It was two days after Conte arrived. I know you like to be extremely negative with our team but Conte is going to turn us around completely. The squad has talent, now that a real manager is in charge results will be turning around.
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Like to be extremely negative? No I’m just not stupid enough to think that Dier will be a top 4 CB tomorrow after getting destroyed by a mid table Dutch team on Thursday
Nobody is saying Dier will be. But it's not like he is worse than Everton's defenders and our attackers are much better than who Everton will have available. 1-11 we have a much better starting XI than Everton, the only difference before was we had Nuno.
GK - Spurs
RB - Spurs
CBs - Spurs
LB - Everton
DM - Spurs
CM - ??
Wingers - Spurs
Striker - Spurs (with DCL out for sure)
Playing 3, 4/5, 2/3 system without having to play 2 sitters in skipp and PEH I think you need 3CBs which have power, pace and reasonable passing ability between them. For me Back 3 of Dav, Romero and jasphet would have that with Dav and jasphet pushing our into midfield to press along with either skipp or PEH. That way we can get more ballers into the team. Midfield 3 of ndombele gio and one of skipp or PEH should be good enough against most teams. If you have two in there then play PEH and gio and push tanguy forward. We have better forwards than CM/ defenders so need to find a system which gets more of them in the team.
Can you do the same for Vitesse and Spurs now?
It will be a tough game and it’s stupid to think otherwise
Vitesse was 2 days after Conte arrived.
And who said it wouldn't be a tough game? I said Everton's lineup is one that we should be beating easily tbh. Just like we should have beat Vitesse easily.
You think training on Friday has solved our defensive issues?
I’ve said it will be tough and you’ve gone out of your way to tell me how much better we are than them and how I’m being negative
I think playing one match and having an additional training will help, yes. It will not solve the issues but I expect it to be better.
It took ages and double sessions for Poch to get the team super fit. This will be a long haul but will get there.
These players are reported to have missed the tactics and sessions from Poch's time and regret him leaving.
I expect a gradual improvement up to January then we get rid of a few sign a few and push on but there’s bound to be some hiccups on the way with our squad which would happen to any coach in the world
Early days though and remember Klopp when he first started celebrating with him and all the players holding hands at Anfield after scrambling a 2-2 draw with WBA who got relegated
I pissed myself when I watched that
They should have started putting it in again rather than continue phoning it in then.
I expect it to be better too, for parts of the game.
Training with a good manager won’t make Dier a better CB, otherwise our players could as well just walk into City and Liverpool
It will be a tough match whether we’ve improved or not.
If you agree, no need to keep countering it.
And going to the papers moaning about it
TV options....
You mean act like professionals with a bit of pride?
I have faith Conte can get us going in the right direction but until he can get some up grades we will find it hard enough in matches like tomorrow while it was good to win the other night i doubt that Dutch side would do well in our league so a win at home is not that big a deal .
No Conte v Palace.
At times? They were less exposed in the shower after the match.
