Tottenham head coach Antonio Conte barked at the club management and the team’s players on Saturday. Urheilu’s football expert Miika Nuutinen wonders about the head coach’s words about them, and not about us.
The London club Tottenham Hotspur lost two important series points in the English football league on Saturday. In the 74th minute of the game, the team took a 3–1 lead against series jumbo Southampton, but eventually had to settle for a 3–3 draw.
After the match, the Spurs coach Antonio Conte quite harshly ripped both the players and the entire club, including the chairman Daniel Levy.
In Conte’s opinion, Tottenham have already failed for two decades under Levy, as they have won only one league cup title during that time.
– And the players? Where are the players? In my experience, if you want to be competitive and fight, you have to improve this side. I can say that right now it’s really, really low. “I see 11 players who play only for themselves,” Conte said Evening Standard (you will switch to another service) by.
Urheilu’s football expert Miika Nuutinen says that Conte is an intense coach who demands a lot from himself and others.
– The first impression I got from that outburst was that it was very emotional and at that moment very honest. That perhaps summed up the disappointment of the Southampton match and perhaps the whole season, Nuutinen estimates.
According to him, as an outsider, it is difficult to say what is true in Conte’s speeches. However, the head coach is right about one thing.
– It is clear that Tottenham has not managed to feast on their feet.
From below from a tweet (you go to another service) you can watch Conte’s emotional outburst.
Tottenham is fourth in the Premier League and tied for next season’s Champions League spot. However, the team has played two matches more than Manchester United, who is ahead, and Newcastle and Liverpool, who are behind.
In addition, Tottenham’s season ended on the Eurofields, when the Italian Milan won the quarter-finals of the Champions League with goals 1–0.
Expert Nuutinen says that Italian coach Conte’s era at Tottenham has by no means been what was expected, but not a disaster either.
– Of course, this gave me the feeling that it was a bit like the beginning of the end. Such outbursts as Conte has had even earlier (you switch to another service)rarely help the head coach position.
Of course, one of the reasons for Conte’s outpouring could also be the fact that his contract with the club is coming to an end, and an extension has not been offered, at least not yet.
– Now there is only a short clip of the season left, there has been no news of a new contract and the head coach speaks in the media about his own team in the form of they and not us. Of course, that also cracks the ear a lot.
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