Sentence examples for defensive duties from inspiring English sources

It is a situation that has allowed him to largely eschew most of his defensive duties and float around the midfield and defense while spraying long diagonal balls to players on the wings.

Foreigners like Lindh were given only defensive duties; he served as a guard.

The 34-year-old's defensive duties are not limited to Arsenal.

The stars Zaha has delivered consistently and is improving massively in his defensive duties.

Varela, now with fewer defensive duties, stepped up to augment the attack.

Like roofs and ELVs, not having the ball is fashionable these days, and Munster were relishing their defensive duties.

His performance going forward in the latter stages of the match was better than his defensive duties.

"I spent more time stressing defensive duties and maybe the players felt they didn't have licence to go forward".

Shaqiri is not just an attacking force – under Hitzfeld's watchful eye he will also carry out his defensive duties.

His line kicking was near-perfect and nor was he afraid to carry out his share of defensive duties.

He instructed Eto'o, one of the game's natural predators, who had scored more than 100 goals at his previous club, Barcelona, to perform defensive duties.