Chapter 178: Stable first

After 31 rounds of the Premier League, Manchester United has already scored 86 points with 28 wins, 2 draws and 1 loss, 24 points more than Tottenham Hotspur, currently ranked second, and won the Premier League championship this season seven rounds ahead of schedule.

But even if we win the Premier League championship again after five years, Manchester United has not held a championship celebration for the time being, because the team will soon go to Portugal to play the first quarter-round match of the Champions League with Porto. If the celebration is held at this time, it will consume a lot of energy and physical strength of the players.

Anyway, the champion has been won, the celebration... let's just postpone it for the time being!

Although Manchester United's championship celebration was postponed, half of Manchester was still in joy all day long. The excitement of Manchester City being led by Pellegrini to win the championship is now as disappointed.

Even though Manchester United next door has experienced the retirement of "Sir" Ferguson, they still stand up again, but what about Manchester City?

The reason why "Blue Moon" chose Guardiola as the head coach is not to continue to compete for the Premier League championship, but to make a difference in the Champions League and expand its influence. But now two years are about to pass, the team has not yet mastered Guardiola's tactical style!

However, Manchester City's senior executives have been prepared for this situation. They had known before hiring Guardiola. According to Guardiola's plan, Manchester City will indeed become a super strong team, but... it takes time!

Guardiola's coaching is a kind of slow work and meticulous work. It is a completely different type of rebuilding a strong team from a fundamental perspective, making up for whatever difference he is with Mourinho, and then quickly become stronger and fall into a cliff-like manner.

In other words, if you want to achieve results quickly, it is right to find Mourinho. If you want to reform the team, consolidate the foundation, and be strong for a long time, you have to find Guardiola.

And the most important point is that Mourinho...it's easy to give up!

As of now, Mourinho sometimes seems to be deliberately showing off his bad performance. Once he feels that his team can no longer achieve results, he will deliberately show off his bad performance, waiting for the club to fire him, or the players to drive him away. Anyway, from this perspective, this guy's character is really not very good!

However, Mourinho still has many supporters in Portugal, especially in Porto. As the head coach, he led the team to win the second Champions League trophy in Porto's history, and the team also earned hundreds of millions of bonuses and transfer fees, laying the foundation for the healthy development in the next decade.

Mourinho...is Porto's project!

Even when Mourinho brought Manchester United to Portugal, hundreds of his fans came to pick him up at the airport, someone really sent him flowers. If Mourinho had not returned to Porto as an opponent this time, the number of people might have increased tenfold!

Mourinho is at the airport like a star returning to his hometown, Yes, as soon as he comes out, a group of Portuguese reporters want to interview him, and he also happily accepted a five-minute cutting-edge interview.

"Yes, I am really excited to come back here. Although I have been coaching abroad over the years, I still have a house here and will always be my home. When I retire, I will return here to retire."

"Porto now has nothing to do with me when I led the team. Back then, we pursued delicate play styles on a tenacious basis, but now... Concesan has injected more pass control into the team, and this team is more inclined to Spanish pass control, the traditional one."

The reporter still understands Mourinho's words. What he is talking about is actually Porto's tactical style. The tactics arranged by Concezan for Porto are the ultimate pass control that Guardiola used to build Barcelona into a "cosmic team". Although the disadvantages are still very big and the pace is very slow, if it can be used well, the effect will still be very good.

Just like in the two games between Porto and CSKA Moscow, even if Porto lost two away goals to his opponent, their possession rate was as high as 62%, and the game he won 4:1 at home even reached a possession rate of 64%.

Mourinho also discovered when he was studying Porto before that the current tactical style of this team is simply a bit... slutty!

Not to mention anything else, Conseisse gave Porto's transfer and control, which really allowed many teams to fail to show their true strength when they met them. In the end, they were passed to death and dragged to death by them. This was a bit like Barcelona at the time.

So when preparing for this game, Mourinho also instilled the idea of ​​this game in Manchester United... Stable!

Mourinho asked the team to maintain a steady style of play at the Dragon Stadium. If you can't let your opponent score goals, don't let your opponent score goals. Even if you can't score goals, don't take risks, because once Porto scores first, Manchester United will fall into the opponent's rhythm.

After carefully studying Porto, Mourinho now admires Concesan, a player under his former command. He has integrated some football styles from Portuguese football, Italian football, and other European countries into his own style.

But... if you pursue rhythm too much on the court, does Porto really have technical and tactical abilities comparable to Barcelona?

That's right, Porto has indeed entered the Champions League quarterfinals this season under the leadership of Concessan, but the opponents they met are just teams of average strength and are not really considered to be the top European giants. This time, the match against Manchester United was actually a big test against Concessan and Porto.

But Mourinho is thinking very well, but what kind of team is Manchester United now?

It is a team of young players who just won the Premier League championship seven rounds ahead of schedule!

If you really face Real Madrid, Barcelona, ​​or Bayern Munich, Mourinho will let them fight back with a steady defense, but against Porto... You won’t be so frustrated or embarrassing, we can’t stand it!

In this case, Mourinho only considered his tactical ideas, but did not consider the mentality of the players, and had already laid hidden dangers without realizing it.

At 19:45 pm, the Dragon Stadium was full, and 3,000 Manchester United supporters also came from afar. These Manchester United irons have long been used to following the team to fight and fight. Some of them are even from professional fans, and their daily lives are also obtained by football betting. These people follow Manchester United to the away game in order to see the team they support can win a away game.
Chapter completed!