Not many people realise the level of innovation Mourinho implemented. He even analysed the grass lengths (which is common practice now) and changed grass length and style of play for each opponent.

Jose was the first to really use 433 in the PL. He paved the way for modern PL football, but people are ignorant.

@noblesleem1077

5 ай бұрын

I think his time with Barca might have informed that formation/system

@kunimitsune177

5 ай бұрын

No, he wasn't. Talk about ignorance. Wenger's 4-4-2 of the era was famously a 4-3-3 in hiding, being incredibly asymmetrical in how it played.

@finding_aether

5 ай бұрын

SAF used 433/4411 to great effect. Big Sam and Moyes were also fans.

@MrRJT86

5 ай бұрын

@@kunimitsune177factually incorrect He used a 4-4-2

@MrRJT86

5 ай бұрын

@@finding_aether factually incorrect He used a 4-4-2

The fact that a magazine has a youtube channel that seems this genuine blows my mind.

Retro tactics is perfect, no need to change

I'd LOVE to see this for Conte's Chelsea. This was really well done.

Love seeing Mourinho’s innovation, I feel like wenger always gets praised for the way he changed the game and rightfully so, what he did was incredible, but people act as if Mourinho never innovated which I find crazy

When Mourinho first started at Chelsea, they played a 4-3-1-2 like his Porto had, with Thiago Mendes and Makelele as both fairly-to-very defensive midfielders, Lampard also pretty deep as a mezzala/box-to-box player, and Aleksey Smertin or Joe Cole as a 10, Duff coming on as a substitute for width. It was when Robben got healthy that this new formation came to be, and then suddenly the team had both real width and were overpowering centrally, the switches between Duff and Robben were completely flummoxing defenders (hi Gary Neville!), fullbacks were flying on the overlap, Lampard was making his now-trademark runs, etc etc. They had been incredibly boring to that point, every game like some terrible Serie A game from the 90s, and then it was like an overnight transformation into a completely different, thrilling team. IF Essien had stayed healthy . . . what could have been (for me, Tiago was the weak link in the team, solid player but too slow physically for the PL and not quite fast enough mentally to compensate, unlike Fabregas in his later Chelsea stint). Also shout out to Steve Clarke, assistant manager. The inverted winger thing was genuinely new at the time.

@jude_I

5 ай бұрын

Great comment 👍🏻👌🏻👍🏻

@ariobimoraharjow562

5 ай бұрын

spot on mate

@srijonpaulchowdhury9809

5 ай бұрын

this should be pinned

Great vid. People called that team boring in the same way some people describe even free-scoring Man City as boring. These teams were so dominant in their eras that the result was almost a certainty when they played.

I am an Arsenal fan who absolutely loves Jose Mourinho. What a tactician! Big respect! Great series btw, keep this up please!

Always wanted a series like this

This is GREAT! Definitely a series wroth continuing.

This Chelsea team was special and deserves to be highlighted in this fashion. Thank you @FourFourTwo

LOVE THIS!!! Already massive fan of the channel but the more tactic knowledge you share, the more I watch!

15 goals conceded

Conte also deserves a nod on for completely shattering the premier league trend, which Mourinho sparked and mentioned in this video, by playing a redacted version of his patented three at the back system. Loads of managers in the league and beyond would catch on to the benefits of his 3421 which emphasized overloads all over the pitch, including Gareth Southgate for England

@roryasrorri701

3 ай бұрын

Yes! I remember i was initially annoyed at first when other teams _copied_ Conte's implementation of three at the back and spiced it up to their own taste. These other teams gained succes at it, somewhat. But none of them had Kante in their squad. And that's what make Conte's Chelsea special to this day for me.

Very cool more of this please❤

Do every team that won back to back titles in the PL era, even if only just to piss the Liverpool fans off 😎

This is absolutely brilliant. Thank you so much for starting retro tactics! Woud you consider doing a video on Liverpool's 08/09 team under Benetiz that nearly won the title?

Fantastic analysis! Keep these retro analysis coming.

Thanks for making this video, I was quite young when watching chelsea win everything so didn't know the tactics at play, quite interesting looking at it now.

Brilliant video. Glad you started this series with Chelsea 💙

I love teams with strong defences. Only 15 goals conceded in a season is a crazy stat. Defending is not boring to me. I’m not a Chelsea fan, I support Arsenal but you have to respect Mourinho’s tactics

Awesome video. Please do more like this!

Great piece thank you

Loved this

What a defensive masterclass this team was

Love this concept, really interesting! How about some of the really retro formations like: - the 2-3-5 (which has now essentially come back) - Herbert Chapman's W-M - Hungary's 4-2-4 - Sir Alf's 4-4-2

It's got to be called Old-Skool TakTiks.

With regard to attacking fullbacks and their genesis in English football. In the 1970s Aston Villa had two forward minded fullbacks in John Gidman (RB) and John Robson (LB) who were often forward of their associated midfielder on their respective wings. Gidman went on to play for Everton and Man Utd in a similar role. I’m pretty sure Bobby Robson did similar at Ipswich with his fullbacks.

