moomba said:
kingmonkey said:
Mourinho= plenty of 1.0ers ala george graham stylie
I think thats even been overstated a bit. In 124 wins (in all comps) 21 of them were 1-0. One every 5.9 matches.
One in six of our wins (in all comps) this season have been 1-0.
Although your stats are probably right, it would be a gross overstatement to say that Mourinho's style of football is akin to that of Ferguson's or Wenger's. Realistically, although Mourinho's brand of football isn't necessarily as negative as someone like BFS, his teams are incredibly "efficient" (his word, not mine) - in the way they play. Chelsea under him were notorious for going 1 nil up, and then happily shutting up shop and playing on the break by using the pace of Robben, and later on, simply hoofing it up to Drogba, and waiting for one or two supporting players to catch up...
Maybe that's a little simplistic, but its much closer to the truth than the idea that Mourinho's teams play exciting attacking football...