-half for the last two games. |
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As well as his hard work in the midfield, he has also chipped in with goals when the team have needed them most. |
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With the injured Paul Warhurst absent, Paul Scholes had a field day in midfield. |
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Patrick is maybe not best known for his goals but for his amazing display in the centre of midfield. |
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However the main point of concern for United should be the centre of midfield. |
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Allen's first goal was laid on by a superb ball from the midfield by Steve Omonua. |
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Staniforth was controlling the midfield and Graham was a constant threat at centre forward. |
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He plays in the centre of midfield and he protects the defence but also joins in the attack and gets some great goals. |
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Davids runs the midfield while Kluivert scores the goals and makes the play from up front. |
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We knew their strength was in central midfield which is why we packed the midfield. |
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This is why I would put him in the centre of the midfield for my dream team. |
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Their central midfield was notable more for foraging than contributions in attack. |
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Most of the play was cantered in the midfield section, perhaps with the Carlow League side having the better of the possession. |
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He misplaced a pass in midfield and Sergio sent Victor racing clear for 35 yards before he ripped a shot past Williams. |
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Not mistiming any tackles, rarely wasting the ball and never stopping running, we could have done with four Coles in midfield. |
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Fellow Frenchman Patrick Vieira made 2-1 in the 66th, running from midfield to side-foot the ball into the net. |
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Mark Dobie latched onto a long ball from midfield and easily side-footed it past Martin Pirie from close range. |
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During a loan period with Middlesbrough in season 1999-2000, he looked an ordinary player, locked into an orthodox four-man midfield. |
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On the ensuing play, their quarterback bobbles the snap and Upsala recovers near midfield. |
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The game then deteriorated into an error-strewn and uninspiring midfield battle. |
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Gregory Vignal looked smart before picking up a knock and although Riise has looked better when playing in midfield he has covered well. |
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He had a reputation as an up-and-coming talent at the time and I was supposed to be marking him in midfield. |
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The player is capable of inspiring his team and can play either in midfield or up front. |
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They were already showing signs of taking control, with flowing passes and rapid breaks from midfield. |
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By now MacKenzie-Smith was at midfield with Barry soldiering at full forward. |
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Portlaoise were the better team overall with a solid defence, a strong midfield and an attack that could create and take the scoring chances. |
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Limerick can be depended on to be solid in defence and more than competitive at midfield. |
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Gradually and under the direction of Mark Hutchinson the Boys defence began to solidify and Hanover began to own less possession in midfield. |
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Sinead Lyons continued to show her sparkling form by continually attacking from midfield. |
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His darting runs from midfield had the defence spreadeagled and bewildered. |
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The midfield pairing provided Rangers with a dynamic, unrelenting sense of purpose. |
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They disrupted an opposition move in midfield, and then hacked the ball on. |
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O'Reilly, who has latterly starred in central defence and up front for the Pikes, was not to be suppressed from his role in centre midfield. |
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Liverpool won this match in a canter and it was a case of men against boys in the midfield. |
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As I was serving the buffet the midfield hard man asked me to put Ceefax on the telly so he could see what the Scotland score was. |
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The team's boss will carpet his midfield ace for his spat with an opponent in the heat of the Pride Park battle. |
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Robinson is deadly in a one-on-one situation and it will be a thankless task for anyone having to mark him in midfield. |
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With neither side able to stamp their authority in the crucial midfield area the final score was in doubt right to the end. |
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His presence in midfield has proved the catalyst for Saints' exciting open style of play. |
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There are three minutes of stoppage time to be played, and fortunately for Greece, the ball is sticking in midfield. |
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With heavy rain now falling, the game became bogged down in a midfield stalemate. |
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Within five minutes it was clear that the midfield battle was being hopelessly lost with neither a break or a clean catch coming Carlow's way. |
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The Moran brothers, Ollie and Niall, will be on opposite sides and could find themselves marking each other in midfield. |
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Their limitations at midfield would catch up with them and a stranglehold of possession would limit their classy forwards. |
