Suarez - "A Chelsea Player Doesn't Like Mourinho's Time-Wasting Tactics"

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"What else can I do? If I don’t, I won’t play. What would you do?" - Kalas

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/nov/05/luis-suarez-chelsea-liverpool-jose-mourinho

“Every coach plays the way that suits him, so I don’t mind that,” Suárez writes in his new autobiography, Crossing The Line. “The only thing I didn’t like was the way that they wasted time from the very start. I was asking myself: ‘Why are they doing this from the first minute?’ I even asked one of their players. ‘What do you want me to do? If he makes us play like this, I have to play like this,’ he replied. ‘What else can I do? If I don’t, I won’t play. What would you do?’”

Luis Suárez has claimed that one of Chelsea’s players expressed misgivings about José Mourinho’s time-wasting tactics when they played at Anfield last season in the game where Liverpool’s title challenge started to unravel.

Suárez says he approached the player, who he does not name, to voice his own irritation about the ultra-defensive way in which Mourinho had set up his team for Chelsea’s 2-0 win, described by Brendan Rodgers as “parking two buses” in front of goal.

“Every coach plays the way that suits him, so I don’t mind that,” Suárez writes in his new autobiography, Crossing The Line. “The only thing I didn’t like was the way that they wasted time from the very start. I was asking myself: ‘Why are they doing this from the first minute?’ I even asked one of their players. ‘What do you want me to do? If he makes us play like this, I have to play like this,’ he replied. ‘What else can I do? If I don’t, I won’t play. What would you do?’”

Liverpool play Chelsea at Anfield again on Saturday for the first time since that crucial encounter in April and Suárez recalls how Steven Gerrard was so distraught about the slip that let in Demba Ba for the opening goal that he was unable to travel to the Professional Footballers’ Association dinner that night.

“If I had been in Stevie’s shoes, I don’t know if I would have been able to carry on playing,” the Barcelona striker recalls. “Emotionally, it must have been very, very hard.

“In the previous weeks, so much had been said about him, the expectation had built so much, the talk had been about him leading Liverpool, his club, to a first title in over 20 years, on the 25th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, in which his cousin had died, and then that happens. The captain, the former youth-teamer, the one-club man, a Scouser born and bred, and he was the unlucky one to make a crucial mistake.

“He still hadn’t won the league title. Stevie had started to believe, we all had. And now it had been virtually taken away from him and like that, with him slipping against Chelsea. I’m convinced that if Chelsea had not scored like that, they would not have scored at all. And once you are a goal down against them, it’s virtually impossible.”

Suárez’s book, released on Thursday, reveals that he made the mistake of starting to think Liverpool had virtually won the league, asking one of their coaches whether there was anything special planned at the end of the season, and hearing other players openly talking about it.

“We had gone into the game knowing that a draw was good for us. With the atmosphere at Anfield, with the fact that we had just beaten [Manchester] City, our attitude remained the same: we wanted to win. But we were conscious of the fact that with a draw we were still ahead of everyone. What I didn’t expect was for them to play for the draw. It’s true that they won the game but I am convinced that without that stroke of luck, they would not have scored.

“We knew that some of the normal [Chelsea] starters weren’t going to play, but we also knew that if they wanted to win the league – and people forget that they still had a chance to do that – they would have to play to win. For them to try to waste time when the draw was no good to them was something that I didn’t understand.

“We didn’t play that well, but I honestly think that there was nothing we could have done differently. We had 10 players in front of us, almost all of them in the penalty area. We could try a one-two, or move the ball quickly from player to player to try to pull them out of position, seeking to create some space, but then there would always be another defender in front of us.

“It’s very hard when you see that there is no space to move into. Meanwhile, every time we looked up at the clock, time was running out.

“The way that they seemed to be playing with the clock frustrated us. They tried to wind us up, I think, and we were drawn into that. ‘Come on, hurry up.’ We should not have been dragged in.

“Mourinho knew: if you waste time, if you break it up from the very start, they’re going to get frustrated, they’re going to play a bit more crazily, they’ll do anything. They pulled us out of our normal routine. And, of course, we never imagined the slip and that was what truly made it hard for us. Nor did they. You can’t plan for a player to slip.”

Looking at who played that day and who would have been within speaking distance of Suarez I can't see past Kalas. Mourinho pretty much has the dressing room by the bollocks, so it couldn't have been any of the regulars. Only someone who's insecure about their place in the side could say something like that.

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'Mourinho knew: if you waste time, if you break it up from the very start, theyre going to get frustrated, theyre going to play a bit more crazily, theyll do anything. They pulled us out of our normal routine. And, of course, we never imagined the slip and that was what truly made it hard for us. Nor did they. You cant plan for a player to slip.'

This is a real masterclass from a top coach tbh. You really notice how upset Liverpool got.

@Mourinho: Job done in a great manner!

[Viper22 2,418]

I guess we have to at least consider the idea that the diving, biting, scumbag cheat is a liar trying to destabilise the team....

[Laylabelle 9,356]

Or they're just publishing bits to sell his book better....like with Rio bits and pieces of his book were published in the Mail.The whole John Terry drama mainly.

[Atlas Lion 1,223]

Money's on Torres

[Myself 793]

Think it was Hazard

[Term-X 7,891]

Money's on Torres

It's clearly Kalas, those exact words couldn't have come from anyone else. Torres was on the other end of the pitch, miles away.. he wasn't man marking Suarez.

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I guess we have to at least consider the idea that the diving, biting, scumbag cheat is a liar trying to destabilise the team....

What does he have to gain as a Barca player?, it would be a strange thing to lie about. It's not even that much of a headline, not big enough news to reach the dressing room.

[Yeboii 1,844]

Lol who cares? It's Suarez still being bitter about one game. I doubt even anyone said this to him. Does he even know English?

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It's clearly Kalas, those exact words couldn't have come from anyone else. Torres was on the other end of the pitch, miles away.. he wasn't man marking Suarez.

At set pieces players are in close proximity. Or on the way off the pitch. Doesn't have to be the player that's marking him.

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What does he have to gain as a Barca player?, it would be a strange thing to lie about. It's not even that much of a headline, not big enough news to reach the dressing room.

If he's got nothing to gain from it then why mention it at all? He's just bitter and jealous, whether it's true or not.

[Laylabelle 9,356]

If he's got nothing to gain from it then why mention it at all? He's just bitter and jealous, whether it's true or not.

To add drama to that bit of the book?Isnt like this is a interview with him and he's spilled out with it.Its more whats been said in his book sort of thing

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It's just an off the cuff remark in his book, I doubt it was part of some sort of master plan to ruin Chelsea. He doesn't care about Liverpool now, he's not that type of player, if Lampard isn't.. he certainly fucking isn't.

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Its all about his book being released on Thursday.Quite funny, apparently he goes on about how Liverpool players thought the title was won before job done.

I reckon there should be a foreword by Demba ba.

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Perfect timing for this!

[The Chels 2,502]

I don't think Suarez can speak English so it had to be someone Spanish speaking (assuming it's all true of course).

[OneMoSalah 8,778]

Quite frankly who cares we won the game 2-0, ruined their title hopes and a few months later Suarez was at it, biting someone again and quite frankly he should have got a longer ban for it being his third offence. Cunt.

[Laylabelle 9,356]

Surley theres other stuff he said..like Rio all over again anything negative about us gets the OMG treatment.Someone doesnt agree with the Manager omg like thats never happened before....