Coming to Sporting Lisbon in the second round of the Champions League, Tottenham conceded 2 goals in extra time and suffered a 0-2 defeat.
Against Tottenham, Premier League big boys like Liverpool and Chelsea had losses to weaker opponents (Napoli and Dinamo).
In fact, Tottenham failed partly due to coach Conte's weakness. Although he is very talented having won 6 domestic tournaments (5 times in Serie A and 1 time in the Premier League), Conte always shows that he has no fate in the European arena.
The loss to Sporting was Conte's 12th Champions League defeat. Statistics show that his winning rate in this arena is only 30%. By comparison, Max Allegri has a 46% win rate, Ancelotti has a 55% win rate and Tuchel has even won 63.5% of the matches. Conte is clearly far behind the top managers.
With the last two seasons playing in the Champions League, coach Conte has also disappointed. His Inter Milan in the 2019-2020 and 2020-2021 seasons have been second and won the Serie A, but they have not been able to pass the group stage of C1.
After the match, coach Conte said: "We had chances to score, but in the end I had to talk about this loss. We should definitely do better in those last minutes....
