For me, it's easier to play with my right foot. It's simple. If I go right, I see Diego and have different solutions: I go alone or pass to Diego, or the midfield can join in. If I go the other way, the cross with my left foot is not good.
I like to be involved as much as I can in the game, and in the middle, you're definitely the heartbeat of the team. When you're on the right, you can go minutes without seeing the ball, and that's a long time when you're out on the pitch.
I played football when I was a kid, it is such a fun sport to play, I fancied myself as a midfielder until I grew too tall and discovered basketball.
It is everyone's dream to play for England and we have got a lot of top players in that midfield and lot of competition. For me to break in there, I have got to keep the form up for club at the top level.
When I was at Doncaster Rovers Belles, I used to play up front or as a number 10, but when I joined Chelsea in 2015, I was more a midfielder, and over the last few years, I've moved into the back four.
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.
Being in midfield, in general, you don't have a lot of time to think, and in the Premier League, that's even less of the case. You just don't have time to think.
It's a different playing style than at Monaco; there were two of us in midfield there, and here at Liverpool, there's three.
Central midfield has been my main position, but I'll play wherever the gaffer wants me.
For me it's best to play midfield but if the team needs it, I can play anywhere.
In the centre, you play more with your back to the opponent's goal and have to move into the gaps.
Sometimes in midfield, it's nice because you do get a little bit more of the ball, and maybe out wide you rely on people to get you the ball.
Sometimes when you play on the wing it gets a bit isolated and you can't help as much. But if you play a bit more central I can get the ball a lot more and help a lot more.
People can say I've not scored enough goals, but you see the best strikers on the wing in a four-man midfield and see if they score goals. Nobody can really criticise my finishing because they don't really see me playing in a forward position too often.
I'm an attacking midfielder.
I don't take the ball in the middle of the pitch and dribble past six guys.
I have said from day one I see myself as a center back. But, if I am asked to play in midfield or at right-back, I am happy to do so.
When I was switching around in my early stages, people underestimated how difficult it was just to go from playing centre midfield to right-back to centre-back to right-back to centre midfield.
The position in the middle of the field is the position I'm most comfortable with and where I can improve the most.
When the manager asks me to play somewhere, I play there. But my best position is midfield.
The AZ captain Teun Koopmeiners, a left-footed centre back who can sit in midfield, is probably the best player in Holland in defensive areas.
In the last 15 to 20 years the best central midfielder that I have seen - the most complete - is SCHOLES
I spend the entire 90 minutes looking for space on the pitch. I'm always between the opposition's two holding midfielders and thinking, 'The defence is here, so I get the ball and I go there to where the space is.'
I know when I step into midfield I have to sharpen my feet up and be more aware of what's around me, at centre back it's more about timing, positioning and communication.
The strikers need the midfielders, defenders, and goalkeepers. My objective is to have everything work in all the aspects.
