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Watching the game of city against United, and this is the only difference that tends to bother me about Mourinho.

While pellegrini goes for the kill, Mourinho would normally goes to set up shop.

And you know what, ever since that 1-1 against Barcelona in the CL semi final I have been scared of that.

I rather die fighting then sit back and defend.

Now I'm not saying to attack for attack like mindless fool as Rodgers did, but at least make subs to help press, have control of the ball and such then reverting to a all low block formation.

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Watching the game of city against United, and this is the only difference that tends to bother me about Mourinho.

While pellegrini goes for the kill, Mourinho would normally goes to set up shop.

And you know what, ever since that 1-1 against Barcelona in the CL semi final I have been scared of that.

I rather die fighting then sit back and defend.

Now I'm not saying to attack for attack like mindless fool as Rodgers did, but at least make subs to help press, have control of the ball and such then reverting to a all low block formation.

But City almost fucked up and Pellegrini's plan would have gone wrong

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Watching the game of city against United, and this is the only difference that tends to bother me about Mourinho.

While pellegrini goes for the kill, Mourinho would normally goes to set up shop.

And you know what, ever since that 1-1 against Barcelona in the CL semi final I have been scared of that.

I rather die fighting then sit back and defend.

Now I'm not saying to attack for attack like mindless fool as Rodgers did, but at least make subs to help press, have control of the ball and such then reverting to a all low block formation.

It didn't prevent MU from spending the last 15 minutes in attack despite being one man down. And two weeks ago this same strategy made Pellegrini lose 2-0 lead against CSKA which may very well cost them a place in CL play-off in the end.

So - there's no ideal way.

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I know Mourinho started the whole debate about the home atmosphere thing but since we now have a separate and specific thread for the discussion, I've moved all related posts to that thread. So, please continue the debate in that thread. Link is below..

http://forum.talkchelsea.net/topic/19202-atmosphere-at-home-games/

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Erm, you do realize that Pellegrini eventually shut the game out, don't you? He may have brought on Dzeko to go 2 upfront but when that didn't work, he immediately took off Aguero for a defensive midfielder in Fernandinho to try and see the game out, at 1-0 against 10-man United at HOME! TC would probably have turned into a circus if Mourinho did that. Pellegrini's naivety could have so easily cost City had United been more clinical and made better decisions in the final third.

I made that comment as soon as he took out Milner for nasri. That was an attacking intent at the moment, as to opposed taking out Willian for mikel.

And as you mentioned he then did defensive tactics and that almost cost him.

This is why I'm not too keen on this.

Sometimes it works like it happen with city in this game and sometimes it doesn't work like it happen against us.

Like I said the best thing is to get subs that will help us regain the ball and have possession then going into a low block and give them all the possession.

The best example was Barcelona vs United in cl final. They was winning 3 to 1 and still kept possession so as to not allowed them to get back into the game.

If we sit back and have no possession or press we invite them to have more clear cut chances.

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I made that comment as soon as he took out Milner for nasri. That was an attacking intent at the moment, as to opposed taking out Willian for mikel.

And as you mentioned he then did defensive tactics and that almost cost him.

This is why I'm not too keen on this.

Sometimes it works like it happen with city in this game and sometimes it doesn't work like it happen against us.

Like I said the best thing is to get subs that will help us regain the ball and have possession then going into a low block and give them all the possession.

The best example was Barcelona vs United in cl final. They was winning 3 to 1 and still kept possession so as to not allowed them to get back into the game.

If we sit back and have no possession or press we invite them to have more clear cut chances.

Or Barcelona vs Inter when Bacelona had 80% (or something like that of ball possession) and created 1 or 2 chances in all the game with one more player for more than 1 hour.

Pellegrini changed because Man United with less one player was having more chances than City. A normal thing since any team that is losing a game with the difference of 1 goal will try everything to score.

This happens in every league, with any team. And more normally between 2 great teams like Chelsea, Man United (or City).

How many teams have you seen playing like Barcelona in the last 15 years? You have there the reason why no one else to that with a 1 goal lead. And many times it's not because you don't want, it's just because you can't.

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The best example was Barcelona vs United in cl final. They was winning 3 to 1 and still kept possession so as to not allowed them to get back into the game.

Or Atletico against us last season. After their equaliser they dominated - never let us back in the game and they never looked defensively vulnerable. That is the way we should aspire to play when we're ahead in matches rather than sitting back but that's Jose's way. Remember how in 2007 we parked the bus at Anfield in the 2nd leg CL semi-final instead of scoring and making them have to score 3. It's Jose's only glaring weakness IMO but it's quite a big one.

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As people are showing things can go both ways for both tactics. It all comes down to the team, and with our team we have more attackers than defenders, so why would we park the bus with players like Fab, Oscar, Eden, Willian? It makes no sense.

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We're still in progress, we're not there yet..

This. We still seem to be shaky and nervous some time and not like a powerful machine destroying any opposite side.

However, I like the fact that we can always put in a new gear when it is required. Massive improvement to last season.

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Or Barcelona vs Inter when Bacelona had 80% (or something like that of ball possession) and created 1 or 2 chances in all the game with one more player for more than 1 hour.

Pellegrini changed because Man United with less one player was having more chances than City. A normal thing since any team that is losing a game with the difference of 1 goal will try everything to score.

This happens in every league, with any team. And more normally between 2 great teams like Chelsea, Man United (or City).

How many teams have you seen playing like Barcelona in the last 15 years? You have there the reason why no one else to that with a 1 goal lead. And many times it's not because you don't want, it's just because you can't.

First of all, Barcelona was losing.

I was talking about when winning.

If Barcelona was winning then Inter would had to come out.

Second of all as mentioned here before not only Barcelona done that but Atletico did it to us last season in the CL.

So it's really nothing out of this world.

If we sit back and don't put pressure on the opponent we invite them to attack thus increasing their opportunity to create more chances.

And third, we are not a team that plays low block to excellency. That was Chelsea of 05.

This Chelsea is not made for that, so it's a bigger risk to sit back and do nothing.

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