Julen Lopetegui Quotes

When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm gonna be freakin' creative.

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.

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

When you're at a club like Liverpool, it's always about what you can do with the ball.

Everyone needs to be in position to create the openings we have. We like to play a lot where you pass the ball forward and it comes back, because it makes it easier for us to attack, because the midfielders have to turn round.

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

Football is not about suffering. It's about enjoyment. Control the ball, be friendly with it, try to attack, try to score goals. Of course defending is part of it, but you can defend in a lot of ways.

Watch me, and I only really like the ball into feet. I don't like running in behind so much.

If I was to play on the left, I'd rather play there if there was three in midfield.

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

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

In Italy, you get three or four goals, you go slow, you stop.

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.

We've got to make sure we have players that can break teams down because there's no space in behind; we need to problem-solve in a different way.

I like to be in contact with the ball, have possession, to play.

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.

Guardiola and I have the same idea of football.

As a defence, we have to strive for that clean sheet while also giving the attacking players the licence to go and create.

Guardiola has a way of playing; he has a system, and he sticks to that.

I'm a coach who admires attacking football. I want my teams to look to win.

I don't have any secrets. I know my style of football and sometimes it's pretty simple.

I'm still operating as a wide player, and I'm still free to express myself, try to get one-v-one and get past someone, and there's no better feeling than getting over a great cross and someone scoring.

I like attacking football, but that's not the only thing the game's about.

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