Quotes About Tactics

There aren't many players around who can organise the game from in front of the defence. You have to be fast, work hard and know how to read the game.

To win games sometimes I need to get more in attack, and sometimes I need to defend more, but the main thing is to focus on getting the three points every game, and I will manage when to go forward more and when to help the team in defence.

As a No9, when youre up front on your own, your job is to keep the defence as far back as possible. Why? Because that gives more space to the No10.

My playing style? I'm a right back who likes to attack but I also know when it's time to attack and when you need to stay behind. I have to put a balance between defence and attack.

There has to be a very good balance between being aggressive and then being able to defend as well.

It's sometimes easier to defend a one goal lead than a two goal lead.

I think the best way to defend a result is to keep attacking.

The best way to attack is to defend well.

They say that the best form of defence is attack, but maybe I have to take a look at how I defend.

I came from Ajax where you play 4-3-3 and as a winger they didn't want you to defend.

The players who defend against him make fouls because it's always hard to defend Neymar and take the ball without fouling him.

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

Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.

I always try to outsmart my defender.

In football, when I break the line of scrimmage, I see a player in front of me, a defender, and already in my head I'm thinking, 'I'm going to make him miss.' So I'm already looking at the next defender like, 'OK, how can I set this guy up to get him out of position, too?'

The strikers are the first defenders. And the first defender is the first striker to build from the back.

Positional play is good for training, but in games, to win matches, you need someone who can go past defenders and take chances.

Overtaking is one thing. That is an art. But defending as well. You should be able to defend your position.

I think defending is more of, like, a science, and it's fun to learn that. And then I see attacking as an art.

Defending is definitely an art.

When you haven't got the ball, while we're defending, sometimes I am not always where I need to be.

I love coaches that think more about attacking than defending. As a football fan, I think that's wonderful.

Modern football is like handball. You see 11 players defending on the edge of their own area.

Sometimes, you just have to take what the defense gives you.