False, he was criticised whilst successful because of his boring style of play. Which is not to say that he’s not a great manager, but his defensive emphasis is dull. The point is that it’s not to do with how many goals you score, you can still score goals playing ‘park the bus and counter,’ as Deschamps’ France sadly do.
https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp..../jose-mourinho-roman-abramovich-chelsea-style
In Spain Mourinho was criticised mainly for (some) os his games against Barcelona. For example when he tried things like Pepe as a midfielder in order to play only more destructive football.
Other than that some critics (and praises) came with his personality.
You can gloat about Spain all you want. They could not score against a small team the other day and don’t look like they are close to winning something.
France is world champion, last Euro finalist are favorites to win it this year and just won against one of the best team of the tournament while Germany was playing at home.
Saying Germany had most and best chances is just looking at stats. They did not have a sniff. You can have all the possession in the world, if you are toothless, it is worth nothing.
Saying offsides goals are worth nothing but counting all Germans half-chances as opportunities is a bit rich as offsides as very close calls more often then not. While Germany wasn’t threatening at all.
But I am not expecting to convince you.
I know and I knew that France is the main favorite and it has the best squad by a large margin, but it is not what we are talking about.
Spain also won Germany 6-0 a few months ago, and?
Spain is a tier 3 or 4 favorite, far behind other teams, and that was the situation before Sweden game. It has good players but not top players. Sweden game didn't change anything.
If you take a look to the France-Germany summary you will see more clear chances from Germany. France offsides weren't close calls at all.
Obviously you are not going to convince me about France being favorite because i was convinced long time ago.
You are not going to convince me about Spain not being one of the main favorites because I already knew long time ago.
However, you are not going to convince me about the incapability of Spain of scoring goals because only Germany has scored more goals than Spain in Europe in the last 10 years (you can take the last 5 and same stats). Spain is simply not as consistent as it used to be because the quality of the players is not comparable, and it makes extremely difficult to win things in a knock-out tournament.
I'm not expecting to convince you about it, but 70 games of goals stats don't lie.
Sorry for butting in again, but personally I consider Tiki-Taka anti-football, there's nothing more anti-climactic than a team passing the ball around semi-needlessly, with the sole purpose of not letting the other team have it, and hardly capitalizing on actual openings for fear of losing possession. It makes far more sense than considering Mourinho's style anti-football (which while I'm not a fan, is vastly exaggerated as his teams scored tons of goals), because he lets the other team come at him, he's not looking to dominate possession. It's not to say Tiki-Taka isn't absolutely brilliant and impressive in its own right, but it doesn't make for entertaining games either to me and many others.
You and I don't speak for neutrals, I know plenty of people who have nothing to do with France and enjoy watching the team but I'm not going as far as that means neutrals love France. People like different things, I don't think any argument is going to convince one side or the other in that respect.
There is no way you can call Spain ultradefensive. Spain has been the 2nd European with more goals in a span of over 10 years, only after Germany.
You cannot say that a team that wins 6-0 over Germany or 6-0 over Croatia (just mentioning 2 but there were more similar similar results against decent teams) in the last 2 years is "ultradefensive" or "antifootball". I have never seen in my whole life an ultradefensive team scoring 6 goals against a team like Germany.
As I mentioned before, Mourinho was ultradefensive only against Barcelona (i think he got obsessed with the 5-0 he received on his 1st match). He didn't play like that against other teams, and they also scored a lot of goals.
You might like the style, you might hate it, but you cannot say that it is "ultradefensive" when the numbers say the opposite.
And not only goals, but chances, shots, etc.
I think this is my last message today because of my account limitations... so have a good day!