The Conte Thread

[Fernando 6,453]

6 minutes ago, TheIceMan said:

Did you mean Contenaccio!!!

 

Nothing more to say then:

 

 

[Roquila 1,335]

Time to turn gay i guess

[Eidur the Spider 4,515]

[Beepu 1,714]

I remember a few months ago some here were doubting him and saying things like "if only we had Pep." I don't remember who it was but if you are reading this, do everyone and yourself a favour and just retire from the internet. 

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

I love this  "He knows how to make problems go away"

[Eidur the Spider 4,515]

[Pseudo 92]

He was outcoached today in my opinion. But I love the spirit he has instilled in the squad.

[Blue Armour 4,278]

10 minutes ago, Pseudo said:

He was outcoached today in my opinion. But I love the spirit he has instilled in the squad.

I wouldn't say out-coached. Granted, Costa made things easier, but there were more or less equal opportunities for both teams to make the most of some shoddy defending. City just failed to take their chances. And like you said, the spirit instilled in the squad has made it possible for defenders to bail each other out, especially with the last-ditch clearances in the second half.

[The Chels 2,502]

It's normal to be outplayed against a Guardiola team at home. In some ways it reminded me of the Bayern-Atletico game in last year's CL SF.

Sure we were lucky not to go 2-0 down (although we could ourselves have taken the lead through Hazard...) and there's a lot of work still to be done, but we exploited their defensive weaknesses with ruthless efficiency. 

That's how you win these games.

[Special Juan 27,424]

Our mentality was the best part about it today and I bet Conte told them at HT that if they kept giving themselves chances we would score.

[LDN Blue 7,903]

He does need to address these wide areas, we seem to be exposed in. Alonso properly caught out today, teams are going to have watched this and Tottenham and seen we can be scored against. We're lucky because we have enough attacking power to outscore the likes of Spurs and Citeh, but areas need to be reinforced.

[communicate 2,703]

8 minutes ago, Pseudo said:

He was outcoached today in my opinion. But I love the spirit he has instilled in the squad.

I disagree but Pep is a very good manager at finding the weakness of other team. They exploited the space between our cb and wb  also gary cahill lack of speed. 

Conte did something similar with Costa against Otamendi. IMO both manager has good game plan, City has the better player and they execute it really well other than finishing.

We could not dominate like City but we were more ruthless

[communicate 2,703]

2 minutes ago, LDN Blue said:

He does need to address these wide areas, we seem to be exposed in. Alonso properly caught out today, teams are going to have watched this and Tottenham and seen we can be scored against. We're lucky because we have enough attacking power to outscore the likes of Spurs and Citeh, but areas need to be reinforced.

Cahill lack of pace is a major problem imo

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Just now, communicate said:

Cahill lack of pace is a major problem imo

Yeah and Alonso isn't blessed with much either. This is an apt time to start blooding Zouma on that side, he's quick enough to be able to get out to those wide areas before the problem develops. Cahill and Alonso painfully exposed today.

[communicate 2,703]

Just now, LDN Blue said:

Yeah and Alonso isn't blessed with much either. This is an apt time to start blooding Zouma on that side, he's quick enough to be able to get out to those wide areas before the problem develops. Cahill and Alonso painfully exposed today.

He probably need more gametime and today's game is definitely not the right time

[LDN Blue 7,903]

Just now, communicate said:

He probably need more gametime and today's game is definitely not the right time

Yeah of course, for the short term that will hold. But once teams start to focus on that weakness of our team, Conte's hand will be forced.

[MefiX19 1,092]

Just now, communicate said:

He probably need more gametime and today's game is definitely not the right time

next 5 games are easy, we neee to start resting some players and give chance to zouma

[communicate 2,703]

Just now, MefiX19 said:

next 5 games are easy, we neee to start resting some players and give chance to zouma

We need to slowly integrate him into the team,  I honestly don't remember how he is on the ball. I just remember Zouma to be a really quick and strong cb