Exciting to watch? Maybe for the neutral, less so for those in attendance. In fact, after Brighton battled back to a 2-3 deficit, murmurs and curses echoed around Stamford Bridge as fear set in.
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More important is the fact that you just can't play this way. You don't win titles with just 24% possession at home -- the lowest ever for a Chelsea side home or away since they started tracking these things in 2003-04 -- and the lowest-ever passes attempted and completed at Stamford Bridge. You can outgun the opposition and take risks, but not if you can't keep the ball. And in this game, Chelsea went north-south every time they won the ball back while, at the same time, as Xabi Alonso acknowledged postmatch, they simply sat too deep.
It's clearly not by design. His previous sides didn't play like this. It is partly that it takes time to get used to his 3-4-2-1 scheme. The pressing movements are difficult to pick up for the front men, which means there are passing lanes for the opposition, which in turn means the back line has to be close to perfect. Against Brighton, it wasn't, time and again.
热刺又遭痛击...但细看仍有(微小)进步迹象
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You can tell this isn't his first rodeo. Malaga were blown away inside half an hour; there is only so much you can learn about yourself in that situation. What they did learn was positive. The guys who came in -- Trent Alexander-Arnold, Antonio Rudiger, Eduardo Camavinga, Marc Cucurella, Brahim Díaz -- looked motivated and productive. Jude Bellingham is carrying his monster World Cup form into the club season. Kylian Mbappé and Vinicius are showing a willingness to work off the ball. But Mourinho has been around the block, and he knows that whether or not this setup is sustainable will be determined down the road, against more challenging opponents.
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7. Atletico Madrid find another dimension without a center forward: Once again, Julián Álvarez wasn't "in the right frame of mind" (read: he's throwing a fit because he hasn't yet been able to force his move to Barcelona) and Alexander Sorloth was injured, which meant Diego Simeone had to invent an attack for the tricky away trip to Sevilla, who had won their first two games. He conjured up a kind of fluid front four, with Ademola Lookman, Álex Baena, Kang-In Lee and Giuliano Simeone took turns leading the line. The upshot? By halftime they could have been four goals up, and they ended up settling for a 3-1 road win.
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