The Conte Thread

[Jase 43,479]

Apparently, the person who wrote that article on the Mirror is a City fan. Probably still bitter about last week.

Let's see if the other media outlets, journalists etc pick up on it.

[Tomo 21,733]

I did joke that us and City would get points deducted to help Liverpool.

[BoyBlue96 990]

1 minute ago, Tomo said:

I did joke that us and City would get points deducted to help Liverpool.

Or Arsene FC.

[BlueLyon 9,359]

Unbelievable...

But from reading that article which looks biased and maybe not so reliable, I understand the deduction may come if our players breach rules again in near future. 

Still shocking if it actualy happens.

[jernej93 565]

We are making our statement right here, right now! Take our points if you want, it won't be enough, we are going for title and we will crush everyone on our way  Cmon boys, destroy WBA and make the league tremble even more

[Antonio8 736]

must kill this PL right now--

 

 

[BlueLyon 9,359]

13 hours ago, Chelsea Legend 11 said:

what team has a threat for goals from CM? Liverpool?

I would say only Pogba can be a threat from midfield in PL. But he has long way to go to reach Lamps or even Yaya. 

[Belgiannutt 3,201]

Wouldn't say we're overachieving. We're not playing better then we can we're simply playing at 100% of our ability. 

 

18 hours ago, Blue-in-me-Veins said:

 Your latter paragraph is absolutely correct. The PL simply put, is a Striker's league, always has, always will be. And ours is on fuckin fire. But we have absolutely no goal threat CM, none. 

Hazard and Pedro simply have to be a consistent source of goals if we are to have a serious title challenge. Costa has 11 goals, Hazard 8, And everyone else has 3 or less. 

And Matic, Kante, Moses, Willian, Cesc, are simply NOT known for their goal scoring. 

When we won the PL title two years ago, the top goal scorers in PL were: Costa-20, Hazard-14, Drogba & Remy (combined)= 11goals, Oscar = 6. So thats 45 goals from our Forwards, and 6 from CM. 

Unless Pedro gets 11, idk who else becomes our 3rd goal scoring threat, because we also don't play with 2 Strikers either. May just have to hope Costa stays healthy and is put in a position to net 30 goals. Which would be a Herculean effort from him, but not out of the question. 

Dybala/Griezmann needed immediately in the summer. Or some other WC option to play RF. 

"Only" 2 goalscorers is actually perfectly fine (for now). Only the absolute top teams, Real Madrid and Barcelona  have three goalscorers ( high double digits 15-25 goals).

As long as Costa and Hazard keep up their goalscoring form we should be fine. 

Also about not having any goals from CM. Do note we are playing a different formation where the main responsibility to score goals falls onto the front 3 with our wingbacks pushing forward making it a front 5. The job of our CM's is to simply mop up behind that front 5 and offer a passing outlet out from the oppositions attacking third. So it's a bit unfair to expect goals from those 2 considering they rarely find themselves into goalscoring positions.

[Chelsea4 1,521]

 

[Jype 6,398]

Remember when Nov-Dec was a horrible time for Chelsea and the slump always ended up with tons of points lost?

Yeah, I don't miss those times either.

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

Are you joking????

 

[Captain Ahmed 528]

Math class on television

[Leif 6,006]

18 minutes ago, Chelsea Legend 11 said:

Are you joking????

 

1:06 made me choke

[Leif 6,006]

Even Conte says here that Costa can improve. No whiff or sniff of him being the best striker around, yet. I'm glad.

(It's so satisfying to get a long post-match interview that's just enjoyable. I've never experienced this before.)

[Chelsea Legend 11 4,062]

2 minutes ago, Leif said:

Even Conte says here that Costa can improve. No whiff or sniff of him being the best striker around, yet. I'm glad.

(It's so satisfying to get a long post-match interview that's just enjoyable. I've never experienced this before.)

the poster beanymansports usually posts full post match interviews.

[BoyBlue96 990]

This man does not deserve the FA vomiting on us with that point deduction bullshit. Would be an insult to what this man has done with and for us after the Arsenal game.

[Jase 43,479]

Don't think this has been mentioned yet but credit to Conte for tweaking the system yesterday as well, not just changing the personnel. Started with 3-4-3, switched to 4-1-4-1 when that wasn't working, got the goal and then went to a 5-3-2 to see out the win. Not exactly ideal that we sat back after going 1-0 up but we defended well, didn't give West Brom a chance and got the job done. So, well played.

[Special Juan 27,439]

No MOTM curse here.....we keep smashing it up.