The Conte Thread

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

1 minute ago, BlueLion. said:

As far as I'm concerned, his ridiculous decision to bring on Barkley cost us the game. Unfair to throw Ross on, who looked incredibly short of match sharpness. 

coward as usual... why not to add attacking force instead of bats?!

[Mufassir08 2,400]

Just now, xPetrCechx said:

coward as usual... why not to add attacking force instead of bats?!

Ummm Bats is a striker...

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

1 minute ago, Mufassir08 said:

Ummm Bats is a striker...

*Willian

[lucio 5,418]

the formation is dogshit nowadays , he needs to realise this

[BlueLion. 21,491]

GO BACK TO 4-2-3-1

[OneMoSalah 8,883]

2 minutes ago, BlueLion. said:

As far as I'm concerned, his ridiculous decision to bring on Barkley cost us the game. Unfair to throw Ross on, who looked incredibly short of match sharpness. 

Tbf Barkley, having played next to 0 football this season (think he’s a good player but needs time to get used to us and vice versa) or Batshuayi, who is pretty useless (okay he was decent v Brighton but in 18 months how often can we go “yeah he played decent?”), isn't exactly a great choice to have.

I am surprised Batshuayi didn’t start but again not surprised he didn’t throw him on when Willian got injured because last 20 mins Arsenal defenders are tired etc more chance of him doing something I feel. Plus it’s so obvious he doesn’t trust him. Not even worth loaning him out just sell him, talk about stunting your career.

[lucio 5,418]

change to like 4 -3 -3 or something , instantly gets rid of two shit players from xi (alonso and moses) ,

[Henrique 9,133]

Outclassed by Wenger again. 

[xPetrCechx 13,570]

Stop Sub Attacking Player for a Midf....

[Kendrick 339]

One win in 8 against  Wenger.  Hilarious.

[El P. 1,354]

I think Bats needed to start, but Pedro gave that nice assist so I'm not so sure... but we should have gone all-offense later. Bring Michy for Alonso, put Pedro on the LWB, something like that, it was clear we needed to go all in.

Bad performance from our manager, even worse from our players.

[Polo7 3,496]

1 minute ago, Kendrick said:

One win in 8 against  Wenger.  Hilarious.

Who gives a shit? We won the league last year and sit above them this year. 

[Jase 43,479]

We may have lost to 2 stupid deflected goals but Conte really made some stupid decisions tonight:

1. Why bring Barkley on for Willian when he hasn't played for 6-7 months? Did his best tonight but looked a little lost. Why not just bring Batshuayi on?

2. Wenger may have switched his formation in the second half but why oh why, did we switch to 3-5-2? Think that system has worked only against Atletico this season and it's been awful otherwise.

3. Why did we stick with the back 3/5 all the way till the end? Doesn't even matter if we lose 2-1 or 3-1 since we were already losing at that point!

4. Why the hell did Conte, again, bring a RWB for a RWB? (Benitez would be so proud of that!) Were already 2-1 down by then. Why not bring Bats on for Moses instead and put Pedro to WB or something? I remember Conte used to be flexible with his formation in games last season. This season, he has stubbornly persisted with the same formation. It's always 3-4-3 or 3-5-2. Why not play with a back 4 when we're chasing games?

[Laylabelle 9,534]

I thought we'd end up playing for the draw and go out right at the end.. So good that didn't happen! 

[FabHazard 655]

3 minutes ago, Jason said:

We may lost to 2 stupid deflected goals but Conte really made some stupid decisions tonight:

1. Why bring Barkley on for Willian when he hasn't played for 6-7 months? Did his best tonight but looked a little lost. Why not just bring Batshuayi on?

2. Wenger may have switched his formation in the second half but why oh why, did we switch to 3-5-2? Think that system has worked only against Atletico this season and it's been awful otherwise.

3. Why did we stick with the back 3/5 all the way till the end? Doesn't even matter if we lose 2-1 or 3-1 since we were already losing at that point!

4. Why the hell did Conte, again, bring a RWB for a RWB? (Benitez would be so proud of that!) Were already 2-1 down by then. Why not bring Bats on for Moses instead and put Pedro to WB or something? I remember Conte used to be flexible with his formation in games last season. This season, he has stubbornly persisted with the same formation. It's always 3-4-3 or 3-5-2. Why not play with a back 4 when we're chasing games?

We did not switch to 3-5-2...It is 3-4-3 with barkley in place of willian...Barkley is somewhat more defensive than willian...So the formation looked like 3-5-2