Portugal's championship coach Jose. What is Mourinho best at? - Defensive counterattack in the Premier League Mourinho has only used two sets of lineups, 433, 442!

In fact, 433 can become 4231 again, with two wingers and a top striker, supplemented by Frank Lampard, who can attack and defend, to become Chelsea's watchdog.

Mourinho's most commonly used line-up, the two wings and the front line are often disguises for attacking in position, and the real danger is Frank Lampard's sudden forward to form a fourth point of attack!

When defending, it can evolve into 451, and the strength of Chelsea players is very strong, so that they can dominate the Premier League.

It's not hard to explain that Frank Lampard will be an unstoppable player and score a lot of goals.

The player is very capable, very good at running, can pass and shoot, and only Lampard can adapt to so much work, he is the only one, Mourinho invested heavily in Essien, but also to find a replacement for Lampard, and the person who replaced him will definitely not be Makelele, if so, Essien will not be worth the sky-high price.

Now Mourinho has tried another more aggressive lineup, 442!

With two wide attackers and a sudden forward Joe Cole, the strength of the two strikers was truly unleashed, and in fact, when the team was in attack, five people could be put into the attack in an instant.

This is the 4231 strengthened attacking lineup, Chelsea has no players who do not defend, and the forwards form the first line of pressing in the front, two wingers hold both sides, and the middle is heavily defended, and it has not yet reached the place where Chelsea puts the bus. The opponent has actually consumed a lot of power, and Chelsea defended well, not the bus tactics. Instead, Mourinho turned the defence into a multi-layered one, gradually easing the pressure at the back.

Speaking of defensive counter-attacks, it is launched at the back, if the ball is broken in the front court, it is a fast attack, but if it is, Chelsea's efficiency is scary, and Jonker is the guarantee of goals. Frank Lampard is the irreplaceable one, and now Chelsea's No.25 has gradually become such a presence, without the individual play of Jonker in attack. Chelsea also seem to be missing some motivation to score goals.

Without Barcelona's flowery and full control of the game, Chelsea are simple and do not require possession. Focus on efficiency. Jonker also illustrated Mourinho's philosophy well in the game against Barcelona.

Nowadays, European football is extremely respectful of Barcelona's passing control, which also makes Mourinho's Chelsea so different and abrupt.

There is no flashy passing, strong control, but he dominates the game with efficiency, and he is so mercenary in the eyes of everyone, and many people do not like Chelsea's style of play. And so it goes.

There is also a very important reason, in the passing of Barcelona. It is not uncommon to see the individual performance of the stars, Mourinho's tactics are not individual, but the focus is on the whole, but Joan Que has added an individual presence to the whole of Chelsea.

The presence of an alternative player in an alternative team is not difficult to explain, Mourinho's hesitation and observation, but in the counter-attack, Jonker's efficiency is the highest, and in the second half Chelsea will still play their football as usual, and they will be more comfortable with a one-goal lead.

Meanwhile, in City's dressing room, the players were a little frustrated and silent, and the atmosphere was very somber, which was not all due to the first-half deficit.

Manchester City is divided into several factions by default, which has led to disharmony in the Manchester City dressing room and the relationship between the players is not good.

Head Coach Kevin. Keegan is a powerful player in the team, but he is not very good at mediating the conflicts between the players, so City's dressing room is more like a powder keg, and a crisis may erupt at any time.

Fortunately, in this situation, instead of the players' frustration, Mr. Keegan walked in with a smile on his face, yes, he was very satisfied with the performance of the players in the first half: "The team played very well in the first half, especially in the last 30 minutes of the game, I even felt like I was leading a super big club...... Keegan opened his mouth and praised directly.

“…… The first goal conceded was just a mistake, it was Chelsea's luck and I hope in the second half of the game everyone will let go and don't care about the result, this is Manchester City Stadium, all we have to do is show our quality in front of tens of thousands of fans, Chelsea are not scary, as long as it is ......'

After Mr. Keegan's bunch of nonsense was finished, the depression in the hearts of the players was also reduced a lot, which is probably another role of the head coach, as the leader of the team, his mood directly affects the mood and state of the whole team.

In fact, Mr. Keegan was indeed prepared to lose at this time, but he was very open, there were 38 league games in the whole season, and it didn't matter if he lost one, and Manchester City also performed well in the previous rounds, and are now ranked 9th in the league, which is satisfactory enough as a new member of the Premier League.

