Chapter 295 Small crew cut, beer belly, professional winger Lukaku
AFC Wimbledon is certainly not a strong team.
They are just a team that has been in the lower leagues of England for many years. This year they are playing in the English Second Division, which is the fourth tier of the English league.
Faced with such an opponent, Pan Yi fielded a lineup dominated by young players.
The average age of this 343 lineup is even in his early 20s!
During the game, the young players also seemed a little nervous.
They want to express themselves in front of the new coach too much!
However, due to the emphasis on physical training in the previous week and the lack of tacit understanding in the overall tactical drills, these young people's performance on the court seemed very clumsy.
Not only did he seem very inactive in running, but he also couldn't do some normal passing, stopping and shooting.
In the first half of the game, AFC Wimbledon seemed more like the stronger side, while Chelsea did not look like a strong Premier League team at all.
In such a bad state, AFC Wimbledon actually scored two goals in a row and took the lead in the first half.
This, of course, also disappointed many local Chelsea media reporters and fans who came specially to watch the game.
In the second half of the game, Pan Yi waved his hand and replaced all eleven players with a brand new eleven!
Forwards: Schürrle, Lukaku, Oscar.
Midfielder: Cancelo, Mikel, Matic, Ivanovic.
Defenders: Terry, David Luiz, Cahill.
Goalkeeper: Cech.
Most of this lineup is composed of Chelsea veterans. Although they are playing in a new formation, the tacit understanding between the players is obviously better than that of the first lineup.
Especially on the back line, they are all experienced players. Whether it is playing the ball or defending, they are not as impatient as the three young men under 20 years old in front.
As a result, Chelsea gradually took over the game in the second half and eventually scored two goals in a row. The two sides shook hands with each other at 2:2.
Although they did not lose, Chelsea did not win a League Two team after all, so Pan Yi was still questioned after the game.
"The Sun" used the title "Chelsea tied with AFC Wimbledon, new lineup and new formation have no effect" to attack Pan Yi's formation in this warm-up match.
"Although Chelsea did not recruit as much as Real Madrid and Barcelona in this summer window, they still spent 80 million euros after all."
"And their opponent, AFC Wimbledon, has a transfer expenditure of 0! All their players are on loan and free transfer."
"Let's look at the comparison of salary expenditures between the two sides. Chelsea's head coach's weekly salary alone far exceeds the total salary of AFC Wimbledon's entire team!"
"With such a huge strength gap, Chelsea actually failed to win against their opponent. It seems that coach Pan Yi has a big problem in the selection of personnel and formation."
"The Sun" believes that under the 343 formation system promoted by Pan Yi this season, many players are at a loss and do not know how to play football on the court.
When Mourinho led Chelsea, he always used 4231 and played very well. Pan Yi wanted to replace them all when he came up. It was really a bit too hasty.
Moreover, Chelsea's performance in the second half was much stronger than that in the first half, which also proved Pan Yi's mistakes in signings and recruiting new players.
The new players, whether they are bought or promoted from the youth team, seem to be unable to adapt to Chelsea's rhythm.
Especially for these young people under the age of 20, it is better to go on loan to other teams for training, so as not to embarrass themselves in the first team so quickly.
"You can't win anything with a bunch of kids!"
"With such a team, Pan Yi actually said that it can win the Premier League championship or even the Champions League championship? This is simply a joke!"
"In my opinion, Pan Yi's Chelsea will probably have a hard time even reaching the top four in the Premier League. I don't think he will be able to receive his world's largest annual salary for long!..."
Of course, Pan Yi was noncommittal about such criticism.
This is just a warm-up match!
For Pan Yi, the warm-up match is a place to try various player combinations, test various tactics, and examine and adjust the players' status.
For physical coach Pintus, the warm-up match is also a way to test the results of physical training and strengthen physical fitness to achieve "match-based training".
Because of this, in this summer training camp, Pintus even suggested that Pan Yi arrange intensive warm-up matches to allow the players to run as much as they want and release their enthusiasm in this relatively less boring environment.
According to statistics, before the first round of the Premier League on August 19, Chelsea players will play eight warm-up matches within a month, which is almost two games a week!
No, less than two days after playing AFC Wimbledon, Chelsea faced another challenge from Wycombe Wanderers.
This is also a League Two team.
This time, Chelsea narrowly defeated their opponent 1:0.
But a victory did not reduce the doubts from the outside world.
