The Conte Thread

[Jase 43,479]

18 minutes ago, MrExcalibur100 said:

It's the longest winning streak in PL history in a single season. It's the most impressive winning streak ever because:

(1) We've faced good opposition. Man City, Spurs, United, Southampton, Leicester, Everton etc All those teams excluding Leicester are in the current top 8.

(2) The league is stronger than it's ever been. Unlike Arsenal's 14 game streak, this is in one season not two. 

(3) The current team finished 10th last season. Regardless of how much of an anomaly it was and the bizarre circumstances that surrounded it, this team finished 10th and has now won 12 in a row.

+ the run has also been impressive when you consider we have faced teams with different quality, different style of play and different formation. Most of them changed their formation and tweaked their style to test us and we've dealt with each of them pretty well.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

7 minutes ago, Jason said:

+ the run has also been impressive when you consider we have faced teams with different quality, different style of play and different formation. Most of them changed their formation and tweaked their style to test us and we've dealt with each of them pretty well.

We've also only conceded 2 (!!) goals. I can go on and on. 

[Unionjack 7,531]

I remember in one of his early interviews he was going on about how close the top 6 were by the way of  skills etc and you would never see another team go for 10 games without being beaten again.

[Leif 6,006]

I know it's easy to make rash comparisons when things just keep going swell, but Conte's starting to remind me of Buddha.

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52 minutes ago, MrExcalibur100 said:

I just hope Liverpool drop points before the 2nd half of the season starts.

It's Liverpool v Man City this weekend. So someone will drop points there and in mid-January, Liverpool will go to United (on that same weekend, we go to Leicester and City are at Everton).

[Unionjack 7,531]

19 minutes ago, Leif said:

I know it's easy to make rash comparisons when things just keep going swell, but Conte's starting to remind me of Buddha.

Id put him onto an equal with the Big Buddah King Kong Cheese

https://www.gorilla-cannabis-seeds.co.uk/bigbuddhaseeds/feminized/big-buddha-king-kong.html

[Leif 6,006]

15 minutes ago, Unionjack said:

Id put him onto an equal with the Big Buddah King Kong Cheese

https://www.gorilla-cannabis-seeds.co.uk/bigbuddhaseeds/feminized/big-buddha-king-kong.html

I wonder if it yields as much as Conte. It says it needs 8-11 weeks to flower; Conte only needed what, 3-4 weeks?

[Cosmin 2,484]

1 hour ago, Leif said:

I know it's easy to make rash comparisons when things just keep going swell, but Conte's starting to remind me of Buddha.

HAHAHAHA I LOL'd

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[Barbara 15,149]

I already wrote most of what I think about him and today's match in Michy's and match's threads, but he deserves all the praise he can get.

I was very much okay with the team he chose, even before the match - no moans from me and I think today we showed again the dominance we did before the last three short results. I've read some people complaining about space, chances and whatnot we offered to Bournemouth in the first half, but I've seen none of that. It's not like you won't allow the other team to have nothing. They scrapped a couple of shots, but have we gone so pampered and spoiled that we don't expect us to concede this sort of thing to a team just because they are on the second half of the table?

They are a good unit, very well organized and not the kind of the team that will sit and wait for you. their manager has been with them since 2006 (player and assistant coach), and full time since 2012. They came from almost dropping to fifth division only eight years ago to a second year in a row in the highest flight. They aren't those pushovers we faced in Sunderland or Tony Pulis 10-man defense. They are a decent side, that tried to play decent football, but we were just too good for them.

I think we went a few notches up today compared to the last few matches and the team doesn't look battered for the next two matches before some of them catch a break. Conte seems to have everything figured out and of course, at some point we will lose the winning streak (hopefully with a draw), but he is confident and so are the players and the kind of mentality he already imprinted to the players in such a short time - especially considering how long they've been conditioned to defend a 1-0 league with all their might and with everyone behind the ball (it precedes Mourinho's second spell).

Conte has been magnificent and I couldn't be any happier.

[BoyBlue96 990]

Love Conte but bringing Michy on for FIVE SECONDS is really not giving that lad anymore motivation.

[Henrique 9,133]

I'm really impressed with Conte. In the first games he looked really poor, specially with his late game subs. Some people here were talking nonsense about the squad being incredibly bad and even saying Conte wasnt doing good because he did not get he not so world class players like Koulibaly and Naingolan. While I agree those are good players, they lack of them were not the reason why the teams wasnt performing well. Conte was reluctant to use his favorite 3-6-1 formation, and he decided to give it a try after the humiliation defeat against Arsenal.

Even after the first good results I wasnt sure about his qualities, since it seemed he was only using the "formation that won the last game". He was playing the same starting XI over and over, but in recent games I realized he is even better than the first good results with this formation were suggesting.

Against City he realized he needed to change thing really quickly, so he dropped Pedro for Willian. That was a game changer move. The team went to win that game, 3-1, with Willian scoring the 2-1.

Against Sunderland we had no Hazard. Then instead of just replacing him with Willian, he also moved Fabregas into the starting line up replacing Matic. Without Hazard we lose a lot of creativity and attacking power, so bringing Fabregas would help to fix that hole, while Willian is better than Hazard in helping the defensive system, so Matic's absence would not have a great impact in the teams defensive duties. The team went to win that game with Fabregas goal after a Willian assist.

Against Palace, Pedro who was a regular starting player for most part of the season was not even used, instead Fabregas was introduced replacing Willian in the 2nd half, because Conte realized that game was asking for more presence in the midfield, something Fabregas would offer more than Pedro.

What about the last game? Everybody were just expecting Batixuai to replace Costa, instead he went with Pedro, who scored 2 of our 3 goals. Still 20 games on the cards, but at this point Conte is looking a hell of a manager.

[Unionjack 7,531]

I know that some of the lads have said that the training is boring but I think its the watching vids over and over they mean. But whatever physical side of training they do its definitely paying off. Theyre running about more than I remember seeing them and on the break theyre like whippets. Moses again yesterday musta wore a groove down the length of the side of the pitch. And the thing I like most is you dont see 1 lad walking round with his head down and hands on hips.

[Antonio8 736]

38 minutes ago, Unionjack said:

I know that some of the lads have said that the training is boring but I think its the watching vids over and over they mean. But whatever physical side of training they do its definitely paying off. Theyre running about more than I remember seeing them and on the break theyre like whippets. Moses again yesterday musta wore a groove down the length of the side of the pitch. And the thing I like most is you dont see 1 lad walking round with his head down and hands on hips.

run more than the others 

few injuries

players like diego costa moses cahill pedro azpi reborn

everyone knows what to do

all these things in one simple word=  conte

[Unionjack 7,531]

1 minute ago, Antonio8 said:

run more than the others 

few injuries

players like diego costa moses cahill pedro azpi reborn

everyone knows what to do

all these things in one simple word=  conte

Maybe reborn wouldn't be the word I'd use for Cahill

[jernej93 565]

Conte has turned Moses into worldclass wing back, I still can't believe it. He is a beast down that right wing and we need something like this on the other side.

[ZOS 580]

love costa but watching eden's personal highlight as a cf makes me wonder  what  it be like if we had a ball playing striker, some one like kunt_aguero, with pedro and hazard flanking him

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