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.
When you've got the ball 65-70% of the time, it's a football death for the other team...It's death by football.
If you play on possession, you don't have to defend, because there's only one ball
When I see a game on the television, and you see afterwards 'possession percentage 60-40,' that doesn't say anything for me because it could be that one team is playing the ball between the back four 120 times.
If you have the ball, you must make the field as big as possible, and if you don't have the ball, you must make it as small as possible.
The only thing I would like is to have more control of the game in terms of possession.
I think time of possession is overrated, unless you are scoring.
Statistically, the chance of creating a goal is higher within 10 seconds of winning the ball.
You can't win without the ball.
All coaches say, 'We want to control the game. We want the ball. Blah, blah, blah, blah,' but it's impossible to have the ball all the time.
In five years I have never had a match where my team has had less possession than the opponents.
