Conte: It's hard to promise a cup or a top four in the Premier League right now for a strong team to be competitive

Tottenham boss Antonio Conte admits that it is difficult to make a commitment to fans to win a cup or enter the top four of the Premier League.

In the first leg of the English League Cup semi-final in mid-week, Tottenham Hotspur lost 2-0 to Chelsea, and after the game Conte said there was still a big gap between Tottenham and Chelsea. At 22:00 Beijing time on January 9, Spurs will usher in an FA Cup match, and Conte said before the match that he could not promise to win the cup or enter the top four of the Premier League. "It's hard for me to make a commitment to our fans at this moment because I like to tell the truth and face reality."

Conte went on to say: "That doesn't mean I'm not positive enough. I always think positively and when I sign for Tottenham, I always think in a positive way. But I know the situation in England is that you have to play against the real top teams. ”

Conte points out: "Sometimes in England when you play a football game, you think you're playing another sport. If you compare the games here with other countries, in terms of difficulty, intensity, quality of players, etc., it's like another sport. It's great because you can compare yourself in the best leagues, but at the same time you have to be a strong team and only a strong team is competitive. ”

Conte added: "Everyone who knows me very well knows that I hate losing, I have a hard time accepting defeat, so I try to demand my best every day and I try to pass that idea on to my players because I hate losing. But at the same time, in football sometimes you're bound to suffer defeats, or you have to accept more moments of failure. You won't see me happy after a failure, I'll be very sad in that moment. After that, after 24 hours or 48 hours, the mood will improve. But this is my will, not to accept failure, to try to do everything well is to avoid failure. ”

(Su Erhu)