The Mourinho Thread

[Mouri_Matic 560]

Mourinho will not park it at the bridge, unless it's barcelona or bayern. Heck when he played barcelona with inter at the san siro, he went attacking and won 3-1

Only after they went 1-0 down early on, by then they just knew they had to win or they were out of the CL so not that surprise really, a bit like us against Napoli. But like I said this game will show us if he has changed at all, or the same old scared of superior team mentality still live in him. I hope we go toe to toe with them, but in reality we would be better off defending it deep this 1 and hope we do well on the counter.

[The_Flash 1,144]

I think with the risk of suarez we might have to park the bus, we need to not lose the games and with our lack of strikers

[Melanicus 5,208]

Torres scored against Chelsea, bought in January.

Meireles scored against Chelsea, bought in January.

I hope Suarez will score.

[Mouri_Matic 560]

Torres scored against Chelsea, bought in January.

Meireles scored against Chelsea, bought in January.

I hope Suarez will score.

Bought in January but by Real Madrid so no, hope he doesn't

[Blue Warrior 109]

You play to your own strengths and don't give your opponent what he wants. Not a fan of this defeatist talk, No surrender.

[Cosmin 2,484]

Bought by no one in January. He just signed a new contract, FFS. And this new contract doesn't allow other clubs to pay his release clause (which is probably huge, anyways) unless Liverpool misses the UCL spots.

Suarez is absolutely stunning lately. In my opinion he is, by far, the best player in the world at the moment. His form is just unbelievable. I don't like him as a person, of course, but I have to admit that he really does look unstoppable.

Yet, Ozil was Arsenal's biggest gun and somehow we managed to annihilate him.

[HD3D 1,038]

"I don't have the money to buy you, but do you have any cousins that can play like you?"

Is it me or he actually used a football pick-up line on Drogba? LOL!

[Styles 9,790]

I think with the risk of suarez we might have to park the bus, we need to not lose the games and with our lack of strikers

Parking the bus at home against Liverpool. Oh dear oh dear.

[Blue Warrior 109]

Minus 1000 points for cowardice.

[Mouri_Matic 560]

Parking the bus at home against Liverpool. Oh dear oh dear.

Sadly if we don't want humiliation I am afraid, that is how far they have progressed and we have regressed.

[The_Flash 1,144]

Sadly if we don't want humiliation I am afraid, that is how far they have progressed and we have regressed.

It is depressing, i would love to say we will go and beat them, but it is unlikely with our strikers. We will have to if we dont want a humilation and noone needs it, the players, jose or the fans, i dont want to see us get beat like 4-0

[laeth 527]

Wonder if Mourinho still wants ti counter like he did with Real, but mix it with more possession based play?

[Strike 7,494]

It is depressing, i would love to say we will go and beat them, but it is unlikely with our strikers. We will have to if we dont want a humilation and noone needs it, the players, jose or the fans, i dont want to see us get beat like 4-0

Hahah. You're making Liverpool out to be Barcelona or Bayern. Sure they have a decent team this season but seriously? They're below Chelsea in the table now!

[Laylabelle 9,536]

They may be a good side at the moment but we arent exactly a bunch of nobodies.Yeah we've been crap at times this season but so have they!For all the good they've been they arent running away with the league at the moment.We have a shot and have to make the best of it

[Cosmin 2,484]

Wonder if Mourinho still wants ti counter like he did with Real, but mix it with more possession based play?

He would probably like to do that at a certain point of most games, but we don't have enough players with pace and mobility like Ronaldo's, Ozil's or Di Maria's.

[laeth 527]

He would probably like to do that at a certain point of most games, but we don't have enough players with pace and mobility like Ronaldo's, Ozil's or Di Maria's.

Willian, Oscar, Hazard, Schurrle - they're pretty mobile and pacey?

[Mouri_Matic 560]

Willian, Oscar, Hazard, Schurrle - they're pretty mobile and pacey?

Willian and Hazard are not as decisive as Ozil, Di Maria and non of them are as fast as Ronaldo, admittedly Hazard is pretty fast but no where near, Schurrle too is too indecisive and often his shooting isn't that good. Oscar is not slow but doesn't exactly have that kind of pace either, but he is the closest thing we got to Ozil bar Mata who Mou clearly doesn't fancy atm. .

[darrus 422]

And counter attacks like that usually start with a pass from defender - even in this video how many times it was Ramos that started a flow forward?

I'm pretty sure Jose will manage to install something of this sort - we've seen bits of this counter attacking sty;e already this season, even if only briefly. It's truly a dangerous weapon, but it takes time for players to get into it.

Though as our play is looking now (I repeat - now) I'd take parking the bus and killing on the counter against Liver even at SB. But to have a killing counter attack we need someone who will be able to put ball in the net. Which brings us back to square 1...

[sutro 1,026]

All these parking the buss and counter attacking Posts make me sick!

We are Chelsea and we are playing at home against a mid-table team that accidently have bought a worldclass striker.

We gonne destroy them!

Suarez?gonne be in Terry's pocket whole game long and we have superior players in any other positions on the field.

Have some faith, we got this!!

Sunday night we Will be the winners!

[Jype 6,398]

He would probably like to do that at a certain point of most games, but we don't have enough players with pace and mobility like Ronaldo's, Ozil's or Di Maria's.

It's not about the pace and mobility of the attacking players, it's about the lack of a player capable of starting counter-attacks quickly enough. Players like Hazard, Schürrle, Willian and Ramires are all more than fast enough to see the attacks through if only we had a deep lying playmaker in midfield to make the decisive pass but instead we have players like Lampard and Mikel who hold on to the ball for too long and by the time they pass it on it's already too late and the opponent has had the time to organise their defense.

Also, for successful counter-attacks it wouldn't hurt to have a striker who makes the runs at the right time and is clinical enough to actually finish off the attacks. A good striker will draw the attention of the defenders towards him with intelligent movement, thus creating space for the attacking midfielders to do their magic but our current lot of strikers just stand around there like trees, allowing the defenders to focus on keeping the attacking midfielders out of the danger areas.