Quotes About Midfield

My position at Tottenham was in the centre of midfield, and I have played there for Croatia, I feel I am best there.

Over the long term, it is definitely my ambition to play in the midfield.

I have to play with discipline in midfield.

As a holding midfield player, you want movement and to play between the lines.

I have been playing box-to-box more for Everton as a two, so I have felt comfortable in that position, but anywhere across the midfield I can play.

Real are really powerful in attack, really strong in defence, and have a balanced midfield. There's a reason they've won two Champions Leagues in a row.

You cannot play the position Kroos plays in defensive midfield besides Luka Modric better than he does.

With Jose Mourinho and Rafael Benitez I played in midfield, so at that time I thought that was my position.

I've said it a few times over the years that I'm very happy in midfield.

In the midfield, I'm not the most comfortable playing with my back to the goal, and in the midfield you find that ball a lot.

It is everyone's dream to play for England and we have got a lot of top players in that midfield and lot of competition. For me to break in there, I have got to keep the form up for club at the top level.

Arsenal wanted me to be a controller in the midfield, an Emmanuel Petit-type.

I've played midfield my whole life.

I can bring my drive, I can get behind centre-halves, get on the other side of midfield players, score goals. That's what I can bring to a team when I am at my best.

My favorite position is in the center of the midfield, maybe the defensive midfield. I think I can play this position the best. I played there in my youth all the time, and I like to be in the center of the game because you're never standing still.

I like to be active in space in behind the opposition's midfield. That's where I can hurt the opponent most of all.

When I played in the Benfica youth teams, they would always call me to play in midfield if someone was missing and I didn't ever embarrass myself.

I see myself as a mix between number six and number eight in central midfield - this is the best position for me, as a box-to-box midfielder.

It's a different playing style than at Monaco; there were two of us in midfield there, and here at Liverpool, there's three.

Speaking as a midfield player myself, I know it's easier to make your runs into the box from that deeper, more central position. You can gauge where the ball is going to land and how best to time your run.

As England manager I always felt we needed an extra man in midfield to retain the ball, but that was more as an attacking ploy to help create opportunities. It came from my experience playing international football in a 4-4-2 and spending half my time chasing the ball.

At Newcastle, I was playing in the No 10 position but also in midfield as a left winger.

He'd apply his three basic rules, none of which related to what people know as tiki-taka: they were, rather, intense attack, quick pressure when the ball is lost and having one more player in the midfield than your opponents.

Superiority in midfield, as predicted by Pep, was the key to the game.