Chapter 34 The first victory as a head coach
Technical flow is indeed afraid of physical confrontation, but there is a prerequisite, which is to see how good the technology of this technical flow is. If it is a master-level technology, even if it encounters such physical confrontation, it can still use its own speed to get rid of it.
This is the confrontation between Chu Zhongtian and Reading.
When he got the ball, the Reading players rushed up in a fierce manner, trying to cut off Chu Zhongtian's ball. Even if they couldn't cut it, they would let him stay where they were and not organized the attack.
Chu Zhongtian did not give the other party a chance to do this at all. Facing the opponent's fierce pounce, he pushed the football out with his right foot, as if he wanted to break through from the right or pass the ball to the right, which caused Reading's player to jump to the other side. Seeing that the Reading player had this reaction, Chu Zhongtian immediately hooked the football back with his right foot and leaped over from the opponent's side!
They almost passed by. Reading's players could actually stop Chu Zhongtian with just one hand, but Chu Zhongtian was too fast and the opponent had no time to react. He broke through the side of Reading's players.
But there will definitely be no one defending Chu Zhongtian. When the first Reading player was broken through, the second Reading player immediately made up.
He bumped into Chu Zhongtian head-on. If he bumped into it, it would be a situation where both sides suffered losses. Reading may not be able to get possession of the ball, but Wimbledon's offense will have a high possibility of failure.
This is a completely foul play.
In order to stop him, he was willing to make a foul.
Chu Zhongtian has a very short distance from him, and he is confident that Chu Zhongtian cannot escape.
In fact, Chu Zhongtian really cannot completely avoid it, but this does not mean that he cannot "partially avoid it"... When the other party was about to hit him, Chu Zhongtian suddenly changed direction, causing a head-on collision to become a side-side collision.
The Reading player crashed hard, and Chu Zhongtian staggered and his body was about to fall. The Reading player was overjoyed and prepared to grab the ball under his feet.
Unexpectedly, when I lowered my head, I saw Chu Zhongtian reaching out to hook the football! He hooked the football away so easily from his eyes!
He quickly put it on, intending to intercept the ball while Chu Zhongtian's center of gravity was still unstable.
But as soon as he rushed forward, Chu Zhongtian had already sent the football out without adjusting his center of gravity!
A wonderful direct pass!
Directly tore the Reading team's defense!
But unfortunately, Kiran Agade didn't seem to have expected that Chu Zhongtian could send the football so accurately into the air under such a difficult situation, so he didn't insert it in time and watched the football roll out of the bottom line. He was very upset.
Although this ball was not scored, it can be explained to everyone that Reading's method is useless to deal with Chu Zhongtian!
You can't compete with him with skills, maybe you can compete with your body, but the result is still the same - he sent the football to the deadliest place... Reading's confidence was greatly shaken - they thought they had encountered a soft persimmon at home, but they didn't expect it to be a hedgehog full of thorns.
※※※Reeding was completely unacceptable to Wimbledon's rhythm and style of competition in the first thirty minutes, and he performed very embarrassedly. However, they were trying to adapt and reversal of this decline. After all, this was their home court. If they didn't even have such ability, they wouldn't be ranked third in the league.
Of course, Chu Zhongtian knew this and must not let Reading recover. Once they recover, Wimbledon will face this very difficult bone.
A goal must be scored first to completely disrupt Reading's plan.
He strengthened the offensive and accelerated the offensive rhythm. This was obvious to the commentator and the fans in the stands.
"Wimbledon Athletics obviously accelerated the pace of passes, and they seemed to be faster than before!"
"Reeding is in trouble now. It is already difficult to deal with. Now, Wimbledon Athletics has accelerated its speed, how should they deal with it?"
In the 34th minute, they took the lead just after four minutes of Wimbledon Athletics speeding up the offensive rhythm and speed.
Chu Zhongtian pretended to pass directly outside the penalty area, and the player who deceived Reading took a step back suddenly, but he suddenly shot a cold arrow and shot directly!
The goalkeeper of Reading, who was not prepared, rushed to save the shot, and naturally ended up losing his hand.
The football came out and bounced back, allowing the forward Kevin Clark, who was waiting in front of the goal, to easily make a shot in the empty goal.
Wimbledon leads with one goal!
"Ah-ah! The first goal was the visiting team Wimbledon Athletics! Chu's long-range shot was strong! Clark's follow-up shot was also very timely!"
“Wimbledon Athletics took the lead away, which is good news for them!”
This is of course good news for Wimbledon Athletics, but it may not be good news for the reporters in the press table... If Chu Zhongtian's team wins the ball, they can fully imagine what the new head coach of Wimbledon Athletics will give them a look.
So except for the few media that are inclined toward Wimbledon, other journalists hope that Wimbledon will lose and kill the team's majesty and arrogance. The most important thing is that this will prevent them from being embarrassed and losing face.
