Offensive Positioning Quotes

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

Why shouldn't Harry Kane take corners? If he happens to be the best striker of a ball in the team and gives you the best delivery, why shouldn't he do it?

I have to stay in front to try and create chances and be in the right place in the box.

You cannot tell the enemy you're going to leave and expect the enemy to not - and expect to succeed. I mean, that's just a fundamental of warfare.

I like to create chances, to shoot when I play farther forward, but I also like playing deeper, as you have more time on the ball.

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.'

He doesn't necessarily have to learn the sky hook. He just has to learn how to be an effective post player. I think I can help him do that.

I can operate on both flanks.

Gabriel Batistuta. He was a spectacular No 9 - great at finding space, shooting from outside the box, good in the air. He was always a reference for me and I used to watch the way he played.

To score goals, you need to receive the ball in advantageous positions.

Well, I tapped into maybe arguably the worst rule in basketball. I wish they would just take it out or amend it greatly. It's a terrible rule, block or charge. I shouldn't be able to stand there and it's a foul. Come on!

You create shots for yourself by what you do without the ball more than what you do after you get it

When you're older and get more experience, the game slows down for you. I know exactly what spot to get to where I can always get my shot off no matter who's guarding me.

Offense is spacing and spacing is offense.

If you're putting the puck in an awkward place for someone, that's right away, advantage: you.

I've always been looking to get goals and assists, and to do that, I need to be higher up the pitch.

Whoever is the first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy will be fresh for the fight... Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy... By holding out advantages to him, he can cause the enemy to approach of his own accord; or by inflicting damage, he can make it impossible for the enemy to draw near.

If you're open in certain spots, you just shoot the ball. It doesn't matter if you're good from that spot or not.

The first year I kind of struggled to find where my shots was coming from, when to cut, where to be.

I am not ashamed to admit that in the games against Barcelona I spent a lot of the time just hoping he would take up positions as far away from me as possible. Elusive is the word that immediately springs to mind when I think about Messi's style of play. You think you have an eye on him and then - blink - he has gone, only to reappear somewhere else in space, with the ball.

As a fast player, I want to receive the ball facing the opposition goal, which gives me more vision.

Stoichkov's playing on the wing, in this situation he likes to come in and scalp the centre-half.