From the Champions League to the UEFA Cup, Mourinho has remained unchanged

From Porto's upset to the top of Europe, to Inter's incredible treble. United did not cherish the Europa League title brought by Mourinho, this time he reached the European final again after 31 years with Roma.

We'll find out that Mourinho is still Mourinho, he tries to change himself, but we still see him who is defensive and has a strong personality.

The highlights of the European war can't be counted:

4 titles are the biggest honors

This time he led Roma to the final of the European Cup, and it was also Mourinho's fifth european final, and his team won the championship in the previous four times.

The first two victories came from Porto, the first year of coaching the team won the UEFA Cup, and the second year was to beat Manchester United, Monaco and other teams to reach the highest podium of the Champions League.

With 6 titles in 2 years and a 72% win rate, Mourinho's biggest impression on fans when he was at Porto was the passionate celebration after old Trafford scored Manchester United.

And this is just the beginning, Mourinho directly printed the two words of madman into his business card

In his second year at the helm of Inter, Mourinho's side used a lightning-like counter-attack to penetrate the fatigued Barca defence. Such a goal has Mourinho's distinctive mark.

It's not that his team can't attack, on the contrary, Mourinho, who can play counter-attack, is the strongest Mourinho.

With a tough defence at Camp Nou, the 10-man Inter eliminated barca at the top. In the final final, Bayern was completed, and Inter completed the glory of the treble.

However, after 2010, Mourinho entered a bottleneck period in his career. He no longer seems to be able to get together qi guomi's "Avengers" team, and can no longer find the fighting spirit and good defensive starter 11.

So during Real Madrid, his second entry to Chelsea and his coaching of Manchester United, Mourinho is remembered for his distinctive personality.

So much so that in Mourinho's first year in charge of Manchester United, the value of leading the team to win the Europa League was ignored by many people. After all, at that time, Manchester United, it was really not easy to stay in the Champions League.

Mourinho's record in those years has fluctuated, and the fundamental reason is that his team has not been able to maintain sustained concentration and intensity on the defensive end.

In particular, the lack of good centre-backs and defensive midfielders will also cause a large gap in Mourinho's tactical board.

So the topic around Mourinho is always his "provocation and personality", but many times he ignores that Mourinho is constantly trying to upgrade his tactics and make up for his shortcomings.

Advance in the most Mourinho way:

It's still the same taste as it was

This time to qualify for the European Cup final, Roma beat Leicester City in a very way that Mourinho. Only 37% possession, but one more shot than Rodgers' side.

What's even more frightening is that 8 of Roma's 11 shots were in the box, and Leicester City's 10 shots were actually long-range shots outside the box.

Mourinho's side not only defends, but also counter-attacks. The starting line-up featured Three attackers, Tammy Abraham, Zaniolo and Pellegrini, while Roma, who played the 3412 formation, switched between 523 and 541.

Even if the 3 attackers are parallel in the first line, they will actively fight back on the spot and not let the opponent pass the ball easily.

As Leicester City pushed on the flanks, Roma's back, left-back and left-back simultaneously squeezed one side to bring pressure, and the opponent also lost the space to continue forward.

This defensive movement eventually allowed forward Zaniolo, who was on the far flank, to have a counter-attack opportunity after breaking the ball, but Tammy Abraham failed to pick up the ball and he seemed to be offside.

But this wave of offensive and defensive conversions, we can understand Mourinho's tactical thinking.

Before Mourinho came to Rome last summer, new terms such as Mourinho Avenue, Mourinho beer and Mourinho ice cream were born here.

Obviously, the fans who came to welcome Jose Mourinho here to coach will not be disappointed now.

In fact, Mourinho is also changing: he is polishing the details of the attack

Although Mourinho's way of qualifying is still very "traditional", there are actually many details that are changing. After all, times are different, and today's defenders are not the same as Lucio, Cambiasso, Zivo and Motta.

Now Mourinho has built a system for Roma with center Abraham as the moving fulcrum, with good fluidity and offensive and defensive conversion speed.

The only person who scored the goal in this game was Precisely Tammy Abraham. But his shooting efficiency is actually very low, and Mourinho did not spare his brains in order to complete the goal.

The first is the team's offensive pursuit of acceleration on both wings, with Zaniolo and Zalevsky being the keys to improving the tempo on both sides. However, Mourinho is a coach who attaches great importance to defense after all, and in order to support Zalevsky's attack, he also did not pay less attention to the defensive end.

This time Zalevsky's cross was not of high quality, and the opponent was given the opportunity to counter-attack, and the center-back Ibanez behind him broke the ball in time, which is an example.

Because Mourinho's Roma advantage lies in the speed of the two wings of Zaniolo and Zalevsky, the team has also won many corner kick opportunities. The reason for this promotion is that Mourinho's corner has content.

In the first 11 minutes of the first half, Roma won four corners and scored. Mourinho's corner kick tactics are also remarkable. The first corner kick was a header from centre-back Smalling on the outside, but unfortunately the force was too strong and the ball was pushed high.

A second corner kick followed, smalling to the back of the nodding header to create a threat, which also formed a continuous corner opportunity.

When opponents' attention was focused on The Manchester United centre-back, Roma's corner kick landing point changed again this time. Covering through a no-ball run by Christant, Tammy Abraham, near the small penalty area line, took off suddenly and made a powerful header to help Roma break the deadlock and take a 1-0 lead.

In fact, Roma's previous 2 corners, Abraham is also in this position, but the landing point of the ball is found in Smalling.

Leicester ignored Roma's scoring point and let the relatively small full-backs go to the opposite position, only to pay a terrible price and also hit Mourinho's plan.

Maybe he is no longer the person he was at his peak, but Mourinho has his own unique charm after all.

From stepping onto the pitch in 94 minutes to encouraging Veletto with scolding, to tears after advancing to the final, such a true temperamental Portuguese maniac, the more he looks at it, the more cute he feels.

Conclusion

In the 20 years from leading Porto to win the UEFA Cup in 2003 to reaching the final of the European Cup in 2022, Mourinho has written too many records in the history of football.

The opponent in the final, like Manchester United that year, was from the Dutch League. The promotion score in the semi-finals was also 2-1 as it was that year, and it was not known whether Mourinho could win his fifth European championship trophy this time.