When a Conte team messes up it’s his fault.
When an Allegri team messes up it’s the players, Tici, JJ medical, football heritage, refs, bad luck
In reality it’s mostly football heritage of Contes choice of clubs more than anything and the system he defaults to.
He picks teams that are in a build stage again and again and he sets them up in rigid systems which are optimized to the local league style of play but don’t flex well in Europe where it’s all about killer instinct and improvising against a style of opponent that’s very different from what they face locally. His teams rarely surprise opponents in Europe.
yesterday we saw him make changes very late into the game as we’ve seen in his previous clubs and we also saw Spurs doing spurs things.
I fully expect them to get past the group stage and get top 4 in the league but I don’t think he’ll win any of the big trophies because City have a far more effective system in the league and again Spurs will be Spurs.