Ciro Immobile Quotes

Gasperini works really well, if Inter picked him up, it is naturally because they had good reasons.

The defenders in Italy are stronger, and that makes me better. Serie A is played in a different way to other leagues.

In Italy, you get three or four goals, you go slow, you stop.

I won with Fiorentina, Lazio, and Inter.

I used to be more of a bruiser. I wanted to run through people. Now I try to run around them.

Italy are a very difficult team to play against. They have good defensive qualities.

I like to play wide, but as a youth, I played more in the middle as a 10.

Roy Hodgson destroyed me. He made me play in the centre of midfield.

How do you mark Ronaldo? You try not to leave him alone and don't let him shoot on his right foot. As for Messi... you just make the sign of the cross!

I started as a winger and played there for about six years but when I came to Arsenal they told me 'now you have to play me at the back' and everything just changed.

In Rome, I was already trying to help in shaping the game, but the style was a little bit different to what we do at Liverpool.

Italy do not only defend; they can attack, too. They have attacking qualities, and they create chances.

Ancelotti moved me to a new position and helped me raise my game.

I played as a 10 and, in Sweden, they let me take as many touches as I could. All of a sudden, I come to Arsenal and I have to play one and two touches - it was a little bit alien to me.

When I went to Arsenal, people in Sweden said my game was more suited for Spain or Italy.

Now and again, you may be picking a pass or two in behind, making something happen, but when we're attacking - especially at Liverpool - I'm focusing on protection, being disciplined, being careful, worrying about counter-attacks, things like that.

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.

In my youth-team days, I was always a left-winger who would stay close to the byline and put crosses in the box, so I could never cut inside and shoot. It was only when I joined Real Madrid and started playing in a more central position, and then on the right wing, that I suddenly realised I had a really dangerous weapon.

Never tackle, never go down, we've heard it over and over again. You have to try to keep Messi away from the goal and block him with multiple players while being as close to him as possible. He is too quick, too fast, too intense with the ball.

At Inter Milan, I agreed to play on the wing and didn't like it.

People know who Carlo Ancelotti is. He's a man with a lot of experience.

I began as a striker, then became a holding midfielder, and now I'm a centre-half. I've done everything except play in goal.

Here in Italy, football is more like a chess game. You have to think about every move.

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 I was at Doncaster Rovers Belles, I used to play up front or as a number 10, but when I joined Chelsea in 2015, I was more a midfielder, and over the last few years, I've moved into the back four.