Wojciech Szczesny Quotes

The Italians are very strong defensively. They showed in Euro 2000 how good defensively they are.

We believe defending is very much a team job, and we can't just rely on a back four and a goalkeeper.

You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.

I hate letting goals in, and some of them have come in a bit of an awkward manner.

At Tottenham, we are just bombing on as wing-backs, but sometimes on the international stage, where there is so much quality, you need to be more careful about the distance between yourself and the right-sided centre-half.

You have to win the title with a strong team and a strong defence, but I don't only like to talk about the four defenders and the goalkeeper when you concede goals. It's about the team.

When we have a defensive situation in which we are conceding too many goals, it is not just a problem in the defense but the entire team, starting with the coach.

Defending for a team as offensive as Real Madrid isn't that easy.

Teams that just play on one side of the floor are going to struggle against defenses that load up on that side.

We talk about the Arsenal 'Invincibles' of 2004 and the team who won the Double two years earlier and drool over their attacking play. It is easy to forget, though, that virtually the same squad had won nothing for three years.

Always at Goodison Park, Everton is a very good team.

I don't think there was a single United player from 2009 who could say he gave it everything and played well.

If a team concedes a goal, then the first question is always of the goalkeeper.

United have some world-class players with a world-class manager.

I recruit defensive players first. That's where most games are won. Then you've got to get the offensive linemen.

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

I'm sorry to see Balotelli waste his talent the way he does, but I think he can keep people entertained by scoring goals.

Every year in the Premier League, every team is improving. Every team is buying new players.

First of all, I am and I remain a goalkeeper, but I try to be involved as much as I can and to help the defenders. I try to read dangerous situations in advance.

Most of the clubs who have had success against Barcelona have relied on a highly organised and disciplined defence.

For the life of me, I'll never understand why the teams that have the best defences get criticised. Shouldn't clean sheets be a badge of honour for defenders and goalkeepers?

Arsenal plays very well, which fits my style. That's why I moved here.

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

In the past, you would have been classed as a sweeper if you were put in the middle of a three-man defence.

I love playing for Arsenal. Top club, unbelievable.