Sentence examples for spare man from inspiring English sources
A spare man, a libero, bolted the door behind them, hence its Italian name: "catenaccio".
Or teams can embrace the defensiveness of the system, the extra security offered by the additional spare man.
Wright was not used as a sweeper but rather as a spare man in a flat back four.
Bilardo's scheme had two markers picking up the opposing centre-forwards, with a spare man sweeping behind.
Fielding Harry Kane alongside Lucas Moura would mean neither City centre-back can act as a spare man.
1.33pm GMT 3 min: Butcher, rather than Wright, is playing as the spare man at the back.
Something I could practise, in my spare, man-less time, so that, when one finally got near me, I could spring knowledgably into action.
The salon treatments are as short as five minutes and spare men the indignity of foils.
The Crusades, stimulated at least in part by a mushrooming population and an economic surplus large enough to spare men to invade the Muslim empire, captured Jerusalem in 1099 -- a feat not equaled until the nineteenth century.
If there is only one centre-forward to mark, though, that leaves two spare men – one provides cover; a second is redundant - which in turn means a shortfall elsewhere on the pitch.
Most obvious, for teams that sit deep and seek only to defend, having two spare men at the back (particularly if the marking is zonal rather than man-to-man) is actually a major advantage.
