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What annoyed me is today, I just read somewhere that mourinho said he was shocked to have fans who support him even when they were losing 4-0. Wtf we supported him when we were losing, we chanted his name when we were so close to relegation ffs.... Crazy statement

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After winning Southampton, we're just behind mancity and Liverpool by only 1 point. Nice and steady APLT explanation below

Griezmann Dybala Dimaria Aubumeyang James Rodriguez I agree with you that we need another goalscorer. I would hate to see that our current setup could be easily countered if the only two goalscorers we have are shut. We need one more goalscoring, (preferably left-footed) to put us as a very dangerous threat, and among Europe's strongest attack.

Remember when he wanted us to buy £300,000 a week rooney? What an absolute disaster that would have been.

Wow. We were so safe defensively, this defence is perfect. Costa and hazard are bosses, we need to a goalscoring left-footer like dybala or Griezmann to become favourites for title. I hope ivanovic isn't making any moves to get into the team. Moses and Azpi are better

We need to win this match by any means necessary (Own goal, undeserved penalty, handball goal) I don't care how. Winning this will put some distance between us and Tottenham/Manchester.

His luck has run out. On another day, they could have scored 5. I'm happy they can't find a way to win, I anticipated that we needed both manutd and tottenham to drop for us to get into the top four and it's looking that way so far.

We're losing, our second team is shit. Moses and Alonso are more valuable than I thought

Typical. We miss two clear chances and they score a header

So close for kante. We should be leading now

So close for Terry there

The 4-2-3-1 was too rigid, everyone stays in one position and few movement. But the 3-4-3 /3-5-2 is so fluid in the sense that there's cover from the wide centerbacks and it allows the front 3 to swap positions and give the opponent headaches on who to mark.

Would love him to do to pogba what he did to mikel lol

I found this video on MOTD of how our centerbacks cover for each other in the wide areas due to their speed. And how Conte has made them fluid at it. https://streamable.com/e49s

Pedro is better than Willian in his off the ball movement and runs, but I know Willian is poor in decision making a lot of the time but he's still better on the ball than Pedro. And since this new formation allows the 3 forwards come inside and swap with each other, Willian could thrive in this formation because I've never really liked him as a right winger.

I agree Willian is technically superior to Pedro. But Pedro has his advantages, does Willian make that run behind the defence that Pedro did in the first minutes against manutd? But on the other hand, Willian is far better at holding onto the ball under pressure and we would probably have scored more on the counter if Pedro didn't lose the ball a couple of times.

That united performance was so predictable in their play was baffling, looked exactly like us last season, I particularly remember us playing exactly that way against PSG when they went down to 10 men. If we as fans can predict that mourinho will try to lock up right and will throw crosses at left to Zlatan to attack azpi and come game time that is exactly what he ends up doing , i believe that is some serious problem for mourinho. Conte absolutely battered him tactically. Now that we've all enjoyed the win and got some good banter against manutd fans, I kind of feel bad for Mourinho. I used to love him especially after the Benitez period and wanted him badly to come back. But I know Mourinho enough over the years to predict his style and tactics now. He doesn't train patterns of play and attack situations with his teams, he doesn't build cohesion in build up play. What he does is to change his tactics to attack weakness of the other team and defend against their attack. This style was perfect in the past when other managers didn't have huge tactical knowledge and access to lots of tactical information compared to now. But now, top managers have a philosophy where they are so tactical and cohesive in their style while having many avenues to be dangerous and Mourinho's tactics of only training players on how to stop the next opponent within few days is harder than it used to be. When it fails, like the opponent scoring first then they cannot attack effectively because they haven't practiced patterns of attack, all they trained with the coach is how to defend and because of this, they look clueless, without an identity, looking like players playing for the first time. He is now officially behind in tactics compared to many managers and I'm worried for him that if he fails badly at manutd, that could well be his last big managerial role considering that big teams now want attacking team football. It will be sad to see of someone I used to like fall from grace.

I think a goalscoring left-footer would be perfect for our 3-4-3. Dybala could be attainable if we get into champions League place good goalscorer and has long range shooting. Griezmann would be the perfect choice, but unfortunately the transfer ban on athletico will make it so hard. But if Simeone leaves athletico (his contract hasn't been renewed) we should pounce on Griezmann and automatically have one of the best attack in Europe (Hazard-Costa-Griezmann)

You have to give props to Conte for making our football enjoyable to watch again. We've scored one goal less than the Einstein's almighty attacking Liverpool and Mancity.

 We're doing better now. We need to win against Southampton to climb higher on the table APLT explanation below

Wow. Conte has completely changed him with this new formation. All that dwelling on the ball, overthinking and looking so sluggish is gone, he's now playing first time passes, one touch, quick thinking. I officially declare that the spider beast is back.