He likes, as many Dutch players do, to be what is known as a shadow striker, lurking behind a main central attacker, creating and exploiting space.
43 min With half-time so close, Germany haven't changed much tactically, so really it's a 4-2-3 fOziltion with Ozil as the central attacker.
Rodgers talks often about the strategy of his side, and elements of this display were recognisable, such as Miller playing high and wide on the left, Benyu tucking in as another central attacker, and Ralston dropping back when attacks were on the left to leave a solid back three.
Hughes was holding them back for yesterday when, for the first time, he played Bojan as his central attacker, flanked by Shaqiri and Arnautovic.
In a sense, Enrique hasn't tried to replicate the position directly – though Totti played as the central attacker on Monday, and as the pioneer of the false nine role, he maybe was playing the Messi role.
Eden Hazard has started as the main central attacker for Chelsea.
Ramos began as an attacker, has played as a central midfielder, and won the World Cup at right-back, afterwards admitting that the success lacked something – a goal of his.
As Agüero came off on 64 minutes he walked close to Sarri, who half‑turned in a pained but gracious acknowledgement of what the league's outstanding central attacker had just done to his team.
In the Nazi newspapers Der Stürmer (The Attacker) and Völkischer Beobachter (Völkisch Observer), Hirschfeld was portrayed as a central enemy throughout the 1920s.
