Antonio Conte

[Harpsabu]

Every backline is going to give up chances. Its basically impossible to not give your opponent's a chance across 90 minutes. Our problem is our opponent's are scoring their only chances while we need 6-7 chances to score a goal.

 

[brehme1989]

Every backline is going to give up chances. Its basically impossible to not give your opponent's a chance across 90 minutes. Our problem is our opponent's are scoring their only chances while we need 6-7 chances to score a goal.

Dude, honestly stop it.

What the fuck is with this apologetic stance? Does it really take an effort to realize how unnaturally incapable our defensive setup is?

 

[YoramG]

I still can't bring myself to blame him for too much of this, we're creating 4-5 goal chances a game and our fuckwits are failing to put them away. He's not the one missing open goals.

However, his reading of the game during matches remains sub-par, which is frustrating as fuck. And also...please stop with the in-swinging corners. They were woeful yesterday.

 

[IRR26]

I still can't bring myself to blame him for too much of this, we're creating 4-5 goal chances a game and our fuckwits are failing to put them away. He's not the one missing open goals.

However, his reading of the game during matches remains sub-par, which is frustrating as fuck. And also...please stop with the in-swinging corners. They were woeful yesterday.

I agree with about the chances we are creating.

But the players who are missing those are also Conte's choices and I am not sure if Inter is creating quality chances. Those are not sitters so maybe there are little bit blame also about the tactical game.

 

[CafeCordoba]

I don't really get this moaning about fuckwits not converting chances. If they can't score goals, maybe the chances aren't good enough? Lautaro miss is one thing, but generally our chances aren't some free goals players just happen to miss.

Conte is the boss, he's responsible for the result. If Conte goes to his boss (Marotta) and his boss asks what's the matter, where are the results, is the correct way to shift the blame to the players (Conte's subordinates) that they are not good enough? Guess that is pretty typical everywhere, but it shouldn't be like that. You are their boss, you are paid for that, you are the responsible. That's also how it goes everywhere, not just in football.

Conte is the one who needs to fix this shit. And teaching finishing is not the easier route, fixing the defending is.

 

[.h.]

our players shouldnt be reliant on golden chances to score goals. thats why you pay big bucks for strikers tbh.

 

[brakbrak]

our players shouldnt be reliant on golden chances to score goals. thats why you pay big bucks for strikers tbh.

So why do conte get big bucks? Shouldn't it be for making golden chances and tightening up our defense which ultimately results in us winning some championships because he's hailed as a winner?

 

[Adriano@10]

Every backline is going to give up chances. Its basically impossible to not give your opponent's a chance across 90 minutes. Our problem is our opponent's are scoring their only chances while we need 6-7 chances to score a goal.

Just like every backline is gonna give up chances every attack is gonna fuck up chances....It goes both ways...

Thing is at this moment we suck in both which imho is fair enough to blame the coach.


Anyways my beef still is that we forced out godin and somehow our defence went to one of the best in the league to absolute shit......

 

[YoramG]

I don't really get this moaning about fuckwits not converting chances. If they can't score goals, maybe the chances aren't good enough? Lautaro miss is one thing, but generally our chances aren't some free goals players just happen to miss.

Conte is the boss, he's responsible for the result. If Conte goes to his boss (Marotta) and his boss asks what's the matter, where are the results, is the correct way to shift the blame to the players (Conte's subordinates) that they are not good enough? Guess that is pretty typical everywhere, but it shouldn't be like that. You are their boss, you are paid for that, you are the responsible. That's also how it goes everywhere, not just in football.

Conte is the one who needs to fix this shit. And teaching finishing is not the easier route, fixing the defending is.

I would say Perisic and Hakimi had what I would call very good chances yesterday. If they go in, suddenly we’re dominating the play and we’re winning and everything is rosy. I’m hesitant to heap shit on Conte for our lack of clinical ability in front of goal, because I don’t think he has much control over that. Our defensive phase however is a disaster, no one can disagree with that.

I don’t know, I think we’re in a rotten period and once we come out of it we’re going to see a really good side. These players are tired, they didn’t get a break and I hope to hell we don’t send them out to international duties.

As for Godin, he’s not exactly been good at Cagliari. I still would have kept him though, purely for personality and leadership reasons.

 

[Adriano@10]

As for Godin, he’s not exactly been good at Cagliari. I still would have kept him though, purely for personality and leadership reasons.

True but lets also not forget that godin seemed to get more and more comfortable with the 3 man back line towards the end of the season.

I mean i m not sure godin in his year here had as many fuckups as Kolarov had in his first couple of games...

