[엑스포츠뉴스 김정현 인턴기자] Defensive football, a characteristic of Mourinho, does not work in Tottenmer.
Football statistics specialist Opta said on the 6th (Korean time) that coach Jose Mourinho is recording the second-lowest goalless match in his coaching career since his appointment as Tottenham Hotspur.
Coach Mourinho played 70 official matches before Chelsea on the 5th after Tottenham Hotspur took over on November 20, 2019.
Tottenham, led by Mourinho, scored 37 wins, 15 draws and 18 losses, and only 18 games, 26% of 70 games, scored zero goals. Of these, only 15 games were recorded as no-runs.
Opta said Mourinho’s 26% goalless match was the second lowest in his manager’s career. In the 2001/02 season, which he took on in the early years of his managerial career, 25% of Uniao de Reira’s record was the lowest scoreless match.
The reason Mourinho has lifted so many trophies was his strong defensive football. He won numerous trophies through the game management method of winning the game by blocking the opponent’s attack on the basis of a solid defense and then winning the game with a counterattack.
At the time of the last club, Manchester United, 62 out of 144 games were recorded as zero-running games, accounting for 43%.
However, coach Mourinho has scored a scoreless game of 26%, which is half of the 70 games he has played since his appointment to Tottenham.
Tottenham’s current defense includes Toby Alderweireld, Eric Dyer, Joe Rodon, Davinson Sanchez, Sergio Orrie, Sergio Regilon, Matt Doherty, and Ben Davis. There the goalkeeper is Hugo Lorris, the winner of the 2018 World Cup in Russia.
However, the defensive tactics are regrettable because the defense has been worse than that of the last club Manchester United. Taking this season as an example, Tottenham often concedes when meeting sub-league teams in the UEFA Europa League and League Cup.
Europa League’s second qualifying qualifiers were also conceded against offshore league teams such as Bulgaria’s Plovyev and North Macedonian team Shkendia, as well as the playoff Israeli team Maccabi Haifa.
In a match against Stoke City in the League Cup quarterfinals or against the Wickham Wanderers in the FA Cup round 4, Tottenham succeeded in reversing after first conceding.
As Tottenham concedes against the weak team, he struggled with rival teams and stronger opponents. ‘The most recent lossless match in the league was a 2-0 victory over Leeds United in round 17, although he had scored zero goals against Arsenal, Chelsea and Man City before that.
Although he has been in Tottenham for the second year, it is noteworthy how Mourinho, who is already in a hard crisis, will overcome this crisis.
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