Tag Archive for 'Chelsea'

The Italian job: football winning coach

20 years ago Marcello Lippi, Fabio Capello e Giovanni Trapattoni won the football championship in Italy (Juventus), Spain (Real Madrid) and Germany (Bayern di Monaco). This year the winning triplete is for di Massimiliano Allegri (Juventus), Antonio Conte (Chelsea) and Carlo Ancelotti (Bayern di Monaco).

Risultati immagini per the italian job conte allegri

Mourinho said that Chelsea choked under pressure

Mourinho describes very well what does it mean to choke under pressure after the Chelsea defeat against PSG.

“PSG deserved to win,” said Mourinho. “When a team cannot defend two corners, and concedes twice, that team doesn’t deserve to win. When a team cannot cope with the pressure of being with one player more playing at home, and the stadium doesn’t accept the team has to control the game and want them to go on and win it… we couldn’t cope with that pressure. For them it was easy: 10 men, defensive organisation, two lines of four, long balls for the counter-attack, waiting for free-kicks and corners. Mentally, for them, they had nothing to lose. They were experienced, they were good, and they deserved it.

“Clearly some of my players couldn’t cope with that pressure. The individual performances were not good enough. When you concede twice from two corners, it’s about a lack of concentration, a lack of responsibility to cope with the markers and the space you have to control. So we deserved to be punished with this draw. Sorry, this defeat.”

Juve: quality and fighting spirit

Juve last night against Chelsea could suffer defeat very hard after the two goals scored in a few minutes and instead it has managed to overturn the result. This game teaches that the quality of the game without fighting spirit of the team is of little use. Combat is not a scientific term, but in my opinion clearly indicates the ability to play ball on ball consistently throughout the game. The second characteristic of fighting is the ability to play this way regardless of the outcome of the game, you play ball on ball when you win 2-0 but even when you’re losing 2-0. It expresses the conviction of being in the field with this attitude until the final whistle. The little combative teams can overcome this deficiency with individual actions of their best players and in this way can also win some games. Unlikely to repeat the results of this type continuously, because in football to win a championship or an international tournament counts the reaction of the team not only the inspiration of star players.

2 psicologists for Chelsea

Due psicologi sono stati chiamati al Chelsea per capire le ragioni della sconfitta con il Napoli. Uno si occuperà dell’allenatore e l’altro della squadra. Riporteranno direttamente ad Abrahmovic. A quando la stessa notizia per una delle 13 squadre di seriae A che hanno più modestamente cambiato allenatore?