Sentence examples for possession style from inspiring English sources

For long stretches, Germany's short passing and possession style seemed to lack energy and purpose.

He loved the culture and his teammates, and the possession style of Spanish soccer, but there was an impediment to getting onto the field not unlike the language barrier.

Rodgers had called on Capello to pay a visit to south Wales to cast his eye over his England hopefuls and appreciate Swansea's possession style, which places a high demand on a player's technical ability.

He instituted a puck-possession style that has made San Jose the league's top offensive team.

Vigneault favors an offense-first, puck-possession style, while Tortorella favored a grinding, dump-and-chase style with arduous forechecking.

The club's management, with Sabatini and Enrique as the point men, has designs on changing the nature of Italian's soccer's reputation for a defensive style by transporting Barcelona's ball-possession style to Rome.

I think you have to have a certain self-possession and style to pull that off".

Coaching a possession-oriented style has yielded impressive results for Akron.

The Japanese are led again by coach Norio Sasaki, who has emphasized a technical, possession-focused style often likened to Barcelona.

And he explains how Barcelona's pressing, possession-driven style, under Guardiola, represented the fulfillment of this lineage.

Vigneault favored an offense-oriented, possession-oriented style, and the Sedin brothers, Daniel and Henrik, were given license to concentrate on the attack.