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How would you rate Conte's (dis)appointment?

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napoleonic

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Sep 7, 2010
4,129
italian coaches tend to develop certain stubbornness when it come to tactic and formations, I wonder why... remember few years ago? we thought ferrara was tactically flexible, the signs were actually there, and then he fucked up after a while; look at prandelli, he reverted back to his 4-3-1-2 in euro final and caused the slaughtering from spain despite 3-5-2 handled spain better in the 1st game; look at zeman, spalleti etc who don't seem to care about adjusting tactically.
 

v1rtu4l

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Mar 4, 2008
6,349
italian coaches tend to develop certain stubbornness when it come to tactic and formations, I wonder why... remember few years ago? we thought ferrara was tactically flexible, the signs were actually there, and then he $#@!ed up after a while;
ferrara is as much of a coach as de ceglie is a defender. ferrara did from the very first problems show that he had no clue and he even admitted it. in pretty much every post match interview he said something like "i don't know what went wrong, but i will find out and try to fix it". sorry, if you have no clue after a game what exactly went wrong then you don't deserve to be called a coach.

look at prandelli, he reverted back to his 4-3-1-2 in euro final and caused the slaughtering from spain despite 3-5-2 handled spain better in the 1st game
you tend to forget two injuries that totally destroyed italys chances in the final. chiellini started the final being already injured and thiago motta did the same. both players were selfish in wanting to be part of a european final and deciding to grab the chance to play even though both had injuries already. both of those players went off because of the exact same injury they already had before the game.
 

napoleonic

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Sep 7, 2010
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you tend to forget two injuries that totally destroyed italys chances in the final. chiellini started the final being already injured and thiago motta did the same. both players were selfish in wanting to be part of a european final and deciding to grab the chance to play even though both had injuries already. both of those players went off because of the exact same injury they already had before the game.
injuries was part of the problem, but how could you expect a narrow 4-3-1-2 can do anything against one of the best midfielders in the history of the game who played with 6 midfielders (false 9)? it was insane to do that in a major cup competition when you already had a better solution to that.
 

Dominic

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Jan 30, 2004
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italian coaches tend to develop certain stubbornness when it come to tactic and formations, I wonder why... remember few years ago? we thought ferrara was tactically flexible, the signs were actually there, and then he fucked up after a while; look at prandelli, he reverted back to his 4-3-1-2 in euro final and caused the slaughtering from spain despite 3-5-2 handled spain better in the 1st game; look at zeman, spalleti etc who don't seem to care about adjusting tactically.
Nah, it;s not stubborness; it's sense. Changing formations isn't a solution. We are experiencing a slight dip, for whatever reason. Building on consistency and familiar patterns is the way to get things moving again.
 

Buck Fuddy

Lara Chedraoui fanboy
May 22, 2009
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Nah, it;s not stubborness; it's sense. Changing formations isn't a solution. We are experiencing a slight dip, for whatever reason. Building on consistency and familiar patterns is the way to get things moving again.
You'd have to be pretty thick to think the formation is the reason why we're dropping points anyway.
 

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