Quotes About Striker

I played there a couple of times in Leverkusen, playing as the striker was nothing new for me I knew what to do - it was fully okay.

My second year in Rome was very good. Back then, a striker was a striker. Strikers scored goals; they didn't defend. Today this is normal, but it wasn't at that time. If you wanted to play my style of football you couldn't have old players or famous players who were unwilling to do the job both ways: attacking and also defending.

Style-wise, dos Santos is going to be an excellent fight for me - striker against striker. With my experience, I should have the upper hand.

Pukki has a bit of everything, which makes him a complete striker. He times his runs well, is very intelligent in his positioning, runs hard, presses opponents and never stops moving.

There are games where the striker will be useful for the team in terms of creating space and being involved in the game, without necessarily scoring, but he'll have played an important role for the team. But, of course, over the course of a season, I have to score goals, as that's what statistics reflect.

Every striker has their way of playing and their strengths and a different team behind them. That is very important.

Everybody knows what Peter Crouch's strengths are and when he plays he is a handful for any side.

It's difficult to mark Ronaldo. I think he has a lot of qualities. He has all the abilities a striker can possesses. He's very good with the head, the right foot, the left foot. His strike is the same whatever the feet.

When you are a striker, you need to give a lot of effort for the team, to keep the opponent under pressure, to press them, to win the ball fast - that's what I try to do to help the team. After that, I try to make some goals.

The last thing you want as a striker is the opposing team putting all 10 players behind the ball.

Robert Lewandowski is a player who plays in front of the opposing goal, especially with his back to the opponent. He is always attacked, and this is one of the big strength of a striker who plays in this position.

As a striker, as I originally was, and then an attacking midfielder, it has always been my aim in life to embarrass goalkeepers: to dominate them, to force them into mistakes.

You look at the Harry Kanes: although he's absolutely ruthless inside the box, he also scores goals outside the box.

It will be hard to become the best South American striker because, from Argentina, there are lots of outstanding players.

So, messrs Johnson and Cummings had a strategy for victory, and we had one for defeat. And I noted the cockiness of the Johnson visit to Sedgefield to rub salt in the wound! But I would like to see their strategic brilliance measured against a team other than one whose striker was directionally oblivious, its midfield comatose, the defence absent in the stand chatting to a small portion of the fans and its goalkeeper behind the net retweeting a clip of his one save in a 9-0 thrashing.

I look for players who do not just score goals but provide an attacking point, linking with other players and able to see the third man as well. Van Persie is one of the best strikers around at that.

Van Gaal gave me all the confidence I could ask for. He made me striker, my favorite position.

There is no club in Europe that wouldn't want Van Persie at centre-forward.

Robin Van Persie is a sensational striker and one of the best in Europe.

Niang is very good in front of the goal, and he's also a quick learner. He is a versatile striker who can play both as a centre forward and as a second striker.

The point is that there are few opportunities in top games. For this you need a striker who has the absolute will to achieve the goal.

I've played as a striker all my life. To play on the right or the left is always difficult.

I like to play. It doesn't matter if it's just me up front on my own or alongside another striker. I always want to play in the first XI.

For a striker, the goals never move. Whatever division you're playing in.