Chelsea attacker Kai Havertz: A favoured position? | OneFootball

Chelsea attacker Kai Havertz admits he has no favoured position.

Few are tied down to a single position, and as Havertz explains, that has been the case for him since he was a young boy growing up in Aachen.

"I started my career as a number eight, or a number 10," he told the club's website.

"In Germany I played also as a left and right winger, and in the last year as a number nine at Chelsea. I cannot say I have a favourite position. Nowadays you have to adapt your game to different positions. That makes a player stronger. The manager can switch it around if the opponent does something different.

"I don't have a favourite position, but I like to be in the box, close to the goal, and have the ball. The false nine suits me good, but when we have three strikers with two number 10s and a number nine, all these positions suit me.

"I know I'm not a real number nine just waiting in the box and doing headers, I want to be influential in the game, get the ball, drop sometimes into midfield, and start attacks there.

"A lot of my movements are instinctive,' adds Havertz.

"I'm a player who likes to play with instinct. It's not easy because everything is very fast in these kinds of games. You have to be awake in every situation. I enjoy having the ball and playing with it. It suits me."