Griffon:
Meanwhile, I must say I love the cult-like culture I see in this team. Conte is so clear about what he wants and simply don't have room for those unwilling or unable to fit his exacting standard.

It is binary, there is no middle ground. Only those who fit extremely well with his core ideology and demanding standards are good to start. If you are a misfit you get expunged like a virus.

Just look at Mikel, Fabregas and JT.

This is what makes a manager and to be honest I'm happy to have this man around.

Conte is a bargain right now. And the fact that he is this ruthless will definitely help him in the long run.

Telling stats and numbers from Chelsea’s win over Southampton

Chelsea soundly defeated Southampton 2-0 on Sunday, carrying on their great Premier League form. Here are some telling stats from the game.

Chelsea have ended the month of October with four consecutive wins, three of which have been secured against teams that finished finished higher last season. Eleven goals have been scored and none conceded.
On that note, here are some key stats and talking points from the Blues’ victory against Southampton at St. Mary’s.

Diego Costa wasn’t really at his marauding best, even though he managed 4 shots on goal. His long range curler against Southampton was his 8th Premier League goal of the season, but only his 2nd from outside the box since he moved to Chelsea in 2014 (his first came in the first game of the season against West Ham).
His goal scoring run is further made remarkable by its consistency; his 8 goals have been scored in 7 of the 10 games he has played and none have come from the spot. There is little doubt that he is one of the best goal-scorers ‎in Europe right now.

‎With every spectacular performance, Victor Moses is making Jose Mourinho’s decision to send him out on 3 consecutive loan spells even more baffling. He was the club’s best all-round performer on Sunday.
Offensively, he played 3 shots and made 2 key passes (both 2nd highest of all Blues players), one from which he set-up Eden Hazard’s (and Chelsea’s first) goal. He also completed 4 dribbles (no other teammate made more). He did all this without shrieking his defensive duties, making 3 tackles and clearances each as well as 1 interception. He is comfortably becoming the face of Antonio Conte’s side!

While Eden Hazard’s quality has never been in question, there have been‎ doubts about his ability to make the leap into becoming an elite player in the class of Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, largely due to his selfless nature.
Well he is becoming more selfish now! He is averaging more shots per game this season and hit 3 on Sunday, scoring once, his 5th goal of the season, which ensured that he has now scored in 3 consecutive league games for the first time since joining Chelsea in 2012. He also created a game high 5 chances, registering an assist for Costa’s goal.
Chelsea’s loss to West Ham in the midweek EFL cup clash served to highlight some weaknesses in the side, one of which is the fact that Cesar Azpilicueta, despite his obvious adaptability, is not a very capable wing-back. But like Moses, he has clearly taken to his new centre-back role in a back 3 like a duck to water.

He was by far the best of the 3 centre-backs, registering a game high 17 defensive actions (9 tackles, 1 interception and 7 clearances). He was also tidy in possession, completing 89% of his 38 passes – the 2nd most accurate passes by a Blues player behind N’Golo Kante.

To highlight how impressive Sunday’s victory was, Chelsea were the last (and only) team to defeat Southampton at St. Mary’s in the Premier League in 2016. The Saints had gone 9 months without losing at home prior to Sunday’s game.
Antonio Conte’s 3-4-3 system is gradually bringing out the best of Chelsea, both defensively and offensively. With 4 wins out of 4 games, 11 goals scored and none conceded in October, there is little doubt whatsoever who the manager of the month should be!

kokaneprodigy:
Raumdeuter some peeps on here are MOU worshippers! There's nothing u can tell them that will make them agree with u that their Lord and saviour is a fraud!!!

At least he has won the champions league..

Its amazing how Conte gave everyone what they want in just a swing

Sent Oscar,Mikel and Ivanovic to the bins(Ibime)
Playing Hazard in a forward role with little defensive responsibilities (Hensben,Nateevs,Chelseafan1)
Changed the Foolish ninny mentality (Ibime)
Stopped Costa WWE career (Everyone)
Playing youth (hmmm,I wonder who this is)
Playing Kinta Kunte in a more advanced role(FBS)

I tried to think of something he has done to please Nihilist, but bobo yen is soo hard to please

Diego of life.....You can bring the golden boot home.

Chelseafan1:

You no know ball!!!!

Chelseafan1:
Diego of life.....You can bring the golden boot home.

God of Manchester no even make top 7, scummies are totally deluded I swear.

bigkesh:
Its amazing how Conte gave everyone what they want in just a swing

Sent Oscar,Mikel and Ivanovic to the bins(Ibime)
Playing Hazard in a forward role with little defensive responsibilities (Hensben,Nateevs,Chelseafan1)
Changed the Foolish ninny mentality (Ibime)
Stopped Costa WWE career (Everyone)
Playing youth (hmmm,I wonder who this is)
Playing Kinta Kunte in a more advanced role(FBS)

I tried to think of something he has done to please Nihilist, but bobo yen is soo hard to please

Hehehe. . . . nice one. Once you win, the rest na story.

