I'm going to play with one goalkeeper, obviously, one defender, one midfielder and two attackers, very offensive because we need to score goals.
My perfect formation would be 4-3-3 with one holding and then the two going forward. I would be one of the ones going forward.
I've always preferred a 4-3-3. It's a more fluid and dynamic system, and I think it plays to my strengths better.
There's a little triangle - five left-footed players.
In the past, you would have been classed as a sweeper if you were put in the middle of a three-man defence.
I came from Ajax where you play 4-3-3 and as a winger they didn't want you to defend.
I was only used to 4-3-3. For me as a left-winger you have also a left midfielder and a left-back behind you. But in a 4-4-2 you are basically also the left midfielder so you have to help more in defence and I wasn't used to that.
Playing 4-5-1, I could have all the liberty in the world - it was complicated to express myself.
Everything I did on the left I had to learn in a 4-4-2 system, it wasn't natural. To collect the ball on my wrong foot.
I am a striker or at least a playmaker behind the front man, certainly not a wide man. But with Rome and Milan, I was only playing on the wings.
I prefer playing in a 4-3-3.
Every striker is stronger when we play with wingers.
Usually, when I'm in the 3-5-2, it's at the end of the game, in the 80th minute, where I'm really just attacking.
I am in my best position in the middle of the 4-2-3-1.
In the English 4-4-2 you have to change your mentality from a winger to a left midfielder, having to help your full-back.
The 4-1-4-1 system is weird.
