l), Wimbledon Athletics faces walton_casuals at home. This is the first game after Eames officially established Chu Zhongtian as the team's core. Although they only trained for a week, this game can also test the training effect after adjustment.

Before the game, Eames repeatedly reminded the whole team to cooperate with Chu Zhongtian's rhythm. He would be faster and he would be slower. "We don't force victory in this game, mainly to test the results in daily training and practice tactical cooperation."

Anyway, they are already invincible in the mixed county league, and even if they give up a game, it is no big deal. Unbeaten upgrade? Iames has never considered such a question, just upgrade. Is there any meaning to be unbeaten? The most meaningful thing now is not unbeaten, but the fourth round of the FA Cup on January 25th. For this game, other games can be sacrificed.

Wimbledon Athletics is now leading second-placed Wallingford Athletics (afc_wallingford) with thirteen points, and even losing one or two games will not hinder the overall situation.

Instructing the entire team, Eames caught Chu Zhongtian and talked to him alone.

"How do you feel when you first go to the core, Chu?" Eames smiled.

As a Wimbledon player, I rarely see Eames laughing. But he often smiles at Chu Zhongtian, maybe he is really biased... "I feel responsible." Chu Zhongtian replied.

"That's right, responsibility. Ha! But don't be overwhelmed by responsibility. Your task in this game is not just defense. Although you have to do some defensive work, it's mainly Sidwell's job. But you can't rush forward and not come back. I need you to keep shuttled between the back and the forward line. If our defender gets the ball, you come back to pick it up and move sideways..." Eames said while making gestures, while Chu Zhongtian listened carefully and nodded.

"Let the pass route be as triangular as possible. If the opponent follows you closely, pass it back, but if you have confidence in your footwork, turn around and pass him!" Eames beat his fist. "You can also use gestures and shouts to let your teammates pass the ball behind you, and then you turn and walk forward directly. Your task is to send the football from our thirty-meter area to the opponent's thirty-meter area."

"Is it okay to use any method, boss?"

"Of course. But in this game, I ask you not to use long passes. I know you have been practicing that thing, but long passes have pros and cons. Today we will practice your medium and short pass organization skills in a targeted manner. I ask you to use medium and short passes as much as possible."

"What should I do if the goal is too far, boss?" Chu Zhongtian asked.

"Dribble the ball up! Or cooperate with teammates with short passes, Sidwell will support you. You can ask others to cooperate with you according to the situation on the field, such as letting the blog and Sally move closer to the middle to facilitate our fullback to insert from the back, or ask Joe Xilin to retreat to meet your pass. In short, don't let the distance between the three lines be too far. If it is too far, you will lose contact. Teams that are disconnected from the three lines cannot win the game."

It seems that Eames has made up his mind to hone Chu Zhongtian in this game. Not to mention this game, he plans this way for all the next games, and strives to make the tactics with Chu Zhongtian as the core look like before January 24th.

Including this game, there are four more games left.

Now Eames regrets a little - if he had made up his mind to train Chu Zhongtian as a new core earlier, he wouldn't have to do such a thing as sharpening his guns in the face of battle. But... If he hadn't seen Chu Zhongtian's performance in the game against Wimbledon, how could he have made such a determination?

"Anyway, you are the commander of this team now. I will hand over this team to you and lead them forward, Chu!"

Chu Zhongtian nodded vigorously: "I will do my best."

There is an idiom in China that says "A gentleman dies for his confidant, and a woman is tolerate him for his pleasing himself." Chu Zhongtian now feels that since boss Eames trusts him so much, he cannot let him down no matter what. This is the first time in more than ten years of playing football, someone patted his shoulder and said to himself: "I hand over the team to you and lead them forward."

In the past, the coaches would just say: "Give me a good defense, don't go up without my permission!"

Lead a team forward?

Chu Zhongtian only felt something burning in his chest.

※※※Walton Cadras is not a strong team. Last season, Wimbledon Athletics slaughtered them with a big score. The hero of that game was Andy Sullivan.

Wimbledon's performance in this game did not reflect this strength gap. Their performance made the fans off the court unable to understand - the team's cooperation was awkward, and it was not like a team that had played together for a season and a half. But you should know that Wimbledon's performance was invincible in the mixed county league, and it was inseparable from their cooperation.

After watching for a while, Colin John realized that everyone was handing the ball to Chu, and then Chu passed it out.

In just fifteen minutes, he made a rough count. Chu Zhongtian received thirty balls and passed twenty-five strokes, making him the player with the most balls in the team.

In previous games, Chu Zhongtian's number of balls was definitely not as many as today.

"Strange...why is this?"

Chu Zhongtian is just a defensive midfielder, but today he didn't see him falling to the ground and tackle or defending in the game. He even rushed to the frontcourt many times without caring about the gap behind him.

※※※The people in the stands couldn't understand, and Chu Zhongtian was actually a little awkward.

Although the team organized some team games during training to allow him to adapt to his current new identity, in the real game, it was a different scene.

Training is always targeted, and even simulation competitions have a clear purpose. However, these things do not exist in real competitions. They are more varied and confusing.