@eduschafer

5 ай бұрын

Yeah. I don't know what he's on about. When i heard that i immediately thought of Carlos Alberto. Played RB for his entire career and scored 64 times, including a very famous goal in the 1970's world cup final, one of the 20 greatest world cup goals according to fifa

@ThisOldManOfTheSea

5 ай бұрын

@@eduschafer true. Although I would suggest that Brazil had 10 outfield players at the time who could play almost any position on the pitch.. iirc Carlos Alberto is the first player I remember setting the ball 10 metres outside the post to then curl into the top corner of the goal. Although, at the time, the press put it down to ‘the rarified air of Mexico City’ and/or ‘the poorly designed Adidas ball’. A truly amazing defender who was also a complete footballer.

that was _some_ lineup!

MOURINHO is by FAR THE BEST EVER

Great video

The fact they were one game away from an Invincible season too

Great Video❤ I'd like videos either on why the first Galacticos "failed" or on Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's runners-up season OR... how Spain fell off after 2012 Euros

Great content ! Would love to see one for Wengers 1998 champions - brining about what we see as modern football to england . And also - perhaps a little niche - but would love to see some teams like Potchetino’s nearly men Spurs 2017 , or Holloway’s blackpool 2011 .

Such a great video, how can someone subscribe twice.

*Jose not hose. Portuguese not Spanish. Some of these things you could just as easily credit Wenger for. That 4-4-2 was more of a 4-3-3, Henry was as much a winger (an inverted one) as a striker and try telling me with a straight face that our fullbacks of the era didn't contribute going forward. Jose had a much more balanced and complete squad for that end and seemed far more deliberate in this approach but he certainly wasn't the originator nor a revolutionary on his own.

Most people now adays have no love for the tacticality of the game any longer and are only interested in how many goals were scored. Mourinho's team was 2nd to Arsenal's in goals scored!! 2nd!! Won the most possessions in games, chances created, shots, and was very, very solid all over the pitch. You can't break them down.

Eidur is my all-time favourite Chelsea player!

Ahhh I can’t take it! It’s pronounced “Joe-say”, not “Ho-say “. It’s a hard J in Portuguese

@word2wilson

5 ай бұрын

It was driving me mad as well! 😂

Crazy how that 2004/5 team was one goal (dodgy pen tbh) away from going undefeated the year after the Invincibles did it. Would have been a better record too. 29 wins, 8 draws, 1 loss, 95 points.

Invert does not mean 'come inside'. That's why inside forwards and inverted wingers are different things.

Would love to see this for the '74 dutch world cup squad, and Rinus Michels's total football

Wtf Chelsea finished 2nd and went to the CL semi final before mourinho wow

@nananou1687

4 ай бұрын

That was a fluke. RanieriBall was horrible.

Jose said Gudjohnson closest match now is Havertz and he has been wasted. Thinks Arteta will make him world class

where do i find a tactic board like that? looks really nice

This is excellent. It’s a very niche shout, but Walter Smith’s Treble Winning Rangers 92/93 came within a game of the CL final and were unbeaten in Europe that season. This is with the 3 foreigner rule, and usually 2 Englishmen as 2/3 of them. They played a 442, with the best big man and poacher partnership I’ve ever seen, McCoist and Hateley. Such a tremendous team, cruelly pipped by a dodgy Marseille.

Can you do this on Pardew's Ben Arfa, Cisse and Ba team (Not forgetting Tiote and Cabaye)

His name isn't pronounced 'Ho-zay'. He's not Spanish and therefore being Portuguese, the 'J' in Jose is NOT silent and is pronounced in the usual way. Just for future reference Mr Adam.

There’s a lot good in this but a lot is a huge rewriting of history. Full backs attacked loads for decades before this, Mourinho innovated a lot, but not everything! I’m not even going to name names because you know which full backs in the 90s ‘virtually did no attacking’? Hardly any of them. And there were lots of ball playing centre halves in England. Albert, Howey, Mark Wright, Hansen, Lawrenson, Bould, Pallister.. Makalele was a slight difference but he wasn’t some world changing shock to everyone. He wasn’t THAT far away from David Batty or Nobby Stiles. This stuff was mostly a slight evolution not a revolution. Inverted wingers I’ll probably agree with.

@LeeKyle

5 ай бұрын

Probably sounding snarkier than I meant to there, sorry! Still an interesting video and you seem quite nice.

@FourFourTwo

5 ай бұрын

Loved your flag stuff tbf so I’ll take this

not everyone would know, but Mourinho has spent his early years of “coaching” in Barcelona, as a translator - so of course, he’s also a student of the positional play philosophy, and i wouldn’t be surprised to learn that it was a game changer for PL

@nananou1687

4 ай бұрын

Positional play is not unique to Barca, in fact Milan under Sacchi did it better. Mourinho was a student of the game, and Barcelona was just a step for him. Infact the Benfica team where he started as a translator was where full back position was revolutionized for a long time

Makalele desrevs most of credit. He actually suggested his role to Jose

@nananou1687

4 ай бұрын

No he didn't. He has acknowledged so, that his winger role was not working. Jose simply thought his recovery would work as a great screen. Jose had a similar role in Porto as well

Can you do an ac Milan when Ronaldinho played for them

Deep dive into Gerrard please!

