Why can the teams led by Conte only operate on a single line, but not so well once they enter the European competition?

Strictly speaking, Conte is not a head coach whose on-the-spot command is useless. When he was coaching at Chelsea and Inter Milan, I saw the diversity of his formations.

When he first became the head coach of Chelsea, he deployed a four-back formation, using tactics such as 4231, 4141, and 442. However, after losing to Liverpool and Arsenal, the team exposed many problems, and there were big holes in the defense and the middle.

So he immediately made drastic changes in the formation and tactics, switching to three defenders, and started a 343 system.

The mad dog strategy of three defenders + two wing-backs and two defensive midfielders allowed Chelsea, the blue team, to achieve a winning streak. It seemed to be a 13-game winning streak. In the end, Chelsea also won the league championship that season.

This experience left a very deep impression on Conte, and his coaching style and tactical concepts are engraved in my mind.

Advocating pressing, high physical requirements, strong tactical discipline and team coordination requirements, and strong combat effectiveness are the characteristics of Conte's team.

However, if we want to discuss in depth that the teams led by Conte will not be able to compete in the European competition, we must mention one of his shortcomings, "poor rotation." Like Ancelotti, Conte is also known as a "conte fool", and he did have the problem of under-rotation in his early coaching.

Many fans say that he only uses the main force and does not know how to rotate. This sentence makes sense.

When coaching the team, he has the habit of over-relying on the starting players.

Take the recent 2:6 defeat to Eindhoven in Naples’ European war as an example. The team’s starters, De Bruyne, McTominay, Anguissa, Di Lorenzo and others, are all Conte’s favorites and will be the team’s main players.

Whether it is one game a week or three games a week, if there are no injuries, they will definitely start the game.

The players are good and have good abilities, but they cannot withstand the fatigue caused by multi-line combat. It will be difficult especially for veterans such as De Bruyne.

Conte has very strict requirements for his players. He will require a large area of ​​​​running and defense, and he must have strong efforts from front to back.

No matter which team he is on, he has had the problem of demanding too much execution ability from his players.

At that time, Chelsea's Rudiger and David Luiz publicly questioned Conte's tactics, and there were more or less differences in rotation and tactical understanding.

The players were not happy, and the coach was also dissatisfied with the players' attitude. After the conflict, they parted ways. This extreme character has also been Conte's characteristic since he took charge, and has brought him a lot of controversy.

Conte's performance in the European war is indeed poor, and he has limitations compared with other famous coaches. He has experienced so many teams, including Juventus, Chelsea, Inter Milan, and even now Naples, but he still has not avoided the reputation of being an expert in civil war and an outsider in foreign wars.

Another point is that after watching Conte coach for so many years, I found that he places great emphasis on discipline when leading the team, and is slightly insufficient in player usage, rotation, and player transformation and improvement. This may be one of the objective reasons why his multi-line combat performance has been poor.

Unlike single-line operations, multi-line operations and the Champions League focus on "diversity of styles." In the league, everyone knows the basics and has played more games. The team will basically not have much change in tactical style, so it will not be so complicated for the coach to deal with it.

But in the European war, the opponents you face are teams from various European countries, and the nature is different.

Some like to attack, some advocate defense, some control the ball, and some defend and counterattack. Each team has its own characteristics, so the flexibility of the coach's personnel management and player matching will be very high.

How to change tactics and how to build player combinations all require coaches to have a strong thinking about change.

However, after so many years, I still feel that Conte's coaching still tends to be "framework-oriented", which means that he will emphasize discipline execution, but he is not as detailed in the study of small details as other coaches.

He cannot compare with Guardiola and Ancelotti, and there is a gap compared with the new generation coaches Alonso, Kompany and others.

You can compare Alonso and Kompany and see how these two new generation coaches born in the 1980s coach the team. Let’s not talk about whether the level is good or not, and whether the employment is accurate, but it can be seen that they like to "seek change" very much.

Seek changes in tactics and changes in personnel usage. We never stick to a certain way of playing. There are also multiple ideas for player rotation and playing methods. There will be many novel things when encountering different opponents.

In every game, we can see new changes from the personnel changes.

For example, Bayern Kane has recently played as an attacking midfielder, and has repeatedly retreated to the defensive midfielder position to play in the game. This has made fans excited and made people see the potential of the British star.

This is also due to Kompany's idea of ​​​​being good at seeking changes.

I feel that Conte is a little worse. Maybe his character is too strong, he is impatient, and he cannot control his temper. He has inner thoughts, and even if he wants to adjust the team members, he is not necessarily willing to obey, which leads to him having some problems in the use of personnel.

In Tottenham, there was an unhappiness before. Conte also angrily criticized the players for being selfish and pointed the finger at the club and Levy. I think this kind of character will be "suffocating" in the locker room, a bit of a patriarchal and high-pressure style.

A strong desire to win, tough locker room management methods and team spirit can bring cohesion, but it is also a double-edged sword, that is, personnel management will lack some "flexibility", which may also affect the efficiency of Conte's leadership..

I chatted with a fan before, and I think his evaluation of Conte is very pertinent. He said that Conte is a hard-working coach who can make up for his shortcomings. He can rely on hard work and a strong set of tactical playing methods, plus specializing in single-line operations to ensure the team's performance. However, he is too ingenious at the technical and tactical level. He has been eliminated from the Champions League multiple times, which reflects his coaching weaknesses.

In terms of ability, I quite like Conte, and I quite like watching the teams he coaches. In Naples, I hope he can continue to work hard on the details of coaching and lead the team to achieve good results in the European war.

As long as he breaks through this layer of window paper, his evaluation can reach a higher level.