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Tottenham, Conte replies to Guardiola: “Counterattack? Not really …”

The Spurs coach uses social media to reply to his colleague’s words after the Etihad match

Antonio Conte he chose social media, with an ironic post published on his Instagram profile, to reply to Pep Guardiola, than after his home defeat Manchester City against the Tottenham, had called the Spurs a team of ‘counter-attackers’. An analysis evidently disliked by the Italian coach, who replied by publishing a video of the three Spurs goals at the Etihad Stadium accompanied by an eloquent caption, complete with smiley faces: “Counter-attack? Not really …”.

In fact all the Spurs networks, both the initial one of Dejan Kulusevski be two o’clock in the finale of Harry Kane, have come to the end of maneuvered actions. But it is also true that Guardiola’s comment referred to the tactical approach followed by Tottenham in the 90 ‘and not only specifically to individual actions.

“After the advantage Tottenhm defended very low and in an incredibly compact way – said the Spanish coach – With Kane you never lose the ball and you can run fast thanks to Son and Kulusevski. They played as I expected, they were good at create space for the counterattack “.

At the end of the race Conte had preferred not to comment on Guardiola’s words, only to do so a few days later through a post that renews the sporting rivalry between the two.

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