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The 352 puts a lot of stress on the wingers. You almost need to sub both wingers at half time due to the amount of running they need to do in order to provide width in attack and cover in defense. Its hard to use that formation and play every 3 days without rotating the players more. Although...

Choice of lesser evils. In any case, he would need to adapt to that style of play with Conte's guidance. Other option is to have Peluso play as a strict left back and have Barza and Chiellini in the middle.

I was thinking exactly the same thing. Celtic made us suffer (easy for us to forget because of the aggregate scoreline) but their average players did for that very tactical reason. I think Conte seriously needs to consider reverting to a back 4 (which he did by the way in the 2nd half)...

Both. This LOOKED like our worst performance of the season. And to some extent thats because Bayern were great but I think there is truth in it. One thing that has become painfully obvious after this defeat is our biggest weakness. If the opposition decides to press the back 3 (which rarely...

Coach doesn't think about how much players cost when he selects his team for the Quarter Finals of the champions league. He probably feels that he need better protection on that side for Ribery and Lahm and feels Peluso is better defensively (but obviously poorer offensively)