Defender Quote by Tite

In the defensive midfield position, the player needs to give balance to the team and try to control the game. That's exactly what I…

— Nemanja Matic

Foreign managers, sometimes it'll take them time to adapt or for the players to adapt to them. It's something that is just one of…

— Danny Rose

We make adjustments and changes before and sometimes also during the games in order adapt to the opposition. The manager will, for example, tell…

— Philipp Lahm

Good players develop a tactical instinct, a sense of what is possible or likely and what is not worth calculating.

— Samuel Reshevsky

It's important that a player can play in different positions for if we have to change tactics.

— Roberto Mancini

Eventually, a manager must realise when a player is not benefiting the team, no matter who it is.

— Chris Sutton

You always have to make defenders think as a striker.

— Chris Sutton

We want to create a problem for the defense, a moment of indecision as they figure out how they want to play against whatever…

— Hank Stram

I just think when you have success playing a certain way and formation, you are asking for more problems by changing it.

— Rob Page

When you get the second defender on the ball, their responsibility is to get rid of it, to make plays for their teammates.

— Tom Thibodeau

It's as simple as taking care of the ball and doing whatever it takes to win.

— Devlin Hodges

That's part of Jurgen Klopp's job, is to psychologically find out how to get his players playing.

— Steve Nicol