England forward of Ghanaian descent, Callum Hudson-Odoi says he enjoys playing wing-back at Chelsea under Thomas Tuchel and it has made him a better player.
Hudson-Odoi has featured a number of roles for the Blues since the appointment Tuchel as head coach just over a year ago including his natural position out wide in our attacking trio, as well as playing as a wing-back and even as an out-and-out striker in a front two on occasions recently.
The 21-year-old has made 25 appearances across all competitions, scored three goals and provided five assists in the process.
"I’d definitely say I prefer more-attacking positions for myself, as a winger or a No.10 kind of player," he told the club's official website. "Obviously I like to be direct and try to create scoring opportunities for the team, hopefully try to score some myself. Playing in that position I’m more comfortable and I feel more free while playing there as well."
"So it’s definitely a nice position, to know that I can go out there, be myself, be free and try to create and score goals as well, but at the same time playing at wing-back is definitely more defensive. Your mentality is more about defending the goal than attacking the goal at times.
"In that position you always have to cover for somebody. For example, if the centre-back goes forward you have to cover in, just to make sure and be around. So it’s definitely a different position, definitely harder, so I’d say definitely an attacking position is what I prefer."
Hudson-Odoi added, "There are times in a game when I’m playing wing-back and I’m looking forward and thinking I can go forward here, but then I know, just in case, if I do and we then lose the ball and it’s a counter-attack the run back is very far."
"So sometimes you decide to stay back. It depends, it’s always different situations in the game where I’m thinking I can go forward here and I can create a chance from this position or even score, but it’s vice versa and it depends on how the scenario is in the game."