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We cannot play 3-4-3 with our current midfield, simple.

What Conte is saying is that 3-4-3 has failed in the hands of Donkeyoko and Fabregas, and he cannot afford to play 3-4-3 with those two clowns manning our midfield. So 3-4-3 or 3-5-2 doesn't matter with our current players. He plays 3-5-2 to find balance because both Yoko and Fabregas are incompetent.

Conte on 3-5-2 vs 3-4-3: "Don't forget last season we had different players".

This is the best he can say without throwing Donkeyoko and Fibreglass under the bus. Useless midfielders.

When you are a complete donkey on the ball, the least we should expect is some running on the pitch. Donkeyoko soon starting to make Mikel look like Mo Farah.

Ian Wright and Lampard roasting Donkeyoko on MOTD.

Wow, Piazon that broke his leg in September is already back on the pitch. Good for him.

Chelseafan1:
Don't be stupiid, Fabregas isn't meant to defend, he's an attacker, a creator.

If we needed someone else to replace Matic in his defensive duties, should be someone better than Matic.

Stop asking me foolish questions.

I'm done here.

Excuse me, where on the pitch does Fabregas play. Fabregas is the reason we play that Donkeyoko if you don't know cos Fabregas is not robust enough to play in a 2 man midfield.

This is what experienced people were trying to tell you last season while you kept bleating on and disturbing us every game.

If Fabregas could do Matic job, then Pedro would be on the pitch helping with goalscoring duties.

Instead what we have is 2 central midfielders totally unfit for purpose. Fabregas unfit to stabilise the midfield, and Donkeyoko unfit to play in central midfield so being pushed to AM where he is equally unfit to create chances or score goals.

Chelseafan1:
We were rather unfortunate to have that donkey as his replacement, there's nothing special about Matic biko,

If he had signed for city, Ibime would be hailing him as the missing link in their midfield, his team is still trailing city by more than 12 points.

You've suddenly forgotten how he was becoming an eye-sore towards the end of last season.

OK, Yoko is a donkey. Why can't Fabregas replicate Matics work as you were disturbing us last season.

Chelseafan1:
See as dem just dey crowd out our few attackers.

I'm just tayad of too many defenders players in this team jare.

Make we try attacking style abeg.

You would not see that your current midfielders cannot play in 2 man midfield and allow Chelsea to play more forwards. Your Oga Fabregas is a failure.

Chelseafan1:
Matic was strolling with Kante doing his job, offensively Fabregas was better than he.

Simple as ABC.

I ain't tendering any apology, I have apologised about the stupiid yoko, not Fabregas.

Matic can go fvck himself.

Sharraaaaaap.

All Chelseas struggles this season is because they do not have a partner for Kante that would allow them to play 3 forwards.

That is the biggest change from last season and why we only have Hazard and Morata upfront.

Fabregas has failed terrifically.

During all your rants last season, I knew those are rants of an inexperienced football watcher. There are some things that you can only learn from experience.

Chelseafan1:
Hazard made the biggest mistake of his life joining Chelsea in 2012.

I pity his career if he ends it in this team.

Stop focussing on Hazard. I remember every match how you used to disturb us for Fabregas to start instead of Matic last season. You need to apologise for giving us such headaches. There are some things experienced people will understand that you will not.

8 chances for Leicester in 15 mins.

Donkeyoko and Fabregas need to GTFO out of Chelsea. Bloody leeches.

Good to see my nigga happy. Was a big fan of his.

donjazet:
These articles on the tabloids seems to have a bit of truth to them. As usual a coward on the board must have leaked the news out to the press in order for the global Chelsea fan base to brace their minds for an inevitable conte sacking come summer.

Conte was out the moment he refused to extend his contract. It's only right for the board to shop for a replacement for Business Coninuity.

For a Chelsea fan to call for Contes head though, that fan needs his head checked.

raumdeuter:
Juventus: Antonio Conte quits as coach of Italian champions July 15 2014
http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/28320845

The Spanish striker completes a permanent switch from Real Madrid, signing a five-year contract with the Bianconeri July 19 2014
http://www.juventus.com/en/news/news/2014/morata-signs-for-juventus.php

See the person getting his facts lying that Conte that already quit 5 days earlier was the one who signed Morata.

airmark:
He added: "Conte is the manager who most 'bet' on me, without even ever having had me in his team. I'm very conscious of that: he bet on me for Juventus but left before I arrived; then he wanted me at Chelsea come what may. He knows me better than I could imagine, I'm sure, and that's important: it motivates you to work hard, train well.''

