Antonio Conte

[Aliano]

Young, Bastoni, Darmian, DDA and Kolarov. What this squad definitely doesnt lack is FBs.

Bastoni is not a left back. Darmian and DDA are right backs with minimum experience playing on left. The only legit option is Kolarov, who all know is finished playing full back.

 

[K.I.]

Young, Bastoni, Darmian, DDA and Kolarov. What this squad definitely doesnt lack is FBs.

Hakimi can play both sides as well

 

[Il Drago]

I really don't think so, we have no effective wingers. Perisic fully included in that.

And wingers aren't going to be our only problem. What are we going to do with Lautaro amd Lukaku? Playing one of them on the wings or benching one of them? It doesn't make any sense. I have already argued the formations we can use in a previous post.

As long as we have both Lukaku and Lautaro in the squad we can only play 2 back 4 formations:

4-3-1-2

Handanovic
Hakimi - Skriniar - De Vrij - Bastoni
Barella - Brozovic - Vidal
Eriksen
Lukaku - Lautaro

4-4-2

Handanovic
D'Ambrosio - Skriniar - De Vrij - Young
Hakimi - Barella - Vidal - Perisic
Lukaku - Lautaro

4-3-1-2 makes most sense as it fits more to the squad we have. For Hakimi to play as a rb, you need a defensive lb who will always stay behind and turn into a 3rd cb when we're in attack and Bastoni could play that role. For 4-4-2 to work, you need two wingers who can be tactically disciplined in order not to be overrun in midfield and we have only two wing players who can play that, Hakimi and Perisic. The problem is in that formation Eriksen and Sensi are of no use and Bastoni would be wasted at the bench.

 

[ADRossi]

Bastoni is not a left back. Darmian and DDA are right backs with minimum experience playing on left. The only legit option is Kolarov, who all know is finished playing full back.

Bastoni has played at LB in Serie A for Parma, as a starter. It's not a far-fetched idea.

 

[armendsh]

This is ridiculous, Pirlo who doesnt have a single experience as coach , he manages jube with almost all injured and out of form players in his first year without no top signing and he has 1 point more than us

While conte 2nd year with this team with a 10year experience as coach and with top signings like Hakimi and Vidal . Plus he did have almost 80% of the starting eleven in every game
Yet hes behind FRIKKING PIRLO

 

[brightbackground]

And wingers aren't going to be our only problem. What are we going to do with Lautaro amd Lukaku? Playing one of them on the wings or benching one of them? It doesn't make any sense. I have already argued the formations we can use in a previous post.

4-3-3:
Perisic-Lukaku-Sanchez
Barella-Eriksen-Brozovic
Young-Skriniar-De Vrij-Hakimi

End of the season, sell Lautaro for big money, buy two good wingers and a leftback.

 

[bubba zanetti]

This is ridiculous, Pirlo who doesnt have a single experience as coach , he manages jube with almost all injured and out of form players in his first year without no top signing and he has 1 point more than us

While conte 2nd year with this team with a 10year experience as coach and with top signings like Hakimi and Vidal . Plus he did have almost 80% of the starting eleven in every game
Yet hes behind FRIKKING PIRLO

They had already much better squad than us,plus they got Kulusevski and Chiesa and we got what,fucking Kolarov and Vidal?!LOL! Only Hakimi has potential. They are still stronger than us. But I agree,this is on Conte, like I wrote already,he is fraud and there is no chance for us to succed with his Mickey Mouse tactics and game reading.

 

[ADRossi]

4-3-3:
Perisic-Lukaku-Sanchez
Barella-Eriksen-Brozovic
Young-Skriniar-De Vrij-Hakimi

End of the season, sell Lautaro for big money, buy two good wingers and a leftback.

Zero percent chance Sanchez could survive more than 30 minutes being deployed as winger.

 

[Candreva Crosses]

Going for a 4-3-3 is more stupid than playing 3-5-2.

 

[brightbackground]

Well, let's see, 4-3-3 is used by virtually every top team in Europe, whereas the 4-3-1-2 so touted by people here is the favorite of (checks notes) Giampaolo's Torino. I rest my case.

I do agree that Perisic and Sanchez won't cut it as starters (they'd be excellent depth though). Hence my suggestion of selling Lautaro, who's too inconsistent, and getting two starting material wingers for next season.

