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 want the ball for 90 minutes. When I don't have the ball, I go high pressing because I want the ball.

Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.

These days, I'm always trying to have lots of touches, to be involved, and to play my football for 90 minutes.

You don't get as invested in someone in 90 minutes as you do over 13 hours of television show.

There are a lot of teams that don't want to play, that only want to defend against Barcelona, and that makes it difficult. We're always looking for the open space. A lot of times we'll face six defenders and four midfielders.