Philippe Coutinho Quotes

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

With Andy Cole up front they can score at any time. We'll be watching him very closely.

What interests Chiellini and I is not conceding goals. We're able to create chances and it makes us happy when we take them.

I like playing just outside of my own penalty box, the player who receives the ball and organises the game.

You can play just as offensively with one striker as with two.

When you put pressure on the paint, you not only score but you force the whole defense to collapse and you can make easy plays to hit shooters.

As a defence, we have to strive for that clean sheet while also giving the attacking players the licence to go and create.

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.

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.

I think football is evolving, and I think the role of the keeper is becoming more and more important in the game in general.

I think the first attacker has the ball, starts from the back, you can see everything, and you have to play with the feel of a midfielder, not a goalkeeper.

I am in my best position in the middle of the 4-2-3-1.

If you have the ball, you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don't have the ball, you must make it as small as possible.

We always try to mix it up-three-step drop, five-step drop, seven-step drop, naked bootleg. We spread out all these kinds of things to keep the defensive pass rush unbalanced.

You have to attack to get corners, no? Winning by scoring strategic goals doesn't bother me - it's part of the game.

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

I want to know what coverage it is every single time. I want to line up and be able to read what the defense is trying to do to me so I can get open.

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

When I played in goal at Stamford Bridge, I realised that's not my best position.

My thing is just cut down the easy baskets. Cut down the easy baskets, and cut down the other guys that are going to score.

It's not easy to score three goals in 70 minutes.

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.

The manager might like it sometimes when I play up front because I can cause trouble for the defenders, but for me, my best position is defensive midfield, stopping the opposition, and then looking to impose myself on a game.

My first season in English football was very special. I hope to go on to achieve even more as a Chelsea player.

Defenses had to play us, obviously, out to the arc, but it was really, to me, my mid-range game that was probably more dangerous than my 3-point shot.