※※But Wimbledon Athletics is like playing against them specifically. Before the end of the first half, Wimbledon Athletics' Kieran Agard scored another goal, expanding their lead to two goals.
Chu Zhongtian hugged everyone to celebrate the goal, which made many reporters in the media table lose their voices.
Assistant coach Alvin Stonefield also raised his arms off the court and shouted. For the past week, the entire team has been under tremendous pressure from top to bottom. The media have been questioning whether Chu Zhongtian can be a good head coach, and they are also questioning the ability of Wimbledon's entire team.
Now that he can lead Reading 2:0 in the first half, he definitely hit back on these people's doubts.
Back in the locker room, Chu Zhongtian transformed into the head coach and praised the performance of the whole team.
Then he told the whole team that he would continue to play like this in the second half and continue to put pressure on Reading. There was no need to be afraid of Reading's physical contact.
The players also really felt that Chu Zhongtian was right before the game, and using speed to restrain his body, the effect was really good.
After the halftime break, when everyone walked out of the locker room one after another, Stonefield smiled at Chu Zhongtian, the last one who went out, at the door: "Look, aren't your head coach doing a good job?"
"Isn't it because you helped me?"
"Ha, I am an assistant coach, and my job is to help the head coach. This is my duty. If anyone comes, I will do this. But why are some head coaches able to lead the team to victory, while others can't?"
Stonefield laughed.
Chu Zhongtian is no longer modest, and he feels good as a head coach. Especially when he sees his plans before the game become reality and achieves results.
"Thank you for your recommendation, Alvin." He thanked Stonefield.
Stonefield waved his hand: "I'm much easier to work with an excellent head coach, haha!"
The old man smiled and turned around and walked out.
Chu Zhongtian thought this was such an interesting old man. He recommended Russell at the time because he thought it was easier to cooperate with Russell?
ha!
※※ Many people’s main objection to players serving as head coaches is that players lack the overall view of the head coach when playing on the court. This overall view can only be seen off the court. This is the so-called “the authorities are confused and the bystanders are clear”.
This is indeed a big problem for ordinary players. Many people can only take care of one side. If they fight on the court, their overall situation will be worse than being a full-time head coach.
But there is no such problem in Chu Zhongtian.
His overall situation is not actually observed, but directly imprinted in his mind... In the second half, the situation suddenly changed, and the Reading team strengthened the pressing of Wimbledon Athletics players. No matter who takes the ball, he will be defended very fiercely.
Generally, in this case, the head coach should make adjustments to change the situation.
The commentator said leisurely: "The test is coming, let's see how the head coach Chu deals with it, ha!"
Generally, head coaches need to observe off-court and then think about how to deal with it in their minds. They obviously feel that Chu Zhongtian is focused on dealing with his opponents on the court and has no time and energy to think about how to deal with it.
But Chu Zhongtian quickly took advantage of a corner kick opportunity to say to his teammates concentrated in the penalty area: "We have switched to defensive counterattacks from now on, and no longer pursued offense. First stabilize the defense, and then wait for an opportunity to counterattack. Of course, we must be fast when counterattacking. Fast is our characteristic, and we cannot lose this at any time."
Chu Zhongtian does not have much time and energy to think about what to do, but he has been asking about professional football for more than ten years and likes to think about these questions when he has nothing to do, so the answer has actually been accumulated in his brain. Rich experience can directly tell him what he wants to do in this situation.
Since the opponent has strengthened the pressing of Wimbledon Athletics players who have the ball, we will give up the ball and give you the right to control the ball. Your fierce pressing will be useless, right? Then we will counterattack again, and after snatching your ball, we will not hit the front directly through the complex control and transmission of the midfield, so as to give full play to our speed advantage and cause trouble for you.
After this adjustment was made, the more trouble the Reading team encountered, they were unable to siege Wimbledon, but they had to beware of themselves at all times, for fear that Wimbledon would score another goal after a counterattack.
They were originally two goals behind, and using this tactic was forced to use. If they could not score as soon as possible, the gap between the two goals would become very huge as the game time passed. At that time, they could only raise their hands to surrender... But Wimbledon's defensive counterattack made them uncomfortable and they dared not devote themselves to the offense.
"Hey, Wimbledon has made adjustments..."
At the beginning, the TV broadcast also gave Stonefield the assistant coach on the sidelines. He wanted to see if the adjustment was made by him, but Stonefield had been sitting in the coach's seat without any sign of it, nor did he shout out to the inside through others, so this adjustment could only be made by the team themselves.
Then that is to say, it was made by Chu Zhongtian... The reporters in the media table had to admit that this adjustment was very timely and correct. Reading's momentum was originally moving upwards before. If it was not curbed, they would control the entire game. At that time, Wimbledon may face Reading's crazy counterattack. However, after Wimbledon's adjustment, he re-controlled Reading, which made Reading feel that "I'm full of strength, but I can't use it."
