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Manager Antonio Conte
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love that. squashes that pretentious nonsense. true leader of men
What was the pre match talk then?Whatever his half time team talk was, it worked. So lucky to have this mad bastard.
We have 7 points this season that we got 0 from last season.
You can see him absolutely busting a gut to make sure he gets Keane there. Probably got 2 things in his mind, 1 that he needs to show he's not getting beaten and 2 that Keane needs a big lump kicked out of him.
That's very good...I'm sure he must have bristled every time Mr Boring said we had a counterattacking system...
Course we can. We're all experts on here that know better Matt.
Imagine how good we'd be if Eriksen was playing for us instead of being a genius at 14th placed Man Utd!???!
You can't keep talking about it with a 2-men midfield, but with a 3-men midfield of course you can, even after watching this video. Not saying that I'm certain it would work better for you of course. If for example you bought an excellent creative midfielder, I think Conte would be tempted to switch to a midfield trio as he had with us at Juve. He only forces his trusted formations when he thinks they can work better and give more certainty to the team, but if he has truly class role-specific players he's willing to mold the team around them (e.g. with Pirlo and our 2011-2014 team.)
He clearly isn't going to change to a 3 man midfield any time soon.
Yep, as I said he would probably only switch to 3 if he somehow found himself working with an excellent creative midfielder, which I don't think is happening. In any case Conte always needs two hardworking, physically strong players in his midfield. But no way he changes things up unless someone really special comes in.
For me, that's too emphatic.
Conte changed systems mid-season at the chavs when his existing tactics were not working as well as he wanted.
If he changes systems, or develops a second system for certain match situations, I believe the most likely is the 3-5-2 he used most recently at Inter. This would not require major defensive changes (still 3 CBs and 2 WBs) but would enable him to play 2 of Kane, Richarlison & Son as central strikers, as per the way he played with Lukaku & Lautaro.
My biggest takeaway from Conte's tactical talk with Hargreaves is that he always adapts his tactics to the strengths of the players in the squad.
Richarlison in particular provides him with an option that did not exist last season, as we did not have a Diego Costa style CF who could physically mix it up with opposing CBs.
https://thefightingcock.co.uk/forum/threads/summer-2022-transfer-thread.44243/page-1739#post-3521662
The only way he goes 352 is if we lose 2 or 3 forwards and gain at least one excellent creative midfielder.
Otherwise it's predominantly 343 with the forwards dropping in to make the extra man. I don't think the forwards have quite learned that yet.
If Conte wants to use Richarlison through the middle to unsettle opposing CBs, then he has to go with a central 2, even if Kane drops a little deeper into a 10 role.
As a CF, Richarlison has an aggressive physicality that Kane doesn't. Conte values that: Diego Costa, Lukaku etc.
As the season progresses, and players get tired, I could even see Conte occasionally using Richarlison and Son centrally, with Kane ready to join from the bench if we need him.
