In the game against Manchester City, Zhang Tiehan played for 90 minutes, with only two shots and no goals. The most important thing is that Zhang Tiehan seemed to have disappeared most of the time during the game, and football has nothing to do with him. ````

He couldn't get the pass, and he was pitifully touched the ball few times, and he spent most of his time fighting head-on with Manchester City defenders. As a result, fans could not see Zhang Tiehan's performance at all.

He seemed to have disappeared.

Most of the fans who came to watch the game wanted to see Zhang Tiehan's condition. They hoped to see Zhang Tiehan's outbreak. They were also looking forward to it because Zhang Tiehan was in excellent condition in the warm-up match. He scored six goals in just 90 minutes.

Where is the league?

Even if you can't score six, three, or even two... As long as Zhang Tiehan can complete two goals, it will be enough to guarantee Chelsea's victory.

But they saw the victory, but they didn't see Zhang Tiehan's goal. After the game, the media used the "disappeared Zhang" to report the game. They thought Zhang Tiehan was a little out of shape. He was completely submerged in Manchester City's defense and spent more time confronting Manchester City defenders in the frontcourt.

And other Chelsea players performed quite well.

For example, Lampard scored two goals, and Wright Phillips, who scored his first goal, were the best performers of the team. In fact, Lampard also won the champagne representing the best player in the game after the game. When talking about the game, he said, "I'm very happy that the team got a kick. We are in good shape. We showed the team's momentum in the game. After this game, I'm more confident in the results of this season."

The reporter asked Lampard to talk about Zhang Tiehan.

Unlike thinking that Zhang Tiehan performed poorly, Lampard said instead, "Zhang's contribution to the team's offense is crucial. He attracted most of Manchester City's defense, so we can find opportunities calmly."

This is a fact.

Although Zhang Tiehan did not perform much in the whole game, he is definitely a qualified tactical center. No matter when, there were no fewer than two Manchester City defensive players around him, which greatly reduced the pressure on other Chelsea players.

But the fans watched Zhang Tiehan's goal...

Zhang Tiehan must face strict defense. Everyone knows this very well. They hope to see Zhang Tiehan perform well in the face of strict defense. Only in this way can he be the world's number one striker, rather than performing poorly because of the opponent's strict defense. That kind of performance is not worthy of his value.

After the game, head coach Grant was also asked several questions about Zhang Tiehan. Chelsea won and Lampard scored two goals to become the best in the game. However, the media was concerned about Zhang Tiehan's condition, and they were not very concerned about the result of the game.

More importantly, it is normal for Chelsea to beat Manchester City at home, but it is not very big news.

Facing the media interview, Grant said, "To Zhang, I can only say that he did the task I assigned in my tactics. The only shame is that he did not score a goal. He has not fully adapted to the team, but he has just arrived at Chelsea. I think he will slowly adapt."

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Zhang Tiehan knew a little about the media, fans, coaches, and teammates, but he didn't care. What he cared more was that he didn't score a goal.

It is nothing strange for a forward player to not score a goal in a game. Under normal circumstances, Zhang Tiehan would not care too much, but he knew very well that the last game was not a normal situation, that was, he was not adapting to the team's tactics.

Or, he has been adapting to the team. The team has not adapted to him.

During the game, he has been trying hard to find opportunities, but he is the forward who is in front and cannot retreat too far to get the ball. That will disrupt the team's formation. But when he is in front, the opponent's players will defend him tightly, try every means to defend - close to the body, follow the running, defend the passing route, etc., in various ways, when facing such a defense, teammates will think that passing the ball was dangerous in the past, or they don't know how to pass the ball, so that Zhang Tiehan can get the ball smoothly. In this case, it would be strange if he had a chance.

This is a matter of integrating into the team.

He also faced this problem when he first joined Liverpool, but at that time he was not very famous in the Premier League, and the opponents he met would not defend too closely against him. When he performed well in the league and most teams realized that he would lose without restrictions, he had already fully integrated into Liverpool.

So now to solve this problem, he must have more understanding with his teammates.

As long as he performs in the team for a while, the problem of integrating into the team will naturally no longer be a problem. Zhang Tiehan is very clear about these, but he doesn't want to wait. He hopes that he can always perform well, rather than perform well after integrating into the team.

He wants to be the best player in the world, not an ordinary forward.

So he needed to take the initiative, so he found head coach Grant the next day, hoping to talk to Grant alone.

"I want to retreat a little." Zhang Tiehan said calmly.

