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Manager Antonio Conte

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Maureen said:
That is just pathetic BS. OM had an oap pensioner in CM with a bunch other rejects. The first was the worst I think this season. The performances are getting worse. So much to write about here. We are home midweek CL with bumper ticket prices people like me won’t get home till 2A’M. Where was the passion? We didn’t look scoring all gane even with them down to 10. The worst things were he takes off royal and puts kulu rwb not changing the formation., dier again the worst CD on yellow plays all game and to top it all we need a goal and what dues he do brings on davies and jasphet followed by Doh! We only bcos of 2 crosses that Ricoh out away. Ffs we almost let them get a goal at the death. They had the lions share of poccesion as well. Oh and if potter at Brighton can get them playing good attractive football on a budget then why can’t we expect at least a little bit of that from a so called super manager? The players don’t even look as if they are coached as we had literally had no idea of how to break them down. Passing was sloppy and there was no effort. Take the win but by god that was shocking again. I said a few weeks back these slow first half’s are planned and we waste time as well. Check lloris with goal kicks. We were screaming at him to get a move on. No point boing the oppo when we do the same.
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I don’t know why you had so many dislikes your post is clearly passionate. And I agree the football is turd right now. But remember it is early in a long season and being hard to beat is going to serve us well. I’m sure it’s about getting that right first and the attacking fluidity will come. It doesn’t help that Son is so out of sorts
 
BrightonSpurs said:
I don’t know why you had so many dislikes your post is clearly passionate. And I agree the football is turd right now. But remember it is early in a long season and being hard to beat is going to serve us well. I’m sure it’s about getting that right first and the attacking fluidity will come. It doesn’t help that Son is so out of sorts
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Because he's a troll with an agenda, check his previous posts...only appears when we lose or play shit and it's the same nonsense rhetoric, boring yawn.
 
I don’t really understand the hysteria from some people about the football we play. It’s not like under Jose where we would refuse to attack after going 1-0 up. We don’t hold onto the ball well which is frustrating, but we also create a lot of chances, we score a lot of goals, we don’t tend to concede many. After the last 12 months of Poch, Jose then Nuno to find ourselves back in the Champions League is pretty incredible. When a few players find their shooting boots we could be beating a few teams by 4 goals like the back end of last season. It’s early in the season, a very strange, congested season; collect points, and move onto the next game.
 
JDM said:
I don’t really understand the hysteria from some people about the football we play. It’s not like under Jose where we would refuse to attack after going 1-0 up. We don’t hold onto the ball well which is frustrating, but we also create a lot of chances, we score a lot of goals, we don’t tend to concede many. After the last 12 months of Poch, Jose then Nuno to find ourselves back in the Champions League is pretty incredible. When a few players find their shooting boots we could be beating a few teams by 4 goals like the back end of last season. It’s early in the season, a very strange, congested season; collect points, and move onto the next game.
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We used to refuse to attack after going 1-0 down to other top 6 clubs under that cuntox
 
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Every word Conte said on rotating Son, Lucas injury & going to Buckingham Palace

Here's every single word Antonio Conte said in his press conference ahead of Tottenham's Champions League match against Sporting
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What's the latest team news? Have you had to leave anyone behind?

No difference compared to the last game. Only Lucas Moura is still out. His recovery is going well but I think we'll probably see him after the international break. The others are all available.

You've now got so much talent up front, it's difficult to balance picking them to keep rhythm but also giving them a rest

For sure I think every manager, every coach likes this kind of problem. It means up front we have four players for three places.

We are in the right way because to face four competitions, especially if you are to play in the Champions League, you need to have a deep squad.

At the moment we have four players and every one deserves to play. We started with Sonny, Harry and Deki, then the last games I prefer to give the possibility to Richy to play.

For sure I have the possibility to pick up three important players and know that I have another player on the bench who is ready to come on and help us, like in the last game against Marseille. It was 0-0, I decided to put Deki into the pitch and to keep also the three strikers to become more offensive.

