Antonio Conte (197 Viewers)
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Do You want him to exhibit our weaknesses publicly? Of course he knows that we failed and it is mainly our fault. However, there are still three competitions to win and there's no use in keeping on whine about our CL exit. We are still unexperienced team in the CL. Just look at City, them having much better squad suffered in two consecutive CL editions being an EPL champions aswell. At last, the pitch in Istabul was awful, so any random action could decide the game. And that occured unfortunately.
Player for player we have an experienced team in terms of games, but not so much CL experience. As a group we obviously only have two campaigns under our belts, the same as the coach.
It took some teams a long time to get to grips with this competition, you have to find intensity but not peak too soon. Some teams have looked pretty dodgy in the earlier phases yet got through to the latter stages, or even won it.
It took some teams a long time to get to grips with this competition, you have to find intensity but not peak too soon. Some teams have looked pretty dodgy in the earlier phases yet got through to the latter stages, or even won it.
The important part as people tend to forget the time when we're eliminated from maybe even more inferior group with plenty of WC players at our disposal, who had lot of CL experience and the guy who was leading us back then was Ancelotti, rather inexperienced coach in Europe; later on with Milan he won 2 CL trophies.
Still, our record in the competition since 99 has been abysmal. After reaching 3 consecutive finals, and a semi in 99, we suffered 1st round elimination on no less than 3 occasions (2001, 2010, and this year), and only managed to reach the final once over the past 14 years, in 2003. That hardly makes for an impressive record.
Di Matteo, mourinho, guardiola, faggan, deschamps etc inexperienced prior winning or coming runner up. You could argue for some of them the squad was experienced but there really isn't a winning formula and every now and again there will always be a suprise, down to luck and very well organized unit.