"Wimbledon Athletics has made adjustments, and they chose to counterattack defensively. This decision... should have been made by Chu. Although Reading now has an absolute advantage and besieged Wimbledon Athletics at halftime, in fact, the situation is not as bad as everyone thinks... We can see that Wimbledon Athletics still has the strength to launch a counterattack. They had two counterattacks before, which made Reading quite afraid!"
※※ As time goes by, Wimbledon still leads Reading 2:0 away.
Although Reading's offensive was crazy, it had little effect, because Wimbledon Athletics' defense was very tightly organized, and there was a Chu Zhongtian who made up for leaks everywhere, so it was difficult for them to really break into Wimbledon Athletics' penalty area.
After the 75th minute, Chu Zhongtian began to substitution.
Every time he took advantage of the chance of dead ball, he rushed to the field assistant coach Stonefield shouting, telling him who he wanted to replace and who he was replaced.
And when he did this, the TV broadcasting camera would follow him firmly, give him a close-up, and tell everyone clearly that the head coach of this game was Chu Zhongtian, and he was also the one who made the decision. He was not Stonefield's puppet, he was the real head coach of Wimbledon Athletics!
In the end, Wimbledon won the third Reading in the league with a score of 2:0 away. In this way, their league rankings rose one place again and came to seventh.
This season, Wimbledon Athletics won three games, draw two games, and lost one game when facing the top six teams in the league. This is the result of their performance in the first half of the season, with their unstable performance. This result shows that they have inherited the fine tradition of "crazy gangs" and are always particularly good for strong teams.
In the second half of the season, if the team still wants to upgrade, Chu Zhongtian must first solve the team's instability in facing mid- and downstream teams.
After the game, Chu Zhongtian, as the team's head coach, attended the press conference, and at the press conference he became the focus of many reporters' questions.
"I know that the victory of this game will make some people unhappy. In order not to embarrass you, I agree that the results of a game cannot explain any problem." Chu Zhongtian nodded.
A reporter just said that the result of a game cannot explain any problem, because there is no logic in a single game of football. Only when these games accumulate in hundreds of thousands can there be logic.
"So I said that we will come to see after the season is over, or we will come to see after Russell comes back. I don't think I can definitely become a successful head coach, but I don't think I must be a loser. Whether it's playing football or coaching, I like to win, and I will try to make my team move towards victory."
Chu Zhongtian explained his coaching philosophy as the head coach at a press conference.
"I have no interest in verbal battles. If you want to provoke me and you spit on each other, you can just spit on your own. I don't need to do such a shameful thing with you."
Although Chu Zhongtian said that he didn't like verbal battles, his mouth was not forgiving at all.
"Let's just say it with practical actions."
※※The next day, the newspaper published the situation of Chu Zhongtian attending the press conference in this game.
"Let's speak with practical actions!"
"Chu is full of confidence in the future!"
"A victory in a game cannot tell anything!"
From these titles, you can see that the media's position on the issue of Chu Zhongtian's coaching is changing and splitting. Some people are gradually recognizing Chu Zhongtian's identity as the head coach, while others are still resisting.
Chu Zhongtian was too lazy to see them. After the game with Reading ended, there was a intensive Christmas schedule. He wanted to keep the team from falling behind during this period. Otherwise, if his team lost all of them on Christmas, what if he won Reading?
The Christmas schedule is very important. If you want to remain competitive in the second half of the season, you must play well during this period.
In addition, he also needs to pay close attention to the team's injury situation. Generally speaking, the intensive Christmas schedule in England is often when injuries break out in a concentrated manner. He does not have this problem when playing in other leagues, but this is the characteristic of English football, and he still knows this.
After half a season of the game, many players are physically and mentally exhausted. In addition, it is winter during Christmas and the temperature is low, which increases the chances of players being injured. Combined with these factors, if you are not careful, the team may cause you an injury outbreak during Christmas or Christmas.
If that were the case, it would be awful for Wimbledon.
Wimbledon's main lineup is pretty good, but the substitute lineup is not strong, which is a situation where polarization is serious. Basically, Wimbledon can only rely on one lineup to play. So in order to ensure that you can successfully upgrade at the end of the season, Chu Zhongtian has decided to give up all the Cup. They have given up the League Cup long ago, and they plan to give up the FA Cup after the New Year.
Chu Zhongtian’s strategic thoughts can be summarized as the eight words “dropping down the burden and going into battle lightly”.
The cup is meaningless to Wimbledon. Since the goal is to upgrade, it has nothing to do with upgrades, or the "bundles" that may pose a threat to the great cause of upgrading must be thrown away and serve the upgrade wholeheartedly.
Chapter completed!