Frank Rijkaard Quotes

I think we deserved to get through and I congratulate the players. We said before the game that nothing was decided and that we had to play a good team which is very dangerous. We did well and we didn't give away many chances.

I say that if the team play well and use me in the right way... the goals will come.

The hardest thing to coach is scoring goals and creativity.

It was Thomas Tuchel's first season as coach and I played centrally always. The whole team had a great year, one that I enjoyed a lot. Our style has changed a bit, from trying to score within five seconds to a more calm and in some regard more educated style of play. We try to find the right moment - and then we explode.

I think teams win. I don't think offense wins. I don't think defense wins. I don't think special teams - teams win.

The simplest way to win in the National Football League is to knock out the starting quarterback. You know, throughout the years, history has proven if your number one quarterback goes down, your chances for success become very limited.

I'm a forward, but I can't be the only forward at a club. Over the years, the clubs who've won titles have had several strikers.

England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield.

If you have a game where you're under pressure, obviously there are going to be a lot of shots on target, and you're going to make saves, but you can't say you played well in a game where you concede five goals. It's ridiculous.

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.

It is always good and important that the strikers score.

Iceland won't change. No matter who they play, they're 4-4-2.

Scoring goals comes and goes with time, but the most important thing is that we continue creating chances. The entire team must work, and we then have to score goals.

I think if you're not conceding so many goals, it gives you a great platform to win games.

The most important thing is to help the team to come in front of the goal with one-two passes, I drop down, or I give them space, because for defenders, it's always difficult to have a false nine because they don't have a direct player against them, so they don't know exactly what to do.

In Spain, you get seven clear chances a game to receive the ball and shoot. In Italy, you get very few clear balls, and you have to fight everyone to score; that makes you improve and develop.

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.

If you play bad, you can win the games, but you have to play good and get the three points.

Everyone wants to score goals - that's the point of football - but you have to look at the whole situation in detail.

I always wanted to score goals, but sometimes I've scored and been terrible and other times I felt I played well and didn't score. I looked at the statsheet the season where I scored 27 goals and I had one assist and was frustrated.

If I had a Paul Scholes in my team, everything would be around him. At Manchester United, they saw it like that, but I think Paul Scholes is one of the best I've played against in this league, and seen anywhere.

Don't worry about the game you just won or the team that we just blew out... or, um... blown... blowed out... Let's think about what we need to do going forward, and they had, uh... blown out.

The difference between a good defensive team and a bad defensive team is as little as three possessions

Good players win you games, good formations stop you losing them.