Alphonso Davies Quotes

I always try and get as many as touches as I can with the ball because that's the most important thing for me as a player is to feel comfortable in that way.

Rushing the ball is all about ball control. If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

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.

You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

It's important not to lose a ball. It's rare for the team to lose the ball. You have to be careful.

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.

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

I like teams to control and dominate the ball so the players are hungry for the ball.

I like to control the ball and analyse the game.

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

It is impossible to do it for the whole game, but when you have the ball for most of the game and have players like Samir Nasri, David Silva, Yaya Toure, and Raheem Sterling, they keep the ball so well.

Normally, I play in midfield where I'm challenging the players and trying to take the ball.

I like it when the team is in control of the match. I like very much the ball possession; I like to play in the other half.

The important thing for me is we want to keep the ball, we want to have the ball because we are Arsenal football club.

You will never run more than the ball. The players that don't lose the ball are the most important in the team, and good players decide the game.

I like to get the ball on the ground, make good plays and move the ball around the pitch quickly at a good tempo.

I try to get early contact and keep it on the ground. I like to keep the ball down as much as I can.

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield.

You have to take care of the ball to win football games.

When you touch the ball 400 times per game, it's normal that you can lose the ball a couple of times.

Look at the best dribblers in the world, Lionel Messi and Andres Iniesta, and the ball seems to stick to their foot, so I can work on that when I am dribbling.

Watch me, and I only really like the ball into feet. I don't like running in behind so much.

I liked mostly to play football on the ground and have a little bit of playing tactics rather than just up and down, long balls and second balls. That's not really my game.

All coaches say, 'We want to control the game. We want the ball. Blah, blah, blah, blah,' but it's impossible to have the ball all the time.