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Alasdair Gold

Antonio Conte makes major Tottenham goal vow ahead of Chelsea derby clash

Antonio Conte has declared that his Tottenham Hotspur side will continue his trend of managing the most attacking sides in football.

Conte has a reputation for creating defensively sound teams but at the other end of the pitch his Tottenham side have scored 51 goals in 2022, more than any other Premier League team. When it was put to the 53-year-old Italian that numbers like that disproved any suggestions that he was simply a defensive-minded coach, he was only to eager to help shoot down that idea.

"The stats speak very clearly and in every team that I trained, we were always the first or the second best attacking team. My football is attacking football," he said. "Our idea is to score one more goal than the other, for sure. I know that to win something important, to lift trophies, you need to have a good balance offensively and defensively.

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