Thibaut Courtois picks his favorite manager

Current Chelsea FC goalkeeper names the manager whom he feels works most tactically of the three.

Courtois has played under 2 different managers, Diego Simeone and José Mourinho, winning League titles in Spain and England respectively. This season he is playing under Antonio Conte and has been in a fine touch lately.
Conte's Chelsea team has been in an excellent run of form. Players like Eden Hazard, Diego Costa have regained their momentum and goal scoring instinct which was missing under José Mourinho last season.

When he was asked to rate his managers, he said, " Conte is the one that works most tactically. Then there is Diego Simeone, then Mourinho and finally Marc Wilmots."

He also explains why he feels Antonio Conte is a master tactician.

After poor last season, Chelsea football club, under Antonio Conte started the season positively winning their first 3 matches, but he reveals what and how Conte changed as a tactician.

He says the loss against Arsenal sparked a change, "We started the season 4-3-3. We started well with three wins but then we drew 2-2 against Swansea and lost against Liverpool playing a bad game. That was also the case against Arsenal. Then Conte said 'we will change'. At Hull things were rather mixed at first and then against Leicester, Manchester United, Southampton and especially against Everton, we really saw the quality of the team."

"In pre-season he tried 4-2-4 but he saw that it was not working very well, so he went to 4-3-3 because he knew Eden Hazard and Willian were strong in one against ones. But he found that too many avoidable goals were scored and decided to play safely by moving three at the back."

Chelsea are yet to concede a goal since they switched from 4-3-3 to 3-4-3.
Against Everton they were simply scintillating. So it proves out to be that Antonio Conte is one smart tactician.


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