Antonio Conte

Il Drago said:

Julio Tous Leaves Backroom Staff At Inter After Disagreement With Antonio Conte

Inter athletic trainer Julio Tous left the Nerazzurri a few weeks ago due to disagreements with coach Antonio Conte, according to a report from today’s paper edition of the Rome based newspaper Corriere dello Sport.

The report details how the Spanish trainer, who specializes in gym work, left the Milanese club a few weeks ago, due to disagreements with Conte. The duo have worked together at both Juventus and Chelsea, and so his departure will have disappointed the Lecce born coach, who is know to have a fondness of working with a core group of staff.

Tous may look to join the Spanish national team, the report continues, and so now Inter will have to find a replacement. Athletic trainers are especially important at this stage of the season, as the Coronavirus stop has seen players remain essentially housebound for the last three months. The remaining 12 games of the season will be tough for all players.

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Does anybody know why? Any rumors?

Why we always start well but have meltdown in the second half?

IRR26 said:

Why we always start well but have meltdown in the second half?

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because we have mentally weak players and we have shit bench

It’s nothing to do with Conte imo. Like pimpin said, we’ve got a lot of mental midgets on this team. One thing goes wrong and all the bad thoughts and feelings of year’s past come rushing back. Hopefully we can get over that mental hurdle through some consistency at the club. I remember Liverpool having similar issues a few years ago.

Game plan was beautiful today, just lacking the continuity.

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Shocked to hear the news regarding fitness trainer, thanks for sharing. Conte publicly stated fitness is NOT the issue. I also wonder what happened... hope they can still make up.

Although Sampdoria are battling to avoid relegation, the goals we have scored in the 1st half were result of a very pleasing team-play.

Conte: 'Inter have to kill games off'

Antonio Conte assures Inter are still in the Scudetto race after beating Sampdoria 2-1, but they ‘must learn to kill – in a sporting sense – the games off.’ The Nerazzurri were absolutely dominant in the first half and scored two excellent team goals with Romelu Lukaku and Lautaro Martinez, but somewhat petered out after the break. They still held on for a 2-1 victory over Samp that puts them within six points of leaders Juventus.

“This evening, we had no choice but to get the victory so we could close the gap to six points,” said Conte in his press conference.

“We fuel the hope that we can achieve something extraordinary. It’s true that we could’ve sealed it earlier by making more of our chances, but instead we conceded at the first Samp attempt and got a little anxious. It was a good performance, anyway.
“I repeat, it’s not a fitness issue, but when we have scoring opportunities and do not take them, which also happened in the Coppa Italia with Napoli, all it takes is one lucky ricochet and it’s all up for grabs again.
“I hope these games will help us realise we must kill – in a sporting sense – the opponent and kill the game when we have the chance.”

Eriksen is settling into his trequartista role behind Lukaku and Lautaro, as Conte changed the team’s tactics to fit the Dane.
“We must continue using these new solutions. We had more time to work with Christian, both tactically and physically, during the lockdown. He has settled in, but must be even more determined and score more goals.
“We’re six points off the top with 12 rounds to go. There’s no margin for error, whereas Lazio and Juventus can have the odd mistake and get away with it.
“This is why need that ferocity in front of goal, because with a strong lead, we can then relax on the ball.”

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»Totally agree with Conte. My kind suggestion is that he could use the subs quicker (Sanchez earlier), especially that 5 are now allowed.

Fingers crossed Bologna can hold juBentus.

Maybe that guy just wanted to get that Spain NT role at the end of the day.

Our problem is still we leak goals. We could kill game by scoring more, we could also kill game by shutting down.

thatdude I think it's a bit lazy to just blame "mental midget" players whatever that even means. It's a team, lead by the head coach, one cannot just blame individual players when it's been like this for the whole season.

As for the subs, yesterday I'm not sure did Conte had that many options? Lautaro was playing well, maybe WBs could have been taken out a bit earlier. When our midfield is ready (if ever?), he has a lot of options to rotate even during the matches like take Eriksen out after an hour and introduce Sensi etc.

I don’t think it’s lazy at all, Conte hasn’t even been here one season yet. Everywhere else he’s gone in his career his teams haven’t struggled with these issues. Meanwhile inter has been struggling with these issues for years. This game was a lot like the one against Torino a few years ago when we went up 2-0 in the first half playing great football. Then collapsed in the 2nd half and were lucky to finish 2-2. The only difference is now we are better going forward so we took some pressure off our defense and Samp doesn’t have Belotti. I think it’s hard to blame Conte for a mentality we’ve suffered with for years.

The only thing I have to say about Conte is that he really should try making early subs especially players like Ashley Young and Candreva who can't play 90 minutes of the high press we played in the first half. There was a long ball from a Sampdoria player that was too heavy and Candreva was even struggling to track back and go for the pass to Handanovic. The GK had to rush out and protect the ball until it went out of the pitch.

But then again if the replacements are Moses and that Biraghi donkey, I can see why. Maybe use D'ambrosio, he might be limited but he is a warrior, he can be a placeholder for 20-30 minutes imo.

