Why has Tottenham's form dipped and what can Antonio Conte do to improve them?

[mawspurs]

Tottenham face Brighton on Saturday having failed to win three of their last four games, but what's behind the poor results? The loss of in-form Dejan Kulusevski to a hamstring injury was undeniably a blow, but the summer signing of Richarlison at Tottenham was designed for these situations.

Source: Sky Sports

 

[Barrd10]

The trouble is that Conte doesn’t have that creative player to switch up the formation. And his wingbacks aren’t great. I can’t see a chance any time soon.

 

[OnTheUp]

We've lost 1 Prem game, it's laughable to call that a drop in form.

The reality is, we're doing better than we did at this stage last season. The anti-Spurs garbage from the media is relentless at the moment. It's exhausting

 

[Gbspurs]

I think Richarlison playing well off the bench caused a problem, in that Conte wanted to start him but didn't want to drop Kane or Son. That left us with the old issue of having no one in back up for Kane/Son again.

Really we should have brought Bissouma in for Kulu and had Richarlison ready to switch in for Son/Kane or change to a 3 up top if we needed to mix it up.

 

[whitesocks]

Son, kane and richarlison are vital for their countries. They will all be expecting to at least start the vast majority of the games leading up to the world cup.

After the world cup, conte will have more flexibility on who starts, Well unless one of them helps win the thing. Or another wins the golden boot. It would be tricky to routinely rotate a player with that status.