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His sublime midfield skills were offset by a ruthless streak which lingers in the memory. |
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This situation is not helped by the predicament he has with his wide midfield players. |
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Why was Ferguson sitting in midfield instead of bombing forward to help the strikers? |
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A better supply of early chances up front from midfield and the wingbacks would increase the strike rate and goals scored. |
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Despite injuries he is a near cert to travel and is likely to be given the troublesome left midfield role. |
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Barnet midfield player John Doolan has become the latest new arrival at big-spending Conference promotion chasers Doncaster Rovers. |
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Though working overtime the Parkville midfield were strained to contain the dangerous runs of Ross. |
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Untracked by Brazil's midfield, Kranjcar times his run onto the ball perfectly, but then makes a Horlicks of his header at goal. |
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All three have a central striker and two wider attackers, who drop back to become part of a five-man midfield when possession is surrendered. |
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Brave at the back, brilliant in midfield, swashbuckling up front, Laois may not be the finished article yet. |
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Claus Jensen, bright and inventive in midfield, tested Richard Wright with a 30-yard swerver which the England keeper clutched in his midriff. |
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Dan Gordon had a greater influence on game once he partnered Gregory McCartan in midfield. |
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With Chris Conway drafted to partner James Conway in a bid to break the Blues midfield stranglehold, they fired. |
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John Galvin also starts for the first time this season and will partner John Quane in midfield in the absence of the suspended Jason Stokes. |
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They are strong at the back, very formidable at midfield, while their forwards are in a class of their own. |
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Their passing and movement was excellent and Walsh added to his tally on ten minutes following an flowing move through midfield. |
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Fernando Morientes is the first to get clattered, by Marcel Desailly in midfield. |
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A mainstay of the Celtic team, he expects his absence to weaken their midfield but is not getting too cocky. |
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Although Lippi's line-up occasionally appeared ill-assorted, the midfield was still infused with ability. |
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Our attacking play didn't work out the way I wanted it to because we lacked imagination and clout in midfield. |
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The early exchanges were tough and uncompromising in the midfield area as both sides sought to impose themselves on the game. |
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Izzet luxuriated in his roving midfield commission and City could have been two up in the first 10 minutes. |
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He again underlined what a player he could be with another industrious performance on the right hand side of midfield. |
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Tunisia had strung a quintet across midfield, conceded territory and possession but bit on the counter and led in the eighth minute. |
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We went forward and then conceded possession in midfield and that gave them their third. |
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The inside centre skipped through a gaping hole in the Romanian midfield to give his team an ideal start with the fastest World Cup try. |
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Then he won a ball out near midfield, beat three of four tackles on a powerful run before planting an unstoppable shot in the back of the net. |
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Not only that, but he was asked to play in midfield rather than his usual central defensive position. |
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He's another natural goal scorer, but Stalybridge have played him in midfield where I think he is wasted. |
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The match continued to be evenly contested after the interval and played mainly in midfield. |
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The latter has been exceptional in midfield, fitting into a cosmopolitan midfield with an ease that has defied his tender years. |
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They have probably the best forward unit in the county and a strong midfield. |
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Both teams like to get the ball on the deck and play through the midfield and that makes it entertaining football to watch. |
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Clive Connaughton and Daniel Morgan both had an excellent game at midfield and up front all forwards played their part in this great win. |
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He is likely to get the nod for a midfield holding role, especially with Atherton crocked again. |
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He would weave through matches, languorously elegant amid the midfield frenzy. |
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When they attacked, Parks was invariably the fulcrum, prompting and probing with his educated boot and exposing the Ospreys' frailty in midfield. |
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Both opted to play two men in the full forward line which made for a very crowded midfield. |
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Tennessee had just recovered a fumble at midfield late in the third quarter of its playoff game against the Patriots. |
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He got his fair share of midfield possession, regularly funnelled back to help the defence and still managed to help himself to two great points. |
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Much has been made of the powder-puff midfield, consisting of a series of pleasing ball players with little real bite. |
