Antonio Conte

[Lui]

Benevento played for about 4 minutes today. This was a training game as it should've been.

Last 10 minutes with Sanchez, sensi and eriksen was my favorite. Showed some flare, fluidity and general happiness to not be forcing it out to the wings.

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[Pimpin]

Before that own goal they were making disco with ranocchia and both you and me know what can happen from nowhere against us. The fuck are you talking about? We were missing everything. We are lucky that we got an own goal. Would be really hard otherwise.

the fact that we were missing everything does not imply that they were missing anything, they literally had 0 chances

 

[Candreva Crosses]

the fact that we were missing everything does not imply that they were missing anything, they literally had 0 chances

So missing everything makes the game easy?

We had alot of luck, Ranocchia tackled the guy in the penalty area earning a red and a penalty, does that not imply to you that the game was hard? It took us over 50 minutes to win, could've been 1-0. Many could've been, that does imply the game was not easy for me atleast.

 

[Demenza Senile]

I hope somehow he stays on next year too.I want stability here and imo Conte has us performing at our peak in the league.The UCL was very unlucky.I wish we could have given him a more lethal forward this January but perhaps we can do that in the summer.But with all the instability of the club i doubt he stays on.I hope he can win the Scudetto at the very least.Overall i am happy with his work here irrespective of our European shortcomings.I dont rate this squad a lot and for me nobody would have these bunch of shitters challenging for the title really.I still believe this squad is not good enough to win the league under any other manager but so far Conte has them in the reckoning.

 

[CafeCordoba]

I fear with our probable cost cutting shit instead of investing more to the squad will turn next season into a disaster as Conte just melts down when he can't win and doesn't have a legitimate chance to do it (I expect Juve to invest to their squad to be again the only real top dog).

 

[Bluenine]

Pirlo --> Eriksen
Pogba --> Barella
Vidal --> Vidal

Its ironic how Conte's midfield seems to have gone through a full circle in the last 10 years and come to the same point

 

[Il Drago]

It's too early to discuss the coach situation. Let's see who are gonna be our owners in the summer and how we finish the season and then we can talk about the best way to move forward.

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I fear with our probable cost cutting shit instead of investing more to the squad will turn next season into a disaster as Conte just melts down when he can't win and doesn't have a legitimate chance to do it (I expect Juve to invest to their squad to be again the only real top dog).

I am one of Conte's biggest critics but tbh he has dealt with our financial situation since last summer in a very professional way. It has helped the management has lowered their targets though.

 

[brehme1989]

Apparently no one will mention how Pirlo didmantles his non-existent plan.

We started great because Juventus came to play. When we have Lautaro, Alexis and Barella (even Darmian could have been useful), we are always going to kill them.

Their goals came in because of our shitty gifts, but most of the time our players were needlessly passing the ball around, Brozovic who was the team's key link was suffocated by pressing and we couldn't bring it forward. In the few moments we did, it was just two or three players against a set defense.

The gobbi adjusted their game and once they were in a very favorable position with two away goals, they just sat and watched us torment ourselves.

The 3-5-2 needs to be dropped in important games as it leaves us with the necessity to play Ashley Young which is a disaster in the making ever since game 1 this season.

 

[rfU]

The 3-5-2 needs to be dropped in important games as it leaves us with the necessity to play Ashley Young which is a disaster in the making ever since game 1 this season.

I'm not too caught up on formations but tactics definitely need to change. Bemoaning the fact that we don't have a vice-kaku is useless. Pep doesn't have a vice-Aguero, Flick doesn't have a vice-Lewa, Zidane doesn't have a vice-Benzema, and so on. Conte needs to adjust.

 

[CafeCordoba]

We ran the match in the second half basically. We didn't concede hardly any real chances to Juve apart from those two gift goals which were more like anomalies then any product of our failed system.

We created chances with our high press and aggressive play upfront. Our problem against Juve was the lack of scoring goals in those huge chances we had.

But I agree Conte should switch to 4-4-2 / 4-3-3 faster when we are trailing. Our left flank is fucking dead when it comes to LWBs so they indeed do not bring enough to our game to justify their presence on the pitch. Bastoni is enough for the left flank in those cases where the opponent just sits deep and can't do shit (like Juve yesterday in the second half). One extra midfielder who can play the ball (Eriksen or Sensi) brings more to the table in those situations. Or Sanchez if LuLa is already on the pitch.

 

[Materazzi_23]

Biggest problem for me is the lack of goalscorers in the team itself. Only Lukaku and Lautaro can score 10+ goals every season. All the others are happy when they reach max 5 goals. We are creating chances so that isn't the problem, the problem is finishing the chances when you get them. If we were a little bit more clinical in front of goal we would have won 3-2/4-2. So for the first time I'm not going to blame Conte for the result.(But I'm not going to make a habit of this.)

