my 1st time watching the video.I laugh when haters claim Mourinho is blind to his environment -- that he doesn't hear the criticism and doesn't understand football anymore.
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my 1st time watching the video.I laugh when haters claim Mourinho is blind to his environment -- that he doesn't hear the criticism and doesn't understand football anymore.
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Yeah, I can see where you’re coming from. With Jose being an arch pragmatist, however, he’d need to be confident the team could still do the job.Is it possible that we can all see that 433 with Pogba on the left works much better than 4231, but Jose doesn't? I don't think so.
This is a guy who; after winning everything with Porto in his first season, including the UEFA cup; felt that his players were losing tactical discipline due to overconfidence, so he changed the formation from 433 to 442 diamond because that formation demands much higher tactical discipline in order to be effective. They went on to win the Champions League in the second season.
This is a key concept of Mourihno's coaching method; he doesn't demand a thing from his players; he rather creates situations that demand certain things from the players. I wouldn't be surprised if his insistence on 4231 is a method to train players to evolve their game. For example, Pogba is great going forward, but right now he is a defensive liability because of lack of defensive awareness, lack of work rate without the ball, and poor decision making with the ball in his own half. Forcing him to play as a holding mid could very well be a training method to improve on those aspects of his game. On the other hand, adjusting the formation to suit his game would benefit the team in the short run, but then Pogba would never evolve.
Then again, I might be wrong.
Nothing surprising. That's why Mikhi failed here. He's mentally very poor to play for a top club or a top manager. He's at his own level now.
Social mediahe just can't get us playing.
what are we good at? pretty average in possession, can't define counters, can't/don't press, slow, comical defending....
what are we good at?
Someone was saying it wasn't a long enough extensionGive him another new contract i would say and spend another 200m to serve up shite after shite. The only explanation would be him being a Chelsea agent
One of those days happen to us quite often... You might think there's an actual problemAs much as some of his decisions today have made me raise an eyebrow, we would be comfortably leading this game nine times out of ten with all these good chances and the limited ones conceded. Just one of those days so far.
I would agree with you any day of the week if the chances we created were due to tactical decisions. Our goals never seem to come from something planned.As much as some of his decisions today have made me raise an eyebrow, we would be comfortably leading this game nine times out of ten with all these good chances and the limited ones conceded. Just one of those days so far.
We look shit in every third of the pitch, let's be honest.What is being coached in the attacking third? It looks like we put in absolutely no work in that department, and it’s been happening for seasons now. We have players like Sanchez, Martial, Pogba and Mata and somehow still can’t string anything much good together aside from the odd bit of good play. It’s inexcusable.
The fact that we added a player like Sanchez into our front line and it has not improved our attacking play is prove of that statementAnother great example of his bad decision making. Another great example that our goals depend a 100% on the individuals and 0% on tactical preparation. Another disappointment served by Jose. Starting to walk on my nerves.
Players are getting in each others way, launching balls and hitting our own...Collection of individuals and fair to say we look less than sum of its parts.What is being coached in the attacking third? It looks like we put in absolutely no work in that department, and it’s been happening for seasons now. We have players like Sanchez, Martial, Pogba and Mata and somehow still can’t string anything much good together aside from the odd bit of good play. It’s inexcusable.