Tactical Adjustment Quotes

Retreat Hell! We're just attacking in another direction.

It's easier to fine tune in club football, and you have the chance to win the Champions League every year.

When a team goes down to 10 men, it makes you go and attack the game, push bodies forward, and create extra numbers.

Ancelotti moved me to a new position and helped me raise my game.

Now I'm giving up a little in the week-to-week tournaments but reaping the benefits in the majors.

It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.

I've kind of found out that when I do get into trouble, that when I do have people on base, sometimes the best thing is to throw a little bit more off-speed, back off a little bit.

I've played long enough to know that certain games are certain ways. You're gonna throw it less in others, more in others, and just look at what the team needs that day to win a football game.

According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.

I just take it a season at a time because I know in football, things can change so quickly.

That's why, to me, Spring Training is so hard, because every time you go up there, there's a new pitcher, and you have to come up with a new plan.

All the projects that coaches go through in the offseason are based on the success other teams had in every area whether it's offense, defense or special teams. What they do is see if they can incorporate anything they see with the people they have.

If I'm on the bench in a Premier League game, I'm thinking, 'What can I do coming off the bench?'

When you're transitioning, and you're trying to develop a better brand of soccer, at some point, you have to step backward before you step forward.

Muller is part No. 7 and part No. 9, a second striker. But in Ancelotti's system, there is no room for that type of player.

Bobby Robson must be thinking of throwing some fresh legs on.

When you play the top sides you cannot afford to be as open as 4-4-2 can leave you. Consequently teams adapt their formation.

When I arrived at Benfica I'd been playing like a No. 10 in the team, but the first thing the coach did was tell me: 'You are going to be a defensive midfielder here.'

Everyone plays the ball over the top and, at the moment, we only concede goals from crosses or balls over the top. I feel we will adapt to that.

I am interested in how much and how quickly Klopp, the manager that I know, can change the team at Liverpool.

All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

I think every partner in every situation is completely different and I think you have to adjust your teaching technique, your choreography and how you're going to approach the season in general.

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.

If Canelo comes too hard at me early, he's going to be in for a long night.

I remember that, often, Mike Phelan would just nip down to the touchline for a message to one or two players. It was usually just a tactical thing. But when Sir Alex comes to the touchline, all the players know that it's serious stuff.