Kieran Trippier Quotes

It is vital to maintain possession and to win it back as soon as possible, because if we win it high up, then the opposition has to run 70 metres.

I often felt as a player in a 4-4-2, you end up being outnumbered in midfield and chasing the ball, so as a manager I liked wingbacks to push forward; it gives the midfield player on the ball three or four options.

I think we've got a lot players in the squad who are more suited to European football at the moment.

Defending isn't just about tackling and heading, it's also about getting the ball down and playing - starting the attack from the back.

I would prefer to play for and against an attacking team, but I am now used to playing against defensive teams.

You can't play man to man against Liverpool and out-pass them. You have to keep your shape and stop them.

That's something you want to preach throughout the whole defense - getting the ball back to the offense.

When you play against a Spanish team, especially Madrid, it is quite an open game.

I don't have any secrets. I know my style of football and sometimes it's pretty simple.

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

Most teams - whether they like it or not against Manchester City - you're going to find yourself quite often penned in your own half.

There is no Benitez 'method.' We try to be more solid in defense without losing the quality in attack.

United's history was built on attacking football, which does not always mean that the team kept clean sheets or did not concede chances.

We know it's impossible sometimes to have good defending against Cristiano Ronaldo but we want to keep the ball, with good possession, as then he can do nothing in attack.

Pochettino likes to play from the back, with the buildup, have the ball.

I like entertaining football but, at the same time, you can't concede goals. That's a tricky balance to find.

When I've watched teams that play with five at the back and wing-backs, I've looked at their starting positions and positions out of possession because that comes a little bit more unnaturally to me.

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

I like to play attacking football, but I think the big difference is that we expect a lot more from our strikers, to do more pressing and to keep compact. We like to play a high line defensively and press the ball.

We have four parts of our game: working against the ball; in possession; losing the ball; winning the ball. If you are good in all four parts, you have a good chance of winning.

In the Premier League you need creative players to open games up.

What Liverpool do really well is they try to get you inside but then close you down.

As a winger, you want to get at defenders and make it hard for them. Instead of them going forwards, they have to defend against you.

As a wing back, when you get the ball wide, you usually don't have any help out wide. You have to be pretty good on your own out there.

Someone said that my coaching is a combination of Milan's defensive discipline and the Dutch propensity for attacking football, and I think that is a fair description.