After all, I still won too little!
Isn’t it too boring for a team that claims to win the Premier League championship and the Champions League to win only one goal against a fourth-tier league team?
But Pan Yi still ignored this and led the team out of the UK and to the European continent for a round of training, or in other words, training while playing.
They first went to Austria and played a game with the local first-division team Wolfsberger, and the result was a 1:1 draw.
Then came Slovenia, which lost 1:2 when facing the country's strong team Olimpica.
Finally, Vitesse, playing in the Eredivisie, lost again 1:3.
In these games, some positions in Pan Yi's matchup have been adjusted, allowing many players to appear in positions they are not particularly familiar with.
For example, let Azpilicueta play the left center back position, or let Oscar play the center, or let David Luiz play as a double midfielder with Kanter, etc.
In general, Pan Yi tries as many possibilities as possible in the warm-up matches, which also allows him to have a better idea of what the abilities of his players can achieve.
And if the defeats in these warm-up matches have caused the British media to intensify the criticism of Pan Yi, then such criticism reached a peak after Germany lost 0:3 to Werder Bremen.
After all, when Pan Yi coached Hamburg in the Bundesliga, Werder Bremen was always his loser.
Now the team led by Pan Yi is obviously stronger, but it lost three goals to Werder Bremen. What's going on?
In this game, Chelsea basically fielded veteran players, and their offensive was very strong, especially the two wingers played by Alonso and Azpilicueta, who frequently pressed into Bremen's penalty area.
Launch an attack.
But Lukaku's footwork was very unsatisfactory today. He failed to knock on the opponent's goal with several overhead kicks. Instead, Bremen counterattacked continuously after several adjustments and scored three goals in one breath.
Regarding this result, Pan Yi said: "My players performed very well today."
He praised the offensive talents shown by the players in the game and mentioned that the failure to score was just due to bad luck.
"Today we mainly practiced how to open up our offense when facing opponents who focus on defense, especially on the two wings."
"Whether it is Alonso and Azpilicueta, or Cancelo and Ivanovic who were replaced in the second half, it seems that they have adapted to this tactical play and created many scoring opportunities on both wings." "It's just that our young forward Lukaku may not have fully adapted to his position as a big center, and needs further strengthening in terms of running positions and grabbing points."
"But it doesn't matter. As long as we can create opportunities, we only need to give young players more opportunities, and they will have greater confidence to send the ball into the opponent's goal!"
Obviously, Pan Yi practiced the wing attack routine in this game, and thus gave up defense.
This gave Bremen more opportunities to counterattack and resulted in conceding a goal.
Therefore, in the post-match interview, Pan Yi also intentionally or unintentionally criticized the short-sightedness of some media.
He said that a warm-up match is a warm-up match and one should not just focus on the results.
In the warm-up match, everyone should pay more attention to what is shown during the game, especially the goals that the head coach wants to investigate.
As for results, that is something that needs to be considered only during official competitions.
However, such words were still questioned by the media, causing many people to think that this was an excuse for Pan Yi.
After all, since Pan Yi officially joined Chelsea, he has played a total of six warm-up matches, but only achieved a poor record of one win, two draws and three losses.
And these six teams don’t even have a traditional strong team!
This is really difficult for Chelsea, who is in the top six of the Premier League and has the vision to win the Premier League championship and the Champions League championship.
Time has entered August. If Chelsea still maintains such a bad state, how can they deal with those wolf-like opponents in the Premier League?
"There is actually no conflict between training and victory in the warm-up match."
"If you keep losing in warm-up matches, it means that the training effect is not good. Maybe it's because there's a problem with the lineup, maybe it's because there's a problem with your playing style."
"I advise Coach Pan Yi not to be harsh and buy some reinforcements to supplement the team's strength before the summer window is closed. Anyway, Abramovich has plenty of money!"
"Those young players who are useless should be delegated to the next level, and they should be rented out. Don't end up with a bad reputation in the end just for the sake of the so-called good reputation of using youth training players!"
"There is no need to stick to this 343 formation. Aren't the 4231 or 433 we played in Hamburg before were good? Why should we change it? Is it just to show the difference with the predecessor Mourinho? There is no need!
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"What the fans at Stamford Bridge want to see most is for the team to win. As for who you use and what formation you use, it doesn't matter!..."
Among the many media outlets that express doubts, there are of course some more rational voices.
