The Conte Thread

[11Drogba 2,000]

Blind trust in the wrong person is a fatal mistake. I don't know how he thinks we can win the league with ten men on the pitch.

[BlueLion. 21,491]

Looking at the fixtures, we are still massive favourites. Next week is a massive opportunity to inflict serious psychological damage. We better fucking turn up as we've been shit in general against the top sides this season. 

[Jase 43,479]

 

 

Sounds as though Conte's starting to raise that white flag...

[Mufassir08 2,400]

He's trying to curb the expectations a bit to lessen the pressure on the players.

[nono 791]

Well there's a lot of pressure on him now. Our downturn is coming at the worst possible time because Tottenham are comfortably putting teams away.

[Special Juan 27,421]

Spurs are putting teams away with ease because the opposition is very weak, and they should be. Watch that Bournemouth team from yesterday, they didn't even put up a fight.

 

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

There's no pressure on Conte whatsoever. Success this season should have been a top 4 finish. We have the 4th best squad and are the worst team technically in the top 6. We finished 10th last season and our board failed him in the summer. The fact that we've been top since October and at certain moments, 10 points clear is insane. 

[BlueLion. 21,491]

2 minutes ago, nono said:

Well there's a lot of pressure on him now. Our downturn is coming at the worst possible time because Tottenham are comfortably putting teams away.

Quit that panicking! Spurs won't pick up maximum points. Even if Spurs pick up maximum points, I thoroughly expect us to beat those teams we're due to play, with the exception of Everton. That one might be a tricky one; I'd take a draw now if you offered it to me. But we'll more than likely win our home games and we're good enough to overcome WBA away from home. The time to panic is if we're second place. I'd rather be leading than chasing with just 18 points left to play for. 

[Blue Armour 4,278]

4 minutes ago, Jason said:

 

 

Sounds as though Conte's starting to raise that white flag...

Sounds to me more like he's a bit rankled by the fact that this defeat was because of Mourinho more than anything...the way he keeps referring to the 'last season'.

Didn't look like how he normally does on the touchline barking instructions.

Both him and the squad need to forget about this game and get back into focus.

Hope the upcoming FA cup semi final can do that

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

According to him, Alonso was ill the night before the game. That must have thrown his entire game plan out of the window. I've said it a thousand times already today, but without a single piece in place in our 3-4-3, particularly a position as crucial as LWB, defensively and especially offensively, the system collapses and is officially useless. Hazard had at times, 2-3 bodies on him today with Herrera every time he recieved the ball. With Alonso's overlaps, that won't have happened. Or at least it won't have been anywhere as effective. 

 

[killer1257 3,282]

Just now, MrExcalibur100 said:

According to him, Alonso was ill the night before the game. That must have thrown his entire game plan out of the window. I've said it a thousand times already today, but without a single piece in place in our 3-4-3, particularly a position as crucial as LWB, defensively and especially offensively, the system collapses and is officially useless. Hazard had at times, 2-3 bodies on him today with Herrera every time he recieved the ball. With Alonso's overlaps, that won't have happened. Or at least it won't have been anywhere as effective. 

 

He coould have played Nathan Ake,who played a lot of games as a LB in the PL,so there were good options,ubt Conte never gave Ake a fair chance.

[Kendrick 339]

Poor, poor display by Conte today. Got it completley wrong. I know it's not ideal to lose a player just before kick off but every decision he made since then was amatur at best. Instead of replacing Alonso with Ake and that's it, he decided to move Azpi, get Zouma, then switch Azpi and Moses, then sub Moses and move Zouma to the right and Azpi back to the left. Seriously what the hell.

Not to mention that he is ignoring for the past three months Costa's horrible form. 4 points gap and panic that's on his head.

[Jase 43,479]

10 minutes ago, BlueLion. said:

Quit that panicking! Spurs won't pick up maximum points. Even if Spurs pick up maximum points, I thoroughly expect us to beat those teams we're due to play, with the exception of Everton. That one might be a tricky one; I'd take a draw now if you offered it to me. But we'll more than likely win our home games and we're good enough to overcome WBA away from home. The time to panic is if we're second place. I'd rather be leading than chasing with just 18 points left to play for. 

We still have Southampton to come and should point out that we have beaten them only ONCE in our last 4 home games.

[Jase 43,479]

17 minutes ago, Mufassir08 said:

He's trying to curb the expectations a bit to lessen the pressure on the players.

Maybe you're right but if we throw the title away, after boasting a 10-point lead, it will be regarded as a massive failure.

[Mufassir08 2,400]

Just now, Jason said:

Maybe you're right but if we throw the title away, after boasting a 10-point lead, it will be regarded as a massive failure.

It'll give me clinical depression as well.

[Irakozium257 350]

2 minutes ago, Kendrick said:

Poor, poor display by Conte today. Got it completley wrong. I know it's not ideal to lose a player just before kick off but every decision he made since then was amatur at best. Instead of replacing Alonso with Ake and that's it, he decided to move Azpi, get Zouma, then switch Azpi and Moses, then sub Moses and move Zouma to the right and Azpi back to the left. Seriously what the hell.

Not to mention that he is ignoring for the past three months Costa's horrible form. 4 points gap and panic that's on his head.

Exactly, just because he has taken us so far, he should be blamed for his disgusting naivety. If an average Joe of a fan can see Diego's degenerate lack of commitment, then surely him and his staff can, yet he keeps playing that useless moron. He'll surely play him on Saturday and we'll get humiliated by those slimes in white. I really hope Matic and Diego never appear again on the start XI, but it feels like a pathetic pipe dream.

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

That post match interview though... I thought he was about to erupt when he said he did not understand that question. You could feel how irritated and pissed off he was in that moment. Also it was the first time this season when he partially mentioned something about the referring mistakes but thankfully he didn't go deeper into that.

The way stories go about him about taking defeats as a "virtual state of death" I would not bet against Chelsea winning both the title and FA Cup. This loss could be the catalyst of Chelsea's final run of games just like the Arsenal one. Conte looked destroyed and I'm sure there is going to be little to no sleep for him in the coming days. Most importantly he took the blame on him and didn't throw his players under the bus like a certain manager does after every negative result.

 

[Special Juan 27,421]

I'd still have him in charge over the cunt that beat us today. Conte has had to mop up the mess the so called special one left, he's done a fabulous job unlike the deluded one.