Teemu Pukki Quotes

English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.

Liverpool midfielder Xabi Alonso was always bemused by our enthusiasm for tackling, because he saw it as the last resort.

Real Madrid, they are the best counter-attacking team in the world.

In Italy, you must think faster than defenders. It is a tough school.

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

If you're playing for five hours you don't want to score goals all the time and I loved dribbling. I could score a goal, but I preferred to dribble.

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.

When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm gonna be freakin' creative.

Football is not about suffering. It's about enjoyment. Control the ball, be friendly with it, try to attack, try to score goals. Of course defending is part of it, but you can defend in a lot of ways.

I don't think the physical part of English football would be a problem. When you get the ball, you need to be ready. The defenders here are very tough. I like that.

If you've got someone like Thierry Henry in your team, you get him on the ball.

When I go into games as a forward, my job is really clear, and I just have to execute. But as a midfielder, you get to sort of enjoy the game more, and you get to feel the game and dictate the play.

I liked mostly to play football on the ground and have a little bit of playing tactics rather than just up and down, long balls and second balls. That's not really my game.

Sometimes when you play on the wing it gets a bit isolated and you can't help as much. But if you play a bit more central I can get the ball a lot more and help a lot more.

I like to control the ball and analyse the game.

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

The sport of soccer in general is very combative. People don't realize it's very one-on-one a lot of times.

I'm a player who likes to get on the ball and use it.

In soccer, you have to be sly.

Every striker has their way of playing and their strengths and a different team behind them. That is very important.

Messi often has a crowd of opponents around him, but with Neymar on the pitch, too, at least two of those opposition players will have to be aware of him.

I'm not Giovinco. I don't get the ball and dribble past three players.

If you have a good midfield, you have a good team.

Since I was in the youth team I would love to dribble past opponents with a dummy. That tendency got even stronger under Giampiero Ventura at Bari, as we never threw the ball away.