For the first fifteen minutes, Chu Zhongtian felt as if he had fallen into a colorful and complex world of flowers. Looking around, he was full of dazzling colors, but what these colors mean, but he didn't know what they mean. He couldn't interpret the meaning of these colors well, so he couldn't see through the situation of the game, and naturally he couldn't organize the attack.

So in these fifteen minutes, Chu Zhongtian did the most back passes and crosses, and his forward passes were also pretty good, and he could not see any highlights. In this way, the team's core performance would naturally make the team's offense go away. In this game, Eames gave the team a dead order. Even if he lost, he had to seek cooperation with Chu and familiarize him with this new identity as soon as possible. This is the purpose of this game. Therefore, other self-decided actions were not allowed.

So even if the team's offense was not smooth, the players still passed the football to Chu Zhongtian again and again, asking him to lead the entire team and organize the offense.

※※※ "Are you too anxious to do this? It's less than a month since the fourth round of the FA Cup, but now I'm thinking about changing tactics. Isn't it a bit too risky, Terry?" Assistant coach Nicky Ingrich asked with a frown as he looked at Chu Zhongtian's performance in this game.

"I think we can't beat a powerful opponent like Chelsea when we continue to use old tactics. Besides, I think Chelsea will study us no matter how stupid Chelsea is. After all, we are their opponents, and there is certainly a pride and underestimation. But more of that comes from the players. Chelsea's coaching staff will watch our game video. I don't believe that Italian Ranieri can't think of a way to deal with us. As long as he wants to deal with us, we can do it. So we have to give them something different." Eames explained.

"And..." He also looked at Chu Zhongtian on the court, "not just for this game, but I will do this for all the next game, even next season. Chu has the potential to be the core, and I will dig them out bit by bit!"

"But he will leave the team after graduating from college. Then you go find another core?"

"Who knows what happened a year later? Since there is such a person in front of us now, why not make good use of it? Isn't the flow of talents in the football team normal? When he leaves, we will find a replacement, just like when Russell leaves, we will ask him to replace him. Ferguson sold Beckham to Real Madrid. Didn't he bring another No. 7 from Portugal?"

Ingrich had no way to argue about this. He thought about it and had to choose to accept reality, but he had not forgotten to mutter: "I hope he can perform better as soon as possible. It is impossible to just look at his performance in the past fifteen minutes to help us fight against Chelsea..."

Eames shrugged and did not answer.

※※※Although Chu Zhongtian's performance was incomprehensible to the fans and also dissatisfied the assistant coach on the coach's bench, the teammates on the court still trusted him and still passed the football to him and gave it to him to organize. Even Borge did not express dissatisfaction with Chu Zhongtian after several runs in the air. Seeing Chu Zhongtian practice passing alone in the grove of the school, he abandoned his last sense of superiority and was convinced by Chu Zhongtian - such a hard-working person should succeed, be high hopes by Alai, and be the core of the team!

It was this valuable trust and tolerance that made Chu Zhongtian slowly calm down on the court. He realized that he had made a mistake and would not scold him, nor would anyone complain or be dissatisfied, but would patiently help him and wait for him. Since that is the case, what else is there to be afraid of?

Be more indulgent, be bold, and play!

After Chu Zhongtian got the ball, he did not pass it back this time, but passed it to Sidwell beside him. Then he made a pass to him when he asked him to pass it in front of him. He turned around and forced the opponent's player and ran forward. Sidwell cooperated to pass the ball to him, two by one!

Chu Zhongtian, who received the ball and threw away the opponent's player, looked up again to observe the situation. The colorful and complex colors gradually became clear in his eyes. He slowly found the rules between them. The world was no longer a mess. He seemed to have found the end of the line. Just pull it... Chu Zhongtian thought of his practice alone in school. He faced the rows of woods and wanted to be the opponent's players and his teammates. They were crisscrossing and crossing in front of him. It was really not easy to find a pass route in the middle, and it was not easy to pass the football to the target's feet. But he still practiced slowly so that he could pass the football through the rows of woods and reach the finish line.

Why can't you imagine everyone on the field as that little wood?

Isn’t the opponent’s players standing in front of them just decimals?

Find the gap in the middle and pass it over.

Chu Zhongtian swept around and had a feeling in his heart that it would not work to tell him that it would be impossible to pass directly, because the other party had already seen Qiao Xilin and Kevin Cooper dead, and passing it to them had a high chance of sending the football directly to the other party's feet. At the same time, his intuition also told him that there was time for both sides. But the boss didn't let him pass it for a long time... What should I do?

He looked at the standing players again. He thought that the trees were dead, but people were alive. Once the trees were rooted, they could not move at will, but people could run back and forth... A flash of inspiration flashed in his mind.

Chu Zhongtian suddenly turned around and waved to Sidwell: "Come up, man!"

Sidwell didn't ask why he wanted to go up, he ran up. When his position surpassed Chu Zhongtian, he also received a pass from Chu Zhongtian.

After passing the ball, Chu Zhongtian felt less pressure and ran forward. The person who was originally defending him ran to defend Sidwell. So Chu Zhongtian made another gesture to Sidwell. Sidwell passed the ball to him and heard Chu Zhongtian's voice: "Continue to move forward, Li!"

