Antonio Conte (75 Viewers)

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

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Oct 31, 2016
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A winning mentality is exactly what Chelsea have missed under Mourinho. I won't get into no arguments with you over Conte as you've followed him and his interviews week-in, week-out during his Juventus days, but believe me there is no bigger cry baby than Mourinho. When his teams win it's all about his genius approach, when his team lose or draw it's completely the opposite - his team is either unlucky, players do not perform, players can't handle the pressure, players can't get to his level etc. Mind you this is a manager that has parked three buses against Atletico Madrid at home in that Champions League semifinal. Yes, a very good Atletico Madrid side, but one that was playing primary counter attacking football and most of the teams topped when it came to having possession of the ball. Still, Mourinho went to Madrid defending with 10 players behind the ball, then in the return leg played a formation with 6 defenders on the pitch (Terry, Ivanovic, Cahill, Cole, David Luiz, Azpilicueta), one defensive midfielder (Ramires) and one attacking midfielder that has played as a right back for the entire game (Willian). Hazard and Torres the only two forwards allowed to attack against a top Atletico Madrid defensive unit.

The next season, in the last 16 of the same competition, played the same dross against Paris. After 1-1 in Paris, the French team came to London and played with a one man down since the 30th minute. Still, they dominated the game, Mourinho asked Chelsea to defend with 10 behind the ball and it ended 2-2 and we went out.

United - the same story. They are either unlucky or players are not good enough. He's managed to throw his players under the bus already. Rumour is that he thinks the squad is "broken" and needs more money and at least two transfer windows to fix it. All this after spending a fortune just few months ago.

Conte can lift up the players' level and give them their confidence back no matter they are called Hazard or Moses. Mourinho can't. His tactics are outdated and predictable, he needs world class players to bail him out of jail with their individual brilliance. Is Mkhitaryan a poor player? Martial? Shaw? Hell no. But why can't they even get a sniff at the first team (Mkhitaryan, Shaw) or fail to click into it (Martial)? Because Mourinho can't develop players and does not have the patience to wait for them to gel. One poor game and then you are forgotten on the bench. Just yesterday Mourinho's issued a warning to Martial saying if he's not ready to cement his place in the 1st team, others will do. Mind you this is a player that United have payed a fortune for and probably the most rated in their squad. But he is young and we all know Mourinho has an incurable allergy towards youth. Most of the fans in England have laughed at the United fan base last summer when they were all so cocky about appointing Mourinho, saying he'll turn the likes of Rashford and Martial into world beaters. Haha, poor mancs, they should be lucky if these two are still there in two-three years time.
 

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Hist

Founder of Hism
Jan 18, 2009
11,603
Did we really have good coaches before him tho?

And didn't Italy go to the Euro final before him as well?
Conveniently left out the world cup and pretended the squad is the same, not only the difference of old age of key players but also the fact that there was no balotelli, marchisio or verratti.

Quite impartial :D
 

DAiDEViL

Senior Member
Feb 21, 2015
64,588
LOL

Most peeps only hate the Person, not the Coach Conte.

I hate both though.

inb4 the KO's of this world come running:"but but he is a Juventus Legend!!!"

true. But that doesn't mean he can't be a cunt.
 

Osman

Koul Khara!
Aug 30, 2002
61,488
That tasty egg on his face is looking mighty @Fr3sh, imma scoop that up with some cannoli, hope it has the secret ingredients.

















Your tears.

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Oct 31, 2016
50
Hi there lads, great game yesterday. Still buzzing after beating the scum Spuds :D

Seven on the trot now. Exactly two months ago after losing against Arsenal, I was looking at the table seeing that 8 point gap separating us from City. They were 6 in 6 at that point and I said to myself that there is no stopping them this season, they are going to walk the league. Now we're one point ahead, topping the table, having the most wins in the league. And we've inflincted Spurs the first loss this season to shut their mouth and end their unbeaten run.

Conte's achievement with this set of players is amazing. He's brought back the faith and winning mentality at the club. He's constantly talking in his interviews on how they should continue to work hard and improve every week. And players follow him with the same speach, saying this is the right way to do things, by listening to the gaffer and work as hard as they can on the training pitch.

But we're still far away from being the finished article and the last two games have showed this to us. Chelsea with Antonio Conte is rock solid at the back and very fluid in the attacking areas. Since switching to the three at the back formation, we've limited all the teams to shooting only from outside the box as there is little to no chance of them penetrating the defensive unit and create chances from around the penalty area, except for the set pieces.

But we're finding it hard when we have to deal with teams that press very high on the pitch. Like Spurs did yesterday for the first 30-40 minutes. And Middlesbrough did the other week, in the 2nd half. Kante and Matic provide great protection for the back line, but they are not technically gifted and in order to deal with this kind of teams that harass you by aggresively pressing high up the pitch, you need your midfielders to be good on the ball. Fortunately for us this teams can't keep the same intensity for the full 90 minutes - Spurs ran out of gas in the 2nd half and we managed to control the game with ease. And Spurs, City and to some extent Liverpool are the only teams in England to press that way.

Still, there is nothing Conte can do about it. He's done a brilliant job so far, the one thing he can't do is transform Matic and Kante into the likes of Andres Iniesta and Xavi Hernandez. I'm so proud that despite the fact that Spurs we're occupying advanced positions everytime Courtois had the ball, Antonio Conte did not instruct the defence to play the long ball, but play it calmly from the back. Shows how far we've come under him - from a team and a set of defenders that never had the nerve to play with the ball at their feet, to one that is now starting the build up play from the three defenders.

City next and then we're heading into a supposedly easy run of five games against West Brom, Sunderland, Palace, Bournemouth and Stoke, three of which are at home. Fortunately the table is so congested that the game at the Etihad next week does not have the aura of a massive, massive game. So any result will do. Of course we all want Chelsea to win it, but it's going to be hard. I'd take a draw right away if offered as City is going to put us in all kind of problems. Mostly because what I've written already about our way of dealing with high intensity teams that press high up the pitch.

Enjoy your Sunday :D
 

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