Mats Hummels Quotes

We want to create a problem for the defense, a moment of indecision as they figure out how they want to play against whatever formation we may show. We get a slight edge this way. Also, we create the opportunity for a defense to make more mistakes.

What you end up doing is you try to match your guy's strength against a place they can be successful. They're doing the same thing against us. Sometimes they have the edge, sometimes you have the edge.

I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.

Of course you think about the goalkeeper you are facing before a game. You have to prepare yourself for the game and think about the weakness of the players you are up against.

You do everything you can to be successful. You know that you have to win games. It's a must. So you do the things that put your guys in the best position to be successful schematically.

I don't want to put my game plan out there for everybody to see it and read it and teams can scheme. It just doesn't make a lot of sense.

Every time I go out there, I just try to find the weakness of my opponent and then use that to my advantage.

The team that wins makes minimum mistakes, and the one which loses, that one makes more mistakes than the other team.

If teams play Bayern, they bring another attitude to the pitch than if they play teams who are not Bayern.

A quick way for any player to make himself better is to think about what he himself doesn't like to play against

At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.

Football is a game of errors. You want to make your rivals commit them and to avoid them yourself.

I've played in a few Champions League matches and got into quarter-finals - sometimes unluckily knocked out - but you have to prepare like any other football match: you have to play the game, not the occasion. That's been instilled in me since I was a kid.

I'm just trying to win games and give my team a chance, win as many as we can week in and week out.

I just wanted to become a better player at everything - someone who is a real tough matchup to guard.

It is good to play strong teams.

In the Premier League, almost everyone is difficult to beat; it depends on how you begin a game and how you play in the game.

With my position, you have to kind of be three steps ahead of your opponent.

When I used to play against Bayern, Xabi Alonso always used to give me a really hard time. He was so experienced... he made me suffer. The way he'd keep switching play just meant that you could never stop running. He was very intelligent.

What I liked of Mourinho is his work ethic and the way he organizes his team against the opponent. He knows the strength and weakness of the opponent, and he will give the details for what he wants. And for me, that was impressive.

If you have a top winger, you are going to win a lot of games.

You have to know your opponent and take him out of his game.

You need to be 100% focused all match long against Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

GSP knows how to use a lot of strategy.

I experienced how Pep Guardiola worked every day. He had football on his mind round the clock: 'What system does the opponent like to play? How do I want to set up my team, who do I want in which position?'