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3 Quick Questions Antonie Conte Needs to Answer (2 Min Read).

Sentiment apart, you need to give it to Antonio Conte and his Chelsea players this season. Pulling Chelsea up from the last mess caused to the team finishing in the tenth place last season loosing the EPL Champions to a new comer, Leicester City.

Nevertheless, the five times league title winner is not new to clinching this title even at close range and tough times. There stands some questions to ask the Italian manager, Antonio Conte, having seen several coaches walked down to the Stanford Bridge doing the same thing he is achieving presently but were shown the way after handling Chelsea a league title.

#3How Chelsea Will Remain Top Four?[/b]As a club which is committed to only result, Antonio Conte needs to count his cost to know if he has really come to stay or would soon be swayed aside like other managers were sacked.

The erstwhile manager of Chelsea, Jose Mourinho, would be in the best position to mentor his successor at the Bridge on what, when and how to remain in Chelsea or resign honorably without loosing your face like his Spanish counterpart who later went with a relegated team, Newcastle United.

[b]#1 WHAT KEEPS MANAGER LONGER AT THE BRIDGE?

From history, David Calderhead is Chelsea's all time longest serving Manager who held this position between 1907–33 while the shortest serving manager of Chelsea is Danny Blaunchflower who only won three(3) of his fifteen(15) games as the blues manager. Times are changing, Club shareholders can not withstand any manager who would not produce a trophy even though he had once done so.

Will Conte be able to maintain this stand in Chelsea knowing that EPL title among others is among the most cherished trophies in England?[/i]


#2 WHY WOULD ANY COACH WANT TO REMAIN?

Jose Mourinho and Guus Hiddink got called to the Bridge twice in their careers respectively, this could be mis-interpreted for the fact that they enjoyed their stay at Chelsea. But why would any coach wants to remain at the Bridge?

Conte needs to ask himself if he would be able to remain even when the chips are down. Why would I remain at Stanford Bridge ?

#3 HOW WILL CHELSEA REMAIN AT TOP FOUR NEXT SEASON?
The worst position the Blues have occupied since 2000 till date was tenth (10th), no thanks to last season's poor performance under the managerial expert of the Jose Mourinho, the special one and Guus Hiddink who came to the rescue to savage the menace. They have maintained top four between 2002/2003 season to 2014/2015 season with a back to back champions title in 2015 and 2016 respectively.

Making the top four is not a guarantee of remaining at the bridge, there is more to this than meet the eyes.

[i]The Italian Manager, Conte needs to know how to make the team better than it is after clinching this trophy.Top four is not enough, what then will be?
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5 MISTAKES ARSENAL MADE IN 2016/2017 EPL


It is no news any more that gunners could not meet up with their records of being among the top
four in English Premier League which they have been keeping track of for more than a decade after loosing what was thought to be a decisive match been them and the Spurs boys at White Heart Lane last weekend.

The London derby ended in a 2-0 keeping the gunners sixth(6) on the table with a seventeen(17) points gap between their hosts.

Arsenal's slip in this season might have been as a result of these five mistakes:


#1. Sluggish defence: Arsenals conceded just 36 goals last season placing them second after the champions, Leicester City. With five(5) more matches for the gunners, they have conceded 42 goals with much possibility of conceding more before the season winds up.

#2. Missing goal chances: No thanks to their inability to convert and create goal chances. Compared to last season, Arsenal has so far created 364 chances compared to their 464 chances last season, this could be related to the strikers lack of insights.

#3.Top 4 race: Unlike last season when the likes of Chelsea, Liverpool were not getting their form right, this season as seen the duos finding their place in the top four with the Man City and Tottenham indispensably positioned.

#4. Manager's hackneyed statistics: Wenger's tactics is getting bored and many teams have studied this overtime forgetting to realize football has got a new science with a paradigm shift from what gave him the trophy more than a decade ago. The old way won't get you result anymore, the new tactics has seen clubs like Chelsea, Man City, Man U'td and even Leicester claiming trophies through its adoption.

#5. Arsenal's Board Miser Funding: Some school of thoughts have believed that the Arsenal's board are so miser in spending and that is the reason while they have not shown the french man, Arsene Wenger out having stayed more than two decades. The board are much concerned about economy rather than trophy with their biggest buy so far being Alexis Sanchez and Mesut Ozil.

Though some of the big four has experienced their individual challenges in the past season.Chelsea finished tenth(10th) last season likewise Liverpool who took the eighth (8th) and Man Utd in the fifth(5th) position, this season has been a turn around for them after putting their houses in order.

Whether next season will be a different ball game for Arsenal or not, time will tell. And this can only happen if the gunners do what is right and not doing the same thing repeatedly while expecting a better result.

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