DeAndre Yedlin Quotes

Sometimes in midfield, it's nice because you do get a little bit more of the ball, and maybe out wide you rely on people to get you the ball.

I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.

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.

Before I came to Barcelona, I only thought about one facet of the game: destroying. My qualities were completely defensive, and I wouldn't take responsibility for organising my team's game, our attacks.

As full-backs, we like to get high and wide. It's the style of football that I enjoy playing.

Sometimes you can get sloppy and control the ball right at your feet, and that gives the defenders a chance.

If you do an outside spin with the ball, it's more difficult to control it, so I try to pass it in a way that allows them to take the ball quicker in their path. That way, they may have more of an advantage to score or create themselves.

I'm one of those players who loves to dribble the ball, to run at people.

I like to be in contact with the ball, have possession, to play.

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.

We have to cut out some of our mistakes, but the main thing in English football is controlling the second ball. Without that, you cannot survive.

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

I have to open the game from my position. It's really important to play with the ball.

The most important thing is to help the team to come in front of the goal with one-two passes, I drop down, or I give them space, because for defenders, it's always difficult to have a false nine because they don't have a direct player against them, so they don't know exactly what to do.

Our style of play is increasingly based on possession of the ball. It suits me as a forward. We've got an attacking approach, and that means that I get a lot of chances; otherwise, I would have not been able to score so many goals.

To score goals, you need to receive the ball in advantageous positions.

If you have a top winger, you are going to win a lot of games.

When you have a lot of ball possession, you have a lot of ball possession to create chances, not to play the ball around and not score.

If the spaces open up in the attack, then of course I'm willing to take it because I love to get involved; I love to get crosses in. I love to do combinations and just bring a different aspect to our game.

The game in Spain is more about technique and about getting more touches on the ball. That's why I like it so much.

I need to keep improving tactically, defensively and offensively for the last pass, the last shot.

I get a lot of front ball in a position that, normally, the opponent's defense is making the move outwards, and our attackers are getting in.

My teams have always been dominant about having the ball but having the ball to create opportunities. That's always been the clear way of my work.

I like to push the ball down the field when it's there. There's also times you just take the underneath one.

Midfielders, on average, get somewhere between half a second and a second to think before they have to move the ball on. For strikers, however, it is significantly less: between 0.1 and 0.2 of a second before a defender is on them.