I don't like Conte but it's funny to see people here believe that not fielding Alex, Elia, Marrone, or fielding Padoin and Borriello is why we aren't winning. Our squad is simply not good enough, we have done an impressive job so far and even though I don't feel myself as attached to the team as I used to feel before, I have to say that we have to be proud to have an average team fighting for the Scudetto after consecutive seasons of failure.
you are missing the point. We all know our squad lacks one or two quality players. what we are frustrated about is the lack of playing to our strengths.
4-3-3 is our best formation. what do we do? we use the 4-4-2 (with wrong players) and 3-5-2 even though we look shaky in it.
matri is the top scorer and yet he gets benched for boriello who ha not scored in a year and bring nothing to the team. bonucci gets to play every week, while soresnen is loaned out.
also you cannot pass judgment on elia. he has barely played an entire match, while the likes of boriello, bonucci and padion have gotten chance after chance and failed.
Elia has averaged an assit per match according to amount of minutes he played. how is that not good? what conte is doing to him is shameful. no excuses.