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He contributed a booming diagonal towards the corner, a chip behind the Edinburgh midfield and then a high garryowen. |
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The Greek international dawdled and as he did so his captain stepped out of midfield and waved his arms madly at him. |
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Deadlock ensued with a midfield battle that was seemingly getting neither side anywhere near their opponents ' line. |
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Kevin Keegan is ready to give his latest youthful midfield discovery a starting role at Old Trafford after his spectacular debut. |
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He scored some really important goals from midfield in the big games and he's a deserving recipient. |
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Eriksson's midfield diamond formation did not sparkle against Japan, with Frank Lampard looking unsuited to the holding role. |
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Forward for midfielder, and Larsson goes to the point of a midfield diamond. |
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The French midfield star's dazzling season was prematurely ended by a knee injury he picked up last week. |
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They are a very big team, particularly around midfield and we'll have it all to do to get an even break in that area. |
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He was allowed, after 28 minutes, to dribble from midfield to the edge of the box, before the ball bobbled on one of the many divots. |
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He is a superb dribbler with good crosses who can cause problems for any team from his left midfield position. |
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They still look potent in attack but wafer-thin in midfield and wobbly in defence under pressure. |
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Ireland were not about to ease off, and emphasised the point with Henderson's dramatic arrival in midfield. |
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Among his first tasks will be attempts to sign want-away Reds Mark Wilson and Jonathan Greening to bolster the midfield. |
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The midfield sector at this stage of the game resembled a war of attrition with neither side gaining a stronghold. |
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Matthew Bland was commanding in midfield and threatened the Hemsworth goal with a fierce drive which was just tipped over. |
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With Samuel French receiving medical treatment for mild hypothermia warhorse George Day took control of midfield and opened play up. |
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It's very rare for a defender to gain accolades or praise when compared to the goal-getters or midfield playmakers. |
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I can also play at left back or in midfield but right back is definitely my preferred position. |
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The home team went for the jugular, playing their best football of the season by pushing forward the midfield at every opportunity. |
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The Tramore defence was unyielding, however, and the final whistle sounded as Richard Hickey cleared the ball to midfield. |
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The midfield trialist had the time and space to calmly stroke the ball into the unguarded net. |
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I am optimistic that we have the tools to mount a reasonable contest against the midfield teams this year. |
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Most of his 40 appearances last season were as cameos from the substitutes bench, invariably filling in a wide midfield role. |
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He has been getting in some great positions either behind their midfield or out wide and he has been a good supply line for us recently. |
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That this has improvement has come since he has been tucked into the centre of midfield from a wide right position may not be a coincidence. |
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The man of the match award went to Tony Ruddy on left midfield who won every tackle and never gave the ball away. |
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The defence was excellent, in midfield they played a stormer, and the forwards were constantly on the go. |
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Allowing the tiny twosome to wreak havoc is the Brazilian midfield minder, prone to fisticuffs and protective of the rearguard. |
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St Kieran's Jim O'Donovan who played superbly in the second half, holds on to his place at midfield with Niall Moran the player to lose out. |
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Arsenal's defence is looking Manchester United-esque in it's wobbliness at the moment, while their midfield is being completely over-run. |
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But the real battle was in midfield, where the collective worth of one unit, tended to cancel out the merits of the other. |
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At midfield, Downey must deal with the graduation of Harry Binning and the loss of two USLIA all-Americans. |
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Kerr has said he is considering starting John O'Shea alongside Keane in midfield, but it is unlikely he will do so. |
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The equaliser followed a great passing move, Jonny Greenwood latching on to a through ball from midfield and firing home. |
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He brings us authority, composure and work rate and a bossing of midfield players we have lacked all of this zany season. |
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In midfield, Steve Schumacher's welcome return added zip and zest and brought legs to the piston-like work-rate of Lee Crooks. |
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With Larry Mahon playing well at midfield, Castledermot stormed back into the game. |
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The 25-year-old, who has been in outstanding form for the Gunners, would certainly give England a much-needed left-footed option in midfield. |
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Some slick passing by Chelsea in midfield releases Frank Lampard down the left wing. |
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Leos took advantage of the let-off to score a converted try from a midfield move. |
