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Southampton dazzler Tadic admits basing game on Zizou

Southampton dazzler Dusan Tadic admits modeling his game on Zinedine Zidane.

Tadic grew up idolising the former Real Madrid and Juventus star.

He told the Daily Echo: "Some things I tried to do like him, and it was always a pleasure to watch him and how he played.

"Everything looked easy what he did, but it was not so easy. It was really a pleasure to watch him."

Of his off-the-cuff play, Tadic continued: "I never think what I'm going to do.

"I never think 'I'm going to do that move, or that move'.

"I just relax and play football how I know it to play. You play how you feel in that moment.

"Every game is different, every time is a different situation, and you just do what you feel in that moment.

"This is my opinion, that when you have the ball you need to be relaxed and to play with your mind and your qualities, and you need to play relaxed to play what you see.

"And when you don't have the ball then you cannot be relaxed. Then you have to be sharp."

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