I hope you're right because theres no other choice. This has to work, otherwise Levy will bring back Poch which doesnt fill me with hope.
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Manager Antonio Conte
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If this doesn’t work, we need to indulge in a long-term rebuild with players that aren’t oven ready.
It doesn't matter what we do, it all ends the same way in failure.
And this is why stats such as these reported are total garbage without context.
Run the furthest, how dose this actually translate into a football match? Are these jogs or sprints? What is the intensity? Are the KM's spread across the entire team equally or have we sent out 1,2,3(???) players to run like dervishes by pressing the oppo whilst everyone sits back?? Is this running with the ball or without it?
You can work the players mega hard in pre-season to give them a base level of fitness, then dial it back once the season starts.
I've had two mates that we professional Tri-Athletes, their taring was all meticulously worked out on spreadsheets for the entire year, broken down to every day of the week, it was tailored around the dates of the competition. It's very, very complicated and turns them into utter boring wankers to be around. But this is the nature of elite professional sports.
I have no idea how this translates into a whole team, I can only guess that the players might not be aware of the program they are actually on, they just do what they are told. Again, the actual specifics day to day are 100% managed as Poch (and it's well documented that it's been done with other managers) did with us, all the training he did was focused on us peaking in the Christmas and New Year. We smashed teams in this period, whilst also starting slowly and finishing weakly (there was always much criticism of his style of football caused his teams to fall away at the end of seasons, the same too was directed at Bielsa teams).
Are we geared to run at a steady competitive pace throughout the entire season, or peak in Christmas/New Year (like Poch) or are we geared to finish on a tsunami of high-pressing football and blow teams out of the water during the run-in??? Or Conte doesn't believe in this. The truth is no one knows other than a key group at the club.
No performance is acceptable when we lose.
It was 3 days ago. Get over it.
I didn't know you can count.
Well now you do. Every day seems to be a learning day for you. Good lad, always good to better yourself.
Alas 0-20 IQ points are the easy yards though.
When? In the first 10 minutes? Cause after that they battered us
I wouldn't call shooting wild shots from the edge of the box and having half of them blocked a "battering" the second half they started creating after the lucky goal.
First half - Rashford's chance at 21' was the first clean look they had. That was it for the first half, everything else was a hopeful shot or a blocked shot. Despite being under pressure, I was not worried about giving up a goal until they had the deflected shot.
Obviously you're too young to understand the joke, bless you.
Lmao you’re deluded or you watched a different game. If it wasn’t for Lloris we would’ve been 2-0 down at HT...
Financially doped clubs like Man City really have given fans of other clubs warped views on the game nowadays.
Yep. I beg for this kind of management.
Yes saw that someone who acts quick. Two managers who we should have gone for after Jose but ducked up and got Nuno. I don’t like manhue but credit to them and ETH. His taken the gane to chavs. Plus I like that he dropped Fred who was one of their norms on Wednesday for ericksen. Just shows his instinct is to be creative even though Fred played well. Would conte do that? He’d gladly bring in royal for anyone. Basically ETH has 5 attacking players.and only Casemiro holding. Plus his FBs push up almost like WBs. So why is it that we have to have 3 CBs plus 2/3 defensive CMs just to push on our WBs? Which is made worse when is normally royal. That almost sounds like a Pulis setup. If teams who play a back 4 can push their FBs high up and still defend why can’t we do that as well. Our WBs get forward prbly sane as most teams who play a 4 may be less sometimes as we are often sitting on our 18 yard line. Whole philosophy seems wrong to me especially when we don’t have the necessary quality in those positions.
