When The Roma winter transfer was brought in in, oh no, after the big fanfare of two players on loan, I kept thinking, what kind of Roma will Mourinho present to us? Will Roma continue the system of three centre-backs that worked well in the middle of the season? Or is it a new system based on Mourinho's signature 4-2-3-1 formation in recent years?
With all these questions in mind, I carefully observed every minute of Roma's match against Juventus and Cagliari, although the sample of the two games was not convincing enough, after all, there were some objective factors, such as against Juventus, Karlstop and Mancini Jr. were suspended, Zaniolo was also unable to play due to injury reasons; against Cagliari, Ibanes and Christant were suspended, Smalling was injured, and Pellegrini was accidentally injured and could not play when he warmed up before the game.
In a sense, Mourinho's platoon deployment is affected by many objective factors, resulting in him not even having other options, such as only two central defenders, how to play three central defenders?
However, from the content of these two games, Mourinho's platoon arrangement ideas still revealed a lot of clues, Roma's three-center-back era may really pass, after all, it is only a temporary measure in a specific period, and Rome's three-center-back system, there are many drawbacks.
Zagnolo and Tammy Abraham partnered as a double striker, although temporarily solved the problem of Abraham's insufficient fulcrum function, but also alleviated Zagnolo's blindness in the north of the winger, however, the lack of Roma's two wings, especially the lack of excellent wing-backs, resulted in only a 5-3-2 formation, all of Rome's offensive options were almost stacked in the middle, and the front of the counterattack was not two wing-backs, but two central defenders, which was outrageous.
What are the flaws in this lineup's playing style, I don't need to say more, right? For the defensive side, as long as the fence is tightened in the middle, Roma will most likely be on the verge of collapse without any recourse, and against AC Milan's semi-main squad, Roma have suffered enough of such losses.
Therefore, against Juventus, Mourinho has begun to change, when Oliveira has not yet come to Rome, Niles is also a quick rush to the field, and it is against the replacement of Karlsdorp, who cannot play, which is difficult to understand how much change the new signing has brought to Roma.
What really made Mourinho determined to carry out this transformation is that the 5-3-2 tactical system we mentioned earlier is really a bit offensively lackluster, and Roma's top priority now is to win as many games as possible, so it is necessary to strengthen the number of troops invested in the attack in the front and increase the number of players who can control the situation on the field.
The young player Gian came out to help Mourinho solve this problem, originally thought that the 800 euro sneaker was amazing, Gian was only trained as a substitute center, but when Mourinho used his brain to let Gian play as a left winger, we couldn't help but shout: "Okay, this kid!" ”
The biggest feature of Gian on the wing is that he has speed, confrontation, and can help his teammates pull out of space, and the disadvantage is that the touch of the ball is not ideal enough, and the rhythm control is still immature, but for the current Roma, this is already a valuable treasure.
Believe it or not, look at Zaniolo, who was again placed in the right winger position against Cagliari, how do you feel? Do you think That Zaniolo still plays without going through the brain? He had no idea how the wingers were pulling the space.
However, with Gian's pull on the other side and the help of his teammates in the middle, Zaniolo can get a lot more room for personal heroism, at least Zaniolo has gradually been able to shake off his opponent and enter the box, rather than crashing straight into his opponent.
But in any case, Mourinho forced Zaniolo to play as a right winger, rather than continuing to accommodate his use of the two-striker tactic, more or less revealed a message that Zaniolo can adapt to the tactics, and if he can't adapt to the tactics, he will not tolerate it.
This can be seen from the arrangement of the Roma midfielders, against Juventus, Mourinho lined up the three midfield combinations of Weletu, Mkhitaryan and Christant, at that time I was struggling with whether Roma was playing a 4-2-3-1 or 4-1-4-1 formation.
When it came to Cagliari, the combination was replaced by Velletu, Mkhitaryan, Oliveira, and I seemed to have an eyebrow at once, in a sense, this is neither a 4-2-3-1 formation, nor a 4-1-4-1 formation, but a similar 4-3-3 formation arrangement.
We might as well pay more attention to Velette's position in the two races, and in the usual sense, we see Velette as a back, but since mourinho's 5-3-2 as a centre-back, Velato seems to have unlocked a long-hidden attacking skill pack, constantly thrusting forward and constantly rushing to the front line to provide fire support.
This is obviously not his personal will, but Mourinho's intentional request, the original confrontation with Cagliari, Mourinho is intended to let Pellegrini play, the intention is more obvious, Mkhitaryan and Pellegrini play double center forward, replaced by Velato, the tactical requirements are also the same.
And Oliveira's position, in fact, is not a drag on the back, in the game we frequently see Oliveira rush to the front line of the battle, the self-directed penalty drama, is proof. Coupled with the frequent substitutions of Velato and Oliveira, Roma play more like a 4-3-3 three-midfielder.
The sacrifice of this formation also completely announced Mourinho's return to the tactical design idea based on me, starting from the emergency suspension of the contract extension work of Welletu and Christant, Mourinho should have clearly obtained the sword of the management - this team, you can play as you want.
Mourinho can not have the slightest scruples to deliberately take care of the technical style habits of some players, can adapt to the change is good, can not adapt to the ready to leave, before the Apennines son Zaniolo is fragrant, now if not up to standard, presumably can be given up at any time.
In order to repay the trust of Rome, Mourinho was not at all moved by the olive branch thrown by Everton, and resolutely refused: "I am doing well in Rome, I can advise the 'emperor' on the top, I can behead the 'courtiers', go to you, what can I do?" ”