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I think so, it's not ideal, but rather Dier at RCB than Sanchez anywhere on the pitch.
you think dier does any better? i think the only one that does better in that situation is romero due to him being so aggressive.
so you think dier stops the attacker from laying it off to the winger? eric dier the one who likes to back off from attackers?
but the only way a defender does better than lenglet in that position is by stopping the lay off? and youve just said dier would stand off, meaning he doesnt stop the lay off.
I personally think that Dier has done an ok job as CCB, partially because earlier on the whole team was pretty solid defensively which gave him a bigger margin for error, but let's not pretend that he's head in shoulders above Lenglet when it comes to one on one defending.
There are great future RB’s out there. It’s the scouts job to find them. We seem to have bagged a real gem at LB in Udogie but perhaps made a gaff with Djed Spence- he’s in no man’s land at the moment.PSG just called btw......
They said they're definitely gonna sell their RB mid-season..... I said "are you sure?" and they said "Yeh, we're not worried about replacing him... It's all good bantz, innit monsieur".
Job's a good'n.
Do you think Poch would want to owt our forward or midfield players? In his preferred 433, our current crop would suit him pretty well, it's our defenders that wouldn't.
Would be interesting which would be a more solid backline
Antonio Conte: Spurs boss would have had 'heart attack' if winner at Bournemouth ruled out by VAR
Rodrigo Bentancur scores stoppage-time winner for Spurs at Bournemouth three days after Harry Kanes last-gasp winner ruled out for offside by VAR in the Champions League; Antonio Conte on low-key celebration: Id have had a heart attack if something happened so I went down the tunnelwww.skysports.com
Video at the top, I had to write his quotes because the article didn't include them, pretty telling though, reading between the lines and in the context of the question asked (about players that got subbed on) this was his response.
Conte - "I think this experience this season, we have to learn a lot, because I hope next season that if we play in both the PL and CL, we need to try with all our possibility to improve the squad with quality and also in the numerical aspect.
Otherwise you risk to play with the same players every game this is not possible because the performance of this player start to go down and today I decided, before an important game in the CL on Thursday to make six changes, to give rest to the players who play every single game and I think this is the secret to have an important squad if we want to play the PL and CL in a decent way, otherwise you lose points because the PL is very very difficult, the intensity in this game today, we lost a lot of energy, mental energy, physical energy.
Pretty evident he wants more quality in the first team but also more quality on the bench for rotation because the players we have that started the game today, he doesn't trust to do the job, he just feels forced to play them so he can rest the others for the CL game.
What he said at the end about
"My players know me very well and for sure the team that wants to give up, is not my kind of team, we have to fight until the end and try to give out best, sometimes you can lose but they know, in every game they have to give me their best because that's what I do for them and also today (but NOT also today) they showed me many circumstances that they believe what we are doing and that we will never ever give up, never.
I think that's pretty telling, essentially saying that the players who came on second half believe in what he is doing but the players he started the game with showed that they are not fighting in the same way which is what many of us highlighted here.
Some of these players are players from other managers and from past squads and it shows and not in a good way, we need a rebuild of players who are all in on Conte and his system and our fans more importantly need to STOP blaming the manager and get behind him and hope he gets backed in the Jan and Summer windows.
Conte will bring us success imo but we need to get behind him and realise that some of these players simply are not good enough.