This can't be said that Keegan is not ambitious, you know, two seasons combined, Manchester City in the transfer market, only sprinkled more than 9 million pounds, what is the wonder of losing to Chelsea 200 million euros?

Football is not the same as money, but without money there is no professional football.

Contrary to what fans imagined, after the start of the second half, the Manchester City team did not launch a big attack when they were behind, they just played steadily, and it seemed that they did not seek merit but did not seek fault.

However, it is important to know that Chelsea has done a tactical arrangement of defensive counter-attacks, so it seems that Manchester City has a certain advantage on the pitch, which also makes the game not a little fierce at all.

Lacklustre, both teams seem to have exhausted all their passion, and they are listlessly tossing and turning on the field, making it feel like they want to sleep.

Manchester City's tactical play is indeed steady, every attack is initiated by the back Barton, wing Chinese player Sun Jihai and midfielder Sinclair with the ball slowly advanced, and will not blindly attack, the backfield always retains a few defenders to prevent Chelsea's sneak attack.

Seeing this kind of scene, Mourinho on the sidelines secretly gave Keegan a thumbs up in his heart. Chelsea's tactics are put on the table, and what they want to see most is the opponent's big attack, then use the two big backs. The interception ability of Essien and Makelele, as long as there is an opportunity, whether it is Duff, Joe Cole or Gudjohnsen, can create a killing opportunity, so that Ibrahimovic and Jonke on the front line can get a good opportunity to attack.

Keegan has clearly seen through Chelsea's style of play and is down in a situation where his team is behind. He actually chose to play steadily, and this calm attitude is indeed admirable.

However, this does not mean that Manchester City have the advantage!

Jose Mourinho's counter-attacking tactics. It is generally executed when the team is ahead, and if City do not attack aggressively, then Chelsea have a higher safety rate at the back, although there are few chances up front. But don't forget. Now Chelsea are on the lead and the time is slowly running out to the better of Chelsea.

Of course, this is not an invincible tactic, if you meet a team like Barcelona who are not afraid of any type of defense, Chelsea's tactics are obviously not so bright, and Barcelona alone cannot be defended, and must attack. There is only one ending for Barcelona to surround and fight, and the more people fight, the more crazy they become.

But. Clearly, City don't have that attacking ability.

Manchester City's long-standing game, Chelsea's lack of outstanding performance, finally played another moment of excitement in the 77th minute.

Manchester City's attack, striker Andy Cole received a pass at the edge of the penalty area, directly changed direction quickly, and kept rubbing the ball back and forth with both feet, so that the Chelsea captain John Brown who was defending next to him. Terry is very frustrated, this position is very dangerous, he doesn't dare to foul here. After shaking off John Terry, Andy Cole fired a low shot straight away that sent the Blues fans into a cold sweat, but Petr Cech reacted quickly to save the ball off the line.

Manchester City's corner kick, Sinclair passed the ball to the middle of the penalty area, but Gudjohnsen grabbed a good position and kicked the ball directly to the front, and the football was directly handed to the feet of Joe Cole on the left side -

Chelsea's counterattack!

After winning the ball, Joe Cole sprinted towards Manchester City's backfield, facing two defenders in a row, Joe Cole showed his unrivalled skill with his feet in two quick disguises, using a sharp dribble and telling all Blues fans that his presence was not on the wing, but in the middle of the field.

When dribbling to the front of the penalty area, Joe Cole suddenly chose to run out, many people don't understand what this is for, but the two strikers in front of Chelsea understand the intention of this move, these Manchester City players obviously don't understand Joe Cole's unexpected move, so the back Barton who followed him was thrown away directly, Joe Cole has been watching, Manchester City players also relaxed, quickly advanced to the side, the threat is much less, fullback Onoba held the wing, and the others began to prepare to defend the middle of the penalty area.

Jonk didn't raise his hand to signal his teammate to pass the ball, all he had to do was run out of position, and as for the pass, he believed Joe Cole would pass it.

City's defenders immediately gathered in this direction, and they all knew very well that this kid was extremely capable of shooting from distance, and he must not be given space to shoot with his feet.

However, Jonk did not wait for Joe Cole to knock back into the middle, he continued to sprint towards the penalty area, like a sharp knife, drawing a trajectory into the box.

