Sergio Busquets Quotes

If you play every time, long balls, you lose possession and you lose momentum. I don't want to be like that.

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.

You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.

The lower you go down the levels, the more players think they need to hang on to the ball to prove how talented they are, but that's not football.

Sometimes in midfield, it's nice because you do get a little bit more of the ball, and maybe out wide you rely on people to get you the ball.

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.

It's difficult to beat German teams. They don't play as attractively as, for example, you have it in the English league or in the Spanish league. But to break a German team is not very easy.

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 have to open the game from my position. It's really important to play with 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.

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

Every game, well most of them, come down to turnovers and the turnover battle.

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.

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.

The hardest thing to coach is scoring goals and creativity.

If you play at Anfield, for me, it's not a tactical game. It's to play with confidence, to trust the players.

I always threw the ball in, because then if I got the ball back, I was the only player unmarked.

Part of being a Manchester United player under Sir Alex Ferguson, perhaps the most important part of being one of United's attacking players was that when you were in possession, you had to take risks in order to create goal-scoring chances. It was not an option; it was an obligation.

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

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

At United, we like to have wingers who give the team width and pace.

As a fast player, I want to receive the ball facing the opposition goal, which gives me more vision.

I like to win the ball back for the team and I can contribute going forward.

When I played for Barcelona, I knew that some home games were going to be easier than some others, as the team had plenty of confidence. That confident mentality helped Barcelona players win games.

I don't think it's a problem if you play well and don't score, when you are creating chances.