The Mourinho Thread

[Jase 43,479]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2616249/MARTIN-SAMUEL-Its-easy-defend-Jose-Mourinho-The-Chelsea-boss-not-dull-hes-BRILLIANT.html

Absolutely brilliant piece from Martin Samuel on Mourinho. Well worth a read!

And there's this...

[Special Juan 28,096]

The fact that Jose is in charge of steering the tank tonight fill me with ever more confidence.

[Viper22 2,418]

It's already on in full swing - "Mourinho destroyed Madrid, Ancelotti saved it" it's the story of the day. Pep got lucky, looks like, because nobody is talking about his team's performance.

All this just annoys me to no end.

Here's a good article

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2616249/MARTIN-SAMUEL-Its-easy-defend-Jose-Mourinho-The-Chelsea-boss-not-dull-hes-BRILLIANT.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

The part about transition made me wonder again - what is it about our club that makes everyone jump on every little thing that goes wrong?

Why do people attack Mourinho all the time has the same answer to why everyone jumps on everything our club does wrong:

Jealousy.

They're jealous of the fans (for supporting an amazing club), they're jealous of the club (because the ones they support are shit) and most of all they're jealous of Mourinho, they wish they were even 1/100th of the man he was, but they're not. If they were, they wouldn't be the crawling, snivelling, conniving little journalists/critics that they are.

[Ze Mario 638]

from mourinho PC

"If your opponents are very fast on the counter and want space behind your defensive line, if you give them that space you are stupid."

he was talking about BR and Pep

like throw 2 stupid birds with 1 stone

[FineBoy 7]

Im very sure we are not going to park the bus...... WE ARE GOING TO ATTACK, but if we must park the bus it must be three buses!

[Special Juan 28,096]

Our defence has been immaculate this year, I am very confident that we can shut them out.

[FineBoy 7]

Gala will beat chelsea they said

Drogba will hurt you!

PSG will rip you off they said

Ibra will get your ass kicked

AtleticoMadrid will make u guys cry they said

Costa is in form ........

One thing i've come to realize from our haters is that, the more we win the more they keep hating n supporting our opposition ...If we should qualify for finals they will come back here predicting nonsense..... Realmadrid will be next!

All Road leads to Lisbon

c'mon blues!!!!

[1chelsea 864]

Mourinho explains why Bayern lost yesterday…

I like attacking football, who doesn’t? But what I like is effective football. Rijkaard’s Barca of 2004-07, Pep’s Barca of 08-11 were effective and that’s why they should be praised. The problem is when the opponents change their tactics in response, you adapt or your strategy dies. Football is as much attack as it is defend.

This is why I consider Ferguson the finest manager in the world in the past 12-15 years at least. He adapted. Wenger came, beat him, and he tweaked the team and won 3 Premier Leagues in a row with a CL to boot. Mourinho came and smashed the league, Ferguson finished outside the top 2 for 2 years in a row (one when we had Ranieri) and he went back to the drawing board. Sometime in the 05-06 season you saw Man United suddenly charge behind us mid-season, but couldn’t prevent us from winning. They did manage to win the league the season after. City came with their wealth and players and won… Ferguson again adapted and won in his final season with what was not a very attractive footballing display. Ferguson had delightful attacking teams that won leagues, and defensive performances when he needed. Their CL semifinal against Barcelona in 07-08 was a quite defensive performance… but it was necessary.

Adapt the teams based on the players you have, the opponents you face and make the teams effective. That’s the quality of good managers. What makes the manager great is if he can do all that and rebuild the squad over the years at the same club, which puts Ferguson over Mourinho and almost all other managers for me.

This asinine Holy-Grail quest football philosophy that has a ‘perfect style’ of football that all must seek is as brittle as it’s inflexible and it is not worthy. I have questioned Mourinho this season because at times I thought his strategy wasn’t effective against weaker teams.

But I would love it, just love it, if he first smashes Atletico and then Real in Lisbon and throws the finger at the press by winning.

If Jose win the champions league will it make him the best over Alex??

