The general diagnosis is that Mourinho was brave to the lineup. The eye of the beholder, of course. If we reduce the question to put a playmaker or a third pivot, yes, it was brave, because he played Özil. However, if the courage is staying true to the ideals of personal spite or need to ask the fans, Mourinho was not.
In the imagination of the fans, logical thing, the party that was drawn was that of a courageous Madrid, always offensive, drowning and crushing rival with a win. Mourinho knew I could give them that win, but his path was different. He has traveled many times, in Porto, London, Milan. Whenever his teams lead the charge cryptic handles cunning. Since it is the opponent who has to go for it, choose the terrain and the scenery is best for you: create a fortress around your goal, raw defensive troop presence and only gets two or three cavalry turma responsible for mortally wound the enemy when he neglected his rear.
Luso coach asked what is likely the body was out with that euphemism is your triangle trivote high pressure but chose the most popular - and populist? -. The feeling was invaded by Real Madrid as he approached was that of the Classic Now, go to them and strike a blow at the table. But the idiosyncrasies of Mou is different from the Bernabeu. In any other team in the world have imposed their view Mourinho: We have three points and a game, are they who have to come after us and it is not that they remain other, is also can not do otherwise. The possession we can not discuss, not the whole game, so let come for us and who collide again and again against our wall. Then we will leave us at the counter and bled blow by blow.
But Mourinho or would not contradict the Bernabeu or felt that he was indebted to him. Possibly a sum of both. The crowd was very disappointed with the approach made by the Portuguese in the first leg of the Champions League semifinals last: the precedent of the Cup final, people did not expect his team get into his field felt that the ship had been hit by the defeat in Valencia and understood he had to kill the wounded animal. Luso coach opted for an ultra-defensive strategy so that its star, Cristiano Ronaldo, not even twenty minutes it took to express what I felt the stands: What we stuck in the cave? Barca, after the expulsion of Pepe, won 0-2 .
Then most of the fans merengue pseudoteoría pointed to the why, but in the back of his Real Madrid were left a large residue of disappointment. So this year, with the defeat of Getafe and seeing Barca six points away, the Real Madrid pulled out what was saved: the 5-0 last year in the Champions League elimination and even so hard to forget the 2-6 . needed to be redeemed, avenged. Needed to provide blood enemy.
Mourinho felt the same and even invited her experience to go their own way, the Bernabeu has much weight. In addition, the streak and the performance of his team invited to persist in the same line. With the alignment of the four men held Özil attack in his usual eleven, but this kind of games, with the ability to manage a good lead, Mourinho have always opted for a defensive cut man, convinced that with three specialists the backlash is more than enough to do damage.
Özil alignment was not surprising. Neither Benzema, the best white party. The surprise was double and was on the elimination of Khedira and Coentrao option on the side. Why was a substitute Khedira is a mystery. Defensive midfielder is the most used by Mourinho, often praised for himself, and had rested in the Champions League match. However, the headline was Lass, a guy who wanted to go in summer and refused to go on tour U.S. Two decisions that a general Mourinho never forgive ...
The other name of contention is Coentrao. It cost 30 million and Mourinho does not find place. In the Super wrecked as a pivot and it seemed the best option to play side walk changed. The intent of the technical Luso would be surprising to vary the usual eleven to confuse the contrary. But more often than would have been that, playing in the middle Khedira, Lass had acted as the right side. So the feeling that Mou got a shoe-Coentrao. Of the five signings this summer did the Madrid owns none. On Saturday three of them stayed in the stands, one (Alley) Coentrao on the bench and entered the lineup with a shoehorn and fell short: the first goal broke the offside trap and is not able to stop Alexis , in the third lost a race of forty feet with Fabregas and too late Alves center.
However, the very beginning of the game, everything went face. What happened then? How do you explain the defeat? The evil of Madrid was that it was half-submerged in the definition. After the early goal for, or stuck behind to wait for the boat with tight lines and was able to maintain full line pressure. Madrid did not know whether to step back to take advantage of the necessity of its rival or to step forward to not let the club get up off the canvas. We talked in the previous: the important thing was if he played an attacker or defender, but the team is defined with a clear strategy in the pressure line : forward or backward, but never mean.
Doubt killed him. Barca was remade through the possession of the ball and found the equalizer before the Madrid had decided what I wanted to be. Mourinho came rest and was able to lay hands on the game. He avoid the drift of uncertainty in which they had plunged his men. He could have asked his players to go out for the party or persuade them to choose the best was definitely behind to defend and build on the counter. He did nothing. The Madrid went well. The same players and the same intermediate position. Absolute immobility on the board.
At the end were the club and the score that decided by Mourinho. The defense stepped back to the barrage of rivals coming from behind while it is obliged to keep attackers offside. Result: The Madrid broke in half. Four defended, attacked four Alonso and Khedira, having as much distance between the lines, it could do neither one thing nor the other. When Mourinho changed something, and lost 1-2. Dispensed with a missing Ozil and rectified his personal commitment Lass. But the substitutes, Kaka and Khedira were man for man, playmaker for playmaker, pivot to pivot, same dog, different collar. Neither they nor Higuain third change, varied nothing. The party was over and luck had little to do.
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