Steven Gerrard Quotes

I like the Klopp mentality but at the same time, I like the Pep culture about football because always we need intensity with and without the ball.

It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter Milan, because they have the intention of trying to stop us rather than playing a game that is more attractive for the spectators to enjoy.

I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.

I think Sassuolo are a serious club who play great football, keeping the ball, and are almost Spanish in style.

United are capable of setting up a low block and making it difficult, but they're also capable of coming out and pressing high.

The football in Spain is more about skill and technique. Every team tries to play good football. The physical side, with plenty of running and hard tackling, plays more of a role in the Bundesliga.

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.

Manchester United are always a team that try to play football, try to play football from the back.

I don't think City play a Brazilian style - it is more Spanish the way we play here.

There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders.

European teams have always shied away from South American football. They struggle to get to grips with it. The South American game is more technical and about keeping possession, while European football is more dynamic, physical and direct.

The way Guardiola plays suits me. It enables me to get into space in attacking positions.

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

Any coach in my era will reference or look at Guardiola's teams. If you look at the style of play, he has had a huge influence on football. And he has innovated it again.

When you have players like Aaron Ramsey, Gareth Bale, and Joe Allen, you've got to play football.

The style is the same at all levels, which facilitates things: bring the ball out from the back, keep possession, work gaps to create chances. It's like that from the Under-15s all the way through. That's the Spanish way, and it has triumphed.

When you play the top sides you cannot afford to be as open as 4-4-2 can leave you. Consequently teams adapt their formation.

I think the Brazil system is similar to the one we use at Liverpool, with lots of movement, players open out wide, and quality midfielders who join the attack and score goals.

We've got to make sure we have players that can break teams down because there's no space in behind; we need to problem-solve in a different way.

In England and Germany, perhaps, there is more of a focus on the physical side of the game, in breaking down the opposition's play, especially against the lower placed sides.

Maybe Klopp is the best manager in the world at creating teams who attack the back four with so many players, from almost anywhere on the pitch. They have an intensity with the ball and without the ball, and it is not easy to do that.

Dominating the midfield is the most important thing in modern football. To succeed, you have to be good at everything.

Guardiola and I have the same idea of football.

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