I also wanted Kante as B2B and Matic sitting, and he's done just that.

Only thing I would recommend in addition is to recall Kenedy and Ake from loan. Kenedy to provide depth at LWB and Ake to provide depth at CM, LWB and LCB.

Oh. . . and tear up Mikels contract!

Ibime:


Hehehe. . . . nice one. Once you win, the rest na story.

I also wanted Kante as B2B and Matic sitting, and he's done just that.

Only thing I would recommend in addition is to recall Kenedy and Ake from loan. Kenedy to provide depth at LWB and Ake to provide depth at CM, LWB and LCB.

Oh. . . and tear up Mikels contract!

So Conte is now playing Kante as B2B? I remember when we said Kante's qualities were better utilized as just that rather than as a holding midfielder.

Chelseafan1:

Liverpool actually has the worst defence amongst the top 6 so am not really surprised

bigkesh:
Its amazing how Conte gave everyone what they want in just a swing

Sent Oscar,Mikel and Ivanovic to the bins(Ibime)
Playing Hazard in a forward role with little defensive responsibilities (Hensben,Nateevs,Chelseafan1)
Changed the Foolish ninny mentality (Ibime)
Stopped Costa WWE career (Everyone)
Playing youth (hmmm,I wonder who this is)
Playing Kinta Kunte in a more advanced role(FBS)
Playing Luiz as a serious defender, whilst utilising his ball playing skills(Nateevs)

I tried to think of something he has done to please Nihilist, but bobo yen is soo hard to please

Hehehe. The Nihilist part is hilarious.

Meanwhile, I no see my name for "Playing Youth". Wetin happen?

Ibime:

Hehehe. . . . nice one. Once you win, the rest na story.
I also wanted Kante as B2B and Matic sitting, and he's done just that.
Only thing I would recommend in addition is to recall Kenedy and Ake from loan. Kenedy to provide depth at LWB and Ake to provide depth at CM, LWB and LCB.
Oh. . . and tear up Mikels contract!

That's a good point you raise with Kennedy. Could very well be a solid player. I can imagine him being a nightmare in attack, as Moses is turning out to be.

afrodoc2:


So Conte is now playing Kante as B2B? I remember when we said Kante's qualities were better utilized as just that rather than as a holding midfielder.

Before nko? Ninjas who saw Kante playing a handful of games for France categorised him as DM only but like you said that is just another string to his bow. His most effective position is CM and that is where he is beasting.

nateevs:



That's a good point you raise with Kennedy. Could very well be a solid player. I can imagine him being a nightmare in attack, as Moses is turning out to be.

Kenedy has all the qualities Moses is showing on the other side. Just like Moses, he is a poor wing-forward, but his stamina, strength and straight-line running is perfect for a wingback.

please when would zouma play again. can't wait to see the young lad in action!

afrodoc2:


So Conte is now playing Kante as B2B? I remember when we said Kante's qualities were better utilized as just that rather than as a holding midfielder.

Kante actually switches the role with Matic.

They seem to work seamlessly.

Spy360:

Kante actually switches the role with Matic.

They seem to work seamlessly.

The point made was that no matter how good Lord Kante has been playing as a DM his skill set tells us that he would be even better as a B2B. Playing Kante just as a DM is a waste of resources and limits him on the field of play.

See as dem finish us.

O boy, this Kante is a very shy guy.

Good point made by Ibime on kennedy. I think kennedy will do a better job in that wing back both defensively and in attack.

I'm not discrediting alonso though but his lack of strength and speed may expose him soon.

raumdeuter:


Na so Luiz dey do until he meets real teams and they disgrace him completely bringing him to wail on National TV

We all remember how he was doing gra gra just before the Germany game holding jersey of Neymar and singing National anthem, 90mins later he became the worst thing to happen to Brazilian football in a century

[img]http://ollycaporn.files./2014/09/david-luiz-following-braz-012.jpg?w=1200[/img]

Mr man, go siddon. His biggest critics are eating their words. From Carragher to Lineker. Even Gary Neville grudgingly admitted Luiz has been immense. Everything i said about Conte bringing out the best in Luiz is coming to pass. And knowing you, i'm sure you are still waiting for THAT odd mistake from Luiz before you come here shouting how useless he is. Haterz have been put to shame. Oju ti ti won!

Chelshit make una comot una mind from tv today down to thursday till weekend. Champions league and europa league na for big boys.

