Lothar Matthaus Quotes

Messi is the best in the world, even when he is defending.

It's harder to defend against Lionel Messi than Cristiano Ronaldo.

I love watching Messi with the ball at his feet. He scores goals and everything else.

Messi can get around his opponent in just a square meter. Ronaldo needs more space.

Mbappe, he always wants to score. He also dribbles well.

Messi is one of the best strikers in the world, one of the very best players.

It's difficult to mark Ronaldo. I think he has a lot of qualities. He has all the abilities a striker can possesses. He's very good with the head, the right foot, the left foot. His strike is the same whatever the feet.

Lionel Messi is a wonderful player. Very skillful. Highly intelligent. He is not good in the air.

Messi has the best technique in the world.

I'm a naturally gifted left-footed footballer.

As a finisher, there are few players as composed as Messi. When you can score as many different kinds of goal as he can, you have every reason to be confident.

Poldi can do much more than just play on the wing.

Lionel Messi, I never saw him in the gym. I've never seen him train in the stops or do technical exercises.

Lionel Messi reminds me of George Best, the way he would run with the ball tight to his foot.

Messi simply cannot be stopped by yourself. Ronaldo is easier because he is more about athletic prowess.

The Messi of the early years was a phenomenon, but he always wanted to finish off the move. Now he goes past one, two, or three players and is happy to give an assist to a team-mate - it makes him more dangerous and more difficult to stop than ever before.

Leo would also be unstoppable if I played him at full-back. Messi is simply the best there is.

Coutinho is a friend and also a great player. He's got incredible passing ability; he knows how to put attackers in on goal.

If you give Messi a metre, he'll snatch the ball and leave you behind.

Sterling is a player that did very well at Liverpool. He is very fast, too, and he is able to create good chances and is always ready to attack and help the team with his speed.

Ronaldo? He is the most dangerous player at Real. It is hard to stop him, like Messi, because both score a lot of goals, and you never know what is going to be the next thing they will invent for scoring.

The players who defend against him make fouls because it's always hard to defend Neymar and take the ball without fouling him.

I prefer playing up front, really, because I feel like if I make the right run, or if I get the ball at the right time, I can just be one-on-one with the defender, and then if I manage to get past the centre-back, it's one-on-one with the 'keeper.

If Messi has the ball, he is fantastic to watch and difficult to stop. You have to double up on him, triple up on him even, stay with him constantly to block his way to the goal.

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.