I don't need to explain anything to a person who thinks that he can pick the team from his armchair, without seeing what's going on at Vinovo on our training ground every day. Conte has faith in Borriello. A lot of people don't like that, which is understandable, but in that case, take your frustration out on Conte. I don't see why you have to take it out on me.
I don't have anything against you, only your posts/reasoning, no offense
you said that you are absolutely sure conte won't field players on such important competition as CL based on sentimentality but then I find there's some flaws on your argument, the clearest being borriello, the fact that he played him, hugged him with enthusiasm, etc isn't that what sentimentality is?
borriello more often (which is an understatement) sucked on official, important matches than he was ever any good, how do you able to believe that he was so much better in training? where is the logic on that? even if borriello did like ronaldo on training, THE HARD TRUTH AND FACT IS he was awful on official matches, in other words, he choked when it mattered most.
so what then, if not sentimentality, that borriello got the starter status? evermore over the likes of matri and quaq who already scored so many more goals than him?
about the armchair thing, do you realize that there are some aspect in football that can be seen more clearly from TV than from the edge of the field? there are reasons why football players today usually have to watch recorded games as one of their training menu.