Antonio Conte

Then you look at our home form since we've been at this stadium.

I think the only consistent time that we have had form in that stadium is that second half when Conte came in.

That's it.

The home form is absolutely-

... yeah.

And now, and now we're in that situation.

But for me, I find De Zerbi substitutions very much the Conte's, and I used to moan at Conte at the time-

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Maybe it's slightly 'cause it was slightly different formation, um, maybe as a wing-back.

Genuinely, I mean this, right? Remember, uh, remember all the way back when we won the league under Conte? I remember watching games, like, live and at home just thinking, "How is Victor Moses always in acres of space? How is he always left alone?" And it was, like, a tactical thing, and everyone ended up switching to three at the back in that season after Conte.

No one played back three in England at all, certainly at Premier League level.

And then by the end, like, literally most of the 20 teams were playing it because of Antonio Conte's system.

But it was like Victor Moses was just always in acres of space available.

Many of you will remember.

It's just way more fashionable to be really attacking.

We've seen that with managers as well, like your older managers, your more defensive-minded managers, like Antonio Conte, Mourinho, obviously.

He's kind of tweaked his tactics a little bit because he's got so many attacking players.

Allegri, those kind of managers have been struggling for a while because the game's moved past that defensive-minded, shut-up-shot counter-attack.

[laughs] Um-

Yeah, you know what, what, what, you know what will, will pop up in case, because I know people will mention him, Antonio Conte, but there's no way it's, uh, he will come to Leeds [laughs] a- after managing Napoli-

I'm, I'm, I'm-

... and managing the, uh, in the Cha- in the Champions League.

Um, there is something about Carlo triggering Swedes.

He did the same thing with Dejan Kulusevski when D- when, when, when Conte was at Spurs.

I don't know if you saw that.

But, uh, when, when Kulusevski was at Spurs, or sorry, when Conte was at Spurs, and Conte took over and they finished fourth, when, when Juve sent Bentancur and Kulusevski to, to Tottenham, Carlo tweeted, "Thank you, Paratici," something to that effect.

At the end of the season, for finishing fourth remember, not having won anything, Dejan Kulusevski got his, um, his social media manager to create a hype video for him using Carlo's tweet.

Oh, wow.

Richard, it's easy with hindsight.

Um, you know, Keysie, it's, uh... you know, looking back at how we were, I mean, following that, we had managers like Mourinho and Conte and all coming through.

We had Ange, who started with his first 10 games unbeaten and top of the table.

So, yeah, but, but when you look back, the, what has actually happened during those years and you think what, where we were then, you're saying if we could have really pushed on from there, then, um, I think things c- yeah, would've been very different.

But the way they're defending, the amount of mistakes that are happening.

Conte, in two years, didn't lose three games in a row.

Allegri, in his first four games, has already lost three.

Are we starting to worry about this Napoli? Is it too early to worry about this Napoli?

They still couldn't defend.

They were still gifting away goals, making such silly mistakes.

Because this system that Napoli built under Conte, it was not a system on defending with 10 players inside your own box just to maintain the league or to keep it at one point, whichever intention you have to go back to the end of the game.

This guy here is bad news.