MOURINHO REVEALS HOW TO STOP HIS FORMER TEAM FROM WINNING THE LEAGUE
| Antonio Conte and Jose Mourinho at Old Trafford (Getty) Jose Mourinho has revealed the tactics that enabled Manchester United to beat Chelsea on Easter Sunday. These tactics ensured that Chelsea were completely nullified at Old Trafford, failing even to have a single shot on target. Their so-called Wide Men were rendered ineffective. Said the former Chelsea manager, 'I want to say I was convinced even before the previous encounter at Stamford Bridge that controlling the two players that played behind Diego Costa would do the trick. Sometimes Hazard, sometimes Hazard-Pedro. Therefore, controlling the position of these two players, and controlling the full-backs, because they go really deep with two wide men, would create lots of problems for them. Diego is very dangerous but the two link positions are the two positions we have to control.' |