For example, "The Times" believes that when Pan Yi coached Hamburg in the first two years, his results in the warm-up matches were abysmal.
Even in his first official game as coach, he lost to a German third-division team in the German Cup and was eliminated.
But this did not prevent him from turning Hamburg into a competitive team in the Bundesliga step by step, and eventually won the Triple Crown.
This also shows that what Pan Yi said is true, that is, he was really just testing the lineup in the warm-up match and did not care about the results at all.
It's just that such a voice can't make any waves in front of the turbulent British media.
After all, Pan Yi is the first person to say that he wants to win the Premier League championship and the Champions League championship. At the same time, he is also the most profitable football coach in the world!
It is always the truth that the first bird will be shot.
In addition, in this era where traffic is paramount, Pan Yi represents traffic!
Then criticizing and questioning Pan Yi will undoubtedly attract more attention, which means more traffic.
Therefore, it is not clear how many of the media who are swarming in criticizing Pan Yi are actually pretending to be ignorant.
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After the game, Pan Yi will organize a meeting with all players and coaches to comment and analyze the performance of the players in the warm-up match.
This is also the repertoire of the current Chelsea coaching staff.
At such a meeting, the coaching staff headed by Pan Yi will elaborate and analyze using videos, data and other aspects to let the players know where their problems are in this game, why such problems occur, and how to improve them.
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Since this kind of analysis even details some of the players' habitual movements, the players will listen very carefully and then make serious changes.
Of course, now under Pan Yi’s rule, no one dares not to listen!
Although Pan Yi has a good relationship with the players on weekdays and can fight with each other, if the players are really lazy or don't pay attention to the lessons, they will be severely punished by Pan Yi!
And such "cutting" is obviously progressive. If a player continues to persist in this way, he is likely to be punished by being transferred to the reserve team or even directly terminated.
Such strict discipline will be strictly enforced within the Chelsea team!
Think about it, those Chelsea veterans Eto'o, Lampard, Ashley Cole and Pan Yi will not renew their contracts if they say they won't. Who dares to say no to him?
Including captain Terry, vice-captain Yin Vanovic and others who stayed on the team, they were all obedient to Pan Yi, not to mention young people like Lukaku and Oscar.
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Of course, if the players perform poorly in the warm-up match or fail to meet Pan Yi's tactical requirements, he will also criticize them.
However, this kind of criticism will only stay within the team.
When facing outside reporters and the like, Pan Yi will still protect the players and will not criticize them publicly.
For example, after playing against Werder Bremen, Pan Yi actually criticized Lukaku in the team's summary meeting:
"You are tall and strong, but you don't spend a lot of time practicing heading, including bouncing. This is a waste!"
"You must strengthen this ability and actively go to the penalty area to win headers! Sometimes when faced with high ball passes, you often don't start or start slowly, so that you can't get close to the landing point, and in the end you can only
Thumbs up to my teammates for missing this opportunity..."
"Your speed is actually very fast, but your ball protection skills, ball holding ability, and dribbling skills are still not enough. You must practice more."
"The other thing is to strengthen physical confrontation! As I said just now, don't waste your good body! You need to focus on getting the ball with your back, using your body to protect the ball, knocking away defenders, and finding space for breakthroughs.
Improve."
"In addition, in terms of cooperating with passing, it seems that cooperating with teammates has improved a lot now, but passing is still weak. The main left foot can pass the ball well, but the right foot cannot be complimented. As a very important player in our 343 formation,
An important center forward must learn to shoot left and right!"
Member Lu couldn't hold his head up after what Pan Yi said.
But he couldn't argue with a word.
Because everything Pan Yi said is true!
As a young player who is only 21 years old, it is obvious that Pan Yi will reuse him this season, so of course his ability requirements must be raised to a higher level.
After all, this is Chelsea!
He can perform well on loan at Everton, but not necessarily at Chelsea!
Lukaku also knows that if he wants to play the main role under a world-class coach like Pan Yi, he must have more skills. Just one kick is not enough.
Therefore, Lukaku accepted Pan Yi's criticism in full and continued to train hard to make corrections!
For Pan Yi, he wants to train Lukaku into a Drogba-like figure.
Think about it, Lukaku has been called "Little Monster" since he debuted, and he is obviously going to succeed Drogba.