 

[crzdcolombian]

New coach time?

League is over. 1 lost, 3 ties.... unless Parma or one of these other teams we dropped points to registered a player the wrong way this season is over

 

[ADRossi]

The good news is we're all having a ton of fun,

 

[Irequis]

Our woeful form comes despite of good gameplay, not because of mediocre gameplay. These results are not similar to Strama, Mazzari, Mancini, or Spalletti whose gameplan were to bore everyone to death. We have apparent gameplan. Our players constantly interchange position, our possesison game are the best as far as I remember, we constantly dismantle opposition's defence through many means and many angles etc. Our current performance is unlike the previous coaches, shame that the results do not follow up. Sure there are things to complain. We can write a long essay to point what's wrong with our team and sometimes I too want to smack Conte's head back to his total chemo baldness. But even the best team in the world cannot escape themselves from criticism let alone Inter in current form.

Do you think switching coach to Allegri would instantly solve problem? People argue that Conte is too inflexible in his 3-5-2 and I totally agree. But if Allegri comes, he will inherit this squad which tailored only to play this very formation. We simply do not have players to play other formation. Then Allegri would be Conte ver2 instead of someone who reinvigorates our team.

And the most important thing is we cannot afford paying 3 coaches at the same time, let alone in this pandemic situation. You see we bend to Conte's will because he knows our finance is on the ropes. If Allegri replaces Conte, the former would be even in stronger bargaining position because he knows we cannot keep firing coaches with lucrative wage. Moreover, Allegri would be left with zero money to reinforce our squad so we are actually going nowhere.

 

[Glass box]

A good chance is when Lukaku misses it. When Perisic and Hakimi miss the same type of chances, they're not good chances. #fifstandards

 

[n4l]

Revisionist history. Seems you guys 'conveniently' forgetting how much glorious chances politano, candreva and perisic missed. Like ridiculous amounts. Nobody used that as an excuse.

Pretty incredible it's being used now as an excuse, but not surprising.


Coach has to do better. End of story.

 

[brehme1989]

There's a difference when Hakimi makes it a chance because of his mazy run. He's not supposed to be in the box winning headers really. If that's the game plan, then it's flawed. Which is on the coach. I think Hakimi just sees the empty space and is just queued to make a run for it, it's not as if he's dictated to do that. He's more likely than anything told to stick to the flank and attack only specific areas just like all the other wing backs were doing.


Perisic missed a very good chance, sure. But Perisic is not a striker and he shouldn't be playing there. Another one on the coach.


This "we create chances that players miss" excuse would probably have led most of you to not want to see Spalletti out. Is it his fault that Lautaro missed the PSV header?

 

[YoramG]

This "we create chances that players miss" excuse would probably have led most of you to not want to see Spalletti out. Is it his fault that Lautaro missed the PSV header?

Obviously not, and I wanted Spalletti to get 3 years before being succeeded by Conte, Simeone, Allegri, whoever. The point I’m making is that at the moment our attacking tactics are not something to be particularly worried about, because we are creating chances but not finishing them.

If there’s anything to be concerned about, is that it takes about 2 passes to end up 1-1 in front of Handanovic. That’s a real issue.

 

[brehme1989]

The point I’m making is that at the moment our attacking tactics are not something to be particularly worried about, because we are creating chances but not finishing them.

That's because we are attacking at the expense of defending.

We are conceding an average of 2 goals per game. That's not normal. And the irony is that both last year and this year, it could have been much worse.

 

[RickyMaravilla'sRightFoot]

Enough of this "enjoy the ride" bs. Bring back the fire and brimstone, CUNTE.

 

[YoramG]

That's because we are attacking at the expense of defending.

We are conceding an average of 2 goals per game. That's not normal. And the irony is that both last year and this year, it could have been much worse.

I actually agree with that, I know we had the 'best defense in Italy' last year but it never felt like it. We gave up too many goals while the defense was 'set', rather than on the counter or on set pieces or anything like that. I don't know how to fix it, but then I'm not on 12m a year to do that.

I still think so much of our early season struggle is down to the lack of pre-season and having finished the season in August. Real, Barca, City, Liverpool, Juve (yeah I know, Pirlo too) have all dropped unlikely points recently, and they all look leggy and tired at times. Throw in history's most useless international break so no one can have a rest, and you have a recipe for a very underwhelming start to the season.

Could be worse anyway, Sevilla have won 2, drawn 1, and lost 3. I imagine they're really feeling that late season finish, especially with a thinner squad than ours.

I'll start panicking if we're still in this state in January.