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Manager Antonio Conte

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sammyspurs said:
But at the time, not knowing that, it just looked like a very shit tactical change.
I lost my rag the second the scorers were taken off and I saw Winks coming on.
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When he made the changes, we actually started to look like a football team again. I thought maybe he had decided he'd rather manage the game by keeping the ball, as opposed to letting West Ham have it, as we had been. But the minute Moyes made that double substitution, our possession game died on its arse.
 
fogueres said:
Italian press about Conte/Spurs ( copy paste by Google Translate)



The Premier navigates by sight through the cases of
Covid continuously
and a non pandemic management
too consistent, but then when big clubs like Tottenham and Liverpool take the field, even if they have to do without some champions because they are positive (like the Reds with Thiago who left the big match just before the start), show is assured. Antonio Conte quickly got the Spurs back on their feet, which in the first part of the season seemed like a team without a soul. The former Inter and Juve coach arrived at a very difficult time, but he has already conveyed to his players the desire to win and fight for every ball that has always been the hallmark of the teams coached by the Apulian coach. "There is a lot of work to do," he said a few days after landing in London, but from that November 3 to today, Tottenham looks like another team.
It would seem that the
Tottenham showed Inter how Liverpool stop, but it would be an understatement because the intensity of play and the pace that the English teams put on the pitch are hardly replicated by the Italian teams. For sure the Spurs are not at the level of Klopp's team and the Premier League table says it clearly, but having blocked one of the most
in the form of Europe is a great confidence boost for Conte's boys. The first thing Conte worried about was to put Harry Kane back on track: the English national team center forward had returned from a summer tormented by the rumors of a farewell that he had often fueled and the start of the season had been very difficult. Conte gave back to
Kane the absolute centrality that the Tottenham captain was in danger of losing: not just an offensive terminal, but an attacking director and absolute leader of a team that moves around him to enhance his remarkable technical skills. He is not Lukaku because he has other technical characteristics, but like Romelu he is destined to become the driver of the Spurs. The season for Conte is
far from compromised, Tottenham have three games to recover (26 points) and theoretically, winning them all, could reach that fourth place currently occupied by Woolwich (32 points) which is worth qualifying for next season's Champions League, the true which is why he was hired by tycoon Levy.
The season is long and Conte's work is already giving the results hoped for by the club's leaders when they decided to focus on the Italian coach. Liverpool have once again shown great ease in scoring and getting close to the opponent's goal, but also some defensive lightness too, which increases when Van Dijk is unavailable. Klopp with yesterday's draw sees Guardiola's City away (+3), which again this year travels at a very strong pace, but the great expenditure of energy in the English championship will not take away the concentration of the Reds in the Champions League, because the European goal is the one that stimulates Klopp the most. If Inzaghi has seen the game on TV, he will have realized that to have any hope against the Reds, Inter must play at a very high pace and make very few mistakes, trying to make the most of the opportunities that Klopp's team almost always concedes in every game. As did Tottenham.
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Ok so it's not just scousers the whole world thinks Kane is Spurs captain 🙄 I give up

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I was curious about our "% of possession" stats over the past several PL seasons, as % of possession is generally a fairly good indicator/metric of better teams. Obviously, outliers and exceptions exist in any dataset (Leicester City 15/16 PL champs w/ only 42.6% possession in the league), but in most seasons in the modern PL era, champion-sides average in the 60% possession range, often >. Stats per: fbrefdotcom.

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Our % of possession arc over the past 8 PL seasons generally parallels our on-field performance, culminating in our 17/18, + 18/19 seasons range, and decreasing consecutive seasons and managers.

Some bad news: 5 PL matches into the Conte era, our % of possession is: 46.0%, even lower than the 51.4% average in Nuno's 10 PL matches.

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Some good news: The obvious... we're unbeaten in the PL under Conte (3-2-0, 2.2 pts/match, +6 GD, and this season's dataset for (both) Conte and Nuno is relatively small.

Some (potentially) other good news: The first thing that stands out is the amount of touches/match this season:

1 Touch = player receives pass, controls, sends a pass.

Conte: 606.6 touches/match (46.0% possession)
Nuno: 616.8 touches/match (51.4% possession)

% of Possession is generally calculated by a % of the total passes by both teams. So, the average cumulative total (of Spurs + opponents) touches/match:

Conte: 1318.7 touches/match
Nuno: 1200.0 touches/match.

This would imply that the pace of our PL matches under Conte are significantly faster than they were under Nuno (at +118.7 touches/match.) At least, the football moves between players at a quicker pace. The distance covered stat chyron on the Sky feed yesterday confirms that our players are running more as well.

