Since Jose Mourinho was appointed manager, Chelsea’s success has been achieved by playing a 4-3-3 formation. Both Carlo Ancelotti and Felippe Scolari flirted with a 4-4-2 with Frank Lampard as the figurehead of a diamond-shaped midfield. The formation left Chelsea playing very narrow, and stifled Frank Lampard as a playmaker and top goal scoring attacking [...]
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Entries Tagged as 'AC Milan'
Can Fernando Torres help Chelsea win silverware this season?
Terry Lane - Saturday 05.02.11, 15:04pm
Tags: AC Milan · Carlo Ancelotti · Champions League · Chelsea · Didier Drogba · Fernando Torres · Frank Lampard · Jose Mourinho · Liverpool · Mark Hughes · Nicolas Anelka · Premier League
Who will qualify for the next round of the Champions League?
Terry Lane - Monday 22.11.10, 06:00am
After their amazing victory over reigning Champions of Europe Inter Milan, Tottenham Hotspur and Gareth Bale have officially arrived on the Champions League barometer but I don’t expect to see Harry Redknapp’s Spurs team lifting the Champions League trophy next May. Tottenham lack consistency in the Premier League and whether the Inter Milan game was [...]
Tags: AC Milan · Arsenal · Barcelona · Bayern Munich · Champions League · Chelsea · Frank Lampard · Harry Redknapp · Inter Milan · John Terry · Jose Mourinho · Man. Utd. · Rangers · Real Madrid · Roma · Spartak Moscow · Tottenham
Champions League preview: Chelsea v Spartak & AC Milan v Real Madrid
John Williams - Wednesday 03.11.10, 15:53pm
Chelsea v Spartak Moscow
Chelsea may have their work cut out in tonight’s game against Spartak Moscow, although the Premier league champions won the away tie 2-0 the Russian’s always looked dangerous against an uncharacteristically slovenly performance from the Blues.
Former Celtic player Aiden McGeady is in the form of his life in Russia and caused [...]
Tags: AC Milan · Castrol Player Rankings · Champions League · Chelsea · Nicolas Anelka · Real Madrid · Spartak Moscow
Real Madrid v AC Milan Champions League preview – Di Maria v Ibrahimovic
John Williams - Tuesday 19.10.10, 12:40pm
Real Madrid face AC Milan in one of tonight’s Champions League games, a real cracker on paper but will it live up to expectation?
Castrol Performance looks at the early form of Real Madrid’s summer signing Angel Di Maria and AC Milan’s new boy and former Inter goal machine Zlatan Ibrahimovic in the run up to [...]
Tags: AC Milan · Champions League · Real Madrid
AC Milan defender Onyewu agrees to play for nothing
John Williams - Tuesday 18.05.10, 18:18pm
AC Milan and USA centre back Oguchi Onyewu who is in the preliminary USA squad for the 2010 World Cup despite missing most of the season with a serious knee injury, has extended his contract with the Serie A club, but there is a strange twist.
In an age of overpaid footballers asking for yet more [...]
