So in short we concede shots but not from good positions.
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Manager Antonio Conte
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So in short we concede shots but not from good positions.
And a goalkeeper who is stopping the ones that get through.
You just know however that if we offer up even poor chances from distance against this lot, they’ll be flying in. It’s Sod’s law.
I’d rather have us stifling the midfield until they start to tire/get frustrated and then go in dry with some fresh legs to exploit them. It won’t happen off the back of a hat trick, but someone like Sonny coming on after Richy has bashed them about for an hour would please me greatly. I wouldn’t back against him getting another bag full against a tired and frustrated Woolwich
Ok it was great Conte got his subs and formation changes in early. Begs the question why he didn’t do this v sporting. We would have defo gone on to win.
Regarding formations going forward I’d like to go back to David pleat 1986/87 where we had Clive Allen as lone forward. Basically we played 451. This would allow kulu to play on the right and so on the left with 3 in CM. Obvs this would mean a back 4. However this may not be so bad as royal is supposedly better as a fb than rwb. We could play following in some games:
Royal ,Romero, dier/lenglet ,perri
Kulu, PEH , Biss, bent, son
Kane
We could easily swap in richo for any of kulu, Kane or son.
Midfield skippy could easily replace on if the 3.
Defence we have enough players to cover the whole back line.
May be worth a try in some games.
Regarding formations going forward I’d like to go back to David pleat 1986/87 where we had Clive Allen as lone forward. Basically we played 451. This would allow kulu to play on the right and so on the left with 3 in CM. Obvs this would mean a back 4. However this may not be so bad as royal is supposedly better as a fb than rwb. We could play following in some games:
Royal ,Romero, dier/lenglet ,perri
Kulu, PEH , Biss, bent, son
Kane
We could easily swap in richo for any of kulu, Kane or son.
Midfield skippy could easily replace on if the 3.
Defence we have enough players to cover the whole back line.
May be worth a try in some games.
Many moona ago I said Conte was our best manager since Nicholson.
I was slated by many !
Anybody changed their mind now?
Conte is a WINNER because like Ferguson he demands everything from his players.
He knows who he wants and Levi has to back him every time.
The only thing I do not understand is how he kept Sanchez and let Rodon go out on loan, maybe so he can get a full season in and then come back into the team.
I was slated by many !
Anybody changed their mind now?
Conte is a WINNER because like Ferguson he demands everything from his players.
He knows who he wants and Levi has to back him every time.
The only thing I do not understand is how he kept Sanchez and let Rodon go out on loan, maybe so he can get a full season in and then come back into the team.
It's just too early. But I hope with every fiber of my being you are correct.
He will have to do something with us he will need to be backed of course .His record prior to us won't make him a great spurs manager . Also bear in mind his tenure with us most likely won't be that long .Hope you are proven correct of course .
It’s a fair point. Most fans have an obsession with the starting 11, but the Leics game shows that finishing 11 is equal if not greater than. Our players need to accept that too, Son looked fucked off and that needs to stop. I would like to see Kane benched too to prove a point to the squad and i think Son, Richy and Kulu are still a stellar attack
It’s all part of the plan. I’m just glad the team doesn’t shit it’s pants about it as much as a section of our fans. People keep moaning about the quality of the football but this is it with Conte. Towards the end of last season when we were steamrolling teams it was working perfectly. It will come again soon like that, we just need to wait. We saw a bit of it on Saturday and more of that will come. I suspect there will be a few more teams this season getting back on the coach thinking how did we concede 3/4/5 goals today with the amount of chances we had. Yet that’s the trick, the chances they had weren’t that good.
They concede shots from a distance where it will take an unreal strike to score.
We concede possession, so that allows chances. But we're well organised defensively, so those chances tend to be low quality.
The journo asked him a very different question (broadly translated and summarised): How are you living this very significant moment of British History as an Italian living there?
I loved his reply. He said that for him it's been a very emotional moment. On the day of her death he gave a day off to the squad and went to Westminster as he wanted to show his presence. He said that he will always bring this moment in his heart for the rest of his life. He also said that the minute silence before the game was very touching
( The italian journo said that ha has sang along the anthem before the game)
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The question came from a journalist of a political show on Ra1 (the first public channel in Italy) and it concerned the commemoration of the late queen before the match. The journo asked him how he felt in that moment since Conte looked pretty involved with the tribute, and how it feels as an Italian in London. (Pretty inane question if you ask me, but then again I don't really rate the show he works for.)
Conte replied that it was a very emotional moment that celebrated an important person who gave a lot to this country and who's known all over the world, and that when they cancelled the games he gave the players a free day and spent the afternoon to go to Buckingham palace and "breath in this strange atmosphere". He said that finding himself in London as an Italian when the queen passed is a very particular experience that he'll carry in his heart, because you can really feel great fondness, affection not only from English people but from all over the world towards a person who served the country in an extraordinary way; you can really feel the pain for the passing of the queen. He also said that when they celebrated the queen with the minute of silence and the anthem it was a very touching moment for him as well, who is not an Englishman but an Italian who is living a beautiful footballing experience in England. It's a really extraordinary moment for everyone, and you can see everyone coming to pay tribute to someone who did something incredible for 70 years.
The reporter then asked him if he had sung the anthem and Conte replied that he hadn't but that he'd listened to it and it was a very moving moment.
Edit: lol I had lunch before hitting reply and they'd beaten me to it
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Va bene cosi': io ho dato una prima versione piu' concisa, poi tu sei andato piu' nel dettaglio
A sto punto possiamo mettere su una redazione :contelol:Va bene cosi': io ho dato una prima versione piu' concisa, poi tu sei andato piu' nel dettaglio
Comunque mi sa che con Conte è meglio riassumere perché si ripete veramente un sacco
Hahah, yes, good idea!
Yes, I absolutely love Conte, but I think that his messages come stronger from the bench than from a press conference
I second that , whatever it means !!Va bene cosi': io ho dato una prima versione piu' concisa, poi tu sei andato piu' nel dettaglio
lol!
(I just said that we did a team work: I gave a more summarised version and he went more into details)
What he said.