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This may have some relevance to Conte's player and tactical decisions. The math may be incorrect but it feels right.

I don't love conceding the ball as much as we do/have, and I blame certain players for it, but good results are good results.

Small dataset but kinda fun.

😎
 
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Château NoHo said:
I was curious about our "% of possession" stats over the past several PL seasons, as % of possession is generally a fairly good indicator/metric of better teams. Obviously, outliers and exceptions exist in any dataset (Leicester City 15/16 PL champs w/ only 42.6% possession in the league), but in most seasons in the modern PL era, champion-sides average in the 60% possession range, often >. Stats per: fbrefdotcom.

30Qr18H.png

iE2W10C.png


Our % of possession arc over the past 8 PL seasons generally parallels our on-field performance, culminating in our 17/18, + 18/19 seasons range, and decreasing consecutive seasons and managers.

Some bad news: 5 PL matches into the Conte era, our % of possession is: 46.0%, even lower than the 51.4% average in Nuno's 10 PL matches.

jHXlWr9.png


Some good news: The obvious... we're unbeaten in the PL under Conte (3-2-0, 2.2 pts/match, +6 GD, and this season's dataset for (both) Conte and Nuno is relatively small.

Some (potentially) other good news: The first thing that stands out is the amount of touches/match this season:

1 Touch = player receives pass, controls, sends a pass.

Conte: 606.6 touches/match (46.0% possession)
Nuno: 616.8 touches/match (51.4% possession)

% of Possession is generally calculated by a % of the total passes by both teams. So, the average cumulative total (of Spurs + opponents) touches/match:

Conte: 1318.7 touches/match
Nuno: 1200.0 touches/match.

This would imply that the pace of our PL matches under Conte are significantly faster than they were under Nuno (at +118.7 touches/match.) At least, the football moves between players at a quicker pace. The distance covered stat chyron on the Sky feed yesterday confirms that our players are running more as well.

g5NYBtI.jpg


This may have some relevance to Conte's player and tactical decisions. The math may be incorrect but it feels right.

I don't love conceding the ball as much as we do/have, and I blame certain players for it, but good results are good results.

Small dataset but kinda fun.

😎
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Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think that Conte is a big possession manager. He doesn't surrender it or play defensive football. But he isn't like Pep who hogs the ball for the sake of it.
 
ShutUpPatrik said:
Correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think that Conte is a big possession manager. He doesn't surrender it or play defensive football. But he isn't like Pep who hogs the ball for the sake of it.
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Agreed. He prefers to use possession to move the ball quickly, rather than strictly deny the opponents the ball, as per Pep. I know it's only Goal.com, but this article is a decent enough overview:

www.goal.com

What is Antonio Conte’s style of play? Tactics of Italian coach explained | Goal.com

Antonio Conte has won trophies in Italy and England, but what type of coach is the former Juventus midfielder? Goal looks at his tactics and philosophy
www.goal.com
 
Shadydan said:
Any danger of not turning yet another thread into the Sammy show? I really don't get it you know he speaks balls so why engage with the mouth breather...he's cleary at attention seeking child so why do it?
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Yet you’re doing it

He’s commenting on Conte as a manager on the Conte thread
Shock horror!!

Scroll past or ignore

Quite simple really
 
Five said:
When he made the changes, we actually started to look like a football team again. I thought maybe he had decided he'd rather manage the game by keeping the ball, as opposed to letting West Ham have it, as we had been. But the minute Moyes made that double substitution, our possession game died on its arse.
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Very thankful for the win, and I'm not trying to piss in anyone's Weetabix, but had any one of the numerous Spam attempts that hit the bar/missed by inches/was finger-tipped saved by Hugo gone in and maybe there's a very different mood around here.

Scoreboard (ultimately, the most important stat) notwithstanding, the match statistically was fairly one-sided.

Spam with:

57.6% possession
771 touches to our 628 (1399 cumulative touches -- above our 1318.7/match average in the Premier League under Conte -- High-Tempo!)
17-10 shots
8-1 corners

Something to keep an eye on.

But loving watching the process®, and a win's a win.

Château NoHo said:
The thought of Conte screaming/barking/howling at our players every weekend for 90 minutes from the touchline should warm the cockles of the moaniest match day thread posters' hearts.
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On to the semis!

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Larry David said:
No one is immune to criticism, even Conte

But You’re wrong on this one Samuel imo

The subs were fine and helped us see the game out with minimal fuss
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The subs were not fine, hence the fact Lloris made about ten world class saves and they had a shot that went millimetres wide after dominating the rest of the game after we and them made the changes

Shit defending isn’t good tactics and it was not in any way whatsoever minimal fuss
 
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