Sentence examples for a single striker from inspiring English sources

That frailty was never likely to be punished, however, by a team deploying not a single striker.

The manager had been criticised heavily for his insistence on sticking with a single striker for Friday's opening Euro 2012 qualifying match, in Lithuania.

The logic of why 3-5-2 struggles to cope with a single striker is most simply put by Nelsinho Baptista, the experienced Brazilian coach who has developed software to explore the weaknesses of one system when matched against another.

For starters Benítez likes to put out sides that play with a single striker in a 4-2-3-1 4-2-3-1 4-2-3-1 4-2-3-1s that when it really matters he is likely to pick either Torres or Ba.

Sherwood has been praised for bringing back a more attacking style and abandoning Villas-Boas's preferred method of playing with a single striker, in favour of a traditional 4-4-2 formation.

With such a short turnaround, it's unlikely that the walking wounded recover much more than they have, so expect to see Ferreira and/or Villar as a late sub once more, and probably not a single striker in the 18 again (who does Schellas Hyndman think we are? Spain?).

The problem was the classic one of having three central defenders line up against a single central striker.

Modern attempts to use creative players wide in a 4-2-3-1 4-2-3-1 4-2-3-1 4-2-3-1ure a single central striker.

Single striker, or two up front?

A sense of the similarity between City, with their relentless commitment to attack, and his old Blackburn Rovers side – champions nearly 20 years ago – and of a broader lesson: that 4-4-2 can still work at the top level, that in the era of single strikers and holding midfielders, there is another way.

If the personal problems as affecting Leigh Griffiths could not be foreseen, it is also curious that Rodgers has a single first-team striker available in Odsonne Édouard.