The Conte Thread

[xPetrCechx 13,565]

Vote For Conte And Eden!!!

https://twitter.com/premierleague

[Special Juan 27,528]

I bet Hazard and Pep get the two awards.

[xPetrCechx 13,565]

2 minutes ago, Special Juan said:

I bet Hazard and Pep get the two awards.

pep in the last place...

its 27-27 Jose Vs Conte

[Darogba 112]

On 1 September 2016 at 2:20 AM, Amblève. said:

How depressing if true. Gary fucking Cahill?!

 

Cahill has actually been good so far. 

[Special Juan 27,528]

Cahill will always be 'Steady' against the WHU's, Watford's and Burnley's of the football world, his problem comes when we face real attacking talent and him switching into Michael Jackson moonwalk mode.

[Melanicus 5,208]

3 hours ago, xPetrCechx said:

Vote For Conte And Eden!!!

https://twitter.com/premierleague

I'm definitely voting for Hull manager here.

[Beepu 1,714]

25 minutes ago, Melanicus said:

I'm definitely voting for Hull manager here.

Is it actually decided by votes on twitter?? Just a popularity contest if so. Mourinho would win it just by the sheer number of UTD fans. Phelan is the one that should win it.

[Henrique 9,133]

On 31 de agosto de 2016 at 10:20 PM, Amblève. said:

How depressing if true. Gary fucking Cahill?!

 

Lol

Dan Lavene's was the guy saying, less than 24hrs before Luiz was signed, that Luiz was not coming back, and everything was only a rumor for marketing purpposes.

[xPetrCechx 13,565]

5 hours ago, Henrique said:

Lol

Dan Lavene's was the guy saying, less than 24hrs before Luiz was signed, that Luiz was not coming back, and everything was only a rumor for marketing purpposes.

PSG rejected our offer you know... only becuase luiz met with their president and asked to leave, he is here now...

[blueblood22 50]

On 8/31/2016 at 10:48 PM, Parky said:

With his latest signings maybe he wants to go back to his 3-5-2 ?

                 

          Batshuayi---Costa

                  Hazard           

             Matic-----Kante

Alonso                            Cesar

         Zouma--Terry---Luiz

 

 

 

if i will chose a 3-5-2 so i will make some changes from yours squad: first luiz out chaill in because i still not trust luiz until he will show otherwise, second all the idea of playing 5 at the back is not to play with 2 defensive midfielders so i will put matic out and put oscar in, get costa out and put hazard their because we don't have any good striker on the bench to get inside if michy and costa is in the first 11, and last as a AMC i will put willan. like this:

            hazard---michy

                  willan           

             oscar-----Kante

Alonso                            Cesar

         Zouma---terry---chaill

there is possible to get willan out and put oscar up their and fabergas as a mc near kante, because i'm not sure how willan is there, maybe loses his strength to Tear up the line.

what do you think?

[jernej93 565]

13 hours ago, blueblood22 said:

if i will chose a 3-5-2 so i will make some changes from yours squad: first luiz out chaill in because i still not trust luiz until he will show otherwise, second all the idea of playing 5 at the back is not to play with 2 defensive midfielders so i will put matic out and put oscar in, get costa out and put hazard their because we don't have any good striker on the bench to get inside if michy and costa is in the first 11, and last as a AMC i will put willan. like this:

            hazard---michy

                  willan           

             oscar-----Kante

Alonso                            Cesar

         Zouma---terry---chaill

there is possible to get willan out and put oscar up their and fabergas as a mc near kante, because i'm not sure how willan is there, maybe loses his strength to Tear up the line.

what do you think?

 

In 3-5-2 system Conte usually formated his team like this:

- 3 or at least 2 ball playing defenders at the back (Luiz, Alonso, Zouma, Ivanović)

- Midfield from 1 playmaker (Fabregas?) and 2 ball wining/box-to-box midfielders (Kante - Matić/Oscar).

- Wingbacks that can deliver on both sides of the pitch (Azpi, Alonso, Willian, Moses?)

- He usually likes to combine strenght and pace upfront (Mitchy - Hazard / Costa - Hazard / Costa - Mitchy)

My team would be:

Courtois
Luiz - Zouma - Alonso
Azpi - Oscar - Fabregas - Kante - Willian
Hazard - Costa/Mitchy

[Adnane 1,101]

I fucking miss this 

[Fernando 6,502]

Abramovich demands may curtail Conte's focus on youth at Chelsea

http://espnfc.com/club/chelsea/363/blog/post/2945369/abramovich-demands-may-curtail-conte-focus-on-youth-at-chelsea
 

[OhForAGreavsie 5,903]

On 28 August 2016 at 3:15 AM, Hybrid Angel said:

"If we had the right players we would have scored 8 goals."

The score could have entered double digits if it wasn't for lack of incisiveness and Heaton playing out of his mind. It was clear we stepped off the gas pedal once we scored the second goal. It wasn't the case of not choosing the right individuals.

