http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,27-2077115,00.html Long and grinding road suits Mourinho (選錄) CHELSEA had not even taken off from Barcelona airport late on Tuesday night when the calls started coming in for the team to be rebuilt in the fetching shape of Barcelona. It is a laudable ambition, but you may as well ask Jose Mourinho to transform himself into a man who accepts defeat with grace and charm. Mourinho is stuck with his nature and, for as long as he holds the reins at Chelsea, the club are probably stuck with their reputation as grindingly efficient. Even if he wanted to turn his team into European football’s great entertainers, it would take more than one close season and the expectation has to be that the Portuguese will depart Stamford Bridge (as spectacularly and controversially as he arrived) in 15 months’ time at the most. Like every leading club manager, Mourinho puts his unique stamp on a team. In his case, the emphasis is on organisation and the elimination of risk. He drills his players incessantly on the “transition” when attack turns to defence. The proof is evident in the infrequency with which they are caught short at the back. They are the same qualities that helped FC Porto to their stunning success in the Champions League two years ago. “Porto played the football they prefer, which is very much on the counter-attack,” The Sunday Telegraph wrote of that campaign and the climactic 3-0 victory over AS Monaco in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. "A match devoid of poetry," The Guardian wrote of that final. Sound familiar? It is Mourinho’s style and, while defeat by Barcelona in the last 16 was bound to provoke a thorough inquest, there is no reason for the Chelsea manager to abandon his strategy. Quite the opposite. He risks far more if he attempts to rewrite his coaching bible. He could end up being lost in the same tactical maze that has enveloped Sir Alex Ferguson at Manchester United since he went looking for alternatives to his tried and trusted 4-4-2. Far from liberating his players, Mourinho would probably confuse them. Tuesday night’s experiment in the Nou Camp was hardly an incentive for change and while every coach must retain some flexibility, Mourinho is not about to ask his players to unlearn everything he has told them by aping Arsenal’s flighty midfield and overlapping full backs. All the signs point simply to an improvement in the present system. Michael Ballack, who is likely to join on a free transfer from Bayern Munich, makes sense as a complement to Frank Lampard and Claude Makelele, rather than a replacement for either. Hard luck on Michael Essien, but Chelsea can afford to spend ￡24 million on back-up. ~~~ 戰術陣行我是門外漢，所以我沒法翻譯 大家自己看看就好 ^︿^ ~~~ --

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