Edin Dzeko Quotes

I think the Brazil system is similar to the one we use at Liverpool, with lots of movement, players open out wide, and quality midfielders who join the attack and score goals.

Against a team who are tight inside their area, you look to find combinations, the center with the wings or with shots from outside the box.

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.

I thrive on quick players getting to the byline and sending over crosses. I just have to be quick enough to get on the end of things. In that regard, my job has always been the same, but if we have more wide, quick players, that can only be good for me.

I came from Ajax where you play 4-3-3 and as a winger they didn't want you to defend.

I've never been one to go past 20 players on the wing. I'm always going to be the guy sneaking the ball through, to build and create something.

I am in my best position in the middle of the 4-2-3-1.

In international football, you need pace and you need your players up top to create things out of nothing and run at people.

People always see the goals, and for me, strikers are not only about scoring goals.

You pressure, you want possession, you want to attack. Some teams can't or don't pass the ball. What are you playing for? What's the point? That's not football. Combine, pass, play. That's football - for me, at least.

For me, what makes Liverpool special is that they are a team that works very well on the lines, very compact, in which everyone attacks and defends.

Robert Lewandowski is a player who plays in front of the opposing goal, especially with his back to the opponent. He is always attacked, and this is one of the big strength of a striker who plays in this position.

The truth is I like the style of playing the ball out and hitting long passes.

I'm an attacking player, and I can play wide.

When you have players like Aaron Ramsey, Gareth Bale, and Joe Allen, you've got to play football.

I prefer playing in a 4-3-3.

The top coaches want wide strikers who cut inside. They want playmaking midfielders who can play between the lines as well as perform their defensive duties.

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.

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.

The most important thing is to help the team to come in front of the goal with one-two passes, I drop down, or I give them space, because for defenders, it's always difficult to have a false nine because they don't have a direct player against them, so they don't know exactly what to do.

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

Balotelli can play as a striker, as a winger.

Our style of play is increasingly based on possession of the ball. It suits me as a forward. We've got an attacking approach, and that means that I get a lot of chances; otherwise, I would have not been able to score so many goals.

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.

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.