Your statement regarding us having the same approach and way more importantly team couldn't be any more ridiculous. We are ever so different from Mourinho's team. This team can actually hold on to the ball for more than a minute(as seen against West Ham and today). Our press resistance is getting stronger day by day. Under Mourinho a throw in could be enough for us to lose possession. Our pressing itself can finally be called 'pressing' since we're actually pressing as a unit and we're doing it well.

The biggest improvement is the ability to create goal scoring chances in different ways. Last season under Mourinho I can barely recall any goals that weren't from set pieces, individual pieces of brilliance or major opponent mistakes. Conte actually trains his team to play attacking football. His understanding of movements in the opposition half is top notch. He made aveage players like Eder and Pelle look good because of this. Sure, Hazard is a major key to our attack but it's not like we can't score without him. There are significant improvements in regards to our attacking play. 

People are not 'seeing just results.' There are clear improvements which you seem to fail to see in the team in many different aspects which I have outlined above. At the same time, I think our supporters are not being blinded by results. I'm fairly certain everyone knows that there are certain gaping holes specifically at the back but to disregard the major improvements we have made due to the board not addressing the CB and LB issue is simply wrong. 

Sorry for coming to this conversation a bit late but I've been down, and off football, since the David Luiz deal. I'm not over it yet but I'm doing my best. :-)

I think you are drawing conclusions too soon. For example, West Ham tried very hard to allow us to play very, very well against them, but we still failed. Against Watford, we were horrible for all but a few minutes. We won comprehensively against Burnley but only after Bristol Rovers had exposed the criminal lack of depth in our squad.

There are improvements, and I am very optimistic about the help Alonso can give us, but we mustn't  read too much into what we've seen so far. For the most part it's been very disappointing. Goodness only knows how things would have gone had Eden not been on his game.

Let's keep in mind that journalist who, at the start of the season before last, was describing our team as the best Premier League side ever. Swallows and summers and all that.

[DDA 9,726]

45 minutes ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

Sorry for coming to this conversation a bit late but I've been down, and off football, since the David Luiz deal. I'm not over it yet but I'm doing my best. :-)

I think you are drawing conclusions too soon. For example, West Ham tried very hard to allow us to play very, very well against them, but we still failed. Against Watford, we were horrible for all but a few minutes. We won comprehensively against Burnley but only after Bristol Rovers had exposed the criminal lack of depth in our squad.

There are improvements, and I am very optimistic about the help Alonso can give us, but we mustn't  read too much into what we've seen so far. For the most part it's been very disappointing. Goodness only knows how things would have gone had Eden not been on his game.

Let's keep in mind that journalist who, at the start of the season before last, was describing our team as the best Premier League side ever. Swallows and summers and all that.

West Ham tried their very, very, very best to let us play good against then!!

 

??? 

[kellzfresh 7,229]

Cahill said: “Everyone saw what happened. We went from winning the league having stayed at the top all year to the disaster of last season.
“We lost our way tactically, everyone's head was in different directions.
"When I say about pulling together as a team, I felt everyone had different situations going on individually whether that be if you're playing or not, the manager, or this or that. Different distractions are never healthy.
"It is the hardest thing [when everyone is not on the same wavelength]. People talk about as if you wake up one day and suddenly you're a bog standard player. It doesn't happen.
"You always have the quality and ability, it's the mindset, everyone being fully focussed on what they're doing, no distractions."
Chelsea look much more like their old selves since the summer arrival of Italian taskmaster Antonio Conte and have won their first four games this season.
Defender Cahill told BBC Five Live: "We needed organisation. The main thing for me is how fit and sharp we look, and the organisation in terms of where players need to be. "It was important that we regroup and get everyone focussed back to where we should be.
"We needed to have a game-plan, have the tactics and way we want to play drilled into everyone and everybody buy into it. That's what we have seen early on.
"This season we have come in, worked very hard and we are buying into what is happening here.
“That's the most important thing to move forward."

 

 

 

We have a game-plan now. No more looking confused in attack like we haven't played with each other before. 

[OhForAGreavsie 5,903]

59 minutes ago, DDA said:

West Ham tried their very, very, very best to let us play good against then!!

 

??? 

We were poor against West Ham but they were utterly, utterly useless. 

[Blue Colored Sky 1,807]

1 hour ago, OhForAGreavsie said:

Sorry for coming to this conversation a bit late but I've been down, and off football, since the David Luiz deal. I'm not over it yet but I'm doing my best. :-)

I think you are drawing conclusions too soon. For example, West Ham tried very hard to allow us to play very, very well against them, but we still failed. Against Watford, we were horrible for all but a few minutes. We won comprehensively against Burnley but only after Bristol Rovers had exposed the criminal lack of depth in our squad.

There are improvements, and I am very optimistic about the help Alonso can give us, but we mustn't  read too much into what we've seen so far. For the most part it's been very disappointing. Goodness only knows how things would have gone had Eden not been on his game.

Let's keep in mind that journalist who, at the start of the season before last, was describing our team as the best Premier League side ever. Swallows and summers and all that.

We let like only 3 good chances in those 3 games. Burnley didn't have a shot on target. We are very solid, hardly threaten but surely we lack another creator apart from Hazard.