Tottenham have won! With a 3-2 away win over Premier League giants Manchester City, Conte led the team to a classic defensive counter-attack to end a three-game losing streak with a very morale-boosting victory and get back on track for a European spot.
It was a classic defensive counter-attack, and from the post-match statistics, Spurs only had 6 shots on goal, but shot 5 on target and scored 3 goals; although Manchester City's shooting number was as high as 21, only 4 shots were on target, scoring 2 goals.
The comparison in terms of possession rate is even more outrageous, Spurs only have a pitiful 29%, while Manchester City is as high as 71%, it can be said that Spurs almost completely gave up possession, let the City of Manchester City play attack, but what can it be? The game is based on the result, not the process.
In an interview after the game, Conte stressed: "Our tactical design is to steal Manchester City and then play a quick switch attack. ”
Tottenham Perfectly executed Conte's tactical design, the whole team came together to maintain a very good formation elasticity, which is also a typical Italian football style, but Conte's tactical design injected his unique personal understanding.
Also playing in a 5-back formation, Conte's full-backs will take turns to participate in the attack, which ensures that in the process of attack, there will be no embarrassing situation of insufficient manpower.
For Kane's use, Conte continued Mourinho's perfect development of one of the few all-round big centers in world football today, and Kane could both retreat deeper and further raise the formation that Manchester City had already pressed high, thus creating room for breakthroughs on both sides.
At the critical moment, Kane can become a cold-blooded and ruthless killer in seconds, Kane scored twice in this game, Son Heung-min sent two assists, the reason why the Son-Kay connection line is threatened again, of course, with Hoyber, Bentancour, Kuludovsky's good play is also inseparable, Spurs with Kane as the axis, has formed an organic whole.
The away victory over Manchester City, although this is just an ordinary Premier League game, but for Tottenham hottest who want to win a better ranking at the end of the season, there is no doubt that they have gained great confidence, and morale is a big boost, especially spurs have just experienced 3 consecutive defeats and urgently need a victory to reverse the decline, and beating such a strong opponent as Manchester City is not just a simple way to reverse the decline.
Conte's tactical philosophy will be more deeply rooted in the hearts of Tottenham Hotspur, in today's passion football and control of football is popular, utilitarian football can still have a place, the key point is the grasp of scale, the utilitarian when the utilitarian, the passion when the passion, no matter what kind of tactics, the central idea is to win.