Gerard Pique Quotes

I would prefer to play for and against an attacking team, but I am now used to playing against defensive teams.

As I see it, Seedorf and I are coaches who handle the concept of a more proactive game.

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.

I like to be active in space in behind the opposition's midfield. That's where I can hurt the opponent most of all.

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.

Maybe other managers would see their team score one goal and then prefer to go back and counter-attack, then try to score the second goal. A lot of those managers are the best managers at the moment, but for me, it's very important to continue the way I play.

I don't want just pure roll out of the back four. I want productive mixed play... how many ways can you affect a game?

We try and play football in a positive way. Any team has to be defensively organised, but you have to look at the attributes of the players and play to their strengths.

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.

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.

Pep's Barcelona was spectacular. They had a collective style based on players of talent, which sought control and sought to dominate all over the pitch.

From what I saw in Spain and Germany most of the teams drop back and then they have all of the time to build up and have the movements. In the Premier League it is more physical and about set plays. It is more difficult.

It's always tough to play against teams that bunker or 'park the bus' inside the 18-yard box, but we always try to focus on our game and how we can overcome the obstacles that the game presents to continue to get better and score goals.

My priority is possession. Attack, get a lot of players in the opposition half, take risks.

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.

Arsenal's style of play is so smooth and easy and I hope I can adapt to their style quickly.

For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.

Guardiola and I have the same idea of football.

I like to play attacking football, but I think the big difference is that we expect a lot more from our strikers, to do more pressing and to keep compact. We like to play a high line defensively and press the ball.

With a line of six in the defence and then three in front of that, it's not always easy to find the spaces to score the goals.

Guardiola has a way of playing; he has a system, and he sticks to that.

Arsene Wenger's style of play is the sort of style the Chilean national team has. Therefore, I am used to it.

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 formula to beat the press is simple; it's the execution that's tough. If you have the quality to do so, you pass your way through it. And if you don't, you just boot it over the top. And then it becomes a game of winning 'second balls'.

There is no Benitez 'method.' We try to be more solid in defense without losing the quality in attack.