The Conte Thread

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[nofacej 132]

Really happy with the result, pretty happy with the performance, and loved Conte's boldness with substitutions and celebration.

Bring on the next game (opposite feeling to last season).

[King11Didier 916]

I f8cking love his passion. Something I hope he will transfer to the players and he is doing that successfully so far.
Also I like that he prepared the team really well and is not afraid of making bid decisions. We needed a guy like him.





 

[Antonio8 736]

conte is the added value of the team..

negative note:  cahill is slow as a turtle..also his reactivity is embarassing..

positive notes: OSCAR;ivanovic, willian, DIEGO COSTA; HAZARD

[Styles 9,790]

12 hours ago, The Skipper said:

I think Conte is waiting to get in defenders that can deal with or mask Fabregas' liability defensively before he plays Fab in that role. That makes sense to me anyway. 

That's one to look at it and to be honest I hadnt considered that. It does make sense. But one weak link in midfield is one too many.

[Unionjack 7,531]

 

 

[Fernando 6,479]

Got to watch the match in a calmer way without being mad and annoyed of thinking of last season debacle. 

And I have to say there is some good improvement. 

Good enough to make top 4? Yes. 

But good enough to win the tittle? Right now too hard to tell. I do hope we end buying some quality players before the window closes. Instead of more Hecto and Papys....

[Unionjack 7,531]

1 minute ago, Fernando said:

Got to watch the match in a calmer way without being mad and annoyed of thinking of last season debacle. 

And I have to say there is some good improvement. 

Good enough to make top 4, yes. 

But good enough to win the tittle? Right now too hard to tell. I do hope we end buying some quality players before the window closes. Instead of more Hecto and Papys....

And putting Pedro on with just 10 mins to go instead of putting Cuadrado on the bench then sticking him on and taking Wilian off at half time!

Willian hasn't been himself all pre season IMHO whereas Cuadrado is full of confidence and is better in attack. Same same with Moses. Didn't understand that unless Eden was gasping. But Moses will be goodor us this season. Id lie to see us with a Moses-Costa-Bats-Cuadradu at some stage (unless of course Lukaku comes)

[Jase 43,479]

#ConteCam and #KloppCam are going to be fun when we play Liverpool next month.

[Jase 43,479]

22 hours ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

Two strikers for about 8 minutes plus injury time. We've seen that a zillion times haven't we?

But not with this team. It's an alien concept!

20 hours ago, James said:

To be fair Jose would often throw on another striker if we were losing or badly needed the win, but the thing is that when he did it - it felt forced, the players weren't sure how to setup and the team was unbalanced, basically just asking to be countered. Conte has actually trained using the 4-4-2/4-2-4 formation with the squad already, they know their roles and duties so it's most definitely not foreign territory to them anymore. It's so refreshing knowing we can play two different systems if need be. 

The only time we appeared to have a genuine plan when changing formation to chase the win was in that home win against PSG 2 years ago.

[Unionjack 7,531]

57 minutes ago, Jason said:

But not with this team. It's an alien concept!

Can you imagine the destruction we would do with Diego and Lukaku together and a back spine of N'Golo-K2-Happy! Now I'd put us up against any team in Europe wuth that!

Hang on. I'm just counting my chickens!

[Spike 12,049]

45 minutes ago, Unionjack said:

Can you imagine the destruction we would do with Diego and Lukaku together and a back spine of N'Golo-K2-Happy! Now I'd put us up against any team in Europe wuth that!

Hang on. I'm just counting my chickens!

Lukaku is as smart as a dead squirrel.

[Blue Armour 4,300]

1 hour ago, Unionjack said:

Can you imagine the destruction we would do with Diego and Lukaku together and a back spine of N'Golo-K2-Happy! Now I'd put us up against any team in Europe wuth that!

Hang on. I'm just counting my chickens!

Not with Lukaku, sorry...Batshuayi offers more in terms of link up to me...Uses his physicality way better than Lukaku can and should

[Parky 739]

Love this guy already! 

[Unionjack 7,531]

2 hours ago, Spike said:

Lukaku is as smart as a dead squirrel.

Lets hope he proves some peeps wrong.

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[CurlyHairLikeLuiz 1,625]

11 hours ago, Unionjack said:

Can you imagine the destruction we would do with Diego and Lukaku together and a back spine of N'Golo-K2-Happy! Now I'd put us up against any team in Europe wuth that!

Hang on. I'm just counting my chickens!

They're formed from the same metal, it would never work - if we could play Costa and a clone of Costa together we still wouldn't do it.

 

Batman supplements Costa in the same way Zoum Zoum (saw him in the box in the Shed on monday!) supplements JT.

[Unionjack 7,531]

14 minutes ago, CurlyHairLikeLuiz said:

They're formed from the same metal, it would never work - if we could play Costa and a clone of Costa together we still wouldn't do it.

 

Batman supplements Costa in the same way Zoum Zoum (saw him in the box in the Shed on monday!) supplements JT.

Maybe mate. But I'd still love to give it a bash.