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The more you play against teams and defenders, the more you get to know them. You know if they are more nervous; you know, on the pitch, people are different. I try to adapt to their character.

When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.

When you play against different people from all walks of life you can't do the same thing against every player defensively or offensively. You have to change up the way you go at a player.

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

Any good attacker will always beat a defender who's face-marking you.

I think that's part of building your team is trying to anticipate where your team is going and to a certain extent where, especially defensively because you have to react to what they put on the field. Defensively you have to be able to defend those things.

You can't ask every player to do the same thing. That's why we have amazing midfielders, defenders, forwards and keepers. You can't ask them to be of the same mold.

Nowadays there is more dynamism in chess, modern players like to take the initiative. Usually they are poor defenders though.

Sometimes in football you have to score goals.

Footballers do get a hard time, and there is a lot of generalization going on. When you get to meet players and know them as lads, it's always a bit different.