I think this is an important solution for me. For sure the game postponed against Manchester City gave me the possibility to try to make a different decision than before all this.

Against Manchester City I decided to play with some players, now I changed something in my mind. I try to pick the best. But for sure the others are creating for me a lot of positive problems here.

Son hasn't been used to being rotated at Spurs because the squad hasn't been strong enough and you'd previously said you'd be crazy to rotate him, but now you have the options is that something that might happen and have you had to speak to him to prepare himself for that at some point?

I think when you try to build something important, when you try to build something with ambition and try to be competitive and fight to win, you have to change old habits, otherwise it means you want to stay in balance and it means you don't want to have ambition.

For this reason all the players have to accept the rotation especially up front, we have four players. For me especially it's very difficult right now to drop one of these four players, but I have to make the best decision for the team, also for the players. Sometimes it's better to rest and don't start a game, to come in and play only 20 or 30 minutes and then play the following games.

For sure I'm here to try to change the old habit. The old habit was that the players were used to playing in every game. What happened in this type of situation is that you don't have great possibilities to win. You try to make the players happy, but big clubs have a big squad, a deep squad. In this moment we don't have a big squad but we have just started to try to follow this path. For this reason what happens with one of these four players will be normal and you have to know it's good for a coach like me to have these options.

Ruben Amorim said Tottenham are the favourites to win this group, is this fair?

I think honestly that this group, I see a great balance. For this reason this group will be very difficult because every game you can lose or drop points. Our ambition is to try to go to the next round and we are working for this. We want to try to do it because it means that we are taking another step to improve and to be competitive and fight for something important in the future.
 

Antonio Conte reveals Buckingham Palace visit to pay respects to the Queen​

  • ‘I will keep this in my heart and mind for the rest of my life’
  • Tottenham manager backs decision to postpone games
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Antonio Conte reveals Buckingham Palace visit to pay respects to the Queen

The Tottenham manager has admitted his shock at the death of the monarch and has backed the Premier League’s decision to postpone games
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BrightonSpurs said:
I don’t know why you had so many dislikes your post is clearly passionate. And I agree the football is turd right now. But remember it is early in a long season and being hard to beat is going to serve us well. I’m sure it’s about getting that right first and the attacking fluidity will come. It doesn’t help that Son is so out of sorts
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Suggest you read Maureen’s posts and then ask yourself “could a gooner supporter have joined TFC to simply stir things up?”. I think the answer is clear.
 
Ulrika Jonsson said:
Suggest you read Maureen’s posts and then ask yourself “could a gooner supporter have joined TFC to simply stir things up?”. I think the answer is clear.
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Oh come on it was a ost after the gane where we were generally crap. If you saw a different game then that’s your entitlement.
I do hope we start to improve our play. As I’ve said I’d love a performance like the one we gave chavs at Wembley where we attacked with pace and intensity.
 
I think I can stay calm about the football because I there are enough glimpses of what it looks like when it works (and enough evidence that the players available are able to apply themselves to these tactics) that I have faith in the team to clock into gear at some point.

Defensively we are conceding very few chances and overall look like we are able to adapt game to game in how we nullify the opposition. Going forward the tactic is pretty clear and when it works we’re scoring pleasing, well worked goals.

I think the larger issue lies in the fact that during a match, particularly early, we’re not taking good care of the ball and we are not dealing with any level of opposition press particularly well. That might be a personnel issue or a cohesion issue but either way I hope it improves as otherwise were due a really bad day (could’ve happened on the Saturday just gone). I’m always tempted to look to the midfield when our issue is I’m struggling to control a match, but our most used two have both been amongst our better players as individuals- maybe the blend isn’t quite there though- there’s a bit of an element of Jenas with Zokora about them (Not their styles, more what they’re producing) which privacy isn’t good enough.

Not that he’s shown it so far, but Bissouma was very press resistant for Brighton, while Skipp has generally done well in this aspect before his big injury, so playing in one of them might be the solution. It might be more about what’s in front of them, with the rwb situation (I like Emerson but he’s a poor attacking outlet) maybe proving quite castrating, or perhaps the movement from the forwards isn’t quite there (Though the generally good amount of chances we create suggest otherwise).

