Sentence examples for playing narrow from inspiring English sources

The coach changed – from Carlos Alberto Parreira (1991-94) to Mario Zagallo 94-988) and then Vanderlei Luxemburgo 98-000) – buthehe style was essentially similar: attacking full-backs in Cafu and Roberto Carlos given licence by two holding midfielders (Dunga plus one essentially), with two creators playing narrow ahead of them and then two central strikers.

Tom Cleverley aped the movement of Silva and De Bruyne by playing narrow, almost as an extra central player, but it was notable he looked forward quickly when he received possession – hitting a couple of long balls towards Romelu Lukaku, as he did during Everton's 1-1 drawithTottenhamHotspurspur at the weekend, when this route of attack created Aaron Lennon's opener.

Both times we played narrow.

Maybe he wants to play narrow wide players and maybe a three in midfield".

September 11 , 20131.20am BST 14 mins Neil Blackmon emails with some analysis: "Guardado plays narrow.

The fairways at St. George's are not particularly narrow in width, but they play narrow, since their terrain resembles a wind-whipped sea.

He has superb touch and control and moves delightfully when in possession, and is at his best when he plays narrow in behind a striker.

They combated Southampton's five-man midfield by pulling Diomansy Kamara back on to Matt Oakley and getting their wide men, Patrick Berger and Gary O'Neil, to play narrow.

That difficulty in controlling midfield was one of the main reasons 4-4-2 favourrom falthoughlthough it could still work if the defensive and midfield lines remained very compact, denying the opposition space either by sitting deep or pushing high up the pitch, particularly if, as Barcelona do, the wide midfielders play narrow, tucking in to help with the issue of overmanning in the centre.

"They played very aggressively in the first half, and played narrow and deep.

"We felt we would play deeper and play narrow so we could deal with crosses".