Quotes About Tactics

I feel very comfortable with the system used by Mourinho. It's a very dynamic 4-2-3-1 that can easily change to 4-3-3 or 4-1-4-1 depending on the moment or the team's needs. He really knows what he wants.

I don't rule out 3-4-3 or other formations depending on the game.

A system depends on the players you have.

You can play Dybala and Ronaldo; it just depends on the situations.

A lot of the bunkering is designed more to save you than it is to penalize you.

Often in football a game is really balanced and one small detail will make the difference between winning and losing. We try to find the detail that makes the difference for us.

Everyone wants to score goals - that's the point of football - but you have to look at the whole situation in detail.

Details make the difference in football today. It is part of our process.

I played at RB Leipzig from 2013 to 2015, and my coach was Alexander Zorniger. He was a coach who was very focused on the details. He did a lot of analytics and we were focused at Leipzig on the play against the ball.

It depends on who's bowling, how is the wicket playing, how I gonna score and stuff like that or how people are trying to get me out, probably that determines how open I am or otherwise how closed I am.

As a defender, how much ground I cover isn't up to me. I'm defending against a forward, so her movement determines my movement.

I think the defense is going to dictate how many shots you get.

You've got one football and a lot of times, defenses dictate where the ball goes.

I've always liked the No.10 position. You can get on the ball a lot more and attempt to dictate the play a lot more.

Diego Simeone is a great manager.

Rafael Benitez and Mourinho are coaches with different ideas, but both want to win.

I have to figure out different ways to get into the moves that I do because everyone has a different offense, and I need different counters to go into my moves, and that's more down to tape watching.

I don't like to judge from tapes. The strategy starts in the ring.

Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.

You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.

I know my game is about trying to get past players and I know that if a bad tackle is coming my way, I have to jump or push my body out in front, but this is football. If they try to foul and target me, then I'm doing something good.

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.

In a military operation, the command and control elements are a legitimate target.

I'll take what I can get when I go high with a hook, but the side of the head makes a big target, especially if his hands are down.