Tactical Change Quotes

When I was in Germany I never played like this, so defensive - almost a left-back, but that is good for me because defensive work was something I missed in Germany.

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

Coaches are going to adapt to whatever the rules are. The rules certainly change strategy.

It's unbelievable. I changed the way Barcelona played. Now, Spain have had to change.

I sat down with my agent and went through my youth-team video footage. I saw that when I started, I'd get on the ball and within two touches would turn straight away and look to attack my opponent, but when I got into the first team, I would go for the safer option.

Adolf Galland said that the day we took our fighters off the bombers and put them against the German fighters, that is, went from defensive to offsensive, Germany lost the air war. I made that decision and it was my most important decision during World War II. As you can imagine, the bomber crews were upset. The fighter pilots were ecstatic.

If people feel 4-4-2 is the way forward in international football, they'll have to wait until I'm out of a job.

Maybe further down the road in my career, in a couple of years when I'm maybe not that fast any more around the court, then maybe it would be good to come to the net a little bit more often

It is well-documented that Bournemouth like to play football. I think I can give them a slightly different dimension when the ball goes into the box.

The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.

It was Thomas Tuchel's first season as coach and I played centrally always. The whole team had a great year, one that I enjoyed a lot. Our style has changed a bit, from trying to score within five seconds to a more calm and in some regard more educated style of play. We try to find the right moment - and then we explode.

I never lost a game against Bayern Munich until Pep Guardiola arrived. He made them better.

I've turned into a full-back who pushes forwards whereas in Italy usually the full-back concentrates more on defending.

I know Roy Hodgson very well; he rarely changes tactically.

I'm trying to evolve with how football is going.

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.

Roy Hodgson destroyed me. He made me play in the centre of midfield.

I played as a 10 and, in Sweden, they let me take as many touches as I could. All of a sudden, I come to Arsenal and I have to play one and two touches - it was a little bit alien to me.

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.

I used to be more of a bruiser. I wanted to run through people. Now I try to run around them.