Joe Cole knew it was time, and when Jonk was resolutely inside, he moved, pedaled a bike, and suddenly flicked his right foot out, shook off the defender, and crossed.

Can't blame Onoba who defended Joe Cole, the defense was passive, and the skills of the two were not at the same level, after being shaken away, Onoba could only hope that his teammates could make up for it and push the ball out of the penalty area.

However, Onoba's pupils are getting bigger and bigger, what he sees is not a teammate's easy clearance, but a person's figure jumping high, unconsciously adjusting and raising his head, at this moment he is really small, very humble, and so helpless, his defense is not good enough to give the opponent an excellent opportunity to score.

At this time, Jonk just ran up, and when the ball arrived, his movements in the air were so stretched in place, shaking his head to touch the ball, the standard action was like a textbook, but the ball was strong and heavy.

"GOAL" was dull for the whole second half, and the Blues fans were even a little drowsy, at this time, Jonker's goal was really timely rain, which made the mood of these fans lift up again, but the sound of the DJ on the scene was obviously different from the mood of the Chelsea fans at the moment, and the shouting of the goals were so helpless, who called the goal not the home team Manchester City!

When it came to seeing Chelsea score again. The on-site commentator's words were even more sour, and the slightly painful voice came out of the radio, "goal....... Hey, Chelsea scored again, which is really something that no one wants to see, it was still the opponent's No. 25 Jonker who scored, and it seems that at least in this game, his goal came again, and there are 10 minutes to go. Let's hope the players work harder to get another one. ”

In fact, in this game, the lowest mood was Manchester City's left winger Sun Jihai.

Coach Keegan gave him a position as a left winger. He didn't work hard in the game, and he had his best performances in almost all of City's attacks.

He also wants to perform, he doesn't want to lose to that junior player. He is the real Chinese player. In the Chinese derby, he didn't want to lose on his side.

But reality is reality, there is a gap between Manchester City and Chelsea, and there is a natural gap between the two, and the so-called 'Chinese Premier League derby' seems to be starting and he has already lost.

Thinking of this, Sun Jihai's eyes lit up, and he turned his head to look at the black-haired boy standing beside him. He shook his head silently, he knew it. His own full game, can only become another annotation, the winner's annotation, but this kid is really the pride of the Chinese people, how difficult the Premier League is, he knows the most, it is not easy for the Chinese people to gain a foothold here, but the kid is famous here, bringing wonderful goals to the Chinese people, and now someone has finally done it.

Oh, yes! He should be happy for this kid, proud of this kid, that kid has done many things that Chinese people have never thought of, as a big brother not admitting defeat is one thing, more should be blessed that kid to go further, because they have the blood of Huaxia flowing in their bodies, representing Huaxia.

This is almost forgotten by football, but there are countless people who yearn for glory, Huaxia will go crazy because of this kid.

For the remainder of the game, the pitch remained tepid, with the City man unaware that they had fallen behind by two goals and reverted to the way they had scored.

But at the moment Huaxia is boiling, people don't think there are losers in the game, both of them are very good, Sun Jihai used to be the pride of Huaxia, and the same will be true in the future, today's performance on the field is worthy of people's love for him, and Jonk is even more exciting, God is God, God is here to save the world, to save the hearts of Chinese fans who are broken by football.

That's right if you didn't enter the national football team, how beautiful the four little swans were, waving their white wings from Brazil and returning to China, so that everyone's hearts were uplifted, but the good times didn't last long, and the swans were gradually transformed into ugly ducklings by the big dye vat, and the aura of the past continued to dissipate and degenerate into mediocrity.

On a higher stage, it's enough to keep scoring goals, it's really enough!

What a lovely man! The fans of Huaxia are the cutest people! Neither too much nor too much, so they are satisfied! Of course, they are also worried and afraid, the big dye vat has once again turned the gods into ordinary people, and they would rather see from afar!

The time of the game passed in mediocrity, and the boos from the Manchester City fans surfaced the attitude of the fans, they were a little dissatisfied, this is not an aggressive team, but from the bottom of their hearts, they knew that the gap in strength made Manchester City have to do this, and the boos were just venting.

When the final whistle blows, the City fans will also give the players a round of applause, motivating the team to play the next game in their own unique way.

Gloomy Manchester saw Jose Mourinho's only defeat in the Premier League – against Manchester City last season and Manchester United this season.