Newcastle entertainers. But also my girlfriend’s (and her families team) Portsmouth tactics. More per say 2008 FA cup winning team! My girlfriend is from Gosport (near Portsmouth) and I’m a geordie from Newcastle

Really want to see total football from Ajax and the Netherlands in the 70s.

Thats a naught, naughty team.

I love how brits pick and choose how to pronounce foreign names.

Pls do one from barca

I don’t understand why the defensive midfielder suddenly became the number 6? 6 was always a CB with 5, 4 was the more defensive minded midfielder

@FourFourTwo

5 ай бұрын

Oh I could do a whole other video on this!! It’s to do with where in the world certain positions were first popularised.

@RBernsCarter

5 ай бұрын

@@FourFourTwo i figured that was probably the reason but please do a video on it! 👍

Absolutely love this series. Looking forward to Arsenal's Invincibles video

haha, Benson and Hedges

am watching this for when chelsea sign mourinho again to replace PoCnettino .

I remember reading somewhere that Mourinho has had very little legacy in terms of coaching - compared to say Guardiola and Klopp, that no young managers saw him as an influence or wanted to copy him. Mainly because he's seen as a negative, anti-football influence - is that true, or is he mischaracterised?

@konzza

5 ай бұрын

It's both true and mischaracterised. Unlike basicly all Mourinho's later teams, this Chelsea played of front foot, and was an attacking juggernaut scoring left and right. All the media saw was them being a team that doesn't concede goals, and falsely labeling them defence first type of team. The attacking play from wings by Robben and Duff, helped by advancing wide defenders was simply glorious.

Why is this video 17:33 minutes long? He was given a blank cheque by Abramovich, and applied park the bus tactics when his team took the lead. Didn't work at Tottenham and Roma where he had weaker squads and less money to spend.

is Mourinho the greatest manager chelsea ever had

@dhinowatkis4419

4 ай бұрын

100%, who comes close?

Lampard wouldn’t have scored as many goals without Drogba

I really think you're over egging how 'innovative' this Chelsea side was tactically and strategically. Yes 442 of some type was the norm, but over the years there have been all sorts of formations and strategies. And saying full backs weren't supposed to attack back then is crazy talk. This was 2005 for fs sake not 1955. There were full backs known for their attacking play as much as their defending in the 1970s. Certainly by the late 70s/early 80s such as Kenny Sansom, Viv Anderson. Phil Neal etc This is Mourinho worship revisionism.

Much of this is very good but the talk about Wayne Bridge being starting LB is nonsense. He only had 15 PL appearances over 2 years in that period. Gallas had 62 - over 4 times as much with many of those coming at LB. Even Del Horno had 25 PL apps in 05-06 alone.

nothing else going on? Try Vanarama

What about a vid on Houllier's Treble winners?

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ there that was quicker

Time to shave the head my guy

The best English club side I've ever seen would be worth a deep dive imo. It's the Liverpool of Barnes, Beardsley, Aldridge. That's how people remember them, i prefer to remember Nicol, McMahon, Houghton. Although the whole team was a bit special. Was it just great players or did they do something clever tactically too?

" Stuff of Legends " name to replace retro..

He's Not Spanish. Why are you pronouncing his name as if he's Spanish? It's Joe-say, not hoe-say. Basic shit man come on

@warrenreis3688

5 ай бұрын

It’s wild how many football channels pronounce it wrong. Ben foster says hose as well

And the new generation continues the thump the media lies and myths it spouts about mourinho. We absolutely dominated the league but the media said we were boring lol. We were making headlines every other day in footballing terms but the media said we played anti football. Screams of an agenda doesn’t it

A bottomless pit of money?

Funny what a load of petroidollars can do!

@konzza

5 ай бұрын

Were the team tactics helped by economics?

@Yom_Bristol

5 ай бұрын

No other manager that could do what Mourinho did back then, no matter how much money you have. His football intelligence is undeniable, you're truly a fool to put that down to his transfer budget. Is Pep Guardiola not a genius because he has a valuable squad? These managers aren't successful because of money, they get the big money BECAUSE they are successful. They have high value squads because they are the best people on the planet to make the most of that money.

simple; by Cheating. I understand this is a channel about tactics but not calling out recognized cheaters is one of the big reasons football has recognized cheaters still playing. Chelsea, City, PSG, Juventus- scum. nothing more but a stain on the game.

@MrRJT86

5 ай бұрын

Man United, liverpool, Arsenal. Every club has bent or broken the rules. You’re just naming the clubs who have had modern investments and a club from serie A. You could name half the clubs in Serie A for cheating of some sorts.

@Never_Wr0ng

5 ай бұрын

@@MrRJT86 "modern investments" 🤡

@nananou1687

4 ай бұрын

They did cheat financially, but you cannot deny the level of coaching by the likes of Mourinho and Pep

@nananou1687

4 ай бұрын

And Liverpool have considerably cheated their way in the early 80's.

@Never_Wr0ng

4 ай бұрын

@@nananou1687 They wouldn't have that level of coaching without cheating.....