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Chelsea FC – Andre Schurrle Can’t Make Up For a Soft Team
One of the interesting things about the makeup of this Chelsea team in comparison to the one Jose Mourinho had during his first tenure at the club is physicality. There’s plenty of talent in the modern version – Andre Schurrle, Eden Hazard, Juan Manuel Mata and others. However, too many of those he had a few years ago have grown weaker and slower during that time, while other new faces are simply too soft for his own vision of how this team should look like.
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Chelsea FC – Eden Hazard Makes Up For Awful Defending
This isn’t the Chelsea team Jose Mourinho had during his first Premier League tenure, so he has to play to the current strengths. Not the defense, which is a mess right now no matter who is playing in it, but the attacking midfield and especially Eden Hazard, the team’s best player that should have more nights of dominant football like his most recent performance, finishing with two goals and an assist.
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Chelsea FC – Jose Mourinho Playing Mind Games Again
Despite their big spending this summer, Chelsea do not have a quality advantage over their rivals to the Premier League title. The edge they do have? Jose Mourinho, but not everything he does this season has been clever or correct, so the Portuguese manager returns to what he thinks he does best – mind games with other managers.
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Chelsea FC – Jose Mourinho Is Still Their Biggest Asset
Is making a switch into a 4-4-2 formation, playing that way for an entire half, that much of a stroke of genius? Yes, or at least it seems like it when you win. Chelsea took advantage of conceding a goal after only 14 seconds to fire back in an unexpected way during the second half, as Jose Mourinho made a change that his usually quite resourceful opponents couldn’t handle. Demba Ba being the spark of change might have been even more surprising.
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Chelsea FC – Jose Mourinho Keeps Making Rotation Mistakes
Handling a deep squad shouldn’t be something Jose Mourinho struggles to do, but it seems that either the November curse that always strikes Chelsea or simply the Portuguese manager still not having a full grasp of what’s going on right under his nose is costing his team points both in Europe and in the Premier League, plenty of times due to his own mistakes and sometimes prejudice against certain players.
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Chelsea FC – Eden Hazard Should Have Come On Sooner
It’s hard to say if it was arrogance that was leading Jose Mourinho when he picked the lineup for his team’s defeat at Basel, or simply the rest and betterment of players. Chelseas struggled for long minutes on both ends of the pitch, and the introduction of Eden Hazard to the match came way too late to turn things around.
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Chelsea FC – Jose Mourinho Knows Big Wins Mean Nothing
It’s quite rare to see a Jose Mourinho team being heavily defeated, but the Portuguese manager knows that a big win doesn’t necessarily mean anything, and that Tottenham, despite their poor form and a 6-0 loss to Manchester City, are still alive and kicking in the title race, just like his Chelsea.
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Chelsea FC – Oscar Epitomizing the Jose Mourinho Style
Falling further down the title race wasn’t an option for Chelsea, so Jose Mourinho admitted to his own mistakes by actions (never by words) and changed his formation into a 4-3-3, that gave Oscar more freedom than before in his best match of the season while Frank Lampard, one of the team’s worst players this season, was finally left with enough freedom and no central midfield responsibilities in order to look like a player worth keeping.
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Chelsea FC – Jose Mourinho Might Cost Them Thibaut Courtois
There’s really no love loss between Marca and Jose Mourinho, but it doesn’t mean that recent news of the Chelsea manager threatening Thibaut Courtois to be benched for the next two years if he doesn’t sign a new contract with the team to be untrue.
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Jose Mourinho vs Cristiano Ronaldo – No Feud After All
Things ended badly for Jose Mourinho at Real Madrid, and that included Cristiano Ronaldo not standing the sight of the Portuguese manager by the time it was all over. However, in a recent interview given by the ‘special one,’ there aren’t that many hard feelings left between the two.