Having seen Man Utd's tie with Sevilla, it boggles my mind how on earth anyone can compare Valverde's Barça with Mou.
But yeah, blind man checking in here as well apparently.
The principles are similar. The quality of the players is not. Mourinho has had big success with conservative - defensive tactics. He won Champions League two times with that.
I must have lost my sight then, this had nothing to do with Mourinho, we were attacking and dominating them until it was risky, that isn't Mou or Simeone approach by any mean.
We never dominate Chelsea in this tie. We were clinical, and defended well (although too many last ditch effort tackles after we already failed to block them from getting into dangerous positions), and we had Messi. This is exactly the sort of win Mourinho football would bring if he had a player of Messi's class.
We aren't doing well outside of home in CL? well it seems EV is bringing Pep days back
A lot of times Pep lost games away in which his team dominated but failed to covert the chances. Inter away, Arsenal away two times, Chelsea away. Should have won all these games. Vs Inter the ref made a mess out of that game, and vs Arsenal and Chelsea, I don't know how we managed to not score at least 3-4 goals.
With Valverde we're just not creating many chances, but we do a better job at getting better results. Again, it is an increase in pragmatism and good defending, and a decrease in chances created. And again, these are the pros and cons of Mourinho football (when it's working).
I don't even know why you guys are getting so mad at comments regarding Valverde's Barcelona being the most defensive Barca in a long time. It's basically a consensus these days. Most of the pundits covering the CL games have been saying the same thing. It's pretty obvious this team is more defensive than the old one, with a lot of similarities with Mourinho and Simeone's views on defending.