MrExcalibur100

Another strikerless line-up. Conte never learns. Thankfully Arsenal aren't a team that sits deep but I despise the false 9 thing. Such an overrated way to play.

Don Balon and Diario gol are trash. Literally create lies out of thin air. Don't post that stuff here mate

The inevitable pretend fake "bid" by us.

He always struck me as the less mobile of the Monaco pair. From the games I saw he primarily kept his position/was used more in a zonal role. He will still improve but right now we arguably got one of the worst players from that Monaco team of last season.

Drinkwater and Kante has already proven to be a title winning duo now we have the added advantage of a back three while at Leicester it was a flat back 4. Overrun in midfield by who? A team like Leicester? It's not like we aren't getting dominated in the big games against a team like City for example regardless of the formation. Miss me with that talk. And Alonso and Moses are LWB - therefore are defensive players first and foremost. Sure part of their secondary duties is too overlap and play with some width bu When we don't have the ball they revert to position and we form a flat back 5. Don't think about football as when we only have the ball. I'm not sure what you are disagreeing with though.

(6) 3-5-2 is isolating Hazard. This is blatantly obvious. Initially Hazard got some joy in this 3-5-2 (away from home) where he was offered more space on the counter. Initially I wanted to only see a 3-5-2 away from home or in big games but right now I don't want to see it anymore. It just doesn't get the best out of our players and limits us too much in attack. Conte is taking it one step further and playing it as our main formation now. Our best performances have come with a 3-4-3. Especially at home. Teams are just packing the midfield now and Hazard has nowhere to go. Then he subs Hazard off like it's entirely his fault. Strange. (7) And no one to play with since Fabregas can't dribble past players and use his pace to make runs behind and stretch a defense like a Pedro Can. Everything Fab does is infront of the opponents midfield and defense. (8) Conte gets paid millions of pounds to figure this things out. But he's being stubborn, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results is the definiton of insanity. I'm not saying he's insane but he needs to show more creativity in his coaching. Right now he's looking like the negative manager Mourinho branded him last season. I'm back on my long post shit again lol. Had to break this one up. But that's how frustrated I am with what I'm seeing.

(1) Hazard off after 60 mins. Rightly or wrongly, even Mourinho knew to never sub him off. (2) No more 3-4-3 despite this system bringing us so much sucess last season. Conte seems more concerned in shoehorning Bakayoko into the team! (3) Pedro underutilized despite having a fantastic last season. He offers us something different with his longrange shooting, ability to make runs in behind and is a goal threat (unlike Fab/Willian) (4) Bakayoko keeps on playing Bakayoko+Kante (or Kante+Drinkwater) and 5 defenders behind them. This is insanely negative. Think of it this way. When Leicester won the league with basically counter-attacking football, they played Kante + Drinkwater in a midfield 2 in a 4-4-2. Conte's set up is even more negative than Leicesters. (5) What is Conte afraid of? Play 7 defensive minded players at home to Leicester and complain about attacking play lol.. What attacking play can you produce with Rudiger, Cahill, Azpilicueta, Moses, Alonso, Kante and Bakayoko? Teams who play attacking football and open up the opposition with their movement and fluidity don't play 7 defensive minded players. Sorry.

I just posted a lengthy comment on what I feel Conte is doing wrong and it never posted. Pretty frustrating: Anyway here is a shortened version.

Teams are just packing the middle of the pitch now and Hazard has little space to work his magic. At least in a 3-4-3 he has Pedro or Willian to play with. He is getting isolated very badly in the 3-5-2. Even a dunce who knows little about football can see that. Conte our manager who gets paid millions of pound apparently can't. Conte subs Hazard of all people out at min 60. Hazard must be pissed. Maybe Conte is trying to make Hazard look as unattractive as possible to other clubs. Otherwise he's clearly lost the plot. Even Mourinho knew to never sub out Eden (whether you agree with that or not from a fatigue perspective)

Conte has become so predictable its become painfully unfunny. I hate to say I did but I did call this on Wednesday when I posted this on this thread: "I won't be surprised if he continues with the 3-5-2 in our next match against Leicester. He really is a very stubborn manager who loves to prove himself right." There are several reasons why this formation isn't working. I don't know what point he's trying to prove but its only going to lead to his demise here.

I won't be surprised if he continues with the 3-5-2 in our next match against Leicester. He really is a very stubborn manager who loves to prove himself right.

So that's not chances then. No need to contradict yourself. We were shit and we barely look like a footballing side anymore. I'm just fed up with all the chances talk. We didn't create shit tonight. Nothing of substance. Just a lot of huffing and puffing and that's on the manager.

No we didn't. Those were half chances we had like maybe 1 or 2 decent chances all game. Maybe you should watch teams like City, Spurs and Liverpool play and see what real chances actually look like.

He's gone down the rails ever since he was moved around positions by Conte. Playing the absolutelty pointless and idiotic "strikerless" system. Hasn't recovered since scoring wise

Fucking awful. He's becoming increasingly clueless with his decision making and the tedious football. Can't continue to make excuses about missing out on targets. With the players we have we have to be doing better than that.

The motivation was there alright. Motivation without quality is meaningless. We just stunk the joint out and our manager is increasingly cluless. Personnel was okay but the formation was obviously not working and should have been proactive at half time. Instead he's reactive and subs out Hazard for Bakayoko after bringing on Willian for Drinkwater to "keep the result" lol. Fuck outta here

Fucking terrible match. No MOTM fuck this boring bullshit. Thank goodness I have other things going in my life and other sports I watch to not get too caught up in having to be depressed by this shite "football" . Peace out guys. See you next game. Hopefully Conte can show us something else better than that

Watch Conte moan about imaginary "chances" post game lol. "We had many chance to win!!"

This man has lost his damn mind!

Watch Conte make no half-time sub though. Some previous CFC managers will sub out Drinkwater or Fabregas for Pedro or Willian at halftime after such an inept display

This is directionless football. I'm not even sure what we're supposed to be doing out there. What is Conte's input? At least in the past when we won the league we committed a lot of players to the attack. We're attacking with 2 players and one of Moses/Alonso at a time. Dull and drab to watch. zzzzzzzzz

We're just not as threatening with this 3-5-2 compared to the 3-4-3. Less width and pace in the team. More predictable

why use clubs though as in plural. Also immediately after our game.

Amazing quote which has so far gotten little attention. "Coincidentally" rumours of him replacing Emery at PSG also abound. He's not going to be here next season is he?

He's a really good player but he really needs to improve in front of goal. Some of the shit i'm reading here is totally insane and really just out of order. Stop acting like he hasn't already contributed a lot this season