Quotes About Midfield

I think that by playing centre midfield in the middle of the park, I'm doing something which comes naturally to me.

I've definitely got longer passing in my locker and you can bring that out more when you're playing in that No 8 position.

Zizou is a phenomenon. It is an honour to share the same midfield as him. But he thinks the same about me.

I don't like getting pinned back with a line of four in midfield. You risk losing too much space.

I want to play football, and I want to help the team. It doesn't matter if I play midfield, if I play in defence, if I play as a striker.

If you win the midfield, you probably win the game. But that doesn't mean the players in the midfield are the ones alone who determine that, because now we have strikers who drop into midfield and defenders who move up into the midfield. It is the area you must dominate.

Normally, I play in midfield where I'm challenging the players and trying to take the ball.

In the defensive midfield position, the player needs to give balance to the team and try to control the game. That's exactly what I try to do.

I am actually comfortable in every position in midfield. At Bayern Munich, I even played as a winger and sometimes a full-back, so I can play many different positions.

I would say I am more comfortable in the centre of midfield. But when you are at a big club like Liverpool, you maybe get played in positions with which you might not be so familiar. But you have got to learn the different roles, because it gives you a better opportunity to play.

I love to play in the middle to be in contact with the ball all the time. I'm very happy to play in that position.

Tactically, I know how to play on one side even though I remain convinced that I can play better through the middle.

4-3-3 is better for me because I can score more goals, and also create more and tackle in midfield which I like to do to help the team.

Maybe modern tactics mean that making the switch from defence to midfield is easier. Many years ago, full backs were more limited - you were just supposed to defend, and it didn't matter if you could get forward too.

I much prefer playing in the centre of the park; that's where I feel comfortable.

I used to say I preferred midfield because I enjoy trying to make goals, and scoring is a buzz.

To work under Brendan Rodgers would certainly be a good move for Ainsley Maitland-Niles but the most important thing for the player is to go somewhere he can play in his preferred position, which is in midfield.

Being in midfield, in general, you don't have a lot of time to think, and in the Premier League, that's even less of the case. You just don't have time to think.

In the Premier League it is difficult, the midfield is very congested; there is a lot of pressure and the game is very fast. So it's hard for you to spend a lot of time with the ball; you have to be very fast, you have to think long before the ball reaches you.

The most dangerous area is the centre, which has to be either attacked or defended in football, and it's the same in chess.

Firstly, I am somebody who plays in a defensive role, and we need to start with that, but then I need to bring the ball forward and help the attack.

If you have a good midfield, you have a good team.

I like to be involved as much as I can in the game, and in the middle, you're definitely the heartbeat of the team. When you're on the right, you can go minutes without seeing the ball, and that's a long time when you're out on the pitch.

If I don't get the service or if I don't the ball in the box, where I want it, I start drifting into midfield. I go and look for the ball. I try to be important for the team in other areas.