 

[Candreva Crosses]

Who the fuck cares if most of the world use it. We need to fire Conte and choose the formation that suits our player, not a formation that suits other teams players

 

[Universe]

He's obviously referring to the correlation between 433 and top teams in the rest of Europe, not suggesting we copy them just to fit in. There's no doubt that 4312 is out of fashion these days and the #10 role in general is in big decline. As for us though, no team has won the CL playing a 3 CB system. But let's just get out of the group stages first

 

[Il Drago]

Well, let's see, 4-3-3 is used by virtually every top team in Europe, whereas the 4-3-1-2 so touted by people here is the favorite of (checks notes) Giampaolo's Torino. I rest my case.

I do agree that Perisic and Sanchez won't cut it as starters (they'd be excellent depth though). Hence my suggestion of selling Lautaro, who's too inconsistent, and getting two starting material wingers for next season.

Zidane used 4-3-1-2 a lot in his first stint at Real. Allegri reached a CL final with Juventus (the first one) by using 4-3-1-2. And at the end of the day it doesn't really matter what others do. What matters is what formation fits the players you have. After firing Mazzarri we tried to switch to a system with wingers. The only thing we achieved was 3 top 4 places, two of which came in the last game of the season, and we did fuck all in Europe with the most popular formation. Historically wingers and Inter aren't a good match. Even when Inter brought Mourinho, who was popular for his favorite 4-3-3, we tried it for few matches but we switched back quickly to Inter's traditional 4-3-1-2 because it wasn't working. Even when Inter played 4-2-3-1 in the treble season we were deploying forwards in wingers positions.

You also argue we should sell Lautaro and get two starting wingers because he's inconsistent. It's true he's inconsistent. But there's no guarantee the wingers we get aren't going to be inconsistent as well. Lautaro is only 23 years old. You don't sell a player of his age only because he's inconsistent.

 

[Vertigo]

4231 with a scoring attacking midfielder is being used by top teams nowadays (Liverpool & Firmino, Bayern & Muller)
Spalletti failed coz he used a false CAM like declining Nainggolan and Valero as our attacking midfielder

 

[Nothing]

4231 with a scoring attacking midfielder is being used by top teams nowadays (Liverpool & Firmino, Bayern & Muller)
Spalletti failed coz he used a false CAM like declining Nainggolan and Valero as our attacking midfielder

Imagine if Zaniolo used as CAM

 

[A.l.i]

He is going to be in some pressure if we go one more month without a win coupled with a CL group stage exit.

 

[Il Drago]

He is going to be in some pressure if we go one more month without a win coupled with a CL group stage exit.

Some pressure? If you fail to beat Torino, Sassuolo, Bologna and Cagliari then Conte shouldn't be in some pressure. He should get fired on the spot!

You're in some pressure if your last win is two months ago at Cagliari or Bologna. At Inter it's nothing sort of a disaster.

 

[Adriano@10]

He is going to be in some pressure if we go one more month without a win coupled with a CL group stage exit.

What il drago said....

Any other manager would be sacked the moment we lose the RM game...

 

[bubba zanetti]

4-3-1-2 Handa-Hakimi,Skriniar,DeVrij,Bastoni-Vidal,Broz,Barella-Sanchez-Lukaku,Lautaro...Thats it.
B team:Radu-DAmbrosio,Darmian,Ranochia,Young-Radja,Sensi,Gaglia-Eriksen-Pinamonti,Padelli.

 

[n4l]

Nothing is wrong with the 3-5-2. At all. It's just that the current implementation has a few poorly designed mechanics.

I think I posted before but I can't for the life of me understand why the CMs would drop deep only to allow to WCBs to push up when building out of the back. It's dumb.

The amount of goals we've conceded due to the CB pressing up (late and/or getting beat) and forcing the WCBs to cover (also late, poor communication etc) is astonishing and needs to be remedied ASAP. It's dumb to play a formation where all midfielders are pushing up to score and on defensive transition, have no cover in center midfield, forcing the CB to come up to press. The whole point of a 3-x-x is for that CB to be the libero; not to press up and be DM.

We just need to return to brozo at DM and 2 side CMs.