Or, as has been the case since the Dembele Wanyama axis broke, we might just have a collection of midfielders better suited to a 3 than a 2 - the issue then being that in a 3 you need at least 1 with a bit more imagination than any of our lot. I really wouldn’t like a 3 made up of any of our pure CMs, so then you look at who’s position could be tweaked.

This will sound daft I’m sure, as we’ve never done it and there’s no evidence available to suggest we could do it, but the player who plays with his head up the most and seems to have the best awareness on the ball (not including Kane) is Kulusevski. He’s no metronome, but he is creative and he is imaginative. Couple this with the fact that he clearly has the work rate and robustness to play in the middle in this league, and I’d really like to see him in a 3 man midfield playing as more of a deep 10, with license to drift where he sees space (given that we wouldn’t want to waste hood crossing). It would give us the body central for more control but also give us more variety with the ball.

It might not work, and I can already hear cries of ‘if it ain’t broke…’ but he wouldn’t be the first wide player who ended up more effective central- in fact most of the best playmaker of the past 20 years I can think of followers that route. I doubt we’ll ever see it but I think it would help (the question being whether to sacrifice the numbers in front of the midfield or behind it).

Something like:

Lloris
Romero Dier Davlet
Emohence ________________________ Perisic
Kulusevski Bentancur Højbjerg
Kane Sonarlimin
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I know it’s the same personnel, but I just think that slight tweak will keep our collective underwear far cleaner in the first half and we won’t be so reliant on that moment of brilliance or lapse from the opposition as we have been.
 
JDM said:
I don’t really understand the hysteria from some people about the football we play. It’s not like under Jose where we would refuse to attack after going 1-0 up. We don’t hold onto the ball well which is frustrating, but we also create a lot of chances, we score a lot of goals, we don’t tend to concede many. After the last 12 months of Poch, Jose then Nuno to find ourselves back in the Champions League is pretty incredible. When a few players find their shooting boots we could be beating a few teams by 4 goals like the back end of last season. It’s early in the season, a very strange, congested season; collect points, and move onto the next game.
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I don't think it's the style or tactics that people are complaining about, it's that we seem to be incredible lethargic from the first whistle and only seem to get in the game in the second half.

We've also been incredibly fortunate in that the teams we've played haven't been able to finish or we'd be nowhere near the top of the table at the moment.
 
punky said:
I don't think it's the style or tactics that people are complaining about, it's that we seem to be incredible lethargic from the first whistle and only seem to get in the game in the second half.

We've also been incredibly fortunate in that the teams we've played haven't been able to finish or we'd be nowhere near the top of the table at the moment.
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I know xG isn’t the be all and end all, but using that (and watching the games) we tend to have the better chances. Yes, we were crap against Chelsea and West Ham but we have had the better chances against other sides. Marseille was as lethargic as it gets but that’s on the players and even then we had the best chances and won.
 
punky said:
I don't think it's the style or tactics that people are complaining about, it's that we seem to be incredible lethargic from the first whistle and only seem to get in the game in the second half.

We've also been incredibly fortunate in that the teams we've played haven't been able to finish or we'd be nowhere near the top of the table at the moment.
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There's a reason for that, the system is limiting their chances as opposed to those strikers who cannot finish.

xg says that we are 2 points better of than we should be and that's probably down to the Chelsea match where we 'deserved' to lose.
 
......Under Jose there was lots of talk of how "outperforming XG is not sustainable" yet now we commonly have the better XG in games it's still being argued as "not sustainable".

Tough crowd.
 
punky said:
I don't think it's the style or tactics that people are complaining about, it's that we seem to be incredible lethargic from the first whistle and only seem to get in the game in the second half.

We've also been incredibly fortunate in that the teams we've played haven't been able to finish or we'd be nowhere near the top of the table at the moment.
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Not really.

If you'd actually watched the games, you'd have seen we haven't given that much away in terms of clearcut chances.
 
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