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Been pretty rigid with his formation though
But Harry Kane.
The Quiet Storm™.
Maybe Conte thinks English football fans are too primitive to understand or care about tactics.
I posted those quotes partly for a laugh, but also to point out that Conte is widely regarded as a defensive coach who goes absolutely bananas if anyone questions his methods. I can't be alone in noticing that he has his excuses ready after every single game. I hate this group of players, too, but it is deeply unsettling to see them being thrown under the bus so soon.
Did you see Mourinho's quotes during the week?
“We are where our quality allows. Episodes related to arbitration also force us to stay there. We're a mid-level team, which could have maybe three, four, five or six more points. But now, we made big mistakes: bad controls, bad pressing, bad passes. We are so wrong from a technical point of view. "
AS Rome : les nouvelles déclarations fracassantes de José Mourinho
Après la défaite de la Roma hier soir sur la pelouse de l'AC Milan (1-3), José Mourinho a sorti une nouvelle conférence de presse dont il a le se (...) - Footmercato
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Pretty funny when Jose says it’s not tactics, it’s individual mistakes the fan base calls Jose toxic. When Conte says it, fans blame the players??
Re: Berg - This makes me question their data but I'll kick on and take them at face value......
The fact is that we played very little football between 27/11 (Burnley), 9/12 (Rennes), 12/12 (Brighton), 16/12 (Leicester)
These dates marry up against much of the time that the above players are stated to be available... They were useless to us as rotation options if there were no games being played anyway. When it all kicked back in and got hectic they were missing for a significant chunk of that time. (This also completely ignores the covid factor where we don't truly know who caught it, when and who suffered the most.)
Considering this; the only spell of significance becomes 19/12 > 05/01 during which Son played:
Liverpool 90
WHam 29
Palace 76
S'ton 90
Watford 90
Chavs 79
Not ideal; but as originally put to you re: Son..... Over the "busy xmas period" (tm) Conte had shown a desire to manage Son's minutes that our player availability has regrdless hindered. You haven't dis-proven this.
Perhaps if/when we know the nature of Son's injury we can resume this thrilling debate.
Maybe it was an impact injury suffered vs Chavski? Maybe it was an niggle that the player hid from the manager and he subsequently aggravated..... We (inc. you) don't know.
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Ndombele
GLC
Berg
Doherty
Rodon
Aurier
Sissoko
Sanchez
Foyth
Janssen
Sess
300+ million of transfers (that was paid for by fans) flushed down the toilet
Maybe if our owners weren’t the biggest dumbfucks and would have made some decent signings, we could actually rest our players
Bergwijn, Gil AND Sessegnon were on the announced substitutes bench for our match @ Burnley on 28.11.21 before it was PPed.
Son would've started.
Tottenham confirmed team vs Burnley as Skipp and Sanchez start, Bergwijn sub
Here is the Tottenham team Antonio Conte has named for this afternoon's Premier League clash away at Burnley
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There’s lots of things being excused for Conte that didn’t wash under Nuno or Jose.
The problem is we did not replace Bale or Vinny and Lamela only with Gil who is not ready. The lack of attacking players is bad enough when everyone is fit but as soon as one of them such as Son or kane gets injured we are in trouble. We need a new attacking player now not in the summer.
Agreed.
Lamela has 4 goals and 2 assists this season in just 700 minutes
He’s only played 90 minutes twice.
We absolutely sold the wrong AM, and should have kept Bale, both of them would have offered so much more than Gil, Bergwijn
Bergwijn, Gil AND Sessegnon were on the announced substitutes bench for our match @ Burnley on 28.11.21 before it was PPed.
Son would've started.
Tottenham confirmed team vs Burnley as Skipp and Sanchez start, Bergwijn sub
Here is the Tottenham team Antonio Conte has named for this afternoon's Premier League clash away at Burnley
So?
(What a puerile counter-argument.)
Is that the best you can come up with bearing in mind reality blows your former contradiction out of the water?
The fact remains no football was played for virtually 3 weeks before the matches I listed; by which time they were all getting injured or recovering from Covid again.
K.
Well, only Lo Celso was unavailable on November 28, 2021 @ Burnley.
Our next match vs Liverpool was on December 19, 2021. Sessegnon played 86 minutes. Bergwijn and Lo Celso were unused subs. Only Gil was unavailable (due to COVID).
You keep talking bollox about the availability of alternative attacking options for Conte, and, instead of admitting that you may have mis-remembered, have pivoted to these specific 3 weeks for whatever reason.
Not sure if you're dumb or just trolling....... (A bit of both I suspect.)
You tell me; which 3 week period is most likely to contribute to a suspected case of fatigue:
1. A 3 week period where the club played NO games were played?
or
2. The subsequent 3 week period where the club played 6 games?
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At least we've got you back on track to talking about the period where there were actually matches for Conte to not give some of our players adequate rest for.
At least we've got you back on track to talking about the period where there were actually matches for Conte to not give some of our players adequate rest for.
You're the Cløgberg of posters on TFC.
The metrics look good... very active, enthusiastic, tons of pointing and communication, but ultimately, limited and lacking. An approximation of elite-level quality.