I can't really criticize any of our players today (well, except Matri, but this one hasn't much to do with our weak performance) and Conte is the only one guilty for the shit game we had.
It's unbelievable how we put a low dline against fucking Betis. Worst, we just press in our own half and certainly not as a team. Sometimes, we see an offensive guy running like a fool without support,
sometimes, and that is certainly worrying to me. Our players (except Pirlo, obviously) simply do not have a single clue of what they need to do with the ball and just begin to make silly long passes when pressed up. Worrying again, we can't create from the back as a dominant team because of the several supports to our players lacking due to the static formation.
Our two midfielders sit deep close to the centrebacks and create a HUGE gap between them and the strikers (who don't drop down as well), even if none of them (Marchi and Pirlo) is a natural anchorman. We would desperately need a trequartista to put this Conte's formation working as we have no links between our main sectors, but even then...
I'm worried with a friendly match, yes, but that's because we should already look much better in this phase. I hope I'm wrong, but if Conte sticks with his planes, I see him failing miserably this coming season, unfortunatelly.
For the guys who just want to live in a fantasy world and avoid the facts, don't reply please, because my post wasn't by any means about the final result, but the performance. Of course we can still improve a lot, but our preseason is worrying and is and Conte's ideas seem a bit flawed thus far. Ohh, and keep asking for more and more players and bashing on our current ones, because that's certainly the way to go.
Barcelona worked on this style for many years now. Conte (well, any coach) working with the team for just over a month isn't going to develop that, sorry.
Villas Boas kinda did that with Porto, except he/they did not play like Barca. Although you can clearly see some similarities in the game style, AVB created his own style and in one month he was already rocking on and winning trophies. Just to destroy your
any coach theory.