Emaprince:
O boy, this Kante is a very shy guy.

Good point made by Ibime on kennedy. I think kennedy will do a better job in that wing back both defensively and in attack..

I thought I was the only one who noticed. The way the team celebrated his goal against manu elaborated that.

Azpilicueta shows off monster stats again
Lots of Chelsea players have benefited from Antonio Conte’s formation shift, with the focus so far coming on the wing backs and Eden Hazard’s improvement in the tweaked system.
But quietly at the back of the side, Cesar Azpilicueta is thriving as a centre-back. While Costa and Hazard may have stolen the limelight with great goals, the win against Southampton was built on the defensive work of the Spaniard.
Corralling Southampton’s attacking pace is no easy task, but Azpi managed it in style. He made 9 tackles, 7 clearances and an interception to finish the game with an 8.13 WhoScored rating. Add to this 38 passes at a 92.1% completion rate and you have a truly complete performance.
Azpilicueta has been a favourite for almost every manager at Stamford Bridge since Rafael Benitez, and that doesn’t look like changing anytime soon with performances like this. As a top class man-to-man defender, playing in a back three is ideal for the former Marseille man, and he looks set to have the best season of his outstanding career in Blue so far.

Five Phases Of Chelsea’s Improvement

As Chelsea found out last season: a winning team can become a losing one overnight, but the opposite journey can take a lot longer to successfully complete. Only now that Chelsea are on the other side of that 4-0 demolition of United, is it possible to piece together the hints Conte has dropped in press conferences to reveal the journey he has taken the squad on – something that can neatly be divided up into five phases.

Phase One began back in the summer, and was all about conditioning. If you strip away all of the modern commercial aspects of pre-season, it exists for only one reason: getting the players in shape. Every manager knows this, but in the case of a new appointment, this is slightly nuanced. Longer serving bosses will be able to use the benefit of their squad knowledge to compare each player’s pre-season progress with performance at the same time last year. That luxury wasn’t available to Conte, who flitted straight from his job with Italy at the Euros to an unfamiliar new league. His first task was to get the fitness and comfort features in place, so that players would actually be in a shape to play their first match on the opening day.
That is where Phase Two kicked in: Observing.
Seeing players in pre-season gives away little: essentially, you are watching unfit people playing against unfit people. Once that fitness was restored, Conte took it upon himself to watch how the team performed when following the previous manager’s tactical blueprint. As we saw, against poorer opposition, results weren’t bad; but when it came to the tougher sides, like Arsenal and Liverpool, they were disastrous. But Conte knew that he could not improve things unless he could first see what was going wrong. If we understand anything about his past it is this: he is not a one-size fits all manager, and he uses different solutions in application to different problems.
Phase Three was therefore an obvious step: Changing.
This is a phase that will have been active for some time before we saw the physical implementation of it, at half time against Arsenal. But in the run-up to, and more dramatically so after the defeat to Liverpool, he seems to have shifted training to accommodate a model using three at the back. Since that went into active mode, at The Emirates, not a goal has been conceded.
Which takes us on to Phase Four: improving.
Conte seems to have decided early-on to concentrate his efforts on putting this plan into play with a relatively small first team group at Chelsea. There have been complaints from the stands about a reluctance to delve down into the squad, and a hesitancy to use substitutions for tactical gain. That seems to be because the time has simply not been there to take the whole squad group up to the same level. There will be those who are still in earlier phases in the plan, and with the side now performing well, he should have time to go back and progress their development. The improving phase is almost continuous: it is not something anyone simply enters and exits, and very rarely can you point to a match and say that the work is done. Some reading this, particularly those who have studied the psychology of change management, may recognise the fingerprints of Abraham Maslow on all this.He was an American psychologist, who is best known for his Hierarchy Of Needs: a study of what motivates people, and how to get the best out of individual personalities. His theory, published in the 1950s, put forward the idea of a pyramid of requirements: starting with basics such as food, water and housing, and rising through other needs to a point where the individual was happy and fulfilled. It is one of the best known, and most respected psychological theories – and it is exactly the sort of strategy one would expect a knowledgeable and learned manager to put into play to bring about positive changes.
So, if Conte is following this blueprint, what comes next?
Maslow put it at the very top of his pyramid, and he called it ‘self-actualisation': a theoretical stage which may never be permanently rested at, but is the ultimate goal of the four phases before it. In football terms it is probably best summed up as ‘the perfect performance': rare, and always least likely to come to those who simply stand and wait for it.
That is Conte’s Phase Five: exactly what we saw from Chelsea against Manchester United on Sunday. His job now is to bring the rest of his squad up to that level, and to keep them there for the rest of the season. If he can find the key to doing that: then very little will stand between his Chelsea, and all they hope to achieve.

