Gary Cahill Quotes

The beginning of everything is our defensive organisation. The clean sheet is always the first objective that we have in the game. Always.

I like entertaining football but, at the same time, you can't concede goals. That's a tricky balance to find.

What interests Chiellini and I is not conceding goals. We're able to create chances and it makes us happy when we take them.

I always try to go in there and stick to my base, which is the defensive end, and then just let the offense come to me.

Maybe other managers would see their team score one goal and then prefer to go back and counter-attack, then try to score the second goal. A lot of those managers are the best managers at the moment, but for me, it's very important to continue the way I play.

Italy do not only defend; they can attack, too. They have attacking qualities, and they create chances.

United are capable of setting up a low block and making it difficult, but they're also capable of coming out and pressing high.

The hardest thing to coach is scoring goals and creativity.

When you're playing against a team that has two great central defenders, the best option is to play without a striker.

At Tottenham, I'm asked to take a lot of risks to keep maximum possession of the ball and build from the back.

A lot of guys are offensive minded, which is good at some points and times but bad at others - at lots of others. I wish I could say I want everybody to play defense as hard as I do. It's not a reality.

I don't really focus on the guy that's defending me.

For the strikers, we have more freedom, and even when we lose the ball, if we press together, we can get it back, and it is good system for Chelsea.

If you have a defensive concept, you're going to play defense. If you don't have a defensive concept, and you have an offensive concept, then you're going to play offense.

I think if you're not conceding so many goals, it gives you a great platform to win games.

For me it's more difficult to play against the quicker wingers, but for the team it's perhaps more difficult to face players that are good passers, because one through ball can take the whole team out of the game.

As a winger, you want to get at defenders and make it hard for them. Instead of them going forwards, they have to defend against you.

With a line of six in the defence and then three in front of that, it's not always easy to find the spaces to score the goals.

Defense doesn't matter enough.

When you play at home in European football, you've got to come up with a happy balance where you get on the front foot and try to win it without leaving yourself vulnerable.

We try and play football in a positive way. Any team has to be defensively organised, but you have to look at the attributes of the players and play to their strengths.

Tactically, Italians are very strong. They are a lot into tactics: how to defend, when you lose the ball, where will you be?

I stay in the middle and my team-mates can go to attack.

We take more risks at United than the majority of teams but the manager wants us to play.

In football you need to look to make life difficult for the opponent.