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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: 4-3-3 this season - risky?

« on: August 04, 2013, 08:01:45 PM »

http://m.bleacherreport.com/articles/1682504-having-a-pair-of-tens-could-be-mourinhos-winning-hand-at-chelsea

Plenty of articles about that conclude EITHER  way !

I don't understand how that article concludes that between 2004 and 2007 Mourinho's Chelsea played a 4-3-2-1 Christmas tree.

I agree that 4-2-3-1 and 4-3-3 are very similar. If you mean 4-2-3-1 as what Mourinho played at Chelsea in the past then that is an understandable argument. He just never played a Christmas tree formation at Chelsea.

OldburyWBA, the links were not there to support my opinion directly. That Mourinho played 4-3-3 at Chelsea is fact (surely?) and not opinion. So the links support that factual part of the argument. Throstle79 agrees that Makelele performed well at Chelsea and so that added to the fact that Mourinho played 4-3-3 supported my argument completely that a holding midfielder could perform well for WBA in a 4-3-3 formation.

Without the links how could I prove that the fact that Mourinho played 4-3-3 at Chelsea was factual, when Throstle79 was disputing it?

If I have broken any rules then please let me know (In here or PM) so that I know for future

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: 4-3-3 this season - risky?

« on: August 04, 2013, 01:48:12 PM »

4-3-2-1 Christmas tree was Jose Mourinho formation at Chelsea

You sure?

When Mourinho first arrived in England he caught out the rest of a Premier League still fixated with 4-4-2. The Chelsea manager quickly adapted the 4-2-3-1 formation he had favoured at Porto to a 4-3-3

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/10107958/Why-Chelseas-Jose-Mourinho-needs-to-show-his-maturity-and-avoid-confrontation.html

Mourinho settled on his favoured system of 4-3-3 after just one and a half games in charge. Most often he had either Drogba or Gudjohnsen leading the line, and Damien Duff and Arjen Robben on the flanks.

http://www.chelseafc.com/chelsea-article/article/1877681/title/jose-mourinho

Mourinho played a 4-3-3 system that worked so well because most English teams were still fixated on playing 4-4-2, which Chelsea’s system worked brilliantly against.

http://www.zonalmarking.net/2010/01/25/teams-of-the-decade-13-chelsea-2004-06/

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: 4-3-3 this season - risky?

« on: August 04, 2013, 01:10:06 PM »

Yacob who again I think is a CLASS player for us doesn't like getting over the halfway line very often at all which could also hinder this 4-3-3

4-3-3 is the perfect formation for Yacob. In a 4-4-2 all midfielders must contribute offensively and defensively. Mourinho introduced 4-3-3 to British football in a big way. His best performer at the time was arguably Makelele.

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West Bromwich Albion FC / Re: The most successful English Football Teams of all-time...

« on: April 11, 2011, 05:59:03 PM »

http://www.statto.com/football/stats/england/premier-league/all-time-table/full