Freddie Ljungberg Quotes

My teams have always been dominant about having the ball but having the ball to create opportunities. That's always been the clear way of my work.

At Tottenham, I'm asked to take a lot of risks to keep maximum possession of the ball and build from the back.

I like teams to control and dominate the ball so the players are hungry for the ball.

I like to be in contact with the ball, have possession, to play.

When you're at a club like Liverpool, it's always about what you can do with the ball.

Pochettino likes to play from the back, with the buildup, have the ball.

If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball

The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.

You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.

I've never seen a Barca without control of the game. I've never seen a Barca that doesn't have the ball and lets the opposition attack all the time.

Statistics can be so misleading. It is funny, though, how often at the moment you see one team had 60 per cent of the ball but still lost.

Football is open; it is not only keeping possession of the ball and making more passes.

Our style of play is increasingly based on possession of the ball. It suits me as a forward. We've got an attacking approach, and that means that I get a lot of chances; otherwise, I would have not been able to score so many goals.

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.

When you play against a top side, you know they will have more possession, and they will be in more control, and you have to find one or two counterattacks.

I experienced that the ball is the most important thing. When you have the ball, the other team really can't do anything.

We need the ball even to defend; that's our objective: having the ball and having it as far as possible from our goal as possible.

We know it's impossible sometimes to have good defending against Cristiano Ronaldo but we want to keep the ball, with good possession, as then he can do nothing in attack.

For me, possession is to keep the ball while you are waiting for the possibility to penetrate. Every pass is for a reason.

I try to get early contact and keep it on the ground. I like to keep the ball down as much as I can.

We always want to play and be dominant with the ball, but we respect the opposition.

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.

If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

You have to take care of the ball to win football games.