Grant was a little confused. In fact, he didn't know much about Zhang Tiehan. Before becoming Chelsea coach, he had no intersection with Zhang Tiehan at all. He knew that Zhang Tiehan was also reported by the news media. As for Zhang Tiehan's personal abilities, his understanding was also through the media, and the media expressed that this was the best striker in the world.

The forward is the forward.

He never thought that there would be something wrong with putting Zhang Tiehan on the front line.

Zhang Tiehan continued, "If I were at the front of the formation, the opponent would play a series of defenses against me, so I would not have a good performance. I would like to retreat a little. At Liverpool, I would be the core of the midfield..." Seeing Grant's discomfort, he said directly.

With his current fame, there is no need to look at the head coach's expression. He says whatever he has. This is his position in the team and it is also a kind of confidence.

He believed in his judgment.

Grant in front of him obviously doesn't know much about him. Even after more than half a month of contact, the other party still doesn't know him. If he doesn't take the initiative to fight, he can only act as a "poster-type" center on the front line, which is not his idea.

"You said you are the core at Liverpool. I know this, but can you adapt to the bride position?" Grant asked.

Zhang Tiehan nodded affirmatively, "I often play avant-garde."

The forwards are different from forwards. For example, Lampard is the core of the team's offensive and defensive transformation, but Zhang Tiehan also knows that his request makes the coach difficult. If he retreats, let's not talk about the rest. The team's formation must be changed. He cannot partner with Lampard in a double midfield. Then he is the "accompanied" forward, and is still not the core. His positioning is equivalent to a player who needs more defense. That is not his wish, and Chelsea will not waste such a powerful offensive point as him.

But how to change the formation is exactly what Grant considers.

If you can't even do this well, the coach Grant will really have no ability. He hopes that Grant can find a way. After all, he really wants to play as a core player in the frontcourt, rather than as an "assistant" type of player.

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After raising a question to Grant, Zhang Tiehan returned to the team to continue training.

His training has not changed much. In fact, for Zhang Tiehan now, his abilities in all aspects have reached a limit. Unless he can accumulate enough honors to develop new ancient power, it will be difficult for him to improve any further.

The purpose of his training is to maintain his state and feel of playing football, and the other is to exercise some techniques, such as passing, so he can see through and cooperate with his skills and find good opportunities to pass penetratingly.

This is very difficult.

Often, the opportunity is only a moment. Even the most creative star wants to pass a classic ball, he has to rely on an inspiration or a very good opportunity. In this regard, talent is more important than hard work. Many players work hard and cannot pass wonderful passes for a lifetime. Some players are born with this talent. When they grow up, they can often become passers-by masters on the football field.

Zhang Tiehan does not have the talent in this area.

In fact, if Zhang Tiehan had not replaced the original Zhang Tiehan, Zhang Tiehan could have almost no talent for football. No matter how hard he worked, he would have been just a second-rate center forward in the future. It would be impossible for him to achieve any achievements in football, let alone pass talent.

But Zhang Tiehan still wants to rely on his magical powers and secret skills to learn these abilities.

Turning a pass with a flash of inspiration into his own special ability is an almost impossible training for others, but Zhang Tiehan believes that he can achieve it. His ball sense is very good, his physical sensitivity, strength and other aspects have reached a limit, and his physical and technical advantages are quite obvious. Even if he does not have talent, he has "see through" and "control". He can know the positions of his teammates and opponents around him at any time, and can also detail the game and seize the critical opportunity.

The only thing missing is the mastery of timing and some passing experience.

A classic ball is not enough to pass a very beautiful ball, it also requires the cooperation of teammates. If you pass a good ball, but your teammates don’t realize it and miss the opportunity, then how exciting the ball will not work.

Zhang Tiehan is working hard in this regard.

In addition to passing, he also trains some technically extraordinary abilities, such as learning to ride bicycles with Joe Cole, as well as some fancy extraordinary movements. Although these movements are not very practical for him in the game, and ordinary extraordinary people can be directly accelerated, but this can exercise his feet flexibility and master more, which may be very helpful for his performance in the game.

Then there is shooting training.

This is something that Zhang Tiehan has never stopped. Now he does shooting training not for accuracy, but for himself to remember the feeling of shooting at all times. He regards shooting as a habit, so that he can directly catch the ball and send it into the goal if he has the chance in the game.

In addition to personal training, Zhang Tiehan did more seriously in collective tactical training. He knew very well that he and his teammates were not familiar with him at the moment. Unfamiliarity also led to not knowing how to cooperate with each other. If you want to perform better in the team, it is obvious that the tacit understanding of cooperation with teammates is important, which is often more important than personal ability. After all, no matter how outstanding his personal ability is, he must have a ball to play. He can't even touch the ball, and no matter how strong his personal ability is, it is useless.

