The Job Of A Coach Is Difficult – Conte

Antonio Conte has said he never got scared for his job at Chelsea last season, adding that the early 3-0 defeat at Arsenal had helped him see the way the team needed to play.

Chelsea were down by three goals in less than 45 minutes at the Emirates Stadium last September, making Conte to switch to a 3-4-3 formation at half-time.

“Honestly, I wasn’t worried,” he said. “No, because I trust in my work. I think that I trust myself and my idea, in my methods.

“Then it can happen that one experience can be positive or negative. But for sure I don’t change my mentality, I don’t change my method, I don’t change my idea of football.

“I remember that game [the Arsenal loss] very well because it was a really bad game for us. Then we changed our system because after that game I understood very well our team.

“We hadn’t got balance. In that game they dominated us from the start until the end. But I think after that game we changed a lot of things and then we won the league.

“Don’t forget that it [the speculation] happened also this season after the win against Tottenham. Yes, I think every coach must be used to hearing these voices.

“But I think that every coach has to be focused on the work, to continue to work every day. Only through work you can improve your team and stay in one team for many years.”

“When I started as a manager, after seven games, or nine, I don’t remember, they sacked me,” he recalled. “I remember they brought in Maurizio Sarri and then they recalled me. I think in that period the problem wasn’t the coach, but maybe the club.”

“In the human aspect I’m very close to Frank for this bad situation. Every coach hopes to have time to work and to try to transfer your ideas, your methods, to your players.

“Sometimes you have this time, sometimes you haven’t this time. This is our job. We must be prepared to face this situation.

“Our job is difficult. Every day you have to think, you have to work very hard to try to have a good result. When the result is not good, anything can happen.”