| midfield player | 2.83 | Germany will be missing its two most creative midfield players. | ||
| midfield star | 2.70 | He turned to his midfield star, a year out of Senegal. | ||
| midfield role | 1.71 | He fills the midfield role vacated by Desailly. | ||
| midfield play | 1.51 | And their lack of midfield play has placed even more pressure on the defense. | ||
| midfield position | 1.45 | Also, Jones and Victorine return to their natural midfield positions. | ||
| midfield playmaker | 1.25 | Both are midfield playmakers rather than strikers. | ||
| midfield battle | 0.86 | It was a midfield battle, with a few scoring chances. | ||
| midfield dynamo | 0.66 | Turkey will be looking to midfield dynamo Kerimoglu of Blackburn Rovers to provide inspiration. | ||
| midfield maestro | 0.59 | The midfield maestro has few excuses for his predicament. | ||
| midfield leader | 0.53 | Rongen inherited midfield leader Beto Naveda. | ||
| midfield line | 0.53 | Juventus capitalized when Ravanelli took a freeing pass just over the midfield line. | ||
| midfield stripe | 0.53 | Moreno set the winning goal in motion when he passed to Marco Etcheverry just beyond the midfield stripe. | ||
| midfield pass | 0.39 | Robin Fraser started the winning play by sending a midfield pass to Mauricio Cienfuegos. | ||
| midfield area | 0.33 | Hoddle was counting on Ince and David Batty to gain control of the vital midfield area against the Azzurri. | ||
| midfield back | 0.33 | His place on the bench for Saturday has gone to midfield back Pita Alatini. | ||
| midfield choreographer | 0.33 | Pareja seemed assertive in his new role as midfield choreographer. | ||
| midfield direction | 0.33 | Edwin Gorter provided entertaining touches as well as midfield direction in the first half. | ||
| midfield spot | 0.33 | Lazaridis will occupy the left midfield spot which Kewell normally fills for Leeds. | ||
| midfield trio | 0.33 | The midfield trio will be Michael Hughes, Jim Magilton and Kevin Wilson. | ||
| midfield ace | 0.26 | The blonde midfield ace scored two quickfire goals in a minute to rescue this opening Gold Cup tie for the Blues. |