Today he was asked about playing with Lukaku, Lautaro and Alexis. Can you guess what he replied?
Conte's stubbornness will be our doom.
Conte:“We are already quite attacking, with wingers and midfielders going forward."
This year we don't look dangerous and we are rarely truly in control.
I'm ready for the game though with the same naivety. New day, new liver.
Exactly. We just overload with players, put as many bodies to the offensive zone as possible. It doesn't mean we play offensive, though it surely means we play like idiots. There's no balance because we don't play wisely usually. We keep giving opportunities for counters every single match and if opponent is not totally clueless, they use those opportunities for dangerous counters. We don't play in a way which would mitigate the damage of a giveaway, we go all in with our attacks and if a giveaway happens, we are not ready for them. We only react and sometimes it works, sometimes it won't and counters occur.
What we would need is more combination plays, more SMART attacking and movement so that we don't have to put so many bodies to the attacks to generate anything.
Exactly. We just overload with players, put as many bodies to the offensive zone as possible. It doesn't mean we play offensive, though it surely means we play like idiots. There's no balance because we don't play wisely usually. We keep giving opportunities for counters every single match and if opponent is not totally clueless, they use those opportunities for dangerous counters. We don't play in a way which would mitigate the damage of a giveaway, we go all in with our attacks and if a giveaway happens, we are not ready for them. We only react and sometimes it works, sometimes it won't and counters occur.
What we would need is more combination plays, more SMART attacking and movement so that we don't have to put so many bodies to the attacks to generate anything.
That's the most surprising thing for me this season--absence of those great fluid attacking moves from last year. I thought we had that locked and that we just needed quality. Now he just throws bodies at opponent's defense.
Do we still mathematically have a chance to qualify?
Do we still mathematically have a chance to qualify?