What Conte is teaching his players as Lucas Moura gives insight into training

[mawspurs]

Antonio Conte has certainly made an impression on his Tottenham players in his first couple of weeks in the job.

Source: Football London

 

[wirE]

Fuck me I hate football.london articles. Riddled with adds and banners. It's cancerous for smartphones

 

[Smokinhotspur]

This bit stood out for me: if we don't press high or don't press strongly enough, if we are not aggressive enough..I think it is about this

This has plagued us for years apart from the middle ones under Poch. These lads just need to be prepared to keep going to the limits of the sacrifice and then maybe, just maybe they'll win something. Conte on the sideline during that 2nd half was just incredible literally coaching player by player on how and where to press during the game! For example, you had Dele come on and there was just no intensity to his work but Conte wouldn't let him get away with it and kept driving him to do more, be more aggressive and quicker on the press. Same with Harry and Son. I think we have finally found our manager that can kick us on. Just hope the club backs him to the hilt to realise his vision. COYS!!!

 

[Smokinhotspur]

It's the reason why I don't get the constant Moura criticisms. Yes he can be a bit frustrating with his end product but one thing is that the man always busts a gut, never hides and keeps offering himself as an out ball even under extreme pressure which is more than can be said for most of our squad. For that he will always have my full respect.

 

[GutBucket]

Loses the ball a lot but he doesn't have too many players to pass to when he drops deeper, Winks and Hojbjerg don't really play one-twos (to be fair Lucas keeps his head down anyway). One of the best players when it comes to pressing in the league and he will contribute with goals and assists. Somewhat frustrating since he isn't far from being a great player but he is useful for sure.

 

[davidmatzdorf]

Of all the players in our first team squad, Lucas seems to be one especially well suited to be improved by Conte, because he already has the fire and the sustained energy level that Conte demands. He mainly needs to have his sense of what is going on around him improved - his peripheral vision of the game - so he sees opportunities instead of running into traffic and losing the ball. Conte will give Lucas very specfic, directed positional and tactical instructions and then make him do it 150 times until he has it right.

Lucas needs to pay a bit less attention to his footwork and bit more attention to the space around him. I doubt this has escaped Conte.

The difference between frustrating Lucas in the first half yesterday and nearly-unplayable Lucas in the second half was down to judgment and vision, not technique and fitness.

 

[whitesocks]

This bit stood out for me: if we don't press high or don't press strongly enough, if we are not aggressive enough..I think it is about this

This has plagued us for years apart from the middle ones under Poch. These lads just need to be prepared to keep going to the limits of the sacrifice and then maybe, just maybe they'll win something. Conte on the sideline during that 2nd half was just incredible literally coaching player by player on how and where to press during the game! For example, you had Dele come on and there was just no intensity to his work but Conte wouldn't let him get away with it and kept driving him to do more, be more aggressive and quicker on the press. Same with Harry and Son. I think we have finally found our manager that can kick us on. Just hope the club backs him to the hilt to realise his vision. COYS!!!

So why did they ignore conte in the first half?
Reading the riot act to the players at half time would have helped, but the more experienced players are going to get pretty pissed off with getting booed off the pitch and getting bollocked at h/t every week, when they probably feel that all that crazy pressing is for the youngsters.
Just look at how Hojbjerg reacted after he scored - he was not a happy bunny.

 

[SpringHeeledJim]

So why did they ignore conte in the first half?
Reading the riot act to the players at half time would have helped, but the more experienced players are going to get pretty pissed off with getting booed off the pitch and getting bollocked at h/t every week, when they probably feel that all that crazy pressing is for the youngsters.
Just look at how Hojbjerg reacted after he scored - he was not a happy bunny.

I read something saying that Conte had admitted afterwards that he hadn't asked the team to go 'full 'throttle' right from the start and at HT he didn't need to shout and scream at anyone. Just talked them through calmly what was expected in the 2nd half and made a few adjustments

 

[14/04/91]

Of all the players in our first team squad, Lucas seems to be one especially well suited to be improved by Conte, because he already has the fire and the sustained energy level that Conte demands. He mainly needs to have his sense of what is going on around him improved - his peripheral vision of the game - so he sees opportunities instead of running into traffic and losing the ball. Conte will give Lucas very specfic, directed positional and tactical instructions and then make him do it 150 times until he has it right.

Lucas needs to pay a bit less attention to his footwork and bit more attention to the space around him. I doubt this has escaped Conte.

The difference between frustrating Lucas in the first half yesterday and nearly-unplayable Lucas in the second half was down to judgment and vision, not technique and fitness.

And hopefully Conte’s use of wing-backs will help. Moura tends to drive inside, occupying centre halves and full backs, this often leaves so much space out wide.

Teach him to cut inside then look right, we could be onto something very simple but very effective.

 

[chinaman]

I think Conte was content to let Leeds run themselves into the ground in the first half, as Leeds is prone to do so in so many games. Save our energy for the 2nd half especially after the 60th minute when Leeds have already shot their bolt.

 

[Smokinhotspur]

I read something saying that Conte had admitted afterwards that he hadn't asked the team to go 'full 'throttle' right from the start and at HT he didn't need to shout and scream at anyone. Just talked them through calmly what was expected in the 2nd half and made a few adjustments

Spot on. Especially as some key players had been away on International duty so he knew they wouldn't be in the condition to implement the intensity he wants for the full 90. Very smart management. Probably also the reason he was going mental whipping up the crowd at the end as he knew most of the lads were running on empty from giving everything they had in the 2nd half so the buzz from the crowd was needed to get the result over the line.

 

[Arden]

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[teedee]

It's the reason why I don't get the constant Moura criticisms. Yes he can be a bit frustrating with his end product but one thing is that the man always busts a gut, never hides and keeps offering himself as an out ball even under extreme pressure which is more than can be said for most of our squad. For that he will always have my full respect.

I re-watched the second half of the the Leeds game on Monday to see if the constant criticism of Moura was justified. He made four bad passes, but five passes that were not only spot on accurate, but also incisive and opened up Leeds in and around their penalty area. However with four of those passes other players failed to take advantage of them. I like Moura for his busting a gut and for the amount of times he breaks up opposition play.