Antonio Conte

[Macktk]

I still find it strange that people see losing to Barcelona's B team in this fashion as normal, and that Conte did all he could against Barcelona's "beasts"

Fact#1: Barcelona did not win half their away matches in La liga against the likes of granada and levante
Fact#2: Barcelona drew to both Slavia and Dortmund
Fact#3: We gave Barca a run for their money on their own pitch some weeks ago
Fact#4: in all the above matches they were playing their A team and playing to win
Fact#5: we have been playing with the same formation for the past couple of matches and we were not nearly as bad as we were yesterday.

All the players were lost and that's because the formation was not working. We were defending terribly and attacking terribly and it is not just because we are missing Sensi and Barella. Conte should have taken action as early as the halftime break and he didn't. We played the same way from first minute to the last minute.

On the other hand, he has been great in Serie A, which is more important since we were not going to go far in the champions league anyways. Definitely happy we have him as our manager, but he screwed up yesterday, and we absolutely embarrassed ourselves with this display.

Lastly, absolutely nothing justifies this loss and this performance. Coming up with excuses for anyone including Conte just show that we no longer have a winning mentality, and we surely will not go far in the Serie A thinking in this way.

 

[Batman]

Conte is known for being a defensive coach. Despite having the best defense in Serie A by conceding the least goals... I’m disappointed by Conte because he still hasnt fixed the defense. We still concede too many easy goals. Overall we improved a lot and I’m happy with Conte’s work so far. However, he still has a long way to go withthe defense.

 

[Lui]

Players weren't lost, they were shit. They knew exactly how shit they were as they left the field.

The defense being shit is not a real thing.

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[TheNetworkZ]

All you guys have to relax. Jesus, after all these years we are finally playing good football with greater results then we expected, but still you guys aren't happy.

Our team has way too less players to count on and right now we are very unlucky with all the injuries. If Lukaku had a better brain and stayed on line yesterday, we could score 3 goals yesterday. 3 offside goals, a midfield with Veccino - Brozo - Borja and still we played decent football.

Conte is a blessing for us and it is way too harsh to say "He will never do well in the Champions League."

You can't win everything right away, every team has their problems at times respectively need time to get back at the top.

For example Klopp at the beginning of his coaching career was horrible in terms of International games.

Some of you might stop watching real games and just play FIFA ffs.

How is it too harsh of a claim? He has literally never done well in Champions League lol. I still stand by the opinion that he is a good coach for us, but he's never going to bring us to a CL semi-final or higher.

 

[Nyall]

Coming up with excuses for anyone including Conte just show that we no longer have a winning mentality, and we surely will not go far in the Serie A thinking in this way.

Inter hasn't had a winning mentality since 2011. Yesterday's game was simply par of the course for Inter now.


We badly spend hundreds of millions of Euros, predictably fail at meeting our objectives and then act as if there's something hindering us from achieving basic things. The talent on this team will let us down on our Scudetto chase long before the loser mentallity does.

Conte can only do so much to overcome the glaing lack of talent on this team.

 

[Fossati]

When Sensi, Asamoah, Candreva, Barella and Sanchez are all injured, and you have to play the same 11 with a shitty bench and still somehow manage to be first in the league and just miss out on the next stage of CL in the group of death - is it still the biggest choke job in the history of CL?

Sure, it wasn't successful, but somehow I feel like some people are enjoying Conte not making it past the group stages just out of spite.

It was the biggest choke job since all the way back to...

... last year, when El Cagon spalletti was not able to beat PSV, a team out of the running for everything and which was in Milan mainly to go shopping around Piazza del Duomo.

Seriously, I'm disappointed like everyone else, but considering how badly we've fucked up in the past (even) in the CL, I'd say let's take a deep breath, shall we?

