Emerson Royal shares the one word Conte is constantly saying to Tottenham’s players in training

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Tottenham Hotspur defender Emerson Royal has shed some light on Antonio Conte‘s demands from his players in training every day.

Spurs are slowly but surely turning into an incredible side. The North Londoners looked awful under Nuno Espirito Santo about 10 months ago, but it’s a completely different story under Conte.

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Emerson Royal shares the one word Conte is constantly saying to Tottenham’s players in training

Emerson sat down for an interview with Globo Esporte to talk about how demanding Conte is of his players.

He also revealed the one word that his manager is constantly saying to all the lads in training in order to increase the speed at which they play.

Emerson said: “Conte is the same coach on the sidelines, in training, in video lectures. He is like that in all aspects, explosive, demands, he works hard.

“This activates our team, makes us pay attention to the smallest details, to the positioning of the body before the execution of the moves, in the conversations with videos before the beginning of each activity.

“One word he repeats a lot is ‘quickly’.

“He likes everything done with speed. Conte always talks about the rhythm with the ball, passing it, ‘pam, pam, pam’, one or two touches. without taking too long.”

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Conte’s system requires his players to be extremely quick in transitions. That’s probably why he keeps repeating the word ‘quickly’ during training sessions, and it really is important.

Spurs often look to play on the counter-attack, especially against the bigger sides. If they are slow on the break, their hopes of getting to the other end of the pitch will be cut off very quickly, and that did happen at times in the first half against Chelsea last weekend.

When Spurs get their transition right, they can be unstoppable. Son Heung-min and Dejan Kulusevski are both quick, while Harry Kane, if he drops deep, is good enough to find either player with an accurate through ball.

Conte is clearly trying to perfect that part of Tottenham’s game. If he does, Spurs’ chances of success will go up considerably.