Antonio Conte wants Tottenham squad to think like winners and start treating draws like defeats

[mawspurs]

Antonio Conte says his Tottenham players have to understand that ambitious teams treat draws and defeats in the same way.

"You have to understand if the draw is a success for you or if the draw is [like] a loss," Conte told Standard Sport ahead of tomorrow's visit of Wolves.

"If you want to have ambition, you have to think only to get three points and a draw is half a loss for me. I'm trying to transfer my idea, transfer this feeling [to the players].

"Because It's important. If you want to be competitive, to have ambition to fight for something important you have to improve in many aspects. Also your character has to be strong and you have to understand very well the difference between a win, a draw and a loss. It's totally different.

"The win makes you happy, the feeling is good, the confidence goes up. When you lose, for you should have the opposite situation."

Source: Evening Standard

 

[Col_M]

like me, I'm a winner

 

[Yiddo1982]

I think you might have tagged this wrong, @mawspurs

 

[mawspurs]

I think you might have tagged this wrong, @mawspurs

Thanks, moved to the right place now.

 

[Bulletspur]

The only thing I disagree with is, if like against Chelsea you are losing in the 95th and then get an equalizer, it will always feel like a win!

 

[yiddo_4eva]

The only thing I disagree with is, if like against Chelsea you are losing in the 95th and then get an equalizer, it will always feel like a win!

I completely agree that the match itself should determine if a draw feels like a 'win' or 'loss'

As Bullet says, when you're losing in the 95th minute and have been second best for the majority, a late equaliser will feel like a win, whereas the reversal of that is if you're on top for the majority of a game, miss your chances and end as a draw, it should feel like a loss as you look at all the missed opportunities

 

[animal]

The immediate emotion can feel like a win but on reflection the players should consider it points dropped rather than won.

 

[Bulletspur]

The immediate emotion can feel like a win but on reflection the players should consider it points dropped rather than won.

Not on the case of the same Chelsea game. We we lucky to get 1 point, so it never felt like we lost 2mpoints. It would only feel like 2 points lost if we were out playing them and then they got a late equalizer.

Remember that Leicester game where we won 2-3 from Bergwijn's late goal? That game we out played them from the start to finish and yet going into extra time they were winning 2-1. If we had just equalized like we did, despite it being in the 95th minute, it would have felt like 2 points dropped. But we were able to get the 3 points with Bergwijn's late winner.