The players deserve more heat than Conte. He’s said he wants them to play with personality on the ball but they are still too eager to play safety first passes.
No doubt Conte plays defence-first football like all Italian managers but he wants us to be aggressive with the ball. I don’t believe he is happy with some of the timid football that we are playing. I’m his vision of the game we either sit deep and defend stoutly or we move the ball quickly with killer intent.
The kind of zombie possession play we did for the first hour today is not his type of football. Not when the game is only 1-0 and the opponent is as shit as West Ham. He’s spoken a lot recently about how he want us to “kill” the opponent and the players aren’t doing it. You kill them with goals, there is no other way.
No doubt Conte plays defence-first football like all Italian managers but he wants us to be aggressive with the ball. I don’t believe he is happy with some of the timid football that we are playing. I’m his vision of the game we either sit deep and defend stoutly or we move the ball quickly with killer intent.
The kind of zombie possession play we did for the first hour today is not his type of football. Not when the game is only 1-0 and the opponent is as shit as West Ham. He’s spoken a lot recently about how he want us to “kill” the opponent and the players aren’t doing it. You kill them with goals, there is no other way.