Helsingborg has already been mentioned. But the other time when we won 3-0 at Highbury only to get creamed at home by Arsenal and then knocked out by them and Lokomotiv Moscow (!!!) is a pretty strong contender too. Then again, given the tenor of some people's comments here, I'm not sure they were born yet when that happened, so I guess they are excused for not remembering that one.

 

[Lui]

Inter hasn't had a winning mentality since 2011. Yesterday's game was simply par of the course for Inter now.


We badly spend hundreds of millions of Euros, predictably fail at meeting our objectives and then act as if there's something hindering us from achieving basic things. The talent on this team will let us down on our Scudetto chase long before the loser mentallity does.

Conte can only do so much to overcome the glaing lack of talent on this team.

Well said. A losing mentality takes years to eradicate, not just a couple of players and a coach.

 

[William]

Putting this out there, other than securing another 12mil from qualifying I was pretty much expecting to get pumped out of the last 16 anyway (never mind not making the group cut), nobody with a brain would think we would get any further than the last 16 so why we moaning about getting put out 2 matches early? When still clearly we are a work in progress, like other have mentioned in other threads, our strong league position has heightened people’s expectations (which is good) but let’s be clear we ain’t good enough to challenge in Europe yet as our squad is far from complete.

 

[Candreva Crosses]

Inter hasn't had a winning mentality since 2011. Yesterday's game was simply par of the course for Inter now.


We badly spend hundreds of millions of Euros, predictably fail at meeting our objectives and then act as if there's something hindering us from achieving basic things. The talent on this team will let us down on our Scudetto chase long before the loser mentallity does.

Conte can only do so much to overcome the glaing lack of talent on this team.

If we can challenge the EL is also good for mentality.

 

[Pimpin]

I'd take that barca b side with suarez and de jong off the bench over our midfield of Biraghi, vecino, Valero, Brozovic and Dambrosio.

Some of you guys are lunatics, no other way to word it

 

[Fapuccino]

I'd take that barca b side with suarez and de jong off the bench over our midfield of Biraghi, vecino, Valero, Brozovic and Dambrosio.

Some of you guys are lunatics, no other way to word it

They weren't even trying...

 

[Pimpin]

They weren't even trying...

The system is there to create chances and not let chances happen, we conceded 2 stupid goals. The first was off the foot of Godin, the second was just a fucked up lucky shot.

Partly Conte would be to blame for Lukakus shit finishing since he had a fetish for him, but it is not his fault that these players are cucks. Plain and simple our players are cucks.

It is not until Conte gets all players he wants that this mentality will change.

 

[Glass box]

Biggest choke in CL ever? That is just not true.

One must remember Zaccheroni's 1-5 against Arsenal and 3-0 defeat against Lokomotiv Moscow, after we won 0-3 in London and beat Dinamo Kyiv (I think) with Hector Cuper (fired prior to the 3rd round) at home, and failing to go through in the last game when we drew against Dinamo in Ukraine, being, if I remember correctly, at the time the FIRST TEAM EVER to fail to qualify with 8 points (this record is now brought down by Napoli with their 12 points disqualification) as one example for bigger choking than this. Also, don't look any further than last year when we didn't beat PSV at home in last round.

 

[Lui]

Let's put this Barca B thing to bed. Who do you take...

Brozovic, Vecino, Dambro, biraghi, Valero

Or

Vidal, Rakitic, Wagyu, Tommy Firpo, and fuck knows the other one.

"Wanting it more", "grinta" whatever gets you only so far when you are technically limited and are 80% of the way to sucking full ass.

Of course Barca weren't trying, they didnt need to. Look at the waste we dumped right in the center of the game...here, win this game with these 5.



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[forzainter257]

I wish we could have 2 Inters.
One managed by someone instead of Marotta and coached by Spalletti, full of players like Icardi, N9, Perisic, Vecino and whoever the fuck some of you want in the team.
Second is the one we are having right now and I am sure the one above would probably have lost matches against Sassuolo and other "giants" of serie A dangling between 4th and 5th places in serie A, would have probably earned same amount of points in that CL group but showing some pussy football and off course with all that endless soap opera going on.

pity we can't have 2 Inters

 

[nurko]

Yeah and Lukaku and the gang missing sitters is a depth issue, common...