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A week ago, Brian Woolnough and his pals forbade him constructing a rhombus out of his midfield troops. |
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In soccer the bulk of media and fan attention is paid to the midfield liberos or the prolific goal-scorers. |
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Seven minutes later, a ball from midfield caught out Alcide and saw the pacy Gordon bear down on goal on the right. |
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Alexandersson makes use of a lucky break in midfield to feed Larsson on the right. |
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Dom Grimes and George Ross worked tirelessly in midfield and Sam Pollock worked hard on the right. |
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Their line-outs proved shaky on a few occasions and their game would have benefited from being opened up more, especially in midfield. |
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Tugay bossed the midfield after delivering a masterclass in the art of pass and move. |
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In midfield Callum Bott tackled as though his life depended upon it and broke up countless home attacks. |
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Zidane is a masterful maestro in the midfield with astonishing moves and is truly a legend among legends. |
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I was thinking of Hoddle the legend, the midfield maestro who could unlock defences within a moment. |
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Roy Keane, perhaps, at his most magisterial, used to command the midfield and dictate traffic. |
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The hard working Sam Dowgill was man of the match and dominated the midfield area. |
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The pressure told on both sets of players as the game got bogged down in a midfield melee with precious little invention from the teams. |
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Having had a bit of a mare against Forest last week Leigertwood was lucky to be given the nod ahead of Derry in midfield. |
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The Koreans are controlling this game, winning the scraps in midfield and releasing the ball first time to feet. |
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The result was a rather scrappy, disjointed affair, where space in midfield was at a premium. |
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Until Robert found his touch the new man became the club's top marksman despite playing in midfield. |
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Epsom grabbed the winner two minutes from time when a midfield ball dropped to Shoefield, whose shot screamed past Jones into the net. |
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He's just banged in ten goals from midfield and has come good at the right time. |
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Cork might have expected difficulties in that area what they could not bargain on was the remarkable tide-turn at midfield. |
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Devoid of Shane Julian and with Paul McDonald placed at midfield their defence was threadbare. |
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A re-organised midfield began to take control, sending a number of through balls to the pacy forward line. |
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If defence is a challenge to make the parts equal an impressive whole then midfield is a minefield of talents and egos where someone is sure to get hurt. |
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The last three friendlies I have been playing in central midfield and just in front of the back four and trying to get the ball and bring it out of defence. |
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United had bossed the first half, the five-man midfield which Fergie defends so spikily proving its worth as Leeds barely had a kick in the opening 20 minutes. |
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The ball is put in play in midfield in a face-off, known as a bully. |
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Can anyone really see a midfield knocking them off their perch? |
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Yet Mendieta has shown no desire to leave the club that made him a star, for it was at Valencia that he graduated from awkward full-back into a midfield maestro. |
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If the game is going to go back to front again there'll be no way we'll be able to get hold of the ball in midfield so we might have to fight fire with fire. |
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He was always ready to make himself available, accepting a series of neat passes from the midfield and ever keen to take the direct route to goal. |
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Intrepid reporter Claire Tomlinson collared Rovers' Turkish midfield star for a quick post-match chat after viewers had voted him their man-of-the-match. |
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Their midfield never gained enough of the ball during the game and their forwards, starved of possession, were outfought by a resolute defence when the ball did arrive. |
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We cleaned them out at midfield but missed four goal chances. |
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And we would be debating whether the midfield should be changed or not and wondering heretically if big Jock Stein had come too late to the management of the Scottish team. |
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The midfield is mechanical, and their goalkeeper, Julio Cesar, a source of constant anxiety. |
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Golborne were kept goalless by a strong midfield and a solid defence. |
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Switzerland work the ball forward with some cute one-touch football, but the crucial touches are letting them down and the crowded French midfield can tidy up with ease. |
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Hoyle and Bruce were spoken to by the referee after an altercation in midfield, but following the free kick Bruce kicked out at Hoyle in the penalty area. |
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I suppose I would have to say left back because that is where I have played most of my career, but I can also play in a wing back role or on the left side of midfield. |
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Almost a quarter-of-an-hour in, and it was his cross which he headed just wide, the Liverpool man galloping in from his berth of the left of midfield to meet the ball. |