"I feel indebted to him because he's the coach that most trusted in me, most wanted me, who made me feel I could perform at the highest level. And yet I've never had the fortune to actually work with him. I'm sure sooner or later I will.

In Aparis world, buying a footballer is like going to market to pick bend-down select. So because Conte left 5 days before Morata arrived, Conte cannot have signed Morata. Is he buying crayfish?

Abeg how did Apari qualify for green card sef?

No wonder when we told Apari that Emenalo had been chasing Andre Schurrle for 12 months before Mourinho arrived at Chelsea, he still insisted Schurrle is a Jose signing. There are things football fans will know and understand, that are beyond Aparis bend-down select mentality.

airmark:
'point and buy' coach

First Nairaland dictionary entry of the year 2018.

Every year new and famous entries are added to Nairaland lexicon like Shekpe Keeper, Adebowale, Dablord, One Corner, Pius Iniesta, Hidden Ikedia, Fraudiola etc.

Point and Buy coach is a good start to 2018.

diggz:
We are definitely missing the presence of players who will guarantee us 20plus goals in a season.

When drogba was here,we had lampard,anelka and fvcking kalou sharing the burden of scoring goals.

Even with fernadud here, we had drogba, kalou ,Sturridge,lampard and Terry contributing goals.

This particular team lacks goal scoring threats....hazard,morata,pedro and willian will need to do better....or we may have to start looking for players who can contribute goals from their positions. We are definitely missing a midfielder who can score goals....

Which is why the 3-4-3 adds another goalscoring body to the mix.

I don't know how we plan to keep winning with only 2 men getting in the box (Hazard and Morata), both of whom are completely off goalscoring form. We need an extra goalscorer with them, either Pedro or Willian.

The problem is we no longer have the midfield to play with only 2 CMs. All our CMs except Kante cannot play in a 2 successfully. Drinkbleach maybe, but that remains to be seen based on his performance yesterday.

Elnino4ladies:
Moses is a disgrace

Thank God we never fell for our fellow fans cajoling us to vote for Moses as APOTY. Conscience would not forgive voting him over Salah and co.

Conte should stop this boring 3-5-2 abeg.

And I no sabi wetin Drinkbleach and Fibreglass dey play here.

snowstormm:
ozil and Sanchez?


chelsea don win o

Not too fast. No be so Iwobi turn to Maradona for Charity Shield?

Thecassanova:
This lineup make sense abeg

Comot Fabregas put Willian

popizaino:
Didn't philip lahm confirm that pep guardiola was not to be blamed for the defeat against real madrid?.

No, Buhari was to blame

diggz:
Barkley ke...I am not even sure what to make of him yet....last time ibime was suggesting they play him on the wings .....and truth is, I really dunno what to expect from him.

I am looking at ozil...his experience and talent and I think he is a better fit in terms of creativity through the midfield. He can possibly do better than fab if played with kante and Drinkwater sitting behind him.

Dunno....I maybe wrong burr we should be grabbing players like ozil n Sanchez for cheap especially when they are readily available.

Don't get me wrong, I am looking forward to him kicking out Bakayoko from AM, but in the grand scheme of things, his talent is best suited to the wings cos he canmot match our rivals AMs for vision, quickness of releasing the ball instead of dawdling etc

raumdeuter:
Mourinho crashed out to Liverpool twice, immediately after he left, Chelsea under Grant and Hiddink beat Liverpool convincingly in the CL knockouts

Mourinho couldnt beat Bayern or Dortmund while coach of Madrid, immediately he left Ancelotti beat Bayern and Dortmund in the same season

Mourinho crashed out to Liverpool on Ghost goal and penalties. Crashed out to Bayern on penalties in semis after Madrid had not advanced past 2nd round in ages, crashed out to Dortmund and Atleti on single goal.

Pep crashed out to Madrid 5-0 from beating Barca 7-0 the previous season under Heynckes.

There are levels of disgrace. May my disgrace not be like Pep in 2018.

popizaino:
Abeg am chelsea fans too but let be devoid of sentiments when talking about pep guardiola and mourinho as the former is way superior than the later.

so tell me how atletico madrid beat us 1-3 in the ucl semi finals at the bridge under mourinho in 2013/2014 season if that isn't disgraceful.

Chelsea was returning from being knocked out at Group stage the previous year and were not dominant, yet Mourinho took em to semi, unlike Pep that would take dominant winners to disgrace. Bayern flogged Barca 7-0 without Pep. 12 months later, Pep got them disgraced 5-0 by Madrid

Creatrixity:
Pep collected 5 blows from the fists of Leonardo Jardim's Monaco. Tell another lie.

