Analyzing Opponents Quotes

If we want to be champions, we have to do our homework on all opponents, regardless of their position in La Liga or the stadium.

You have to think tactically and you can't just go in and swing against the first best opponent.

Your rivals study the way you play and find a tactic to counteract your strengths.

What I have to do to make sure I don't lose some games in a row; I don't know.

If I simply stay in that moment on the pitch and read the game, I can do so much more.

Everyone has strengths and weaknesses, you just have to know how to match up against a player.

I think that's one of the things you start learning from being hot and playing every day at the beginning, you know. The league, they made their adjustments and their change to you, the way they pitch you, the way they attack you, and just learning and learning from that and making the adjustments the very next at bat or the very next pitch.

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

The night before a game, I'd think about who I was playing, and then how I'd bowled against those guys, if I had got them out previously. While I was playing, I could recall nearly all my wickets and how I got the batsman out.

You have to do the tactics to win games because if you have good organisation and know what to do, you'll know where the weaknesses are in the opponent.

It makes you a better player when you're around better competition. If you pay attention, you can learn something.

We have got a problem winning games in the league. We have to educate ourselves and maybe we have to not play the lovely football that we have been.

I study the other players in training, particularly the forwards, and I look at how they are scoring goals. What do they do when they finish a chance?

You know, this league is all about adjustments, and the one thing you kinda notice when you're playing every day is how teams make adjustments. Once you start having a little bit of success, they are going to make their adjustment.