Mourinho became roma's manager, and at Roma he has always expressed his desire to build his own team and help the team get back to the top. And a good team must have a good central axis, and in Mourinho's coaching career, the best central axis may be the central axis of the Chelsea period, so what is the level of the central axis of Chelsea's first period at that time? Without further ado, take a look at it!
When Mourinho was in charge of Chelsea, Chelsea could only be regarded as a middle and upper-middle Premier League team, and Mourinho began to build his own central axis as soon as he came to Chelsea, he promoted Terry and Lampard, bought Cech and Drogba, and officially formed Chelsea's central axis, and how strong is this central axis? Aside from the data, petrified Cech is the goalkeeper with the most clean sheets in the Premier League, Terry is the defender who has scored the most goals in the Premier League, Lampard is the midfielder who has scored the most goals in the Premier League, and Drogba is the best pivot forward in the history of the Premier League.
In the summer of 2004, Mourinho had just joined Chelsea and urged the signing of Czech goalkeeper Cech, and Abu spent £7 million to get Cech, which was chelsea's goalkeeper at the time. At the time, no one knew Cech, but then everyone knew about the Czech goalkeeper. Cech's goal line is technically powerful, and his mental attributes are strong, and his command ability to the back line is also first-class, he quickly became the best goalkeeper in the Premier League, and he got the Premier League golden glove three times and left a record of 202 Premier League clean sheets, which has not been broken so far.
With the goalkeeper, of course, began to look for the core of the back line, and Mourinho chose Terry, the reason why Mourinho built Terry into the core of the back line, mainly because of Terry's spiritual attributes. Terry also lived up to expectations, having been one of football's best goalkeepers for a long time. While completing the defensive task, Terry also began to complete the mission of his captain, when the team was behind or could not open the situation, Terry began to rush into the opponent's penalty area to help the team score, and Terry scored 32 goals in the Premier League, which is the most of the Premier League defenders, and scored 66 goals in all competitions, which is the second most goals scored by all defenders in this century, second only to Ramos, but Xiaobian feels that Ramos is a bit of terry.
The backline was better and Mourinho began to worry about the midfield, and he established Lampard as the core of the team's midfield. Lampard wasn't fast enough, he wasn't strong enough. But Mourinho does not value these, Lampard plays simple and direct, and his attitude to play is very good, he always uses his diligence to make up for his shortcomings, and he has gradually become the main scorer from the very beginning of the defense, helping the attack, in front of Drogba, Lampard inserted a shot in the back row, but also became Chelsea's signature scoring method. Lampard also set a record of 165 Premier League goals, and he is also the most scoring midfielder in the Premier League.
The midfield was stable, Mourinho began to build the front, and under Mourinho's tactical system, the most important thing for the striker is not to score goals, but to do the ball. Mourinho chose Drogba, who has not scored many goals in most seasons, but no one dares to ignore his presence because he is the best fulcrum striker in the Premier League. Drogba uses his body to constantly give the ball to his teammates, he does not have many assists, but the number of goals involved is definitely the top in the Premier League. And after he takes the ball, he will either give it to robben and others on the wing, or he will do it to Lampard, which is also one of Chelsea's strongest scoring methods.
Many fans wonder what level Mourinho's pivotal line of Cech, Terry, Lampard and Drogba was. Others don't know, anyway, this central axis has helped Chelsea laugh at the Premier League for nearly a decade, saying that this is the strongest central axis of the Premier League at the beginning is not controversial. I just don't know, can Mourinho establish such a central axis in Rome?