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Too often in this tournament, the Portuguese center forward has tended to drift wide or into midfield, depriving the team of an offensive terminus. |
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Goal sneak Schneider had a fairly interrupted preseason and may not be able to offer as much support in the midfield as the club would have hoped. |
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The Aberdeen fans rolled up in numbers, and there was a similarly impressive midfield congregation gandering forward to assist the hosts' attack in the early stages. |
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This year's winner made a huge impact on the offensive end of the field, playing primarily as an attackman but also running out of the midfield at times. |
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He could not contemplate life without his holding midfield player, his big lump up front, his defenders who defend, his channel ball, his pressing game. |
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One minute he's mixing it with his hardened opponent in midfield. |
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While Kerry were solid enough at the back, they were all at sea at midfield, while they never threatened down the wings and this was the most disappointing aspect of all. |
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Those not directly engaged by his tricks and nudges and lippy asides can enjoy a master of the midfield mind games, a proven winner in the wind-up wars. |
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McAllister's performances caught the eye of Liverpool manager Houllier, who was searching for an experienced campaigner to add nous and wisdom to his young midfield. |
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Kieron Dyer, that star of the tabloid front pages, was first to endear himself to the Newcastle public by refusing to play on the right hand side of midfield. |
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Man of the match was George Guest who was on form in midfield. |
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The midfield area is one that could decide the outcome of the game. |
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Mark Dempsie was given the central role in the back three, while Hibs' stretched resources meant an unaccustomed beat for Mathias Jack on the wide left of midfield. |
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Ray McKinnon, who had looked disinterested for much of the first half, began to boss the midfield and a winner for the home side didn't look impossible. |
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With Thierry Henry, a healthy Sol and a Viera who doesn't have to carry the midfield by himself, the spine of the team is still marvellously strong, it just needs adding to. |
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The most obvious was the imbalance in the midfield, with two strong-running centres whose joint creative talent could be kept in a matchbox, along with the matches. |
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During this time Hanover lost their influential midfielder Sean Kavanagh through injury and this had the effect of temporarily unbalancing their midfield sector. |
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Brave two-year-old George Mitchell proved he is made of strong stuff as he took on two of Swindon Town's midfield maestros at the County Ground this week. |
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All of a sudden you are attacking with four and it may leave you exposed in midfield and that may be why we are putting more pressure on the defence. |
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I saw Nobby Stiles, George Cohen, and the giant Jack Charlton winning every ball in midfield and distributing beautifully. |
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He hirples across the midfield rather than gliding effortlessly, but he's always in the thick of the action. |
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Against Spain and Italy, Croatia will play it tight with Tomislav Dujmovic and Darijo Srna employed in midfield for exactly that reason. |
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Now he has gone, Everton's entire midfield is peopled with players who stand knee high to Oompah Loompahs. |
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That tackle, and a fumble by Cleveland's Veron Catlin near midfield, seemed to swing the momentum to Chatsworth. |
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Sofie Armitage was named player of the match for her non-stop work down the left side of midfield. |
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Milan Osterc, will be tasked with testing the questionable resolve of Nadal and Hierro if Spain's midfield overcommits. |
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The Aussie ignored blatant 'crossing' obstruction in midfield which allowed Hayato Daimon to skid over. |
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Then the midfield started to overelaborate and we were on the back foot by half-time. |
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Despite dominating possession and territory, they were being comfortably contained by Everton's well-organised midfield and diligent back four. |
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Back in August, the Toon ace was kicked from pillar to post by Karl Henry in a bone-crunching midfield battle at Molineux. |
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Playing his first competitive match in almost three months, Beckham gave a decent performance in right midfield alongside Pirlo. |
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With Beckham playing in the centre of midfield, the Galaxy won the 2011 MLS cup. |
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This means that the back line of defenders must move to the midfield line to hold the whole opposing team onside in their half of the field. |
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Alack of fresh faces and a chronic shortage of midfield flair has added to the malaise. |
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Gennaro Gattuso, once of Rangers, spikily roams the midfield like Roy Keane, while Andrea Pirlo possesses all that is required of a playmaker. |
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Delph was a regular in the Villa midfield in the first half of the season but has not featured for the first-team since mid-December. |
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For City, Padraic Fogarty is back from a ban but they'll travel without the midfield trio of Stephen Grant, Michael Comerford and John Cinchonas. |