Well it certainly wasn't Conte making those shots and missing. The same way it wasn't Mourinho wearing a headband and missing a header in the final minutes in 2009 or 2010.

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60-70 minutes problem is a fitness issue, not a depth issue.

Not if you have the same 11 playing every 3 days for months and wear them down so they can't last 90 minutes on a high tempo, because your alternatives suck.

 

[Puma]

Right now, I am trying to come to grips with how so many posters on here lack perspective.

I understand that this is a Forum that is specifically designed for posters to express themselves but some of the posts on here are just over the top.

I am looking forward to the match against Fiorentina so we can try and turn the page.

Nurko, the problem for us against Barcelona midweek is that we actually did not have any alternatives.

 

[PHM1605]

I wish we could have 2 Inters.
One managed by someone instead of Marotta and coached by Spalletti, full of players like Icardi, N9, Perisic, Vecino and whoever the fuck some of you want in the team.
Second is the one we are having right now and I am sure the one above would probably have lost matches against Sassuolo and other "giants" of serie A dangling between 4th and 5th places in serie A, would have probably earned same amount of points in that CL group but showing some pussy football and off course with all that endless soap opera going on.

pity we can't have 2 Inters

I hope now you see blaming ALL on Spalletti for CL failure last season is bullshit. We didnt qualify because we are not good enough and far behind the other two. Period. Not because coach is more stupid than the “online coaches” who work from hindsight.

You see? Conte ends his CL with the same number of points in his first season too. Even with less pussies to deal with in the locker room.

 

[JJM]

No one is blameless in a football club... Sorry... Collective errors, make u go out of CL

Not mr x at fault, mr y not at fault...stupid
Even Conte made mistakes, as did the players... We were a collective insufficiency
Lukaku fucked up glorious chances, Lukaku is, was, Conte's heartfelt wish...
Ok our midfield is short... Who's fault is that... He deemed our midfield sufficient until he didn't,Sensi wasn't even supposed to be a starter, he boomed unexpectedly...
We are doing awesome in the league, no complaints there, but in CL... Programming was bad from everyone in the club... Marotta, Conte...
It's not about tactics and formations
We just went... Over confident in the season with our thin weak roster... Fragile players, same mistake every season
Weak ass midfield...
Fighting on two fronts with subs like Valero(ancient), Vecino (useless), Gags...
Sensi(not a starter in the initial plans)
Yeah bad programming again
Like last season...

Damn midfield not corrected enough
This isn't bad luck, the injuries... It's bullshit from the architects...

Bad foundation can and will crumble sooner or later

Why were N9, Perisic, Icardi handed over like charity items, no money in our transfer kitty from this loans... Waiting another year to sell them... Ok, it happened, but then don't expect us winning every game... We don't have the numbers for it in squad depth, and quality either with such subs...
Now we need to buy quality players in January, not subs... If we can, to extend our hope for something significant because Rube are ahead in squad power and, let's hope they lose focus on the league and fuck it up in CL as well... They don't have the quality for double successfull run either



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[Il Drago]

I think we can all agree that our squad is too thin to compete both in CL and Serie A, especially in midfield. But blaming our CL failure only in lack of quality squad depth is a mistake imo. Failing to win at home against Slavia and bottling a 2-0 lead in Germany wasn't a matter of quality, it was a matter of mentality. We certainly underestimated Slavia and we simply decided to defend the lead from the first minute of the second half in Dortmund. On the other hand, i don't blame Conte for the home match against Barcelona as he did the best he could with the players he had at his disposal. We had the right mentality in the match, the coach took some necessary risks in the second half, the players did everything they could but it simply wasn't enough.