{"id":27061,"date":"2018-02-06T01:24:55","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T00:24:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/02\/06\/antonio-conte-says-chelsea-played-with-fear-at-watford-and-lack-character\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T01:24:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T00:24:55","slug":"antonio-conte-says-chelsea-played-with-fear-at-watford-and-lack-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=27061","title":{"rendered":"Antonio Conte says Chelsea played with fear at Watford and lack character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Head coach is \u2018not worried\u2019 about his job at Stamford Bridge\u2022 Italian says performance at Vicarage Road was \u2018very poor\u2019Antonio Conte admitted his team had been undermined by fear and cast doubt over whether some of Chelsea\u2019s players have the strength of character to thrive at a big club after the Premier League champions were thrashed at Watford.A second successive defeat by three goals, the first time Chelsea have endured that ignominy in 22 years, has heaped further pressure on Conte, who is left contemplating publicly whether he will be able turn the team\u2019s fortunes around. The head coach had called for a show of support from the board before this fixture in an attempt to quash suggestions he would leave the club before the end of the season but, after his team played for an hour with 10 men, he saw them succumb to a third defeat in four games. \u201cWe played with fear,\u201d he said. \u201cTo play football in a great club, it means you must have a personality. It\u2019s simple to play when there is the confidence. Especially in this type of moment, you can see who is [ready to play] for a great club, to play with personality and also to risk something. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2018\/feb\/06\/chelsea-football-antonio-conte-played-with-fear-future-watford-premier-league\" target=\"_blank\">Antonio Conte says Chelsea played with fear at Watford and lack character<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2022 Head coach is \u2018not worried\u2019 about his job at Stamford Bridge\u2022 Italian says performance at Vicarage Road was \u2018very poor\u2019Antonio Conte admitted his team had been undermined by fear and cast doubt over whether some of Chelsea\u2019s players have the strength of character to thrive at a big club [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}