Raumdeuter is getting pummeled left, right and centre with facts

raumdeuter:
Mourinho had the best players in Chelsea and Madrid you havent told us what he achieved with them? DISGRACE. every time. The deepest pocket in Chelsea yet no final, getting beat black and blue by Benitez and Liverpool, In Madird it was Pep, Bayern and Dortmund taking turns on him

Mourinho was never disgraced in UCL as Chelsea and Madrid boss when they had deep pockets, only lost on penalties, single goal margins or ghost goals.

The only person to get disgraced in UCL is Pep that would be losing 5-0, 3-0 etc

raumdeuter:
Dortmund 4 Madrid 1

Aggregate was 3-4. Only 1 goal difference.

Tell me about Pep that disgraces his team 5-0 just because Robben is not as good as Ronaldo.

raumdeuter:
Pep won Barcelona with Man City 3-1
I am yet to see Pep concede 4 goals to a single player in a CL semi

Madrid only lost that tie by one goal.

I am yet to see Mourinho lose a CL tie by more than two goals, doing so only once in 13 years, unlike Pep that will lose 5-0 and DISGRACE his team as usual when he doesn't have the better players.

This was how fools went hyping a dead rubber Group game, a 3-1 victory over Barca, the first underdog victory of Peps career. . . . until Barca flogged them 4-0 in the return fixture. Pep is yet to win a tie as underdog.

raumdeuter:
Pep took Bayern to UCL disgrace abeg where did Mourinho take Chelsea Europes biggest spender?

WHere did Mourinho take Madrid Europes biggest club? Shey no be Mourinho Lewandoski dey use score 4 goals in the CL semi ni?

Mourinho now has Man utd and took them to their 2nd worst league position in over 2 deacdes.

Mourinho and Pep are in the same league, same City the gap is 15 points, from 9 points last year

Mourinho has succeeded with the best team, Pep has not succeeded AT ALL with the underdog.

The quality of a coach is in winning without the best team.

I am yet to point out a single tie in Peps career that he won with an inferior 11.

Pep cannot call himself a coach until he does so.

raumdeuter:
I didnt know they had a fat godfather inspiring their foolishness behind the scenes.

When I show the spending of both clubs are only 33M different they jumped onto net spend.

What business has a club with net spend? What have you getting a mugu in China to pay 70M for Oscar got to do with the quality in your team

Chelsea net spend is 30m Euros, City net spend is 330m Euros.

And Chelsea started with a worse squad than City, that Pep reckoned needed 11 new players. Conte turned that same rubbish squad into Champions with no injection of cash. Pep is a disgrace.

raumdeuter:
Porto was the biggest Portuguese team, Inter was the biggest Italian team at the time Mourinho joined them, Inter had won 3 league titles before Mourinho joined

Peps performance at Bayern is 3 league titles and 3 semi finals, Currently at City he is setting an all time record

Local talks.

Mourinho took Porto a severe underdog to back-to-back Europa and UCL.

Mourinho took Inter an underdog to UCL.

Pep took Bayern, only a slight underdog to UCL disgrace.

Pep took Man City, an underdog to UCL disgrace.

Peps greatness only comes when his players are greater. Because Ribery and Robben are not as great as Messi and Ronaldo, Pep disgraced Bayern. On the other hand, Mourinho was able to achieve it with Eto and Goran Pandev.

Pep only becomes great when his players are better. Then he will make them even more dominant.

raumdeuter:
This season City spent 249M, Chelsea is second and they have spent 216M. Difference between the 2 teams spending this season is 33M

Chelsea net spend last 2 years is almost zero. Stop lying.

Mourinhos performance with underdog teams Porto and Inter is to make them great.

Peps performance with underdog teams Bayern and Man City 1st year is to disgrace them.

Where Pep is great is in taking a team with better attacking players and make them even more dominant. However if the attacking players in Pep team are not clearly better than the opponents, he will turn them into laughing stock.

Give Pep a Burnley team and he may relegate them.

Nihilist:
Chances conceded through the centre last season: 41
Chances conceded through the centre this season: 29

Improvement through the centre = 29%

Nihilist:
Man City chances conceded in left/right flanks at this point last season 46/42
Man City chances conceded in left/right flanks this season 35/29

Improvement on the flanks = 27%


So pointing to the improvement on the flanks in isolation is biased reporting when there is a bigger improvement through the centre.


The key improvement has been in midfield. I dare say any possession opponents get against City these days is in their own half, much more so than last season, and that is because they are feeling the heat from midfield and uptop, not because a team will live or die based on whether Kolarov is the fullback as opposed to Delph.