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Yeah Im no fan of Moses, but he is miles better then Zappacosta

This for me. Conte has been outsmarted in the second half og almost every game we have played this year. Poch pushed Son out wide and made him run against Alonso. Dele Alli was also pushed out wide and we couldnt cope with the change. Conte made his usual move of chucking Giroud on but it didnt seem to be any plan behind it what do ever, its just tossing on another striker for the sake of it. I mean we ended up hoofing it to Willian ffs. The complete inability to change a game and to have a plan B, his constant moaning about players not beeing good enough and the overreliance on players he pined for in Morata and Bakayoko despite them beeing absolute dross for most of the year has been the biggest factor of our play this season imo. The fact that we have had more games (CL and Semifinal of the LC) hasnt helped either. Of the things that are wrong with the club atm, Conte is the easiest to change. Saying the board has to go for not spending enough money is just assinine, thats Romans call and he isnt going anywere.

So again, not something under her control. Do you think shes not workkng on a budget from Roman? If you think she has carte blanche on transfer fees and is being purposely stingey I have no idea what to tell you. Roman fires employees left and right as he pleases, the fact that she still has a job means she is doing exactly as instructed. Im interested in hearing how you think fact that Mourinho not wanting to play KdB, Salah or Lukaku is somehow the fault of the negotiator.

I think its mostly down to him not having much confidence in our 2 strikers, for me i think he needs to be given more control on players brought in Considering how the players Conte wanted has performed I think he should have less say and not more

Would much rather Spurs won tbh, this makes getting the top 4 much, much harder

There seems to be a lot of that going around. Hazard, Bakayoko, Pedro and even to a small degree Barkley has struggled trying to play roles they have no business playing. It seems Antonio is insisting on trying to fit square pegs into round holes for some reason

The main problem with our midfield is that we dont have, players who actually compliment eachother. Everything Matic does, Kanté does at a much higher level and the two are too much alike to okay together. They need a dynamic passer who can dictate play and carry the ball up field. While I agree that Bakaoyoko is dreadfull it doesnt help that Conte is using him in a role he has no idea how to do. He is too much like Matic. For some reason Conte has talked about having two ballwinners in midfield, that might work if you have a third midfielder, but in a pivot its very limiting. Funny thing is United is struggling with the exact same problem. Herrera was one of their best players last year, but he is useless next to Matic. They have tried mitigating the problem by playing Pogba out of position, but that clearly didnt work out and now they are in desperate need for another CM next to Matic

What does Grankovskaia have to do with the players we have bought? Shes a negotiater for cryin out loud

That facial expression from Hazard says it all. If you didnt knew anything about the two teams uou eould think it was a match between the champions and a side battling relegation

You dont think Haz is at his best chasing long clearences? I was expecting a gulf in quality, but this is just sad

Gonna be a long day at the office for Haz this having to play as a target man, 18% possession so far lol this wont end well

So only 80 mins? Brilliant job then

And who has kept him om for 90 mins?

Gotta wonder why Conte waited so long, it was obvious we needed to change things up a bit

At least we knew that was coming

Poor from Christensen there shame as we seemed in control for much of the game

Ter Stegen is so good with the ball, its like having an extra outfield player

Its good to see us try and exploit Barcas habits of overpopulate one side with diagonals, but its so futile when we end up trying to put in a cross for Hazard in the box

Its been pretty obvious that every time we have tried this false nine formation we have fallen flat on our faces, but since Conte knows what hes doing In sure this will be different. What did Einstein say about doing the same thing over and over and expect a different result?

Nothing short of world class

Those exact words were said when we fired José. Just saying. No dont get me wrong, Im not in favour of firing Conte, but if its true hes looking to opt out in the summer Id rather be done with it and het someone new in.

This makes no sense. The last three times we fired a manager we either won the CL or League almost immidiately after. Doesnt that mean we should sack him? Ecoecting the same result and all. I really dont get this love affair with keeping a manager for years and years. No top club does this. Having a stable core of players is much more important. A mew manager with fresh ideas and a new outlook is often a good thing

I wonder who Cahill thought was at fault there, keeps screaming at everyone else when he has been the one at fault. He HAS to do so much work in regards to motovating and organizing because everything else is really subpar

I have to admit, after watching Matic lull around being absonute w**k for the better part of the last 3 seasons I thought to myself « well this guy cant possibly be worse». Boy was I wrong

I dont. In fact I just said the teo yellows were incorrect. Nice try though