Win or not, I'm glad he's not our manager. He may be a tactical genius but fecking hell is his football boring. "Game went exactly the way we planned" - jog the feck on. They parked the bus efficiently, and that deserved credit because defending is no easy job - but on another day they'd have been shat on. One goal, and their game plan would have gone out of the window.He has won 8 league titles, and 2 UCL with those tactics. So clearly, they are something different that Sunderland and Hull tactics.
Liverpool fans 2004-2010.
How many managers who had as good players as him, have Mourinho's record?
Liverpool fans who had a crush on Rafael Benitez. You know, the manager who might be the only (top) manager who might be as boring as Mourinho (though far less successful).
He was as defensive as hell though (bar on 2008-2009 when Liverpool were both attacking and good to watch). On Napoli he is quite more attacking though.
What was the reaction when LvG was playing boring football at the start of the season?
Exactly. And now they want Mourinho and his shit on a stick football. No, thanks.
But he's a genius.
Yes he was. In 11/12 Madrid hammered the majority of teams both at home and away and set the record for the most points won and goals scored in the league. That was a very attack-minded team. He learnt his lesson from his first year in Spain, that it is very difficult to win games by one goal and that sitting back and defending deep is not safe as most teams can pass the ball very well on the ground and have the quality to open up packed defences so you have to go for it and beat every team by several goals and that is what he did. Madrid won plenty of games that year by three or four goals and conceded lots as well but that was fine as the team pretty much always outscored the opponent. Some of the football in the 11/12 season was absolutely excellent (especially in October, November and February).
Even Mourinho would get the results. But to play 5 defenders against a broken team which has lost 4 players is shambles, really. Even Big Sam attacked us in the matches against WHU.
Nope.
More pace in Chelsea's backline would improve them a great deal. It is difficult for them to impose themselves on a lot of games as they have to sit back and defend deep as well as have plenty of protection in front of their back four due to them not being the quickest (Terry in particular). Having quicker defenders would improve them in a lot of ways and would give a lot more freedom to their players in midfield and attack as they would not have to work as hard defensively because the defenders would not be so vulnerable if they are exposed in one on ones against pacey attackers. Also, when your backline is pushed up it makes it easier to control games and to keep the ball and move it around in dangerous areas and quicker defenders will mean Chelsea will not be so susceptible to counter attacks if they play this way even if their defenders are high up the pitch. Ramos and Pepe allowed Madrid to play this way under Mourinho and they were much more attack minded than his Chelsea are and they did not concede control of the game as many times as Chelsea do and were able to take much more risks that resulted in more games and points won.