[FineBoy 7]

am a chelsea fan. I dont just know how the guy does it, but watever he does i dont question it, i just sit back and say 'well he is d special one, he knws wat to do'. I dont know what he is going to do in stamford bridge, i truth him i dont care. All i konw is dat d special one is in charge, he knows how to get d results.

[Special Juan 28,096]

By Martin Samuel.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2616249/MARTIN-SAMUEL-Its-easy-defend-Jose-Mourinho-The-Chelsea-boss-not-dull-hes-BRILLIANT.html

[Jase 43,479]

from mourinho PC

"If your opponents are very fast on the counter and want space behind your defensive line, if you give them that space you are stupid."

he was talking about BR and Pep

like throw 2 stupid birds with 1 stone

TBF, having that space behind the defence is fine as long as your entire team presses as a unit effectively over the pitch. The problem like with the case of Bayern yesterday is that their pressing wasn't there and made it easy for Real to catch them out on the counter.

[Jase 43,479]

Nuances of Mourinho's tactics save him from 'hypocrite' tag

[Namika 922]

TBF, having that space behind the defence is fine as long as your entire team presses as a unit effectively over the pitch. The problem like with the case of Bayern yesterday is that their pressing wasn't there and made it easy for Real to catch them out on the counter.

They pressed the Tottenham way, thas was so Villas-Boas.

[Fernando 6,585]

If we had those stats against Bayern the football world would once again scorn us and call us enemies to the sport.

Real Madrid do it in BOTH legs and are praised and lauded. This is exactly how José wants to mold our side.

I can imagine that countless hack journalists are creaming themselves and salivating at the thought of RM winning the CL. "Did in his first season what Mourinho failed to do in three," they'll say. Never mind the fact that he'll have done it with José's squad and over £100m in transfers.

If we beat the odds and win the thing I hope José just stares directly into the camera silently smiling for 30 seconds straight and then walks away.

I would say yes, but you have to acknowledge that Carlo is more attack minded then Mourinho.

The same team that Mourinho built at Chelsea, was very tough and rigid. When Carlo came we play some amazing stuff.

Now the same at Real Madrid, the wheels has come of.

However when it comes to tactics vs tactics, Mourinho wins straight out. You see what he did to us against Inter.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

We praise Jose Mourinho for his tactical brilliance but it has to be said, his tactics in combination with poor defending as a team have cost us today. I've been a Chelsea fan before Mourinho and I will be one after. Having said that, we NEED stability at this club and Abramovich and the board have decided that Mourinho is the man to bring that stability. This is my opinion on the game:

(1) Playing Azpilicueta, a RB as a right winger just reeks of overly-cautious tactics, especially since we have better attacking options on the bench. We have an in-form goal-scoring Ba, Schurrle and Oscar, who always plays well in European competition. It simply makes zero sense to play that way in a game we HAD to win.

(2) Switching Hazard from the centre to the left wing was just asking for trouble, especially since the guy had just recovered from a calf injury. Mourinho made the right decision playing him through the centre initially, but switching him to the left meant he had to do a lot of running to track opposition runners. Hazard got exposed on two occasions as a result.

(3) Bringing on Eto'o destabilized the team defensively. That sub was too early and lo and behold, the guy gives away a penalty. A double whammy.

Those were the most obvious errors made today, but I guess it happens even to the best of them.

Now to problems beyond his control.

The midfield pivot of Ramires and Luiz is beyond a joke. There is little to no creative spark there and their defensive contribution is surprisingly poor. They left the back four exposed on many occasions today. It's a shame because Lampard and Mikel were suspended for the game and that Beast, our best midfielder, Matic is cup-tied and his absence showed today. We can't beat them without our absolute best team. They are just too good for anything less than that. That was my greatest fear going in to this game, the pivot.

But congrats to Atletico, till the penalty, it was fairly even, but at 1-2, it was virtually over. There is a reason why Atletico have not lost a single game in the CL this season.

Hazard, Schurrle, Oscar, Azpi........All these guys playing in the knock-out of the CL for the first time ever. They will grow together.

To make it to the semi-final is a fanstastic achievement. I'm proud of the boys, the manager and the support. We will be back with a top class CF next season and a top class CM to pair with Matic and then we can push on for the biggest titles. We just haven't had enough this season.