Henrikh Mkhitaryan Quotes

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.

I like to play in the middle, even though I can play on both wings.

If I was to play on the left, I'd rather play there if there was three in midfield.

I'm a centre forward, and that is my preferred position. But I'll play on the wing or in midfield, wherever the manager wants me to play.

Cristiano Ronaldo is a player who often plays on the left side and moves between the lines.

I am a striker or at least a playmaker behind the front man, certainly not a wide man. But with Rome and Milan, I was only playing on the wings.

You need two or three players who can do that - play behind the striker, on the right wing, the left wing... striker, maybe. If we have those, it's good for the team.

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

I can play left-back; I can play in midfield or on the left or right wings.

I used to like playing No. 10 when I was younger, so I enjoy that role. But as I developed, I had to stay on the wing.

I can play in any position in the attacking zone, but I don't like to stick to the wing, for instance. I need to have freedom to move throughout the attacking and creative zone.

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

I just want to be playing! I love to play. But I think I can play in the three positions behind the striker.

In my period at Chelsea, I was sometimes the one who switched sides because we were playing with two left-footed guys on the wings with myself and Damian Duff.

I'm happy to play as a centre forward or a second striker, like in the national team with Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani.

It is always good and important that the strikers score.

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

If there's a shot on, I like to take the opportunity as well, and I like passing the ball - which is one of the reasons I came to Arsenal. But I'm a player that likes to come up with an end product - whether that's a goal, an assist, or helping the team to get good results.

Pep Guardiola saw me as a central player in his system, which my style of play fit into perfectly.

I have to play with discipline in midfield.

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.

Balotelli can play as a striker, as a winger.

I know the importance of the number 10. In Brazil, the one who wears 10 constructs the attacks.

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

In modern day football, you've got to play in different positions. I've played in numerous positions, apart from centre-back and goalkeeper, I think.