http://www.umaxit.com/index.php/columns/the-five-phases-of-chelseas-improvement

Nathaniel Chalobah Exemplifies The Good In Chelsea’s Loan Strategy

The 38 players Chelsea have out on loan this season has been a significant rod to beat the club with. We’ve seen the negative headlines about talent hoarding and how Chelsea are putting business strategies first over that of their players’ development. Having so many individuals on temporary moves away from Stamford Bridge helps keep up transfer values, not to mention bumping up the finances on the back of loan fees being received. There are success stories, of course; Tammy Abraham’s goalscoring form this season with Bristol City being the biggest headline. Then there is Nathaniel Chalobah.

The 21-year-old midfielder is back at Chelsea now. He’s on the other side of the loan cycle having played for six different clubs, including Watford and last season, Napoli. As each loan move took place, so it seemed that Chalobah drifted further from Chelsea’s thoughts. Once the shining light of the academy, he was at risk of becoming another statistic. Other names became more prominent in his absence, including Ruben Loftus-Cheek. Whereas Loftus-Cheek has been in and around Chelsea’s first-team squad for the best part of three seasons, the playing time hasn’t been forthcoming. A year younger than Chalobah, in terms of their collective experience and development, the gap is much wider than a simple 12 months. Loftus-Cheek has played less than 20 times in the Premier League; Chalobah has over 100 senior club appearances to his name. We saw the benefits of that in midweek against West Ham United, which is why Chalobah was the only academy product on the bench again for Chelsea’s impressive 2-0 victory over Southampton on Sunday.
Antonio Conte sees plenty in Chalobah. There’s his ability in the middle of the park for one, but those 100 or so appearances across his loan spells are among the most vital. Not only have they given Chalobah experience, they’ve instilled a self-confidence that Conte is feasting on now.
Chelsea’s loss to West Ham in the EFL Cup was a disappointment. It smacked of a wasted opportunity for the Blues to continue the pursuit of a trophy that seemed realistically attainable this term. With no European football to speak of, it’s just the Premier League and FA Cup they can win now. With questions still remaining about this season, becoming champions is a massive task in Conte’s first campaign in charge, especially after last year’s collective failure. Still, Chalobah impressed at London Stadium; not on the back of his performance, but more for the way he conducted himself. He didn’t appear as a 21-year-old rookie. He had something more about him as he barked out his orders from midfield, demanding others fulfill their duties and get into position. With fellow academy graduate Ola Aina alongside him as a wing-back, there was no shortage of Chalobah offering encouragement on his teammate’s full debut either. He looked like a senior player. Chalobah’s display spoke of a player who is beginning to find comfort in his surroundings. He didn’t appear nervous, which has always been a point of concern for Loftus-Cheek. His talent is without question, but Loftus-Cheek has never quite given a performance in the senior team that shows us he believes he belongs alongside Diego Costa and Eden Hazard. He’s too polite, almost. He’s quiet and doesn’t impose himself like he has in the junior ranks.
In the few appearances he has made this season, Chalobah has been the antithesis of Loftus-Cheek’s placid style. And that’s getting him noticed by his manager. Conte hasn’t given Chalobah cameos for minutes this term; the manager has used him at pivotal moments in matches. Conte sees him as someone who can make a difference. That happened in the 3-0 defeat of Leicester City a fortnight ago, when Chalobah entered the fray at a time when the champions were threatening to get back in the game. It was 2-0 and Chelsea needed to take control of central areas once more. The answer for Conte was Chalobah and not only did he help restore Chelsea’s stranglehold on the game, he claimed an outrageous assist for Victor Moses to finally kill the game off.

There’s more to it than just those loan spells. It would be doing Chalobah’s ability an injustice to suggest otherwise. When we compare him to Chelsea’s other academy prospects who have hinted at breaking through only to fall at the final hurdle, however, we have to take notice. For all the criticism we level at the club, the sight of Chalobah’s emergence tells us the loan system is the extension the Chelsea academy needs if we’re ever going to see youth dominance cross over into the senior game.

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raumdeuter:


You said

"So conte had vidal, morata, llorente, evra, tevez while in juve ? You couldn't even wait till november to serve us your usuals Apari ramuzaki"

Which is very wrong as usual like you serve us with your follishness

Conte had Lloriente, Vidal and Tevez and still failed to make a single CL semi with Juventus. I have already proven you are a disgrace to your grandfather

Apoche cra cra a.k.a Titus Bramble goofing as usual

@donjazet, we are here to read real peoples posts,which is the real fun and not some copy and paste info. Enough with it already.

Thanks for understanding.

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