Four Reasons Explaining How Chelsea Defense Has Suffered at the Cost of a Stronger Attack When Jose Mourinho arrived during his first spell at Chelsea in 2004, we broke several record most notably having the most number of clean sheets and also conceding the least amount of goals in a season. Our team had a well organized and compact defense which resulted in a lot of 1-0 wins for us. It was famously termed as the “Mourinho way” of playing. Fast forward to 2013 and its a well-known fact that Roman Abramovich wants his team to play an attacking and exciting brand of football. Lots of attack minded players like Juan Mata, Eden Hazard, Oscar were purchased for the said pursuit. We also saw a frequent managerial changes during this time, but no one was able to impose the said philosophy which Roman aimed for. Entered Jose Mourinho. When Mourinho arrived for his second spell here, he promised a more attacking brand of football to the fans and Roman compared to his last stint. And that’s what we saw at the start of the 2013 season; we started to impose a high-pressing system which in turn helped us to play a higher-line than we were used to previously. The change did pay dividends, and our game was more attacking and exciting to watch but there was a little problem, we started leaking too many goals at the back. At the start of the last season we had David Luiz and Gary Cahill at the back and with Luiz’s frequent stupid moments and our forwards not able to score goals we started leaking more goals than we scored and the system had to be withdrawn. In all honesty, we didn’t really had the players to play the game we wanted. So we reverted back to the Mourinho Way, and we did achieve good results, but that wasn’t the philosophy Mourinho promised to implement. Jose understood the exact problem and, as a result; we went berserk quite early in the summer market this season acquiring the likes of Diego Costa, Cesc Fabregas and Filipe Luis when other teams still hadn’t identified their targets. Acquiring a proven goalscorer, and an assist master meant we would be able to create and convert our chances into goals, and that has been evident so far this season. Costa has already banged seven goals in his four games while Fabregas with his six assists has lit the league on fire. But if you look at the recent results, 6-3 against Everton, 4-2 against the Swans its a very “unmourinho” type of performance. The game last night against Schalke was more of an off day for the blues when we were unable to convert any number of zillion chances we created. But other than that we have been pretty devastating in front of the goal. The team has been a playing a higher line, putting pressure on the opposition in there own half thus creating plenty of chances and converting them. And that’s where the difference lies; we were converting those half-chances through proven goalscorers, unlike last season when we were on Torres’s mercy. We are certainly more attacking and entertaining in the final third playing a beautiful brand of football which looks soothing to the eye. But it does have its downside too which i will explain in below of points:
Posted on: Fri, 19 Sep 2014 06:37:17 +0000
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