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Indeed, twinkletoes Hughes has been a revelation since being switched into the centre of midfield. |
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Hughes partners Adam Warren in midfield with Nick Scott joining flying wing Ashton Hewitt and Carl Meyer in the back three. |
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They started OK, but Barnsley improved and were stronger in attack and snappier in midfield. |
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We need goals from the midfield area too, because we can't expect Benty to score 24 or 25 goals every year. |
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With Benty he stretches teams, he plays on the shoulder and you can see that gives us room in midfield. |
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Alongside Ballack in midfield will be youngster Lars Bender, who is unfazed about facing Chelsea's star-studded squad. |
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Steven Gerrard, strangely subdued throughout, did produce one burst from midfield to unlash a rocket drive that flew just wide. |
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A subdued Steven Gerrard did produce one burst from midfield to unlash a rocket shot that flew just wide. |
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If Blacky is fit it frees us to push Zoum into midfield and use his pace in an attacking way. |
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They won a lot of tackles in midfield so we conceded a lot of counter-attacks. |
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The Hobblers have all the guile in midfield in Paul Gascoigne and David Beckham, but not such a formidable attack in Andy Cole and Paul Scholes. |
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The Kerry full forward line destroyed Mayo and they lorded midfield winning over 90 per cent of the kickouts. |
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Looking forward to today's game Martin feels that their breaking ball around the midfield diamond area will be crucial. |
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But with much of Hearts' success stemming from a ' wealth of attacking talent in midfield Merida does not meet Neilson's standards. |
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While he was one of the game's great grafters, Reid still appreciates the talents of football's silkier midfield talents. |
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Worse was to follow for the home side. Ryan Jack had started the match in midfield in favour of Derek Young but had moved into defence with Considine's sending-off. |
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Rooney was the subject of some mischievous probing from the Russia media before the game as they suggested his retreat into midfield was a measure of his declining powers. |
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The 28-year-old not only hassled the visitors' midfield but also delivered pinpoint balls with alarming accuracy as far as the east Londoners were concerned. |
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We've going to have to push a lot in the midfield and counter-attack. |
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Charging through the Bolton midfield to find a free moment, Essien then pinged the ball into the space into which Drogba was intelligently running. |
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The Potters know their strengths and played to them perfectly here, out-muscling Bolton in midfield and bullying the visitors' back-line at every opportunity. |
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While Ryan Giggs, king of left wingers and arguably the best homegrown player in Britain in his prime, is now having an Indian summer in midfield. |
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If Eniola Aluko was struggling in a rather thankless lone attacking role for England, at least Jill Scott was making her presence felt in central midfield. |
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Twelvetrees will become the 18th new player capped by head coach Stuart Lancaster in 13 Tests and completes a rejigged England midfield in the RBS 6 Nations opener. |
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The midfield of Benitez, Paul Dojo and Lewis dictated pace for the majority of the first 45 minutes, but the only letdown helped UCSD even the score in the 26th minute. |
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Mario Gotze was inventive, Lewandowski a menace, and Shinji Kagawa a constant source of energy as, time and again, the hosts played through a porous Arsenal midfield. |
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Kyle made us look much more of a threat going forward once he came on after the first half, which was a non-event, with our midfield being largely ineffective. |
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The emergence of teenager Jack Wilshere has forced Denilson down the midfield pecking order and the Brazilian has made just three Premier League starts all season. |
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It is also felt Tommy Griffin may be needed at midfield at some stage so that would rule out his inclusion in the full back line, where he has never played. |
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Mel needs to hit the ground running but he seems a good fit, having already brought a steelier shape to the midfield while the goals of Saido Berahino are key. |
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While his fitness levels are still high, he is now 31 and he won't have the same quality of players around him, soP ark may findi t tough tod ominate the midfield. |
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England's win was built on industry and discipline, epitomised by the performances of Manchester City's Joleon Lescott in defence and Scott Parker in midfield. |
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The first was flashed at gun-for-hire David Prutton who arrived at the club on Thursday with a reputation as a no-nonsense midfield ratter who can mix it up with the best. |
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Andrew Detorres showed superb hands and pace when entering the line and his angles of attack made spaces for Oliver Joyce and Jerry Casserly to work their magic in midfield. |
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Richard Yarr, Adam Raymond, and Will Penikett took control in midfield. |
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Netherlands, one of the pre-tournament favourites, combined their undoubted guile, creativity, pace and attacking quality with midfield grit and organisation. |
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