After two consecutive passes and one, the two were only a few steps away from the opponent's penalty area. They stared at Joe Xilin and Kevin Cooper's opponent's defenders had to divide their troops to prevent Wimbledon's two midfielders from inserting. What if they had a long shot?

Chu Zhongtian held the ball, and Sidwell ran up from him. The opponent's central defender finally threw Joe Xilin and ran up. The originally tight defense line had a loophole, and he was waiting for this time!

The ankle shook, like a golf putt, pointed the ball forward, and just passed by the central defender running towards Sidwell!

"Beautiful!" Eames, who was paying attention to the attack throughout the coach's seat, stood up with his fists clenched.

"Beautiful!!" Colin John and his companions cheered in the stands with their arms raised.

"So fucking beautiful!" Old Bente and Old John shouted at the same time.

The first reaction of the central defender was to look at the linebacker and see if the ball was offside. But the linebacker did not raise the flag because Kevin Cooper was at the front, and the central defender who defended him was naturally dragged at the end... Chu Zhongtian passed two consecutively with Sidwell in the middle from the beginning, not really wanting Sidwell or himself to shoot a long shot in the middle, but to pull out the two central defenders. All this was set to achieve this goal... The opponent was really fooled, so he was not polite. He pushed the ball to Qiao Xilin, who was temporarily unmarked.

After receiving the ball, Qiao Xilin turned around and rushed into the penalty area, then faced the goalkeeper.

Single sword!!

A burst of cheers suddenly broke out in the stands of Kings Ranch, who had been silent for a long time because he couldn't understand the game.

The single strike was not difficult for Joe Xilin, who came out of the Chelsea youth team. The opponent's goalkeeper was like a trembling chicken in his eyes. He made a fake move of volleying force, and the opponent rushed out horizontally. In fact, he just gently rubbed the football, and the football drew a parabola and fell to the back corner of the goal.

The ball has entered!!

After scoring the goal, Qiao Xilin turned around and ran towards Chu Zhongtian: "Beautiful job! Chu! You did it, haha!"

"Two pounds are received, hey!" Sidwell rushed up. The two pounds are assist bonuses, and the goal bonus is five pounds.

Next, other teammates rushed from all directions to surround them.

This is the first time Chu Zhongtian successfully organized and directly assisted the goal, so he has to celebrate it well.

※※※ "Did you see it, Nicky? Haha!" Eames seemed to be happier than the players on the court. "From the reception to the end of Joe Xilin's goal, everything was under Chu's control! When he and Sidwell cooperated in the middle two consecutive times, I thought he wanted to have a long shot! Unexpectedly... they were thinking about passing it to the forward in front from the beginning... This was a perfect offensive plan!"

Facing the facts, Ingrich had nothing to say. His previous thoughts were the same as Eames, and he thought Chu or Sidwell would push the ball to the front of the opponent's penalty area and then shoot directly from a long shot. Unexpectedly, he thought of the last step so early... "Haha! I was really a little uncomfortable when I saw Chu rushing to the opponent's penalty area for the last pass..." Old Ben in the stands laughed. He was happy that the team was leading, and if the ball was inseparable from Chu, he would be even happier.

John clapped his face: "I said why did you watch the game in these ten minutes strange? So that's it! They want Chu Lai to be a character who organizes the offense!"

As soon as this said, it immediately attracted the attention of others.

"What do you mean, Boss John?" someone asked.

"It's obvious that Chu has become the core of the team now. Didn't you notice that if you have a ball under your feet, will you find a way to pass it to Chu? And his current position is no longer limited to the backcourt. He has run to the front several times. This time when Qiao Xilin scored, he even hit the front of the opponent's penalty area... What does this mean? This means that Chu will participate more in the offense!" Colin John explained to them.

"Although I think defense is indispensable, if a player wants to become a big star, he has to attack more. Chu is working hard little by little. I am optimistic about him!"

※※※ Chu Zhongtian, who was surrounded by his teammates, was very happy now. The quarrel with his mother on the phone that day was thrown into Java at this moment.

When he saw the opponent's defender really throwing Joe Xilin up as he expected, the sense of accomplishment was indescribable.

For the first time he felt that he had the game in his hands.

Both the opponent and teammates are moved because of my thoughts. Sidwell's push will cause the opponent's defender to be distracted from defense, and the opponent's defender's distracted defense will cause one of Joe Xilin or Kevin Cooper, or both of them to find a temporary opportunity. As long as you can pass the ball to their feet, you can create a chance.

Of course, even if it passes, there may not be a good result. Maybe it is offside, maybe they will miss the ball. Fortunately, he got a good result this time, which greatly increased his confidence and he felt that being the controller of the whole team was a very interesting thing.

He felt that he was not like playing football, but rather like playing chess. He calculated the actions of his opponents and teammates after a few steps in advance, and then used his own actions to let them act according to the steps he calculated, and finally achieve the goal he wanted to achieve.

I am the commander of the team, and yes, I can lead them forward!
Chapter completed!