Flowing football a testament to Jose's nous
Posted by The Addickted in Chelsea, Jose Mourinho, Premiership, Shaun Wright-Phillips | 13 August 2007
He said he was going to drop the diamond system, use wingers and play exciting football and that's what he did. Mourinho has demonstrated yet again why he is such a highly acclaimed manager by totally transforming the way his team play, and with some success.
The Premiership winning Chelsea team Jose moulded were one that could keep clean sheets and win low scoring games week in week out, such consistency earning them the title. Next year it didn't work so well, they were dropping points and saw the trophy head up to Manchester, so naturally "the special one" mixed it up a bit.
United invested heavily in attacking players over the summer, Carlos Tevez, Nani and Anderson being the most high profile, but instead of splashing the cash Jose tinkered with the tactics, and from the performance against Birmingham it seems to have worked. Introducing wingers was a highly publicised Mourinho ploy, and it was the dominating feature of the match. Wright-Phillips who never really fitted into the tactics previously at Stamford Bridge shone in the wide-right position, giving Frank Quedrue a nightmare afternoon at left back.
The different style of football clearly worked in an attacking sense, delivering three goals, but perhaps it told on Chelsea's usually immaculate defensive qualities as they conceded twice against newly-promoted Birmingham. Maybe the defense will shore up when Terry returns or the attacking style won't be so fruitful against stronger Premiership teams, what's your opinion?
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