- Jan 18, 2011
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On the game itself, I am at a loss to explain how poor we were at the back and in attack. We were okay from 18 to 18, but in both penalty areas we were awful and that in the end is where teams will be judged.
I watch SU play all the time and the way to beat them is to hit them on the counter at speed. I thought that is how we were set up but seeing Sissoko, Son, Aurier, Lamela slow the game down to let them get numbers back just played right into their hands. We are not a quick possession team in the final third although we did score a good one it is not a consistent type goal from us. United scored three excellent build up goals that we should be scoring with the quality of player we can put out.
As to Mourinho, he like a lot of managers has not evolved and is still judging himself on how he was at Porto, Chelsea and Inter. He left Inter in 2010. That is a very long time in football terms. The question is whether he can rediscover that edge he had when he was younger. I know he had success at Real and Man Utd, but with the players had had he should have won stuff. His real quality era as a coach was Porto to Inter. He used to make subs and tactical changes for those three teams that would win them games. He has yet to do that with us.
My fear is that some of our players see him as an old time coach in football terms which is how the likes of Wenger and to a degree Fergie and Van Gaal were judged at the end of their tenures. It happened in another time with Bill Nicolson, Matt Busby and Bill Shankly so why not with Mourinho?
Who'd be a Spurs fan?
Well he did take a Chelsea team that was in shambles under AVB and signed Willian, Fabregas, Matic, Pedro, Diego Costa, Zouma and won a title with them. And won the Europa league with United and took them to 2nd in the league. That wasn't that long ago