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Manager Antonio Conte

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nope, Our wing backs are nowhere good enough for Conte's system, Reggy and Royale were not high enough up the pitch to be effective, both of them are far too inconsistent to be class players.

I understand Emerson. He is a better defender than attacker, but tries to run forward and just doesnt have it in his locker to beat a man. Ita not his game and its clear he will have to leave in summer somwhere with a flat 4 - for our and his own good. But with Reguillon I don't know why he just doesnt seem to be able to produce attacking impulses. He does have the pace to attack.
 
He has got to be able to change a game tactically when plan A isn't working. We clearly needed an extra midfielder on the pitch today. Fair enough starting the same team but by the 60th minute you could see we weren't going to get anywhere persisting with the 5 at the back.
 
Some of you will probably want to section me for this, but hear me out.

This game emphasized how important Conte is to this current Tottenham squad and raised his stock even higher for me. But it also showed some of his drawbacks.

Conte had Covid this week and has not been able to train and drill our team like he has for the past few weeks. This performance looked more like when we were playing 3 games a week and there wasn't much time for coaching.

To me this game just shows how much extra Conte can get from this squad of players when he is healthy enough to coach them. The results of the 7 PL games before Brighton (6W 1L) would just not be possible with a non-elite manger with the squad we have.

However, this game also showed the drawbacks of Conte's ridged philosophy and substitution approach. Even when it was clear that we were not on top, because of the way Conte coaches we don't really have a plan B so our substitutes can be very like for like, which makes it more difficult to turn the game around.

We need a good summer window if we want to do things next year, particularly competing in Europe giving us less time for Conte to train players as much above their normal ability.
 
But maybe this was all part of his master plan...

He hadn't been able to coach us so, knowing manager of the month is a curse, he told the players to conserve their energy and use it as a training exercise so he can win every other game this month without winning MotM

:contefists:

:contefacepalm2:
 
so you think bringing on little harry winks is the way to go do you? youd have done the same after watching spurs the last few years would you...🤡
It's got fuck all to do with what I think.
Spurs are paying a coach/manager millions a year to decide these things. But obviously you know better than him. why don't you try and get in touch with Conte, and tell him where he's going wrong
 
its going to be interesting to see what he does now. this system requires a full back like doherty, emerson absolutely kills it, part of the reason as to why it was so poor today. if you havent got the right components for the system then it breaks down all over the place, weve seen this a lot with emerson playing out there as RWB.

lucas or berg would be far better options surely, id rather see berg do it. if not surely he has to change the system as its killing us with emerson. bringing on little harry winks when youre trying to play through a stubborn side too was baffling! thought he had learnt that lesson already but clearly not.
Correct.

*he tried to finesse the situation by getting Winks to drift wide and pick up the ball from Romero, pushing Emerson right up, to try and 'jump start' that side.

Just an awful. clunky fix.

It just added more potential hazard (winks) without dealing with the primary defective component (emerson).

Bit surprised by Conte, today, tbh.
 
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