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Zhang Tiehan found the sincere interview with head coach Grant. The next day, Grant began to try to let Zhang Tiehan play as a central defender, and used the training match to constantly change the formation to test new routines.

This tactical training effect is still very obvious.

It’s not that Zhang Tiehan performed better in the training match, but for the whole team, experimenting with new tactical playing styles gave Grant a lot of inspiration.

In fact, Grant is like Zhang Tiehan. He has just joined the Chelsea club. He has limited understanding of the entire Chelsea team. In addition, the impact of the World Cup, he has only been preparing for the pre-season for about twenty days. He also has to go to the United States to participate in commercial competitions. He has no accurate grasp of the abilities of each player of the team. He is not familiar with the tactics that the whole team adapts to.

In the previous match against Manchester City, the 442 formation that Grant arranged was just the most ordinary formation.

The overall strength gap between Manchester City and Chelsea is very big, and Chelsea performed very well in the game, so Chelsea won, not how good the tactical application of Grant is.

Grant became Chelsea's head coach, not because he wanted to "play soy sauce". He also wanted to bring his tactical ideas to the team and at the same time gave Chelsea some "his own unique style" so that the team could forget Mourinho and become his Chelsea.

Although the team must currently use the tactics and formations left by Mourinho, Grant also wants to take advantage of his own thinking to give the team a new style of play - the style of Chelsea coached by Grant.

After Zhang Tiehan retreated slightly, his performance improved a lot.

At least in the training game, he would not be embarrassed to get the ball. When his position is slightly behind, the defensive players will not be able to limit him. Even if he doesn't understand each other with many teammates, his position allows him to participate in normal offenses, rather than wanting to stand in the frontcourt like a forward-striker waiting for the ball to pass.

That's not his style.

But this also brings some new problems. Chelsea has too many stars. In terms of midfield central advancements, Lampard, Essin, Barack, Marklele, Gremy and other outstanding stars. In the normal 442 formation, only two central advancements are needed. If Zhang Tiehan retreats and squeezes out one position, then there is only one position left, which makes the competition for midfield central advancements much more intense than the forward line. Consider Zhang Tiehan, Lampard is an Ironman player. If he is not injured, there will be no physical problems at all. Barack, Essin and others will not have the chance to play.

This definitely won't work.

Not to mention whether the formation can play a role, if this happens, others will definitely be very dissatisfied.

Grant is not Mourinho. He does not have that much authority in the team. What's more, even Mourinho must consider this. Many players have a number of appearances on their contracts. He cannot only let Lampard and Zhang Tiehan appear. If so, isn't it a waste to sign Barack and others in the club?

No matter how gorgeous the team is, it cannot afford to waste world-class stars like Barack and Essin.

Grant can only consider it again.

It would be better for him to change the formation to 4231. With two back midfielders and one frontcourt core, it would be equivalent to three positions. Zhang Tiehan occupies the core position of the frontcourt, and two players can play in the two backcourt midfielders. Whether Barack, Lampard, Essin or Marklele, they are all very adapted to the midfield positions. At this position, their performance can be better than the normal midfielders who are ahead of the frontcourt.

The only downside is that it squeezes out a forward player.

There is only one forward, Drogba, Shepchenko and Kalu, competing for this position, so the competition is too fierce.

Of course, Kalu and Shepchenko can also play full-range forwards, but Chelsea still competes fiercely in the position of full-range forwards - Joe Cole, Robben, Wright Phillips, Mikel, Diyala... At this time, Grant was a little annoyed, why can a team in football matches only send eleven people? If there are more places, he will not have such troubles.

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While Chelsea is constantly testing tactics, the media reports on the first round of the Premier League have become very exciting.

After the first round, Manchester United temporarily ranked first in the league with four goals and goals. Chelsea and Portsmouth ranked in the bottom two with three goals and goals. Among the top four in the Premier League, Liverpool and Arsenal both drew 1:1 in the first round, which was a bit unfavorable.

The most eye-catching thing is not Chelsea, but Manchester United.

This summer, Manchester United's two biggest moves were: one was to buy Tottenham midfielder Carrick with big money, and the other was to sell forward Van Nistroy.

Michael Carrick is a talented star born in Walsend, England. He plays in the midfield and is an elegant and calm player. He is very good at controlling the rhythm of the game and passing long passes.

Such players are very rare in England.
To be continued...