Jordan Henderson Quotes

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

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 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.

You can't play man to man against Liverpool and out-pass them. You have to keep your shape and stop them.

When you play the top sides you cannot afford to be as open as 4-4-2 can leave you. Consequently teams adapt their formation.

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.

Tactically, Italians are very strong. They are a lot into tactics: how to defend, when you lose the ball, where will you be?

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.

I think we've got a lot players in the squad who are more suited to European football at the moment.

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.

When I've watched teams that play with five at the back and wing-backs, I've looked at their starting positions and positions out of possession because that comes a little bit more unnaturally to me.

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.

Having a lot of attacking players on the field and a good balance at the back is the foundation of victory.

Some big teams prefer to be very strong defensively and have two, three, four counter-attacking players.

United's history was built on attacking football, which does not always mean that the team kept clean sheets or did not concede chances.

Manchester United are always a team that try to play football, try to play football from the back.

If you can play effective counter-attacking football, as you see in the Premier League, it's very effective.

It is vital to maintain possession and to win it back as soon as possible, because if we win it high up, then the opposition has to run 70 metres.

It is well-documented that Bournemouth like to play football. I think I can give them a slightly different dimension when the ball goes into the box.

I always tried to defend high up the pitch, to be in the opposition's half and play the game there.

There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.

I don't say we are a defensive team. I say we are a strong team in defensive terms, but at the same time lacking sufficient fluidity in attack because that will take time to come.

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

The truth is I like the style of playing the ball out and hitting long passes.

If you look at Barcelona and the way they press high, or Bayern Munich, the way they press high... that's what makes them the best teams, because when they lose the ball, in the first three seconds, that's when they get the ball back, really, really high.