Antonio Conte (301 Viewers)

[Pirlo's Beard]

True. Instead of rotating the standard way, we play our starting XI in a long string of games then we end up replacing half the line-up with Peluso & friends. Really it would make more sense to play 1 or 2 of our sub-standard players in the league from time to time, instead of being forced to use most of our bench in one go.

 

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[Vialli_92]

True. Instead of rotating the standard way, we play our starting XI in a long string of games then we end up replacing half the line-up with Peluso & friends. Really it would make more sense to play 1 or 2 of our sub-standard players in the league from time to time, instead of being forced to use most of our bench in one go.

I remember against Bayern he played the same team he played 3 days before in the league. He doesn't believe in rotating and Bayern were nice and fresh for that game.

 

[Dostoevsky]

Putting aside our (great) results, watching this Juve is seriously hard and IMO even harder to watch than Cappello's Juve.

 

[Hængebøffer]

That's because the "resting players" is a poor excuse because he doesn't want to admit with the media that he doesn't give a single fuck about that Cup.

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He can't say that. It's ridiculous people can't understand he doesn't give a fuck.

 

[Klin]

He can't say that. It's ridiculous people can't understand he doesn't give a fuck.

Which is a shame, really. It's what puts this league far behind others in Europe. Wrong and old mentality in almost everything.

 

[Hængebøffer]

Which is a shame, really. It's what puts this league far behind others in Europe. Wrong and old mentality in almost everything.

Not when it comes to other teams - they just don't have the depth to play both league and cup. That's why I say Serie A aint such a bad league as people say it is.

 

[radekas]

I don't really understand how is it possible to have a stronger squad than 2 years ago and yet play much more defensive football. I remember in 2011/12 we were keeping the pressure on most opponents for 90% of the game, now it's the opposite. Maybe it's because we only had Serie A that season, dunno.

 

[Pirlo's Beard]

I'm not trashing on the 3-5-2 here, because it's really gotten the best out of our players for 2 seasons running. However, the standard of football is frustrating as hell.

You have 2 makeshift wing-backs and 3 CBs, which goes without saying is far from ideal from an offensive standpoint. We have absolutely no Wingers and no attacking midfielder to give us that cutting edge. We're a really physical team but from a creative standpoint we're left relying heavily on our deep lying playmaker and our two forwards to bounce 1-2's off of each other and it's really predictable.

Even with an inferior squad, we were playing IMO our best football in the initial 4-3-3 system.

 

[JCK]

Formation has little significance here, we are talking game plan, approach, ideas to change things when things are not going well, the list is pretty long.

 

[Klin]

Not when it comes to other teams - they just don't have the depth to play both league and cup. That's why I say Serie A aint such a bad league as people say it is.

I can't agree there. Italians don't take it seriously at all. Mazzarri said it while he was still with Napoli too.

 

[JuveJay]

I don't really understand how is it possible to have a stronger squad than 2 years ago and yet play much more defensive football. I remember in 2011/12 we were keeping the pressure on most opponents for 90% of the game, now it's the opposite. Maybe it's because we only had Serie A that season, dunno.

Same reason why Roma are doing it this season.

 

[Vialli_92]

I'm not trashing on the 3-5-2 here, because it's really gotten the best out of our players for 2 seasons running. However, the standard of football is frustrating as hell.

You have 2 makeshift wing-backs and 3 CBs, which goes without saying is far from ideal from an offensive standpoint. We have absolutely no Wingers and no attacking midfielder to give us that cutting edge. We're a really physical team but from a creative standpoint we're left relying heavily on our deep lying playmaker and our two forwards to bounce 1-2's off of each other and it's really predictable.

Even with an inferior squad, we were playing IMO our best football in the initial 4-3-3 system.

Conte tried to fix something that wasn't broken, end result is this lack lustre 5-3-2 formation with predictable tactics.

 

[Hængebøffer]

I can't agree there. Italians don't take it seriously at all. Mazzarri said it while he was still with Napoli too.

Remember when Fiorentina played CL? They don't take it seriously, cause it's going to fuck them up in the league.

 

[Klin]

Remember when Fiorentina played CL? They don't take it seriously, cause it's going to fuck them up in the league.

Wasn't that when they destroyed Liverpool?

 

[Vialli_92]

Our bench is also a huge problem, we have nobody to come on and give us an attacking threat. They really have bought some useless players that weren't needed.

 

[Hængebøffer]

Wasn't that when they destroyed Liverpool?

Yeah, and they sucked in Serie A.

 

[Hængebøffer]

Our bench is also a huge problem, we have nobody to come on and give us an attacking threat. They really have bought some useless players that weren't needed.

We don't have an attacking problem. Our problem is that our bench players never plays.

 

[Klin]

Yeah, and they sucked in Serie A.

I don't get what you're saying though.

So Basel, Rubin Kazan, Newcastle and the likes have better depth? It's not like Fiorentina competes for the league when they don't take Europe seriously.

 

[redrum]

We don't have an attacking problem. Our problem is that our bench players never plays.

And when our bench players play, everyone is complaining about that.

 

[JCK]

And when our bench players play, everyone is complaining about that.

Because they are bad and never get to develop their game because of lack of playing time.