Chelsea were unbeaten in the first 12 meetings last season with 10 wins and two draws against Manchester City, but last season's one draw and one defeat gave the impression that another 'Blues' had finally arrived in good fortune for Chelsea. That speculation intensified after Frank Lampard announced 10 minutes before the game that he would not be able to play.

But Joe, who has been in good form lately. Goals from Kerr and Jonk James made mistakes to help Chelsea secure the three points. Because one minute later, the three points of Manchester United on the Birmingham side became one point, and the gap between the two sides has reached 11 points.

'We don't have to worry because although Liverpool have a better chance of catching us than Manchester United, I believe the league winner is the strongest in 38 games. Mourinho said proudly after the game. The madman even threw out the theory of "friendship is omnipotent" to refute the argument that Chelsea "money buys champions". Once again, team spirit has been the key to the success of Mourinho's psychological warfare.

Barcelona's scouts watched the game from the VIP seats, but he had to accept the fact that Chelsea's playmaking core was absent, the backline was not Chelsea's strongest formation, and the wingers were missing the most dangerous Arjen Robben.

Jose Mourinho's starting line-up changed five players from the previous game. As a direct consequence, they had no real way to deal with Manchester City in the first half, Barton's shot was blocked by Petr Cech with his foot, and Sinclair had a chance, but the presence of one man made Chelsea's first-half weakness indifferent, Jonker!

That out-of-the-sky goal made people forget everything, only remember that moment.

Chelsea had previously been suspected of two penalties: Cole's cross was on the hands of Distin, but the referee judged the ball to be the hand as the City defender had already made a backhand move, which was no problem. But Drogba received a long pass from Terry's back but it was an absolute penalty, Disdin misjudged and pushed Drogba from behind, the Ivorian striker did not go down, and then was knocked down by James. However, neither the referee nor the assistant referee had time to see it clearly, and Chelsea were denied the first golden chance. Didier Drogba also had a first-half volley from inside the box that went high over the net, and the Ivorian's hard work did not seem to be well received by Mourinho.

In the 13th minute of the second half, Mourinho replaced Duff and Ibranovic with Robben and Drogba at the same time.

Duff ended the game calmly, but Ibrahimovic, who thought he was doing well, didn't even glance at the manager and walked straight to the aisle. As it turned out, Mourinho made another smart substitution.

Arjen Robben used his pace to attack City's tired flanks as soon as he came on.

This injected a touch of waves into the silent game, Robben was unfortunately unable to score a goal, Joe Cole swore his ambition for the main position with a perfect assist, and Jonker proved his quality once again with a goal.

'I feel sorry for my players, we could have finished 0-0 but I can't ask for anything, they could have left the pitch with their heads held high. Kevin Keegan said regretfully. Mourinho also agreed, "It's a game where we can accept a draw, they can't get past us. All we have to do is be patient and not rush and they can't make mistakes because they can't concede so you can expect the goals to come. Mourinho said after the game that he was wary enough for Manchester City that he did not even take the "risk" that has been tried and tested recently, and only made corresponding substitutions in the position, which showed his caution and judgment of the situation.

But what made Mourinho even happier was his team's reaction without Frank Lampard! He used it to motivate his players before the game, and as a result, the team won a hard-earned victory, "The team's answer is fantastic! Gudjohnsen personally played really good games in Frank Lampard's role and we have players like Graimi who are good models, he doesn't play a lot of games but when he's always unbelievably on the pitch. ”

The Portuguese still have something to say: "I know how we are in the hearts of the people. But I don't believe there are enough teams in world football to fight like we did with this one. Some people say it's the power of money, but I don't admit it. It's the strength of camaraderie that they've been together since day one, ready for anything. "The mental refusal to give up again and again after difficulties seems to prove that Mourinho's team does have such a temperament - to fight to earn respect.

The other good news comes from the chasers, Manchester United have played a draw, and Chelsea are undoubtedly the biggest beneficiaries, maintaining a certain big advantage in the league, which will help Mourinho to deploy the team, he can be more bold in the rotation in the league, so that the players can get a certain amount of physical recovery.

Especially at this time of Christmas, there is no better thing than losing points against opponents and getting points yourself, Christmas present seems to be 2 points, but it is enough to make the Chelsea people happy for a long time!

Manchester United's era is quietly gone, and this Christmas, like what happened last year, is a Chelsea Christmas that continues for another year. (To be continued......)