The Conte Thread

[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 28,156]

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

[Leif 6,006]

No offence intended (well, a little), but do realise deeply that some clowns on here wanted Stones & Simeone to lead us this season. The same clowns aren't posting anything about Simeone, because they only wanted him due to where Atletico ended up in the table, and the media reports. Who's watching Atletico consistently this season besides the couple of (admittedly not clowns) Griezmann fans? Shambolic manager in a shambolic league. Their players are incredible. They have some of the most talented players in world football. But they were as talented before his arrival. I'm so satisfied that things ended up how they did.

Ranieri won the league last season, should we go for him next? 

[Jase 43,479]

13 minutes ago, Leif said:

No offence intended (well, a little), but do realise deeply that some clowns on here wanted Stones & Simeone to lead us this season. The same clowns aren't posting anything about Simeone, because they only wanted him due to where Atletico ended up in the table, and the media reports. Who's watching Atletico consistently this season besides the couple of (admittedly not clowns) Griezmann fans? Shambolic manager in a shambolic league. Their players are incredible. They have some of the most talented players in world football. But they were as talented before his arrival. I'm so satisfied that things ended up how they did.

Ranieri won the league last season, should we go for him next? 

Simeone...shambolic manager in a shambolic league? Beginning to wonder if you're a troll. Sure, Atletico had talented players even before he arrived but look at their results and what they achieved before he took over and after he took over. And going by your logic, I guess you could say the same about Conte too, no? People only wanted him due to where Juventus ended up in the table. He's shambolic manager who managed in a one-team league. Juventus had talented players even before Conte's arrival.

[Fernando 6,586]

22 minutes ago, Leif said:

No offence intended (well, a little), but do realise deeply that some clowns on here wanted Stones & Simeone to lead us this season. The same clowns aren't posting anything about Simeone, because they only wanted him due to where Atletico ended up in the table, and the media reports. Who's watching Atletico consistently this season besides the couple of (admittedly not clowns) Griezmann fans? Shambolic manager in a shambolic league. Their players are incredible. They have some of the most talented players in world football. But they were as talented before his arrival. I'm so satisfied that things ended up how they did.

Ranieri won the league last season, should we go for him next? 

Simeone is the best manager in the world right now.

 

[The Chels 2,502]

1 hour ago, Leif said:

No offence intended (well, a little), but do realise deeply that some clowns on here wanted Stones & Simeone to lead us this season. The same clowns aren't posting anything about Simeone, because they only wanted him due to where Atletico ended up in the table, and the media reports. Who's watching Atletico consistently this season besides the couple of (admittedly not clowns) Griezmann fans? Shambolic manager in a shambolic league. Their players are incredible. They have some of the most talented players in world football. But they were as talented before his arrival. I'm so satisfied that things ended up how they did.

Ranieri won the league last season, should we go for him next? 

I think you're really overrating their players. If there's one team over the past few years that's been MUCH more than the sum of its parts, it's Simeone's Atletico. They're having a bad season (domestically) but you can't write Simeone off already.

[The Chels 2,502]

On 11/12/2016 at 9:23 PM, Captain Ahmed said:

Math class on television

4-2-3-1 is back? #ConteOut 

[Jase 43,479]

48 minutes ago, The Chels said:

I think you're really overrating their players. If there's one team over the past few years that's been MUCH more than the sum of its parts, it's Simeone's Atletico. They're having a bad season (domestically) but you can't write Simeone off already.

Think Simeone may taken Atletico as far as he could. Feels like this would be his last season at the club.

[Leif 6,006]

ok/

 

[Leif 6,006]

@ anyone who doubts me, I was backing Moses in 0'12, I was on his DICK, I said he was a prophet, everyone did, that was the joke, but i meant it, i felt it, and look now.