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I don’t think it’s lazy at all, Conte hasn’t even been here one season yet. Everywhere else he’s gone in his career his teams haven’t struggled with these issues. Meanwhile inter has been struggling with these issues for years. This game was a lot like the one against Torino a few years ago when we went up 2-0 in the first half playing great football. Then collapsed in the 2nd half and were lucky to finish 2-2. The only difference is now we are better going forward so we took some pressure off our defense and Samp doesn’t have Belotti. I think it’s hard to blame Conte for a mentality we’ve suffered with for years.

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I don't like these things, because on one hand we say he only had 1 season with us, yet on the other hand, everybody claims he turned chelsea around in 1 season. How can it be both?

Chelsea second season also had huge drop in mentality, although imo, mentality and tactical execution are linked. If we start to get pressed or the opponents are stopping our tactics, then the players mentality will naturally drop since now instead of passing around the ball and creating chances, we are losing it and conceeding more chances.

Second half tactics sucked. We (he) did not make any adjustments to the tactical setup, areas of attack, method of attacking etc, which has basically happened all season long.

You can't on one hand expect players to conform to your tactics but on the other, once your tactics are not working anymore, expect the players to solve for it.




This has to improve next season.

IRR26 said:

Why we always start well but have meltdown in the second half?

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Because Conte-style is exhausting for players and we have a shite bench. Which means that players run out of steam faster, and we cannot rotate.

I heard the commentator say that Inter players have run the most miles in Serie A this season. And Brozovic has outrun everyone. These facts shouldn't be surprising to anyone. Because this is Conte style, he demands that extra work rate and his teams win by outrunning opposition. However to sustain this over a season, we need quality players for rotation - which we currently do not have. I noticed this trend whenever we had a packed schedule (like 7 games in 3 weeks) during the first half of the season - we won the first few games and played shite in the last couple of games. That was purely down to fatigue.

“Those who are ahead of us have more margin for error. But we want to get in there and bust their balls, all the way to the end.” - Conte

Thats great optics, that attitude is why we signed Conte. We should think like that. However I'm sure he knows that its is also unrealistic. Our style of play is not sustainable over 12 games in 6 weeks, at least not with the bench we have. Coming from a long lockdown, players' fitness levels are low. This hectic schedule combined with Conte-style crazy work-rate and no rotation is a recipe for a car crash. There will be injuries (we already have some) and I can see the players declining physically after 3-4 weeks. Realistically, I hope we can nail down the top 4 by the time the crash happens. But Inter will start to crash soon, logically speaking.

What we need to do is use this transfer window to sort this for next season. We need two quality wingbacks to complete the starting XI, but apart form that we need to add a quality striker, 2 quality midfielders (in place of Valero & Vecino/Gags) and at least 1 quality CB. Then we may have a squad that could rotate enough to compete for Scudetto. Right now, we are far away from that.

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I don't like these things, because on one hand we say he only had 1 season with us, yet on the other hand, everybody claims he turned chelsea around in 1 season. How can it be both?

Chelsea second season also had huge drop in mentality, although imo, mentality and tactical execution are linked. If we start to get pressed or the opponents are stopping our tactics, then the players mentality will naturally drop since now instead of passing around the ball and creating chances, we are losing it and conceeding more chances.

Second half tactics sucked. We (he) did not make any adjustments to the tactical setup, areas of attack, method of attacking etc, which has basically happened all season long.

You can't on one hand expect players to conform to your tactics but on the other, once your tactics are not working anymore, expect the players to solve for it.




This has to improve next season.

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Well we can certainly agree on the last point. If by next season we don’t improve in this aspect Conte certainly has to take some blame. He will have had a full year with the team and several transfer windows to improve the squad.

I still think it’s hard to compare us to chelsea with how quickly he turned them around because they weren’t that far removed from winning a title. Inter on the other hand is approaching a decade. Conte losing the team also had a lot more to do with the locker room then anything else imo. Costa and Willian particularly had personal issues with Conte. I don’t see that happening with our current squad.

My biggest slight on Conte right now is reluctance to use substitutes, especially right now when we have 5. In both the Napoli and Sampdoria games we probably wasted 15-20 minutes in the second half where we were just kind of in limbo. We could have used subs earlier to maintain momentum and control, because once you lose it then it’s tough to get it back.

This motherfucker is so fucking irritating, three awful games since the restart.

At this point I hope we completely collapse until the end of the season while also managing to keep a CL spot, just so maybe our retarded management gains some sense and fires this retard.

Takes the blame for this one. The scariest thing is how shaky our defence is. You can't score in the 85th minute to take the lead just to concede a joke goal 2 minute later.

I got the feeling that if we scored in 91st or would have conceded in 93rd.

This one's on him. What was wrong with barella tonight, why couldn't he come in?? That precious rest that he wanted 5 players to take at once has killed whatever chances we had

I blame him for this one as well, he needed start with ten men if he was forced to play Gagliardini.

I don’t know what he was thinking with the lineup tonight. Did Barella pick up an injury nobody was aware of?

We give up so many points from winning positions it’s insane. Maybe someone who could actually run in the midfield might help? And no not the 17 year old.

I don’t know what Tonali brings to this team tbh, we need someone who can tackle in the midfield and better wide players.

Defending is Serie C level. Conte is starting the same route where Mourinho's already. A downfall.

Rano was playing well. Don’t see the point of having De Vrij. Agoume should not have been introduced when we were being dominated