The Conte Thread

[MefiX19 1,092]

2 hours ago, Melanicus said:

Great interview. Those two get along very well. Talking about bad behaving player: "I prefer to kill him."

 

 

1 hour ago, CHOULO19 said:

^^

Was just coming here to post that interview. This is why I love Antonion Conte  

Lol i wanted to post it too

[AlesJuve 264]

2 hours ago, J.F. said:

Too many memories  Conte was the perfect coach for Pogba.

[petre.ispirescu 4,928]

54 minutes ago, AlesJuve said:

Too many memories  Conte was the perfect coach for Pogba.

Which one in that pic has gone to United? To me it looks like it's the one on Conte's left  Your club has hidden the real Pogba somewhere safe in Torino and sent one of his brothers to Manchester  

[Captain Ahmed 528]

*-To have and have not-*

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Many are anticipating an exciting game of attacking football under the lights and in front of the live TV cameras at the Bridge tonight, and that presents opportunities and challenges according to Antonio Conte.A Liverpool side that has scored four goals in two of their Premier League games this season but also lost 2-0 to Burnley are the opposition, and they have a clear pattern of play. Unbeaten Chelsea too are establishing our principles of play under our new boss and there is a balance to be struck.

‘We pay great attention to this game because Liverpool attack with two wingers and a forward playing very narrow in a line, and they put the full-backs very wide,’ Conte explains.‘They attack with five, six or seven players and this is difficult [to face], but there is a great possibility when you win the ball to find good space. When you are without the ball it can create many problems if you don’t find the right solution.’

One of the players who has been important to Conte’s Chelsea so far is Oscar, who started all four league games played so far.

‘I always thought this team needed to find a good balance when you have possession of the ball and when you have not, and last season Chelsea conceded 55 goals,’ says the head coach.‘Oscar is a good player with great technique and can do both phases, offensive and defensive. Now I ask him to always stay focused in the game because he is an important player for Chelsea. He is a good passer and he can score goals. He is in my plan and in Chelsea’s plan.’

Oscar’s form so far is one of the reasons why Cesc Fabregas has been beginning games on the bench. Conte spoke about the Spanish playmaker yesterday and he adds that he sees him as an example to others.

‘Cesc is working very well and improving a lot in many aspects in the defensive situation. I have to choose 11 players but if it happens that I decide to play with Cesc, another player will be on the bench and I want to see the same attitude and behaviour as Cesc.’ 

chelseafc.com

 

[Fernando 6,502]

Interesting to see how he shakes the team for the next one, because no doubt we already lost this game bar a miracle.

[MrExcalibur100 7,124]

(Half time vs Liverpool as of the time of comment.) Very disappointing. Very conservative, which means he learned nothing from Mourinho's tenure. It doesn't work with this group of players. There's no Drogba. There's no Essien. No Ballack. We can't bulldoze our way through teams with mechanical football. 

He's failed his first big test and now the honeymoon is over. If Alonso and Fabregas are not integrated immediately into the starting XI, then I don't know what else to say other than the fans are being robbed. 

 

[Tautvix 1,321]

Someone should tell Conte that we have 3 subs per game.

[lucio 5,418]

Disgusting line up and subs. Needs to sort it out asap

[xPetrCechx 13,565]

stop with the late subs!

[nono 791]

The guy is a fraud. If not for Costa's goals this season he'd have already been sacked. The lack of substitutes until the very end, the woeful football, the woeful team selection, the lethargic defensive approach until conceding. Where should we start to describe his shortcomings ? 

We replaced one shit on a stick manager for another who again plays favorites for team selection. Someone get this guy a ticket back to Italy. His football will work in a shit league with no competition but we can't play like that here any more. Every team has quality and our defense is pure shit. 

[The Mak 4,459]

Conte doing his best David Moyes impersonation.

You can stop it now Antonio. 

[ElCholo 11]

Conte has totally bottled it, tacrically outclassed in every aspect. We will be torn to shreds by the other great managers.

His subs were way too late and he was clueless. Conte can jump around but does shit at the touchline when necessary.

Before you lot make fun of Mourinho and ManUtd, make sure we aren't torn apart like this by fking Liverpool.

With Conte being our manager, I fear City, Utd and even Arsenal.

Top4 is crucial, I expect Conte to get the sack this season.

But some will be sucking his dick for running around and jumping like a kid. Today he  indeed looked like a kid.

[Despiadado.Maleante 1,046]

Wow the overreaction. His decisions were poor but with Ivanovic, Oscar, cahill, Willian ext we can't expect better than 6th place.

[xPetrCechx 13,565]

1 minute ago, Despiadado.Maleante said:

Wow the overreaction. His decisions were poor but with Ivanovic, Oscar, cahill, Willian ext we can't expect better than 6th place.

so don't play them

[Milan 17,881]

He surely needs time but he is not really helping himself with those selections and basically non existent subs. Hopefully he will learn big time from this, 5 points lost in one week.

[Henrique 9,133]

Too early to say, but Im getting an AVB feeling.

[xPetrCechx 13,565]

wake up.

he turns to last season's jose...

same shit selection, not dropping weak players, he's only talking about that + very late subs...

[Melanicus 5,208]

My only question is... Why bring on useless Pedro instead of Batshuayi?