 

[brehme1989]

Conte did not make us lose, but he didn't do anything to change his side's fortunes. Spalletti would have been crucified if he had a similar reaction.

 

[rfU]

Biggest problem for me is the lack of goalscorers in the team itself. Only Lukaku and Lautaro can score 10+ goals every season. All the others are happy when they reach max 5 goals.

How many teams have 2+ players scoring double digits? Bayern with all that fire power have only 2 players in double digits (Muller and Lewa). For all their possession, none of City's players have reached double digit goals yet this season. Goals are not a problem (we have the highest goal tally in Italy). Defense. Instead of winning 3-2/4-2 we should've won 2-0/1-0.

 

[Il Drago]

How many teams have 2+ players scoring double digits? Bayern with all that fire power have only 2 players in double digits (Muller and Lewa). For all their possession, none of City's players have reached double digit goals yet this season. Goals are not a problem (we have the highest goal tally in Italy). Defense. Instead of winning 3-2/4-2 we should've won 2-0/1-0.

We may have two players with double digits amount of goals but apart from our attacking duo and Hakimi we aren't really getting goals from the rest of the squad. The fact D'Ambrosio is our 4th top scorer with 3 goals tells you everything you need to know about our midfield contribution in scoring. We also can't compare our numbers with teams that play with a lone striker. We have a different setup. We play with two forwards so it's normal for both of them to have double digit number of goals.

 

[rockball]

How many teams have 2+ players scoring double digits? Bayern with all that fire power have only 2 players in double digits (Muller and Lewa). For all their possession, none of City's players have reached double digit goals yet this season. Goals are not a problem (we have the highest goal tally in Italy). Defense. Instead of winning 3-2/4-2 we should've won 2-0/1-0.

It's not about how many can score 10+ goals. What makes the team strong is how many can score 5+. Bayern has a lot of those. All their forwards, midfielders, wingers, can do it. It makes it difficult to stop a team when that happens. We only have Hakimi in addition to LuLa.

Though I also think it is due to Conte's fucked up tactics. In any other team, Vidal and Eriksen would be scoring much more.

 

[Materazzi_23]

How many teams have 2+ players scoring double digits? Bayern with all that fire power have only 2 players in double digits (Muller and Lewa). For all their possession, none of City's players have reached double digit goals yet this season. Goals are not a problem (we have the highest goal tally in Italy). Defense. Instead of winning 3-2/4-2 we should've won 2-0/1-0.

You are missing the point. It's great we score a lot of goals against relegation sides but in the matches that matters we are missing to many chances and are heavily dependant on Lula. We have the highest tally in Italy because we scored 9 against Benevento and 6 against Crotone etc. It doesn't mean anything if you are missing the chances we missed yesterday. And not only yesterday, every CL match we missed chances we should have scored and I can remember a couple of Serie A matches also.

I'm not talking about players getting double digits. We have Lukaku, Lautaro with double digits and Hakimi 6 goals. After that comes D'Ambrosio with 3 goals, ALL of our midfielders scored 2 goals max, that's just shitty.

Bayern has Sane (7 goals) Gnabry( 6 goals) Goretzka/Coman (5 goals) Kimmich (4 goals) etc. The point is that if Lukaku or Lautaro doesn't score we don't have any other threat where Bayern and City have multiple players who can score a goal and that's a problem. Yes we are leaking goals to easily but that isn't the biggest problem imo mostly that are mistakes from our own players and that's because we have some players who aren't good enough to play for Inter not because we are getting outplayed or anything like that.

 

[rfU]

I'm not talking about players getting double digits. We have Lukaku, Lautaro with double digits and Hakimi 6 goals. After that comes D'Ambrosio with 3 goals, ALL of our midfielders scored 2 goals max, that's just shitty.

Bayern has Sane (7 goals) Gnabry( 6 goals) Goretzka/Coman (5 goals) Kimmich (4 goals) etc. The point is that if Lukaku or Lautaro doesn't score we don't have any other threat where Bayern and City have multiple players who can score a goal and that's a problem.

The post I quoted was about the lack of players scoring 10+ goals. In any case I agree with what you're saying, there's a problem of goal-disbursement wherein if both Kaku and Toro were out where would the goals come from. I agree with that. But surely Conte's tactics are to blame for this. How often are our midfielders presented with clear cut opportunities to score? Both Barella's goals were worldies. Hakimi's too. We waste a lot of set piece situations by playing it short or with poor unrehearsed deliveries. When I look at the opportunities carved out for Gnarby and Sane, I really can't fault our midfielders who are fed scraps. Same as last season (Candreva was our 3rd goal scorer with 7). Conte has us set up to feed Kaku and that's what we're getting.

 

[Macktk]

We are being buried under an avalanche of this guy's inadequacy.

 

[bubba zanetti]

Did he switch to plan B?

 

[armendsh]

What happened between him and Agnelli after the match? Even Marotta was pissed