Tactical Adjustments Quotes

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

Politicians love change, but of details only.

In football, any team can still improve, in every sense.

It's always in a cycle. One set of plays will work really well for a time, and then defenses figure it out, and you go to something else.

In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.

Make a game plan and stick to it. Unless it's not working.

All managers have a different playing style and football philosophy. What's important for players is being able adapt to those different styles.

I have a plan of action, but the game is a game of adjustments.

The incremental approach without a strategy doesn't improve the strategy.

It's been five seasons now that I'm with Spurs, and I've got a little bit frustrated about Europe. We've got the talent to go further than we've done.

Sometimes we need to make changes in the XI as per the conditions, and as per the player's form.

When you have your roster set up different ways, you really just have to examine the roster, find out what their strengths and weakness are and hopefully you take your roster and the vision you want to implement of how you want to play and you can tweak your roster to create that.

If I'm shifted two steps toward third base and the ball goes up the middle, people say I have no range to my left. That's why those statistics aren't accurate. You're changing for every batter, sometimes with every pitch. You really can't make one statistic for every shortstop. You have to go by what you see.

It is very important that you can express yourself, especially at half-time in a changing room, which is the crucial time for a manager.

You need good fitness from the players and the organisational structure has to be there from early on in pre-season because the games come so quickly that you don't have much time on the grass with the players to shuffle the pack tactically.

We aren't playing as well as we'd like.

If a team has multiple looks, it's so hard to stand in front of your team and say, 'This is the scouting report. This is what you have to prepare for.'

Over a long time, I've honestly had enough of people saying Arsenal's defence is not good enough.

If they don't execute well enough then there's nothing much a coach can do. But if they do execute those plans correctly and they don't work, then you need to be able to adapt and come up with something different.

We are always trying to improve our squad because football is dynamic.

There's a decision each match. I decide how we are going to play, and it depends on the opposition 30 per cent, their structure, and 70 per cent is for us.

We make adjustments and changes before and sometimes also during the games in order adapt to the opposition. The manager will, for example, tell the striker to make different runs or position the central midfielders slightly differently in relation to each other.

You play your surroundings. You pitch accordingly. Not that I drastically try to change my game plan based on the score or the team or stadium, but you have to take everything into consideration.