Danny Welbeck Quotes

People always see the goals, and for me, strikers are not only about scoring goals.

Maybe modern tactics mean that making the switch from defence to midfield is easier. Many years ago, full backs were more limited - you were just supposed to defend, and it didn't matter if you could get forward too.

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.

If you are playing on the left of a four-man midfield, there are a lot more defensive duties to do, so you can't find the times to keep attacking. But if you're on the left of a 4-3-3, I find that position really good as well.

It's important for a striker to play in a position which is natural for him.

With a line of six in the defence and then three in front of that, it's not always easy to find the spaces to score the goals.

I say that if the team play well and use me in the right way... the goals will come.

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

I'd say I was an attacking midfielder, and if you are going to be one of the best, you have to score goals and create them.

In my time at Milan, the club played with a 4-3-1-2 formation, and I was the player behind the two strikers. At Real, I play behind three. There is a greater defensive obligation, but I try to work around the area.

When you're Scottish you're brought up to play anywhere and it's fine to play for one or two games but you need to play in your right position, especially on the back of scoring nine goals for Hull City.

The hardest thing to coach is scoring goals and creativity.

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

When I arrived at Benfica I'd been playing like a No. 10 in the team, but the first thing the coach did was tell me: 'You are going to be a defensive midfielder here.'

I just want to be able to be an attacking influence and have that effect further up the pitch; whether that's from an attacking midfield position or one of the wider positions coming in, I'm not too fussed.

The position I am playing at right wing-back, I know I can score goals there.

I like Southgate as a manager, what he brings. He always wants the ball and adapts to the players.

I've become accustomed to playing against four defenders throughout my career, but in Italy, I have to play against five.

I was always a little bit compared to Jurgen because my core of working is working against the ball.

I always tend to think my goals are beautiful goals. That is what I want to score - beautiful goals - and create beautiful chances.

Muller is part No. 7 and part No. 9, a second striker. But in Ancelotti's system, there is no room for that type of player.

My philosophy is always to play forward because goal is the reason of football.

For a long time at Blackburn and at Fulham last season, I was playing on the right wing. I've never seen myself as a right-winger. I could play there and come inside and try to create.

I have tried to convince the players that if we work on certain things in training, they will happen in games and we will score goals from them.

I prefer scoring goals, but when I am playing out on the right, I tend to come inside and provide assists, but I also like playing on the left, and I think if that is where I play, then I will have more chance of scoring - but I just hope I can help the team score goals with my assists.