But as he kept kicking, he became a "small crew cut, beer belly, professional winger Lukaku". In the game, the number of crosses from the wing may be more than when he is grabbing points in the middle... It is really outrageous.<
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He has such a big body, but he does not have the ability to hold the ball behind his back. If the team counterattacks and gives the ball to him, most of them will be surrounded and the ball will be lost.
I can't hold the ball, pass it out, pass people, break through the defense, and can't use my body at all. I feel that I suddenly lose my ability to fight and become a praise-type forward.
To be objective and fair, Lukaku's body type determines that he cannot be as comprehensive as some forwards, such as Harry Kane.
His weight and tonnage limit his jumping, and his large body means that his flexibility cannot be high and his foot frequency cannot be fast, and these cannot be improved through acquired training.
But Lukaku has a strong body, strength in his upper and lower limbs, sufficient core strength, and his speed is super running for his size.
Therefore, he does not need to be very comprehensive, nor does he need to be able to retreat and organize like Kane. As long as he is enlightened, his golf intelligence is online, and he can use his physical strength to crush him, he will be invincible.
Therefore, Pan Yi is slowly guiding Lukaku to develop into a big center.
As the training progressed and the warm-up matches were played one by one, Pan Yi could also see the changes in Lukaku.
This change is small and slow at first, but the trend is good, the effect is right, and progress is being made.
His ball-protecting skills, ball-holding ability, and dribbling and dribbling skills are all pretty good, but his physical confrontation and holding the ball with his back are even more improved.
Now we still need to strengthen it, especially the coordination between heading and passing. The sharper it will be, the better.
Of course this also takes time.
Especially as Pan Yi said in an interview with reporters, young players like Lukaku should be confident, so that in the future, whether they are scoring goals or making fulcrums, they will be able to do it with ease!
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Three days after playing Werder Bremen, Pan Yi led the team to play a game against Ferencvaros, a team from the Hungarian First Division.
In this game, Pan Yi asked the players to pay attention to the balance of offense and defense to better simulate the real game situation.
After all, this is already the penultimate warm-up match before the start of the Premier League game!
Chelsea's overall performance is obviously much better than before.
Whether it is movement and coordination on the court, including the exchanges and communication between the players on the court, they have also increased significantly.
And Lukaku, who was once again placed at the center position by Pan Yi, also rarely received Hazard's cross and scored a header!
In the end, Chelsea defeated Ferencvaros 2:1 away from home and won the second victory in the summer series warm-up match.
When Chelsea returned to London, they also ushered in their last warm-up match.
At the same time, this is also the strongest opponent, Real Sociedad from La Liga.
But in this game, Chelsea played at a high level.
They completely let go of their hands and performed to a high level in front of the technically proficient La Liga teams, once forcing them to cower in their own penalty area.
In the end, with the goals of Bamford and Ramires, Chelsea defeated Real Sociedad 2:0 and won two consecutive victories.
Regarding the victory of these two games, the British media reported much less.
Of course, on the one hand, it is because there is really no traffic when Pan Yi leads Chelsea to win, and the media does not like to join in the fun;
On the other hand, it’s because during this period, a more eye-catching competition has begun!
That is the Community Shield in the 2014-2015 season, which is actually the equivalent of the English Super Cup.
This year it is between league champion Manchester City and FA Cup champion Arsenal.
Before the game, everyone believed that Manchester City was superior in terms of strength, so they were more optimistic that Manchester City could win the Community Shield.
But Arsenal played to a high standard.
In terms of performance, Manchester City basically formed the strongest lineup in the midfield and frontcourt, with Toure, Nasri and Dzeko playing. Kompany and Demichelis were absent in the defense, and Boyata and Nastasic took their place. For Arsenal, three new summer players Sanchez, Debuchy and Chambers appeared on the scene, and youngster Sanogo appeared in the single arrow position.
In the first half, Arsenal led 2-0 with goals from Cazorla and Ramsey.
In the second half, Giroud made another comeback. In the end, Arsenal defeated Manchester City 3-0 and won the Community Shield!
Judging from this game, the competition in the Premier League is indeed very fierce!
Whether it is the up-and-coming Manchester City or the veteran Arsenal, the lineup is very complete and they all have the ability to compete for the championship!
The other teams in the big6, such as Manchester United, Tottenham, and Liverpool, also have stars who can stand alone.
Chelsea, where Pan Yi is, is naturally no less impressive!
This also made Pan Yi very excited.
The more intense the competition, the happier he will be!